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Love is a Many-Splintered Thing |
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Cultural references[]
- The title is a pun on the film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and the song of the same name. (Another episode with this pun is Love Is a Many Strangled Thing in Season 22.)
- The episode follows the narration style of the movie Annie Hall.
- Bart's appearance is a parody of Woody Allen.
- Lisa's appearance at the end is a parody of Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.
- We can hear Kenny Rogers' song Lady.
- Severus Snape's quote, "Love is more powerful than all my magic" is reminiscent of one of Lord Voldemort's past arguments with Professor Dumbledore.
- Bart's Heroes are The Wolverine and Bruce Springsteen.
- Springfield Squidport, among the caricatures we can find:
- Woody Allen.
- Clint Eastwood from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca.
- Yoda from Star Wars
- Marilyn Monroe from the The Seven Year Itch
- Cletus' feuds list:
- Hatfields.
- The Hapsburgs.
- Time Warner Cable.
- Those dang Muppets
- My toenail what turned black.
- And, after the talent show, the Peacocks
- During the "Love, Indubitably" movie, which is a parody of the British movie Love Actually, we can see some characters such as Winston Churchill, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes and Isaac Newton performing a strip dance as seen in the British movie The Full Monty. We can also see Alfred Hitchcock appearing from Doctor Who's TARDIS.
- Ode to Apologize is a parody of "Ode to Joy", from Beethoven's ninth symphony.
- Barry the Satellite TV Guy is a parody of Larry The Cable Guy
Trivia[]
- It was mentioned in this episode that Kearney is dyslexic.
- It was briefly seen that the car has a cartoon physics indicator.
- This episode is a sequel to Moonshine River.
Goofs[]
- Lisa is playing the violin during the Opening Sequence, but she is shown with her saxophone on her bicycle upon arriving at the house.
- The "Love, Indubitably" movie shows the British House of Commons in session, however, the Speaker's chair is empty. The Speaker presides over the House when it is in session, so it would not make sense for them not to be there.
- As Homer says āstandard hotel boiler plateā, his pupils briefly vanish.
ā Season 23 | Season 24 References/Trivia | Season 25 āŗ |
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Moonshine River ā¢ Treehouse of Horror XXIII ā¢ Adventures in Baby-Getting ā¢ Gone Abie Gone ā¢ Penny-Wiseguys ā¢ A Tree Grows in Springfield ā¢ The Day the Earth Stood Cool ā¢ To Cur, with Love ā¢ Homer Goes to Prep School ā¢ A Test Before Trying ā¢ Changing of the Guardian ā¢ Love is a Many-Splintered Thing ā¢ Hardly Kirk-ing ā¢ Gorgeous Grampa ā¢ Black-Eyed, Please ā¢ Dark Knight Court ā¢ What Animated Women Want ā¢ Pulpit Friction ā¢ Whiskey Business ā¢ The Fabulous Faker Boy ā¢ The Saga of Carl ā¢ Dangers on a Train |