Barthood/References
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Cultural references
- The title of the episode is a parody of the title of the movie Boyhood.
- The song "Hero" by Family of the Year (Boyhood's soundtrack), is heard during the episode intro.
- The couch gag is animated in Rotoscoping.
- Abe Simpson and Bart rides a 1954 Studebaker Starliner Commander.
- Marge is reading What to Expect When You're Not Expecting, a reference to the book What to Expect When You're Expecting.
- The book was previously parodied in "At Long Last Leave" with a book titled What to Expect When You're Ejected and with the episode title of a Season 25 episode, "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting".
- Wiggum tells a joke on A Nightmare on Elm Street.
- Apple car is a reference to the Apple electric car project.
Continuity
- Several characters tombstones are seen at the cemetery.
- Bleeding Gums Murphy ("'Round Springfield")
- Frank Grimes ("Homer's Enemy")
- Maude Flanders ("Alone Again, Natura-Diddly")
- Hyman Krustofsky ("Clown in the Dumps")
- The Great Raymondo ("The Great Simpsina"); though Raymondo has yet to die in the regular canon.
- Bart previously drove a car to the 1982 World's Fair. ("Bart on the Road")
- Homer previously took drugs, in the form of medical marijuana. ("Weekend at Burnsie's")
- Gunderson Realty is a reference to Red Blazer Realty. ("Realty Bites")
- Krusty previously crashed and exploded, though it was a fake death. ("Bart the Fink")
- Nelson and Lisa previously dated. ("Lisa's Date with Density")
- Bart paints caricatures, on the pier, where he previously met an avuncular Woody Allen. ("Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing")
Goofs
- Lisa as a young child, paints the sailboat picture seen hanging above the couch, but in "The Trouble with Trillions" it's revealed that Marge painted it as a gift for Homer.
Trivia
- Contrary to other episodes that are set in the future, though only partially set in it, this one is canon.[1]
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