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Diatribe of a Mad Housewife |
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Cultural references[]
- The title word plays off the book and film Diary of a Mad Housewife.
- Homer sings a song to the tune of "Cars" by Gary Numan.
- Homer briefly works at the "Boris Car Loft", a reference to Boris Karloff.
- The ambulance Homer buys is based on a 1959 Eureka Cadillac ambulance formerly operated by the Bogota, New Jersey Volunteer First Aid Squad.
- Marge denotes the similarity of the picture behind the couch to the classic novel, Moby-Dick (the picture is, in fact, called "Scene from Moby Dick"). It inspired her novel, when she thought "No one's done a book about whaling before!" Moreover, her book is about whaling and its ending has Temperance's husband dying in a similar manner to that of Ahab, from the same novel.
- Homer only becomes concerned about Marge's novel when Lisa says that it might be parodied on MADtv. MADtv was a FOX sketch show that ran from 1995 to 2009 (with a brief, critically-despised return in 2016 on the channel The CW). Though the humor was said to be like MAD magazine (which the 2010 Cartoon Network version simply called MAD actually was), MADtv was often compared favorably and unfavorably to NBC's long-running sketch series, Saturday Night Live. Its executive producer, Quincy Jones, even hosted SNL back in the 1990s as part of SNL's 15th season.
- Esme Delacroix is a parody of a British author E.M. Delafield.
Trivia[]
- All of Esme's books have Scoundrel in them- I, Scoundrel, To Kiss A Scoundrel, Return to Scoundrel Island, A is for Scoundrel.
- Dr. Marvin Monroe appears in this episode. Marge thought he was dead, but he explains that he was 'very sick'.
- When Homer is lying to Marge his eyes twitch as if to tell her the truth. This same eye movement is translated by Marge in an earlier episode, "The Sweetest Apu".
- This episode features the second time that Homer hears about a fictional character based on himself and reconsiders his ways. The first was in I Am Furious (Yellow).
- When Homer asks Nelson what he's doing with his arm through Ned's door, he replies "stealing doormats". In Lisa's Date with Density, the doormat seen on the front doorstep of Nelson's house is the one stolen from the Kwik-E-Mart.
- Marge wrote 7 of Temperance's 10 children have died, but only 2, son Bartleby and daughter Leezakiah, are seen.
- A lifesaver with Nantucket 1840 written on it hangs on the wall in Temperance's kitchen.