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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks, which was previously punned in another episode title, "MyPods and Boomsticks".
• The scene in the couch gag where Marge serves the Thanksgiving turkey is a visual pun on Norman Rockwell's painting Freedom from Want.
• Homer mentions the English band Traffic.
• Bart, Lisa and Maggie play "Bonk It"! in the car. Bonk it! is a parody of "Bop It!".
• Two animals that look like Bambi and Thumper from the 1942 Dinsey film Bambi come out to skate on the ice and are then hit by the Simpsons' car.
• Dubya Spuckler was planning to shoot Google Earth satellites with a bazooka.
• Cletus' Country Bear Jamboree parody the real-world Country Bear Jamboree, an attraction in the Magic Kingdom.
• The Wiccans prayed to Lilith, a feminine figure theorized to be the first wife of Adam. The Wiccans also mention the abyss, a passage to the underworld and the esbat, a ritual typically held once per month on or near the night of a full moon or new moon.
• The split screen montage featuring Homer and Cletus drinking moonshine is a reference to the film Sideways, and recreates some of its most memorable scenes.
  • The song played in this scene is Sideways OST song "Wine Safari", composed by Rolfe Kent.
• Cletus mentions the 1972 thriller Deliverance, specifically the scene where Bobby (Ned Beatty) is threatened by a mountain man (Bill McKinney).
• One of the hillbillies mentions Star Wars.
• Lisa asks the Wiccans if they were a minority group as defined by Ivy League admissions. The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities, including Cornell University and Dartmouth College, these two mentioned by the Wiccans.
• Lisa goes online to Wiccapedia, a parody of Wikipedia. The home page and logo are similar to those of Wikipedia.
  • A section dedicated to Buffy the Vampire Slayer is on Wiccapedia's home page.
• Lisa calls Snowball II "Hell's Kitten", a play-on-words to "Hell's Kitchen".
• Ned thinks Lisa's computer is from hell. Rod corrects him and says it is a Dell computer.
• "Cursum Perficio" by Irish singer Enya is heard at the Wiccans ritual.
• Chief Wiggum feels pity for the arrested Wiccans and asks Lou to toss them a Judy Blume novel, to what Lou answers he only has Wifey.

• Lisa skating on a frozen lake while the song "Season of the Witch" by Donovan is heard exactly recreates the end credits for the black comedy To Die For where Illeana Douglas's character skated while the end credits roll. To Die For is set in New Hampshire while the footage was actually shot in Canada on the Black River near Jackson's Point, Ontario. The buildings on the banks of the Black River seen in To Die For which are also animated for this episode were the passed-its-prime Mossington Park Pavilion and adjacent boathouse which were demolished in the late 1990s.
• When he was talking to Selma Bouvier, Kent Brockman mentions the terrorist attack on September 11 in New York.

Goofs

• There are two instances where, for less than a split second, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are playing on the Bonk It, and the "Bonk It" logo in the middle of the product turns up-side down.
• When the family joins the highway after leaving the ski resort, The Octuplets all have yellow skin.
• International Harvester and Incest Spuckler have grown since "Yokel Chords" as they are now both the same height as Dubya.