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

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on 's 1969 autobiography.


 * The bank robbery is a parody of the movie "".
 * When Dwight crawls through the prison sewage pipe, he sees a "Pure Mountain Spring Water" pipe next to it, and screams "Dammit!", this is a parody of "", 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 "" 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.
 * In the part where Bart and Lisa are watching Itchy and Scratchy, Scratchy appears to be wearing a Star Wars rebel pilot helmet when he is piloting the jet.
 * Agnes Skinner says Johnny Stabbo and Dwight are like "Johnny and Clyde", a take on.
 * Chief Wiggum watches "" on a portable DVD player to learn how to deal with a hostage situation during the bank robbery.
 * The Itchy & Scratchy episode "The Un-Natural" parodies the baseball steroids scandal, and the title references the book and movie "".

Trivia

 * Johnny Stabbo's prison number is the same as the production code for this episode, JABF19.
 * The names on Marge's list of women Homer can marry if she dies are Booberella, Lindsay Naegle and "And feed the cat".
 * Curiously, even though Naegle is included on the list, she is one of Dwight's hostages, therefore making Booberella the only woman Homer can marry.

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