[1] In this episode, Homer joins a support group that embraces obesity and protests unrealistic thin figures.
At Albert's funeral, Homer delivers a eulogy where upon learning that the deceased was only 23, he pleads for the obese people to lose weight.
He and Marge walk home as he promises to yo-yo diet, and a montage shows Homer's physique changing drastically with his age over the next few decades.
[2] Musician Asa Taccone and episode writer Michael Price wrote the new Springfield anthem.
Even more than the usual resulting thinness of main and sub-plot, ‘Walking Big & Tall’ sets up one A-story and simply abandons it in favor of another, the baffling result of which is a confused two-headed monster of an episode whose flashes of amusement wither under the latter plot’s mean-spirited succession of fat jokes".