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Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a reference to the film Mr. Holland's Opus.
• Homer imagines Albert Einstein inventing the Led light up shoes.
• Lisa's fantasy Harvard boyfriend is a parody of Oliver Barrett IV from the movie Love Story. Lisa using magic by nose-twitching and accompanying sound effect are referencing TV show Bewitched. The man planting a sign on the crumble building is Harvard founder John Harvard.
• The Devil mentions Universal Studios and references the Flaming Moe drink being expensive there.
• In the song "Those Were the Days":
  • The song is a parody of the theme song for All in the Family.
  • Homer mentions Nirvana and What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
  • Marge mentions Jar Jar Binks and Qui-Gon Jinn characters from Star Wars.
  • Homer and Marge mention Richard Simmons.
• The sign "Harvard College Even Our Dropouts Are Billionaires" is a reference to Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard to found Microsoft.
• Pictures of Presidents Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, both Harvard graduates (class of 1904 and class of 1880 respectively), are hanging on the wall in the Harvard Admissions Office.
• Homer sings "By the Beautiful Sea" by Harry Carroll and Harold R. Atteridge when he starts to act like Grampa.
• "Remembering You" by Roger Kellaway, the end theme for All in the Family, plays during the end credits.
• Amazon Alexa forces college students to continue chugging Duff Beer at Harvard College.
• Homer mentions President Kid Rock.
• Lisa hangs a Marie Curie poster in her room at Harvard. It's the same poster Zia Simpson has in her Ultranet room.

Continuity

• The title screen is a Christmas version of "The Ned-liest Catch"'s.
• Lisa has a poster of the Doe-Eyed Boys on her bedroom wall. ("Friend with Benefit")
• Leon Kompowsky appears and sings new verses of "Happy Birthday, Lisa" with Bart. ("Stark Raving Dad")
• Grampa previously stated Homer stopped drinking in the future. ("Holidays of Future Passed")
• In Homer's vision, Moe brings back the Flaming Moe. ("Flaming Moe's")
• Homer and Marge sing a new version of "Those Were the Days". ("Lisa's Sax")

Goofs

• Abraham Simpson appears in coma. However, in "Barthood", he's dead.
• When Lisa is seen as a baby, Marge's hairstyle is the one she had in "That '90s Show", though she always had her hair up in a beehive since she was pregnant with Bart.
• The school bus says "Springfield Elementary School" though she's in high school, and Bart's hair changes.