At one point, Homer enters church while Reverend Lovejoy is giving a sermon, and even without the joke made at Jesus’ expense, the scene is apparently too great a reminder of the September 2016 incident involving Ruslan Sokolovsky, the vlogger facing upwards of 42 months in jail after he was found to be playing Pokemon Go within a cathedral in Yekaterinburg.
He was arrested for having offended religious sentiments and for inciting hatred.
“Looking for Mr. Goodbart,” which aired Sunday night, featured a subplot where Homer gets addicted to playing the mobile game Peekimon Get, which is a slightly more than obvious parody of Pokemon Go, which caused a sensation last year following its release.