The Cartridge Family/References

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 & The Heartbreakers. Petty rarely lets his music be used on television, but being a fan of The Simpsons, he allowed them to use it.