Bart's Short Cut/References

Cultural references

 * Bart's using a power line as an improvised is reminiscent of 's escape from the English soldiers near the beginning of .

Continuity

 * When Lisa saya it feels like twenty years since the last Itchy & Scratchy movie, it is a reference to the television episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie". The episode first aired on November 2, 1992, nearly twenty years before the story appeared.