Barthood/References

Cultural references

 * The title of the episode is a parody of the title of the movie .
 * The song "" by (Boyhood's soundtrack), is heard during the episode intro.
 * The couch gag is animated in.
 * Abe Simpson and Bart rides a.
 * Marge is reading What to Expect When You're Not Expecting, a reference to the book .
 * The book was previously parodied in "At Long Last Leave" with a book titled What to Expect When You're Ejected and with the episode title of a Season 25 episode, "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting".
 * Wiggum tells a joke on .
 * Apple car is a reference to the.

Continuity

 * Several characters tombstones are seen at the cemetery.
 * Bleeding Gums Murphy ("'Round Springfield")
 * Frank Grimes ("Homer's Enemy")
 * Maude Flanders ("Alone Again, Natura-Diddily")
 * Hyman Krustofsky ("Clown in the Dumps")
 * The Great Raymondo ("The Great Simpsina"); though Raymondo has yet to die in the regular canon.
 * Bart previously drove a car to the 1982 World's Fair. ("Bart on the Road")
 * Homer previously took drugs, in the form of medical marijuana. ("Weekend at Burnsie's")
 * Gunderson Realty is a reference to Red Blazer Realty. ("Realty Bites")
 * Krusty previously crashed and exploded in a plane, though it was a fake death. ("Bart the Fink")
 * Nelson and Lisa previously dated. ("Lisa's Date with Density")
 * Bart paints caricatures, on the pier, where he previously met an avuncular Woody Allen. ("Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing")

Goofs

 * Lisa, as a young child, paints the sailboat picture seen hanging above the couch, but in "The Trouble with Trillions", it's revealed that Marge painted it as a gift for Homer.

Trivia

 * Contrary to other episodes that are set in the future, though only partially set in it, this one is canon.