Married to the Blob/References

==Cultural References==
*The episode title is a parody of the film Married to the Mob. The Treehouse of Horror segment has the exact same name.
*PonPonPon by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu was played during the love montage between Jeffery Albertson and Kumiko.
*Numerous references of Hayao Miyazaki's films were made during the effects of the Cobra Rice Wine:
**Kiki's Delivery Service: Patty and Selma ressemble Kiki. Jiji the cat is on Selma's broom, a reference to the fact that in the dubbed version of the movie, the cat was voiced by the late Phil Hartman, who voiced Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure, who were Selma's former husbands.
**Spirited Away: The overall background and the ghosts ressemble the village near the bathhouse. Chief Wiggum is in the form of a pig, like Chihiro's parents. No-Face can be seen several times. Smithers is Aogaeru the toad, Kearney's son is Boh (Yubaba's baby) and Agnes Skinner is Yubaba the Witch.
**Ponyo: Ralph is Ponyo.
**Howl's Moving Castle: The Kwik-E-Mart takes on the form of a moving building, very much like Howl's castle. Moe is Turnip Head, the Scarecrow.
**My Neighbor Totoro: Otto is in the form of a bus cat.
**Princess Mononoke: Krusty is Jigo, the monk. The Kodama (the little spirits in the forest) can be seen outside the Department of Magical Vehicules.
*The chalkboard gag "Judas Priest is not 'death metal'" is a reference to the band being extremely stereotyped as "death metal" in the previous episode, "Steal This Episode".
*The scene where the children are playing on the playground was reused from the episode "A Test Before Trying".
*The couch gag has the Season 3 end credits theme.
*The Death of Radioactive Man is a parody of The Death of Superman.
*In the comic book store, there is a Krusty frozen in carbonite as Han Solo is in The Empire Strikes Back.
*On The Death of Radioactive Man's cover, the two world leaders mourning his death are Barack Obama of the USA and Queen Elizabeth II of the UK.
*During the scene outside the Android Dungeon, clocks indicate time Vulcan, Kripton (if it lived) and Bizarro Earth.
*The Badgerine figurine parodies Wolverine.
*During his song, the Comic Book Guy mentions Mary-Jane and Lois Lane, the love interest of Spider-Man and Superman.
*Milo mentions Scarlett Johansson and a cardboard of her as Black Widow from the Marvel Cinematic Universe appear.
*Comic Book Guy and Kumiko listen the audiobook Cosmic Wars: The Cruxifiction of Jim Jam Bonks, which parodies Star Wars and its character Jar Jar Binks.
*During the costume contest, Comic Book Guy is disguised as a Stargate and Kumiko as Sailor Moon then Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.
*Comic Book Guy shows a comic where Batman and Robin are sleeping together.
*Strawberry's unborn baby is dressed as Catwoman.
*The Season 3 Ending Theme is used for the Couch Gag.
==Trivia==
*Richard's mother is seen at Chuck Dukewagon's All American Chow Lounge.
**In the same restaurant Ruth Powers is either on a date or may have found a new husband.
**The Multi-eyed squirrel was seen as a mounted trophy at one point on a wall of the restaurant.
**Also on the wall is a license plate with the number SABF03, which is the production code for this episode.
*The Original Title for this Episode is "The Fat and the Furious: Tokyo Drift", is the reference movie for .
== Continuity ==
*Milo returns from "Husbands and Knives". A caption on screen even acknowledges that episode as his debut.
*When Kumiko first meets Homer, she asks him if he knows he looks just like the man on the box of Mr. Sparkle which was first seen in the episode "In Marge We Trust" .
* Milhouse mentions that he was once casted to play Fallout Boy in a movie, which happened in "Radioactive Man".
== Goofs ==
*Albertson mentioned only one copy per customer, but Homer bought two. Although it could be that Milhouse and Bart wanted the comics.
*Before the double date outside the comic book store the color of Marge's dress changes from red, to purple.
* During Radioactive Man's first line, his mouth doesn't move.
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