Rome-Old and Juli-Eh/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The episode title is a pun on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- The song that plays during Selma and Grampa in love scenes is Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Joe Jackson.
- The battle sequence with Bart, Lisa, and the box salesmen uses The Fields of the Pelennor, a portion of the score from the Lord of the Rings, and the scene itself is a parody of the Battle of the Hornburg from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and the Battle of the Pelennor Fields from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. One of the A.S.S. delivery men even flies a Fell beast like the Nazgûl.
- When the A.S.S. legions show up at the Simpsons, Bart asks Lisa "Who knew a bunch of guys in brown shirts could cause so much trouble?" This is a reference to the Brown Shirts of the Sturmabteilung (SA) who were the most violent members of the German National Socialist (Nazi) Party before they took over Germany in 1933.
- Lisa calls the box fort "Boxingham Palace," a reference to Buckingham Palace.
- When Abe gets the kitchen appliances confused, he mistakes the microwave for a TV, and puts in a VHS of Sands of Iwo Jima. Interestingly, Abe sets it to run for two hours, but the movie is only 100 minutes long.
- When Homer and Patty prepare their mental images so they can kiss each other without barfing, Homer imagines Patty as Marge then Marge dressed up as a cowgirl, a cheerleader, a devil, and finally as a Hot Dog on a Stick salesgirl. Patty imagines Homer as Edna Krabappel.
- The woman on the DMV board looks very similar to Zelda, only with less wrinkles, red hair and slightly different hair style.
Continuity[edit]
- In the comic story The Man of the House, Ralph Wiggum has a series of kitchen mishaps strongly reminiscent of Abe's in this episode.
- The banner outside town hall references Selma's previous marriages:
