Rhymes and Misdemeanors/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Credits

Quotes

Cultural references

• The story title is a reference to the Woody Allen film Crimes and Misdemeanors.
• Displays seen in McBean's Coffee House include:
  • Jack "Oscar" Klugman's cigar, a reference to actor Jack Klugman who played Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple.
  • A sock from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
  • Gun confiscated at airport from Harry Connick Jr..
  • Gun confiscated at airport from Christian Slater.
• Krusty says that Jimmy Caan will be working the espresso machine tomorrow.
• Barney sings "plop, plop, fizz, fizz", a song that was sung by the Alka-Seltzer mascot Speedy Alka-Seltzer.
• Ned mentions going to watch a Davey and Goliath marathon.
• After the school bullies used the card shuffler to rearrange the school library's card catalogue, Principal Skinner said that Proust was next to Dickens and Tolstoy was next to Hawthorne.
• Martin has a book by Walt Whitman.
• Martin quotes poet E. E. Cummings and says "I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand starts how not to dance."
• Martin quotes author Mary Shelley and says "Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know."
• Lisa wanted to get a group together to discuss the feminine struggle that Wallace Stevens alluded to in his poem "The Ordinary Women".
• Martin tells Lisa that he's reminded of D. H. Lawrence's "A Young Wife".
• Martin paraphrases Groucho Marx and says "You wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me for a member!"
• Apu mentions Walt Whitman and Federico García Lorca in his poem. His poem was a tribute to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. Krusty then says that he could do a tribute to the poetry of Ruth Bader Ginsburg for all he cares.
• Krusty tried to make Lisa host a poetry show whilst dressed like Mike Tyson.
• Martin says that he has never heard anyone "belch Wordsworth with such resonance" to Barney.

Goofs

• The Blue-haired lawyer has brown hair.