Bart Gets Hit by a Car/References

Trivia

 * This marks the first appearances for Dr. Nick Riviera and Lionel Hutz


 * This is the second episode to show its title (the first being "The Telltale Head") and first to show its number (episode 23).


 * The Devil was off in his calculation of the next time the Yankees would have won the American League pennant: not "a century from now," but 1996.


 * The Devil uses a Macintosh computer to check Bart's record.


 * Sign in Dr. Nick Riviera's office: "Yes, we use anesthetic!" Also, one of his diplomas reads: "I went to medical school for four years and all I got was this lousy diploma."


 * This episode shows Great Grandma Simpson, Aunt Hortense, and Snowball I in Heaven.


 * Dr. Hibbert pokes Bart's bump and he shouts "Ow! Quit it." two times. This was the second time we hear Bart shout "Ow! Quit it." He first shouted it in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." Matt Groening claims this reference comes from what his real life siblings (Maggie and Lisa) used to do to him when he was a child.


 * The program's version of Hell is an homage to Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights; esp. the Hell panel.


 * This is one of the most heavily edited episodes in syndication. The full opening sequence is replaced with the short opening from Season 5's Rosebud, and there are 17 cut scenes, none of which are over nine seconds long.


 * Approximately half-way through the episode, when Bart is on the witness stand, the characters Akbar and Jeff from Matt Groening's comic, Life in Hell, can be seen in the courtroom audience.


 * Bart's X-ray shows him with a normal round shaped skull but later episodes will show the top as spiky like his hair.


 * This is the sixth episode to have Bart's name somewhere in the title.

Cultural references

 * The song "Tijuana Taxi" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass is heard twice in the show's history: in this episode (as Mr. Burns is recalling the time leading up to the incident), and in "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister".


 * The Devil says "Please allow me to introduce myself", a reference to The Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil.


 * When Bart wakes up from his out-of-body experience, he says, "I did go away, Mom! I was miles and miles and miles away, writhing in agony in the pits of Hell! And you were there! And you and you and you," a reference to , when Dorothy awakens from her slumber.