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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode's title is a reference to 1976 television series McMillan & Wife.
• During the episode's couch gag:
  • The song "Good Time" by Lee Richardson is heard.
  • Lambuggini is a parody of Lamborghini, the luxury sports car manufacturer.
  • When Homer is driving over the cliff, a flying car similar to that from the 1968 children's musical adventure film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is seen.
    • The film's theme song, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", is briefly heard.
    • A character similar to Caractacus Pott (Dick Van Dyke) shouts at Homer.
• When Thayer Blackburn invites Homer to test a Lambuggini, he offers him Smartwater, the popular brand of bottled water.

Thayer invites Homer to play pickleball, a fast-growing racket sport, especially in the United States

• Thayer invites Homer to play pickleball, a fast-growing racket sport, especially in the United States.
• The business magnate Jeff Bezos and his aerospace company Blue Origin are hinted in the anti-bullying film played at Springfield Elementary School during the "Beyond Bullying" act.
• Milhouse is sad that Lisa stepped on a raisin, an said that "It never should have left Fresno". Milhouse is referring to Fresno, California, where most of the raisin production in the US takes place.
• The song "Friends" by Bette Midler plays during the scenes where Homer, Marge, Thayer, and Anne Blackburn hang out together.
• According to Chief Wiggum, the police car he is driving is a Dodge Charger.
• Lisa tells Hubert Wong that she is going to "beat him like a Hopi spirit drum", referring to the Hopi Native Americans.
  • Wong mentions the Nasanmuya celebration of the Hopi people, which takes place in September.
• The scene where Nelson is followed on his bullying spree is a reference to the film Goodfellas where Henry Hill and Karen enter the Copacabana.
  • The song that plays during this scene is "Then He Kissed Me" by The Crystals, which also plays in the scene from the film.
• Thayer and Anne are on holidays in Bora Bora, French Polynesia.
• The song "The Game Has Changed" from the soundtrack of Tron: Legacy is heard when Lisa and Bart face Hubert and Nelson.
• Nelson asks Apple's digital assistant Siri for one thing nerds have ever done.
• Bart and Nelson sing "See Saw Margery Daw", a real children's nursery rhyme.
• The song "New Beginning" by Unframed Audio is heard when Marge and Homer leave the Lambuggini dealer.
• Jebediah Springfield holds the baby up over a ridge in a parody of the iconic scene from The Lion King where Rafiki holds Simba up.
• The spot where Jebediah Springfield raised the baby had become former President Ronald Reagan's campaign headquarters.
• The episode was dedicated in memory of Suzanne Somers who died on October 15, 2023.

Trivia[edit]

• The couch gag for the episode is directly referenced in the episode when Homer mentions dreaming about owning a Lambuggini, and Dick Van Dyke was also in his dream.
• Speculation that the episode implied Homer would quit strangling Bart was later denied by Simpsons producers, https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-simpsons-homer-strangling-bart-producers-respond-1235781806/ including Simpsons co-creator James L. Brooks. Brooks clarified to People Magazine that the speculation was false. https://people.com/homer-continue-strangle-bart-the-simpsons-says-co-creator-exclusive-8400789

Continuity[edit]

• In the future, the Simpson House museum has a plaque on Lisa's door saying "the room where President Lisa Simpson grew up" ("Bart to the Future") and Homer's spacesuit. ("Deep Space Homer")

Goofs[edit]

• Wiggum mistakes a Dodge Diplomat for a Dodge Charger.
• Nelson's belly button disappears when he takes his vest on and on, despite Bart noticing his shirt was drawn on him.