The Simpsons 106-110

Another Simpsons Clip Show

This episode premiered on September 25th, 1994. Its lead in show was Fortune Hunter and was followed by a Simpsons repeat. It ran opposite Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman, Murder, She Wrote and seaQuest DVS

The chalkboard gag is "I will not use Abbrev." and the couch gag is a repeat of the Monty Python foot

Marge is reading The Bridges Of Madison County (which came out in 1992 and the movie wouldn't come out for another year), she's worried that the romance has gone out of their marriage. The rest of the show is Marge talking about romance with clips from previous shows woven in. Everybody remembers their worst relationships so Homer tells the story of how he and Marge got together. 

Self aware joke, Lisa comments that programs take clips from old shows and piece them together and pretend it's a new show, which is what they are doing. She says Ren and Stimpy do it all the time. Marge makes a comment about When was the last time you heard about them, they had gone off the air the previous year. It would come back under a new production company but they changed the overall content (less controversial) and lost all their original fans. 

This episode was created so Fox could save money while have a full episode to sell to syndication. It did not go over well with the fans or the critics. In fact since I don't need to point out anything new I'm playing Candy Crush while watching. 

Itchy And Scratchy Land

This episode premiered on October 2nd, 1994. It ran in its usual time slot but was followed by Hard Ball. It ran opposite the regular programs. 

The chalkboard gag is "I am not the reincarnation of Sammy Davis Jr." (he had died four years earlier) and the couch gag is the family "beams" onto the couch ala Star Trek

Bart and Lisa see an ad for Itchy and Scratchy Land, since tickets are half priced they beg Homer to take them. The kids ask Marge to go to the park but she's already planned their vacation to the Highway 9 Bird Sanctuary, it has a new bird feeder shaped like a diner on a really tall poll. The kids finally convince their parents by telling them about Parent's Island (based on Pleasure Island at Disney World which was 21 and older after 9 PM.) Marge reminds the family about their embarrassing trip to Amish country, Homer harasses the people but gets kicked by a mule. On their trip to Sandy Beach Homer and Bart pretend to be sharks. The family agrees if they have a bad vacation to disband and join new families. Homer heads on the freeway and gets stuck in traffic. They pass a sign that says Next Flickey's 680 miles. After many other Flickey's signs they drive by without stopping. The family is stopped at a Fruits and Vegetables checkpoint, Homer has a trunk full that he's smuggling. They turn on the AM radio for entertainment and it's just a series of preachers and their "signs of evil" The family stops at 5 Corners and stands in 5 states at the same time. Along the road the family gets sleepy but Homer says he's not tired, cut to a car crashing and from the safety of their motel room Bart says "Glad that wasn't us". Homer gets mad at the map and takes a shortcut. Cut to them arriving at Itchy and Scratchy land with a missing roof, missile in their hood, homecoming banner hanging off the back, wooden wheel and chickens. They agree to never speak of the shortcut again.  Homer says "remember, we're in the Itchy Lot", there are only two lots of Itchy and Scratchy and they each have thousands of cars. The family is flown into Itchy And Scratchy Land where the pilot says "where nothing can possi-blye go wrong....that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong." Homer buys $1,100 worth of Itchy and Scratchy money but none of the park shops take it. When Marge complains about the violence theming a park worker shows up to explain that it's just pretend violence. The family goes to the 12:00 o'clock robot parade, they hurry or they'll have to wait until the 12:05 parade. When Marge complains about the violent robots the same park worker shows up to tell her they've been programmed to not attack the guests. After the log ride Marge and Homer head to Parent's Island. Cleetus the Slackjawed Yokel shows up and takes a flash photo of one of the robots causing it to short circuit. (foreshadowing) While walking down the Main Street Bart shoots a smoke bomb into one of the Itchy costume characters and gets tossed into the park jail, there he finds Homer who got busted for kicking an Itchy character in the butt. Marge gets called to the security office "Attention Marge Simpson, we've also arrested your older fatter balder son" when she says I'm so embarrassed I wish there was a hole I could crawl into and die" the guards grab her and say "OK, throw her in the hole". Professor Frink shows up to tell the park operators that Chaos Theory says the robots will turn on everyone, just as they go berserk. As the Simpsons are leaving security the robots go nuts and attack them. Marge says they should have gone to the bird sanctuary but when they cut to it there is a The Birds incident happening. The family runs for the helicopter but it's full of the people the family had harassed and they get kicked out. They find that flash photos cause the robots to crash and save the park. Bart calls it their best vacation ever, they came together as a family, got a lot of outdoor activity and many memories. They then cut to Euro Itchy And Scratchy Land but nobody is there. "My children need wine" Back at home Marge points out that the kids should have learned that violence is bad. Lisa says it would be funny if it was happening to someone else so she demonstrates by hitting Bart with her shoe. Marge laughs but then sends Lisa to her room.

