Separate Vocations/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Trivia

• Dr. Pryor has pictures of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud on the wall behind his desk.
• When Bart is assigned detention, he has to write "I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty." on the blackboard over and over.
• A tiny skull hangs on a chain from Snake's rearview mirror.
• Career Aptitude Normalizing Test (CANT): Name of the test given to the students at Springfield Elementary.

Cultural references

• Lisa's flippant remark of "What 'cha got?" to Miss Hoover is similar to Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
• Bart's fantasy of being a drifter and remarking that he was banished from a town by a sheriff is similar to First Blood, which revolves around the fact that the film's protagonist, John Rambo, was banished from a town on account of the fact he was scruffy and long-haired and the sheriff did want his kind in the town.

Goofs

• When Bart and Principal Skinner are closing in on Lisa's locker, several shots of them opening lockers are repeated.

Notes

• According to the DVD commentary, it took nine takes to get guest star Steve Allen to pronounced "Aye, Carumba" correctly.
• In 1992, Nancy Cartwright won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for this episode.