Separate Vocations/References

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◄ Homer at the Bat

Separate Vocations

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Trivia

• 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.
• 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 episode "The Principal and the Pauper" where it was revealed that he used to be a street punk.
• The idea of police officers visiting the Simpson residence, causing Homer to assume he will be arrested, happened previously in Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment.
• Bart later switched roles with a Simpson in "Fat Man and Little Boy".

Cultural References

• Lisa's flippant remark of "What 'cha got?" to Miss Hoover imitates Marlon Brando in the film 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 the film 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, 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 Faltermeyer’s Axel F from the film Beverly Hills Cop.