Rome-Old and Juli-Eh/References

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on William Shakespeare's .
 * The song that plays during Selma and Grampa in love scenes is  by.
 * The battle sequence with Bart, Lisa, and the box salesmen uses The Fields of the Pelennor, a portion of the score from the ', and the scene itself is a parody of the from ' and the  from . One of the A.S.S. delivery men even flies a  like the.
 * When the A.S.S. legions show up at the Simpsons, Bart asks Lisa "Who knew a bunch of guys in brown shirts could cause so much trouble?" This is a reference to the Brown Shirts of the (SA) who were the most violent members of the German National Socialist (Nazi) Party before they took over Germany in 1933.
 * Lisa calls the box fort "Boxingham Palace," a reference to.
 * When Abe gets the kitchen appliances confused, he mistakes the microwave for a TV, and puts in a VHS of . Interestingly, Abe sets it to run for two hours, but the movie is only 100 minutes long.

Trivia

 * When Homer and Patty prepare their mental images so they can kiss each other without barfing, Homer imagines Patty as Marge, Marge as a cowgirl, Marge as a dancer, Marge as a devil, and Marge as a chef. Patty imagines Homer as Edna Krabappel.
 * The woman on the DMV board looks very similar to Zelda, only with less wrinkles, red hair and slightly different hair style.

Continuity

 * In the comic story The Man of the House, Ralph Wiggum has a series of kitchen mishaps strongly reminiscent of Abe's in this episode.
 * The banner outside town hall references Selma's previous marriages:
 * Sideshow Bob in "Black Widower".
 * Lionel Hutz mentioned in "Much Apu About Nothing".
 * Troy McClure in "A Fish Called Selma".
 * Disco Stu took place off-screen in "There's Something About Marrying".