On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister/References

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On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

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Trivia

• Gary Busey, who claimed in the episode that 12 different women and a small independent film company filed restraining orders against him and that he previously had had women turn him down and soak him in drinks like Joe Spaghetti-O did, would ironically later be charged in August 2022 on criminal sexual offenses and sexual misconduct related to harassment of different women.
• This is the first episode written by former Futurama writer Jeff Westbrook.
• The last episode to use the season 5 intro.

Previous Episode References

• Radio Bart: Bart uses a radio to make someone sound like they farted.
• Fat Man and Little Boy: Nelson wears as "Glaciers Suck" T-shirt, which may or may not be part of the "Things Suck" T-shirt line Bart came up with.
• The Fat and the Furriest: A Simpson male (Grampa Simpson/Homer) works at Sprawl-Mart.
• Bart's Dog Gets an F: One of the nice things Bart did for Lisa was get her homework for her when she was home sick.
• Lisa's Sax and Homer's Phobia: Someone thinks Bart is gay.
• My Big Fat Geek Wedding: Principal Skinner tries to win Mrs. Krabappel back after their break-up.
• Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade: Bart humiliates Lisa during a school field trip.
• Homer the Great: The Simpsons' backyard has something that wasn't there in previous episodes (the parking lot to the nuclear plant/a forest).
• The Ziff Who Came to Dinner: The Powers of Ten couch gag is used (only Homer says "Cool" in this one instead of "Wow!").

Cultural references

• The title is taken from the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
• The scene of the children pulling the school bus up the hill is a reference to the movie "Fitzcarraldo". When Uter makes reference to the movie, Nelson punches him in the stomach saying "That movie was flawed".
• Sprawl-Mart is a parody of Wal-Mart, in spite of the sign outside that says it isn't.
• In one scene, a sign outside Sprawl-Mart says "Don't Watch 60 Minutes This Week," a reference to controversies involving Wal-Mart ending up being covered on 60 Minutes.
• The title of the restraining order instructional video is a pun on the song "Get Out of My Dreams, Get into My Car" by Billy Ocean.
• Songs/music used:
  • While the bus slides around on the icy road, the music played is a rendition of Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.
  • The song playing during the "Lisa poking Bart" montage is "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police.
  • When Bart drops his shorts to take a leak outdoors ("The world is my toilet now!"), the music playing is a short rendition of the theme from Born Free.
  • During the montage showing Bart living with a pack of wild dogs, the music playing is from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
  • At the very end, while the wicker statue burns, the Simpsons play (and dance to) "Tijuana Taxi" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. This also happens earlier in the episode, when Bart imagines how much they miss him while inside the house, the rest of the family are celebrating.
• The wicker statue of Lisa that Bart builds is a reference to the 1973 film The Wicker Man.
• Jimbo calls the Lisa statue "The Wicker Witch of the West," referencing both The Wicker Man and The Wizard of Oz.
• Bart's plea to Lisa to "Look in your heart" is a reference to the 1990 Coen Brothers film Miller's Crossing.

Goofs

• Samantha Stankey from "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" is clearly visible in the field trip, even though she was sent to an all-girls convent school at the end of that episode. Either she came back or that's just a case of the animators recycling previous characters to use as nameless extras.
• The entire glacier which Lisa causes to sink seems to be floating on top of the lake, even though only 10% of any given iceberg is visible above the surface in reality.
• Following around someone on whom you have a restraining order (as Lisa does to Bart) is considered abuse of the order and is grounds for having it removed.
• Springfield Elementary School couldn't possibly be so small that there is nowhere Bart could be without violating the restraining order.
  • Also, Bart was able to obey the order at the Simpson home, but not at school, which would mean that the school is smaller than the Simpson home.
• Also at the end when Lisa throws the restraining order into the fire, you can see it and it says the plaintiff is Bart, and the defendant is Lisa. That would mean that Bart originally filed the order and Lisa had to stay away from him. It was in fact vice versa.
• In one shot, Lisa is between Ralph and Sherry or Terry. Then when she points to the glacier in the same shot, Ralph and Sherry or Terry vanish.
• In two scenes when it shows the store manager outside and the clerks inside, there are no buildings visible, only the brick wall fence and purple sky.