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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode title is a pun on the film Boy Meets Girl.
• In the title screen gag, the Simpsons are seen riding the title car from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
• Mr. Burns is dating Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia.

Marge watches The Real Housewives of Shelbyville, a parody of the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Orange County

• Marge watches The Real Housewives of Shelbyville, a parody of the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Orange County.
• Homer and Marge left the Aztec Theater when they saw that Ben Affleck was starring in Love, Formulaically.
• Homer's speech before he and Marge begin curling is a parody of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film of William Shakespeare's play Henry V. The music accompanying Homer's speech is taken from the film.
  • "St. Crispin's Day/The Battle of Agincourt" by Patrick Doyle, from that film is heard.
• The Skaters' Waltz by Émile Waldteufel is heard when Marge and Homer try curling.
  • A rock and roll version of the song is heard later when Homer and Marge win their first game.
• Seymour Skinner brought news about curling from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Curling in Wisconsin is very popular, where the Milwaukee Curling Club is the longest continually operating curling club in the United States.
• Agnes dream was to do pole vaulting in the Helsinki Olympics in 1952.
• Many Curly Howard look-a-likes act and look like Curly from The Three Stooges and Moe Szyslak comes by and quotes Moe Howard and says "Oh, wiseguys, eh?" and slaps the Curlys.
• Bob Costas hosted the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics like he did in real life on the NBC TV network.
• Costas mentions that China picked up famous direct Zhang Yimou to stage the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing. And after that, he says that Ivan Reitman, Canada's "most famous director" for bringing Ghostbusters, was going to held the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
  • The "Ghostbusters" song is parodied in the Parade of Nations.
• Lisa wants the pin of the mascot of the 1924 Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France.

The mascot Fatov and the pin seller parody the ice-palace of Varykino scene from Doctor Zhivago, while "Lara's Theme" is heard

• Agnes calls Homer "Sir Slip-a-Lot", a reference to Sir Mix-a-Lot.
• Bob Costas says that the shot Homer delivered had "less juice than Sunny Delight". Sunny Delight is a tangy orange drink developed by Doric Foods. The drink was subject to controversies and, amid declining sales, was reformulated in 2010 to contain only 15% fruit juice.
• Costas says he once shaved Larry Bird's mustache while he was napping.
• The fake pin Bart creates, "Fatov", was supposed to be the mascot of the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia.
• The scene where the pin seller dreams with Fatov is a parody of the "Lara's Theme" scene from the 1965 epic drama Doctor Zhivago where Dr. Zhivagohe and Lara Antipova arrive at the ice-palace of Varykino.
• The people at Moe's are watching Harry Potter and the Necklace of Amulets, and Harry Potter is playing Quidditch. Moe also makes a reference to the Horcruxes the protagonist must find.
• A French Canadian man is holding a flag with the Fleur-de-lis that can be seen on the Flag of Quebec.
• Fatov and Homer dance the Trepak ("Russian Dance") from The Nutcracker by Pytor Illyich Tchaikovsky

Trivia[edit]

• When Lisa is playing music for money, she is actually playing her small portion of music from most of the opening credits/sequence.
• Nelson's Canadian counterpart laughs "Hoo Hoo!" instead of "Ha Ha!"
• This is the second time Agnes Skinner is shown to be kind to her son.
• The first part of the episode set on date night is the 17th November, as stated by Homer.

Continuity[edit]

• Medicine Woman (or Boob Lady) from the movie returns in this episode. According to Homer, she is his therapist.
• Although it was hinted in previous episodes, this is the first episode that confirms that the Seymour Skinner that we commonly see is indeed Agnes Skinner's birthson and not an impostor, and the first to outright retcon "The Principal and the Pauper", in which we learn Seymour is truly an impostor.
• One of the pins is the Montreal Vampire ("The Old Man and the "C" Student").

Goofs[edit]

• In the scene where Homer is making a speech, he proclaims that it was the 17th November. Six weeks later, it would be the 29th December, and the Winter Olympics would not be held until February 12, 2010, meaning that the beginning of the episode would be set in 2009.
• Surprisingly, Principal Skinner is not wearing a coat when he visits the Simpsons, despite it being winter and there being a cold atmosphere.
• In one scene of the Olympics, Homer slides the curling stone over the middle of row, but it strangely hovers over.
• When Homer is hiding in a bobsled, listening to the conversation between Marge and Agnes, the flags above his head switch places when the camera angle changes. The Bahaman flag also turns into the Taiwanese flag.
  • The placement of the red circle on Japan's flag is also off. It is placed near what would be the left side of the flag when it should be in the center.
• In the opening ceremony, with the "Ghostbusters" theme, the first nation to come out is Albania, wearing red suits. In a far shot, however, they were wearing green. Was it the Albanians or just the Algerians, who came after Albania?
• In a wide shot of the opening ceremony, although one of the banners is out-of-frame, Team Uruguay is there twice in the same shot.
• Pole vaulting for women in the Olympics became existent in 2000. In a scene set in 1952, Agnes Skinner is seen pole vaulting in the Olympics.
• When Bart cuts out Homer's face from the license, Homer's lips has a smile. But some time later, it has a frown.
• After the winning and final throw, the shot changes several times as they celebrate, and the number and position of stones on the target changes with every shot change.
• During the opening ceremony, Albania is first. In every Olympics, Greece comes first in every Olympics (including the Winter), as they started the Olympics.