My Sister, My Sitter/References

Trivia

• Bart mentions that he is "two years and thirty-eight days" older than Lisa. Bart's birthday falls on April 1st, so this would make Lisa's birthday May 9th (even though "Lisa's First Word" implies that Lisa was born around the time of the 1984 Summer Olympics). The Simpsons exists on a floating timeline, where the year of people's birth regularly changes. It's possible that finer details like the month or day of their births is also not set in stone.
• When Rod and Todd are being chased by a moth, they both have Entomophobia.
• When Lisa talks to Mr. Smithers at the Hospital, everyone in the queue is seated, only Mr. Smithers is standing and ashamed, for a very peculiar reason.
• Other known patients include:
  • Snake Jailbird for a bullet injury
  • Jasper Beardly, for unknown reasons
  • Louie, also for unknown reasons but likely for a gang-related injury
  • Barney Gumble for some alcohol-related condition
  • Professor Frink for a scientific accident
  • Comic Book Guy for complications after eating too many cheeseburgers
• Unknown patients include:
  • someone with a fidgety leg
  • a prostitute
  • a hippy
• The patient diagnosis form at Dr. Nick's practice lists the following afflictions:
  • Unusual sex practice
  • Looter's hernia
  • Mexican standoff
  • Prison tunnel syndrome
  • Armed homeowner
  • Allergic reaction:
    • Mace
    • Pepper spray
    • Bullets
  • Liquor store robbery
  • John Gotti's disease

Cultural References

• The title of this episode is a play on the 1994 film Sister My Sister.
• The book that Lisa is reading is a parody of The Baby-Sitters Club book series.

Goofs

• At church, in the faraway shot the man sitting behind Homer is layered in front of his head instead of behind it.

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  When Lisa unfolds the game board at the Flanders' house her leg briefly disappears.
• In the same scene, an orange piece of path in the gameboard briefly turns green.

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  A man at the doctor's office has a moustache colored yellow like his skin instead of brown like his hair.
• Some of Snake's blood disappears for a frame.
• Frink is seen in Dr. Nick's hospital having been involved in a scientific accident. But later, when Lisa is confronted at the Squidport by Hibbert, Frink is seen in the opening ceremony crowd.
• The emergency men should know that there's no such thing as "Sisterectomy".

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