Fur 'N' Hate 451/References

Cultural references

 * The story's title is a pun on , a 1953 dystopian sci-fi novel by . The book and its plot are referred to a number of times throughout the story.
 * Lisa tells Bart that he was supposed to be reading the novel for his book report, to which Bart responds that he'll simply watch instead.
 * Lisa takes the idea of memorizing every Itchy & Scratchy episode for future generations from the book.
 * After the group has recounted a few of their favorite episodes, the movie can be seen playing on the television.
 * The Itchy & Scratchy episode that Kent Brockman interrupts is titled "The Buck Chops Here", a play on the phrase "".
 * Kent mentions being "up for an ".
 * Professor Frink briefly makes reference to and his famous.
 * Bart mentions having a number of Itchy & Scratchy episodes on his "ePhone", a parody of the.
 * The cartoon Lisa recounts is a parody of .
 * The comic's ending, wherein the now significantly aged children are living on a houseboat, is a reference to the movie . One of their grandchildren asks if electricity is what made the "icebergs" melt. Melting icecaps were the cause of the rising sea levels in the movie.

Trivia

 * According to this comic, there are 851 "Itchy & Scratchy" cartoons.

Continuity

 * The cartoon that Martin shares is said to have come from a time when the producers "attempted to purge ultra-violence from children's programming", referring to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge".
 * "The Buck Chops Here" was first seen in the episode "Burns' Heir".
 * Bart says that his friends should spend all their time protecting him since he has memorized every single Itchy & Scratchy episode. Lisa says that she also knows every episode, as well as the movie, in reference to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie".