Episode Goofs
When we see the shot of Stan eating and Francine cooking in the kitchen, the terror level indicator on the refrigerator has the colors, Green-Green-Yellow-Orange-Red instead of the normal Blue-Green-Yellow-Orange-Red
Cultural References
The title of this episode may be a take off of the title of the 2001
Jack Black (1969-),
Gwyneth Paltrow (1972-) comedy,
“Shallow Hal”.
Roger as “Jeannie Gold”: “These beauties are packed full of ox blood. Trust me, that bedroom will look like the set of a Wes Craven movie the next morning”
Wes Craven (1939-) is a Hollywood director, possibly best known for creating the character
“Freddy Kruger” in the 1984 horror film,
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” and its 8 sequels as well as directing the
“Scream” trilogy in 1996, 1997 and 2000.
Jeannie Gold: “I even have a string quartet playing the score from A Room with a View”
Francine apparently wanted to walk down the aisle to the score from the 1985 drama,
“A Room with a View”, that starred
Maggie Smith (1934-),
Helena Bonham Carter (1966-) &
Judi Dench (1934-) Stan: “The makeup guy from Norbit. Rick Baker, get out here you talented son-of-a-bitch”
The 2007
Eddie Murphy (1961-) film
“Norbit” is mentioned in this episode.
Oscar© winning Special effects expert
Rick Baker (1950-) did indeed do the effects that turned Eddie Murphy into the very unattractive character,
“Rasputia” from
“Norbit” Stan: “I'll be like Joan Cusack's husband”
American actress, and sister to John Cusack,
Joan Cusack (1962-) is mentioned in this episode
Jeannie Gold: “Alex Trebek, a chamomile tea and a chapter of Little Women and I'm out by 8:15”
The host of the long running game show
“Jeopardy!”,
Alex Trebek (1940-) is mentioned in this episode as well as the novel by
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888),
“Little Women”