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Bart the Mother

• When Bart takes out the light bulb, Homer is seen falling down the stairs to the basement. The basement door is located next to the stairs to the second floor of the house. However, in Lisa the Skeptic, we see that Homer tries to stick a skeleton in a closet at the same location.
• When the tree lizards hatch, all the family runs to the nearby table, however, Homer left the refrigerator open, when the camera zooms to him, he is standing in front of the fridge, but the door has been closed.
• During the showdown at the ranch, the bandit is "shooting" at Homer, who checks his watch. His watch, which he wasn't wearing before or after the shootout.

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsCulturalS10':

• Homer: (to Marge) "Who am I? Kreskin?" When Marge is puzzling about what Bart might be doing in his tree-house she asks Homer what he thinks, and in a very short quip he mentions Kreskin. George Kresge, better known as "The Amazing Kreskin," (b. January 12, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey) is a mentalist, popular on North American television in the 1970s and still busy as a live performer. He appears annually on New Years Day on CNN to give his predictions for the upcoming year. Perhaps his best known trick is finding the check for his performance fee, which he instructs his hosts to hide before each show. He has only failed to find the check nine times.
• The scene where Abe and Jasper are sitting on a bench laughing is taken directly from the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-head.
• The end title for Mr. Burns' promo for the the Nuclear Power Plant reads, "An Alan Smithee Film" - from 1968 until 1999, this was a pseudonym used by producers who wanted to dissociate themselves from a movie they had lost creative control over.
• Grampa and Jasper after drinking the "juice" that Homer had made them act like Beavis and Butthead.
• Hospital intercom System: "Doc Martens to Podiatry"
• "Doc Martens" is a famous shoe brand. A doctor of the same name works in the podiatry department of the Springfield Hospital. Podiatry, a branch of medicine dealing with the foot, would be a fitting match for a doctor named after a shoe.
• The name Homer picks out for Marge, "Chesty LaRue," was also a name used for Elaine by Jerry on Seinfeld when a button on her shirt fell off, exposing cleavage.
• "Dash Dingo", the video game Lisa becomes addicted to, is a parody of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. The music that plays when the game starts is exactly like the music when the Crash game starts. Also, the evil floating Australian head is a parody of the Crash games' villain, Doctor Neo Cortex. The game also revolves around finding and devouring "seven crystal babies", referencing the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance and the Chaos Emeralds from the Sonic the Hedgehog series (Dash Dingo needs the same number of crystal babies as there are Chaos Emeralds).
  • Fever - Mrs. Krabappel sings this song, dancing naked to pink balloons all over her body (She pops them one by one with a pin as the song goes on).
• The song "Luke be a Jedi" is a parody of the song "Luck be a Lady" from Guys and Dolls.
• The maître d' at the dinner theater is patterned after Frank Nelson, a character actor who had a recurring role on The Jack Benny Program and later appeared on "I Love Lucy".
• When the bodyguard instructor lays on top of the wagon that has a green mound on it holding a sniper rifle, it parodies the grassy knoll theory of the Kennedy assassination.
• Among those signing autographs are Gort, from the Day the Earth Stood Still, Doctor Who, and Godzilla.

Simpsons Bible Stories

• In the Moses segment, Chief Wiggum resembles Edward G. Robinson's character from The Ten Commandments.
• The scene where Marge/Eve is making tools is similar to a scene in the Dawn of Man sequence from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• When Nelson/Golitah falls off the tower parodies the way King Kong falls off the Empire State Building in the 1933 film.
• As the Simpsons go into Hell, the AC/DC song Highway to Hell is playing.
• The seniors at the retirement castle watch a seniors-edited (and redubbed) version of Gone with the Wind.The movie was almost sixty years old when this episode aired.
• The title is a take on Thomas Edison's nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park," which was his home.

