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Cultural references

Diggs' arm cast

• The episode is a parody of Catcher in the Rye^[1]
• Marge says the mental hospital Diggs is staying at is an Arkham Asylum type of place referencing Arkham Asylum from the DC Comics.
• The episode makes various allusions to the novel "A Separate Peace". Particularly, Diggs's leap off of the tree branch, Brinker Hadley's signature on Digg's cast, and the mental breakdown of a loner and outsider (Leper Lepellier).
• Some of the names on Diggs's cast:
  • Cthulhu
  • TARDIS and Dalek #7 from Doctor Who.
  • Alan Turing, inventor of the Turing Machine.
  • Phineas Fogg, most likely intended to be Phileas Fogg from Around the World in Eighty Days.
  • Kilgore Trout, a fictional character created by writer Kurt Vonnegut.
  • Oedipa Maas and Dr. Hilarius from The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.
  • Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.
  • Clare Quilty from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
  • Brinker Hadley from A Separate Peace.
  • William Wharton, an author.
  • Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce's literary alter-ego.
  • Major T. J. "King" Kong from Dr. Strangelove.
  • John Swartzwelder, former writer, producer and consultant for The Simpsons.
• The song playing while Bart and Diggs are having fun is "Come Saturday Morning" performed by The Sandpipers.
• The poem that Diggs quotes while Bart and Diggs sit in the tree and also when he releases all of the falcons is "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Trivia

• Skinner speaks Esperanto.

Continuity

• Bart once again displays his ability to swallow various inedible objects "They Saved Lisa's Brain".

References