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Trivia[]

  • Music from the episode:
    • "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)" by The Beastie Boys (Heard as the coach works out.)
    • "Lara's Theme" from Doctor Zhivago (As Ned and the boys head off to Pennsylvania.) (Ironic as just before this Ned states he is a Republican)
    • "Bad Company" by Bad Company (Heard during the montage of Ned's first few days at work.)
    • Pat Boone's version of the Little Richard song "Tutti Frutti" (Played as Ned reads the newspaper, right before Homer shows up at his door.)
    • "Freeze Frame" by the J. Geils Band (Played by Mr. Largo at Ned's welcome-home party.)
  • SexySlumberParty.com is a real site registered to the show.
  • Lisa says the language in "Kosovo Autumn" is Albanian.

Previous Episode References[]

  • "A Milhouse Divided": A Simpson (Bart/Homer) hits someone over the head with a chair, to the shock and disgust of another character (Homer/Flanders).
  • "Bart the Lover": Someone (Homer/the Humbleton factory boss) persuades Ned Flanders to shave his mustache (only on this episode, he refuses to get rid of it).
  • "Trash of the Titans": The Sir Loves-A-Lot teddy bear appears.
  • "Hurricane Neddy":
    • A large crowd surrounds Ned Flanders' house
    • Flanders has an emotional meltdown over the town's antics (the town trying to rebuild his house/the town laughing at Ned for housing two college coeds who film webcam porn in his house) and temporarily leaves (goes to the mental hospital/moves to Humbleton).
  • "Homer Loves Flanders":
    • Flanders is angry at Homer.
    • Ned Flanders goes into church and everyone is shocked.
  • "Realty Bites" and "When Flanders Failed": Flanders moves away (or, in the case of "When Flanders Failed", almost moves away).
  • "Homer's Enemy": A short-lived character voiced by Hank Azaria (Frank Grimes/Coach Clay) hates Homer.
  • "Homer's Phobia": Bart's sexuality is called into question (Homer worries Bart's going to be gay because of the John Waters-esque antique store owner/Bart reads Queer Focus and asks Marge if he's a butch or a femme).
  • "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister": Bart acts like an animal after being forced to live outside.

Cultural References[]

  • Humble figurines are a reference to Hummel figurines.
  • The title is a reference to the phrase "home away from home."
  • The killer from the movie Scream can be seen when Homer is searching for a babysitter.
  • The scene where Ned bursts into the ornament factory is a replica of a scene from the movie If....
  • Ned apes the subway grate pose, his mustache blowing up, from The Seven Year Itch.

Goofs[]

  • Churchoops

    Various church errors

    When Ned Flanders rents out a room, he has a "no pagans" sign. Religious intolerance is considered a sin in all Christian denominations. Not only that, Flanders is discriminating against someone for their religious beliefs, which is illegal in America when it comes to providing housing.
  • When Homer catches Bart and Milhouse viewing the SexySlumberParty.com website, Bart's head is partially see-through.
  • In the church scene, Ruth Powers appears twice; Sarah Wiggum is shown, but there is no sign of her husband or son (for that one, that could be just Sarah wanting to go to church by herself while Chief Wiggum is either at work or at home taking care of Ralph); and a Ned Flanders-lookalike (without sweater) is also seen in the last pew next to the wall.
    Home Away from Homer 73

    African-American Comic Book Guy?

  • In church Ned isn't wearing his suit and is wearing his usual clothes.
  • Even though this episode features sexual content, it is rated TV-PG. This is one of many examples of "Simpsons" episodes being incorrectly rated, with many episodes that should be rated TV-14 being put as TV-PG, usually with the incorrect content descriptors. The sexual content wasn't that strong, as far as showing two girls doing softcore porn for the Internet goes. If there was nudity or the two of them wearing fetish costumes, then a TV-14 would be acceptable. American censorship has always been splitting hairs about what is and isn't appropriate.
    Yellowkrust

    Yellow Krusty

  • There were several character errors when everyone was at Ned's house:
    • Comic Book Guy’s skin is miscolored.
    • Krusty the Clown's skin is yellow instead of pale.
    • Herman's hair is black and he is seen twice.
    • The old Jewish Man is also seen twice.
    • There is a Lionel Hutz lookalike between Lenny and the Sea Captain whose skin color keeps changing from yellow to brown between scenes.
  • For unknown reasons, this episode is the season finale on Disney+ while The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star is episode 20. Considering that "The Father, The Son, and the Holy Guest Star" was temporarily banned due to Pope John Paul II's death, Disney+ probably ordered it the way it was originally supposed to be, rather than the way FOX did it, similar to how "Lisa the Simpson" from season 9 is listed as the third episode on Disney+.


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