Brother from the Same Planet/References

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References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Trivia

• Bart was also replaced in a later episode by a robot named David.
• The chalkboard gag "The Principal's toupee is not a frisbee" is the only mention of Seymour Skinner:Principal Skinner's hair being fake in the entire series. Therefore, it is safe to assume it is not true.
• The name "IP Freely" was previously used in "Homer's Odyssey" by Bart as a crank call to Moe. This time the call was made by drunken fraternity boys, who were the alleged sources to the fight of a giant lizard in Downtown Springfield to Kent Brockman.

Cultural references

• The R-rated movie Bart's friends are so excited about seeing is Barton Fink, a 1991 drama about a struggling screenwriter in the 1940s, which presumably is far from what they would hope to see.
  • A later episode, "Bart the Fink", would take its title from that film, which, like The Simpsons, is produced by 20th Century Fox.
• Milhouse writes "Trab pu kcip" on the wall, which is "Pick up Bart" backwards, a reference to Danny Torrance writing "redrum" (which is "murder" backwards) in The Shining.
• The woman that Bart mistakes for Homer in an ironic touch sings "I Am Woman".
• While Bart is stuck in the storm waiting for Homer, a nun is lifted up by the wind, a reference to the TV series The Flying Nun.
• The grapefruit scene is a reference of the James Cagney movie, The Public Enemy.
• When Bart tells himself "Eye of the Tiger, Bart" he is making a reference to what Rocky says to himself in Rocky III.
• When Homer tells Bart "You've been flouncing around with that floozy of a bigger brother of yours, haven't you? Haven't you!" he is making a reference to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? when Richard Burton accuses his wife of adultery.
• Skinner makes a reference to the movie Psycho when he says "Oh... there's mother now." This is the first time Skinner has been portrayed as a Norman Bates-like character.
• At one point, Bart tells Homer that he would fake the excitement he would have when Homer pushed him on the swing and demonstrates it, to Homer's horror. This is a reference to the infamous fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally.
• A section of the fight between Homer and Tom parodies the introduction to Street Fighter II.
• At one point, Bart watches "Tuesday Night Live", which is a parody of NBC's Saturday Night Live. At a commercial break, Bart comments that he misses Joe Piscopo, who was a castmember on the show from 1980 to 1984.
  • Krusty appears on a sketch called "The Big Ear Family", which could be a reference to either the Coneheads or The Widettes; The Coneheads being a family of aliens with large cone-shaped heads, and the Widettes being a family of people with abnormally-large rear ends.
• The fight between Homer and Tom mirrors a fight at the end of The Quiet Man, a John Wayne movie.