The Itchy And Scratchy Show "The Last Traction Hero" (The title comes from The Last Action Hero, a movie the Simpsons had mocked in the episode The Boy Who Knew Too Much) Scratchy is at the gym and has gotten super buff. Itchy pokes him with a pin like you would a balloon. When nothing happens he continues to poke Scratchy until he almost passes out from blood loss, then uses a chain saw to cut off his pecs. They announce that Itchy And Scratchy Land is cutting ticket prices in half, Itchy stabs Scratchy in the head with a pair of scissors and pulls out his brain. 

While reading the Bible Homer says "talk about a preachy book, everybody's a sinner, except for this guy".

Homer getting kicked by a mule in Amish country is a take on the movie Witness. Homer and Bart wearing fake shark fins at Sandy Beach is a take on the scene with the two kids in Jaws. 

Highway Sign: Freeway to Some Other State. (This was during the "what state is Springfield in" era)

Billboard: Next Flickey's 680 Miles, 416 Miles, 277 Miles, 42 Miles, and then they drive by without stopping. The next sign says Next Flicky's 2500 Miles. (Flickey's is based on roadside stops like Howard Johnson's and Stucky's) 

Homer's pamphlet: Smuggling Vegetables "The E-Z road to success?"

One of the Signs Of Evil stations features a Casey Kasem voice doing his top countdown with special guest Vanessa Williams, best known for the Miss America/Penthouse scandal. 

5 Corners is based on the 4 Corners area that feature the boarding states of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado. 

Homer parks in the Itchy lot which doesn't mean anything since there are only two lots, Itchy and Scratchy. This is a spoof on Disneyland before California Adventures when the parking lot faced the park and the areas were divided up by Disney characters. The first time I visited Disneyland I stayed in the Pinocchio lot. I think it's Soarin' these days. 

The helicopter flying into Itchy And Scratchy Land is a take on the Jurassic Park scene where they fly into the island. 

Rides Not Operating Today: Head Basher. Blood Bath, Mangler, Nurse's Station. At Euro Itchy and Scratchy Land the sign at ticket booth reads: "Maneges hors D'usage: Le Pulverisatuer, la Saignee, Le Massacreur, Poste des Infirmidres. (these are the French versions of the same rides that were out of order at the American park)

Itchy and Scratchy money is based on Disney Dollars. You use to be able to buy money with various Disney characters on it that you could spend at the park or the Disney stores. They stopped printing the money in 2016 due to the cost and the rise of debit cards. You can still use your Disney Dollars at the parks but most people hold on to them (which was the original idea).

Tavern On The Scream, based on Tavern On The Green in Central Park. The Simpsons' order Brain Burger with extra puss (cheeseburger), Eyeball Stew (Spaghetti and meatballs), Marge orders the Baby Guts which turns out to be veal, the hated menu item of the day.

Itchy and Scratchy Land Child Care Center. The kids are dumped into a ball pit and when the worker says the kids look unhappy they add more balls. 

Itchy and Scratchy Lands: Torture Land, Explosion Land, Searing Gas Pain Land, Unnecessary Surgery Land, Parents Island.

