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== Cultural references ==
*The episode title, and [[Bender]]'s appearance, are references to ''[[Futurama]]''.
*The {{w|screensaver}} on [[Professor Frink]]'s large video screen resembles the green-on-black waterfall display from ''[[The Matrix]]''.
*In the future, [[Superintendent Chalmers]] is shown to be wheelchair-bound and only able to say "[[Principal Skinner|Skinner]]!", similar to {{W2|Christopher Pike|Star Trek}} from ''[[Star Trek]]''.

=== Songs ===
*"{{w|I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)}}" by [[Donald Fagen]] is heard while [[Homer]] and [[Bart]] are cruising in Homer's hovercar.
*Heard at the prom:
**"{{w|Take On Me}}" by {{w|A-ha}}
**"{{W2|True|Spandau Ballet song}}" by {{w|Spandau Ballet}}
**"{{w|Bizarre Love Triangle}}" by {{w|New Order}}
**"{{W2|Incense and Peppermints|song}}" by {{w|Strawberry Alarm Clock}} is heard briefly when [[Ralph]] drinks the spiked punch.
*"{{W2|Sea of Love|song}}" by {{w|Phil Phillips}} plays when Homer and [[Marge]] kiss in Homer's undersea home.

== Trivia ==
*This is the 350th episode to air, despite the fact that officially "[[Don't Fear the Roofer]]" is the 350th.
*This episode takes place in the year 2013, 8 years from 2005, when the episode aired. Unsurprisingly, however, mid to late [[Season 24]] episodes (from "[[Homer Goes to Prep School]]" to "[[Dangers on a Train]]") have been set in 2013 like its broadcasting year (2012–2013) and so would early [[Season 25]] episodes (from "[[Homerland]]" to "[[White Christmas Blues]]") (2013–2014). The [[Season 26]] episode "[[The Man Who Came to Be Dinner]]" is also set in 2013 despite the episode premiered in 2015, that's because the episode was originally to be the Season 24 season finale, but "Dangers on a Train" aired instead.
**[[Homer]] is 46 years old, [[Marge]] is 44, [[Bart]] is 18, [[Lisa]] is 16 and [[Maggie]] is 9.
*This episode has had two sequels: "[[Holidays of Future Passed]]" and "[[Days of Future Future]]".
*At one point [[Bart]] gets bored and wants to see what else the future holds, the astrology machine acts and sounds like TiVo, one future event listed has [[Cletus]] as Vice President of the United States. Other options include [[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] invading Earth, [[Flanders]]' violent revenge on [[Homer]], [[Moe]] finally gets e-mail, [[Maggie]] getting arrested for DUI, and [[Lenny]] having a super pet.
*Near the beginning of the episode, [[Frink]] shows Bart and [[Lisa]] welcoming signs with their names on them, to prove he predicted their arrival at his lab. However, he hides an extra sign welcoming [[Maggie]], who didn't arrive, perhaps hinting that this vision into the future may not be accurate.
*This is the first time in the entire run of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' that Frink is called "Dr. Frink".
*The UK airing cuts out ‘Nobody is gay for [[Moleman]]’ line. 

