Opposites A-Frack/References

== Cultural References ==
* The episode title is a pun on the saying "Opposites attract". There is also a .
* Homer mentions he likes movies where murder is legal one day a year, a reference to the movie franchise . 
* Upon discovering their mutual attraction, Mr. Burns and Maxine Lombard re-enact the dream sequence from "Singin' In the Rain."
* The original title for this episode was “Fracking Day”, likely a reference to Whacking Day.
== Trivia ==
*Ironically, Maxine Lombard's voice Jane Fonda has long been acquainted with Mr. Burns physical inspiration Barry Diller. It was even noted in 1983 that Fonda's best-selling aerobics book Jane Fonda's Workout was published with Paramount-affiliated book company Simon & Schuster when Diller was serving as head of Paramount and that Gulf+Western's mistake in not acquiring the rights to book's 1982 VHS tape also aided Diller in gaining even more influence in then Paramount parent company Gulf+Western, with Diller creating a "leisure group" for the parent company and becoming, despite mainly serving at the time as head of Paramount Pictures, "one of the three key executives" in Gulf+Western altogether.https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/28/business/barry-diller-s-latest-starring-role.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/28/business/barry-diller-s-latest-starring-role.html Though not officially confirmed, Fonda may have had an intimate affair with Diller when she was still married to Tom Hayden.
*A mutated version of Charlie is seen at the power plant.
*This is the 12th episode that does not have the Couch Gag, Billboard Gag, and the Chalkboard Gag, likely because the episode was running too long.
*Despite being together at the end of the episode, Maxine has not been on the show since, nor shown to be in a relationship with Mr. Burns. This is likely due to her being played by guest actress Jane Fonda
== Goofs ==
* In the Women's Basketball Museum, the picture of Evergreen Terrace shows the Simpsons house to the left of the Flanders House, which is in turn to the left of the Brown House.