The Way We Weren't/References - Revision history

Columba: /* Cultural references */

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MediocreUsername: /* Cultural references */ wikipedia link

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‎Cultural references: wikipedia link

SolarBot: replaced: The Sea Captain → Captain McCallister (2)

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replaced: The Sea Captain → Captain McCallister (2)

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: {{w| → {{W|

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WonderPikachu12 at 21:01, August 12, 2017

2017-08-12T21:01:35Z

Nick97: Removed that bit entirely, seeing as it's already stated in the section above.

2016-09-30T04:58:29Z

Removed that bit entirely, seeing as it's already stated in the section above.

99.127.79.49 at 01:04, September 30, 2016

2016-09-30T01:04:07Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1 at 19:32, January 29, 2015

2015-01-29T19:32:55Z

Antiyonder: /* Trivia */

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‎Trivia

Cook879: /* Cultural references */

2012-10-16T16:43:49Z

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 *When the Captain rows Homer across the lake to meet Marge, he sings: "I met her on the mountain, there I took her life. I met her on the mountain, Stabbed her with my knife." These are lyrics from the folk song Tom Dooley, as made famous by The Kingston Trio.
 *This episode shares the same major storyline as the ''{{W|Who's the Boss?}}'' episodes "It Happened One Summer I & II", where Tony and Angela discover they shared a kiss while at camp.
 == Trivia ==

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 *The song played during the kissing fantasies of young Marge and Homer is "Happy Together", by The Turtles.
 *Homer's imagined perfect world includes Screaming Yellow Zonkers, Quisp flying by in his spaceship, and the [[Kool-Aid Man]]—whom Homer kills by drinking him.
-*Before meeting the [[Captain McCallister|Sea Captain]] by the docks, Homer says "I guess it's Roe v. Wade, and it's my right to choose." This namechecks the landmark American supreme court decision on abortion.
+*Before meeting the [[Captain McCallister|Sea Captain]] by the docks, Homer says "I guess it's {{W|Roe v. Wade}}, and it's my right to choose." This namechecks the landmark American supreme court decision on abortion.
 *When the Captain rows Homer across the lake to meet Marge, he sings: "I met her on the mountain, there I took her life. I met her on the mountain, Stabbed her with my knife." These are lyrics from the folk song Tom Dooley, as made famous by The Kingston Trio.
 *This episode shares the same major storyline as the ''{{W|Who's the Boss?}}'' episodes "It Happened One Summer I & II", where Tony and Angela discover they shared a kiss while at camp.

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 *The song played during the kissing fantasies of young Marge and Homer is "Happy Together", by The Turtles.
 *Homer's imagined perfect world includes Screaming Yellow Zonkers, Quisp flying by in his spaceship, and the [[Kool-Aid Man]]—whom Homer kills by drinking him.
-*Before meeting the [[The Sea Captain|Sea Captain]] by the docks, Homer says "I guess it's Roe v. Wade, and it's my right to choose." This namechecks the landmark American supreme court decision on abortion.
+*Before meeting the [[Captain McCallister|Sea Captain]] by the docks, Homer says "I guess it's Roe v. Wade, and it's my right to choose." This namechecks the landmark American supreme court decision on abortion.
 *When the Captain rows Homer across the lake to meet Marge, he sings: "I met her on the mountain, there I took her life. I met her on the mountain, Stabbed her with my knife." These are lyrics from the folk song Tom Dooley, as made famous by The Kingston Trio.
 *This episode shares the same major storyline as the ''{{W|Who's the Boss?}}'' episodes "It Happened One Summer I & II", where Tony and Angela discover they shared a kiss while at camp.
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 *In the episode, when Homer and Marge met on the cliffside to kiss, Marge's hair had been straightened and burnt brown from ironing it out, and Homer had been wearing an eye patch. However, in the promotional artwork displaying the same scene, Marge's hair was still upright and blue, while Homer lacked his eye patch entirely.
 *In this episode, Milhouse states that his kiss with Homer in the treehouse was his first kiss. However, in the season 3 episode, "[[Bart's Friend Falls in Love]]" Milhouse shared his first kiss with Samantha Stanky.
-*In the flashback, after the boat with the Sea Captain and Homer in leaves the bay, the wooden boat that Homer was originally going to go in has disappeared.
+*In the flashback, after the boat with Captain McCallister and Homer in leaves the bay, the wooden boat that Homer was originally going to go in has disappeared.
 *In the flashback, Homer would have only fallen less than 1 metre off the cliff, not further, due to the fact that the lake is just below where Homer and Marge had their date.

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 == Cultural references ==
-*The episode's title is a reference to the 1973 movie ''{{w|The Way We Were}}''.
+*The episode's title is a reference to the 1973 movie ''{{W|The Way We Were}}''.
 **Another episode title referencing this movie is [[season 2]]'s "[[The Way We Was]]".
 *Marge claims she enjoys Parliament but not Funkadelic in reference to the funk collective popular during the 70's.

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 *Before meeting the [[The Sea Captain|Sea Captain]] by the docks, Homer says "I guess it's Roe v. Wade, and it's my right to choose." This namechecks the landmark American supreme court decision on abortion.
 *When the Captain rows Homer across the lake to meet Marge, he sings: "I met her on the mountain, there I took her life. I met her on the mountain, Stabbed her with my knife." These are lyrics from the folk song Tom Dooley, as made famous by The Kingston Trio.
-*This episode shares the same major storyline as the Who's The Boss? episodes It Happened One Summer I & II, where Tony and Angela discover they shared a kiss while at camp.
+*This episode shares the same major storyline as the ''{{W|Who's the Boss?}}'' episodes "It Happened One Summer I & II", where Tony and Angela discover they shared a kiss while at camp.
 == Trivia ==
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 == Goofs ==
 *In this episode, Milhouse states that his kiss with Homer in the treehouse was his first kiss. However, in the season 3 episode, "[[Bart's Friend Falls in Love]]" Milhouse shared his first kiss with Samantha Stanky.
 *In the flashback, after the boat with the Sea Captain and Homer in leaves the bay, the wooden boat that Homer was originally going to go in has disappeared.