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It also felt like a callback to a solid bit from Season 1, in which a water bottle tumbling from a high window crushed a different car.

In a debate among the candidates in the city-council race, Leslie's opponents include the handsome, dopey heir to the candy plant that runs the town (a character who felt like a callback to "Election") and a porn-star double for Leslie.

Groening was happy with the episode because it felt like a callback to the first episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", and because it features references to One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

The scene of Don watching Megan's reel felt like a callback of sorts to the show's Season 1 finale, but all that reference did is remind me of how utterly floored I was by Don's Carousel pitch.

The show closed with a funny but nonsensical fake commercial, with a pair of dopey porn stars making so many off-color jokes it seemed like a callback to the opening monologue, intentionally rattling the good people of Iowa by calling attention to the "risqué" material Trump promised to veto (although I really have no idea what the good people of Doon would make of "a yankee doodle handie").

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Ms. Peil, an opera singer who appeared as the beggar woman in "Sweeney Todd" at the Kennedy Center last summer, won her role as Guido's mother because Mr. Leveaux liked her, lost the part at a callback audition because Mr. Yeston did not like her and regained it at another callback after working on her voice.

In a callback to Italian filmmakers like Sergio Leone, he calls the style "Sweet Spaghetti Western" after a popular Filipino noodle dish.

If the casting judges liked what they heard, they may ask you to return for a callback audition a few days later.

"Writers refer to that as a callback.

I nailed the audition, and waited optimistically for a callback.

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