Bart the Murderer/References

Trivia

 * Fat Tony's prisoner number was 8F03, the production code for this episode.
 * All the horses in the third race at Shelbyville Downs are named for famous cartoon phrases:
 * Sufferin' Succotash (Sylvester the Cat)
 * Yabba-Dabba-Doo (Fred Flintstone)
 * Ooh Ain't I A Stinker (Bugs Bunny)
 * I Yam What I Yam (Popeye)
 * Don't Have A Cow (Bart Simpson)
 * Eat My Shorts is a horse running in another race (and another of Bart's catchphrases).
 * There is a large drum of nuclear waste seen in Homer's basement in this episode.
 * Bart's forgotten permission slip can be seen (just barely) under his pillowcase before he wakes up at the beginning of the episode.
 * During the last scene the Simpsons were watching a movie based on this episode. When the narrator was listing the actors, the actor of Fat Tony was Joe Magenita, who was ironically the voice of Fat Tony.

Cultural references

 * This episode takes a lot of plot points from the film Goodfellas. As in the film, a boy mixes drinks for the mob gang, and there is also a cigarette hijacking.