Editing Four Great Women and a Manicure/References

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a reference to ''{{W|Four Weddings and a Funeral}}''.

=== Queen Elizabeth I ===
*[[Walsingham]] sees [[Queen Elizabeth I]] (portrayed by [[Selma]]) in her nightclothes and exclaims, "Someone call {{W2|Beowulf|hero}}! {{W|Grendel}} got in again!", a reference to ''{{W|Beowulf}}''.
*Queen Elizabeth's horse is named "[[Tea Biscuit]]", a pun on ''{{W2|Seabiscuit|film}}''.
*When Moe and the Queen see the Spanish Armada coming, they are standing under a banner that reads "Mission Accomplished". Moe comments, "It's probably a little too early to be standing under this", a reference to President [[George W. Bush]]'s "{{W|Mission Accomplished speech|Mission Accomplished}}" speech in 2003.
*The [[Timothy Lovejoy, Jr.|Protestant minister]] says that the "country turned Protestant for the sole reason that our fat, mean king could dump his faithful wife", referencing [[Henry VIII]].

=== Snow White ===
*''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' is parodied in the second segment. However, [[Snow White]] (portrayed by [[Lisa]]) is forced to rename all the dwarfs to satisfy the legal demands of the [[Blue-haired lawyer]].
**The songs the dwarfs sing, "[[Off to Work]]", "[[It's Time]]", and "[[Time to Say Goodbye]]", are parodies of "{{W|Heigh-Ho}}" from ''Snow White''.
*When Snow White flees from the wicked queen's threat, she comes across a gingerbread house and Grandma's house (referencing the folk tales ''{{W|Hansel and Gretel}}'' and ''{{W|Little Red Riding Hood}}'') before she finds the dwarfs' house.
*Snow White complains about the dwarfs' beds being too hard and too soft, referencing ''{{W|Goldilocks and the Three Bears}}''. Unlike Goldilocks, however, Snow White settles for the soft bed.
*Unlike in the Disney movie, where she dies by falling off a cliff, the way the Evil Queen dies in Lisa's retelling of Snow White is very reminiscent of Scar's death at the end of ''[[The Lion King]]'', right down to the shot of her being killed by forest animals being shown in shadow very much like Scar when he is killed by hyenas.

=== Macbeth ===
*The people of [[Springfield]] star in a play of ''[[Macbeth]]'', which is also parodied during the segment.
*[[Homer]] forgets his lines and starts reading from scripts concealed on his person, trying to find the right line. Instead of ''Macbeth'', however, Homer ends up reading lines from ''{{W2|Bye Bye Birdie|musical}}'' and ''{{W|The Matrix Reloaded}}''.
*When Marge says "Screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.", a quote from ''Macbeth'', Homer asks if it's a quote from ''{{W2|X2|film|X-Men 2}}''.
*Homer says "No, dear. I'm a man, dear." in the voice of {{W|Droopy}}.
*The group of actors who Homer kills dance to the {{W|Conga line}}, with a Conga song playing.
**Homer then sings "[[Killing Makes Me Hungry]]" to the Conga song.
*Ghost Marge tells Homer that he can take on other Shakespeare plays, including ''{{W|King Lear}}'', ''{{W|Hamlet}}'', ''{{W|Othello}}'', ''{{W2|Richard III|play}}'', ''{{W|Henry IV, Part 1}}'', ''{{W|Henry IV, Part 2}}'', ''{{W2|Henry V|play}}'', and ''{{W|Titus Andronicus}}''. She also holds a script of ''{{W|The Tempest}}''.

=== The Fountainhead ===
*The classical music playing during the "Maggie Roark" segment is the Second Movement of [[Beethoven]]'s "{{W2|Symphony No. 9|Beethoven|Ninth Symphony}}".
*[[Maggie]]'s architectural creations include the following real-life buildings:
**The [[Taj Mahal]]
**The {{W|Beijing National Stadium}}, also known as "The Bird's Nest"
**The {{W|Walt Disney Concert Hall}}
**The [[Empire State Building]]
*The band in the parent-teacher meeting plays "{{W|Pop Goes the Weasel}}".
*The painting that Maggie makes on the wall (for which she is swiftly—and ironically—scolded by [[Marge]]) is [[Vincent van Gogh|van Gogh]]'s "{{W|The Starry Night}}".

== Trivia ==
*This is the only episode [[Bart]] doesn't appear in (unless you count the opening sequence) to date. This is also the first episode a Simpson family member other than Maggie doesn't appear in an episode. However, [[Nancy Cartwright]], his voice actress voiced [[Ralph Wiggum]] on this episode despite Bart's abcence.
*This episode is the second [[anthology episode]] to have 4 short stories instead of 3 (the first was "[[Simpsons Bible Stories]]").
*This is the fourth episode in the show's history where Maggie has spoken and the second where she's done so directly.
*[[Selma]] appears without [[Patty]] in this episode.
*This episode was viewed by 5.15 million viewers making it the least watched episode in the shows history. Nearly a year later, it was beaten by "[[Million Dollar Maybe]]".
*In the ''Macbeth'' parody, no one seems to care that Marge says "Macbeth" in the theater, in spite of the taboo on speaking the name. However, the "{{W|The Scottish Play|Macbeth curse}}" provides exemptions for speaking the name during rehearsals and performances of the play, so Marge's working as a laundress in support of the production may also be considered to grant her a free pass.
*Maggie also duplicates a van Gogh painting in the comic story ''[[Maggie's Crib 26]]''.

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