Tennis the Menace/References

Production

 * This episode was the second episode to be digitally colored (instead of colored traditionally through cel animation), a practice that would later be used starting with the season 14 episode, "The Great Louse Detective." The first was season seven's "Radioactive Man."

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on the comic strip (and movie).
 * When the tennis tournament puts Homer and Bart into competition over who gets to have Marge as a partner, Lisa makes a reference to.
 * When introduces himself at the tennis match, Homer asks, "The wrestler?", confusing Agassi for professional wrestler.
 * Grandpa sings "?" by Tom Jones at the talent show, replacing "whoa whoa whoa" with "ow ow ow," and "oh, god, no," having injured himself while attempting to dance.
 * When Homer is in the shower, Bart adjusts the hot and cold water to make him scream to the tune of "," then "."

Goofs

 * Homer mistook tennis for, but didn't know what it was called. He referred to it as "the sport where the chicks whale on each other." Previously, however, in "Lisa on Ice", Homer knew the name of the "sport."
 * However, given Homer's mental capacity, he could have easily forgotten.
 * In the first shown match at the Krusty Kharity Klassic, three groups of two men run into each other's heads from the opposite sides of the tennis court. The second and and third groups, which come running in from outside the scene, are exactly identical.