Paths of Glory/References

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Paths of Glory

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Cultural References

• Paths of Glory is also the name of a 1957 anti-war film.
• The song Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne plays during the montage showing Bart taking advantage of his "sociopath" status.
• Bart mentions the Banana Cabana, a hotel from the TV series, Almost Naked Animals.
• When Lisa was researching Amelia Vanderbuckle, she was using Wikipedia.
• Kent Brockman mentions Velma from Hanna Barbera's Scooby Doo series.
• When the general was listing what the asylum kids blew up, he said Kabul Starbucks.
• The nurse at the asylum is similar to the nurse in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
• Carl mentions the Green Bay Packers and puts a cheesehead hat, which is what Packers wear at the games.
• Bart searches what a Sociopath is on a site called Suburban Dictionary, a parody of the webside Urban Dictionary.

Trivia

• Homer broke the fourth wall when he said "we did everything we could do for him during the commercials."
• Homer mentioned that the sociopath test was Bart's first 100 in a test, but he already got the maximum grade on a test in Homer vs. Dignity, Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade and Sleeping with the Enemy.
• Due to President Obama's address to the nation, this episode started 15 minutes late (except in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones). Therefore, it did not end on time.

Goofs

• When Lisa comes down to announce her achievements at the end of the episode, Bart's hair is overlapping with Marge's arm.
• At the asylum, a girl was wrapping her arm with tape. When the nurse enters, the tape disappears from her arm.

Censorship

As of October 10th 2022, these three scenes were cut on Channel 4.

• The steam-powered barber chair decapitating the person inside was cut.
• Jimbo's answer to Shana saying "What doesn't make you hot." ("Alcoholic step-dads.") was cut.
• Bart shoving the choking device inside his mouth while in a pirate outfit was cut.