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Cultural references

• The episode is a parody of the 2019 British black comedy adventure film Get Duked!:
  • Its title is a reference to:
    • Get Duked!'s original title, Boyz in the Wood.
    • The Scottish Highlands in which the film is set and the location parodied during the episode.
    • And either to the song "Boyz-n-the-Hood" by Eazy-E, or the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood.
    • The title is also a reference to season 5 episode "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood".
  • Dolph, Nelson and Bart take the roles of Dean, Duncan, and DJ Beatroot, the three problematic students.
  • Willie takes the role of teacher Mr. Carlyle.
  • Martin takes the role of Ian Harris, the bookish student who wants to improve his college application.
  • The students and Madison take the roles of the masked Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and the other masked hunters.
• Patty, Selma and Maggie watch Flip This Bathroom, a parody of the American television series Flip This House.
• The song "Seymour Skinner" is sung to the tune of "The Duckworth Chant" (also called "Sound Off"), a classic military marching song.
• Dolph says that the name "Axel" is reserved for Axl Rose, lead vocalist of Guns N' Roses.
• When they find the canoe, Martin mentions Dame Fortune, the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion.
• Martin says the Satanists will slaughter every hair on Axel's "chinny chin chin", a reference to "The Three Little Pigs".
• Martin has a FatBit, a parody of the Fitbit.

Suffragette Monopoly is a parody of Monopoly and a reference to women's suffrage in the United States. The gold, white, and purple horizontal tricolor flag of the American suffrage movement can be seen on the box.

• Suffragette Monopoly is a parody of Monopoly and a reference to suffragette, more specifically to women's suffrage in the United States. The box includes the gold, white, and purple horizontal tricolor flag of the American suffrage movement.
  • The $100 note has a picture of Lucretia Mott on it, while the $50 note has a picture of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Both of them were notable suffragists in the United States.
• Other board games include:
  • Never Sorry!, a parody of Sorry!.
  • Pranksters of Catan, a parody of Settlers of Catan.
  • Soda-Land, a parody of Candy Land.
  • Connect One, a parody of Connect Four.
• Nelson quotes the Walt Whitman poem "Song of Myself" with the line "I contain multitudes."
• Nelson and Dolph find an Airbnb.
• "Everybody's Jumpin'" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, from the album Time Out, plays in the Airbnb.
  • The song is heard again right before the credits.
• Martin says that he watches Caillou, a Canadian animated children's TV series that focuses on a four-year-old boy named Caillou who is fascinated by the world around him.
• According to Martin, his grandmother Didi and her friend Carol live in Sanibel Island, Florida.
• Martin attends a Classical Greek club, takes waltzing lessons, and, to help him focus, takes Focusyn, a parody of Ritalin.
• One of Lisa's wishes for her only-child day was to do a "gender-blind" production of The Crucible, the 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. The Crucible tells the story of the Salem witch trials, where the vast majority of the accused were women.
• Madison is worried that she will not get the "Palme d'Gore", a pun on the Palme d'Or award and the Gore film genre.
• The descending pendulum blade is a reference to The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe.
• Martin says that the movement of the pendulum swings in the pattern of "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II. The song plays in the waltz scene.
• Madison sold essential oils on Facebook.
• Over the weekend, Homer, Marge, and Lisa watched Little Women on TV.

Trivia

• Martin's parents are revealed to be named Gareth and Gloria.
• This episode reveals a darker side to Martin's life. Specifically, that his parents force him to be an overachiever to the point where he sees two therapists and takes three different medications.

Continuity

• Homer wrote a poem called "Another Rapping Tomato", a sequel to his poem "Rapping Tomato" from "Moe'N'a Lisa".
• One of the medications that Martin takes is Focusyn. ("Brother's Little Helper")