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The Blue and the Gray |
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Goofs[]
- This episode contradicts "Secrets of a Successful Marriage", where Homer revealed to the class Marge has had gray hair since she was a teenager and regularly dyed it. In this episode it appears this was the first time she discovered this.
- There are two Disco Stus during the opening of the seminar.
Continuity[]
- Dr. J. Loren Pryor returns in this episode as his last speaking role was in "See Homer Run" (not counting his cameo apeearence in "Treehouse of Horror XX").
- Secrets of a Successful Marriage: Marge's blue hair is revealed to be a dye job and, according to Homer, she's "...been as gray as a mule since she was 17."
- Dumbbell Indemnity: Homer helps Moe get a woman to date him.
Trivia[]
- Sherri Mackleberry and Terri Mackleberry are apparently two-thirds of conjoined triplets though the third one remans unknown.
- Moe's fake twin sister cameo appears in this episode.
- Maggie and Baby Gerald kiss when they are cupids at the end of the episode. However, this part can be considered non-canon.
- This is one of the few times the fact that Bart, Lisa and Maggie's lack of a hairline is brought up, greatly distressing the children who wonder what they are and where the 'border' is.
- It is revealed that Selma has blonde hair and Patty has red hair; they claim that the purple-gray color is "just smoke and ash."
- When Moe says that for every man, there is one woman, the woman in Europe who (implicitly) hangs herself lives in Northwestern Italy.
Cultural References[]
- The title is a reference to the song "The Blue and the Gray".
- The name Dr. Kissingher is a play on Dr. Henry Kissinger.
- When Marge gets to the club, the song of the Wicked Witch of the West plays from the Wizard of Oz. As well as a flying monkey (Mr. Teeny) can be seen in the background.
- The women Homer thinks of when Marge asks what he thinks when he hears beautiful woman were Neytiri, Smurfette, a Troll Doll with blue hair, and Marge with blue hair.
- Homer explaining he will try to eat his leg to get freed, before Marge unties him, says it will take him 127 Hours.
- The barbershop's name "Hairy Shearers" is a pun of Harry Shearer.
- The instrumental tune from the ending is Love is Blue, by Paul Mauriat, which became the only number-one hit by a French artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 in America in 1968.
- When Marge assists Lisa in chasing down her macaroni Marconi, Milhouse wonders if Marge saw something scary, like the Count on Sesame Street.