Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing/References

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on the song "".
 * At the start of the opening sequence, the from Futurama flies by the title screen. The intro music from Futurama also plays briefly.
 * After Bart pees himself, the big screen has the caption "got urine?", a reference to the got milk? advertising campaign.
 * Homer has a dream in which there are three pop culture references to parental abuse in the media:
 * Homer is a young Michael Jackson in the Jackson Five and Bart is Joe Jackson, Michael's father.
 * A scene from The Great Santani where Bart is Wilbur Meechum and Homer is his son.
 * A parody of the 2009 movie Precious with Bart as Mary and Homer as Precious.

Trivia

 * The prank call text that Bart texted with a cell phone to Moe I.M.A. Wiener is the same prank name that was previously used by Bart at Springfield Gorge in The Simpsons Movie against Russ Cargill.
 * The last time Homer had a nightmare about Bart abusing him in a dream was in the Season 1 episode: "Moaning Lisa".