Fear of Flying/References

==Trivia==
*This episode and "'Round Springfield" are the only two episodes in Season 6 to use the full opening.
* This is the last episode to air in 1994.
==Goofs and Continuity Errors==
*When Homer walks into the Cheers bar, the left sleeve of his shirt turns yellow for a frame.
*When Homer is at the lesbian bar the lady sitting to his left is shown without a tattoo on her right arm, but one appears when the shot zooms in.
*In this episode, Marge is highly afraid of flying, but in Season 3's "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington," she had no trouble flying. It's possible that this episode took place before that episode. 
**This same thing happened in the episode "Itchy & Scratchy Land".
*Marge would not have been able to disembark as the steps had been taken away and the aircraft had left the stand. It would be easier for Marge to tell Homer in the first place that she is afraid of flying, then she would not have to board the plane until after seeing the psychiatrist.
**Also, the Simpsons' bags could not have been off loaded for the same reason.
* When the Crazy Clown Owner begins to talk to Homer, Homer's beard is yellow instead of tan.
* Homer is pretending to be a pilot (because otherwise he wouldn't be served any beer) but the barman would want to see a pilot card to be proved the customer is a pilot. Since Homer doesn't have any it wouldn't have worked to just pretend he's a pilot.
*When the family is in the TV room. Lisa's legs aren't fully colored in.
==Cultural References==
*The episode's title is a reference to Erica Jong's novel of the same name.
*One of the bars that Homer visits is the bar from the sitcom Cheers. All of the characters are voiced by the actors who played them in Cheers, with the exception of Frasier Crane who remains silent. This is perhaps because Kelsey Grammer has made multiple appearances on The Simpsons as Sideshow Bob. Thus, he does not lend his voice to this episode.
** At the end of Homer's visit to this bar, a few notes from the end of the Cheers theme song, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", can be heard.
* Grampa being left on a plane and proceeding to slap his hands on his face and yell is a reference to the movie Home Alone.
*The films Homer rents are Hero, Fearless, and Alive, the latter of which Marge watches. All of them involve plane crashes.
*Marge's recurring dream is that she is in TV series Lost in Space: She is Mrs. Robinson, Homer is Dr. Smith, and Lisa is the Robot.
*The flashback where Marge and her mother have a biplane shooting at them in a cornfield is a parody of Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest. This scene may have been relevant considering that Dr. Zweig voice Anne Bancroft's husband Mel Brooks made Hitchcock film parody High Anxiety, which was also a part of the 20th Century Fox film library.
*Marge calls Dr. Zweig "Lowenstein", a reference to Barbra Streisand's character in the film The Prince of Tides. 
**Both last names are of German origin (Zweig means "branch", while Löwenstein can be literally translated as "Lion Stone").
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