Whacking Day/References


 * Apu announces that there is a snake hidden in the store. The first person to find it wins a free Squishee.
 * The Springfield Christian School sign reads, "We Put the Fun in Fundamentalist Dogma".
 * At the episode's end, Nelson and Jimbo get emotional in the civic defense shelter, where they and their two bully buddies have been the whole show. LOOK CLOSELY at Kearney's face; you can see stubble around his mouth. This is one of many gags throughout the series that he is much older than a typical (or any) elementary school student should be.
 * Bob Woodward is the author of The Truth About Whacking Day.
 * Matt Groening once said that he feels they crossed the line by having Lovejoy making up quotes out of the Bible.
 * "Whacking Day" is on May 10th.