A Star Is Burns play in the opening moments of the episode is a parody of "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer. The opening of Bart's film "The Eternal Struggle" is a reference to The Amazing Criswell's narration in "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Barney's film contains references to "Koyaanisqatsi", and the music of the film, which was composed by Philip Glass. Barney's film also features musical selections from the aria "Un bel di vedremo" from Act II, pt. 1 of Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly". In its original broadcast, "A Star Is Burns" finished 57th in the ratings for the week of February
Giacomo di Grassi Giacomo di Grassi Giacomo di Grassi was an Italian fencing master who wrote the fencing treatise "Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'Arme, si da offesa come da difesa" in 1570..The text was later translated into English and published again in 1594, as " Di Grassi, His True Arte of Defence". The translation of Di Grassi was one of the three premiere fencing texts known from Elizabethan England. His main teachings were that weapons of the same length are used similarly, the thrust is preferred to all other attacks, as well as specifics on how to thrust and handle specific weapons. Digrassi