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While the plan is underway Homer decides to stay in the Springfield Retirement Castle with his father, posing as resident Cornelius Talmadge.

Tired of the whole charade, Marge forces Apu to tell his mother the truth, who declares that the arranged marriage will proceed as planned.

[4] Homer writing "Where are the sticky buns" on a sheet of paper after Apu asks him for advice is one of Mike Scully's favorite jokes.

Originally, he used pages from the Bible, but after the scene had been animated, Scully found the joke "horrible" and changed the book title to "Hymns".

[5] The staff researched arranged Hindu marriages, learning about ideas such as the lotus flower being used as a message, but a majority of the information turned out "not to be as hilarious [as the writers] had hoped", and so was dropped.

The Foreigner song "Hot Blooded" plays over Apu's bachelor binge,[1] and he dances in a manner similar to Riverdance.

The scene where Moe walks on and off the stage without breaking his stride was loosely based on a moment that occurred during a stand up show of comedian Redd Foxx.

During a show in Las Vegas, Foxx came on stage to the Sanford and Son theme song, only to find that there were only a few people in the audience.

The house orchestra, puzzled by Foxx leaving, simply played him off with the Sanford and Son theme song again.

[3] This incident was also referenced in the later episode "Trash of the Titans", when Ray Patterson is reinstated, although the reference is more similar to the real event.

[7] Todd Gilchrist of IGN named the episode one of his favorites of the ninth season in his review of the DVD boxset,[8] while Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, called it "a good fun episode".