The scene where Homer leers at Maude's breasts, and Maude the next day checking make sure her blouse is fully buttoned, appears to take aim at a scene in the 1937 Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarves where Snow White hastily covered up her cleavage area after awakening while in bed while in the presence of the Dwarves, though the Dwarves did not leer at her and briefly ducked their heads as she was covering her cleavage area.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EANjbUzU_w In Homer's case, however, he looked at Maude's cleavage intentionally. Simpsons co-producer James L. Brooks used a similar scene in a 1982 episode of Taxi titled "Louie Goes To Far;" in this case, however, Louie De Palma, who like the Dwarves was of short stature, inappropriately looked at Elaine Nardo's naked body while sober.
Also in church, when Maude sees Homer looking for Marge, she hastily checks to make sure her blouse is fully buttoned. (The scene takes place the very next day after Homer looked down her dress during the party)
Marge urges Homer to go easy on the "al-key-hol". The last time she used that term she was halfway in the bag herself, and performed similar embarrassing drunken revelry at Mr. Burns' picnic in "There's No Disgrace Like Home".
Gloria and John are voiced by Julie Kavner and Dan Castellaneta, respectively, making it a rare time where they voiced a couple other than Homer and Marge. Also, Kavner's role of Gloria is one of the few times she has voiced a character other than Marge or one of the women of the Bouvier family.
Grampa sings "Over There", a popular song during the First World War, when getting out of the shower, possible evidence that he served in World War I. A more likely explanation is that being a veteran of World War II, he was a kid during the years of the First World War, and had heard it then.
A flashback sequence shows Bart sucking on a pacifier as a baby, like Maggie in the present. However, later flashbacks of baby Bart show that he doesn't suck on a pacifier.
Hitler's nondescript appearance in the pews
Adolf Hitler is one of the congregation goers in attendance at the church.
Several other couples that were attending the marriage retreat with Marge and Homer were cut from this episode's script, including Edna Krabappel trying to reunite with her estranged husband named Ken Krabappel, as revealed in the audio commentary for this episode.
According to this episode's audio commentary, Mrs. Krabappel's estranged husband, Ken, was going to appear in this episode. He was supposed to be based on Dean Martin, but he somehow ended up to have a southern accent that made him sound like a hick. However, this was cut from the episode's script.
When Ned Flanders is making drinks at the Simpsons' party, much of the flashy ways he is seen preparing the cocktails is similar to Tom Cruise's bartending stunts in the 1988 film Cocktail.
The music in the scene where an infant Bart chases his teenage babysitter with the car is similar to the score from The Omen.
Homer's false memory of the party is a reference to the Algonquin Round Table, a group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits. The guests and the party and the way they are drawn resemble Al Hirschfeld's caricature of the group. As Hirschfeld's drawings were always in black and white, the color scheme is borrowed from the covers for The New Yorker.
Homer's marathon attempt at catching General Sherman, his bludgeoning of the fish and the line "I love you but I have to kill you" are all based on Santiago's fight with the marlin in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
Homer sings "We Are the Champions" by Queen after he finally catches General Sherman, although he butchers the lyrics by singing "I Am the Champions", in which he fails to singularize the lyrics in order to describe only himself.
The picture of General Sherman in the service station is a reference to the famous hoax picture of the Loch Ness Monster.
In a shot of the kids left in class alone after Miss Hoover has suddenly left, Wanda's beret is pink, which matches the color of her outfit.
There is a frame at the party where a part of Ned's head is missing where his hand overlaps it.
Abraham Simpson is seen with the kids in a pink car, while Homer and Marge already left with the family pink sedan for Catfish Lake. Though, it is possible that he is actually driving the family orange station wagon and the vehicle was accidentally colored in pink, a mistake already seen in other episodes.
