Love is a Many-Splintered Thing/References

Cultural references

 * The title is a pun on the film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and the song of the same name. Another episode with this pun is Love Is a Many Strangled Thing in Season 22.


 * Bart's appearance is a parody of Woody Allen.


 * We can hear Kenny Rogers's song Lady.


 * Severus Snape's quote, "Love is more powerful than all my magic" is reminiscent of one of Lord Voldemort's past arguments with Professor Dumbledore.


 * Bart's Heroes are The Wolverine and Bruce Springsteen.


 * Springfield Squidport, among the caricatures we can find:


 * Woody Allen.


 * Clint Eastwood from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.


 * Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca.


 * Yoda from Star Wars.


 * Cletus' feuds list:


 * Hatfields.


 * The Hapsburgs.


 * Time Warner Cable.


 * Those dang Muppets


 * My toenail what turned black.


 * And, after the talent show, the Peacocks


 * During the "Love, Indubitably" movie, which is a parody of the British movie Love Actually, we can see some characters such as Winston Churchill, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes and Isaac Newton performing a strip dance as seen in the British movie The Full Monty. We can also see Alfred Hitchcock appearing from Doctor Who ' s TARDIS.


 * Ode to Apologize is a parody of "Ode to Joy", from Beethoven's ninth symphony.

Trivia

 * It was mentioned in this episode that Kearney is dyslexic.


 * It was briefly seen that the car has a cartoon physics indicator.


 * This episode is a sequel to Moonshine River.