* HarsherInHindsight: Lisa's [[TheId locked-up teen libido]] urging her to, among other things, "binge and purge." Lisa actually develops an eating disorder in the following season's "Sleeping With the Enemy," and it's implied that these struggles will follow her into her adulthood.
* HilariousInHindsight: Marge, a housewife, writes a cheesy romance novel involving a love triangle that is an obvious WishFulfillment, has stand-ins for herself, Homer, and Ned, and becomes a HateSink in-universe. [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga A few years later, another housewife writes a similar novel]].
* {{Woolseyism}}: Homer's line about how ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' didn't have any advice on how to kill a mockingbird wouldn't have worked in Italy, where the novel is known as "[[Main/CompletelyDifferentTitle The Darkness Beyond the Hedge]]"; this was fixed by making Homer instead complain about how ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' didn't teach him how to build a cabin.