Lisa's line "You owe me restitution!" is a direct quotation from the original Charlie Brown Halloween special.
The song that plays when Maggie is looking at the Krusty pictures on the wall of the day care is "Wouldn't It Be Adequate?" from the episode 'My Fair Laddy.'
One of the dead celebrities is Walter Matthau, on whom Dan Castelanetta originally based Homer Simpson's voice.
Some of the dead celebrities that appear on the second segment (How to Get Ahead in Dead Vertising) include Orson Welles, Irene Ryan, John Wayne, George Washington, Golda Meir, Edward G. Robinson, Bob Denver, John Lennon, Vincent Price, Jim Morrison, Don Knotts, Walter Matthau, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Buddy Ebsen, Leonardo Da Vinci, Babe Ruth, John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Larry Fine and Abraham Lincoln.
This episode parodies the Transformers franchise. In the earliest episodes, Mr. Burns was voiced by Christopher Collins, who also voiced Starscream on the original series The Transformers (1984).