Homer the Heretic: The patriarch of a family (Homer/Ned) shocks the rest of his family when he announces that he's not going to church.
Lisa on Ice and The Cartridge Family: Chaos at a sporting event (rioting over Bart and Lisa forgiving each other during the hockey game/rioting over how boring the soccer game is/Maude gets hit with T-shirts shot from T-shirt guns and Homer bending over just as she comes back from getting hot dogs).
A Star is Burns: Someone videotapes someone taking a shower (one of Bart's arthouse films about Homer is called Homer in the Shower/Homer videotapes Flanders "keeping clean in the shower").
The Principal and the Pauper and Saddlesore Galactica: An episode said to be the point where The Simpsons' quality starts to fall due to a gimmicky premise (Skinner being an impostor/the strange, surreal humor and recycled plotlines/Maude dying).
Natural Born Kissers: Reference to couples having sex outdoors (Homer and Marge/the sign on the Springfield Nature Preserve only allows outdoor sex by permit only).
Hurricane Neddy: Ned is questioning God about what is wrong with him.
Trivia[]
Ned's ATM pin number is 5316.
This episode parodies a real life incident at an IndyCar event in 1999 when flying tires killed three spectators.
Maude's death had been conceived because her voice actor, Maggie Roswell, left the series in 1999 after a pay dispute. Despite Roswell coming back and voicing Maude in flashbacks and when she appears as a ghost, most fans have cited this as one of the many points where the show's quality started to deteriorate due to how Homer never faced consequences for Maude's death and how the episode didn't take it seriously.
When Lisa says, "Why do jerks think everyone wants to see their stupid name?," the words "Written by Ian Maxtone-Graham" appear in large lettering. All other opening credits are normal size.
On September 19, 2022, a repeat of this episode was aired on Channel 4's sister channel 4seven during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
Goofs[]
Maggie without her bow
In the opening scene, Maggie is not wearing her bow at first, but then it appears.
The man at the top left has a green pants leg
After the audience watches a racecar narrowly avoid a crash, one of the blue pants legs on the man at the top left turns green for a frame.
Homer makes the dating video and changes scenes with star wipes, but in the actual movie there are no star wipes. He may have edited and changed it after that scene or not know what he was talking about.
Ned and Edna date again in the season 22 finale, "The Ned-liest Catch", although Ned states in the episode that he has never met Edna before.
Homer claims that he prevented any chance of Maude's recovery by parking in the ambulance spot. However, Dr. Hibbert confirmed Maude was dead seconds after she hit the ground, meaning there would have been no time for an ambulance to come anyway.
One of the octuplets (second from bottom right) has a blue-gray section of hair
When Apu's family sits at the funeral, part of one of the octuplets' hair repeatedly turns blue-gray like another octuplet's shirt.
Moe claims Ned has a "fear of drinking", but Ned has his private bar. Flanders' rumpus room with private bar has always been established as being for guests who do drink, as the earlier episodes had Flanders as a kindly man who made guests at his home feel welcome, even if they didn't appreciate it, like Homer.
Ned with missing hair
For some reason half of the citizens, such as Eddie, Lou, and especially Helen Lovejoy and Agnes Skinner didn't attend Maude's funeral, despite they were best friends.
When Ned is complaining about the church chocolate he bought, the hair on the back of his head disappears for a frame.
Homer's wristwatch disappears when his car is on the racetrack.
It would be illegal for a stadium to not have tall safety barriers that could prevent someone from falling off.
