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Marge vs. the Monorail
Selma's Choice
Brother from the Same Planet

Trivia[]

  • This episode marks the first appearance of The Seven Duffs. However, only Tipsy, Queasy, Surly and Remorseful are named in the episode.
  • Lisa's underwear is exposed when she gets off the couch after Homer says that they were all going to Duff Gardens. 
  • We learn Barney Gumble is a sperm donor and is a father of a huge amount of children.
  • On the magazine, "101 Frozen Pops", Professor Frink, Jacques, and Troy McClure (which is ironic, given that Selma would be with Troy McClure in "A Fish Called Selma") are featured, likely sperm donors like Barney.
  • One of the movies Homer and Marge watch while Homer is sick is The Erotic Adventures of Hercules, which was mentioned on "Mr. Plow" when Troy McClure hosted Carnival of the Stars.
  • This is one of the few episodes where Patty and Selma show no disgust of Homer, this was even shown when they raised their hands (along with Bart, Lisa and Maggie) for Homer to flash forward through Aunt Gladys' will reading, although they were repulsed by him giving them a comforting hug for their loss.
  • Scenes in the episodes that were cut for time included the following:
    • After the scene where Homer hugs Patty and Selma and they subtly insult him within earshot, there's a short scene where Homer packs the stationwagon with their luggage. Bart complains, "Hey, Homer! This luggage is crushing me!" Homer retorts, "Hey, you don't hear Lisa complaining!" followed by a cut to show that Lisa isn't complaining... because she's so smushed up against the window that she can't even speak.
    • Bart and Lisa doing a variation of the counting game by counting the luggage falling off the car on the way to the funeral.
    • A scene where Marge, caring for a sick Homer, offers some rental tapes, Boxing's Greatest Weigh-Ins and Yentl. Homer asks what Yentl is and Marge tells him it's about a bookish young Jewish woman who poses as a man so she can go to rabbinical school. When Homer says Yentl sounds great, Marge concludes that he's delirious.

Citations[]

  • This episode's title is a reference to the novel "Sophie's Choice".
  • Lisa's exclamation of "I am the Lizard Queen!" and her subsequent trip is reference to the song "Lizard King" by The Doors. She also dances like Jim Morrison, the lead singer.
  • Homer and Bart sing "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead" from the film The Wizard of Oz on the way to Aunt Gladys' funeral.
  • The poem Aunt Gladys starts in her will is Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken.
  • Marge and Homer watch the film "Yentl" just before "The Erotic Adventures of Hercules".
  • The Little Land of Duff ride is reference to the "It's a Small World" attraction for several Disney parks.
  • Duff Gardens is a parody of Busch Gardens.
  • The Seven Duffs are a parody of the Seven Dwarves.
  • After hearing about the Sweathogs Selma said, "I checked, it isn't Horshack". This is a reference to Ron Palillo's character on the sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter".
  • According to the DVD commentary, the end scene with Selma and Jub-Jub is a reference to the Murphy Brown episode, where Murphy's son Avery was born, which was a highly rated sitcom at the time this episode first aired.
  • After Bart Simpson pantsed the George Washington animatronic and caused the animatronic to turn around and glare at him ominously, Washington's pupils glowed red with a mechanical reverb being heard in the background, a reference to the Terminator franchise.

Goofs[]

  • In the first shot that shows Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney stealing the bumper cars, Jimbo's bumper car is blue. In the next shot, Jimbo's bumper car changes to green.
  • Lisa's skin during her tainted water freak-out switches from yellow to pale white, until the scene where the "doctor" gives Selma pills for Lisa to take, where Lisa's skin is pale yellow.
  • Surly's eyebrows are gone on the scene where Bart is hanging off the Barrel Rollercoaster car and the camera pans down to Selma and Surly finding Bart up there.
  • The Barrel Rollercoaster apparently doesn't have seat belts or any back-up harness to keep Bart from flying out of the car.
  • The Beer Goggles lets Bart "...see the world through the eyes of a drunk", so Selma should not have sounded different when Bart saw her as a sexy woman.
  • Selma's purse disappears when she sits at the bench.
  • Bart and Lisa drag Selma to the Little Land of Duff line (which is exceedingly long), but after Bart's line, "Hey man, if the line's this long, it's gotta be good!", it turns into the line for complaints.
  • Marge's lip movements for "In case you felt better" are recycled when she says "...with Norman Fell as Zeus" (when she shows Homer the Erotic Adventures of Hercules videotape).
  • How did Homer know where to fast-forward and stop on Great Aunt Gladys' video will when she was reading Robert Frost's poetry?
  • American driver's licenses don't mention a driver's marital status (cf. the part where Selma voids Hans Moleman's driver's license, then reads that he's single).
  • The diner waitress from "The Buzzing Sign Diner" is reused as the waitress in the fancy restaurant Hans and Selma are in.
  • The second Duff Gardens commercial shows Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney getting arrested, yet they reappear near the end driving bumper cars into the sunset (unless either that was an act for the commercial or Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney were released due to Springfield police incompetence). In that shot, the "E" in "Duff Gardens" looks like an "F".


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