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Diatribe of a Mad Housewife/References

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Season 15 Episode References
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"Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
"Margical History Tour" 324


Cultural references

  • The title word plays off of the book and film Diary of a Mad Housewife.
  • Homer sings a song to the tune of "Cars" by Gary Numan.
  • Homer briefly works at the "Boris Car Loft", a reference to Boris Karloff.
  • The ambulance Homer buys is based on a 1959 Eureka Cadillac ambulance formerly operated by the Bogota, New Jersey Volunteer First Aid Squad, which has since been restored and is now in the Netherlands. See http://home.pacbell.net/naparish/
  • Marge denotes the similarity of the picture behind the couch to the classic novel, Moby-Dick (the picture is, in fact, called "Scene from Moby Dick"). It inspired her novel, when she thought "No one's done a book about whaling before!" Moreover, her book is about whaling and its ending has Temperance's husband dying in a similar manner to that of Ahab, from the same novel.

Trivia

  • This is the first appearance of Dr. Marvin Monroe since season 5's Bart's Inner Child
  • This is not the only time a member of the Simpson family would become (or try) to be a author. Homer and Bart along with others Springfieldians in season 23's The Book Job would do the same thing.

Goofs

  • When Homer is reading the book, he says, "Temprance Barrow was heavy with feeling. She "snore"..." but when he is listening to it, it says Temprance Barrow was heavy with feeling. Her" The goof is that Homer says She, but the Olsen's say Her at the beginning.

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