Episode Notes
Chalkboard: None
Couch gag: The family arrives on the couch without any highlights. A TiVo menu screen pops up and the "Delete this recording now" option is selected.
First Church of Springfield sign/motd: QUIT ST3ALING OUR L3TT3RS
Episode Quotes
Bart: This is awesome! Black god rules.
Ralph: (After kissing Maggie on the cheek) I feel like a chicken already. I just made an egg in my pants.
Milhouse: My imaginary friend never made me do things I thought were wrong.
Bart: That's why he had to go away forever.
Milhouse: I thought you would gonna let him come back.
Bart: I'm afraid he has to spend an other year searching for his brain.
Lisa: (Refering to a The O.C. episode) I bet that bra was planted by Sterling to break them up.
Bart: That's a brilliant idea. Those TV writers are geniuses.
Milhouse: Whatever their paid. It's not enough.
Homer: This is Marge's bra. I bought it for her boobs.
Homer: Of all the people for Marge to cheat on, why did it have to be me?
Lisa: Where are you staying?
Homer: You know the four seasons? Well I'm experiencing them first hand, because I'm living in the park.
Episode Goofs
Marge is worried about Homer getting sterile from the chickenpox, but, according to "Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes" and "Ain't Misbehavin'", Homer is already sterile from his years of working at the nuclear plant.
Cultural References
This episode's title is an adaptation of “House of Sand and Fog”, a 1999 novel written by Andre Dubus III which was adapted into a 2003 film starring Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.
Maggie has the chickenpox, a virus submitted disease. Read more about disease in the
wikipedia article.
Milhouse shouts out "Sweet Lizzie McGuire" when he was seeing his parents kissing. Lizzie McGuire was a Disney Channel live action television show. Read more about TV show in the
wikipedia article.
Lisa want's to watch
The O.C.. An other FOX TV show.