Bart's chalkboard writing: "It's unfair to judge a President on his first 300 days."
This is the final episode with a credit to longtime Simpsons score composer Alf Clausen, who was fired from his position shortly before the season began airing.
Marge mentions one of her friends, Luann van Houten, would be visiting the following night and Homer responds by calling her a backstabber. Van Houten was the last name of Manson Family member, Leslie van Houten. Van Houten was arrested and charged in relation to the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Van Houten stabbed Rosemary LaBionca approximately 16 times in the back and the exposed buttocks.