Bart on the Road/References

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Trivia

• The car Bart rents resembles a Mercury Grand Marquis.
• The radio in Bart's car is tuned on 94.5 FM, and the song that played before Milhouse plays with the radio dial is "Radar Love" by the Dutch rock band Golden Earring.
• According to the calendar in Seymour Skinner's office, Sping Break (not counting weekends) goes from Monday, April 22, 1996 to Friday, April 26, 1996. Friday, April 19, 1996, just before Spring Break (including weekends) would be Go To Work With Your Parents Day.

Cultural References

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the original from 1972) -- the hitchhiker that Bart picks up (and gets ice cream for) looks and sounds like the one from this movie (the scene where the boys stop for ice cream, weigh the car, and pick up the hitchhiker was cut on American syndicated versions before the cable reruns on FXX had them uncut).
• When Bart arrives in Hong Kong, he apparently gets off the plane that is labeled "中華航空公司" (China Airlines), which is based in Taipei.
• The marquee at the theatre at which Andy Williams is performing proclaims "He's Still Got It!", according to Look magazine (though the title folded in 1971).
• Martin bought an Al Gore doll in Knoxville, which is appropriate for their locale since the former Vice President was raised in and served as senator from Tennessee.
• The episode's title derives from the beat novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
• Bart's first action with his fake ID was taking Nelson, Milhouse, and himself to see the film adaptation of Naked Lunch. In addition, after seeing the movie, Nelson says "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title...", alluding to the film being a very loose adaptation of the book of the same name (or the fact that the kids thought it was going to be a pornographic movie about two people having lunch naked, but, since it didn't have nudity or lunch, Nelson pointed that out).
• The wigs Bart, Milhouse, Martin and Nelson are wearing after finding out the fair closed over a decade look identical to wigs seen in the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.

Previous Episode References

• "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish", "Homer's Barbershop Quartet," "Marge Be Not Proud," "Mother Simpson," and "A Fish Called Selma": Episode ends with a postscript credits scene (Homer watching bowling on TV after telling Marge he's going to live life to the fullest/Homer thanks everyone on behalf of the group and makes a joke which everyone laughs at, except Barney/Bart playing Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge/Homer sitting on his car and watching the night sky after his mom leaves him again/the news report about Troy McClure's latest movie/Marge getting phone calls about Bart's road trip)
• "Radio Bart": Bart lamenting that he'll never get a fake ID (cf. gets one in this episode).
• "Bart vs. Thanksgiving": Bart and illegal identification (uses Homer's driver's license to donate blood/creates a fake ID that says he's 25 years old)
• "Brother from the Same Planet": Kids going to see an R-rated movie (Barton Fink/Naked Lunch)
• "The Crepes of Wrath": The Springfield Nuclear Plant has child-sized radiation suits.
• "Homer the Smithers": A twist on the "Bart crank calls Moe" schtick (Moe thinks he's being crank called by Mr. Burns, who was trying to call Smithers, but doesn't know the number to reach him/Homer crank calls Moe, then threatens him the same way Moe threatens Bart after realizing he's been pranked).
• "Flaming Moe's": Lisa plays Truth or Dare during a sleepover.
• "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk":
  • Someone wins and loses it all on the stock market.
  • Smithers meets Homer at the vending machine.
  • "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk", "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show," and "Marge on the Lam": Homer's luck with vending machines (Homer's dollar keeps getting rejected/Homer gets crushed by one and ends up in a coma/Homer gets one arm stuck in a Crystal Buzz Cola and another in a candy vending machine/Homer and Lisa successfully get candy from a vending machine)

Goofs

• Soon after Bart calls Martin "Milton," Martin's torso briefly disappears.
• Lisa's and Nelson's voices sound lower than usual.