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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the TV series Pretty Little Liars.
• Marge is hosting book club with A Farewell to Arm by Ernest Hemingway.
• Agnes says to Cletus that Brandine is Jeopardy! smart, while Cletus asks her if she's Celebrity Jeopardy! smart.
  • When she shows him the library card, the opening to Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" is plucked by a banjo.
• Lisa reports on the Matilda effect, using Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin and Jocelyn Bell Burnell as an example, their picture shown on the board.
• Miss Hoover uses Oogle, a parody of Google.
• Brandine drinks Southern Discomfort, a parody of Southern Comfort.
• Brandine reads the book Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray. The front cover says that it's not based on the TV show, a reference to Grey's Anatomy.
• "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky plays at the ballet scene and the scene where Brandine wants to leave the Simpson house.
• Among the books Lisa brings to Brandine are The Red and the Black by Stendhal, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.
• During the flashback to when Brandine met Cletus, "Winter" from "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi plays.
• Shauna calls Lisa a Little Miss Google Noodle.
• The League of Extraordinary Geniuses is a reference to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
• At the League of Extraordinary Geniuses:
  • Beethoven's "Piano Sonata No. 14 plays.
  • Posters for Srinivasa Ramanujan, Marie Curie and Isaac Newton are seen.
  • A character resembling Schroeder from Peanuts plays the piano.
• The nerds play Wheel of Fortune on TV to distract the bullies.
• Brandine mentions more names for the Spuckler children, named after the companies Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson. These are all different COVID-19 vaccines.
• The Hillbilly Pica-ture Palace's sign says it has everything from A-Yup to ZZ Top.
• One of the exhibits at the Hillbilly Pica-ture Palace is sponsored by Mountain Doo, a parody of Mountain Dew.
• One of the oppressive terms for hillbillies is "NASCAR Fan".
• The Hillfolk in Media exhibit includes statues of Ernest P. Worrell, Daisy May Moses being carried by Jethro Bodine from The Beverly Hillbillies, Looney Tunes characters Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn, Colonel Sanders of KFC, Hank Hill from King of the Hill and former president Bill Clinton.
• "Goodbye Time" by Conway Twitty plays during Brandine's "farewell" scenes.
• Brandine listened to {{W|NPR}] podcasts.
• The "I am Smartacus" scene is a reference to a similar scene in Spartacus.
• Cletus' first book is Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
• Lenny learned to play as Elton John, while Moe, Sam, Barney and Carl learned to play as The Beatles.
• Cletus presents the book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and the film series film series, at Cletus on Books.

Trivia

• Oppressive terms for hillbillies include: Redneck, Hillbilly, Cracker, Backwoods Bubba, Gator Dater, NASCAR Fan, Florida Man, and Tornado Bait.

Continuity

• Homer tells Marge that he got Elton John back. ("I'm with Cupid")