The Strong Arms of the Ma/References

== Cultural References ==
*The scene where Marge beats up the mugger is an almost blow-by-blow recreation of the scene from The Godfather in which Sonny viciously beats his brother-in-law Carlo on a busy public street and leaves him unconscious under a running fire hydrant.
*Homer says that with a stronger Marge, it is like he is "married to Shaft".
*The songs playing on the jukebox during the barfight are "Love is a Battlefield" by Pat Benetar, "At Last" by Etta James, and "Relax (Don't Do It)" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, before the music cuts out altogether when she slams the jukebox onto Disco Stu's head.
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*The way Homer manages to pack the stuff they bought from Rainier Wolfcastle's Bankruptcy Garage Sale in their car is a direct parody of Tetris, complete with the game's original A-Type music from the Game Boy version.
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* The segment in which the mailman suddenly can't read the Twilight Zone magazine because his glasses are broken is a direct reference to the ending of the Twilight Zone episode, "Time Enough At Last".
== Trivia ==
* According to the DVD commentary, Carolyn Omine was sent to the 2003 Stony Awards to receive the Stony award that The Simpsons won for Best Television Series that year as a consolation for this episode not being advertised as the 300th.
== Previous Episode References ==
* "Stark Raving Dad":
** A Simpson parent (Homer/Marge) has (or allegedly has) a mental issue
** An agoraphobic is mentioned.
* "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" and "Trash of the Titans": A milestone Simpsons episode (though "Barting Over" was advertised as the show's 300th episode, despite being the 302nd, and "Sweet Seymour's Baadasssss Song" is only the 100th broadcast episode while "Lisa's Rival" from season six was the 100th episode in production order).
* "King of the Hill": A Simpson parent (Homer/Marge) works out and gains muscle/strength.
* "Bart After Dark": A character casually and quickly enters and exits (Grampa after seeing Bart work the front door of the Maison Derriere/Homer while Marge is pummeling everyone at the bar).
* "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"": Marge has anger issues because of a new object Homer bought (the Canyonero made for women/Rainier Wolfcastle's dumbbell and weightlifting kit).
* "Lisa the Beauty Queen": A Simpson female enters a beauty contest and loses.
*"New Kid on the Block" and "Marge on the Lam": Ruth Powers (the divorced mom who moved in when The Winfields moved to Florida) appears.
*"Homer Alone", "Fear of Flying", "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", "Lisa's Sax", and "Bart's Inner Child": Marge has a mental health issue (freaks out from being overworked at home/has a panic attack over being on an airplane because her father lied to her about being a flight attendant/is overly stressed from her years as a stay-at-home mom [both on "Simpsoncali..." and "Lisa's Sax"]/is, according to Patty and Selma, "...headed for a nervous breakdown" because the family sees her as a boring nag/has PTSD and agoraphobia from being mugged).
*"The Springfield Connection": The episode plot is kicked off after Marge gets threatened in an alley (Snake threatens to cut Marge, but Marge warns him that a surge of adrenaline makes people do crazy things before hitting him with a trash can lid/Marge gets mugged by a homeless man in a Goofy hat after changing Maggie in the bathroom).
*"Homer the Vigilante" and "Bart Carny": Marge's pearl necklace gets stolen.
*"Marge in Chains": Homer's crummy job at packing the kids' lunches for school (gives Bart a pack of sugar and some peanut butter smeared on a playing card because Marge is in jail/gives them money for lunch after Marge forcefully has sex with him)
*"Treehouse of Horror VI": Otto does drugs while driving the bus (mentions that he's having an acid flashback as the Devil Realty mascot picks up the school bus/wonders if he's been smoking pot when Marge grabs the bumper of the bus)
*"A Star is Burns", "Krusty Gets Kancelled", and "Cape Feare": Rainier Wolfcastle stars in something that wasn't an action movie (the stand-up comedy special McBain: Let's Get Silly/the drama Help! My Son is a Nerd! which Kent Brockman mistakes for a comedy/the late-night talk show Up Late with McBain/the gay porn he has as part of his video collection).
*"Bart the Fink": A Springfield celebrity (Krusty the Clown/Rainier Wolfcastle) has a bankruptcy sale because of money issues.
*"Homer vs. Dignity": 
**Homer gets sexually assaulted (by Ping-Ping the panda/by a steroid-pumped Marge).
**An episode where Homer's sexual assault (and how it's played for laughs) is considered a low point by fans and critics.
*"Dumbbell Indemnity": 
**Moe commits insurance fraud
**Moe burns his bar for insurance money
== Goofs ==
* When the family is eating dinner at the Air Hockey table, there are no goals on the ends of the table (where Lisa and Homer are sitting), except when there's a close up on Lisa. There is no goal when there's a closeup of Homer talking about "Cheers".
* When the lady who smashed the piano saying "support the arts" her lips don't move.
* Homer packs lots of boxes in the car, but when Marge drives the car, the boxes disappear.
* When Marge drives the car you can see an air freshener. After Maggie and Marge get back in the car the air freshener goes.
* When Moe says, "I don't got enough booze in this place to make you look good," the lip sync is way off and it appears to be re-dubbed from whatever the original line was supposed to be.
* Before Marge picks up the jukebox to slam it into other people in Moe's Tavern it wasn't playing anything, but when she went over to it, it started playing music.
* When Sam is seen among the patrons in the bar, his cap appears unusually light blue and jacket dark blue, twice, but when Marge throws him against the wall, his cap and jacket are normal.
* In the church scene, Rod and Todd have different colored shirts and Rod's hair is brown, but when they are seen in the scene where Marge beats up the mugger, Rod and Todd are wearing their usual shirts and Rod's hair is normal.
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