Love Is a Many Splintered Thing/References

==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.
*Bart's appearance is a parody of Woody Allen.
*We can hear Kenny Rogers's song Lady.
*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.
*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.
*Cletus' feuds list:
**Hatfields.
**The Hapsburgs.
**Time Warner Cable.
**Those dang Muppets
**My toenail what turned black.
**And, after the talent show, the Peacocks
*During the "Love, Indubitably" movie, which is a parody of the British movie Love Actually, we can see some characters such as Winston Churchill, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes and Isaac Newton performing a strip dance as seen in the British movie The Full Monty. We can also see Alfred Hitchcock appearing from Doctor Who's TARDIS.
*Ode to Apologize is a parody of "Ode to Joy", from Beethoven's ninth symphony.
==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.
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