Editing Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing/References

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a pun on the song "{{W2|Love is a Many-Splendored Thing|song}}".
**The song has also been referenced in the title of the episode "[[Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing]]", from [[Season 22]].
*The final scene is nod to the film ''{{w|Annie Hall}}''. With Bart's appearance and speaking style is a parody of {{w|Woody Allen}}'s character Alvy Singer and Lisa as Annie Hall.
*Cletus' "Fueds" list includes the following:
**{{w|Hatfield-McCoy feud|Hatfields}}
**The {{w|Hapsburgs}}
**{{w|Time Warner Cable}}
**Those dang [[The Muppets|Muppets]]
**My toenail what turned black
**And, after the talent show, the Peacocks
*"The Most Interesting Boy in the World" is a reference to the Internet meme, {{plainlink|http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world|The Most Interesting Man in the World}}.
*During the movie ''[[Love, Indubitably]]'' which is a reference to the movie ''{{W|Love Actually}}'', we can see:
**[[Winston Churchill]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[Isaac Newton]] performing a striptease. This is a reference to the British movie {{w|The Full Monty}}. 
**[[Severus Snape]] from ''[[Harry Potter]]'' appears in the movie.
**The [[TARDIS]] from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' appears in the movie.
**[[Alfred Hitchcock]] comes out from the TARDIS.
*The song that plays during ''Love, Indubitably'' is "{{w|All the Young Dudes}}" by {{w|Mott the Hoopie}}. 
*At [[Springfield Squidport]], many caricatures can be found 
**Woody Allen.
**[[Yoda]] from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
**[[Clint Eastwood]] from ''{{w|The Good, the Bad and the Ugly}}''.
**[[Humphrey Bogart]] from ''[[Casablanca]]''.
*[[Woody Allen]] mentions his films ''{{W|Mighty Aphrodite}}'' and ''{{W|The Purple Rose of Cairo}}''. Later, he mentions that he played the ant in ''{{W|Antz}}''.
*One of the characters in the video game ''[[Mixed Martian Arts]]'' (a parody of {{w|Mixed Martial Arts}}) is [[Marvin the Martian]] from ''[[Looney Tunes]]''.
**The controller he holds resembles an [[Xbox]] controller.
*[[Kearney]] tells Bart to think outside the "Skinner box," another name for an {{W|Operant conditioning chamber}} used for studying animal behavior.
*When singing "[[Ode to Forgiveness]]", a parody of the "{{w|Ode to Joy}}" from [[Beethoven]]'s Ninth Symphony, Homer sings the line: "The melody is by Beethoven" and Bart then sings: "Not bad for a movie dog". Homer is referring to the composer while Bart is referring to the film ''{{W2|Beethoven|film}}''.

== Continuity ==
*The story is a follow-up to the episode "[[Moonshine River]]" from the [[Season 24|same season 24]].

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