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Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a reference to the song "I Cain't Say No" from the play Oklahoma!.
  • Llewellyn Sinclair originally directs a version of this play.
• The couch gag "My Three Kids" is a parody of the opening of the sitcom My Three Sons.
• Lenny sings "Jingle Jangle Jingle" by Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loesser.
• Among the books Marge reads are:
  • Chekov's Gun and Other Alibis by Sideshow Bob
  • a book by Konstantin Stanislavski
  • Theatre of the Oppressed
  • The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
  • The Empty Space by Peter Brook
  • A Director Prepares by Anne Bogart
  • Act One by Moss Hart
• The play that Marge directs rips off Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
  • Grampa mentions that Lin-Manuel Miranda is "the guy from In the Heights".
  • Lisa asks who their Alexander Hamilton could be. An employee from "Hamilton Heating and Cooling" then says that's him.
• Chloe reads the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty.
• Marge has a "The Bald and the Beautiful" shirt, a reference to The Bold and the Beautiful.
• When Bart is singing "Lisa Is So Stupid" to Lisa, he does the Floss dance.
• The Portraits of the artists and stars appearing in the restaurant: The Penny Loafer include:
• Stan Lee
• Simon Cowell
• Stephen Hawking
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Ellen DeGeneres
• Lady Gaga
• Christopher Plummer

among others.

• Lisa mentions the writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• Sideshow Mel quits the play to go and play Prospero in The Tempest.
• Bumblebee Man wasn't available as he was playing Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha.
• Professor Frink says he has a Gomer Pyle voice, a reference to Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C..
• Lisa mentions the actor: Bruce Willis
• Homer dreams of the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence.
• Marge says "There's no business like show business", a reference to Annie Get Your Gun.
• When Marge asks Krusty how hard it's going to rain, Krusty mentions the movie Waterworld.
• Surprisingly, Sideshow Bob's wife, Francesca Terwilliger, can be seen in the audience. It is likely that she was released from the Springfield Penitentiary sometime before this episode aired.
• The video in the credits is "White Wine Spritzer" by Okilly Dokilly, the band that plays "Nedal" music, metal music themed around Ned Flanders.

Continuity

• A brown Bully-Vern appears on the title screen. ("Married to the Blob")
• Adverts seen on the screens in the TV truck:
  • Sassy Madison ("Dangers on a Train")
  • A rescue dog commercial ("Forgive and Regret")
  • Maxwell Flinch's commercial ("The Last Traction Hero")
  • Radioactive Man Re-Rises ("Steal This Episode")
  • Thicker than Waters ("Homer the Father")
  • The Ricola commercial ("Flanders' Ladder")

Goofs

• During the song: "Springfield: The New Frontier", The Springfield County Court House's clock changes from 6:05pm to 4:14pm, after that mistake they made up for 06:14pm.