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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the legend of the Wandering Jew.
• The song playing during the prison dance is "Colour My World" by Chicago.
• When Gina tells Bart that her crime was pushing Snow White off a parapet at Disneyland, she shows him a newspaper clipping with the headline "It's a Fall World", a pun on the Disney song "It's a Small World".
• The title of Snake's book, The Ten Habits of Highly Successful Criminals, is a pun on the self-help book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
• The Warden has a sampler hanging in his office that reads "His judgment cometh and that right soon", am allusion to The Shawshank Redemption.
• The plot of this episode borrows heavily from The Defiant Ones where two escaped convicts who are chained together go from being enemies to being friends.
• When Bart is scanning wedding presents, the song playing is "White Wedding" by Billy Idol.

Trivia

• The list of things Bart picks for his fake wedding: A coffee maker, waffle iron, tea service, fondue pot, dish towels, silverware, cheese grater, mellonballer, andirons, china figurine, and chain valance.
• The voice of Kearney appeared in two different boys when Bart was in Juvie and neither were Kearney. First a kid with blond hair in the yard, and then later in the dance hall in a bald kid.
• Wiggum just got mauled by a bear, yet his clothes are not ripped at all, and his guts aren't spilling out, he has suffered no blood loss, and he isn't even in any pain.
• This is the second time Chicago's "Colour my World" has been played in this show. The first was in Homer the Moe.

Goofs

• As Marge's magnifier continues to zoom closer and closer on her face, the screen number changes from X2, X8, X100, X5000, X1000
• In a shot where Quimby is with his niece from out of town, Quimby's niece is missing her legs.