A Streetcar Named Marge/References

== Trivia/Goofs ==
*In response to Marge staying in character as Blanche DuBois in order to rehearse, Bart also adopts a character, that of a Cockney (East Londoner). However, his use of "gulliver" to mean "head" is not authentic Cockney slang (the correct word is "loaf" [loaf of bread]), but Nadsat, the fictional slang which was invented by Anthony Burgess for his novel A Clockwork Orange.
*The Miss American Girl pageant is a parody of the real-world [Miss America] pageant. Known contestants' costumes include:
**Miss Alaska: Dressed in a warm coat and boots.
**Miss Idaho: Dressed as a potato.
**Miss Illinois: Dressed as Abraham Lincoln.
**Miss Indiana: Wears a racetrack neckpiece and has a checkered flag in her hair.
**Miss Kansas: Dressed as Dorothy from the 1939 film [The Wizard of Oz]. Wears a hat shaped like a tornado, further referencing the film.
**Miss Maine: Dressed as a lobster.
**Miss North Carolina: Dressed simultaneously as a classic Southern belle and as a cigarette.
**Miss South Dakota: Wears Mount Rushmore headgear around her face.
**Miss Texas: Dressed as a tin can. Also wears cowboy boots as well as a hat shaped like an oil rig.
**Miss Vermont: Wears a hat shaped like pancakes with maple syrup.
*This episode caused controversy with the state of Louisiana, who took offense to New Orleans being called "The Sodom and Gomorrah on the Mississippi," leading to the blackboard gag in the next episode, "I will not defame New Orleans." Thirteen years later, when Hurricane Katrina and its destruction made the news, this episode aired in the United Kingdom as a rerun. The episode, once again, garnered complaints. UK's Channel 4 made a public apology and, as a result, banned the episode from ever airing again (in much the same way Season 9's "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" was banned in America after the 9/11 attacks, though it did come back, albeit with edits).
*One of Marge's past interests which Homer claims to have faked interest in is her painting class, referencing the events of "Brush with Greatness."
*This is the last episode and the only season 4 episode to be aired on German television channel ZDF in February 16, 1993. As the season 3 finale "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" wasn't aired on that channel, the latter instead aired on another German Pay-TV channel ProSieben a year later alongside the rest of the fourth season, when the series moved into that channel.
*When Maggie goes to get the pacifiers, the music and actions are references to the movie "The Great Escape."
*In the airing order, this is the last episode of the show to be animated by Klasky-Csupo before Gracie Films moved their production, The Simpsons, to Film Roman. However, it is not the last animated by the company in production order, it was "Kamp Krusty" that was the last in production order.
*This is the last episode to have the full end credits theme song first heard in season 3. However, some parts of that theme can be heard in "22 Short Films About Springfield", "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", "Gump Roast", "Special Edna", "Bart-Mangled Banner", "Million-Dollar Abie", and "The Haw-Hawed Couple".
*When Homer told the kids to go to the car, they were not seen walking towards the car. However, they were just not seen afterwards.
*One of the objects Maggie tries to use to replace her pacifier seems to be a Bart Simpson toy.
*Apu is incorrectly colored yellow in the background during the first Blanche audition. 
*This episode reveals that Maggie is allergic to Strained Pears.
*Before Bart, Lisa, and Homer enter the Ayn Rand School for Tots from outside and after Homer says "Ohhhh, babies", it is nighttime. In between, when Homer is walking to pick up Maggie inside the school, in some shots when it shows the windows, if you look closely, you can see a bright blue color of the sky rather than a dark purple color with white dots.
== Citations ==
* The plot references the film A Streetcar Named Desire, especially when Homer stands outside and yells: "Hey Maaaaaaaaaaarge!" to Marge, whom he can see through the window of Flanders's house. This is a reference to the scene where Marlon Brando's character Stanley Kowalski yells "Hey Steeeeeeeeeeella!".
* The scenes with Maggie trying to escape from the daycare center (and later, to get the babies' pacifiers back) reference the film The Great Escape, especially the music and the scene where Maggie plays with a ball in her "cell" to kill time.
* When Homer, Lisa and Bart go to pick up Maggie from the daycare center, they see hundreds of babies sitting everywhere and sucking their pacifiers. Afraid but confident, Homer picks her up and leaves without saying a word. This is a reference to the film The Birds where the protagonists are confronted with hundreds of birds sitting on perches.
** When Homer, Lisa, Bart and Maggie are outside, Alfred Hitchcock passes by with two dogs, in reference to a similar cameo the director made in The Birds.
** In the crowd of babies if you look closely, one of the babies looks similar to Tommy Pickles from Rugrats.
* Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand is mocked throughout the entire episode.
*During the play, right before Marge appears on the scene, Homer is playing with the playbill. This is a reference to Citizen Kane, when Kane's best friend Jedediah Leland is bored during Suzan Alexander's operatic debut.
*Ms. Sinclair mentions her daycare being the only one in town that wasn't currently under investigation from the state. Although this is most likely a jab at the corrupt and unethical nature of most Springfieldians, it could potentially be a reference to multiple cases of sexual abuse against children in day cares (both real and fake) that were frequent in the 1980s and early 90s
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