Little Big Mom/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The episode's title is a pun on the 1970 American revisionist Western film Little Big Man.
- On the The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode "The Tears of a Clone":
- One of the pictures in Itchy's album, Scratchy is tied to a table and pointed at with a laser, is a parody of James Bond's famous scene in Goldfinger.
- When Itchy can't keep up with the flow of Scratchy clones emerging from the cloning machine, it is a reference to the candy-wrapping scene from the I Love Lucy episode "Job Switching".
- Things among the items Marge wanted to get rid of:
- A flashcube, a small, cube-shaped device used in old Kodak Instamatic cameras to provide flash lighting. It contains four flashbulbs, one on each side, that fire individually with each photo, rotating automatically after each shot.
- Homer bought a pair of skis after watching the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan.
- Bart plays a joke on Homer by telling him that the drummer from the American soft rock Bread was close to him.
- While approaching Marge, Disco Stu sings "Disco Lady", the 1976 single by American singer Johnnie Taylor.
- When Homer wants Marge to get the best medical treatment, the ambulance driver switches the sign to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and later to St. Mary's Medical Center.
- In the hospital, Homer and Bart squirt interferon at each other.
- The cereal Sweet Emotions features a picture of Steven Tyler from the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith. "Sweet Emotion" is a popular song by the band, released in 1975.
- Homer and Bart watch an episode of I Love Lucy, the famous American sitcom. The main characters, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo and Fred Mertz, are heard talking.
- Lisa meets the ghost of Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo Carmichael, who gives her an idea for how to get even with Homer and Bart for their laziness. Ghost Lucy's surnames refer to characters that Lucille Ball portrayed on I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show.
- After telling Lisa her name, Ghost Lucy says, "And I think there's some more", an offhand reference to Lucy Carter, Ball's character on Here's Lucy; and to Lucy Barker, her character on Life with Lucy.
- Good Old Oats are a parody of Quaker Oats.
- The Virtual Doctor website says that it's from the creators of Dragon Quest and SimSandwich. Dragon Quest is a series of RPGs released by Square-Enix (originally released as Dragon Warrior in the US). SimSandwich is a reference to the Sim series of games, the most famous of which is SimCity.
- Maude mentions having seen Ben-Hur, the 1959 American religious epic film.
- Marge refers to leprosy as Hansen's disease, which is another way to refer to the disease, named after its discoverer, Gerhard Armauer Hansen.
- The Knights of Columbus, a real Catholic fraternal organization, are mentioned in the Molokai Leper Colony sign.
- In Hawaii, Bart and Homer plan to scare tourists staying at Club Med, the famous chain of all-inclusive hotels.
- At the very end of the episode, Homer sings "Aloha 'Oe" between screams while he receives a needle treatment.
- During The Itchy & Scratchy Show cartoon, the pictures Itchy looks at in his photo album are from previous I&S cartoons (see "Tears of a Clone").
- Lisa says "Excellent!" in the same way as Mr. Burns.
- This is the second The Simpsons episode to be banned in Japan, the first being "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo". The reason dealt with the leprosy subplot and the segregation element, as segregation laws were still deemed a sensitive matter in Japan. The episode is also not included in the Japanese version of the Season 11 DVD and is unavailable on Disney+ Japan.
- When Marge rushes through the door at the start of the episode, she opens it to the inside, but when she is outside, she nails a wedge to the underside of the door. This wouldn't work, since the door opens the other way, but the Simpson family tries to open it outwards.
- The clock falls on Marge's left leg, yet it breaks her right leg.
- When Ned answers the door to Homer and Bart, the doorknob is on the left-hand side of the door. After he slams the door and Homer and Bart stick their arms through the mail slot, the doorknob has changed to the right-hand side of the door.
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