22 Short Films About Springfield/References

Cultural references

 * Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: The episode's title is a play on that of the 1993 film.
 * Like Quentin Tarantino's film, Pulp Fiction the episode's plot is episodic and interconnected. Additionally there are several more lengthy parodies. The whole of the Chief Wiggum, Snake and Herman plot is based on the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Wiggum, Lou and Eddie's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion between Vince Vega and Jules Winnfield. Later, Snake runs down Wiggum like Butch Coolidge does to Marsellus Wallace. He then crashes into a wall, running down a fire hydrant and mailbox just like in the film. The two then fight and roll into Herman's shop, he ties them up and waits for Zed to arrive before being knocked out by a medieval weapon yielded by Milhouse. This again mirrors the film, with Herman in the role of Maynard.
 * "1999": Apu's line "I'm going to party like it was on sale for $19.99!" references Prince's song.
 * "Freak-A-Zoid": Apu sings the song by Midnight Star.
 * E.R.: Dr. Nick's scenes parody the popular medical series.

Animation/continuity errors

 * Smithers suffers severe allergic reactions to the bee sting in this episode, yet in "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" was stung by several bees but suffered no problems at all.
 * Despite having returned to the house on a date with Agnes Skinner in "Bart the Fink", in this episode Chalmers apparently required directions to Skinner's house as if he'd never been before.
 * In "Bart Gets Famous", Bumblebee Man was revealed to have fake Spanish accent and actually spoke with an upper class British accent, yet now he speaks Spanish all the time. This was a deliberate change as the writer's felt the revelation that he was English was a terrible joke.
 * The Spanish used by Bumblebee Man is completely inaccurate. This was also done deliberately, to make sure that everyone could understand what he was saying without subtitles.
 * Chief Wiggum loses his hat in the fight with Snake, but in the next chapter of his story he is wearing it again.
 * Jasper supposedly got a nose job but he's seen with his regular nose later on.

Trivia

 * The episode does not actually feature twenty-two stories, but the according to the DVD commentary, the title was decided from the start, regardless of how many stories would actually end up in the episode.