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Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a reference to the Academy Award-nominated 2010 comedy-drama film The Kids Are All Right, directed by Lisa Cholodenko. This was also referenced with the title of the season 25 episode "The Kid Is All Right".
• During the title screen gag, Professor Frink is wearing an armored flying suit like Iron Man from Marvel.
• At Moe's, the beverage Moe et Chandon is a reference to Moët & Chandon.
• When Homer finds an old undeveloped film, Carl tells him that all photo developing stores are now either knocked down or turned into deer blinds:
  • A camouflaged Fotohut is a reference to Fotomat, a retired chain of photo development drive-through kiosks.
  • Circuit Circus is a reference to Circuit City.

• The third photo in Moe's developer tray is Homer in a nude pregnant pose just like the one of Demi Moore in the magazine Vanity Fair.
• While Bart and Lisa's fights photos are shown, the song that plays is The Kids Are Alright by The Who.
• Homer always photographed the kids' fights and never stopped them because he felt that lighting was perfect, and compared that to "Florence in May".
• Bart says that the family story is a tragedy, just like Planet of the Apes. Then he says that the real tragedy is that Hollywood keeps making more Planet of the Apes movies.
• When Homer begins to strangle Bart, the music playing is Also sprach Zarathustra, which has become known as the de facto theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Young Bart and Lisa hit each other with copies of Jack and Jill and Goodnight Moon.
• During a flashback, Marge suddenly wakes up and tells Homer she had a nightmare in which she lost one of the children in a World's Fair. When Homer asks which fair, she replies "Brisbane '88". Marge is referring to World Expo 88 an event in Australia that achieved a very high attendance.
• The See N' Psalm toy is a parody of educational toy See 'n Say.
• "The Sunshine Boys" is a reference to the play by the same name by Neil Simon.

Continuity

• A matchbook refers to the marriage between Selma and Bob Terwilliger. ("Black Widower")
• A hat refers to the marriage between Selma and Disco Stu. ("There's Something About Marrying")
• The Clown Bed Homer build for Bart is shown. ("Lisa's First Word")
• Grandma Flanders is seen, and then dies ("Lisa's First Word") despite the fact that in ("Lisa's Date with Density"), which takes place in the present, Ned repeatedly picks up the phone thinking that she's calling.
• Bart hits Lisa with the Phonic Frog. ("Smart and Smarter")
• Lisa mentions the time when Apu let Homer eat expired hot dogs ("Homer and Apu")

Goofs

• In the flashback in Moe's Tavern, there's a picture of Homer, Lenny, Carl and Barney. In the picture, Homer is bald, despite having hair in the flashback and not being bald until years later.