Upon arriving at his new loft, Bart enthusiastically throws his baseball cap in the air, announcing that he's "gonna make it" a la The Mary Tyler Moore Show...only for it to get ripped into a million pieces by the ceiling fan.
Homer thinks the "J" from WWJD is for "Gepetto" (the puppet maker from all adaptations of Pinocchio) instead of "Jesus".
Lisa is having a dream where she is making a speech at the Kennedy Center. Legends Ornette Coleman and Arthur Miller bow to Lisa. "We're not worthy!" Wayne's World style.
Homer and Tony hawk fight with their skateboards in mid-air, a spoof on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment: Bart wants to watch porno movies (shows his friends Top Hat TV/thinks "Marge and Homer Get Dirty" is a sex tape)
Stark Raving Dad and Bart Sells His Soul: Bart and Michael Jackson (Bart hangs out with the mental patient who thinks he's Michael Jackson/Bart thinks the soul is a myth that parents use to scare kids, like The Boogeyman and Michael Jackson/Homer drops Bart from the balcony, like Michael Jackson did to his infant son in the mid-2000s).
Sweets and Sour Marge: Reference to Butterfinger candy bars and Bart being the spokesman for them in real life.
Lisa the Beauty Queen and Lady Bouvier's Lover: The Blue-Haired Lawyer works for someone other than Mr. Burns (represents the Disney corporation/is the estate lawyer for Charlie Chaplin and Jimmy Durante/represents Bart in court over his emancipation).
In real life, you have to be 14 to 17 to be legally emancipated from your family, although Judge Harm herself did acknowledge that while Bart may be too young to be emancipated from his family, she was willing to make an exception, since even she felt that Bart's probably better off living on his own than with someone like Homer (and, even if that were the case, Bart probably would have been put in foster care if the show followed reality, which could have led to Bart being adopted by Tony Hawk and Blink-182 rather than Bart coincidentally meeting them while living on his own).
Lisa without eyes
Bart is clearly living on the top floor of the loft building (as indicated by the pan-in from the Absolut Krusty mural painted on the building's exterior), but when he panics and takes the elevator to escape the rat in his room, the elevator takes him up - numerous flights - and opens at Tony Hawk's pad.
Homer complains that half of his salary goes to his Vegas wife, but their marriage came to an end when she married Grandpa on "Brawl in the Family", so she shouldn't be getting alimony from him. Then again, Homer and Amber wouldn't legally be married, anyway, since Homer was drunk when he was standing at the altar with her and wedding officiants can't marry a couple without clear consent from both parties.
In Homer's incriminating photos, he is shown to be as bald as he is in the present day, while previous episodes established that he would not lose that much hair until around the time Maggie was born.
When Lisa explains what being emancipated means, she has no eyes for a single frame.
