The Parent Rap/References

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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the film The Parent Trap.
  • Which is ironic seeing that Bart and Homer get attached together, rather than separated.
• "Dang Me" by Roger Miller is the song playing on the car radio and the credits at the end of the episode.
• One of the sound effects Bill and Marty use in their show is the line "Damn dirty apes" from the movie Planet of the Apes.
• In addition to the $40 prize for the winning the radio contest, Homer also receives a Blue Öyster Cult medallion. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by B.Ö.C. is also played over the closing credits.
• Judge Constance Harm refers to the reality court show Judge Judy.
• It is likely that Homer’s night terrors of cobras attacking him originated from his traumatic stage performance in Eight Misbehavin', where multiple cobras (some real, others robots with venom) struck him repeatedly while unicycling. Things only got worse when a mongoose sent to contain the cobras instead attacked Homer’s face, allowing the cobras to continue biting him, as he was screaming in terror.

Trivia

• Judge Constance Harm indicates she was born male when she tells Bart he reminds her of herself when she was a little boy. Snake is shocked by this, and says, "Did she say she used to be a dude?!"
• In this episode, Judge Snyder's first name is revealed to be Roy.
  • It wouldn't be revealed hadn't Bart had a tendency to call adults by their first names.
• As an inside joke, Snake was seen in the Juvenile Courthouse. The writers put him in because the crime he committed was against a child.
• If Snyder had not taken his vacation in the middle of the case, the events of this episode would not have happened and Bart & Homer would have gotten off easy.
• Judge Harm is fond of cruel and unusual punishment almost to the point of full sadism.
• Homer wears the same black stealth outfit from "Dumbbell Indemnity" and "Faith Off". He would later wear it again in "Sweets and Sour Marge".

Goofs

Homer with a white tongue

• Bart and Homer are able to change their clothes despite them being tethered together.
• Incidentally, Homer and Marge were still able to change their clothes in their wooden stocks.
• It appears that most of Springfield forgot about Homer and Marge being viewed as bad parents before. Then again, Springfield residents are not that smart.
• It's not likely that Judge Snyder's vacation would start and end in the middle of a court case.
• When Homer goes to sleep in Mrs. Krabappel's class, his tongue's palette color changes from pink to white.
• The constitution forbids cruel or unusual punishment, both tethering Bart and Homer together and putting Marge and Homer in stocks would classed as this.
  • Judge Harm would have been terminated in this case.
• When Moe says "Yeah, I rob now," the tether is missing.
• In the United States, cars drive on the right-hand side of the road. However, when Homer and Marge are getting spanked by the public, the cars come from the left-hand side.
• When Homer and Marge arrive at Judge Harm's houseboat, all the lights are off, but the window Homer looks into suddenly has lights on.
• After Homer hammers the first nail into the banner, he hammers a second one right by the first, but when they are finished, there is only one nail on each side of the banner.
• After Marge and Homer cheer, Lisa’s arm turns pink for a split second.

  

  Lisa with a pink arm