All's Fair in Oven War - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The episode's title is a play on the saying "All's fair in love and war", a proverb found in John Lyly's 16th century book Euphues that is commonly used to justify cheating.
• The film the Simpson family watches, Blacula Meets Black Dracula, is a parody of 1970s blaxploitation films.
• After the Simpsons' kitchen is renovated, Marge says: "When Virginia Woolf wrote every woman needs a room of one's own, she must have been talking about the kitchen." This is a reference to her 1929 essay A Room of One's Own.
• On the cover of one of the Playdude magazines, a headline reads "The Girls of Kent State: Four Nude in Ohio." This is a reference to the 1970 Kent State shootings, where the members of the Ohio National Guard killed four students. On the cover, two girls are kneeling down and a pair of legs is visible at the lower left-hand corner of the page. This is a reference to John Filo's famous picture of Mary Ann Vecchio and an unnamed person kneeling down over the body of shooting victim Jeffrey Miller. Sonny Jurgensen and Bella Abzug are also seen on the magazines.
• The song "Separate Ways" by Journey is played in the background during Homer's fantasy of him living next to himself. Also, "Boplicity" by Miles Davis is being listened to by Bart and Milhouse. "Take Five" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet is played in the background at Bart's treehouse.
• The logo for "Drizzlers Gravies" is a parody of Sherwin Williams's sign with a picture of a can of red paint being poured over the Earth.
• Among the food mascots seen during Homer's fantasy are Mr. Pringle, Mr. Peanut, Charlie the Tuna, the Pillsbury Doughboy, Toucan Sam, Count Chocula, the Jolly Green Giant, Twinkie the Kid, and the mascots for Snap, Crackle and Pop and Land O'Lakes.
• The episode's final scene, showing James Caan being ambushed by hillbillies at a toll booth, is a parody of a scene in the film The Godfather when Sonny Corleone, portrayed by Caan, is shot and killed at a toll booth. The scene was also parodied in the episode "Mr. Plow," in which Bart gets pelted by snowballs by Nelson and his gang of bullies.