Lisa's Rival/References

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Lisa's Rival

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Trivia

• Bart reads Bad Boys Life magazine.
• Allison Taylor has an autographed picture of Bleeding Gums Murphy in her room.
• When Mr. Largo say, "No, you regained consciousness. Alison got First Chair....and believe me, this is not a dream!", to which Lisa gives off a Big "WAAAH!".
• Marge says that Homer lost 40 dollars, because he didn't go to work. If Homer works eight hours every day, it means, that he grosses five dollars every hour.
• Principal Skinner's favorite Star Wars character is Chewbacca.
• This is another episode where Lisa runs against a girl equal or higher than her standards. This also happened in "The Kid is All Right" with Isabel Gutierrez in an election rather than in this episode when it was with Allison Taylor in a competition for a spot in the school's band.

Citations

• The scene where a federal agent confronts Milhouse at a dam is identical to a scene from the 1993 movie The Fugitive. The agent resembles Tommy Lee Jones' character and uses he signature line "I don't care."
• Marge is seen reading (and fantasizing about) a romance novel titled Love in the Time of Scurvy, which is a reference to Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. The pirate in Marge's fantasy bears a resemblance to romance novel model Fabio Lanzoni.
• Homer's "In America" speech while guarding his sugar pile comes from Scarface.
  • His line "Oh what a world!" when the sugar melts was used by Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
• Ralph's collection of Star Wars action figures includes Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Chewbacca.Scott Chernoff. "I Bent My Wookiee! Celebrating the Star Wars/Simpsons Connection", Star Wars.com,. Retrieved on 2008-04-22. 
• Lisa's hiding of The Tell-Tale Heart diorama under the gym floorboards is a parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".
• The speech patterns of the beekeeper voiced by Hank Azaria are based on Adam West's portrayal of Batman.
• The company "Goldsboro's Honey" is a reference to easy listening performer Bobby Goldsboro, who had a #1 hit in 1968 with the song "Honey."
• Lisa's nightmare features her playing in a band with famous second bananas of rock and roll: Art Garfunkel, John Oates and Jim Messina. The concert is sponsored by Avis, the number two rental car company whose famed slogan is "We Try Harder." The song "Born to Runner-Up" is a parody of "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen, who never topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts.