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Cultural references

• The title could be a reference to the movie To Sir, with Love, or the 1963 James Bond film, From Russia with Love.
• The song played on the beginning of the episode is "Tik Tok" by Ke$ha. It is part of the "Fox Rocks" promotion, a week of music themed episodes in different TV shows on the FOX Channel.^[1]
• The Channel 6 News name for the explosion of Homer's bag, "Chattanuclear-Choo-Choo" is a reference to the Glenn Miller song Chattanooga Choo Choo.
• The company that installs the city-wide camera system is called "Orwell Security", a reference to George Orwell and his novel 1984, about a dictatorial government that maintained control over the population by keeping everyone under surveillance.
• During the video where Nigel Bakerbutcher shows the video surveillance network he previously set up in London:
  • Mary Poppins (from the film of the same title) is seen using her umbrella to gently descend to the ground, accompanied by music from the film.
  • After she lands, she sheds her human disguise, revealing herself to really be a camera-equipped robot endoskeleton that resembles the Terminator.

Goofs

• Lisa says Bart is blonde as well as her, but in "No Loan Again, Naturally" Lisa clearly saw Bart's hair in its natural red.

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