This Little Wiggy/References

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This Little Wiggy

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Trivia

• In the scene where Bart goes through several files in Chief Wiggum's police closet, he briefly shrudders when he finds the file for "Terwilliger, R."
• In the end credits it says that this episode was dedicated to the memory of Sunni Walton O'Neil, an animator for The Simpsons.

Previous Episode References

• Bart's line about Marge being in jail twice is a reference to the season three episode "Homer Alone" (where Marge was arrested for obstructing traffic after having a nervous breakdown and stopping her car in the middle of the road) and "Marge in Chains" (where Marge is put in jail for absentmindedly shoplifting bourbon).
• This episode is similar to season four's "I Love Lisa," in which a Simpson kid is friends with Ralph Wiggum.

Goofs

• When Skinner is introducing the robot to the class, Bart's desk is in the middle of the room. When Bart throws the apple to the man in the tree, he's sitting next to the window.
• Edna Krabappel is missing when the Robot entered the room.
• When Homer is playing the "Let's Make a Baby" video game: the announcer says "You are out of sperm." The closed captioning reads, "Your score is zero."
• When the Simpsons are at the museum, Bart says he's going to go toss the virtual salad, but the closed captioning says "I'm going to crawl inside the Invisible Frenchman."
• When Bart looks through the police records, he finds Homer's and comments, "Wow, Homer's been in jail six times." Originally, the line after that was, "Aw, he killed a swan at the zoo," but the line was changed to "Aw, Mom's only been in jail twice." The resulting line change raises questions of how Marge's arrest information can be on Homer's police record.
• Bart, Lisa and Homer know some of the things in the Knowledgeum [such as the virtual salad, the giant book and the sex education computer] despite that they've never been there before and the place just opened.
• Bart has played with Ralph in the past, as seen in "Homer at the Bat" and "Bart's Girlfriend," so why would be be adverse to going on a playdate with him?
• Bart was stuck in Ralph's Chinese finger trap at the end of act one, but at the start of act two, Ralph got the finger trap stuck on his tongue.
• Ralph doesn't have, nor need a bunkbed, as he's an only child, meaning that Bart didn't need a sleeping bag.