Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) now most of you must know that "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" is going off the air with this episode. On behalf of my fellow actors, I would like to tell you how much we enjoyed the privilege of coming into your home for these five and half years. It's not going to be easy for us; it's hard to say goodbye. But, maybe we'll live on in your memories. It now becomes my sad duty to say goodbye to you on behalf of the entire company: the cast, the crew, the production staff, the writers and the directors...all
Love Is a Many Strangled Thing the credits, there is a dedication "Dedicated to the Memory of Elizabeth Taylor" beneath a picture of Maggie Simpson. Taylor voiced Maggie's first word, "Daddy", in the fourth season episode "Lisa's First Word". The episode title is a pun on the song "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" based on the Academy Award winning film. A rendition of the classical music theme of Around The World In 80 Days can also be heard briefly at the beginning of the episode. Homer has a dream with three pop culture references to parental abuse in the media, but Homer is the abused victim