To Cur, with Love/References

Cultural references

 * The episode name is a reference to the film .
 * The film has also been referenced in the title of the episode "To Surveil with Love" from Season 21.
 * Alien: The flying mutated Blinky fish that appears while Mr. Burns is giving out awards has a rigid tongue with its own set of jaws, like an Alien.
 * Ralph Wiggum was named after.
 * Homer sticking his hand into his crotch is a reference to from the television sitcom, .
 * Abraham Simpson was watching Mannix,.
 * A Farewell to Arm is a reference to A Farewell to Arms.
 * i, Bully is a reference to . The lowercase "i" in the title is possibly a reference to iPods.
 * Postcards from the Hedge is a reference to the ' film, which was based on the '.
 * It has also been referenced in the title of the episode "Postcards from the Wedge" from Season 21.
 * The song during the Bongo-Homer bonding montage is "" by Harry Nilsson.

Trivia

 * This episode was never shown on the intended date in the East Coast due to a Fox News Special Report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which also interrupted  during a commercial break.
 * This episode was the first to have higher ratings on its encore airing, due to reasons aforementioned.

Continuity

 * Waylon Smithers' father, Waylon Smithers, Sr., appears in the flashback to Homer's childhood. ("The Blunder Years")
 * One of the music cues from "Bart the General" plays when Herman decides to open a gun shop.

Goofs

 * In the flashback, Herman is shown as having his arm decapitated by a passing car. This contradicts "Bart the General" in which he states he did it to himself by sticking out of a moving bus' window.