Brake My Wife, Please/References

Cultural references

 * The name of this episode refers to 's line, "Take my life, please". This line is also referred to in the episode titles "Take My Wife, Sleaze" and "Take My Life, Please", and mentioned in "Little Big Girl", where Bart says "Take my wife, Please. Hey, I finally get that joke!".
 * At the video store, Homer watches Buttercups of Autumn, a parody of the film .
 * Homer dances to the.
 * The rap Homer does in his car before driving it off the pier comes from the song "".
 * While walking to work, Homer runs a stick across a fence, and then across George Wilson's face. Mr. Wilson was portrayed by the late  in the 1993 film, .
 * "I Love to Walk" contains elements of "" from the movie Doctor Dolittle.
 * Homer asks if is the guy who got fed into the woodchipper in .
 * When Marge is introduced to, she mentions "".
 * Jackson Browne said he'd serenade Marge a song from his latest album, which was '. He then says he's kidding and sings "", a parody of "Rosie" from the album '.

Trivia

 * When Bart and Milhouse's frogs start fighting each other, the "Bart and Milhouse fight music" plays.

Continuity

 * Apu and Manjula go to marriage counseling for Apu's affair in "The Sweetest Apu".