 The episode's title is a pun on "The Odd Couple", emphasizing Nelson's style of laughing.A fictional character featured in this episode, Angelica Button, was later used in the season 19 episode "Smoke on the Daughter", and the revelation that the Angelica Button book series was ghost-written was the basis for the season 23 episode "The Book Job".Marge and Homer are making love in their room while playing a fake tape of them arguing so the kids will not come in.