Thirty Minutes over Tokyo

• The gameshow which the Simpsons take part in to win tickets back home is an extremely over the top parody of Japanese gameshows. Although not even close to being as brutal as depicted in this episode, Japanese gameshows are notorious for being very unusual, some demanding a lot of awkward physical activity from its participants. Of partial note is the passing resemblance of the bridge over the volcano to the Takeshi's Castle game bridge ball
• In the scene at Moe's Tavern, when Barney is impersonating Homer, one of the phrases he says is "That boy ain't right!" This is a phrase Hank Hill often said on King of the Hill to describe his son, Bobby.
• The episode's title is a reference to a song by Pere Ubu called "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" or to the 1944 film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Both the film and the song are based on the quick US bombardments on Tokyo during the Second World War, called Dolittle Raid.
• The fish that Bart kills during his job in Osaka is a reference to the fable The Fisherman and His Wife.
• Americatown features pictures of the Kool-Aid Man, Uncle Sam, and Elvis on the sign. It's decorated with other pictures of a star, a gun, a pie, a guitar, a baseball bat, and a baseball. Inside animatronic figures are seen: E.T. seems to be pointing up Marilyn Monroe's flying skirt, Abe Lincoln dances with the Statue of Liberty, and Muhammad Ali fighting Neil Armstrong.
• When Marge says to Homer on the plane that she liked Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, Homer claims he doesn't remember it that way. The underlying joke is that this famous film is about people remembering different things about the same event.
• The Battling Seizure Robots is a reference to the Pokémon episode Electric Soldier Porygon. The flashing lights (caused by an exploding rockets attack) during that episode caused seizures throughout Japan, resulted in the brief hospitalization of hundreds of children, especially those with epilepsy. The episode was later banned, though nowadays, most countries often include a warning about some TV programmes containing flashing images that might affect epileptic viewers.
• The square watermelon Homer buys is a reference to the real ones that exist in Japan.
• One of the lights (seatbelt, smoking) on the plane is Godzilla and lights when he attacks.
• Lisa spots the Hello Kitty factory.
• Chuck Garabedian is a real name of a talk show host in Milwaukee, WI.
• "Hell Toupée" is loosely based on the Wes Craven film Shocker, as well as the Amazing Stories episode also called "Hell Toupée." The ending, spoofing the horror convention of the ever-undying villain, specifically parodies the end of the 1988 film Child's Play, about a doll, Chucky, inhabited by the soul of a serial killer, plus that take its ending. Also, the plot's aspect of an innocent patient having serial killer parts transplanted onto them is very similar to 1991's Body Parts, directed by Eric Red.
• The ripples in their water when the crowd of people come is a reference to Jurassic Park.

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsWritersS10':

• Larru Doyle

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsCouchGagsS10':

• The family attempts to sit on the couch, but it moves backwards and they fall to the floor. Nelson, pointing his finger at the family, says, "Haw haw!"

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsGuestsS10':

• Ed Begley, Jr. as himself

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsTriviaS10':

