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References/Trivia

The title references the 1967 film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Homer's song about food resembles, in part, the tune "I Feel Pretty", from West Side Story.
The typewriter without an "e" refers to the film Misery.
Props seen at Planet Springfield: Herbie from The Love Bug, the coffee mug from Heartbeeps, the cane from Citizen Kane, a script from The Cable Guy (Which Homer proceeds to tear apart for nearly ruining Jim Carrey's career), an alien resembling one from Mars Attacks! (but pink), a model of the Titanic, models of an X-Wing and TIE fighters, and a statue of C-3PO.
When Lisa and Homer discuss the language to use in his first review Homer attempts to augment nouns with "groin-grabbingly". Lisa offers the word "transcendent" to which Homer replies, "What about groin-grabbingly transcendent?" "Groin Grabbingly Transcendent" is the name of a song by Jason Becker on his album The Blackberry Jams.
The episode was also the second episode of The Simpsons to feature a reference to the movie The French Connection (The first was "The Springfield Connection").
Luigi references the "horse head" scene from The Godfather.
Homer typing the same thing over and over spoofs the 1980 film The Shining.
Citizen Kane is referenced multiple times throughout the episode, such as the "cane from Citizen Kane" and the scene where Homer tells Lisa "people will think what I tell them to think," and that she "can't do this to me, I'm Homer Simpson!" as she leaves the room.

This is the first Simpsons episode to directly break the fourth wall. Homer tells the audience "We'll be right back" as it cut to a commercial break while gloating about not getting his comeuppance after the second act. In previous episodes such as Duffless and Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One), they only semi-broke the fourth wall: that is, the characters first appear to be talking directly to the audience, but were in actuality pointing at another character (Dr Hibbert and Chief Wiggum, respectively).
This episode has a television rating of TV-PG D (dialogue), while in reality it deserves to be TV-PG LD (language and dialogue) for what Homer said to the ambulance while driving the kids.
Characters that chased Homer and Lisa:

Marge says that the letter 'E' doesn't work on the typewriter, but in Homer's review that he wrote with the typewriter, it says Screw Flanders at the end, which has two 'E's in it.
- He probably would've written it "Scrw Flandrs".