Dr. Pryor has pictures of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud on the wall behind his desk.
When Bart is assigned detention, he has to write "I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty." on the blackboard over and over.
A tiny skull hangs on a chain from Snake's rearview mirror.
Career Aptitude Normalizing Test (CANT): Name of the test given to the students at Springfield Elementary.
According to the DVD commentary, it took nine takes to get guest star Steve Allen to pronounced "Aye, Carumba" correctly.
In 1992, Nancy Cartwright won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for this episode.
Principal Skinner's disbelief of Bart becoming a cop became hypocritical in The Principal and the Pauper where it was revealed that he used to be a street punk.
While in a police car Bart asks the cops if they will do anything from the movies which they say that it's not that intense. The police later become action heroes. Coincidentally, a similar thing happened in Hot Fuzz which came out 15 years after the episode aired.
The police visiting at the Simpson house for a reason besides arresting someone, which makes Homer think he will be arrested happened previously in Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment.
Lisa's flippant remark of "What 'cha got?" to Miss Hoover is similar to Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
Bart's fantasy of being a drifter and remarking that he was banished from a town by a sheriff is similar to First Blood, which revolves around the fact that the film's protagonist, John Rambo, was banished from a town on account of the fact he was scruffy and long-haired and the sheriff did want his kind in the town.
The scene where Snake nearly runs down Bart is loosely based on the 1983 film Christine.
The song heard when Bart and Skinner search through the lockers for the Teachers' Editions is a variation of Harold Faltermeyerās "Axel F" from the film Beverly Hills Cop.
Goofs
When Bart and Principal Skinner are closing in on Lisa's locker, several shots of them opening lockers are repeated.
