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| − | == Cultural references ==
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| − | In the opening scene, [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on the wall of Dr. Pryor's office. At one point Homer erroneously refers to Einstein as the inventor of the [http:///index.php?title=Incandescent_light_bulb&action=edit&redlink=1 light bulb]. Dr. Pryor compares Bart's proposed work among ordinary children to Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees.<!-- unsupported placeholder type --> Goodall was pleased to be mentioned in the episode, sending the program a letter,[[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] and Vitti a signed book.[[Maggie Simpson]] Jane Goodall was later featured as a major guest star in the episode "[[Simpson Safari]]". The composer of the opera the family attends is named Boris Csuposki, a reference to animator [[Gabor Csupo]].<!-- unsupported placeholder type --> The opera attended by the family is [http:///index.php?title=Carmen&action=edit&redlink=1 Carmen], by [http:///index.php?title=Georges_Bizet&action=edit&redlink=1 Georges Bizet]; the song Bart mocks is a famous aria called the Toreador Song.[[Simpson Safari]]
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| − | *"Scrabble" The Simpsons are playing it in the beginning.
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| − | *"Albert Einstein" Various references throughout the episode.
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| − | *"Carmen" The Simpsons go to see it.
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| − | *"Gabor Csupo" Look carefully on the poster and you will see the name Boris Csuposki a play on animator Gabor Csupo.
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| − | *"Plato" Appears on bookshelf.
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| − | *"Moby Dick" Appears on bookshelf.
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| − | *"Leonard DaVinci" A book called ''The Life of Leonardo'' appears on the bookshelf.
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| − | ==Trivia==
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| − | ===General ===
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| − | There is a picture of Bart on the wall opposite one of Albert Einstein in Dr. Pryor's office.
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| − | After Bart comes home green Homer washes him in Turpentine.
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| − | Homer thinks it was Albert Einstein that invented the light bulb.
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| − | Maggie spells out EMCSQU (or E=MC²) on her building blocks.
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| − | Maggie falls once:
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| − | As Lisa looks up id
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| − | Introductions
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| − | Millhouse has black hair in this episode.
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| − | This is the first episode where Bart uses his soon to be famous catch phrase "Eat My Shorts".
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| − | Hard to See Stuff
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| − | Martin is the train conductor when Bart is told to visualize his IQ problems.
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| − | Principal Skinner devotes an entire file drawer to Bart Simpson.
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| − | Homer makes a cheque of $75, to pay for Bart's defacing of school property, to "Dept. of Education"
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| − | Bart's, but in reality Martin's, IQ is 216.
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| − | Bart wears a pink shirt to his first day of class at the "Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children".
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| − | Books on the shelf in Bart's new advanced school classroom include Crime & Punishment, Babylonian Myths, Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick, Plato, Dante's Inferno,The Illiad, Plato, Design of Computers (remember this is 1990), Astrophysics, Wana by Emile Zona, Puskin, Shakespeare I-XV,Quantum Mechanics, and the Life of Leonardo.
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| − | The Simpson attends the opera "Carmen", advertised as "Tonight Only in Russian."
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| − | On the opera poster, the conductor is identified as Boris Csuposki, a play on the name of producer and supervising animation director Gabor Csupo.
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| − | After he is dubbed a genius, Bart's Principal Skinner graffiti likeness and word balloon is framed and labeled as a work of art entitled "The Principal" by Bart Simpson.
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| − | Martin and his parents were at the opera.
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