Pretty Whittle Liar/References

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	Season 33 Episode References
← 721 "Bart the Cool Kid"	722 "Pretty Whittle Liar"	"The Sound of Bleeding Gums" 723 →

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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the TV series Pretty Little Liars.
• Marge is hosting book club with A Farewell to Arm by Ernest Hemingway.
• Agnes says to Cletus that Brandine is Jeopardy! smart, while Cletus asks her if she's Celebrity Jeopardy! smart.
  • When she shows him the library card, the opening to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is plucked by a banjo.
• Lisa reports on the Matilda effect, using Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin and Jocelyn Bell Burnell as an example, their picture shown on the board.
  • Miss Hoover uses Oogle.
• Brandine reads the book Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray. The front cover says that it's not based on the TV show, a reference to Grey's Anatomy.
• "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky plays at the ballet scene and the scene where Brandine wants to leave the Simpson house.
• Among the books Lisa brings to Brandine are Stendhal's "The Red and the Black", Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons".
• Shauna calls Lisa a Little Miss Google Noodle.
• At the League of Extraordinary Geniuses:
  • Beethoven's "Piano Sonata No. 14 plays.
  • Posters for {Srinivasa Ramanujan, Marie Curie and Isaac Newton are seen.
  • A character resembling Schroeder from Peanuts plays the piano.
• Brandine mentions more names for the Spuckler children, named after the companies Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson. These are all different COVID-19 vaccines.
• Mountain Doo is a parody of Mountain Dew.
• Statues of Looney Tunes characters Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn, Hank Hill from King of the Hill and Bill Clinton appear at Cletus's farm.
• "Goodbye Time" by Conway Twitty plays on Brandine's "farewell" scenes.
• Cletus' first book is Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham.
• Lenny learned to play as Elton John, while Moe, Sam, Barney and Carl learned to play as The Beatles.
• Cletus presents the book "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, and the film series film series, at Cletus on Books.

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The Star of the Backstage • Bart's in Jail! • Treehouse of Horror XXXII • The Wayz We Were • Lisa's Belly • A Serious Flanders (Part 1) • A Serious Flanders (Part 2) • Portrait of a Lackey on Fire • Mothers and Other Strangers • A Made Maggie • The Longest Marge • Pixelated and Afraid • Boyz N the Highlands • You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You! • Bart the Cool Kid • Pretty Whittle Liar • The Sound of Bleeding Gums • My Octopus and a Teacher • Girls Just Shauna Have Fun • Marge the Meanie • Meat Is Murder • Poorhouse Rock