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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode title is a reference to the TV series Men Behaving Badly.
• The book tasted by Lisa is Beloved by Toni Morrison.
• Homer uses Oogle, a parody of Google.
• When Grampa asks Ned why he's putting air into Marge's car's tires, Ned responds by mentioning that they were deader than daybreak in Daberath, so he thought he would Lazarus them up.
• One of the things Grampa is mad about is Goldendoodles, a breed of dog.
• When Grampa shows his abs to Homer and Bart, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa plays.
• Marge asks Amazon Alexa for help.
• The Hibbert family has a painting of Market Street Park in their house. The statue of Robert E. Lee is seen in the picture.
• Greg is a professor of Gender Criticism at New York University.
• Rainer Wolfcastle tells Greg that a crisis is getting a 19 on Rotten Tomatoes. (Arnold Schwartzenegger's film Collateral Damage has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 19%, though it is not his lowest rated film.)

On his Tinder profile, Kirk has a picture of himself and Milhouse dressed as characters from Shrek

• Greg mentions women swiping right on Tinder only 4% of men, and Kirk wonders if it's because of his Shrek photo, while Milhouse is dressed as Donkey in the next photo.
• A man resembling Jacob Chansley appears at Man Camp.
• As a kid, Comic Book Guy saved up all his money to go see a George Lucas film, Howard the Duck. The film is considered among the worst films ever made, but has also developed a cult following.
• When Greg says that Kirk and Rainier Wolfcastle's eye contact could cut butter, the sound of a lightsaber from Star Wars can be heard as their eye contact cuts through a stick of butter.
• The sign at the Boys Camp says "Don't sue us, we're not the Boy Scouts."
• Greg shows the men dad jokes from Family Guy, American Dad!, and an unaired Fox show. Both former shows are Seth MacFarlane's, and the episode aired on his birthday.
• When Homer asks who likes donuts and bowling anymore, a parody of Fred Flintstone from The Flintstones appears, tiptoeing like he does when bowling.
• The mail bag Freddy carries has a logo similar to that of the United States Postal Service.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is heard during the women-reshaped Springfield sequence. The composition is heard again when the men are coming back to the city.
• At the Springfield Candle Fire:
  • One of the candles has a picture of the Hindu god Ganesha on it.
  • The woman in the blue candle is posing like the goddess Venus from The Birth of Venus.
  • One of the candles is shaped like the crown of the Chrysler Building.
• Maggie is dressed as Wonder Woman from DC Comics.
• Maggie's blocks spell out Euler's identity equation.

Continuity[edit]

• Moe is still engaged to Maya. ("The Wayz We Were")
• The ending of "The Monorail Song" is heard when the Mom-O-Rail is seen. ("Marge vs. the Monorail")