To Cur, with Love/References

Trivia

 * In the flashback of this episode, Homer meets Mr. Burns for the first time. However, Homer doesn't meet him until he first applies to work at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in a flashback in "I Married Marge".
 * In the flashback of this episode, Herman loses his arm while trying to hitch a ride to piano school,  when the Springfield Animal Control Truck speeds by. However, it was implied in both Homer's Odyssey and Bart the General that he lost his arm while hanging it out of the school bus window.