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Cultural references[edit]

A kid on the bus has a shirt that says "Frankie Says: Relax".

• The episode title is a pun on the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
• Stabby-Oh's are a parody of Lucky Charms.
• When Marge is getting Bart and Lisa ready for school, "Sabre Dance" by Aram Khachaturian plays.
• During the scene where Marge chases the school bus, Milhouse says, "It's like Speed 2! Only with a bus instead of a boat!", off-handedly summarizing the plot of the original film, Speed.
• The bottom of the school bus is designed like a World Industries skateboard.
• The white T-shirt with the phrase "Frankie says: relax" that is seen worn by a boy on the school bus is a reference to the song "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
• When Bart and Milhouse are making unkind comments about Francine Rhenquist on her first day at Springfield Elementary School, Milhouse says, "Yeah, she thinks she's Babe: Pig in the City, referring to the second movie about Babe the pig.
• The "dingo alarm" included in the baby safety equipment refers to a 1980 Australian case where a mother claimed a dingo stole her baby.
• While in grade school, Homer bullied Waylon Smithers while singing "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas with Barney accompanying him on a recorder.
• The "Grad-Student Glamour Pack" Malibu Stacy has a book for Pepperdine University.
• The song playing during the baby-proofing montage is "Always Safety First" by NRBQ.
• Homer sings "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats.
• Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is in the audience for the 12th Annual Big Science Thing.
• As Lisa illustrates her nerd-bully theory, she presents an image showing a bully up in a tree throwing an apple at Sir Isaac Newton's head, a reference to Newton's "apple incident."
• The prize for winning the 12th Annual Big Science Thing is a gift certificate for JCPenney's.

Trivia[edit]

• Dr. Hibbert's child isn't one of his usual children he's seen with, implying it could be another relative's child.
• Francine breaks the fourth wall by lunging at the camera at the end of the episode.

Goofs[edit]

• When Otto and Marge start to drag race, the girl with glasses is missing her glasses and Janey is colored yellow.
• Bart's shadow is seen on the school bus while drag racing, despite being in Marge's car.
• In Homer's grade school flashback where he is beating up a young Waylon Smithers, the musical instrument Barney is shown playing is a recorder, but the sound produced is that of a kazoo.
• Lisa has four Indian burns, then three, then four again.
• Francine has a nose clip in the swimming pool scene on CCTV. It disappears when Lisa puts it forward, but then it reappears and she then says "Of course. The nose clips."
• When Drederick Tatum is giving a talk in Bart's classroom, Lewis is colored yellow.

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