Wedding for Disaster/References

Cultural references

 * The way Patty and Selma hold Homer hostage and torture him is similar to the way captures and tortures his victims in the  movies.
 * Homer and Marge parody the 1962 film  with Homer as Kong and Marge as Godzilla. To further the parody Homer and Marge have Kong and Godzilla's actual roars from the film.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode that Sideshow Bob was both the main focus and yet not the main antagonist behind the events of said episode since "Brother from Another Series". Instead, Patty and Selma are the antagonists, this time. (Ironically, one of them was a previous target of Bob.)
 * Ironically, Sideshow Bob had the perfect chance to kill Bart, but instead, gave him advice.
 * This is the first episode to hint that Helen Lovejoy used to be a man, and to hint that Rev. Lovejoy doesn't know about it.
 * Sideshow Bob seems to have ditched his family and turned good but he will return in Season 21 again.
 * It's implied in this episode that Homer's trademark line of "Why you little...!" when about to strangle Bart, when done fully, is "Why you little bastard!".
 * On June 28, 2009, three days after the death of Michael Jackson, this episode was dedicated to Michael Jackson with a picture of Leon Kompowsky from "Stark Raving Dad".
 * This episode was rated TV-14 DLSV.
 * Reverend Lovejoy's list of people on his phone includes:
 * Charles Montgomery Burns
 * Chazz Busby
 * Captain McCallister
 * Carl Carlson
 * Senor Ding Dong
 * Surly Duff
 * Ned Flanders
 * Gabbo
 * Capital City Goofball

Goofs

 * The photos in the album seem to mix up the events of "A Milhouse Divided" and "My Big Fat Geek Wedding".
 * In church, there is lots of rows of seats; however, after Ned faints, there is only about five rows.
 * Rev. Lovejoy comes to the Simpsons door, but when he is seen sat down in a chair in the living room, the pictures going up the stairs have changed since the last shot.
 * In Maggie's fantasy, Marge's hair goes THROUGH the side of the wall to the corridor leading to the basement.
 * Raphael has lighter skin than usual.
 * There should be attendants at the other stands at the town hall in one of the later scenes.