Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing/References

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on the song "".
 * The song has also been referenced in the title of the episode "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing", from Season 22.
 * The final scene is nod to the film . With Bart's appearance and speaking style is a parody of 's character Alvy Singer and Lisa as Annie Hall.
 * Cletus' "Fueds" list includes the following:
 * The
 * Those dang Muppets
 * My toenail what turned black
 * And, after the talent show, the Peacocks
 * "The Most Interesting Boy in the World" is a reference to the Internet meme,.
 * During the movie Love, Indubitably which is a reference to the movie , we can see:
 * ,, and  performing a striptease. This is a reference to the British movie.
 * Severus Snape from Harry Potter appears in the movie.
 * The TARDIS from Doctor Who appears in the movie.
 * Alfred Hitchcock comes out from the TARDIS.
 * The song that plays during Love, Indubitably is "" by.
 * At Springfield Squidport, many caricatures can be found
 * Woody Allen.
 * Yoda from Star Wars.
 * from .
 * from .
 * Woody Allen mentions his films ' and '. Later, he mentions that he played the ant in .
 * One of the characters in the video game Mixed Martian Arts (a parody of ) is Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes.
 * The controller he holds resembles an Xbox controller.
 * Kearney tells Bart to think outside the "Skinner box," another name for an used for studying animal behavior.
 * When singing "Ode to Forgiveness", a parody of the "" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Homer sings the line: "The melody is by Beethoven" and Bart then sings: "Not bad for a movie dog". Homer is referring to the composer while Bart is referring to the film .
 * Kearney tells Bart to think outside the "Skinner box," another name for an used for studying animal behavior.
 * When singing "Ode to Forgiveness", a parody of the "" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Homer sings the line: "The melody is by Beethoven" and Bart then sings: "Not bad for a movie dog". Homer is referring to the composer while Bart is referring to the film .

Continuity

 * The story is a follow-up to the episode "Moonshine River" from the same season 24.