The Cartridge Family/References

Trivia

 * In the UK version's channel 4 version, the scene where Marge relents on throwing away the gun and pocketing it in her purse was cut, leaving viewers the implication that she did throw it out.
 * This episode was originally banned in the UK because of the opening scene involving a soccer riot, likely to try and prevent encouraging it.
 * In this episode, Homer goes through the five day waiting period he needs to retrieve his gun. The blackboard gag for "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" implies that Bart was against the waiting period.
 * Homer's gun record is the following: Frequent problems with alcohol, put in an insane aslyum (Stark Raving Dad), beat up former president George H.W. Bush (Two Bad Neighbors)
 * It appears as if Homer was muttering "lousy big shit" after being informed of the five-day waiting period. Most scripts, however, have the line as "lousy big shot."

Cultural References

 * The gun shop is based on the shop that the LAPD went to during the North Hollywood bank robbery when they ran out of ammunition.
 * The title of this episode is a play on the name of 1970s television series The Partridge Family.
 * The end music is the theme to the 1960s show The Avengers.
 * The song playing when Homer is sitting and watching things go by while he is waiting five days for his gun is The Waiting by Tom Petty &amp; The Heartbreakers. Petty rarely lets his music be used on television, but being a fan of The Simpsons, he allowed them to use it.