Summer of 4 Ft. 2/References

Cultural references

 * The name is a play on , a well known 1971 drama film.
 * When Lisa looks into Library, she sees hallucinations of Pippi Longstocking, Eustace Tilley from The New Yorker and Alice and the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.
 * The drapes in the beach house are.
 * Teejay's Zaymart is a parody of the and  (which is now defunct) department store chains.
 * Milhouse says that Lisa looks like Blossom from .
 * asks if Bart thinks he's.
 * Lisa said she learned the word crustacean from .
 * When Homer is trying to buy fireworks, he asks for all sorts of embarrassing items, whilst asking for fireworks in the middle. This is a reference to .
 * "" by plays over the end credits, again a reference to American Graffiti.

Trivia

 * The firecracker that Homer attempts to use to celebrate the Fourth of July (and is later forced to use in the washing machine, rupturing a disposal pipe in the process) is called the M-320.
 * The sea creature that Milhouse thinks is a dog is a, and it "wags" it's tail when Milhouse pets it.
 * Ben (one of the cool kids) later appears in "Cool Lisa"'s questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out.