Four Great Women and a Manicure/References

Cultural references

 * The episode title may be a reference to .
 * : Lackey Moe sees Queen Elizabeth I (portrayed by Selma) in her nightclothes and exclaims, "Someone call ! got in again!"
 * Queen Elizabeth's horse is named "Tea Biscuit", a pun on .
 * When Moe and the Queen see the Spanish Armada coming, they are standing under a banner that reads "Mission Accomplished". Moe comments, "It's probably a little too early to be standing under this", a reference to President George W. Bush's "" speech in 2003.
 * : Parodied in the second segment. However, Snow White (portrayed by Lisa) is forced to rename all the dwarfs to satisfy the legal demands of the Blue-Haired Lawyer.
 * The Blue-Haired Lawyer is shown to have long claw-like fingernails (and asks the nail shop to sharpen them), a reference to the cultural stereotype of lawyers being aggressive and predatory.
 * When Snow White flees from the wicked queen's threat, she comes across a gingerbread house and Grandma's house (referencing the folk tales "" and "") before she finds the dwarfs' house.
 * "": Snow White complains about the dwarfs' beds being too hard and too soft. Unlike Goldilocks, however, Snow White settles for the soft bed.
 * "": When the dwarfs find Snow White asleep, Doc speculates that she may be under a curse and Crabby says that a kiss might awaken her. When Crabby approaches her to do the deed, however, Snow White quickly sits up and exclaims, "I'm awake! I'm awake already!"
 * ' and The Matrix: During the ' parody segment, actor Homer forgets his lines and starts reading from scripts concealed on his person, trying to find the right line. Instead of Macbeth, however, Homer ends up reading lines from Bye Bye Birdie and .
 * The classical music playing during the "Maggie Roark" segment is the Second Movement of Beethoven's.
 * Maggie's architectural creations include the following real-life buildings:
 * The
 * The, also known as "The Bird's Nest"
 * The
 * The
 * The painting that Maggie makes on the wall (for which she is swiftly—and ironically—scolded by Marge) is van Gogh's "".

Trivia

 * This is the only episode Bart doesn't appear in (unless you count the opening sequence).
 * This episode is the second anthology episode to have 4 short stories instead of 3 (the first was "Simpsons Bible Stories").
 * This is the fourth episode in the show's history where Maggie has spoken and the second where she's done so directly.
 * Selma appears without Patty in this episode.
 * This episode was viewed by 5.15 million viewers making it the least watched episode in the shows history. Nearly a year later, it was beaten by "Million Dollar Maybe".
 * In the Macbeth parody, no one seems to care that Marge says "Macbeth" in the theater, in spite of the taboo on speaking the name. However, the "" provides exemptions for speaking the name during rehearsals and performances of the play, so Marge's working as a laundress in support of the production may also be considered to grant her a free pass.
 * Maggie also duplicates a van Gogh painting in the comic story Maggie's Crib 26.