RIP James Earl Jones
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Old TV had enough respect for the audience to drop in references like that and assume they'd either know or ask someone who did.
The thing about good writing like on those Simpsons episodes is that catching a reference or background detail would often enhance the joke, but even if you didn’t catch everything the main bits were still strong on their own.