King-Size Homer/References

References/Trivia

Trivia

The title is a parody of the title "King-Size Canary", which was an MGM cartoon directed by legendary animator Tex Avery. In the cartoon, a growth formula causes several animals to swell to gargantuan proportions.
The drinking bird Homer has to "cover for him" was a gift from Herb in "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?". Herb used it to show the formulation of ideas, but Homer was enthralled with it and wanted it.
An original plan for the episode that was scrapped was Homer becoming weight-obsessed in the opposite direction and becoming dangerously thin.
The song "Push out the jive, bring in the love" by the Lostprophets most likely takes it's name from the phrase used by Mr. Burns during exercise.
When Homer hits "TAB" thinking he'd get a drink looking for the Any key (which is a joke on the computer prompt "Press any key to continue") a startup sound from a Macintosh computer produced in 1995 is heard. This episode aired the same year.
When Homer vented the toxic gas from the plant, thus ruining the farmers corn crop (and therefore unknowingly exacting revenge on the farmers for Daylight savings existing), the farmer says "Paul Newman's gunna have ma' legs broke!" when lamenting the loss of the corn. This is a reference to the legend made by the Newman's Own Popcorn company where Newman threatened people if they try to steal his popcorn recipe.