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Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a reference to the 1957 Stanley Kubrick film 'Paths of Glory, starring Kirk Douglas.

Nelson's car has a reference to Fred Flintstone's famous catchphrase "Yabba Dabba Doo!"

• The cars the kids drive are powered using different technologies: Üter drives a hydrogen fuel cell car, Martin drives a car powered by wind energy (although the wind blew it away before the race started) and Lisa drives a solar-powered car.
  • Nelson drives a car that has written "Yabba-Dabba Dune Buggy" on it, a reference to Fred Flintstone's famous catchphrase "Yabba Dabba Doo!".
  • Lisa says she is "sun-made racin'!", a pun on Sun-Maid raisins.
• The boys tell Lisa to "stick to liberal arts" after she failed to win the race. Database tells her to go to Oberlin, while Kearney mentions Bates. Oberlin and Bates are both liberal arts colleges located in Ohio and Maine, respectively.
• Los Souvenir Jacquitos leader wears a Transformers jacket.
• Snoople is a parody of Google. The site with information about Amelia Vanderbuckle looks very similar to Wikipedia.
  • The composition "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin can be heard during the steam-powered barber chair video.
• Bart compares the Springfield Home for the Criminally Different with the "Banana Cabana". This is the fictional main set of the Almost Naked Animals animated series.
• Bart wears a Napoleon hat.
• Bart hangs upside down like a bat and quotes "Good evening" in a voice like Bela Lugosi's in his 1931 film Dracula when Lisa finds Amelia's wax cylinder.
  • In her recording, Amelia said she dated Nikola Tesla.
• Milhouse is surprised when Lisa is joining him to see his grandfather's Japanese swords collection, and he says Konnichi-whaaa...?!, a reference to the typical Japanese greeting Konnichi wa.
• Lisa and Milhouse make a reference to The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.
• A Susan B. Anthony statue can be seen at The Suffragette Society building. She played an important role during the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
• Knockers is a parody of Hooters.
• The manager at Knockers has to switch the restaurant's TV's to the NBA draft. He also mentions the Denver Nuggets.

Bart uses Suburban Dictionary, a parody of Urban Dictionary, to find the definition of "Sociopath"

• Suburban Dictionary is a parody of Urban Dictionary, an online dictionary for slang words and phrases.
• Bart whistles "Pop Goes the Weasel" when he delivers his test to Homer and Marge.
• "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne can be heard when Bart passes the "Sociopath Test" with a 100% score.
• Willie is angry at Knockers because they wouldn't open early in the morning to show the "World Caber Tossing Championship". Caber tossing is a traditional Scottish event in which competitors toss a large tapered pole called a "caber".
• The night Lisa, Milhouse and Willie were in the basement was a Monday Night Football.
• The nurse at the asylum resembles Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
  • She mentions the drugs Adderall and Zoloft.
• A reference to Gino's can be seen.
• Marie Curie and Velma Dinkley from Scooby-Doo are referenced by Kent Brockman.
• Carl mentions the Green Bay Packers and puts a cheesehead hat, which is what Packers fans wear at the games.
• The "Hello, World!" program was referenced by Amelia Vanderbuckle's computational loom.
• Punched cards are used by Lisa on the loom, a reference to the punched cards that programmed the Jacquard loom leading directly to the punched cards that programmed computers.
• Professor Frink mentions Charles Babbage, who is considered by some to be "father of the computer", and John von Neumann, who was also a founding figure in computing.
• Bart's war game simulation that turns out to be real is the plot of Ender's Game.
• When the general lists "suspicious weddings" among the targets blown up by the asylum kids it is a reference to the Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike.
  • He also mentions the Kabul Starbucks.
• There was a Thor exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Natural History.
• Homer jams in punch cards to make the loom create a weaving of a Pin-up model. He says admiringly, "Now, that is a loom with a view", a reference to the film A Room with a View.

Trivia

• Due to President Obama's presidential address about San Bernardino shooting, the episode was delayed by 15 minutes.^[1]
• Homer broke the fourth wall when he said "we did everything we could do for him during the commercials."

Continuity

• Ralph previously went to tap dancing lessons. ("Last Tap Dance in Springfield")
• The label-maker is used by Homer. ("Radio Bart")
• A moonbounce is used by Marge and Homer. ("The Bart Wants What It Wants")

Goofs

• When Lisa comes down to announce her achievements at the end of the episode, Bart's hair is overlapping with Marge's arm.

References