Itchy's 70's Disco, Est. 1980 John Travolta is working as the bartender. 

T.G.I McScratchy's Goodtime Foodrinkery, where it's always New Years Eve. When Marge tells a waiter it must be great to live New Years over and over he replies "please, kill me". Later security gets a message that there is another jumper on the building. The name is based on TGIFridays.

Laramie Cigarettes Presents Itchy's Mine Field.

The Roger Meyers Story, Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors, Scratchtasia (A version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice featuring Itchy and Scratchy), Pinnitchy-O 

When Bart goes to the gift shop he can't find a Bart personalized license plate but they have Bort, including an announcement later that they are out. (If you go to the Simpson's land in Universal Studios they sell Bort personalized keychains in the Kwik-E-Mart gift shop, however they are always running out. I got mine.) 

Discontinued friends characters from Itchy And Scratchy and Friends: Disgruntled Goat, Uncle Ant, Ku Klux Klam

Bart pulls a stink bomb from his "Li'l Bastard Traveling Kit" fanny pack. (Fanny packs were big in the day)

At the sanctuary when the birds start attacking everyone Moleman calls and orders the biggest seed bell they have but then says "no, that's too big". 

One of my favorite lines is when Lisa is explaining that photo flashes damage the robot's circuitry Homer says "Who are you, the narrator?"

The empty Euro Itchy And Scratchy Land was a joke based on the first few years of Euro Disneyland when they were having trouble getting people to visit the parks and were losing money. Things turned around when they changed the name to Disneyland Paris and added more classic attractions like Splash Mountain. 

This show is one of my favorite episodes. It takes a spin at Disneyland, Westworld (The 1973 film), and Jurassic Park. Plus it was a vast improvement over the previous all clip episode that had run the week before. It's also filled with some of my favorite quotes. 

Sideshow Bob Roberts

This episode premiered on October 9th 1994. It ran in its usual time slot. The lead in program was Encounters: The Hidden Truth and was followed by Hard Ball. It ran opposite the regular programs. 

The title of the episode was based on the 1992 movie Bob Roberts, the show copies the political theme of the movie. 

The opening credits skip both the chalkboard and couch gag in this episode. (on Disney + but perhaps not on the original run)

The show starts off with Homer listening to Birch Barlow (A Rush Limbaugh character), Homer says he identifies with Barlow and when they cut to the talk show host he's scarfing donuts just like Homer. Lisa is also listening to Barlow as part of her homework. Lisa complains about Homer listening to Barlow in the car, he tells her when he's driving he gets to pick the radio station and when she drives she can choose what they listen to, cut to the radio playing St. Elmo's Fire by John Parr and Lisa driving. Homer hates the song so they switch back. As they are listening Sideshow Bob calls in to congratulate Barlow on bringing Springfield back to the Republican Party. Barlow decides to make it his mission to get Sideshow Bob out of jail, Moe starts handing out grenades to the people at the bar (27 years before the Jan. 6th assault on the Capitol), when Barney points out that Barlow meant political action Moe takes back the grenades but one is missing the pin. Bowing to political pressure Quimby sets Bob free. At the Republican Committee meeting Barlow tells them the next mayor of Springfield is behind the door, when Smithers opens it there is a water cooler and they all applaud. Instead Bob comes in wrapped in the flag. (This is based on the quote attributed to Sinclair Lewis "When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross", and the movie the title was based on). When Bob charms the school kids Bart and Lisa jump on Quimby and claim he called them the most important natural resource. Bob drags Bart off and warns him not to meddle with the Republican Party and then dumps him off at his house, meanwhile Archie Andrews and the gang show up to toss out Homer and warn him to stay out of Riverdale. Larry King moderates the voters debate (he did his own voice work). At the debate Quimby has the flu and is on cold pills, this is a take on the Nixon/Kennedy debates when Nixon looked terrible on TV and lost the election. Barlow tosses out a preplanned question to Bob, and then an over the top question to Quimby. Quimby loses by 100% of the vote. Bob's first act as mayor is to reroute the Matlock Expressway across the Simpson's house. His second is to move Bart back to Kindergarten, however Bart loves it. While checking out the voting rolls Lisa gets a mysterious note telling her to meet them in the parking garage. (a take on the Watergate scandal and the movie All The President's Men) The mysterious stranger turns out to be Mr. Smithers, he says Bob's ultra conservative views conflict with his lifestyle (another hint about Smithers being Gay). Smithers tells Lisa to look up Edgar Neubauer. Bart finds that Sideshow Bob used dead names, including the pets to pad the election votes. At the hearing Lisa and Bart trick Sideshow Bob into confessing. Bob is arrested for voter fraud, he's sent to a minimum security prison where he joins the rowing crew in order to beat the Princeton team.

