Bart the General/References

Cultural references

 * The episode featured several references to war films
 * Several lines of dialogue, Bart slapping one of his soldiers for "being a disgrace" and the music are lifted directly from the film "Patton" from 1970. Fox owned the rights to this film, so it was no problem to use the soundtrack.
 * The marching sequence is a nod to Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" from 1986.
 * "The Longest Day" from 1962 is also referenced.
 * Bart refers to "".

Trivia

 * Grampa's list of words he does not want to hear on television again:
 * 1) Family Jewels (meaning men's testicles)
 * 2) Horny
 * 3) Bra
 * This is the first episode Bart is seen crying, Homer then proceeds to dry his tears with a hairdryer.
 * During their first "fight", Nelson hits Bart twelve times in the face before he knocks Bart out.
 * Lisa calls her teacher "Mrs. Hoover" instead of "Miss Hoover".
 * The password to Herman's shop is "Let me in, you idiot!"
 * The boy kissing Lisa appears to be Wendell Borton.
 * This is the first episode in the series to include blood.

Errors

 * When Bart's army is attacking Nelson, there are a lot more kids attacking Nelson than there were training with Bart.
 * At the start when the bully takes the cupcakes, you can see that, after he has started eating them, there are 4 left in the box. Just before he shuts the lid to drop it, you can just see the tops of 6 cupcakes.
 * When Bart declares war on Nelson, Herman uses the declaration from the Franco-Prussian war and puts "Bart" in place of "Otto Von Bismarck". Bismarck didn't declare the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III of France did. A small error, maybe, but something that a war buff like Herman should know.
 * When Grandpa Simpson is typewriting a letter in his room, the words he's spelling out loud don't match his fingers hitting the keys.
 * When Bart enters the tree house after being beaten up, he puts his hat on a peg behind him. In some later shots at an angle you can just see the hat behind him. In the shots from directly in front of Bart, the hat is not on the peg.