A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again/References

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on the non-fictional novel collection .
 * The song played in Bart's weekday drudgery montage is "" by.
 * The music that plays after Bart says "That's our ship!" is the 3rd movement, "Rondo: Allegro agitato", from the Harp Concerto in C by.
 * On the cruise's Fun Schedule:
 * "Xbox with controllers".
 * "Human Super-Mario Brothers", a reference to .
 * "Sith training with certified Sith Lord", a reference to Star Wars.
 * Real life Tetris.
 * lessons from a former Pink.
 * Kung Fu Person, which stars, is a reference to , which also starred Jack Black.
 * The music that plays as Bart goes through his Fun Schedule is the overture to the opera  by.
 * After the virus is announced, the KidZone Elite kids take on the task of preserving the world's great literature, and are seen working on the following:
 * Creating an featuring Itchy and Scratchy.
 * Transcribing The Little Prince (which is a ).
 * Playing a scene with Professor X and Magneto from .
 * The song played when the Simpsons family slides down an ice slide in Antarctica is "Winters Love" by.

Trivia

 * The couch gag was previously used in the season 22 episode "500 Keys".
 * This opening sequence cut from the logo to the couch gag.
 * This episode marks the Simpsons family finally visiting every single continent on Earth. While Antarctica has appeared in a previous Simpsons episode, the family had never set foot on it.

Continuity

 * Maggie tries to give Bart her pacifier. He gained a liking for pacifiers in the short, "The Pacifier", when Maggie gave him one.
 * Zelda, Grampa's girlfriend from "The Old Man and the Key", is seen on the Royalty Valhalla.
 * Cregg Demon appears again. ("The Great Simpsina")

Goofs

 * The computer that Bart is using has four rows of keys, but a real one has five.
 * During Bart's Everything Sale, there is no line across the money jar to mark where the money for the cruise has to fill up to.
 * When Moe opens Bart's baby tooth box, there is a baby tooth at the corner of the box which is the same color as the box.
 * Bart's knife seems to appear and disappear strangely.
 * Bart moves from one end of the couch to the other in a split-second.
 * Marge's voice is very gravelly when she tells Bart to eat his dinner.
 * When Marge and Homer are kissing on the boat, the alarm sounds. The people in the background react to the sound before the alarm even begins.
 * When Bart says "Squirt!" the second time in the communications room, his mouth remains closed.
 * At the Fun Court, there is a black-skinned man to the right of . But, after Bart admits the virus was a hoax, there are a group of people to the right of Dave.