Mr. Lisa's Opus/References

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Cultural References

• The name of this episode is a reference to the drama film Mr. Holland's Opus.
• The ending is a parody of All in the Family, with it even being showcased by Norman Lear threatening to sue the Simpson family for stealing his work.
• Lisa's college boyfriend at Harvard in her fantasy is a reference to Oliver Barrett IV, the lead in "Love Story" played by Ryan O'Neal. John Harvard, looking like his statue on campus, puts up the sign on the crumbled building for "New Building Fund | $30-Billion Won't Be Enough."

Continuity

• The title screen is a Christmas version of "The Ned-liest Catch".
• Lisa at age fourteen has a poster of the Doe-Eyed Boys, who previously appeared in the episode "Friend with Benefit".
• Leon Kompowsky who thought he was Michael Jackson in "Stark Raving Dad" returns in this new verses of Happy Birthday, Lisa with Bart.
• In "Holidays of Future Passed", Abe states that Homer stop drinking in the future.
• In Homer vision, Moe brings up the drink the Flaming Moe which was played a major role in the episode "Flaming Moe's".
• Homer and Marge sing a new version of Those Were the Days, which was previously sing in the "Lisa's Sax".
• Lisa’s middle child syndrome was shown in her 1st grade class.
• The poster of Marie Curie in Lisa's bedroom as she types her application to Harvard is the exactly the same as her daughter Zia will have in her secret Ultranet Room.

Goofs

• When Lisa is seen as a baby, Marge has the same hairstyle she had in the 1990s in "That '90s Show", despite the fact she has always had her hair up in a beehive style since becoming pregnant with Bart.
• When Lisa gets off the school bus and sees the Harvard drone, the bus says "Springfield Elementary School" when it should be clear that Lisa is a high school senior.
• In the same scene, Bart's hairstyle changes.