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Cultural References[]
- Crash Bandicoot and the PlayStation - "Dash Dingo" is a parody of Crash Bandicoot and its respective series, and Lisa plays the game on the original PlayStation;
- Azaria Chamberlain disappearance - The antagonist of the game tells Dash he needs to find and eat the 7 Crystal Babies.
- The Wind in the Willows - Lisa is assigned it for the book report;
- Super Nintendo - Ralph calls Superintendent Chalmers "Super Nintendo Chalmers";
- Alpha-Bits - punned on as "Alfalfa-Bits".
- During Lisa's daydream that she has failed to qualify for Harvard University and now must consider Brown University, she ends it by chanting "Brown, Brown, Brown" as she returns to reality. Ian Maxtone-Graham inserted that as a joke, as he is a graduate of Brown University, while many other Simpsons writers are Harvard graduates.
Previous Episode References[]
- "Bart Gets an "F"" and "Bart's Dog Gets an F": Episode title uses the formula "[character] Gets [a letter grade]"
- "Bart Gets an "F"" (only): An episode ends with Bart's/Lisa's test on the refrigerator (Bart's "D-" paper that showed he barely passed/Lisa's A+++ paper that she turns into an F because she cheated).
- "Bart's Dog Gets an F" (only): Lisa is too sick to go to school.
- "Lisa on Ice": Lisa worries her one failure in second grade will doom her from being successful later in life.
- "Treehouse of Horror III" ("Dial Z for Zombie"): A pet lobster dies from being cooked by mistake (one of the tombstones at the pet cemetery says, "Eaten by Mistake"/Homer accidentally boils Pinchy, then has to eat him out of mourning).
- "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song," "The PTA Disbands!", "Treehouse of Horror V" ("Nightmare Cafeteria"), and "'Round Springfield": Jokes and scenes depicting the terrible conditions of Springfield Elementary (Superintendent Chalmers tells Skinner that he's had it with the low test scores and the classes filled with ugly children, then when Flanders takes over, Chalmers encourages Bart to let the school decline in quality because all American public schools will be like Springfield Elementary in a few months/Mrs. Krabappel and the other teachers go on strike and the strike is resolved when the school shares its space with the local maximum security prison/the food budget is so low and the overcrowding is so high that the staff resorts to cannibalism [though this is revealed to be all just a dream that Bart had]/Lunchlady Doris works as the school nurse because of budget cuts [though "Whacking Day" showed that she works as a school nurse so she can get paid twice], which is also why Groundskeeper Willie is teaching French class/Lisa's A+++ nets the school an emergency grant, which Principal Skinner already spent on a scoreboard).
- "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" and "D'oh-in' in the Wind": Homer boycotts pants (to be like Thomas Edison/as part of his hippie phase/Bart tells Lisa that going in the boys' bathroom doesn't have anything Lisa didn't see when "Dad boycotted pants")
- "King-Size Homer": Homer weighs 300 pounds on the bathroom scale.
- "Lisa the Vegetarian": Homer rags on Lisa for becoming a vegetarian.
- "Homer's Enemy" and "Marge in Chains": The Simpsons have lobster for dinner.
- "I Love Lisa" and "This Little Wiggy": Ralph Wiggum is at the Simpsons' house.
- "Some Enchanted Evening": Homer picks a lobster out of a tank to eat.
- "The Telltale Head": The Simpsons (save Marge) are happy to leave church.
- "Marge Be Not Proud": Gavin the bratty kid and his permissive mom are seen.
- "Bart Gets an Elephant": A Simpson male (Bart/Homer) gets a wild animal (an elephant/a lobster) as a pet.
Maggie without a mouth
Goofs[]
- In the opening church scene, Maggie does not have a mouth.
Wendell with brown hair
- Wendell can be seen with brown hair early in the episode.
- When Chuck is seen in class, at one point, his shirt is lavender.
Two kids have no test sheets; globe colors are wrong
- Two kids in the middle of the class (a boy just behind Ralph and a girl two desks behind Lisa) do not have test sheets, however they are shown writing on their desks.
- In the same scene, the globe's colors are inverted: the continents are blue and the oceans are green. Both errors can be seen in the screenshot to the right.
- Lisa starts off barefoot when playing the PlayStation game. However when Ralph comes to see Lisa, she is wearing her aqua-green slippers. Then, after he leaves and she drops the book on the floor, she is barefoot again.
- Lewis can be seen with yellow skin.
Otto with blue headphones
- In this episode, Otto Mann's headphones are blue instead of their usual red.
- The season four episode "New Kid on the Block" revealed that Marge is allergic to seafood to the point that it's lethal (her throat closes up and she goes into convulsions), so why would she serve lobster to the family (unless it's for Homer and the kids and not her, similar to what happened on "Homer's Enemy")?
- Coleco went out of business in 1988 thanks to the 1983 video game crash, so how could Principal Skinner buy a Coleco from Gil? Either Gil was trying to unload the last of the unsold models to anyone who would take it, Springfield Elementary is so poor that Coleco is all they can afford -- even with an emergency grant, or Principal Skinner is so cheap and out of touch with modern (at the time) technology that he thinks Coleco is a good brand to buy.
Production Notes[]
- The final draft for this episode was published on May 4, 1998.[1]
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