22 Short Films About Springfield/References

Trivia

 * An image of Itchy from Itchy & Scratchy can be seen during Cletus' story.
 * The episode does not actually feature twenty-two stories, but according to the DVD commentary, the title was decided from the start, regardless of how many stories would actually end up in the episode.
 * This episode reveals that Dr. Nick drives with corpses to get through carpool lanes. In The Fat and the Furriest, Homer disguised his candy ball as a passenger to drive through a carpool lane.
 * This episode, alongside Simpsons Bible Stories, Four Great Women and a Manicure and The Fight Before Christmas are the only anthology episodes that contain more than 3 stories.
 * There are eleven scenarists mentioned in the last credits.
 * The Springfield Shopper already isn't free, but it costs 25 cents.
 * This episode was supposed to be the pilot episode for a spin-off series that focused on the lives of everyone in Springfield except the Simpsons.  That would have been too much work and the idea was abandoned.

Goofs

 * Smithers suffers severe allergic reactions to the bee sting in this episode, yet in "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" he was stung by several bees but suffered no problems at all. Bee sting allergies are often triggered on the second instance of being stung, Smithers could have developed his life-threatening allergy after the previous episode.
 * 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 there before. This episode may take place prior to Bart the Fink. 
 * 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.