What Animated Women Want/References

References/Trivia

Season 24 Episode References

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Cultural references

The episode title is a pun on the 2000 romantic comedy film What Women Want, which starred Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.
The opening couch gag is a reference to the popular television show Breaking Bad, along with the song "Crystal Blue Persuasion", which is used occasionally on Breaking Bad. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, who star in Breaking Bad, were seen in a life action bit at the end of the couch gag.
Moe was seen reading Fifty Shades of Grey, a real book.

This episode had a short promotional clip for "Pulpit Friction" at the end of the credits. This is the first episode to directly advertise another episode.

In Milhouse's notes, it can be seen that he wrote that Flanders was better. Flanders starred in A Streetcar Named Desire in episode "A Streetcar Named Marge".

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