Bart of Darkness/References

Cultural references

 * The episode is a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock movie  starring . A character resembling Stewart also appears, looking at Bart through a telescope.
 * The episode title is a pun on the novel  by.
 * When the statues in the Springfield Wax Museum melt, among them are the original cast of M*A*S*H.
 * When Ned walks upstairs carrying the axe, he is singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
 * The first Klassic Krusty episode is dated February 6, 1961. Krusty's guest was chairman George Meany.
 * On the Krusty show, both the host and guest are smoking. This happened on interview shows in the 1960's.

Trivia

 * Nelson says that the is your hair when actually, it's the outer layer of your skin. This could be put down to Nelson being uneducated about it.

DVD information

 * The Complete Sixth Season Disc 1
 * Run time: 21:57
 * Scene selection
 * 1) Main title
 * 2) "Marge, can you set the oven to cold?"
 * 3) "Can we have a pool, dad?"
 * 4) "Great, I get to spend the summer with my brain"
 * 5) "Save Lisa, trash can or no trash can!"
 * 6) End credits
 * Audio commentary featuring Matt Groening, David Mirkin, Jim Reardon, David X. Cohen, Greg Daniels, and David Silverman.
 * Deleted scenes

Goofs

 * Hans Moleman's cane switches hands, and his cane disappears.
 * While in the tent, Bart is seen wearing shoes along with his underwear. Out of the tent, he isn't.
 * The treehouse ladder disappears in one scene, and switches sides a couple of times.
 * Bart's door is already wide open, yet when Lisa enters the room, we hear the sound of a door opening.
 * Everybody can stand up in the pool, yet it's too tall for Lisa to get out when it's empty.
 * As Bart watches Lisa walk by the rolltop desk in the Flanders home, it is already open. A few scenes later, we see Lisa opening it.
 * The portable TV in Bart's room disappears.
 * In the scene where Lisa runs into the attic as she dives behind the chest, she rattles a bird cage, later when Ned faints, you can see that the bird cage has disappeared.
 * When Bart is watching Rod and Todd walk over to Ned Flanders, you can see their reflections on Bart's telescope. Their reflections do not match their actual positions.
 * When Dr. Hibbert is seen in Bart's telescope, the people in the pictures don't have faces.
 * When Bart looks at the universe, we see Earth even though that should be impossible, being on Earth.
 * When Richard throws a beach ball at the camera, he has dark skin and black hair.

Continuity

 * A mobile swimming pool (this one in a dump truck) also appears in the comic story Carpool Party.