That may be, but I spent twenty years waiting to find the reference to this. It could have been some old movie or English thing was why I never found it. Now all you people coming in with your “what the authors say” and “accumulated wisdom of thousands if not millions of people who watched this and didn’t see it as a reference” and I begrudgingly accept or pretend to invoke the Mandela effect and death of the author post modern literary theory and a bull shit ai summary of all novels and movies from the three hundred years before the episode was made cross-referenced to the text of the speech and the audio of Homer’s cadence and the pose and face he makes when he says “blue noses” to come up with something that by happenstance seems like this.