The episode was nominated for the 2003 Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in Television Animation - Music.
Large Marge was a character from the movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
Homer (unseen, but implied to be him) draws the family on the couch with an Etch-a-Sketch (called a "Sketch-A-Etch" in the couch gag) and yells, "Whoo-hoo!" when he's done.
This is the second time Adam West was on the Simpsons; the first time was Mr Plow in 1992.
Former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George H. W. Bush (who parody The Three Stooges). Sentence fragments.