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The Kid is All Right |
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Cultural references[]
The Scottish Terrier is FDR's pet Fala
- The title is a play on the song The Kids Are Alright by The Who.
- Lisa and Isabel's presentation in the auditorium on Franklin D. Roosevelt included a large pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and his pet Scottish Terrier Fala.
- The photograph in Marge's album of First Lady Nancy Reagan sitting on Mr. T's lap as he was Santa Claus was a real photograph taken on December 12, 1983.
- The "ghosts" of presidential nominees of the Democratic Party Lisa meets are Michael Dukakis who was Governor of Massachusetts and lost to then Vice President George Bush in 1988 (his first cousin, Olympia Dukakis, guest voiced as Grampa Simpson's one time girlfriend Zelda in "The Old Man and the Key"). Walter Mondale, former Vice President under Jimmy Carter, who lost to incumbent Ronald Reagan in 1984 and John Kerry, then U.S. Senator for Massachusetts, who lost to incumbent George W. Bush in 2004. When the episode was first broadcast in 2013 all the "ghosts" were still alive. Walter Mondale would die in 2021.
Trivia[]
- Up until Isabel told him, Bart never knew what ¡Ay, caramba! meant.
- Hypnotoad and the Horrible Gelatenous Blob from Futurama make a cameo.
- This is the first episode where Bart throws spitballs at Lisa to get her attention.
- At the end of the episode, Homer (in the future) is watching TV with his counterpart from the Musicville couch gag which started this episode.
- This is an episode where it was edited in the name for the future episode The Kids Are All Fight.
- Lisa quotes Mr. Burns once again with his phrase "Excellent" after watching a video of Isabel on training wheels (Lisa previously did this in "Little Big Mom" when she tricked Homer and Bart into thinking they had leprosy).
- The Musicville couch gag could be referring the Music Land animated short. Some similarities are: similarity in names (Music Land and Musicville), both having a main character/characters as brass instruments, Music Land is a Silly Symphonies short and in the couch gag it says that Musicville is a Silly Simpsony, both have different musical lands with Music Land having the Land of Symphony and the Isle of Jazz and the Land of Springfield have Musicville and Metalville, both worlds bridge connections with the Bridge of Harmony in Music Land and bridges seen on the map of the Land of Springfield in Musicville and a imprisonment involving Jazz with the Prince of the Isle of Jazz being imprisoned by the Queen of the Land of Symphony Mr Burns of Music Land imprisoning the people at the jazz festival
- When Homer is in the attic talk (between Marge and Lisa) scene he says two big 80's two quotes. The first being "Where's the beef" is a slogan for the fast food chain Wendy's introduced in 1984 and the second is "Tear down this wall" a quote from a Ronald Reagan speech to USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev about the Berlin Wall said on 12 June 1987
- This episode shows that Waylon Smithers, Jr. is lactose-intolerant.
Continuity[]
- Lisa's relationship with Nelson is mentioned in this episode.
- This is the second episode where Bart shoots spitballs at Lisa. The first was "Fat Man And Little Boy".
- In the banner shed, banners from past episodes and events are shown. Whacking Day: School Closed, ("Whacking Day"), Congratulations Bart, On Being A Genius, ("Bart The Genius"), The New Funzos Are Here, ("Grift of the Magi"), and Coping With The Dome (The Simpsons Movie).
- Mr. Bergstrom from "Lisa's Substitute" makes a cameo appearance.
- This is the third time Homer quotes the "Where's the beef?" slogan, after "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" and "Lisa's First Word".
- The janitor at the U.S. Capitol may have been Walter Mondale or just looked a lot like Walter Mondale in "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington".
- A younger Marge is photographed hanging a banner for "Morning in America" which was the slogan used for the Reagan–Bush 1984 reelection. In "Marge Gets a Job" Lisa knew Marge had voted twice for Jimmy Carter, although Marge could have voted for Carter in 1976 and 1980 and then Reagan in 1984. Also with The Simpsons use of a floating timeline Marge might now have aged out of being eligible to vote in either of the Carter campaigns and she only hangs a banner without saying if she was only a supporter who was still too young to vote.
Goofs[]
- Lisa's tablet says that Harry Nilsson "composed" the song "One", and died of a heart attack on Valentine's Day. While he really did have a heart attack on February 14, 1993, he survived it, only to have one again on January 15th, 1994 and die from it.