Sweets and Sour Marge/References

Cultural references

 * "The Duff Book of World Records" is obviously inspired by The Guinness Book of World Records.
 * When Homer falls down the Pyramid, he holds on to one of the people, only with one hand and then twists his body around to reach another part to hold on. This resembles the opening Scene of Mission:Impossible 2, where Tom Cruise climbs up the Rocky Mountains.
 * When Agnes Skinner and Hans Moleman run away from the giant ball of people, it strongly resembles the scene where Indiana Jones runs away from the giant rock at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
 * Count Fudgula is a parody of the General Mills cereal mascot Count Chocula.
 * The song played that is when the city bans candy is "I want candy". The song played during the end credits is "Sugar sugar" by The Archies.
 * The chase scene between the police boat and Homer's boat has a couple of elements from typical Hollywood movies. There is a couple of workers holding a sheet of glass between two boats, and when the police boat swerves to avoid them, it nearly hits a women and her baby carriage (on a jet ski).
 * As the chocolate figure of Johnny Depp melts in the bonfire, it strongly resembles the famous painting,

Goofs

 * Hans Moleman was seen running away from the ball of people, but when the scene is played in slow-motion, Moleman can be seen already in the ball of people.
 * Chicago was actually the fattest city at the time the show aired.

Trivia

 * This episode was "Dedicated to the memory of Ron Taylor." Ron was the voice and soul of Bleeding Gums Murphy, Lisa's saxophone muse and jazz hero.
 * A deleted scene, Butterfinger were also sent to the fire since a certain someone appeared in the Adverts for the product in the 1990s, mostly involving a certain family member of his.