Marge in Chains/References

== Trivia ==
*It is believed by some that the episode's Osaka Flu and release of killer bees was the prediction for the future COVID 19 pandemic and a 2020 incident in the state of Washington which saw the release of "murder" hornets. Coincidentally, future U.S. President Joe Biden, who was a close friend of Mayor Quimby inspiration Ted Kennedy, would also do a similar waist-up speech like how Mayor Quimby did when visiting the Bahamas while addressing the COVID-19 pandemic on September 9, 2021. In December 2022, Biden would visit the U.S. Virgin Islands, another group of islands, located in the Caribbean, at the time of a flight cancellation crisis. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/27/joe-biden-family-celebrate-new-years-holiday-virgin-islands/10955999002/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/business/southwest-flights-canceled-travel.html
*The episode's title is a reference to the Grunge band Alice In Chains, who were popular at the time of the episode's original 1993 airing.
*Apu says that he memorized to the forty-thousand digit, which is one. This is actually correct, as the writers consulted a mathematician on the issue.
* Marge's inmate number is 24601. This is also Sideshow Bob's number, itself a reference to Jean Valjean's prison number from the book and musical Les Miserables.
** This number appears two episodes later in "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", on the prisoner helmet Seymour Skinner picks up at the swap meet.
* This is the last Season 4 episode where Marge speaks because she has no lines in the following episode.
* The Devil costume Homer wears when he visits Marge in prison is very similar to the outfit "Evil Homer" wore in Homer's imaginary sequence in the previous episode "Whacking Day".
== Goofs ==
* Marge was convicted of a misdemeanor. She would have served her sentence in County or City Jail, she would not have been housed in a prison (state and federal institutions) alongside convicted murderers and other felons.
* When the Japanese factory workers talk and then laugh, their lips are out of sync, but then returns to normal when one of them coughs. This may be a joke referencing bad English dubbing of Japanese movies and TV shows.
*When Apu investigates why Marge triggered the alarm, the "GR" in "GREEN" on the label of one of the Squishee containers changes to an unknown symbol. When Apu explains the price of the aspirin and when he realizes that Marge did not pay for the bourbon, it changes back.
**Also, the liquid inside the container is yellow.
*When Bart examines the playing card with peanut butter packed for him by Homer, the peanut butter changes from dark brown to a more tan brown.
== Citations ==
*The title of the episode is a possible reference to American rock band Alice in Chains.
*Flanders blames his kids getting sick on God punishing him for watching Married...With Children. was, like The Simpsons, a FOX sitcom about a down-and-out, dysfunctional suburban family. Unlike The Simpsons, Married...With Children was a live-action show, had stronger sexual jokes, a more cynical take on modern life, premiered the same day FOX premiered as a channel (in 1987), and finished after a ten-year run. The joke in which Peg compares the lifeless and limp plants to Al's bedroom performance were the kind of jokes that were heard on the show.
*Tattoo Annie has a tattoo on her back with Alfred E. Neuman on it. The tattoo references MAD magazine fold-ins and the phrase "What Kind Of Slime Would I Marry?" folded in reads: "What, me worry?", which is Alfred E. Neuman's trademark phrase.
*Lisa says, "It seems like I've been wearing this same red dress forever!" This is a nod to the fact that Lisa is wearing the same red dress in almost every episode.
*When the foreign workers are loading the Juice Loosener, the silent cut is quite likely an audio gag in reference to voice translations often being longer or shorter than the foreign speech it replaced.
**Their oddly-placed laughter is also a gag about the prevalence of misplaced laughter in older English-dubbed Japanese media.
*Maude watching Marge through a crack in the wall hidden by a picture is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho".
*The Jimmy Carter statue's plaque has the words "Malaise Forever" (later modified to "Marge Forever" alongside the statue), a reference to Jimmy Carter's infamous Malaise Speech.
== References ==
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