Bart vs. Thanksgiving/References

Trivia/Goofs

 * Greg Berg voices as Rory the Bum.
 * When Patty arrives her dress is blue in one scene and then back to normal
 * This is the fourth episode to have Bart's name somewhere in the title.

Cultural references

 * Homer and Bart watch Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. They talk about the Helium balloons modeled after Bullwinkle and Underdog.
 * While Homer is watching football, the announcer says the teams are playing in the Pontiac Silverdome, yet when it cuts to the television, the stadium is an open air stadium.
 * 'The Simpsons is self-referenced when Homer tells Bart that if the parade "turned every flash-in-pan cartoon character into a balloon, it will be a farce", the TV shows a giant balloon of Bart. Not coincidentally, 1990 was the year the Bart Simpson balloon was added to the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
 * Mr. Burns lives on the corner of Croesus and Mammon, two symbols of wealth.
 * When Bart is discovered attempting to steal a pie from the window sill, one of the guards at Burns's mansion is reading Les Misérables, in which the main character is imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread after breaking a window.
 * Kent Brockman references Emmett Kelly, the Charlie Chaplin character the Tramp and the Red Skelton character Freddy the Freeloader.
 * The music Bart sings when he brings the turkey to the table is the music heard in the 20th Century Fox opening.
 * The poem Lisa is seen writing in her room is a direct parody of the first lines of Allen Ginsberg's most famous poem, Howl.