Homer spinning around with a bowling ball in his hand before throwing it into the air and exclaiming "I'm gonna make it after all!" is reminiscent of the opening of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" where Mary throws her hat into the air. Simpsons co-producer James L. Brooks was co-producer of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
The song that plays while Homer and Marge have their night of dinner and dancing is "Copacabana (The 1993 Remix)", by Barry Manilow, although it is credited as "Copacabana (At the Copa)".
Trivia[]
Mayor Quimby's newborn baby was shown to have been conceived through an extramarital affair, as the mother was not his wife. It is also implied that Quimby's wife didn't know about the baby, or the affair, as he panicked when he thought his wife was present.
One of the pictures from the Family Album where Bart was riding a cat like if he was a cowboy, and the scene in the hospital with Homer, Marge, & Baby Maggie can be also seen on Virtual Springfield.
This is the first episode to contain Maggie's name in the title.
Patty calls Aaron A. Aaronson to tell him about Marge's pregnancy. Aaronson was mentioned by Lisa in "Sideshow Bob Roberts" when she went through the election results.
Goofs[]
Homer lives in 742 Evergreen Terrace and has a picture of Lisa before she is born.
A picture of Maggie is on the wall before she is born.
When Homer finds out that Marge is pregnant with Bart and Lisa, he runs up the stairs, but on the wall you can see a picture of Lisa (or at least someone who looks like her).
Also when Homer finds out about Lisa he was upstairs in the bathroom with Bart when Bart was flushing the keys down the toilet, in "Lisa's First Word".
Homer losing his hair twice by screaming and ripping it out after hearing that Marge is pregnant contradicts his actual reactions in "I Married Marge" (Dr. Hibbert tells Marge [who went by her maiden last name Bouvier at the time] the he figured out why she's been throwing up in the morning and congratulates Homer on becoming a father. Homer, who still had his hair, screams "D'oh!" so loud that a man in a full body cast felt bad for him) and "Lisa's First Word" (Homer, Marge, and Bart are living in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Springfield instead of their suburban home at 742 [or 1094] Evergreen Terrace; Marge tells Homer herself after Homer lectures Bart on flushing his wallet down the toilet. Homer, still with his hair intact, actually is happy that Marge is pregnant again, until Bart flushes his car keys down the toilet). Also: Flashbacks in "Lisa's Pony", "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" and later episodes, like, "Dangerous Curves", and "The Kids Are All Fight" show that Homer still had hair after Lisa's birth.
Ruth Powers is among the people at Marge's baby shower despite the fact that she moved to Springfield in "New Kid on the Block". She could have moved to another city after this episode and then moved back to Springfield. Considering that she was once married, then divorced to a man who moved around a lot as part of his job, it's not entirely out of place that Ruth would be in Springfield when Marge was pregnant with Maggie, then return years after Maggie was born.
When Homer and Marge come back from their night out, the door in their bedroom is on the wrong wall.
Part of Patty's Arm is purple.
When Marge tells Homer her contractions are three minutes apart, a picture of Maggie can be seen hanging on the wall, despite not having been born yet. Current executive producer Matt Selman tweeted out the error on Twitter while watching the episode on Sept. 4, 2018.
In Bart's version of the story in which Homer's head explodes, one of the bits of his head changes from yellow like his skin to tan like his beard.
When Patty is on the phone with A. Aaronson, the part of her arm under the phone cord is colored purple like her dress.
Homer doesn't become the safety inspector of the power plant until "Homer's Odyssey". And in that episode, Maggie was already born. Yet prior to Maggie's birth, Homer begs for his job back at the power plant before she is born. That very episode, and "The Way We Was" imply that Homer worked at the plant prior to his promotion to safety inspector.
Homer walking through the fixture of Barney's Bowlarama
After Homer hits his job at Barney's Bowlarama, he walks through the building's exterior fixture instead of behind it.
Inconsistencies between this and other "flashback" episodes and other miscellaneous goofs in the flashbacks may be the result of Homer's storytelling.
When Homer and Marge go back to their bedroom, they come in through the door which usually leads to their bedroom bathroom. Also, the purple drawers can be seen when they enter from the hallway.
In some FXX reruns, towards the end of the episode, the exterior of the hospital is seen, then it skips straight to Maggie's birth, cutting out the Quimbys and Sea Captain's babies.
Homer and Marge don't make prints in the sand.
In the flashback, Bart and Lisa are 8 and 6 years old respectively however they don't look any (or slightly) younger than their current ages.