• This is the last episode in which Phil Hartman appears, as Troy McClure. Hartman was murdered earlier in 1998, and so the producers dedicated this episode to him.
• One of this episode's guest stars is George Carlin. In a previous episode, Krusty the Clown is told he's being sued by Carlin for plagiarizing "The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television."
• The title "Lisa Gets an A" parodies the title of the second-season opener of the show, "Bart Gets an F", as does another second-season title, "Bart's Dog Gets an F".
• In this episode it is revealed that the school was called the worst school in Missouri, supposedly revealing which state Springfield is in, causing Lisa and Principal Skinner to react in astonishment at the fact that the location has been revealed, but immediately afterward it is said that the school was moved "brick by brick" to its current, still unknown, location.
• This episode was rated TV-14 DL, the second time for The Simpsons.
• Nessie appears to work at the casino created in the earlier episode, $pringfield.
• The song playing over the end credits is Highway to Hell by AC/DC.
• This episode took place around the time of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. This is referenced in the audio splicing in the bar, "I hear President Clinton (muffled) is going to be there with his wife Hillary, the producers suggesting that they did not know who would be in office when the episode aired.
• The song that is played while Homer waits for his car is the popular "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Coincidentally, Julius Wechter, who wrote that tune, died the next day when the episode first aired.
• Although a Japanese-dub of The Simpsons has been produced for many years, this episode has never aired in Japan. According to the DVD commentary for "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", this episode didn't air in Japan because of the scene where Homer hurls the Emperor of Japan into a pile of used "sumo thongs."
• In the Japanese version of the series, Homer usually says "D'oh" as opposed to the phrase heard in this episode, (shimatta-baka-ni or damn it stupid!) but when the subtitle is shown it reads D'oh.
• The origami crane scene with the "last million yen" makes the value of a million yen look trivial, but in reality one million yen are worth approximately 8 to 9 thousand U.S. Dollars, depending on the current exchange rate.
• After Battling Seizure Robots goes to commercial a brief photo of the reporter interviewing the 2 headed cow from In Marge We Trust appears.
• The haiku Lisa reads isn't in traditional Japanese form of 5-7-5 syllables.
• Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford appeared as live-action guests as themselves in this episode, a Simpsons first, and the second time live-action has been used in a Simpsons episode. The first time was at the end of Treehouse of Horror VI.
• Homer correctly states Adolf Hitler's birthday as April 20 and identifies it with Barney's which is the same day in the scene where Flanders and Homer are at the roulette table. Because the Columbine High School Shootings were intentionally executed on that date, the line was changed in several rebroadcast versions to June 15, same as Lassie's (the line about Lassie's birthday was in the closed captions of the original version and the syndicated versions). The syndicated versions have the original line about Hitler's birthday.
• Ned's age is revealed to be 60. However, in "Hurricane Neddy", he is seen in a flashback from thirty years ago, when he was still a kid.

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsGoofsS10':

• When Bart takes out the light bulb, Homer is seen falling down the stairs to the basement. The basement door is located next to the stairs to the second floor of the house. However, in Lisa the Skeptic, we see that Homer tries to stick a skeleton in a closet at the same location. (Bart the Mother)
• When the tree lizards hatch, all the family runs to the nearby table, however, Homer left the refrigerator open, when the camera zooms to him, he is standing in front of the fridge, but the door has been closed. (Bart the Mother)
• During the showdown at the ranch, the bandit is "shooting" at Homer, who checks his watch. His watch, which he wasn't wearing before or after the shootout. (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsDirectorsS10':

• "I'm so very tired" (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsCulturalS10':