Lenny makes a comment about right wing commentator Barlow claiming Ted Kennedy "lacked integrity". Back in the day Kennedy was the Republicans favorite punching bag until he died in 2009. Today the joke would be about Hunter Biden.

At Birch Barlow's studio the clocks read Los Angeles, Springfield, New York and Boston. Since Boston and New York City are in the same time zone this does nothing to help out the argument about where Springfield is located.

The three complaints Barlow has about Springfield, bats in the library, Mrs. McFirley's compost heap and Mayor Quimby. 

Sideshow Bob says he's calling from South Springfield, which means that is the location of the prison. 

Sideshow Bob makes a joke that the conservatives aren't all Bible thumpers or George Bushes. This joke is about George Bush sr. who lost the 1992 election, not his son who would destroy the economy 14 years later.

Lisa busts into Bart's room to tell him his mortal enemy is on the radio, the station is tuned to Dr. Demento, Demento did his own voce in this episode. 

The Senior home is holding Gripe At The Mayor Night. Quimby promises to name the new expressway the Matlock Expressway. 

Barlow mentions "railroaded" conservatives, Oliver North (committed treason during the Iran/Contra scandal), Stacey Koon (head officer during the Rodney King beating),  Joe Camel (cartoon character used to promote smoking to children).

Springfield Shopper headline: 

Bob Pardon: #1 Local Issue, Edges out "No Fat Chicks" ordinance. 

Call For Probe In Bob Flap. Editorial: Why Not Let Dead Pets Vote? 

Toddlers Topple Mayor (photo of Bart and Lisa). Expressway Halt Rankles Elderly (photo of Grandpa Simpson)

Sideshow Bob's full name is Robert Underdunk Terwilliger. 

Sideshow Bob does the walking out of the prison scene but falls off a cliff since it's now on an island.

The Republican Part Headquarters is in a spooky castle. Members of the Republican committee are Rainer Wolfcastle, Birch Barlow, Dracula (the 1922 version), Mr. Burns, The rich Texan, Dr. Hibbert and Burns's lawyer. 

Sideshow Bob's commercial accuses Quimby of running a revolving door prison system and uses the release of Bob as an example of his dangerous policies. This is a take on the infamous Willie Horton ads George Bush ran during the 88 campaign. 

Springfield Community Center sign, Tonight: Mayoral Debates, Tomorrow: Mass Wedding Of Cult Members (this is a joke about the Moonies and their mass wedding ceremonies)

Self Aware Joke, Larry King says even though the debate is being aired on Fox there is no need for obnoxious hooting and hollering, which the audience then does. After getting kicked out of Riverdale Homer later reads an Archie comic. 

Kwik-E-Mart Discount Flu Remedy, Extra-Drowsy Formula.

Bob's victory speech is a take on the Citizen Kane scene with the giant image of Bob. 

Springfield Hall Of Records, "Not the good kind of records, historical ones"

There are 48,000 voters in Springfield.

The first name on the voting list is Aaron A. Aaronson.

