Editing Bart of Darkness/References

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a pun on the novel ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' by {{W|Joseph Conrad}}.
*Part of the episode is a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock movie ''{{W|Rear Window}}'' starring [[Jimmy Stewart]]. A Jimmy Stewart look-alike also shown looking back at [[Bart]] through a telescope and later yells out for "Grace" and the other star of ''Rear Window'' is [[Grace Kelly]].
*When the statues in the [[Springfield Wax Museum]] melt, among them are the original cast of ''[[M*A*S*H]]''.
*When [[Ned]] walks upstairs carrying the axe, he is singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
*The first Klassic Krusty episode is dated February 6, 1961. [[Krusty]]'s guest was {{W|AFL-CIO}} chairman [[George Meany]].
*On the Krusty show, both the host and guest are smoking. This happened on interview shows in the 1960's.
*The song [[Martin]] sings at the end of the episode is "{{W|Summer Wind}}" by [[Frank Sinatra]].

== Trivia ==
*[[Nelson]] says that the {{W2|epidermis|skin}} is the hair when actually, it's the outer layer of the skin. This could be put down to Nelson being uneducated about it.
*An image of Bart spying people with the telescope become part of an internet meme template.

== DVD information ==
*[[The Complete Sixth Season]] Disc 1
*Run time: 21:57
*Scene selection
# Main title
# "Marge, can you set the oven to cold?"
# "Can we have a pool, dad?"
# "Great, I get to spend the summer with my brain"
# "Save Lisa, trash can or no trash can!"
# End credits
*Audio commentary featuring [[Matt Groening]], [[David Mirkin]], [[Jim Reardon]], [[David X. Cohen]], [[Greg Daniels]], and [[David Silverman]].
*Deleted scenes

== Goofs ==
*[[Hans Moleman]]'s cane switches hands, and his cane disappears.
*While in the tent, Bart is seen wearing shoes along with his underwear. Out of the tent, he isn't.
*The treehouse ladder disappears in one scene, and switches sides a couple of times.
*Bart's door is already wide open, yet when Lisa enters the room, we hear the sound of a door opening.
*Everybody can stand up in the pool, yet it's too tall for Lisa to get out when it's empty.
*As Bart watches Lisa walk by the rolltop desk in the Flanders home, it is already open. A few scenes later, we see Lisa opening it.
*The portable TV in Bart's room disappears.
*In the scene where Lisa runs into the attic as she dives behind the chest, she rattles a bird cage, later when Ned faints, you can see that the bird cage has disappeared.
*When Bart is watching Rod and Todd walk over to Ned Flanders, you can see their reflections on Bart's telescope. Their reflections do not match their actual positions.
*When Dr. Hibbert is seen in Bart's telescope, the people in the pictures don't have faces.
*When Bart looks at the universe, we see Earth even though that should be impossible, being on Earth.
*When Richard throws a beach ball at the camera, he has dark skin and black hair.
*When Marge and Homer swim naked in the pool, the dress hanging on the pool's edge has straps even though Marge's dress is normally strapless.
*As Bart adjusts the aim of his telescope, a white-colored section of the telescope turns black for a frame.
*In the widescreen version of the episode, as seen on [[Disney+]], [[Matt Groening]]'s name is misspelled as "Matt Gorening" in the Executive Producer credits.

== Continuity ==
*A mobile swimming pool (this one in a dump truck) also appears in the comic story ''[[Carpool Party]]''.

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