A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 23 Episode References
← 504 "Beware My Cheating Bart"	505 "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"

Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the non-fictional novel collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
• On the cruise's Fun Schedule:
  • "Xbox with PS3 controllers".
  • "Human Super-Mario Brothers", a reference to Mario.
  • "Sith training with certified Sith Lord", a reference to Star Wars.
  • Real life Tetris.
  • Power Ranger lessons from a former Pink.
• Kung Fu Person, which stars Jack Black, is a reference to Kung Fu Panda, which also starred Jack Black.
• Two kids are seen playing Professor X and Magneto from The X-Men.
• The Little Prince is a real life book.

Trivia

• The couch gag was previously used in the season 22 episode "500 Keys".
• This opening sequence cut from the logo to the couch gag.

Continuity

• Zelda, Grampa's girlfriend from "The Old Man and the Key", is seen on the Royalty Valhalla.
• Cregg Demon appears again. ("The Great Simpsina")

Goofs

• The computer that Bart is using has four rows of keys, but a real one has five.
• Bart's knife seems to appear and disappear strangely.
• Bart moves from one end of the couch to the other in a split-second.
• Marge's voice is very gravelly when she tells Bart to eat his dinner.
• At the Fun Court, there is a black-skinned man to the right of Dave.

But, after Bart admits the virus was a hoax, there are a group of people to the right of Dave.