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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the CBS show The Good Wife.
• The E4 video game convention is a parody of the E3 Expo.
• Outside of the E4 building are statues of Master Chief from Halo, Big Daddy from BioShock and John Madden from Madden NFL.
• Video games seen include:
  • Grand Theft Scratchy: Itchy City Stories, a continuation of the Grand Theft Scratchy series and parody of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories.
  • Blocko, including Cosmic Wars and Angelica Button games, parodying the Lego game series.
  • Bongo Games, a reference to Bongo Comics, creator of Simpsons Comics.
  • The GS3 Gamestation, a parody of the PlayStation 3.
  • ProtoVision, a parody of Activision.
  • World of Krustcraft, a parody of the World of Warcraft games.
  • Ybox, a parody of the Xbox.
  • Jalo, a parody of Halo.
  • Marching Band, a parody of the Rock Band series.
  • Q-bert: Origins, a parody of Q-bert and Rayman Origins.
  • Electronic Crafts, a parody of Electronic Arts.
  • Shaun White: Time Snowboarder, a parody of Shaun White Snowboarding.
  • Dig Dug Revelations is a parody of the Resident Evil: Revelations and Dig Dug.
  • Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Online is a video game adaptation of the film The Tree of Life.
  • Driver's License 2: License to Drive is a parody of the Driver series.
  • Assassin's Creed: Summer of Love is a reference to the Assassin's Creed series.
  • Human Centipede is a parody of the game Centipede and the film The Human Centipede.
  • Guts of War II: Entrails of Intestinox is a parody of God of War II.
  • Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game is a reference to The Simpsons Game level of the same name.
  • Medal of Duty is a reference to the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series.
  • A character who looks like Sonic is seen.
  • The Funtendo Zii Zu is parody of the Nintendo Wii U.
  • Furious Fliers is a parody of Angry Birds.
• Also appearing are:
  • Mapple
  • Cosmic Wars
  • Chalmskinn Interactive, a subdivision of Chalmskinn Productions.
  • Earthland Realms 2: The Outing of the Elves, sequel to Earthland Realms.
• Marching Band has marching bands from Ohio State University and Stanford University.
  • The song Lisa plays on Marching Band is "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa.
• Marge states that she was going to take Bart and Lisa to the X Games.
• Reverend Lovejoy takes Bart and Lisa to play debtors in the Parable of the Unjust Steward.
• The song that plays when Marge eats the Ethiopian food is "Nama" by Fikeraddis Nekatibeb.
• On The Android's Luncheon's home page, Comic Book Guy resembles Jabba the Hutt and the monster resembles the Rancor from Star Wars. The roasted monster on the plate is a Gamorrean.
• Three Mouthketeers is a reference to The Three Musketeers.
  • Lisa later lists the Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and refers to d'Artagnan as the fourth Musketeer.
• Lisa's list of cutest vegetarians includes:
  • Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
  • Edward Cullen from Twilight.
  • Actor Kevin Nealon.
  • Inventor Nikola Tesla.
  • Actor Sean "Samwise" Astin. "Samwise" is a reference to Astin playing Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings.
  • Football player Herschel Walker.
  • Musician Zack de la Rocha.
  • Comedian Russell Brand.
  • Musician Elvis Costello.
  • Singer and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic.
• The song "Bloggin' a Food Blog" pays homage to "Empire State of Mind" by Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
• Iron Cook is a reference to the show of the same name in the Futurama episode "The 30% Iron Chef".
• Celebrity chefs in Marge's dream include: Anthony Bourdain, The Swedish Chef from The Muppets, Mario Batali, Julia Child, Colonel Sanders of KFC, Wolfgang Puck, Guy Fieri riding on Paul Prudhomme, and Gordon Ramsay.
• Chief Wiggum refers to the people in the meth lab as "Breaking Baddies", a reference to Breaking Bad.
• The scene where the meth lab owner is reminded of his apple pie as a child is a reference to Ratatouille.

Trivia

• The date on The New York News is Saturday, June 25, 2011.
• The French dialogue during the meth lab's owner's flashback translates to "Thank you, Mom, for the tarte tatin à la mode."

Continuity

• Funtendo makes another appearance, this time with a new console. ("Million Dollar Maybe")
• Wolfgang Puck and Tom Colicchio both appear again. ("The Bart Wants What It Wants" and "The Falcon and the D'ohman")
• The Grand Theft Scratchy series played a major part in The Simpsons Game.