Goodtimes, Ralph Wiggum plays a Fisher-Price Corn Popper. The Jazzy Goodtimes club is a facsimile of the House of Blues nightclub on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Ca. Moe calls the 1997 film Titanic "unsinkable at the box office." The couch gag references the King Homer segment from "Treehouse of Horror III" which in turn spoofs King Kong. A mentioned jazz musician shares the name CSI: Miami. At the beginning of the jazz benefit, they play "Caravan" by Duke Ellington. Richard Sakai, a real-life Simpsons producer, is listed amongst the jazz singers with 'funny names'; Sakai was first seen in an earlier Simpsons episode, "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish," in which he sang karaoke at the sushi bar where some of the episode takes place. Reception In its original run, the episode was watched by 8.94 million viewers. Dan Iverson of IGN quotes that like the previous episode, it was decent, and praised the strength of the eighteenth season so far. He called the White Stripes' cameo funny, and called the episode entirely random, starting off with the death of Homer's Vegas wife Amber. He gives the episode a final rating of 7/10, similar to the previous episode. In 2007, Simon Crerar of The Times listed The White Stripes' performance as one of the thirty-three funniest cameos in the history of the show. Andrew Martin of Prefix Mag named The White Stripes his seventh favorite musical guests on The Simpsons out of a list of ten. Corey Deiterman of the Houston Press listed them as number four of the top five worst musical guests in Simpsons history. References External links The Simpsons (season 18) episodes The White Stripes 2006 American television episodes Television episodes about funerals