- Aluminum Christmas Trees: According to the writers, the episode was inspired by some Real Life incidents of judges sentencing children to be tethered to parents—though presumably there was a clear time frame in those cases, unlike in the case of Homer and Bart, who are tethered indefinitely until Marge puts a stop to it.
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