Love is a Many-Splintered Thing/References

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Love is a Many-Splintered Thing

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Cultural references

• The title is a pun on the film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and the song of the same name. (Another episode with this pun is Love Is a Many Strangled Thing in Season 22.)
• The episode follows the narration style of the movie Annie Hall.
• Bart's appearance is a parody of Woody Allen.
• Lisa's appearance at the end is a parody of Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.
• We can hear Kenny Rogers' song Lady.
• Bart's Heroes are The Wolverine and Bruce Springsteen.
• Springfield Squidport, among the caricatures we can find:
  • Woody Allen.
  • Clint Eastwood from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
  • Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca.
  • Yoda from Star Wars
  • Marilyn Monroe from the The Seven Year Itch
• Cletus' feuds list:
  • Hatfields.
  • The Hapsburgs.
  • Time Warner Cable.
  • Those dang Muppets
  • My toenail what turned black.
  • And, after the talent show, the Peacocks
• "Love, Indubitably"is a parody of the British romantic comedy Love Actually with the Prime Minister of the UK modeled on Hugh Grant.
  • The Prime Minister's "cheeky" secretary Eliza Commonbottom and her rough Cockney accent are based on the character of Eliza Doolittle.
  • A beefeater wraps the Prime Minister and Eliza Commonbottom with a Union Jack.
  • Winston Churchill (with a bowler hat), William Shakespeare (with "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio." skull from Hamlet), Sherlock Holmes (with a magnifying glass) and Isaac Newton (with an apple) perform a striptease like the one in the British comedy The Full Monty.
  • Alfred Hitchcock exits Doctor Who's TARDIS and starts break-dancing.
  • Severus Snape's quote, "Love is more powerful than all my magic" is reminiscent of one of Lord Voldemort's past arguments with Professor Dumbledore.
  • David Bowie's All The Young Dudes is played.
• Ode to Apologize is a parody of "Ode to Joy", from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
• Barry the Satellite TV Guy is a parody of Larry The Cable Guy

Trivia

• It was mentioned in this episode that Kearney is dyslexic.
• It was briefly seen that the car has a cartoon physics indicator.
• This episode is a sequel to Moonshine River.

Goofs

• Lisa is playing the violin during the Opening Sequence, but she is shown with her saxophone on her bicycle upon arriving at the house.
• The "Love, Indubitably" movie shows the British House of Commons in session, however, the Speaker's chair is empty. The Speaker presides over the House when it is in session, so it would not make sense for them not to be there.
• As Homer says “standard hotel boiler plate”, his pupils briefly vanish.