The scene where Bart speaks through fifteen megaphones in a row and blows out all the windows across Springfield went viral and the later result became a popular Internet meme. The prank was later tested in real life at a baseball park. The results showed that, contrary to what the show implied, the sound did not actually grow louder as a result of the megaphones being connected to each other; rather, the sound grew distorted due to a feedback loop.
Homer's Odyssey and Bart Gets Famous: Bart wreaks havoc during a field trip (Mrs. Krabappel mentions Bart causing trouble during the field trip to the local prison/Bart sneaks out of the box factory to go to Channel 6 Studios/Bart's megaphone stunt).
Bart the Lover: A Springfield Elementary School class watches low-budget, outdated black and white educational videos.
Marge Be Not Proud: Bart is ignored as part of a punishment (Marge doesn't tuck him in or let them be a part of the family's Christmas celebrations/Bart keeps telling Marge and Homer "I want to quit and come home", but they're more concerned with Lisa wanting to be in military school than Bart).
Separate Vocations and Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie: Bart's personality changes when he gets disciplined (becomes the school's no-nonsense hall monitor/becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after years of being banned from seeing The Itchy & Scratchy Movie/graduates from the military academy with a militant personality).
Lisa on Ice: Lisa is put in an all-male group (the hockey team/the military school)
Bart and Lisa go somewhere where children are physically and emotionally abused (Kamp Krusty/the military academy)
Adults cheering over kids (or a kid) getting sent away (the parents when the kids go to Kamp Krusty/Mrs. Krapabbel and Principal Skinner celebrating Bart being sent to military school).
Bart is promised something fun (a new mountain bike/a trip to Disneyland), only to realize it's a trap to punish him.
Bart is forced to go to another school as punishment.
Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song: A misdirected missile hits a distant target (the Kwik-E-Mart just as Apu and Sanjay are installing a gas station/Principal Skinner just as he's getting in his car)
Homer vs. Patty and Selma: reference to "Flavor Country" (Homer says he's "in flavor country" while smoking cigarettes/the military school commandant ends his introduction of the obstacle course with, "Gentlemen, welcome to Flavor Country").
Selma's Choice: Lisa's line, "Oh, my God. I'm delirious" when she thinks her friends will cheer her on as she makes her way across The Eliminator is similar to Marge's "Oh, my God. You're delirious!" when a food-poisoned Homer thinks watching Yentl is a great idea.
Summer of 4 Ft. 2: Lisa doesn't have friends, despite that she hangs out with Janey and two other girls.
As Chief Wiggum introduces the museum of crime, Milhouse is standing behind Wendell in the shot from the back. However, he is standing in front of Wendell in the shot from the front.
When Bart is driving a lawn mower and is pulled over by the police, Chief Wiggum is driving one of the police cars, even though he is inside telling Homer and Marge about sending Bart to military school.
During Bart's megaphone prank, a tan building turns blue for a frame.
'The Moon of Earth' movie shown in class is dated 1952. The flag shown at the end of the film with the astronauts has 50 stars, despite Alaska and Hawaii not becoming states until seven years later (1959). However the flag shown behind Adlai Stevenson is correct with 48 stars.
Frink without lines on his glasses
For most of Professor Frink's appearance, the lines on his glasses are missing, making them plain white.
When Lisa looks down from the Eliminator, the platform under her disappears.
When driving to Rommelwood, the car is Homer's Pink Sedan. However, upon leaving, it is the Orange Station Wagon. Later on, when Bart and Lisa graduate from the academy, they leave in the orange station wagon. On the road, it is the pink sedan, however. Later, when it turns out Homer and Marge were taking them them to the dentist rather than Disneyland, it's the orange station wagon again.
The Space race didn't begin until 1957 with the launch of Sputnik, while JFK was President from 1960 to when he was assassinated in 1963.
Even though all the glass in Springfield breaks after Bart's megaphone prank, the glass in Chief Wiggum's patrol cruiser and Homer's car, as well as Professor Frink's glasses, stay intact.
In the barracks, as the Commandant orders lights out, three of the beds are bare. However, when the lights briefly turn on again so the Commandant can safely exit, two of these three beds are suddenly made and occupied.
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The final draft for this episode was published on November 9, 1996.[1]