• As the Simpsons go into Hell, the AC/DC song Highway to Hell is playing. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
• Chuck Garabedian is a real name of a talk show host in Milwaukee, WI. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• Lisa spots the Hello Kitty factory. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• The Battling Seizure Robots is a reference to the Pokémon episode Electric Soldier Porygon. The flashing lights (caused by an exploding rockets attack) during that episode caused seizures throughout Japan, resulted in the brief hospitalization of hundreds of children, especially those with epilepsy. The episode was later banned, though nowadays, most countries often include a warning about some TV programmes containing flashing images that might affect epileptic viewers. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• The gameshow which the Simpsons take part in to win tickets back home is an extremely over the top parody of Japanese gameshows. Although not even close to being as brutal as depicted in this episode, Japanese gameshows are notorious for being very unusual, some demanding a lot of awkward physical activity from its participants. Of partial note is the passing resemblance of the bridge over the volcano to the Takeshi's Castle game bridge ball (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• The name Homer picks out for Marge, "Chesty LaRue," was also a name used for Elaine by Jerry on Seinfeld when a button on her shirt fell off, exposing cleavage. (Homer to the Max)
• The square watermelon Homer buys is a reference to the real ones that exist in Japan. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• The title is a take on Thomas Edison's nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park," which was his home. (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
• When Marge says to Homer on the plane that she liked Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, Homer claims he doesn't remember it that way. The underlying joke is that this famous film is about people remembering different things about the same event. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• When Nelson/Golitah falls off the tower parodies the way King Kong falls off the Empire State Building in the 1933 film. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
• "Dash Dingo", the video game Lisa becomes addicted to, is a parody of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. The music that plays when the game starts is exactly like the music when the Crash game starts. Also, the evil floating Australian head is a parody of the Crash games' villain, Doctor Neo Cortex. The game also revolves around finding and devouring "seven crystal babies", referencing the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance and the Chaos Emeralds from the Sonic the Hedgehog series (Dash Dingo needs the same number of crystal babies as there are Chaos Emeralds). (Lisa Gets an "A")
• "Hell Toupée" is loosely based on the Wes Craven film Shocker, as well as the Amazing Stories episode also called "Hell Toupée." The ending, spoofing the horror convention of the ever-undying villain, specifically parodies the end of the 1988 film Child's Play, about a doll, Chucky, inhabited by the soul of a serial killer, plus that take its ending. Also, the plot's aspect of an innocent patient having serial killer parts transplanted onto them is very similar to 1991's Body Parts, directed by Eric Red. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
• "Doc Martens" is a famous shoe brand. A doctor of the same name works in the podiatry department of the Springfield Hospital. Podiatry, a branch of medicine dealing with the foot, would be a fitting match for a doctor named after a shoe. (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
  • Fever - Mrs. Krabappel sings this song, dancing naked to pink balloons all over her body (She pops them one by one with a pin as the song goes on). (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
• Americatown features pictures of the Kool-Aid Man, Uncle Sam, and Elvis on the sign. It's decorated with other pictures of a star, a gun, a pie, a guitar, a baseball bat, and a baseball. Inside animatronic figures are seen: E.T. seems to be pointing up Marilyn Monroe's flying skirt, Abe Lincoln dances with the Statue of Liberty, and Muhammad Ali fighting Neil Armstrong. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• Among those signing autographs are Gort, from the Day the Earth Stood Still, Doctor Who, and Godzilla. (Mayored to the Mob)
• Homer: (to Marge) "Who am I? Kreskin?" When Marge is puzzling about what Bart might be doing in his tree-house she asks Homer what he thinks, and in a very short quip he mentions Kreskin. George Kresge, better known as "The Amazing Kreskin," (b. January 12, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey) is a mentalist, popular on North American television in the 1970s and still busy as a live performer. He appears annually on New Years Day on CNN to give his predictions for the upcoming year. Perhaps his best known trick is finding the check for his performance fee, which he instructs his hosts to hide before each show. He has only failed to find the check nine times. (Bart the Mother)
• Hospital intercom System: "Doc Martens to Podiatry" (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
• In the Moses segment, Chief Wiggum resembles Edward G. Robinson's character from The Ten Commandments. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
• In the scene at Moe's Tavern, when Barney is impersonating Homer, one of the phrases he says is "That boy ain't right!" This is a phrase Hank Hill often said on King of the Hill to describe his son, Bobby. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• One of the lights (seatbelt, smoking) on the plane is Godzilla and lights when he attacks. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• The end title for Mr. Burns' promo for the the Nuclear Power Plant reads, "An Alan Smithee Film" - from 1968 until 1999, this was a pseudonym used by producers who wanted to dissociate themselves from a movie they had lost creative control over. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
• The episode's title is a reference to a song by Pere Ubu called "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" or to the 1944 film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Both the film and the song are based on the quick US bombardments on Tokyo during the Second World War, called Dolittle Raid. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• The fish that Bart kills during his job in Osaka is a reference to the fable The Fisherman and His Wife. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• The maître d' at the dinner theater is patterned after Frank Nelson, a character actor who had a recurring role on The Jack Benny Program and later appeared on "I Love Lucy". (Mayored to the Mob)
• The ripples in their water when the crowd of people come is a reference to Jurassic Park. (When You Dish upon a Star)
• The scene where Abe and Jasper are sitting on a bench laughing is taken directly from the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-head. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
• The scene where Marge/Eve is making tools is similar to a scene in the Dawn of Man sequence from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
• The seniors at the retirement castle watch a seniors-edited (and redubbed) version of Gone with the Wind.The movie was almost sixty years old when this episode aired. (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
• The song "Luke be a Jedi" is a parody of the song "Luck be a Lady" from Guys and Dolls. (Mayored to the Mob)
• When the bodyguard instructor lays on top of the wagon that has a green mound on it holding a sniper rifle, it parodies the grassy knoll theory of the Kennedy assassination. (Mayored to the Mob)
• Grampa and Jasper after drinking the "juice" that Homer had made them act like Beavis and Butthead. (D'oh-in in the Wind)

