How I Wet Your Mother/References

Cultural references

 * The episode's name is a reference to the TV series .
 * The episode is a parody of and an homage to the film, , with numerous references to 's score to the film.
 * Waylon Smithers, Jr. uses a  gun to get past the robots in the storeroom.
 * The music played while the employees are looting the supply room is from the 3rd movement of 's 4th symphony.
 * The closing credits feature audio of the song "Dream Operator" written by David Byrne (with vocals from Byrne and Glenn Close).
 * One of the dreams references the "Family Therapy" Tracey Ullman short.
 * Grampa says his and Mona's arguing was actually a TV program, featuring shouting at "one of his idiot singers". Miller produced for many singers, including Frank Sinatra,, Tony Bennett,  and.
 * In Homer's dreams, he has 's hair from .
 * In Homer's dream, Robin Williams states that wanted him to star in The Shining, Ronald Reagan states that ' was originally going to star him and John Travolta states that there was a ' and he wasn't in it.
 * Mr. Simpson's Wild Ride is a parody of.
 * The magazine Prof. Jonathan Frink is reading, Scientific Springfieldian, is a parody of .

Trivia

 * This episode marks the second appearance of B.F. Sherwood. B.F. Sherwood has the longest gap between his first and second appearances of any other recurring character. His second appearance in "How I Wet Your Mother" was 3 shorts and 502 episodes after his first appearance in "Family Therapy".
 * The signs that the "Mothers for Drunk Driving" are carrying in Homer's dream are:
 * Go ahead, have a few!
 * Sobriety is boring
 * Booze it or lose it
 * Always bring a drunkenated driver
 * Don't drive under .05
 * My other car is wrapped around a tree
 * After Homer launches himself at the open door to the Supply Closet, he lands short and covers the rest of the distance by "swimming" along the floor using his arms and legs in the breast stroke.

Continuity

 * Barney didn't seem to realize he didn't work at the Power Plant, and he was heard in the bathroom there in "The Falcon and the D'ohman".
 * Homer is also against his brain in the previous episode, "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart".
 * Homer also fails to go undercover into a shop in "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson".
 * On Mr. Simpson's Wild Ride, several past versions of Homer are seen:
 * Fat Homer ("King-Size Homer")
 * Pie Man ("Simple Simpson")
 * ("Treehouse of Horror III")
 * Homer as ("Mr. Plow")
 * Angry Dad ("I Am Furious (Yellow)" and ("Angry Dad: The Movie")
 * The waste that Homer dumped in Lake Springfield can be seen during the fishing scene. (The Simpsons Movie)

Goofs

 * At various points in the dream, characters are seen to read things, but in real life, it is impossible to read in dreams.