Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing/References
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Cultural references[edit]
Recreating romantic comedy Annie Hall with Bart in the Woody Allen part and Lisa in the Diane Keaton part.
- The episode title is a pun on the song "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing".
- The song has also been referenced in the title of the episode "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing", from Season 22.
- The final scene is nod to the film Annie Hall. With Bart's appearance and speaking style is a parody of Woody Allen's character Alvy Singer and Lisa as Annie Hall.
- The old woman tied to the roof of a limo that stops at the Hillbilly Talent Contest is a reference to Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies.
- Cletus' "Feuds" list includes the following:
- Hatfields
- The Hapsburgs
- Time Warner Cable
- Those dang Muppets
- My toenail what turned black
- And, after the talent show, the Peacocks
- "The Most Interesting Boy in the World" is a reference to the Internet meme, The Most Interesting Man in the World.
- During the movie Love, Indubitably which is a reference to the movie Love Actually, we can see:
- Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes and Isaac Newton performing a striptease. This is a reference to the British movie The Full Monty.
- Severus Snape from Harry Potter appears in the movie.
- The TARDIS from Doctor Who appears in the movie.
- Alfred Hitchcock comes out from the TARDIS.
- The song that plays during Love, Indubitably is "All the Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoopie.
- At Springfield Squidport, many caricatures can be found
- Woody Allen.
- Yoda from Star Wars.
- Clint Eastwood from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca.
- Woody Allen mentions his films Mighty Aphrodite and The Purple Rose of Cairo. Later, he mentions that he played the ant in Antz.
- One of the characters in the video game Mixed Martian Arts (a parody of Mixed Martial Arts) is Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes.
- The controller he holds resembles an Xbox controller.
- Kearney tells Bart to think outside the "Skinner box," another name for an Operant conditioning chamber used for studying animal behavior.
- When singing "Ode to Forgiveness", a parody of the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Homer sings the line: "The melody is by Beethoven" and Bart then sings: "Not bad for a movie dog". Homer is referring to the composer while Bart is referring to the film Beethoven.
Continuity[edit]
- The story is a follow-up to the episode "Moonshine River" from the same season 24.
