Magic Johnson was the first professional athlete to star as himself in a guest role. It was also the first time in the show a celebrity didn't use a pseudonym.
Milhouse's mother, Luann Van Houten, makes her first appearance in this episode. She was designed to look very similar to Milhouse.
This is the last Simpsons episode to have Bart's chalk in the Opening Sequence squeak, hence the chalk gag, "I will not squeak chalk".
The episode is named after Homer's 'admission' to the dictionary.
Mr. Burns wears a toupee in the photograph that is superimposed when he is communicating with Kent Brockman via speaker phone.