'Round Springfield/References

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Trivia

• Groundskeeper Willie, teaching French class, calls the students "cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys". The phrase has since entered the pop-culture lexicon, and it gained a lot of notoriety in the events leading up to the Iraq War.
• The crew planned to kill off Bleeding Gums Murphy, although Mike Reiss stated "I had been polling for years to kill Marge's mom, but this was a better idea."

Previous Episode References

• "The Front": Krusty the Clown talks about his off-screen life on an episode of his show (trying to quit smoking with nicotine patches/adding a female character named Miss No-Means-No due to a sexual harassment suit and blaming his sexual misconduct on Percodan abuse).
• "Mr. Plow": Krusty is addicted to Percodan.
• "Moaning Lisa": An episode about Lisa's friendship with Bleeding Gums Murphy.
• "Marge Gets a Job": Bart is accused of faking sick to get out of a test, only for others to find out he's really sick/injured.
• "Whacking Day": Lunchlady Doris works as the school nurse (to get two paychecks/because the school's budget has been cut).
• "Bart Gets Hit by a Car": Bart sues someone (Mr. Burns/Krusty the Clown) after getting injured.
• "A Star is Burns":
  • A Simpsons episode produced by the same people behind The Critic (which was on FOX at the time after ABC canceled it).
  • Barney is (temporarily) sober and has his hair slicked back to show it.
  • Barney goes to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
• "Funeral" (Tracy Ullman Show short), "Old Money", and "Selma's Choice": The Simpsons go to a funeral.
• "Sideshow Bob Roberts": Marge doesn't believe Bart about something school-related (bringing fireworks to school, which were for a welcoming ceremony for Chinese exchange students/having a horrible stomachache from the jagged metal Krusty-O).
• "Kamp Krusty", "I Love Lisa", and "Homie the Clown": Krusty's products are defective and dangerous.
• "Brush with Greatness": Krusty has a press conference about one of his defective/dangerous products.
• "Lisa's Substitute": A male character who has a platonic friendship with Lisa leaves her (Mr. Bergstrom's substitute teacher job was temporary/Bleeding Gums Murphy dies) and Lisa spends most of the episode depressed about it.
• "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?": Dr. Hibbert is oblivious to the fact that he has a long-lost brother (the head of the Shelbyville Orphanage/Bleeding Gums Murphy).
• "Marge in Chains": A spoof of Flintstones chewable vitamins (Bart thinks there's such a thing as Flintstones Chewable Morphine/Lunchlady Doris has kids' chewable Prozac).
• "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish":
  • A character voiced by Dan Castellaneta (Homer/Krusty) eats something poisonous.
  • A semi-serious Simpsons episode about dealing with death.

The man on the far right has a white arm.

Goofs

• When the workers and patients at the hospital are dancing to the "Jazzman" song, one of the medical staff member's arm repeatedly turns pure white like his lab coat.
• The Simpsons normally don't have their TV in the kitchen, nor is The Krusty the Clown Show on during the morning.
• Homer didn't have the baby bear corpse on his arm (or the Starland Vocal Band tattoo) until he mentions it.
• A jagged metal O would have given Bart horrible internal bleeding, not appendicitis. What's worse is that, according to the DVD commentary, Al Jean hired a medical advisor as a consultant, and they still chose to play it out unrealistically.