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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the slang term MILF.
• During the couch gag, the couch reads a newspaper with the headline "OTTOMAN EMPIRE COLLAPSES", a pun on "Ottoman" referring to its being both a past empire and a piece of furniture.
• West Side Story: When Bart challenges the fifth grade to a rumble, Milhouse says it'll be just like "that movie where the Jets fought the Sharks."
• The fight in the teachers' lounge parodies the typical "saloon fight" scene, a staple of many old Western movies.
• In Bart's dream, he parodies Superman, taking the asteroid dodgeball and throwing it back at the alien spacecraft.
• Comic Book Guy refers to Born on the Fourth of July as "Tom Cruise's last good movie".
  • He also mentions the languages Na'vi from Vatara and Klingon from Star Trek.
• Comic Book Guy refers to Twilight as "the most barftastic horror franchise of all time".
• When Chief Wiggum drops Ralph on his head as a baby and he becomes unable to put his bottle in his mouth, the joke about dumb people having been dropped on their heads as babies is being visualized.
• A Clockwork Orange: When Comic Book Guy tells Bart the story about how he and the three 5th graders (as toddlers) spoiled the fireworks display, he says. "You and your diaper-wearing droogs ruined everything!", comparing the four boys to Alex and his gang.

Trivia

• When Bart talks to the bullies, the car they are sitting on has the tag number NABF03, which is this episode's production code.
• In Sky1 broadcasts of this episode, the scene where Bart blows up the bunch of fireworks is cut; however, in some airings, the cut is not present.
• In some reruns, the scene where the other three Cool Moms start a make-out session after Marge leaves is omitted.

Continuity

• Some events at the Fourth of July picnic seven years ago explain the way things are in the present:
  • As a baby Ralph Wiggum was dropped on his head by his dad, and almost immediately afterward seemed less smart.
  • Ned Flanders used to have a handlebar moustache, but the ends were burnt off when Bart and the other boys set off all the fireworks at once.

Goofs

• Homer looks at his clock on his bedside table, but in later shots his clock has disappeared.
• When Groundskeeper Willie is about to take a bath in the dumpster and opens his robe, his stomach is flabby rather than muscular as it is in other episodes where Willie is seen shirtless.
• During the dodgeball match at the start, before the 5th grader takes Lewis and Nelson out, they are both on the side cheering instead of on the field.
• When Homer is skyping with Moe, the timer with the amount of time chatted stays at 0:22 and doesn't change.
• In the scene where Marge is reading a book in the living room, in the picture of Abe, his eyes are yellow.

Other airdates

• This episode premiered in the UK on Sky1 on February 25, 2011.