Names in the phone book, Allison Neu, Cathy Neu, Jennifer Neu, Jeb Neu, Jack Neu, Ken Neu, Bob  Newhall, Richard Newhall. Getty C, Robert Gordon, A Gorilla (Bart writes the name and number down for a later prank)

Headstones: Edgar NeuBauer Beloved Husband and Old Grouch 1831-1909, Prudence Goodwyfe Died 1641, Buddy Holly 1936-1959, Richie Valens 1942-1959, The Big Bopper 1930-1959 "Gooooodbye, Baby!", Mr. and Mrs. Bananas (chimps), Humphrey Boa-Gart (snake), Snowball I (Lisa's first cat). Also on the voting rolls, Snookers and Stormy.

This episode made the Republican Party angry and they condemned it in general, however years later it was heavily quoted when the social media was talking about Trump.

The Simpsons Halloween Special V aka The Treehouse Of Horror V

This episode premiered on October 30th, 1994. It ran in its usual time slot but was both preceded and followed by repeats of past Simpsons Halloween episodes. It ran opposite Lois And Clark, Chicago Hope and Angels (An NBC special about people's encounters with the religious spirits)

The show starts with Marge warning people to send their kids to bed. She's handed a note that congress won't let the episode be shown and instead they are running the Glenn Ford classic 200 Miles To Oregon. But then the screen changes to The Outer Limits introduction about "We control your television".

The cemetery bit contains the headstone Amusing Headstones and RIP (The writers felt that they were running out of tombstone gags) it then cuts to the image of Moe hanging from a tree but looking into the camera, Patty and Selma in witch costumes being burned by Reverend Lovejoy, Skinner in a guillotine with Mrs. Krabappal, Willie and Wiggum's heads laying in the basket. The couch gag is a Frankenstein's Monster collection of the Simpsons however they are all mixed up so they have to swap parts. 

The Shinning

Based on The Shining, the 1980 film

The Simpsons are on their way to Homer's new job as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Homer forgot to lock the house doors so they have to return twice, once for the front door and once for the back door. When they find that they forgot Grandpa on the third trip they just keep going. When Burns is giving them a tour of the hotel the elevator opens and blood pours out. Burns says "That's odd, the blood usually gets off on the second floor". Bart uses a hedger to cut his way through the maze. Willie finds out Bart has the "shinning'. Burns cuts the cable TV and takes all the beer in order to get a good winter's work out of Homer. When Smithers points out that perhaps that is the reason the other caretakers went nuts Burns promises if they come back and find the family dead he owes Smithers a Coke. At the bar ghost Moe shows up and refuses to give Homer a beer unless he kills his family. Marge looks at they typewriter to see if Homer has gone mad, all it says is "Feelin' Fine" however a bolt of lightning reveals that the lobby is covered in "No TV And No Beer Makes Homer Go Crazy". They do the staircase scene but Homer scares himself in the mirror and falls down. Marge locks him in the cooler and he refused to murder the family because he's too busy eating, so Moe and the other ghouls drag him out. Homer chops his way through the door and says the famous "Here's Johnny" line but it's the wrong room. The second room he says "Daaa-vid Letterman" on the other side of the door is Grandpa who just showed up. On the third door he does the 60 Minutes introduction "I'm Mike Wallace, I'm Morley Safer, and I'm Ed Bradly, all this and Andy Rooney tonight on 60 Minutes", it's finally the right door. Marge uses the radio to call the police but when she says "over" Wiggums thinks she means the murderous rampage is over. Bart uses the "shinning" to contact Willie, when he shows up Homer uses and axe to kill him almost instantly. When the family runs out side into the snow they find Willies mini TV and Homer gets over his murderous rampage, however they all sit outside until they freeze. They are forced to watch the Tony Awards with hosts Tyne Daly and Hal Lindon. 

Maggie spells Redrum with her toy blocks. 

Break Glass In Case Of Spousal Insanity, inside is a baseball bat.

Hotel ghouls, Moe, The Mummy, The Werewolf, Dracula, Freddy, Jason and Pinhead. 

Wanted posters on Wiggum's wall, The Babysitter Bandit, Fat Tony and Sideshow Bob.

