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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the 1989 film The Fabulous Baker Boys.
• The billboard gag ("If you haven't sent your mother flowers, it's too darn late!") is a reference to the episode's original airdate (May 12, 2013) being Mother's Day.
• The episode's couch gag is based on the American adult stop motion-animated sketch comedy television series Robot Chicken.
  • Otto makes a reference to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift when he is racing against Homer.
• A picture of former president Richard Nixon can be seen on Skinner's office wall.
• Skinner wants Bart to "be more Casper the Friendly Ghost and less Dennis the Menace and Gnasher.
• America's Most Tattoed Baby is a parody of America's Most Talented Kid.
• Sideshow Mel plays the "Flight of the Bumblebee" on his slide whistle.

Some references to the science fiction franchise Dune can be seen and heard at The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop

• Some references to the science fiction franchise Dune can be seen and heard at The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop:
  • And Then There Were Dune is a parody of And Then There Were None.
  • Dune and Out in Beverly Hills is a parody of Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
  • Dune, Where's My Car? is a parody of Dude, Where's My Car?.
  • Also, Comic Book Guy mentions the fictional instrument "baliset" which Gurney Halleck masters in the Dune universe.
• Tonton in Paris is a reference to The Adventures of Tintin.
• Moe mentions having read the Babar the Elephant books when he was a kid and also mentions how Babar actually married his cousin Celeste.
• Jimbo creates a Newton's cradle with Milhouse, Martin, Database and Cosine in the school's playground.
• The song Zhenya sings on top of the piano in Bart's dream is a Russian translation of Walter Donaldson's and Gus Kahn's "Makin' Whoopee".
  • The scene itself is a parody of the scene in The Fabulous Baker Boys where Michelle Pfeiffer sings the song atop a piano.
  • The Kremlin and Lenin's tomb can be seen.
• Slava makes many jokes including Russian president Vladimir Putin.
• A sign saying "Free HBO with sanctuary" is seen at the Russian Embassy.

The ghosts of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are listening to Bart playing the piano

• The ghosts of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are listening to Bart playing the piano.
  • The piano solo Bart plays at the school show is Étude Op. 10, No. 12 (also known as the "Revolutionary Étude") by Frédéric Chopin.
• After asking Zhenya if she could teach Mr. Teeny how to play piano, Krusty mentions the Humane Society, which focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal-related cruelties of national scope.
• Homer wonders if Patrick Stewart is his guardian angel and could turn a pumpkin into a chariot. This is a reference to Cinderella. Homer also mentions the Toyota Camry.
• At the talent show Ralph sings Leslie Bricusse's and Anthony Newley's "The Candy Man".
• According to Slava, Russian dressing is just Thousand Island dressing. These are similar American salad dressing.
• The piano composition playing over the end credits is Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53.

Trivia

• In Latin America, this episode was released as the 18th episode of the season for unknown reasons.
• Robert Thies played all the Chopin works for this episode. He was uncredited.
• In the piano lesson, Zhenya says 'Every Good Boris Deserves Fun' (a version of the mnemonic for the note names on the lines of a stave in treble clef), but she is seen to play, and we hear, "EGADF".

Continuity

• Bart also used a recording when he played an instrument in Saxophony!.