Things in The Simpsons you thought were references, but aren't

[grude]

The early seasons of The Simpsons are PACKED with cultural references, even to this day I have moments going ooohhh so thats what that was!

Anyway the episode where Homer grows hair and gets promoted because Burns thinks he looks like a young hotshot, all the women Homer interviews are coming on to him so Marge encourages him to hire the only male applicant an ambiguously gay guy that seems to have a thing for Homer(he kisses Homer on the lips goodbye when he quits). The whole segment seemed so odd and kinda forced into the episode I assumed it was a reference to a film or something, apparently it is not.