The Strong Arms of the Ma/References
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Cultural References
- The episode title is a pun on the expression "the long arm of the law".
- The scene where Homer struggles to fit the family members and their purchases into the station wagon is a sight gag on the video game Tetris.
- When there's no room left in the car for Homer, Rainier Wolfcastle gives him a ride home, carrying him in a giant Snugli.
- The Twilight Zone: When Marge runs over the mailman and tells him that it will take a while for help to arrive, he says it's no problem as he's got plenty to read. Then, to his horror, he discovers that his glasses are broken, referencing the 1959 episode "Time Enough at Last".
- "Gonna Fly Now" (the theme music from the Rocky movie series) is played at a couple of places in the episode:
- During the sequence where Marge is working out and meets up with a group of local bodybuilders (including Ruth Powers).
- At the beginning of the closing credits.
Trivia/Goofs
- Otto thinks that a muscular Marge lifting the bus is just a hallucination caused by the pot he's smoking. Being a regular drug user, Otto should know that pot doesn't cause hallucinations.
- When Marge came out of the restroom there was writing on the wall that said "El Barto."
- The beginning of this episode reuses old animation from "Flaming Moe's" during the "Eye on Springfield" opening. That footage was 11 years old by then!
- Before Marge picks up the jukebox to slam it into other people in Moe's Tavern it wasn't playing anything, but when she went over to it, it started playing music.
- Regarding Marge not being able to whup the mugger in her first confrontation like she did Snake, let's not forget he was armed with a gun. I believe Snake only had a knife so Marge wouldn't have been as scared.
- When the family is eating dinner at the Air Hockey table, there are no goals on the ends of the table (where Lisa and Homer are sitting), except when there's a close up on Lisa. There is no goal when there's a close-up of Homer talking about "Cheers".
- Ruth was in prison because of what happened in the episode "Marge on the Lam"
- Homer packs lots of boxes in thecar, but when Marge drives the car, the boxes disappear.
- When the lady smashed the piano saying "support the arts" her lips don't move.
Notes
- The lemon tree from "Lemon Of Troy" now grows in the Simpsons' backyard.
- This is the fourth episode of the series (the scene where Marge starts taking steroids) that uses a music tune from Popeye. The others were "Brother's Little Helper" (when Bart sings his Ritalin song at the end), "Jaws Wired Shut" (the scene where Homer rescues Marge from disaster at the demolition derby), and "The Old Man and the Key" (when Grandpa's Viagra kicks in when he's about to make out on his date).
- Pamela Reed returned as the voice of Ruth Powers, who last appeared ten years ago in "Marge on the Lam," the "Thelma and Louise" spoof.
- This is the Simpson's 300th aired episode. The 100th being "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song," and the 200th was "Trash of the Titans."
