The Way We Weren't/References


 * Marge claims she enjoys Parliament but not Funkadelic in reference to the funk collective popular during the 70's.
 * The song played during the kissing fantasies of young Marge and Homer is "Happy Together", by The Turtles.
 * The episode title echoes that of the 1973 film The Way We Were.
 * Homer's imagined perfect world includes Screaming Yellow Zonkers, Quisp flying by in his spaceship, and the Kool-Aid Man -- whom Homer kills by drinking him.
 * Before meeting the Sea Captain by the docks, Homer says "I guess it's Roe v. Wade, and it's my right to choose." This namechecks the landmark American supreme court decision on abortion.
 * When the Captain rows Homer across the lake to meet Marge, he sings: "I met her on the mountain, there I took her life. I met her on the mountain, Stabbed her with my knife." These are lyrics from the folk song Tom Dooley, as made famous by The Kingston Trio.
 * This episode shares the same major storyline as the Who's The Boss? episodes It Happened One Summer I & II, where Tony and Angela discover they shared a kiss while at camp.