Diatribe of a Mad Housewife/References

Cultural references

 * The title word plays off of the book and film Diary of a Mad Housewife.
 * Homer sings a song to the tune of "Cars" by Gary Numan.
 * Homer briefly works at the "Boris Car Loft", a reference to Boris Karloff.
 * The ambulance Homer buys is based on a 1959 Eureka Cadillac ambulance formerly operated by the Bogota, New Jersey Volunteer First Aid Squad, which has since been restored and is now in the Netherlands. See http://home.pacbell.net/naparish/
 * Marge denotes the similarity of the picture behind the couch to the classic novel, Moby-Dick (the picture is, in fact, called "Scene from Moby Dick"). It inspired her novel, when she thought "No one's done a book about whaling before!" Moreover, her book is about whaling and its ending has Temperance's husband dying in a similar manner to that of Ahab, from the same novel.