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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the MTV Series Girl Code.
• Homer has a poster with a photo of Elizabeth Warren in his office.
• Homer doodled on a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NCR) report.
• Marge shows Smithers his posts on Facelook, a parody of Facebook.
• The school's new coding teacher Quinn Hopper mentions several concepts related to coding: asynchrony, the famous programming language JavaScript, malware and ciphertext.
  • She refers to Lisa as "Silicon Sally", a pun on Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is a region most associated with the high-tech industry.
• Mr. Burns asks Smithers if he's playing the game Grindr. Grindr is an online dating application for gay, bi, trans, and queer people.
• Burns tells Smithers that play on words are for "crosswords and Kazurinskys". He is referring to American actor Tim Kazurinsky, who is known for doing celebrity impersonations.
• Burns wants his goons to visit Marge, but Smithers tells him they are in Phoenix. Then, Burns wants his "Irish ruffians" instead, to which Smithers responds they are "still laid up after eating that moldy soda bread". Soda bread is a typical food in Ireland.
• The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant intern Angry Ricky went to Northwestern University.
• The kids that attended the coding classes were forced to do CrossFit.
• At the Simpsons house when the programmers are developing Lisa's app:
  • Quinn Hopper has a C:\> tattoo on her right arm. This is a very common root directory found on Microsoft Windows. On her left arm, she has tattooed "sudo", a program for Unix-like operating systems.
  • Lisa wears a T-shirt with a reference to the Conway's Game of Life.
  • Lisa's eye lashes appearance is similar to A Clockwork Orange.
  • A Burn down chart can be seen on a whiteboard.
• The "Spring Field" intro is a reference to the opening sequence from Silicon Valley.
• Lisa's app first prediction include:
  • Two women dressed as Hitler that would be banned from the Museum of Tolerance.
  • Bob from Bob's Burgers', whose restaurant would be "boycotted by short people" due to what the blackboard had written on. The "Burger of the Day" blackboard is a running gag from Bob's Burgers.
  • Krusty ruining his career. Krusty can be seen exiting an airplane with angry black people waiting for him holding a #HasKrustyLandedYet sign. This is a reference to the Justine Sacco incident. Sacco made a racist comment on Twitter relating to AIDS before boarding a plane to South Africa. A hashtag, #HasJustineLandedYet, began to trend worldwide with a great repulsive reaction from people towards her. Only after landing did Sacco find out she had been fired and realised the outcome of her tweet being posted.
  • An American footballer who would be drafted in a later round. The man is holding a plate with crab legs. This is a reference to American footballer Jameis Winston. Winston was once accused of stealing crab legs from a store. During the time of the accusation, Winston was projected to be the first overall selection in the following NFL draft.
• Homer mentions both Siri and Amazon when asking for a beer delivered by a drone.
• The BBC is mentioned by Lisa, although the shows Conrad mentions are fictional.
• The music played in Oddysey Diner is Zorbas from the film Zorba the Greek.
• The hF store is a reference to Hewlett-Packard. It then gets rebuilt as a Facelook store.
• Conrad mentions Candy Crush.
• Quinn mentions Steve Wozniak and the first Apple computer.
• Comic Book Guy mentions Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
• Some of the apps at the Appcrush are parodies or references of real life apps:
  • PaidPal is a reference and a fictional app of Paypal.
  • Cribble is a reference to Google (although there is an app named Cribble)
  • Insta-Grandma is a reference to Instagram.
  • Google Naps is a reference to Google Maps.
  • Quitter is a reference to Twitter.
  • Ripcord is a real app.
• One of the Conrad's friend apps is Gulp, a reference to Yelp.
• Conrad talks about WikiLeaks.
• Conrad said to Lisa for her not to ignore him like an update from Adobe. That's a reference to some Adobe programs which had updates so often that they started to be ignored by many people.
• A character similar to Steve Wozniak and his dog appears at the AppCrush convention.
• When Marge wishes that an app could tell her what would happen if she posted the image that got Homer fired, the Apple Mac startup sound plays and there is an icon of the Apple iPad app Tips above Lisa's head.
• The text on the mainframe when Lisa first walks over is the command line help from the microcontroller flashing utility avrdude.

Continuity

• Lisa previously developed something related to a social media website. ("The D'oh-cial Network")
• Facelook is used and gets a store. ("Blazed and Confused")
• Siri was previously used by Raphael. ("Four Regrettings and a Funeral")
• An NSA bot is seen snooping as part of Smithers' broken pad. (The Simpsons Movie)
• Homer was previously fired. ("Homer's Odyssey")
• Lisa's blue highlight on her hair makes her resemble her non-canon future daughter, Zia Simpson. ("Holidays of Future Passed")

Trivia

• The SWOT analysis on the bulletin board on the wall behind Lisa on "What if computers ran the world?" has a card reading "No more religion" in each one of the sectors. Matt Groening is proported to be an atheist.

Goofs

• Lisa's blue hair point changes position (left vs. right) several times over the course of the episode.
• At the first coding class, Lisa was sitting behind Cosine, but when the kids were mocking Quinn because of her gender, Lisa was replaced by a tan-skinned boy with a cyan sweater. In later scenes, she's still sitting behind Cosine and the boy is beside her.
• When Lisa first shows Homer the mainframe, the color of her necklace changes from red to white in one scene.