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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
• The advert for Stabby-Oh's is a parody of Lucky Charms.
• The scene where the other baby-helping business has to close down is a parody of Titanic
• During the scene where Marge chases the school bus, Milhouse says, "It's like Speed 2! Only with a bus instead of a boat!", off-handedly summarizing the plot of the original film, Speed.
• When Bart and Milhouse are making unkind comments about Francine Rhenquist on her first day at Springfield Elementary School, Milhouse says, "Yeah, she thinks she's Babe: Pig in the City, referring to the second movie about Babe the pig.
• The song playing during the baby-proofing montage is "Always Safety First" by NRBQ.
• The "dingo alarm" included in the baby safety equipment refers to a 1980 Australian case where a mother claimed a dingo stole her baby.
• The grey-haired and -bearded man in the audience that Lisa addresses as Dr. Koop in her presentation is former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.
• The music that plays as Marge prepares Bart and Lisa for the school bus is the Sabre Dance
• Otto, believing he is being challenged in a car race, mentions the movie "Rebel Without a Cause" referring to the Chickie Run scene.^[1]
• The car vs school bus race scene in the aqueduct with broken gates is a quote from the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
• The white T-shirt with the phrase "Frankie says: relax" that is seen worn by a little boy in the school bus is a reference to the song "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
  • T-shirts with this writing are really for sale.
• Young Homer sings "Kung Fu Fighting" while beating young Smithers.

Trivia

• Among the scientists at the big annual big science thing:
  • Pharm team male researcher
  • Female researcher
  • Miss Phipps
  • One of the Nuclear inspectors from "Homer Goes to College"
• The Springfield school bus base is sponsored by "World Industries" a real existing skateboard company famous in the 2000s.
• When Francine Rhenquist gets on the school bus one of the Mackleberry twins says "Red hair? - What's she trying to pull?" referring to the popular rumor that people with red hair get crazy very easily.
• As Lisa illustrates her nerd-bully theory she presents an image showing a bully up in a tree throwing an apple at Sir Isaac Newton's head is a reference to Newton's "apple incident."

Goofs

• In the chase scene, Milhouse is sitting on the left side (our view), however after Otto reverses to pick up the new kid, Milhouse is on the right side.
  • He could have easily switched seats.
• In Homer's grade school flashback where he is beating up a young Waylon Smithers, Jr., the musical instrument Barney is shown playing is a recorder, but the sound produced is that of a kazoo.
• Lisa has 4 Indian burns, then 3, then 4, then it's gone altogether.
• In a rush, Marge mismatches the shirts of Bart and Lisa (Bart has Lisa's dress and Lisa has Bart's shirt) but in the kitchen it's normal.
• Francine has a nose clip in the swimming pool scene on CCTV. It disappears when Lisa puts it forward, but then it reappears and she then says "Of course. The nose clips."
• Homer does not lose a drop of blood even though he gets 6 nails in his body,
• Apu says "No more Shiva-related pokings" when Homer accessorizes a statue with foam novelty fingers. Shiva is a male Hindu deity but the statue object of the joke is female, so it cannot be Shiva; rather, it appears to be Kali.
• When Francine first bullies Lisa, she hits Lisa in her right eye. However, in the next scene when Lisa is at home with her parents, her left eye is shown to be black.
• After Edna Krabappel asks Drederick Tatum if he could give her a ride, her skirt is dark green despite it being the normal shade of green earlier in the scene.

References