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"Bad Boys... For Life?" |
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Cultural References[]
- The title is a reference to the 2020 film Bad Boys for Life.
- While scrolling through the preview screens of their streaming service, the Simpsons come across:
- Very Old Sheldon is a reference to the sitcom Young Sheldon.
- To Catch and Release a Predator is a reference to the Dateline series To Catch a Predator.
- The Golden Retriever Bachelorette is a reference to the romance show The Golden Bachelorette.
- If Andor But which a parody of Star Wars TV series Andor and a pun on the idiom if, and, or but.
- Ring of Thrones is a reference to the action series Game of Thrones.
- Rehashing of the Talking of the Talking Dead is a reference to Tales of the Walking Dead.
- The parenting books used in young Bart's Rube-Goldberg-style trap for Homer are Daddies For Dummies, Nurturing for Nuts, Everything You Need to Know About Raising a Child, The Last Parenting Book You Read is Completely Wrong, If You Have to Put Your Child for Adoption and Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenev which is a real novel and not a parenting guide, but a classic of 19th-century Russian literature.
- Drunken Donuts is a pun on Dunkin' Donuts and looks very similar to Lard Lad Donuts. In "Treehouse of Horror VI" (despite being non-canon), Homer was excited when the Lard Lad chain had finally opened a donut shop in Springfield.
- An Emmy statue is one of the objects that Homer uses to try prying his superglued hand off the Duff Beer bottle.
- Homer is able to know about juvenile offenders in Florida because he is Googling while he sleeps. In real life, out of all states, Florida really does has some of the strictest laws for juvenile offenders.
- Dr. Hibbert's hair is styled like W. Kamau Bell.
Trivia[]
- This marks the last episode where Al Jean is a showrunner on the series, although in a post on X, he mentions the possibility of returning.[1]
- The "Left is Right" gallery is based on well-known Democrats/left-leaners and contains the following people:
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Cleopatra
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Nikola Tesla
- Joan of Arc
- Marie Curie
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Matt Groening
- Babe Ruth
- Bart (though this is less about politics because it references his left hand being his "right", or dominant hand, to write with)
- Barack Obama
- Sir Paul McCartney
- Bubba Watson
- Jimi Hendrix
- Napoleon
- Queen Victoria
- Amelia Earhart
- Oprah Winfrey; as Al Jean revealed on X, Judy Garland was originally meant to be here instead[2]
- This is the second time that Homer successfully strangles Bart after the episode "McMansion & Wife" (first done in non-canon episode "Bart's Birthday"), where Homer said he supposedly does not strangle Bart anymore as "times have changed." This led to much speculation about the gag being retired, which the staff said was not true.
Continuity[]
- Bart finds his pet frog ("The Crepes of Wrath", "Bart vs. Australia", "Girls Just Want to Have Sums")
- In the flashbacks, Marge wears a blue instead of green dress, but at the 33¢ Store she repulsed when she saw her dress in blue on the rack. ("Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"). Marge's style preferences might have changed over 4 years and the dress at 33¢ Store was a darker blue than Marge's dress in the flashbacks.
- The flashback takes places 4 years earlier and Milhouse has just gotten eyeglasses for the first time. Homer previously told Bart and Lisa about Bart's first day of school which took place 5 years earlier, where Milhouse was wearing eyeglasses. ("Lisa's Sax")
- Dr. Hibbert had a different, more fashionable hairstyle in the past. ("The Way We Was", "I Married Marge", "Lisa's First Word", "And Maggie Makes Three", "Lisa's Sax")
- Dr. Hibbert takes swag from Pfizer's attractive sales reps. ("Midnight Rx")
- Dr. Stein went to Johns Hopkins Medical School where Dr. Hibbert also went. ("Bart Gets Hit by a Car")
- Judge Constance Harm signed the order to committee Bart. Although she previously took on Bart's case in juvenile court, neither she nor the Simpsons did not know each other.("The Parent Rap")
- An in-universe explanation might be how Judge Harm might have paid little, if no, attention to the order, and is too busy with other cases to remember each one. Homer also may not have noticed the signature, or they all forgot over the next 4 years.
- After Lisa asked Marge to tell them a story about when she and Bart were young, Marge admits they've done that a lot. Some of the other flashbacks episodes framed around Marge (or Homer) telling a story to Bart and Lisa include "Lisa's First Word", "And Maggie Makes Three", "Lisa's Sax", "The Kids Are All Fight", "Fland Canyon" and "Manger Things". There are other flashbacks structured, but either Bart and Lisa were not yet born (i.e. "The Way We Was", "The Way We Weren't") or Lisa was not yet born (i.e. "I Married Marge", "That '90s Show").
- Chief Wiggum tells the Drunken Donuts employee, "Well, you’re coming downtown to where I live, to teach my wife how to make donuts." Previously, as Lou scratched Chief Wiggum's belly like a dog, Wiggum says "Oh, Lou, you got to teach my wife to do this." ("Woo-Hoo Dunnit?")
- Bart's Clown Bed that he got when he was 2 appears, and the episode takes place 2 years afterward. However, in "Lisa's Sax" which took place 5 years earlier, Bart already had his regular bed ("Lisa's Sax").
- Homer's boyhood pet dog Bongo appears in a flashback trying to comfort Abe. However, Homer was a teenager in the episode's flashback, but in "To Cur with Love", it was shown that Bongo was given away when Homer was a little boy.
- While flashback Homer is remembering various details, Poochie appears on a parking lot sign. However, the character, voiced by Homer, should not have yet existed ("The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show").
Goofs[]
- Some of Krusty the Clown's lines are of poor audio quality, and the difference is noticeable as he first speaks.
- The van (disguised as an ice cream truck) was mentioned to be windowless, but it clearly does have windows.