Rome-Old and Juli-Eh/References
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Cultural references
- 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 Two Towers and the Battle of the Pelennor Fields from 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.
Trivia
- When Homer and Patty prepare their mental images so they can kiss each other without barfing, Homer imagines Patty as Marge, Marge as a cowgirl, Marge as a dancer, Marge as a devil, and Marge as a chef. 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
- 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:
