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Cultural references[]
- The title of this episode is a play on the title of the 1950s sitcom Father Knows Best.
- When Homer realizes that Marge is not worrying about the kids and therefore he has to, he says "Help me, Mayonnaise", downs a quart of it, and flexes his biceps. This alludes to Popeye the Sailor who utters a similar sentiment about spinach just before downing a can of the same, then seeing his muscle mass of his arms instantly increase.
- Anne of Cleves is the only one of King Henry VIII's six wives buried in Westminster Abbey. Her ghost wears the same outfit from her famed 1539 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger now on public display at the Louvre in Paris, France. The ghost spoke with an English accent although the real Anne of Cleves did not learn English until her arrival in England at age 24 and never lost her thick German accent.
- Oscar Wilde's ghost floats in from outside through a stained-glass window. Oscar Wilde is not buried in Westminster Abbey, but in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. In 1995, Oscar Wilde was commemorated with a stained-glass window at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. The memorial is above the monument to Geoffrey Chaucer.
Trivia[]
- In 2009, Dan Castellaneta won the Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for playing Homer Simpson in this episode.
- This is Rob LaZebnik's second canon episode and the first canon episode he's written since the much-despised season 12 episode "Homer vs. Dignity." While LaZebnik's first writing assignment was "Treehouse of Horror XI," that episode doesn't count as Treehouse of Horror episodes aren't considered canon.
Goofs[]
- When Homer plans to help Bart and Lisa he eats mayonnaise (in a Popeye fashion) and previously he had strong taste buds so it would hurt incredibly.
- In one scene, Wendell is seen sitting and eating in the school canteen. In the next scene, we see him waiting for jelly.
- In class scene, we see Nelson sitting at the desk. The scene cuts and Willie brings Nelson to class instead of Ralph and left him standing in front of a blackboard. The scene cuts again and we see Nelson sitting at the desk again.
- Moe has never lived in his bar, he lived in a apartment. Not his bar. He could have to fix that as a health violation.
- One of the other "helicopter parents" is Ned Flanders (though he is only seen from behind). He shouldn't be there because his children go to a religious school. However, this is inconsistent, as thet were seen attending Springfield Elementary School in a few episodes (notably "Skinner's Sense of Snow")
- Oscar Wilde, in this episode has an English accent, when he was in fact Irish.