It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge/References

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge

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Cultural References

• The episode title is a parody of the movie It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
• The scene where Otto proposes to Becky by radio is a parody of the famous radio scene in the 1989 movie, Say Anything.
• Krusty's interview scene is a spoof of the "Celebrity Interviews" skit on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
  • The Mad Marge Dancers reference the Dancing Lance Itos from The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
• The episode itself is a parody of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle which is also mentioned by Patty. Becky's name also appears to be a reference to the star of the movie, Rebecca DeMornay.
• Homer sings his own version of the David Bowie song Changes.

Trivia

• Patty's stronger display of hatred towards men during Otto and Becky's wedding ceremony appears to be yet another clue that she was secretly a lesbian, which would be made public in the 2005 episode "There's Something About Marrying". In contrast to her more lukewarm sister Selma, Patty tells Lisa "it's time you learn the truth about about men" and then claims "the bitterness is strong in this one" after Lisa decides to answer her by saying "they're pigs." Previous clues were also shown in "Treehouse of Horror III", when she described seeing Homer's naked body as taking away whatever was left of her heterosexuality (though "There's Something About Marrying" implies that Patty was never attracted to men to begin with, so she wouldn't have any heterosexuality to be taken from her...unless she was on the fence about whether or not she was gay), and when she was one of the poorly-censored patrons in the slideshow of people who have visited The Maison Derriere in "Bart After Dark".
• One of the kids in the classroom says D'oh when he drops his camera.
• Dr. Zweig (the therapist who helped Marge with her emotional problems) from "Fear of Flying" and Dr. Foster (the therapist who helped Ned with his anger problems from his past) from "Hurricane Neddy" both appear at Marge's insanity hearing.
• This is the second time (first time being in "Mayored to the Mob") in which Homer knocks Marge unconscious.
• This is the first episode in which the Old Springfield Library appears in its brighter repainted form.
• The bar Juggernauts, which was mentioned earlier in "Pygmoelian", is mentioned by Kent Brockman in this episode and is seen briefly.
• Becky is briefly seen in The Simpsons Movie: she witnesses Bart naked during his skateboard dare.
  • She also appeared in the scene after the dome was destroyed, standing closely next to Otto (seems like they have reconciled), amongst other townspeople celebrating the collapse of the dome.
• Marge was also impersonated on television in "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays".
• Principal Skinner apparently doesn't know (or he doesn't even mind) that Bart records him going to the bathroom.
• Marge cluelessly thinks that Lisa's vegetarianism is a phase.
• Otto's parents were also mentioned in "The Otto Show", in which Otto mentions that they don't get along with him and that his dad is an admiral. These facts are acknowledged in this episode.
• The last time Woodstock was seen in flashback occurred in "D'oh-in' in the Wind".
• Lenny, Carl, Mr. Burns, Smithers, Sam, Larry, Agnes Skinner, Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, and half the citizens didn't attend Otto's wedding.
• During the scene where Marge's brakes are cut, the following real-life cars can be seen in the segment:
  • Acura NSX
  • BMW 3-Series
  • BMW Z3
  • Mercedes-Benz E-Class
  • Porsche 911
  • Toyota Sienna
  • Volkswagen Samba
• At the start of the audio commentary for this episode, a commentator swears whilst joking about the Simpsons animation team. In Korean after the couch gag saying: "They outta beat the s**t outta of them".

Goofs

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  Becky without her lipstick

  Otto doesn't seem to have suffer any burns after being on fire and his clothes stay intact. (It is possible that network censors would not allow horrible burns to be shown on the show.)
• How did the police know Marge would show up at home?
• In the last scene of the second act, as Marge is being arrested after confronting Becky, Becky isn't wearing lipstick.

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  The classroom with pink walls

  When Mrs. Krabappel's classroom is first seen, the walls are pink instead of green.

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  Marge below the window

  When Marge watches Homer from the window, she is slightly too low down so that she appears to be below the window.
• Marge implies to have never used rosemary in cooking before. However, she had previously used rosemary while making pork chops in "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge".
• Patty’s dress sometimes changes from short sleeves to sleeveless, then short sleeves when Marge visits her sisters.
• One of the doctors at the insanity hearing is supposed to be the therapist who helped subdue Ned Flanders when he was an out-of-control child. However, he's drawn as he looked as a young man and Ned was a child, not as he did when Ned was an adult.
• Lisa was voluntarily offering Moe shrimp when he was leaving the wedding. Despite that when she became a vegetarian she tried to stop others from eating meat and even ruining Homer’s barbecue.
  • However, in that episode she ended up apologizing for her actions, so she may have decided to respect others' eating habits even if she doesn't approve of them personally.
• As Krusty puts his coffee mug down, the mug disappears for a frame.