Clown V. Board of Education/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The episode title is a reference to Brown v. Board of Education.
- Krusty says that Supreme Court justice is now "the most despised profession in America."
- Krusty and Sideshow Mel perform a parody of Romeo and Juliet.
- Krusty says "To pie, or not to pie? That is no question!", a parody of the line "To be, or not to be", the opening line of Hamlet.
- The network executive says that kids prefer TikTok and InstaGram.
- One of the clowns mentions that parents found out Ovaltine was just sugared mud.
- Scuzzo says that all the clowns have gotten out of being TV clowns, and lists the cast of The View as among them. The picture of the cast included: Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin.
- Krusty bought an elephant from Barnum & Bailey's after an unfavorable documentary about them aired.
- Lisa was reading the book You Aren't There God, I Give Up, Margaret, a parody of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
- Bart reads the first three lines of the Latin hymn Te Deum.
- The In Memorial segment also featured Alec Guinness and Carol Channing.
- Rainier Wolfcastle tells Dieter that he'll get him a new Lamborghini.
- The wall of Great Educators in The Herschel Krustofsky School for the Clowning Arts has pictures of:
- The kids in the clown music class perform "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa.
- Dieter Wolfcastle performs "Yakety Sax" by Boots Randolph during Talent Night.
- Louie drives a Nissan Leaf.
- The check that Rainier Wolfcastle hands Krusty has the date 05/14/2023 on, the same day the episode aired in the USA.
- Krusty says that Hyman Krustofsky lived to be 97.
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