Mother and Child Reunion/References

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Mother and Child Reunion

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Trivia

• It is a sequel to "Lisa's Wedding".
• This episode is dedicated to Olympia Dukakis, who passed away on May 1st, 2021.
• In the future, The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop has now become a prison.
• Moe's Tavern has become Moe's Oxygen.
• Although this episode is rated TV-14 on Fox, it was rated TV-PG on Hulu.
• This is another episode hinting that Lisa is Bi. The fortune teller said in the future Lisa has a 42% chance of getting a boyfriend and a 72% chance of a girlfriend. Then what hints the most is Lisa saying, "I like those odds!".

Cultural References

• Mother and Child Reunion is the name of a 1972 song by American singer-songwritter Paul Simon.The song appeared in "My Mother the Carjacker" and "Mona Leaves-a".
• Werner Herzog mentions Burger King and Steve Jobs.
• Bed Bong and Beyond is a parody of Bed Bath and Beyond.
• The Magic Shop was given four stars by Penn, and Tell do said nothing about it, a reference to Teller's silence during shows.
• Items seen in the magic shop include:
  • A statue of Homer as Frankenstein's Monster and Marge as Bride of Frankenstein.
  • Mickey Mouse's wizard hat from the 1940 animated film Fantasia.
  • Love Potion No. 8, is a reference to the song, album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith, and the 1992 American romantic comedy film "Love Potion No. 9".
  • A poster for the Grizzledum House, a parody of Gryffindor house in the Harry Potter franchise.
• Werner Herzog shows a trick caused Angela Merkel to say that Werner was the worst Uber driver ever.
• Werner Herzog pulls underwear out of Homer pants and states that they were worn by Babar the Elephant.
• The Fortune teller machine from the 1988 film Big is seen at the Magic Shop.
• Werner Herzog purchased a Keurig coffee maker, but never used it.
• Werner Herzog was able to learn Homer and Bart's names from their Starbucks coffee cups.
• Lisa mentions Cornell College, which is private liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
• In the future, Hans Moleman flies by in a The Jetsons style car.
• Lisa states that the streaming service Neflix purchasing Yale University.
• Bart has become a Fruit Ninja.
• Milhouse hires his father Kirk to imitating Seth MacFarlane imitating Frank Sinatra. The song sing by Kirk called Take Him to the Prom is parody of Fly Me to the Moon.
• The shop Bed Bong & Beyond is a parody of the American chain of domestic merchandise retail stores called Bed Bath & Beyond.
• In the future, a Bart and Lisa drive past Blockbuster which states that it was announced back after almost all store being shut down with one store remaining open in Bend, Oregon.
• Bart and Lisa drive past Best Buy A.I., which is a parody of the American multinational consumer electronics retailer Best Buy.
• Bart and Lisa drive past Sears and Robots, which is a parody American chain of department stores Sears.
• The song which plays during Lisa's future flashbacks is "Old Days" by the Chicago band.
• A Bitcoin Laundromat shop is seen when Bart and Lisa drove past it, which is reference to Bitcon and Money laundering.
• Lisa uses Oogle mail.
• Universities that Lisa got accepted into include:
  • Dartmouth College
  • Amherst College
  • Cornell University
  • University of Oxford
  • Sorbonne University
  • Princeton University
  • Yale University.
  • Brown University
  • Bowdoin College
  • UC Berkeley
  • UNC
  • Texas A&M
  • Harvard University
  • West Virginia Smart Place, the only one that doesn't exist in real life.
  • Bob Jones University, mentioned by Ned Flanders.
  • University of Hawaiʻi, Arizona State University and Google University, mentioned by drones.
    • Arizona State safety is a reference to the many safety issues on campus in the real life university.
• The Simpson family, Bouvier family and Ned Flanders sing the song "A Simpson Got Into College" to the tune of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, which is song sing by to congratulate a person on a significant event, such as a promotion, a birthday, a wedding (or playing a major part in a wedding), a wedding anniversary, the birth of a child, or the winning of a championship sporting event.
• After a conservation with Homer, Maggie turns her head into several Emojis.
• Jeremy Freedman mentions to Lisa that he was a philosophy major at Brown University.
• Nate Silver is FiveThirtyEight a real website, which focuses on opinion poll analysis, leftist politics, economics, and sports blogging.
• When questions Werner Herzog about how many more Ghostbusters movies will be made. Herzog answers that four more movies where made and that the Gay Ghostbusters was fantastic.
• Werner Herzog states that he would be channeling Rodney Dangerfield at the Comedy & Magic Club.
• When Lisa becomes president, her predecessor does a Wilhelm scream.
• High Carumba a brand of marijuana created by Bart Simpson in the future, references Bart's catchphrase "¡Ay, caramba!".
• Bart becomes the owner of three NBA team.
• The fireworks at the end state the US government is brought to you by Disney.
• Over the Disney fireworks "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky plays.
• Nate Silver mentions Ivy League, which an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States.

Continuity

• Items in the Magic Shop include items seen in previous episodes:
  • Gabbo from "Krusty Gets Kancelled".
  • A poster for The Great Raymondo and his wife Esther who appeared in "The Great Simpsina".
  • A poster for Mesmerino who hypnotized Homer into thinking that, he was a child from "The Blunder Years".
  • A poster for the Mathemagician who did math tricks at Martin Prince's birthday party from "Grade School Confidential".
  • A poster for Abra Ca-Debra who was hired for Lenny's birthday party at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant from "Go Big or Go Homer".
  • A poster for Grizzledum House from Angelica Button. The House President is Angelica Button and the Headmaster Greystash from "The Haw-Hawed Couple".
• Lisa becomes president of the United States much like she did in "Bart to the Future".
• A Blockbuster video appears having lasted appear in the episode "A Midsummer's Nice Dream".
• The teleporter from the "Treehouse of Horror VIII" segment Fly Vs. Fly.
• A poster for Jesus Christ Supercar from "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back".
• In the Oval Office, Lisa has picture from Homer in space referencing him going into space in the episode "Deep Space Homer".

Goofs

• When Marge enters Lisa's tablet is seen hanging in the air without being held by Lisa's hand (as seen in the promotional image).
• When Marge offers Lisa brownies one of the brownies sides change to the color of the frosting for a little bit.