A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again/References

References/Trivia

Season 23 Episode References

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Cultural references

The episode title is a pun on the non-fictional novel collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
The song played in Bart's weekday drudgery montage is "The Boy From School" by Hot Chip.
The music that plays after Bart says "That's our ship!" is the 3rd movement, "Rondo: Allegro agitato", from the Harp Concerto in C by François-Adrien Boieldieu.
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.
The music that plays as Bart goes through his Fun Schedule is the overture to the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka.
After the virus is announced, the KidZone Elite kids take on the task of preserving the world's great literature, and are seen working on the following:
- Creating an illuminated manuscript featuring Itchy and Scratchy.
- Transcribing The Little Prince (which is a real life book).
- Playing a scene with Professor X and Magneto from The X-Men.
The song played when the Simpsons family slides down an ice slide in Antarctica is "Winters Love" by Animal Collective.

The couch gag was previously used in the season 22 episode "500 Keys".
This opening sequence cut from the logo to the couch gag.
This episode marks the Simpsons family finally visiting every single continent on Earth. While Antarctica has appeared in a previous Simpsons episode, the family had never set foot on it.

Maggie tries to give Bart her pacifier. He gained a liking for pacifiers in the short, "The Pacifier", when Maggie gave him one.
Zelda, Grampa's girlfriend from "The Old Man and the Key", is seen on the Royalty Valhalla.
Cregg Demon appears again. ("The Great Simpsina")

The computer that Bart is using has four rows of keys, but a real one has five.
During Bart's Everything Sale, there is no line across the money jar to mark where the money for the cruise has to fill up to.
When Moe opens Bart's baby tooth box, there is a baby tooth at the corner of the box which is the same color as the box.
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.
When Marge and Homer are kissing on the boat, the alarm sounds. The people in the background react to the sound before the alarm even begins.
When Bart says "Squirt!" the second time in the communications room, his mouth remains closed.
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.

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