A sleepy Marge is too tired on Valentine's Day to have sex with an eager and well-prepared Homer, who dejectedly leaves the house.
Inspired by the lessons, he begins to investigate problems at the power plant and propose solutions to Mr. Burns, who rejects them all without reading them.
Homer's first act is to throw Burns from the office balcony, allowing a throng of employees in the parking lot to crowd-surf him into a waiting taxi.
Homer decides to return ownership of the plant to Burns, who drugs him into unconsciousness and begins to wall him up inside one of the cemetery crypts.
The couch gag director Mike Frank Polcino hired a hand model to play the part of the animator.
In this scene, where Hibbert leads a "Strip For Your Wife" seminar on Valentine's Day, the team included regulars rather than "Simpsonized" extras.
[1] Series director Steven Dean Moore posed for the scene where Snake strangles inmate Terrance, only for Homer to misinterpret it as love.
[1] The scene where Mr. Burns attempts to brick Homer up is a satire of the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe.
[7] Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide was confused why an episode taking place on Valentine's Day aired in March.
"[9] On Four Finger Discount, Guy Davis and Brendan Dando thought the episode was a "mixed bag" with three different plots occurring in sequence.