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Cultural references

• The episode title is a parody of the phrase by Woody Allen "The Heart Wants What it Wants".
• While looking inside one of the classrooms at Springfield Preparatory School, Lisa remarks to Principal Skinner that the school's Periodic table has 250 elements on it. In reality there are currently only 118 elements.
• Maggie can be seen playing with a plush toy of Bongo, the one-eared rabbit from Matt Groening's Life in Hell comic strip.
• Marge tells Wolfgang Puck that she puts M&Ms in her Rice Krispies Squares.
• When Marge makes a cooking suggestion to Wolfgang Puck, he immediately heads to the "Puckmobile" to the music of the 1960s Batman television series.
• One of the studios Bart passes by is filming "Canadian Graffiti" which is a parody of the George Lucas movie "American Graffiti". Graffiti consists of "Obey the Rules!"
• Milhouse's line "Take off hoser!" is a reference to Bob & Doug McKenzie.
• The music playing when the family arrives in Toronto is "Take Off" by Bob and Doug McKenzie, featuring Rush lead singer, Geddy Lee.
• Rainier Wolfcastle saying "Remember when I said I would eat you last? I lied!" to the piece of pie on the dinner table, is a parody of the movie Commando when Arnold Schwarzenegger says "Remember when I said I would kill you last? I lied!"
• Lisa's determination not to be a "Gamecock" indicates her unwillingness to attend the University of South Carolina, whose mascot is the Gamecocks.
• The "Paramountie Studios" logo is a parody of Paramount Pictures.
• Lenny and Carl fight with microscopes similar to lightsabers from Star Wars.
  • In the Italian version at the beginning of the duel Carl says "only one will remain" quote from the film Highlander.
• The "Fabergé eggs" that would make up the "Faberge eggs salad" mentioned by Marge in the Annual Fair of the Springfield Preparatory School, are not food but egg-shaped jewelry.
• Chef Wolfgang Puck's scene is an irony about the top chefs who are always looking for something new for their dishes and who might find the new in the ideas of housewives.
• The bumper car that Bart gets on is a Mercedes and there are also bumper cars model Jaguar, Porche, Rolls Royce, Lexus and ... an ambulance.
• When Greta Wolfcastle and Bart watch the The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode DVD content, Itchy says "... You can never get enough takes for Steven Soderbergh .." (the latter famous director of films often mentioned in the Simpsons episodes) commenting on the scene that the scene of the elephant eating the pieces of Scratchy, suggesting that the director of the episode was him.
• At the end of the The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini is played.
• The flirtation between Milhouse and Greta Wolfcastle is accompanied by the music "Use ta Be my Girl" by The O'Jays (1978).
• Bart believes Toronto is in Spain.
  • Homer says Canada (because he knows Toronto is Canada) is junior America.
• A Mountie, a Hockey player, Bigfoot, all Canadian icons, gets off the bus that took the Simpsons to Toronto.
• The bus station has a plaque donating "Birhplace of Paul Shaffer." Paul Shaffer was in Toronto at Mount Sinai Hsopital which is around the corner from the Toronto Bus Terminal and grew up 855 miles (1376 km) away from Toronto in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Goofs

• When Lisa grabs the ball inside Maggie's play pen, she sticks her arms between the bars to pick the toy up. When she lifts the toy out of the play pen, however, she keeps her grip on the ball, meaning that her arms would've went through the top part of the frame.
• During the bumper car scene, when Bart targets the kid in the Lexus bumper car, it resembles an LS400; however, as Bart charges towards it, its appearance now resembles the IS300
• Principal Skinner says the Periodic Table of Elements in his school has 16 elements, "all lanthanides". The lanthanide series only has 15 elements.