Time And Punishment 

Homer gets his hand stuck in a toaster which he destroys. When he tries to fix it he accidentally builds a time machine. He's sent back to the age of dinosaurs and slaps a mosquito. When Homer returns he finds he's living in a 1984 timeline where Ned is the supreme leader and those who don't follow instructions get a frontal lobotomy. Homer returns to the past and does his best to avoid everything but then sits on a fish that is trying to become an amphibian. The third timeline Homer is super small and almost squished. The next attempt he sneezes on a dinosaur setting of a chain reaction of extinction. In this new timeline he lives in a huge house with a fancy car and is going to Patty and Selma's funeral, however there are no donuts so he runs to the basement. Just then it starts raining donuts. After another time trip he opens the basement door to find Willie warning him it's still the wrong timeline but he can help, just as Maggie axes Willie in the back, a flashback to the Shinning episode. When Homer returns to the past he brings a club and goes on a rampage destroying everything.  Kodos and Kang mock the humans for not being prepared to handle time travel but then they turn into Sherman and Peabody. When Homer arrives for the last time everything seems normal, when he sits down to eat they all have lizard tongues and Homer says "eh, close enough"

The title of this episode is from the book Crime And Punishment although the plots are different. The show uses several different stories, first is Ray Bradbury's tale A Sound Of Thunder where a time traveller accidentally kills a butterfly and changes the future. The first future segment is a take on George Orwell's 1984 where Ned is now Big Brother. The second is from the TV show Land of the Giants.

Homer says I'm the first non Brazilian person to travel backwards through time. Many people have tried to decipher this line but it probably has to do with some time traveller who was later erased from history and that's why nobody gets it. Also after he makes the comment Peabody and Sherman show up and correct him saying "second"

Re-Neducaiton Center "Where the elite meet to have their spirits broken"

Simpson house during Homer's time rampage, an igloo, The Flintstones house, McDonalds (an original franchise building), under water, a giant shoe, a sphinx with Bart's face. 

When Maggie kills Willie she says "This is a strange universe indeed" and James Earl Jones does the Voice.

Nightmare Cafeteria

Bart tries to get the rest of the students to turn their desks around before Mrs. Krabappal arrives but he's the only one who does it so he's sent to an overcrowded detention. Jimbo trips the lunch lady so he's sent to work in the kitchen, and the next day they serve Sloppy Jimbos. Uter cuts in the lunch line so he's sent to detention and the school serves Uterbrauten. After most of the kids are eaten Bart, Lisa and Milhouse try to escape, when Willie shows up to save the kids Skinner chops him in the back with an axe (a running gag throughout this episode). When Bart gets pushed into the blender he wakes up. Marge tells him he was just having a bad dream and everything will be alright, except for the fog that turns people inside out. The show ends with the skinned family singing a version of One from A Chorus Line, Bart gets drug off by SLH.

This episode is a version of Soylent Green in which cannibalism is the solution to overcrowding and a lack of food. It concludes with a take on the 1980 film The Fog

Grade F Meat, Ingredients, Most Circus Animals, Some Filler.

Krabappal reads The Joy Of Cooking Milhouse. 

Hamilton Beech Student Chopper. Settings: chop, pulverize, puree, gooify. 

This is perhaps one of the best Treehouse of Horrors. There are two solid stories that became instant classics, and the third one. I wonder how many people learned and understood the Butterfly Effect from this episode. I should go through and create a best to worst list of Treehouse segments. I'm pretty sure I'd put Time and Punishment towards the top.

Bart's Girlfriend

This episode premiered on November 6th 1994. Its lead in show was The X Files and was followed by a repeat of The Simpsons. It ran opposite Siegfried And Roy (The Magic The Mystery), Murder, She Wrote and Earth 2 (a short lived science fiction series)

The chalkboard gag is "I will not send lard through the mail" and the couch gag is a repeat of the floating eyeballs.

