A Milhouse Divided/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 8 Episode References
← 158 "Bart After Dark"	159 "A Milhouse Divided"	"Lisa's Date with Density" 160 →

Trivia

• The producers had contacted Sheryl Crow and asked her to record Kirk's song "Can I Borrow A Feeling" to play over the closing credits. Crow declined.
• The first scene where the family is eating dinner in front of the television with TV trays is the actual test for background artists to be hired for the show.
• The premise of this episode was inspired by a scene in a previous episode "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" where Milhouse, while playing with the cockpit of an F-15, pretends to launch missiles at his mom, dad, and Sally Wexler out of anger that they had to send him to a psychiatrist.
• This is the only episode written entirely by Steve Tompkins, although he had been a part of the writing staff for several years.
• The writers wanted to break a typical sitcom convention by having the Van Houten's divorce, and remained divorced at the end.
• The episode original featured a subplot involving Bart getting jealous of the attention Milhouse was getting and wanting Homer and Marge to divorce.
• The Simpsons have a dinner party similar to the one in "The War of the Simpsons".
• Kirk loses his job at Southern Cracker. It was previously established that he worked there in "Homie the Clown" and "Bart on the Road"; in the former, Milhouse states Kirk is "a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory".
• Kirk's song is titled "Can I Borrow a Feeling?"
• The cake that Marge and Homer have at their wedding reads "To a Whale of a Wife", with the cake being in the shape of a whale.
• Milhouse's toy car is designed to look like a S-class Mercedes.
• "El Barto" is written outside of the Springfield Marriage Bureau building.
• The sign outside of the Cracker Factory reads: "Southern Cracker: The dryyyyyyyy cracker."

Goofs

• At the beginning of the episode, Homer is seen licking his plate clean. A few seconds later, Homer has a full plate of food.

References

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Treehouse of Horror VII • You Only Move Twice • The Homer They Fall • Burns, Baby Burns • Bart After Dark • A Milhouse Divided • Lisa's Date with Density • Hurricane Neddy • El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer • The Springfield Files • The Twisted World of Marge Simpson • Mountain of Madness • Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious • The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show • Homer's Phobia • Brother from Another Series • My Sister, My Sitter • Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment • Grade School Confidential • The Canine Mutiny • The Old Man and the Lisa • In Marge We Trust • Homer's Enemy • The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase • The Secret War of Lisa Simpson