King-Size Homer/References

==Trivia==
*Homer's comment about how before his first official day of working from home due to his morbid obesity, the closest he ever got to getting to work on time entailed changeover from Daylight Saving Times while blithely cussing out the farmers for that bit, alluding to both Daylight Savings Time itself as well as its origins as a way for farmers to borrow enough time to get the harvest done in a timely manner.
*The cover of the book "Am I Disabled?" depicts a picture of a man with a rod through his head. This references Phineas Gage, a man who experienced a large iron rod going through his head and subsequently suffered from significant brain damage.
*Children looking at Homer through the window and telling stories about him is a reference to the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
*When Homer is at the movie theater, someone (possibly Raphael, the Sarcastic Middle-Aged Clerk) suggests the movie "A Fridge Too Far", a joke of the WWII film title A Bridge Too Far.
* The song "Push out the jive, bring in the love" by the Lostprophets most likely takes its name from the phrase used by Mr. Burns during exercise.
*The name of The Vast Waistband (the store Homer visits to buy a muumuu) is a pun on the pop-culture phrase "vast wasteland," which was used in the 1960s to describe how American television programs were devoid of quality programming.
*When Homer vented the toxic gas from the plant, thus ruining the farmers' corn crop, the farmer says "Paul Newman's gunna have ma' legs broke!" when lamenting the loss of the corn (though the closed captions replaced "Paul Newman" with "Jollytime"). This is a reference to the legend made by the Newman's Own Popcorn company where Newman threatened people if they try to steal his popcorn recipe.
*A sign on Homer's car-stop reads "Give me a ride or everybody dies!"
*In Bart's fantasy he washes himself with a rag on a stick similar to a man who appeared on the news a few years before this episode.
==Goofs==
* Homer and Marge wake up at 8:30 on Homer's first day of workers compensation. However, Bart and Lisa are shown to be going to school sometime later in the day, even though school normally starts at 8.
* Mr. Burns pays for Homer to get liposuction in the end of the episode but he ends up being 239 pounds again instead of a healthier weight. However, it could be possible that Homer still continued his unhealthy eating habits, returning him back to his overweight self.
*Ralph pokes fun at Lisa for her dad being overweight, although his dad is also overweight. Ralph is not a very bright boy, barring the earlier episodes like "Lisa's Pony", "Bart's Friend Falls in Love", or "Lisa the Beauty Queen" where he would say something precocious or poetic.
*At the ending ceremony, Marge is wearing lipstick in long shots, but not in close-ups.
*Homer's wristwatch disappears when goes to the kitchen on his first day working from home.
== Previous Episode References ==
* "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" and "Homer's Triple Bypass": A Simpson male goes to Dr. Nick Riviera for backwards medical advice.
* "New Kid on the Block": Homer eats everything in a restaurant and gets kicked out over it.
* "Homer's Night Out", "The War of the Simpsons", and "Homer Goes to College": Marge worries that Homer is setting a bad example for the children.
* "Bart Gets an "F"", "Separate Vocations", "The Otto Show", "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", "Whacking Day", and "Bart Gets Famous": an imagine spot featuring a bad future for Bart (repeating the fourth grade with his son/being a drifter who's been kicked out of town/being a drugged-out British rock star whose excesses have alienated him from his bandmates/working as a sleazy male stripper whose female fans hate him/getting a job testing dangerous food additives and turning into a monster after drinking a diet cola called "Nature's Goodness"/getting impaled while cleaning his sister's many awards and ending up on a 2034 version of Match Game as one of the members of the washed-up celebrity panelists/being a lardo on workman's comp).
* "Homer Defined": Homer saves the town from a nuclear disaster that he caused.
* "Homer the Heretic": Homer wants to stay home from an obligation (going to church/going to work) and Marge objects to it.
== Legacy ==
* The episode referenced some issues regarding male hyper obesity with Homer, as well as Bart in a daydream, 27 years before Brendan Fraser portrayed a 600-pound man in the 2022 film The Whale. Such issues included harassment, inability to fit in to certain areas, and medical issues. Fraser, coincidentally, guest starred on the season nine episode King of the Hill.
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