=== Future events ===
:''Keep in mind due to the timelessness of the show, exact dates are disputable.''
*Maggie sends a video postcard from Alaska, which, due to global warming, has a climate similar to Florida. One polar bear survives long enough to try to attack Maggie.
*Milhouse is muscular and emotionally unstable, similar to The Incredible Hulk after Lisa dumps him, and goes on a rampage fighting off four "Robo-Cops" (see below).
*Skinner is principal of [[Springfield High School]], with [[Kearney]] as the very anti-drug assistant principal.
*[[Superintendent Chalmers]] is in a Christopher Pike-like persistent vegetative state after taking the drug [[Made-up words#stim|stim]]. All he can say is, "Skinner!"
*[[Nelson Muntz|Nelson]] impregnated [[Sherri]] and [[Terri]], who each gave birth to twins. He then deserts them both, similar to the way his own [[Mr. Muntz|father]] deserted him.
*The United States is in the midst of Gulf War V, "Operation: find our president's head".
*[[Moe Szyslak|Moe]] has a clone and a spider clone (because a spider entered the cloning machine). All three pursue Marge's love.
*[[Mr. Burns]], now a 112-year-old shut-in, sponsors a Yale scholarship as punishment for stealing Christmas. He keeps diamonds to have them changed into Earth's most precious mineral of the age: coal. His home is also guarded by a large group of unicorn-clam creatures ([[uni-clams]]).
*[[Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]] can use the toilet.
*Yale University is now owned by McDonald's and has banned men from taking science. It offers majors like "femis-try" and "gal-gebra"
*All the cops in [[Springfield]] have become {{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}s. [[Clancy Wiggum]] has a rotisserie in his belly.
*[[Waylon Smithers, Jr.|Smithers]] (who apparently is gay after all) ''is'' straight, as long as he takes special injections every ten minutes.
*[[Patty]] now has a fluffy tail because of plastic surgery.
*The U.S. Dollar has been replaced by the "Reagan". There is also a 51st state: [[Saudi Israelia]], and apes are trying to get the right to vote.
*Snake's weapon of choice is his phaser/cell phone.
*Genetically modified foods have led to smart puke, capable of moving on its own.
*Singers at prom night have been replaced with iPods. A-ha remains overplayed.
*[[Professor Frink|Prof. Frink]] seems to have hung himself; his skeleton hangs from a rafter in his basement.
*The garbage man uses a spaceship. (similar to the one from E.T.) It has to fly all the way up to move to the next house.)
*[[Blinky]] the three-eyed fish has hundreds of descendants; a three-eyed whale is even shown.
*Marriage has become a three-year commitment.
*Teens have a new social interaction: "getting some forehead" (head-butting).
*The [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] has three cooling towers.
*Jenda has had a sexual relationship with [[Todd Flanders]] in the past (while trying to get Bart to with her she proclaimed "Ugh, I never had this problem with Todd Flanders.")
*Scientists have invented magic, which allows people to do nearly anything. At the beginning of the episode, Marge takes a Polaroid photo of Bart and Lisa which transforms into a cake.
*Homer owns the first hovercar ever made, which has various imperfections.
*Sinks are operated by voice-command, although, when Jenda operates one, she has to use a sterner voice than usual.
*The now-elderly [[Apu]], and his eight children, manage the [[Kwik-E-Mart]]. [[The Octuplets]] now wear personal jet packs so they can torment staff members more easily.
*Quantum Tunnels (wormholes) exist and are used in lieu of vehicle tunnels; when Bart and Homer use one, they inadvertently pick up Bender from [[Futurama]].
*Homer is still taller than Bart, if only by as little as 1&nbsp;inch.

== Goofs ==
[[File:Grayear.jpg|thumb|Part of Snake's ear is gray]]
*When [[Marge]] calls to Bart and Lisa for their photo, she is holding a very small camera, but after they come down the stairs, the camera is much larger and is now the size of a Polaroid one, which from the back appears white, but is in fact black when viewed from the front. Also, Marge is seen to put the camera down somewhere to her left, but when the view changes, we can see there is no surface to put it on, and the camera is nowhere to be seen.
*Several of the characters—e.g. [[Apu]], [[Groundskeeper Willie|Willie]]—look a bit too old for only eight years to have passed, but it can be attributed to stress, especially for Apu. In addition, in the long shot of the school at the beginning of the prom, Willie's whiskers are red, but gray in close-up. The coloring error is repeated in a second long shot at the graduation ceremony.
*When Snake is talking about robbing a man who went to Princeton, part of his ear briefly turns gray.
*In the FOXCAST of this episode, the title is confused for the episode "[[Home Away from Homer]]", which aired two weeks after this episode.
*When Frink shows Lisa a picture of her shocked face after discovering that [[Milhouse]] caused the house fire, Lisa is shown with regular braces. However, in Season 4's "[[Last Exit to Springfield]]", Lisa has already been given braces, which are shown to be invisible.

== Continuity ==
*In many Simpsons episodes, notably "[[Homer Badman]]", Homer has wished to have an underwater home.
*[[Bart]]'s girlfriend [[Jenda]] (who breaks up with him during the episode) is later mentioned as his ex-wife in "[[Holidays of Future Passed]]", another future-set episode.



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