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Previous Episode References[]
- "Lisa's Pony", "'Round Springfield", "Moaning Lisa", "Lisa's Substitute", "Lisa's Rival", "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show", and "Separate Vocations": The end montage features clips of Lisa playing her saxophone.
- "Lisa's Date with Density": Milhouse might be homosexual (gets beaten up over sending Lisa's love note to Nelson/the permanent record that said that Bart may have flamboyant male tendencies actually belongs to Milhouse)
- "Stark Raving Dad", "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", "And Maggie Makes Three", and "Treehouse of Horror III" ("Dial Z for Zombie"): Snowball I is seen or mentioned.
- "Stark Raving Dad", "Treehouse of Horror III" ("Dial Z for Zombie"), and "Bart Sells His Soul": a jab at Michael Jackson (the big bald mental patient Homer meets speaks and sings like Michael Jackson/Bart uses the Thriller album cover to summon zombies/Bart tells Milhouse that the soul is something parents use as a way to scare kids into behaving, like The Boogeyman or Michael Jackson/one of the lines in the All in the Family spoof is "...Michael Jackson still was black.")
- "And Maggie Makes Three," "I Married Marge," and "Lisa's First Word": Flashback episodes centered on how Bart, Lisa, and Maggie were when they were younger. All four also start off with Homer or Marge listing the pop culture climate of the time and both have Dr. Hibbert with a different hairstyle than the one he has now (high top fade in "And Maggie Makes Three"/an afro in "I Married Marge"/cornrows with Afrocentric beads at the end of them in "Lisa's First Word"/a Mr. T-inspired mohawk in "Lisa's Sax").
- "Team Homer": Last episodes to have Doris Grau as the voice of Lunchlady Doris (or a character who sounds and acts like her).
- "Who Shot Mr. Burns, part two": Reference to Twin Peaks (the weird dream Chief Wiggum has about finding a clue in Burns' suit/Homer watching an episode, declaring it's brilliant and great, then muttering that he has no idea what's going on).
- "Bart the Genius": A Simpson kid (Bart/Lisa) is declared gifted by school psychiatrist Dr. J. Loren Pryor.
- "Bart Gets an "F"" and "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": Homer and Marge go to a parent/teacher (or parent/school counselor) conference about Bart's bad behavior and poor grades in school.
- "Sideshow Bob Roberts": Bart goes to kindergarten (only the teacher in "Sideshow Bob Roberts" is nicer, implying that Bart's old kindergarten teacher who crushed his spirit either died, retired, quit, was fired, or [more realistically] got laid off because Springfield Elementary's budget keeps getting slashed).
- "Homer Alone", "Bart's Inner Child", and "Fear of Flying": Marge suffers from repressed stress over being stuck in her role as wife and mother.
- "Bart vs. Thanksgiving": Bart and Lisa fight over something Lisa has (the women's rights centerpiece/her saxophone) and it ends up getting destroyed (gets burned in the fireplace/gets crushed and run over)
- "Mother Simpson": Reference to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (Maggie doing the frug in her diaper with slogans and drawings all over her body while the camera zooms in and out/the old man on the tricycle falling down and the music that played during it was a running gag on the later episodes of the show)
- "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": Homer calls Lisa's saxophone a "sax-a-ma-phone".
- "Mr. Plow": Krusty the Clown has a movie of the week about his life (the one about his Percodan addiction where he's played by Jimmy Smits/The Krusty the Klown Story: Booze, Drugs, Guns, Lies, Blackmail and Laughter starring Fyvush Finkel as Krusty).
- "Homer Badman": A character voiced by Dan Castellaneta (Homer/Krusty the Clown) has a movie of the week (Homer S: Portrait of an Ass-Grabber/The Krusty the Klown Story: Booze, Drugs, Guns, Lies, Blackmail and Laughter) on an American TV channel derided for having low-quality shows (FOX/The WB).
