Little Girl in the Big Ten/References

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References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 13 Episode References
← 288 "The Sweetest Apu"	289 "Little Girl in the Big Ten"	"The Frying Game" 290 →

Cultural references

• When spying on Lisa, Database says he feels like Harriet the Spy.
• When Lisa says "Ich bin ein Gymnast" ("I am a gymnast"), it is a reference to John F. Kennedy's words in West Berlin in 1963, "Ich bin ein Berliner."
• In Lisa's dream, John F. Kennedy speaks with the Boston accent for which he was known, including pronouncing "Lisa" as "Liser" and "vigor" as "vigah."

Trivia

• According to this episode, Principal Skinner has been an interim principal for 20 years.
• The gym teacher says that Coach Lugash "defected into East Germany." But in the episode "Children of a Lesser Clod," Lugash is said to have escaped from East Germany by cartwheeling over the Berlin Wall.
• In the part with the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, you see Itchy pour the butter on the toast and Scratchy's eyes are no where to be seen but in the next shot, Itchy's takes a bite out of one of Scratchy's eyes.
• When Homer is throwing the frisbee to get Bart out of the tree, we see the pieces of wood nailed onto the tree for Bart's treehouse, but then moments later they are gone, so that Lisa can use her gymnastics to get to the top.
• When Bart is eating (slurping) his soup in the bubble, Homer gets mad and fills Bart's bubble with water. When Homer picks up the bubble, the soup is no where to be seen.
• Skinner is the only one to get chocolate cake splattered on him.
• One of the girls in Lisa's gymnastics class jumped out the window just as Lisa got there, but about a minute later, the girl that jumped out the window is on the balance beam. She could have come in during Lisa's hallucination.
• The night that Lisa sneaks out to go to the poetry reading, as Homer walks by the kids rooms saying goodnight, Bart and Lisa's rooms seem to have switched positions.
• Skinner's estimated life as listed on the plaque is "1953-2010" making him only 57 when he dies.
• Sherri and Terri are participating in the 2nd grade gymnastics class but they're in the 4th grade.

Notes

• It is revealed in this episode that Moleman is 80 years old.
• The Itchy and Scratchy episode's production code was DABF06 which is really the production code for an episode of The Simpons entitled "The Bart Wants What it Wants".

Goofs

• The dining room is where the downstairs closet should be.
• When she gets dragged off, Agnes' mouth was closed when she started talking.