A Milhouse Divided/References

Trivia

 * The producers had contacted and asked her to record Kirk's song "Can I Borrow A Feeling" to play over the closing credits. Crow declined.
 * The first scene where the family is eating dinner in front of the television with TV trays is the actual test for background artists to be hired for the show.
 * The premise of this episode was inspired by a scene in a previous episode "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" where Milhouse, while playing with the cockpit of an F-15, pretends to launch missiles at his mom, dad, and Sally Wexler out of anger that they had to send him to a psychiatrist.
 * This is the only episode written entirely by Steve Tompkins, although he had been a part of the writing staff for several years.
 * The writers wanted to break a typical sitcom convention by having the Van Houten's divorce, and remained divorced at the end.
 * The episode original featured a subplot involving Bart getting jealous of the attention Milhouse was getting and wanting Homer and Marge to divorce.
 * The Simpsons have a dinner party similar to the one in "The War of the Simpsons".
 * Kirk loses his job at Southern Cracker. It was previously established that he worked there in "Homie the Clown" and "Bart on the Road"; in the former, Milhouse states Kirk is "a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory".
 * Kirk's song is titled "Can I Borrow a Feeling?"
 * The cake that Marge and Homer have at their wedding reads "To a Whale of a Wife", with the cake being in the shape of a whale.
 * Milhouse's toy car is designed to look like a S-class Mercedes.
 * "El Barto" is written outside of the Springfield Marriage Bureau building.

Goofs

 * At the beginning of the episode, Homer is seen licking his plate clean. A few seconds later, Homer has a full plate of food.
 * In the beginning, the family is eating in front of the T.V. When Marge is complaining about getting the food all over the floor, she drops her meatball on the floor, and it leaves a trail of sauce on the rug. In the bird's eye view of the room, the sauce has disappeared until the shot changes: then it reappears.
 * Marge said to Bart she would make butterscotch chicken for him, but in the Season 2 episode "Blood Feud", Marge says Bart's allergic to butterscotch.