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsWritersS10':

• Larru Doyle (Treehouse of Horror IX)

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsCouchGagsS10':

• The family attempts to sit on the couch, but it moves backwards and they fall to the floor. Nelson, pointing his finger at the family, says, "Haw haw!" (Lard of the Dance)

Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsTriviaS10':

• After Battling Seizure Robots goes to commercial a brief photo of the reporter interviewing the 2 headed cow from In Marge We Trust appears. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• Although a Japanese-dub of The Simpsons has been produced for many years, this episode has never aired in Japan. According to the DVD commentary for "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", this episode didn't air in Japan because of the scene where Homer hurls the Emperor of Japan into a pile of used "sumo thongs." (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• In the Japanese version of the series, Homer usually says "D'oh" as opposed to the phrase heard in this episode, (shimatta-baka-ni or damn it stupid!) but when the subtitle is shown it reads D'oh. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• One of this episode's guest stars is George Carlin. In a previous episode, Krusty the Clown is told he's being sued by Carlin for plagiarizing "The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television." (D'oh-in in the Wind)
• The haiku Lisa reads isn't in traditional Japanese form of 5-7-5 syllables. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• The origami crane scene with the "last million yen" makes the value of a million yen look trivial, but in reality one million yen are worth approximately 8 to 9 thousand U.S. Dollars, depending on the current exchange rate. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
• This episode was rated TV-14 DL, the second time for The Simpsons. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
• Homer correctly states Adolf Hitler's birthday as April 20 and identifies it with Barney's which is the same day in the scene where Flanders and Homer are at the roulette table. Because the Columbine High School Shootings were intentionally executed on that date, the line was changed in several rebroadcast versions to June 15, same as Lassie's (the line about Lassie's birthday was in the closed captions of the original version and the syndicated versions). The syndicated versions have the original line about Hitler's birthday. (Viva Ned Flanders)
• In this episode it is revealed that the school was called the worst school in Missouri, supposedly revealing which state Springfield is in, causing Lisa and Principal Skinner to react in astonishment at the fact that the location has been revealed, but immediately afterward it is said that the school was moved "brick by brick" to its current, still unknown, location. (Lisa Gets an "A")
• Ned's age is revealed to be 60. However, in "Hurricane Neddy", he is seen in a flashback from thirty years ago, when he was still a kid. (Viva Ned Flanders)
• Nessie appears to work at the casino created in the earlier episode, $pringfield. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
• The song playing over the end credits is Highway to Hell by AC/DC. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
• The song that is played while Homer waits for his car is the popular "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Coincidentally, Julius Wechter, who wrote that tune, died the next day when the episode first aired. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
• The title "Lisa Gets an A" parodies the title of the second-season opener of the show, "Bart Gets an F", as does another second-season title, "Bart's Dog Gets an F". (Lisa Gets an "A")
• This episode took place around the time of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. This is referenced in the audio splicing in the bar, "I hear President Clinton (muffled) is going to be there with his wife Hillary, the producers suggesting that they did not know who would be in office when the episode aired. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
• This is the last episode in which Phil Hartman appears, as Troy McClure. Hartman was murdered earlier in 1998, and so the producers dedicated this episode to him. (Bart the Mother)
• Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford appeared as live-action guests as themselves in this episode, a Simpsons first, and the second time live-action has been used in a Simpsons episode. The first time was at the end of Treehouse of Horror VI. (Treehouse of Horror IX)