Life on the Fast Lane/References
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"Life on the Fast Lane"
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Cultural references[edit]
- The episode's title is a play-on-words on The Eagles' song "Life in the Fast Lane" and a bowling lane.
- When Bart tells Lisa that Marge will love his French perfume bottle, he says "all the way from gay Paree". This is a reference to the 1982 musical comedy film Victor/Victoria, specifically to the musical number "Gay Paree" sang by Carroll "Toddy" Todd (Robert Preston) where he was referring to Paris as "gay Paree".
- Homer once gave Marge a calendar of American journalist Connie Chung for her birthday.
- Songs at The Singing Sirloin include:
- Patty mentions the Heimlich maneuver.
- Jacques uses several words from the vocabulary of bowling, including:
- Beer frame, a frame in which the only bowler not to roll a strike, or the one who achieves the lowest score, has to buy beer for the rest of their team.
- 5–7–10 split, also known as the "Three wise men", is considered to be one of the most difficult splits to convert.
- Homer, Bart and Lisa sing "Wiegenlied", the "Cradle Song" by Johannes Brahms, to Maggie.
- As with "Bart the General", the opening sequence was shortened due to the length of the episode. This means this episode has no chalkboard gag and couch gag.
- The original title of this episode was "Bjórn to Be Wild". This is because it called for Albert Brooks to voice Bjórn, a Swedish tennis instructor, but Matt Groening thought it would be better to make Brooks' character French.
- The moon is seen to have three craters on it, much like a bowling ball when Jacques is dropping Marge off.
- Jacques takes Marge to Shorty's Coffee Shop for brunch.
- Albert Brooks is credited under the name "A. Brooks" in this episode, as with all his other appearances on The Simpsons.
- Marge's shoe size is 13 AA.
- Matt Groening once stated that this episode was his favorite. His actual favorite is "Bart the Daredevil".
- Jacques appears again in The Simpsons' seventh season episode "Team Homer" and makes a brief cameo as a bowler in the past in "And Maggie Makes Three". He also appears in the "Do the Bartman" music video dancing with various women.
- In the scene where Marge is next to Homer at work, the pink big line on the top of his tie flips to the opposite side for a split second, and then flips back to normal.
- If Marge is thirty-four, this would mean she gave birth to Bart, now ten, when she was twenty-four. This is inconsistent with most flashbacks to Homer and Marge's earlier lives.
- The filling of Homer's sandwich changes from green to purple.
- Depending on the scene, the label of the French Perfume bottle changes between blue, purple, and red.
- When Marge is talking to Patty on the phone, Marge's pearls are white instead of red.
