Sunday, Cruddy Sunday/References

Trivia

 * Caricature artist Troy Aikman's line, "You like dune buggies? Everybody likes dune buggies!" is a reference to a similar line from a different artist drawing almost identical pictures in Season 4's "Lisa the Beauty Queen", "You like roller skating? Everybody likes roller skating!"
 * The Super Bowl commercial featuring three sexy women servicing a man's car had the line "The Catholic Church: We've Made a Few Changes" edited to "The Church: We've Made a Few Changes" in all reruns (and some overseas airings) due to complaints from The Catholic League, though the syndicated version has the original line (spoken and in closed captions). The uncut line is shown on the season 10 DVD set, but the subtitles/closed captions have the edited line instead.
 * The character Wally Kogen is a composite of two early Simpsons writers Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky.

Cultural references

 * The title of this episode is a reference to the song "".
 * The football coach in Homer's fantasy about going to the bears a striking similarity to  coach.
 * The use of in the phone message is a reference to a fake radio commercial for  that used sound bites of Vincent Price from his films.

Goofs

 * When Bart's class is on the field trip at the post office, at one point, Chuck is among the students seen there. But he isn't usually seen as part of Bart's class.