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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the American television game show Family Feud.
• The BTS ARMY, the fans of the K-pop group BTS, are mentioned multiple times.
• Chocolate bars and snacks seen in the vending machine include:
  • Murky Way, a parody of Milky Way.
  • Musketeer, a parody of 3 Musketeers.
  • Oh Harry, a parody of Oh Henry!
  • Rhesus Pieces, a parody of Reese's Pieces.
  • Almond Ennui, a parody of Almond Joy.
  • N&N's, a parody of M&M's.
  • Snackers, a parody of Snickers.
  • Flaming Hot Oreos.
  • Sugared Milk Chuds, a parody of Milk Duds.
• Lisa says that Ashlee Starling teaches girls to never date John Mayer.
• Billy says that selling out your own dad is "Stone Cold Creamery, and I'll take two scoops!", a reference to the ice cream parlor chain Cold Stone Creamery.
• Ashlee Starling and Echo do diss sketches on Saturday Night Live and they both diss dated Pete Davidson.
• Echo calls her fans "Echolaliacs." "Echolalia" is an imitative speech disorder.
• Lisa makes a glitter bomb out of a Pringles can. This can was wider for plus-sized hands.
• Bart calls Homer "the fat Lebowski", a reference to the film The Big Lebowski.
• Mackenzie's mother is part of Herbalife.
• Homer is "SWATed" by Sealed with a Tent Fumigators, a parody of Swatting.
• The song "The Way You Was" is partially inspired by "All Too Well" by Taylor Swift.
• Springfield seen behind Kent Brockman and Marge appears festooned with pink Silly String.
  • Kent says, and Marge agrees, that BTS and their fans are "sane and perfect."
• The cover for The Meltdown single is a parody of Lemonade by Beyoncé.

Continuity

• The music video for "The Way You Was" goes over the events of the episode "The Way We Was".
• During Homer and Echo's song "The Meltdown", several flashbacks are seen:
  • Homer in the water with Bart and Lisa whilst Marge swings Maggie around when she is almost baptized. ("Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily")
  • The Simpsons in a conga line in Brazil. ("Blame It on Lisa")
  • Marge putting a good photo of Bart into the family portrait. ("Marge Be Not Proud")
  • Bart dancing in a wig with Maggie whilst Homer and Lisa watch. ("Homer's Phobia")
  • Baby Bart and Lisa after Lisa said her first word. ("Lisa's First Word")
  • The family on the couch with Homer telling Maggie that he hopes she never talks. ("And Maggie Makes Three")
  • Lisa getting scared at Halloween. ("Halloween of Horror")
  • Maggie in a newspaper dispenser as Homer plays peek-a-boo with her. ("22 Short Films About Springfield")
  • Homer and Marge seeing a waterfall out in the wilderness. ("Pixelated and Afraid")
• Also during "The Meltdown":
  • The line "When I smell mothballs, now I think beef stew." is a reference to the song "Do the Bartman", which has the lyric "Because I put moth balls in the beef stew."
  • The line "You're still a Fudgie Whale of a wife." is a reference to "A Milhouse Divided", where Homer got Marge a cake in the shape of a whale that had the text "To a whale of a wife" written on it.