|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||
|
Wedding for Disaster |
|
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode that Sideshow Bob was both the main focus and yet not the main antagonist behind the events of said episode since "Brother from Another Series". Instead, Patty and Selma are the antagonists, this time. (Ironically, Selma was a previous target of Bob.)
- Ironically, Sideshow Bob had the perfect chance to kill Bart, but instead, gave him advice.
- Sideshow Bob seems to have ditched his family and turned good but he returned in Season 21 again.
- It could be possible that the reason for his family's absence, including his wife and son, is them still being in jail from the events of "Funeral for a Fiend", being that their sentence is longer than Bob's.
- It's also possible that Bob is trustworthy of being let go from prison while his family are new to the place.
- This episode is 1 of the few times that Homer's trademark line of "Why you little...!", when he's about to strangle Bart is done fully and with the last word added. This episode had "Why you little bastard!".
- This episode marks the first time ever that Patty and Selma were shown as the episode`s main antagonist. This is also the first time they did something very hurtful to Marge (Ruining the remarriage and kidnapping Homer).
- On June 28, 2009, three days after Michael Jackson’s death, this episode was dedicated to Michael Jackson with a picture of Leon Kompowsky from “Stark Raving Dad” along with the caption "In Memory of Michael Jackson".
- This episode was rated TV-14 DLSV.
- As Marge and Homer's marriage from the episode "A Milhouse Divided" was void, this meant that Homer's marriage to Amber in "Viva Ned Flanders" wasn’t bigamous and that Grampa isn't married to her, either, combined that Amber died in "Jazzy and the Pussycats", meaning that Homer and Marge can marry without committing bigamy.
- When you look closely at the cash register in the opening, before Maggie is scanned it says 243.26 but after it says 486.32, meaning Maggie is worth 243.06.
- Homer and Marge got married four times.
- If Homer and Marge weren’t legally remarried because Reverend Lovejoy wasn’t an official minister then other couples whom he performed weddings at shouldn’t legally be married or remarried either, such as Apu and Manjula in "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" or Kirk and Luann in "Little Orphan Millie".
- When Marge shows Lovejoy the pictures, Lionel Hutz is seen.
- Clancy Bouvier's first name is mentioned for the first time in the series, on Homer and Marge's marriage certificate. His name had appeared in various companion books, but this is the first time it appears canonically.
Confusion[]
- When the parson tells Reverend Lovejoy how he remembers his wife Helen as a boy named Harold Schwarzbaum, it caused confusion whether or not Helen is transsexual or not. However, it was just misconstrued by fans, as she appeared as a young girl in "The Way We Weren't" and has a daughter. The joke was just that the parson mistook her.
Cultural References[]
- The way Patty and Selma hold Homer hostage and torture him is similar to the way Jigsaw captures and tortures his victims in the Saw movies.
- The Parson's appearance, voice and singing style appear to be based on Bing Crosby.
- Homer calls Marge a "bridezilla" at one point, alluding to a TV series featuring brides at their worst behavior.
- During Homer and Marge's argument regarding the latter's current attitude about the wedding, Maggie, while clearly terrified by their fighting, imagines Marge and Homer as Godzilla and King Kong (or rather King Homer), respectively.
- When Sideshow Bob explains what the initials "SB" stood for, besides Selma Bouvier, he also lists Scott Baio, the Sultan of Brunai, and the former Polish secret police Służba Bezpieczeństwa.
- While they were gloating and laughing at Homer's humiliation at the DMV, Selma and Patty's computer briefly shows the multicolored lines screensaver for Windows operating systems.
- Marge make a button disapear the same way Susan did in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.