The kids are playing cowboys and Indians. Milhouse says "keep your eyes peeled for injuns" but then corrects himself to say "Native Americans' Nelson shows up as a futurist robot with a rapid fire Nerf gun, The Killmatic-3000, and shoots everyone. The Sunday bells starts ringing and the parents chase down the kids to force them to go to church. Bart is bored until Reverend Lovejoy's daughter steps up to the pulpit to read a passage from the Bible, but she doesn't want to have anything to do with him. Bart decides the only way to get Jessica to like him is to become a better person so he goes back to Sunday School. During the class they learn about David's sling shot, Bart is instantly tempted to shoot the teacher in the butt. After class Bart sees Willie dressed in a kilt, he sneaks over and ties balloons to it, Willie isn't wearing anything underneath. It turns out to be a sting by Skinner, even though it's not a school day. Jessica invites Bart over for dinner. At the Lovejoy's Bart tells the story of what he saw on Martin the night before and they kick him out, Jessica likes it. Bart and Jessica loiter under a sign that says "No Loitering", eat ice cream in front of the window of the local gym and toilet paper the statue of Jedediah Springfield. At school nobody believes that Bart is dating Jessica and she ignores him, she tells him that they have to keep their relationship secret so her parents don't find out. Jessica convinces Bart to ride a skateboard down a dangerous hill, he goes through an oil spill, a ball bearing spill, just misses a glue leak, but when he hits an ant he crashes, and then gets covered by glue which had just ruptured from the overturned tanker. Jessica convinces Bart to hold her hand but then makes him pull the fire alarm. Bart vows to stop seeing Jessica, he's seen X'ing out days on the calendar but it's not days that have passed but the number of days he needs to avoid her. On the first day Bart has to go to church where he's bound to see Jessica. Bart hears singing and is drawn to it but it turns out to be Ned, Bart is creeped out. Homer puts a 30¢ off Shake and Bake coupon in the collection plate. Jessica steals the money from the collection plate and frames Bart. Bart confronts Jessica but she points out that nobody will believe him. At church Bart is forced to wear a Hannibal Lector type of restraint. Lisa does the guest reading at church and warns the real thief that they are doomed. Several people stand up and confess. After trying to get Jessica to confess Lisa finally openly accuse her. When they look under the bed they find the money so Lovejoy claims Bart snuck his bedroom into their house. Jessica finally confesses and says she was expelled from boarding school for the pipe bomb incident, the glee club fight and stealing money, Lovejoy keeps trying to ignore her. Jessica convinces Bart to do her punishment chores while she runs off with the cool kid.

Meryl Streep did the voice of Jessica Lovejoy.

Veteran's Park: In Honor Of Some Veterans.

Bart's Indian name is Dances In Underwear, a spoof on Dances With Wolves. Lisa's name is Thinks Too Much.

The scene where the parents are chasing down the kids to make them go to church is a spoof on the human hunting scene from Planet Of The Apes.

Self Awareness joke: When Bart can't figure out why Jessica doesn't like him he asks "is it because I've worn the same clothes for the past four years?"

Willie is performing at Scotchtoberfest, a fake holiday Skinner invents just to catch Bart in a sting operation.

After getting invited to Jessica's for dinner Bart struts down the street like John Travolta to the tune Stayin' Alive by the BeeGees.

Bart makes a comment that Jessica is so much better than that Sarah Plain and Tall, a tv movie that came out in 1991. It was based on the novels of the same name. 

Bart's Itchy and Scratchy calendar is all the same image of Itchy chopping up Scratchy from the episode Itchy And Scratchy: The Movie.

First Church Of Springfield sign "Evil women in history: From Jezebel to Janet Reno" Janet Reno was Bill Clinton's Attorney General.

Church confessions: Skinner smelled marijuana smoke in Vietnam, Grandpa got Star Trek (OS) cancelled, Dr. Hibbert left his Porsche keys in Mrs. Glick.

When Bart and Jessica are causing mischief Miserlou by Dick Dale plays in the background. This song was in the opening titles of Pulp Fiction that had been featured at Cannes in May and released to theaters three weeks before this episode aired.

We've now made it through 110 episodes. Getting ever closer to the end. It's waaaaaaaaaay over there.

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