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Cultural references
- The title of the episode is a reference to the children's book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1957.
- During the title screen gag, US presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington traveling by air balloons collide with each other, a reference to their separate February holidays being combined into one called Presidents' Day.
- During the couch gag:
- Bart says he could have sold the sailboat painting on Craigslist.
- The couch gag is based on Robot Chicken. Homer interacts with parodies of the children from South Park and with the The California Raisins.
- The Nerd from Robot Chicken says he has won a Ziploc full of Jonathan Frakes' beard trimmings. Frakes is known for his work in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Lisa is hanging a picture of Girl with a Pearl Earring in replacement of the sailboat painting.
- The scene of Bart and Lisa telling the story from the couch is a reference to the film When Harry Met Sally....
- Killing Nemo is a reference to the movie Finding Nemo.
- Bart is playing the war videogame "Anzio Beach Invasion". The Battle of Anzio was one major battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II.
- On Bart's game, the Wilhelm Scream is heard.
- When Lisa tries on her hat, the song "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys plays.
- Donald Trump appears and is transformed into a troll by Lisa on a unicorn.
- Jasper Beardsley calls Homer "Blobby Fisher", a reference to the American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer.
- Bobby Fisher is later referenced on a flyer.
- Homer calls the Knight "Dr. Horse", a reference to Dr. House.
- Homer applies the Budapest Gambit opening to beat Jasper.
- Bart can not believe how Homer knows the rules of chess when he can't even remember the rules of Chutes and Ladders.
- The Lacrymosa movement from Mozart's Requiem can be heard during the flashback of Homer and Abe playing chess. The composition is repeated several times throughout the episode.
- Clancy shows Lisa pictures of a bowler, a 10 gallon hat, a chef hat, a fedora, a top hat, a pork pie hat, the hat of Robin Hood, a pith helmet, a Fez, a Cheesehead hat, and a Valkyrie hat from the Springfield PD mug shot book of hats.
- Each mug shot shows the hat in frontal and profile views.
- Lisa is eating a plate of Not-So-Cheerios, a parody of Cheerios.
- Marge mentions Madeline and the book series. She also mentions Pepito, a supporting character.
- Homer performs chess positions by Mikhail Botvinnik and Paul Morphy.
- Barney says Homer plays chess like "Polugaevsky at Mar del Plata". Lev Polugaevsky won two Mar del Plata chess tournaments.
- The books seen when Homer was taking chess classes:
- Masters of Checks is a reference to Masters of Sex.
- Boogie Knights - Chess in the Disco Era, is a reference to the film Boogie Nights.
- Why Can't Black Move First? written by Malcom X, the African American human rights activist.
- The Chess professor's son is playing with a Rubik's Cube.
- In the flashback, a Kit-Cat Klock is seen on the wall. Homer repeats its side-to-side eye movement several times in the episode.
- In the The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode "The Garfield Assassination", Itchy wears a Garfield costume.
- The episode title is a pun on the assassination of James A. Garfield.
- Bart offers Lisa compact discs of The Poems of Emily Dickinson read by Elizabeth Warren.
- Moe says he surfed an alt-suicide Subreddit.
- Marge contacts Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen using Skype.
- Homer and Carlsen mention playing Stratego.
- Rod and Todd start nosebleeding after using telekinesis to lift the car. This is something that happened to Eleven from Stranger Things.
- A man enters Moe's Tavern, asking if someone wants to watch the Super Bowl.
- "Hooray for Hollywood" is briefly heard after Bart's guilt falls into the cooling tower.
Couch gag
Continuity
- One of the forms of Bart's guilt looks like Hugo Simpson. ("Treehouse of Horror VII")
- All the license plates in the shop have the name Bort. ("Itchy & Scratchy Land")
- Homer's car gets towed by Louie's towing truck. ("Midnight Towboy")