Cultural References[]
- Bart's blackboard punishment "I no longer want my MTV" is a reference to the old MTV slogan "I Want My MTV" (and a jab at the channel's declining quality due to lack of music videos and an uptick in non-music-related reality TV shows, like The Real World), which was also featured prominently in the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing", which was also the first video to air in MTV Europe in 1987.
- The song "Those Were the Days" parodies the opening credits of the classic television show All in the Family. The show was also referenced with the narrator claiming that The Simpsons was filmed in a live action studio, and Homer referring to Bart as a meathead.
- Michigan J. Frog (or rather, a knock-off on him) briefly appears when announcing the new WB TV movie. In addition, his sing-song announcement, "We're proud to present on the WB, another bad show that no one will see!", is a jab towards the WB network's notoriety for being in the bottom six in ratings, and its shows being last chances that will not make it to other networks.
- Krusty the Clown's marriage (and divorce) with Mia Farrow in The Krusty the Klown Story: Booze, Drugs, Guns, Lies, Blackmail and Laughter, and to a lesser extent his attempting to break the news about the divorce to an Asian kid and mistaking him for another Asian kid was an indirect reference to the events of Woody Allen's controversial raising of one of his adopted daughters as well as Mia Farrow's divorcing of and later exposure of it.
- In the flashback, Dr. Hibbert fashioned his hair and attire like Mr. T in The A-Team.
- The song Lisa plays on her new saxophone near the end of the episode is "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty.
- A flashback to 1990 shows Homer watching Twin Peaks as Dale Cooper remarks, "That's some damn fine coffee you got here in Twin Peaks... and damn good cherry pie." The Giant is then shown waltzing with a white horse, under a tree with a traffic light hanging from a branch. Homer says: "Brilliant! I have absolutely no idea what's going on."
- When Bart tosses Lisa's saxophone out the window, her terrified gasp in slow-motion almost sounds like the Brachiosaurus from the 1993 film Jurassic Park.
- When Lisa's saxophone gets run over, one of the people who runs over it is a man on a tricycle, who promptly falls over. This is a reference to a character played by Arte Johnson, an old man in a raincoat on a tricycle, which is a running gag from the NBC variety show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
- When little Bart skips along the grass, he bears a resemblance to Charlie Brown sketches.
- In King Toot's music store, when Homer buys Lisa her first saxophone there is a guitar in the background that is similar to Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstein" guitar.
- When Marge, Homer and Lisa visit a preschool recommended by a school psychologist, a child can be seen in the left hand corner of the screen, that appears to be painting Rene Magritte's famous painting "The Son of Man."
Goofs[]
- Rod and Todd are still the same age in the flashback as they are in the present.
Lisa without any eyelashes
- Despite this episode showing Bart as a bad student due to his first day of kindergarten not turning out well, "Lisa the Simpson" reveals that Bart -- along with Homer, Grampa, and a group of other male Simpson relatives -- is genetically predisposed to become stupid as he grows older. On top of that, "Homer Loves Flanders" has Bart pointing out that being a loser is genetic (with Bart saying "D'oh!" when he realizes that this affects him as well). It is possible that this is another reason that he acts this way, or/and it just meant Bart's BEHAVIORAL problems, NOT his lack of intelligence.
- Five years before 1997 would have been in 1992. 1997-1990 is 7, so it would be 7 years instead. It IS Justified, though, since this episode was written and produced during the production line of the 7th season. Moreover, it is possible that Homer meant around 1990.
- When Homer has to choose between either an air conditioner or a Saxophone for Lisa, Lisa lacks any of her eyelashes.
- When Bart was walking on the grass, there wasn't any path, after Groundskeeper Willie shows the "Ach! Keep off the grass!" sign, a path somehow appears.
- When Bart throws Lisa's saxophone out of the window, Lisa's room was shown to be at the front of the house, even though her room was usually shown to be next to Bart's room.
- For a brief moment, one of the Mackleberry twin's skin tone changes to yellow, like most of the other characters on the show.
A comparison picture showing the goof
