Tennis the Menace/References

== Trivia ==
*This episode was the second episode to be completely digitally colored (instead of colored traditionally through cel animation) but third episode overall, a practice that would later be used starting with the Season 14 episodes,"Treehouse of Horror XIII" and "The Great Louse Detective". The first two were from season seven: "Radioactive Man" (though it has a season six production code) and "The Simpsons' 138th Episode Spectacular".
*This episode would later be referenced in the chalkboard gag featured in "The Devil Wears Nada".
*This is the first episode where Helen Lovejoy has a speaking role since Season 9's "Natural Born Kissers".
*This episode would also later be referenced in "Peeping Mom" when Homer says "Are there feelings going unexpressed here? Because if there are..."
== Cultural References ==
*The episode title is a pun on the comic strip (and movie) Dennis the Menace (The American version, not the British version).
*When the tennis tournament puts Homer and Bart into competition over who gets to have Marge as a partner, Lisa makes a reference to Oedipus.
*When Andre Agassi introduces himself at the tennis match, Homer asks, "The wrestler?", confusing Agassi for professional wrestler André the Giant.
*Grandpa sings the "What's New Pussycat?" theme by Tom Jones at the talent show, replacing "whoa whoa whoa" with "Ow, ow, ow, ow" and "Oh, God, no!" having injured himself while attempting to dance.
*When Homer is in the shower, Bart adjusts the hot and cold water to make him scream to the tune of "Mary had A Little Lamb", then "Beethoven's 5th Symphony".
*In the supermarket Lou refers to Homer and Marge as the Los Angeles Clippers of doubles tennis. At the time (early 2000s), the Clippers were regarded as the worst NBA franchise in history.
*When a person tries to steal Chief Wiggum's dropped cookie while he's in the umpire's chair, he points his gun at them and says 'Do you wanna risk it?', a reference to the popular phrase 'Do you want to risk it for a biscuit?'.
== Goofs ==
*Homer mistook tennis for foxy boxing, but didn't know what it was called. He referred to it as "the sport where the chicks whale on each other." Previously, however, in "Lisa on Ice", Homer knew the name of the sport (when he was telling Lisa that girls should stick to "girl sports," like hot-oil wrestling and foxy boxing) and earlier in "Homer's Night Out", Homer took Bart to a strip club that was hosting a foxy boxing match in his search to find Princess Kashmir and apologize to her.
**However, given Homer's mental capacity (and the terrible continuity of the show), he (and the writers) could have easily forgotten.
*In Homer's imaginary sequence, the trophy of Homer's head on the wall has skin behind his hair where it shouldn't be.
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