Lisa's petition lists reasons to ban deer hunting: #1-It is bad, #2-It is unnecessary, #3-It is unfair to the deer, #4-It is cruel to kill anything, and #5-for signing this, Mr. Douglas will pay you $100.
The title is based on the nursery rhyme "A-hunting We Will Go" that Thomas Augustine Arne composed in 1777 for an adaptation of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera."
Lisa calls Oliver a "Doubting Danny Thomas," which is both a shout out to the comedian Danny Thomas, who is perhaps best remembered for the TV sitcom The Danny Thomas Show (1953) (a.k.a. "Make Room for Daddy"), and to the New Testament story of Thomas the Apostle, who doubted his fellow Apostles when they told him that Jesus had risen from the dead. As the story goes, Jesus appeared to Thomas and insisted that, as a way to overcome Thomas' doubts that Jesus had returned from the dead, Thomas probe with his own fingers the wounds Jesus had sustained on the cross.