I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/References

Cultural references

 * The title of this episode is a play on the title of the 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
 * The bank robbery is a parody of the movie Dog Day Afternoon.
 * When Dwight crawls though the prison sewage pipe, he sees a "Pure Mountain Spring Water" pipe next to it, and screams "Dammit!", this is a parody of Shawshank Redemption, where the main character in that film gains freedom from prison by crawling through a dirty sewage and waste pipe.
 * The song that featured during the sequence where Marge is being stalked by Dwight is "Who Can It Be Now?" by Men at Work.
 * When Marge and Dwight are at the amusement park you can see the ride "Dilbert's Flying Cubicle" in the background, a reference to Scott Adams's popular comic Dilbert. The theme song of the Dilbert animated series can be heard in the background for a large portion of the scene.
 * The ads in the school newspaper are the same text and font used by Coffee News, a small newsletter