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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".
Moonhilda (the alien whom Homer imagines abducting Bart) is a pun on Broom-Hilda.
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.
When Gina and Bart are fighting eachother before being caught by Chief Wiggum, Gina insults Bart by saying Family Guy. This is a reference to the TV show Family Guy

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.
Snake Jailbird is said to be a former under-aged offender. However, in "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", it is revealed that he was an archaeologist and a professor, which would seem extremely hard to get if he was in juvie at one point. He was also referred to as "Detention Bird" when he was 13 ("Springfield Up") which suggests that he may have possibly been to juvie, or makes it more likely.

Several of the people who took the parenting class in "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" (including Cletus and Mervin Monroe) are seen visiting their kids in juvie, showing that the class didn't help.

When Homer is at Costington's, his pants get ripped in the escalator. In the next scene, he is shown with his pants down in the dressing room.
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.

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