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Trivia

• The statue of the man riding a horse outside the courthouse is of Simpsons writer, John Swartzwelder.
• Maggie's full name is revealed to be Margaret.
• In the commentary it says that the Child Protective Services male officer was based on a teacher the writers had.
• In the original airing, Milhouse mentioned the basket with the infected monkey in it came from Pier One. After Pier One complained about the joke, the reruns changed the line to Trader Pete's. Syndicated reruns and the season seven DVD version retain the original line, though the closed captioning/subtitles have the "Trader Pete" line instead of the "Pier One" line. In the UK, the Trader Pete line is used, as there are no Pier One stores over there.
• This episode reveals that the redheaded hick from "Bart Gets an Elephant" and "Itchy and Scratchy Land" is named Cletus. It wouldn't be until later that Cletus's last name Spuckler would be revealed.
• In the parenting class, Agnes Skinner said that the state was threatening to take Seymour away because they had another fight over the inflatable bath pillow. They first fought over the bath pillow in the episode The Springfield Connection from the previous season.
• It is revealed in this episode that Marge microwaves her underwear when she's cold and Homer calls radio stations and gives them fake traffic hints.

Goofs

• Lisa comes home with trash bags on her feet, but Bart comes home wearing a potato sack and is barefoot. Unlike Lisa, Bart does not have prescription shoes.
• The social workers shouldn't have been able to take the kids away due to circumstantial evidence, and without questioning Marge and Homer.
• Realistically, the kids would have been sent to separate foster homes.
• Also, sending the kids in the Flanders' home violates the 100-foot restraining order that Homer and Marge were given against the children, and even if the restraining order wasn't in place, the kids shouldn't have been put in a foster home next door to their parent's home.
• If Homer and Marge wanted to call the kids, they could have gone to a pay phone.
• When playing a religious trivia game, Maggie somehow gets a question right despite being unable to talk, although this may have been done to emphasize Bart and Lisa's lack of knowledge of the topic. It is possible that she nodded her answer.
• The Flanders have both "fire" and "police" on autodial, even though they are both 911.

Citations

• Maggie's head turns 180 degrees a la The Exorcist. Maggie's head also spun around more than a normal range of motion in Treehouse of Horror.

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Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) • Radioactive Man • Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily • Bart Sells His Soul • Lisa the Vegetarian • Treehouse of Horror VI • King-Size Homer • Mother Simpson • Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming • The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular • Marge Be Not Proud • Team Homer • Two Bad Neighbors • Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield • Bart the Fink • Lisa the Iconoclast • Homer the Smithers • The Day the Violence Died • A Fish Called Selma • Bart on the Road • 22 Short Films About Springfield • Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" • Much Apu About Nothing • Homerpalooza • Summer of 4 Ft. 2