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Trivia

• "Bart the Genius" is the first "proper" Simpsons episode and the second Simpsons episode of the show.
• This is also the first episode to have Bart's name somewhere in the title.
• There is a picture of Bart on the wall opposite one of Albert Einstein in Dr. Pryor's office.
• After Bart comes home green Homer washes him in turpentine.
• Homer thinks it was Albert Einstein that invented the light bulb.
• Maggie spells out EMCSQU (or E=MC²) on her building blocks.
• Maggie falls once (As Lisa looks up id).
• This is the first (and so far, only) couch gag to visually continue into the TV scene.
• Milhouse has black hair in this episode.

Introductions

• This is the first episode where Bart uses his soon to be famous catch phrase "Eat My Shorts".
• A Radioactive Man comic book is seen, though the title character's appearance is vastly different from his appearance is later episodes.

Hard to See Stuff

• When the Simpsons are playing Scrabble and Homer is complaining that he has not good letters, his slate of letters shows "O-X-I-D-I-Z-E", which is the highest word score one can achieve in Scrabble by using seven letters.
• Martin Prince is the train conductor when Bart is told to visualize his IQ problems.
• Principal Skinner devotes an entire file drawer to Bart Simpson.
• Homer makes a cheque of $75, to pay for Bart's defacing of school property, to "Dept. of Education".
• Martin's IQ is 216.
• Bart wears a pink shirt to his first day of class at the Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children.
• Books on the shelf in Bart's new advanced school classroom include Crime and Punishment, Babylonian Myths, Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick, Plato, Dante's Inferno, The Illiad, Design of Computers, Astrophysics, Wana by Emile Zona, Puskin, Shakespeare I-XV, Quantum Mechanics and The Life of Leonardo.
• The Simpsons attend the opera Carmen. advertised as "Tonight Only in Russian".
• On the opera poster, the conductor is identified as Boris Csuposki, a play on the name of producer and supervising animation director Gabor Csupo.
• After he is dubbed a genius, Bart's Principal Skinner graffiti is framed and labeled as a work of art entitled "The Principal" by Bart Simpson.
• Martin and his parents were at the opera. Mr. Prince is the man commenting on Homer and Bart's boorish behavior.
• Marcia Wallace's name is misspelled "Masha" in the credits.

Cultural references

• The Simpsons play Scrabble.
• In the opening scene, Maggie spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on the wall of Dr. Pryor's office. At one point Homer erroneously refers to Einstein as the inventor of the light bulb.
• Dr. Pryor compares Bart's proposed work among ordinary children to Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees. Goodall was pleased to be mentioned in the episode, sending the program a letter, and Vitti a signed book. Jane Goodall was later featured as a major guest star in the episode "Simpson Safari".
• The opera attended by the family is Carmen, by Georges Bizet; the song Bart mocks is a famous aria called the "Toreador Song".

Continuity

• Ms. Melon, teacher at The Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children is seen dancing with Jacques in the music video Do the Bartman.
• Homer comments to Bart that for generations Simpson men have dreamed of outsmarting someone. Homer does just that, by outsmarting Cooder in "Bart Carny".

Goofs

• There is no answers on Martin's paper.
• There is a blackboard behind Dr. Pryor, although when the camera does a close-up on him there is just a purple wall behind him.

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