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Cultural references
- The episode title is a reference to the movie High School Confidential.
- Homer imitates Richard Nixon when he takes the kids for a ride in the "Space Shuttle".
- The Mathemagician, whom Martin hires for his party, is modelled after Bill Gates.
Peanuts character Charlie Brown can be seen as a candle with half the head melted
- Peanuts character Charlie Brown can be seen as a candle with half the head melted.
- Principal Skinner hums Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he asks Bart to deliver a letter to Edna.
- The movie being played at Aztec Theater has Tom Berenger on it. Superintendent Chalmers' comment "You think they actually filmed this in Atlanta?" implies that the film is in fact The Big Chill, a 1983 comedy-drama film starring Tom Berenger.
- Agnes started collecting photos of cakes after finding a picture of a cake she liked on a 1941 edition of Good Housekeeping magazine.
- One of the pictures is from a Lady Baltimore cake.
- The phrase Bart says "Set your faces to stunned" is an obvious reference to the famous Star Trek mis-quote 'Set Phasers to Stun'.
- Sanjay's daughter, Pahasatira, thinks of the Hinduism deity Vishnu when she tries to describe Edna and Seymour's posture in the closet.
- Chief Wiggum tells his wife Sarah to get him in contact with Superintendent Chalmers in a similar way Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show orders the telephone operator Sarah to get him in contact with other characters.
- In trying to force Edna and Seymour out of the school, the police attempt to flood the area with music, more specifically using the song "Embraceable You", performed by Michael Dees. This is similar to a tactic that the US troops used during Operation Just Cause in an attempt to force Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican embassy in Panama City.
Trivia
- Marge only says 8 words in this episode: "Krabappel", "Oh, my goodness" and "Homer, Bart's up there".
- Bart (who fed his serving to a cat), Lisa (who feigns sickness), Edna and Skinner (who hide in Martin's playhouse) are Martin's only guests who did not get food poisoning.
Goofs
- Mrs. Krabappel's name on the envelope is misspelled as "Enda" when Bart is opening and reading the letter, but is spelled correctly when viewed in closeup.
- When Maude Flanders accuses Skinner and Krabappel in engaging in a sexual relationship, Lenny's beard is colored yellow.
- After Skinner announces that he is a virgin, Homer and Marge change positions with other when the camera switches from a long-distance shot to a close-up.
