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Cultural References

• The title is a reference to the MTV Series Girl Code.
• The hF store is a reference to Hewlett-Packard. It then gets rebuilts as a Facelook store.
• Homer mentions both Siri and Amazon when asking for a beer delivered by a drone.
• Homer has a poster with a photo of Elizabeth Warren in his office.
• Marge shows Smithers his posts on Facelook.
• Mr. Burns asks Smithers if he's playing the game Grindr.
• A picture of Bob at Bob's Burgers's restaurant was shown.
• The BBC is mentioned by Lisa, though the shows mentioned are fictional.
• Conrad mentions Candy Crush.
• Quinn mentions Steve Wozniak and the first Apple computer.
• 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.
• Marge shouts "Cowabonga", a reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' catchphrase.
• One of the Conrad's friend apps is Gulp, a reference to Yelp.
• Conrad talks about WikiLeaks.
• Quinn has a sudo tattoo.
• The music played in Oddysey Diner is Zorbas from the film Zorba the Greek.
• 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.
• The "Springfield" intro is a reference to the opening sequence from Silicon Valley.
• 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.

Continuity

• Lisa previously developed something related to a social media website. ("The D'oh-cial Network")
• Marge shows Smithers his posts on Facelook. A Facelook store is built. ("Blazed and Confused")
• Siri was previously used by Rafael. ("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 eye lashes appearance is similar to A Clockwork Orange's Bart, Maggie and Moe. ("Treehouse of Horror III", "Treehouse of Horror XXI", "Treehouse of Horror XXV")
  • 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.