Editing Grade School Confidential/References

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a reference to the movie ''{{W2|High School Confidential|film}}''.
*[[Homer]] imitates [[Richard Nixon]] when he takes the kids for a ride in the "{{W|Space Shuttle}}".
*The [[Mathemagician]], whom [[Martin]] hires for his party, is modelled after [[Bill Gates]].
**[[Bart]] calls the Mathemagician "{{W|Houdini}}".
[[File:Gradeschoolconfidential7.png|250px|thumb|''[[Peanuts]]'' character Charlie Brown can be seen as a candle with half the head melted]]
*''[[Peanuts]]'' character Charlie Brown can be seen as a candle with half the head melted.
*[[Principal Skinner]] hums ''{{W|Eine kleine Nachtmusik}}'' by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] when he asks Bart to deliver a letter to [[Edna]].
*The movie being played at [[Aztec Theater]] has [[Tom Berenger]] on it. [[Superintendent Chalmers]]' comment "You think they actually filmed this in [[Atlanta]]?" implies that the film is in fact ''{{W2|The Big Chill|film}}'', a 1983 comedy-drama film starring Tom Berenger.
*[[Agnes]] started collecting photos of cakes after finding a picture of a cake she liked on a 1941 edition of ''{{W|Good Housekeeping}}'' magazine.
**One of the pictures is from a {{W|Lady Baltimore cake}}.
*The phrase Bart says "Set your faces to stunned" is an obvious reference to the famous ''[[Star Trek]]'' mis-quote 'Set Phasers to Stun'.
*[[Sanjay]]'s daughter, [[Pahasatira]], thinks of the Hinduism deity {{W|Vishnu}} when she tries to describe Edna and Seymour's posture in the closet.
*[[Chief Wiggum]] tells his wife [[Sarah Wiggum|Sarah]] to get him in contact with Superintendent Chalmers in a similar way [[Barney Fife]] from ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' orders the telephone operator Sarah to get him in contact with other characters.
*In trying to force Edna and Seymour out of the school, the police attempt to flood the area with music, more specifically using the song "{{W|Embraceable You}}", performed by [[Michael Dees]]. This is similar to a tactic that the US troops used during {{W|Operation Just Cause}} in an attempt to force {{W|Manuel Noriega}} out of the Vatican embassy in Panama City.

== Trivia ==
*[[Marge]] only says 8 words in this episode: "Krabappel", "Oh, my goodness" and "Homer, Bart's up there".
*Bart (who fed his serving to a cat), Lisa (who feigns sickness), Edna and Skinner (who hide in Martin's playhouse) are Martin's only guests who did not get food poisoning.

== Goofs ==
*Mrs. Krabappel's name on the envelope is misspelled as "Enda" when Bart is opening and reading the letter, but is spelled correctly when viewed in closeup.
*When Maude Flanders accuses Skinner and Krabappel in engaging in a sexual relationship, Lenny's beard is colored yellow.
*After Skinner announces that he is a virgin, Homer and Marge change positions with other when the camera switches from a long-distance shot to a close-up.

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