The Wreck of the Relationship/References

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The Wreck of the Relationship

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Censorship

• This episode is, to date, the only The Simpsons episode to be rated TV-MA (on now-defunct Simpsons World streaming platform) due to the Project: After Party trailer showing someone flipping the middle finger (considered a rude gesture in most Western countries) and a scene where a guy splashes three girls with bikini acid, causing their tops to disintegrate (no nipple nudity is shown, but the fact that they were close to becoming fully topless would still be considered offensive in some censors' eyes).
  • While the bikini top disintegration scene wasn't edited in reruns, the middle finger part was. Because of that, the content rating for this episode has been downgraded to TV-14-DLV for moderate suggestive dialogue (D), strong coarse language (L), and intense violence (V) for television and Disney+ streaming. Strangely, FXX has the middle finger part uncut, yet airs the episode with a TV-PG-DV rating for some suggestive dialogue (D) and moderate violence (V), while The Simpsons Movie was rated PG-13, yet had a scene where Homer flips off the angry crowd as he sinks in the backyard sandbox (though some edited versions exists where Homer's rude middle finger gestures are digitally removed).

Cultural References

• The title is a reference to The Wreck of the Hesperus.
• Gitmo Spuckler's name is a shortened version of Guantanamo Bay.
• The "Fatal Nard Crush" video is a reference to the Nickelodeon 2013 original movie, Jinxed.
• "Somewhere over the Dwayne Bowe" (the name of Homer's fantasy football team) refers to Dwayne Bowe , who is a current player in the National Football League (NFL). Former NFL kicker Adam Vinatieri is one of the players on Homer's fantasy football team. It's also a pun on the song "Somewhere over the Rainbow" from the film "The Wizard of Oz".
• The "Tired comedy reference" Selma mentions, when Bumblebee Man says "Mas cowbell", is from a famous skit on Saturday Night Live, featuring Christopher Walken instructing a fictional Blue Öyster Cult in the studio recording "(Don't Fear) The Reaper".

Goofs

• When the broccoli sit-off starts, it was previously shown to be nighttime, but at hour 23, it appears to be daytime.
• When Homer says "I got to pick a good fantasy team!" while on the phone with Lenny, he hairs on his head go down. In the middle of his next line, the hairs suddenly appear back to normal.