Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the saying, "Stop to smell the roses."
• In a flashback to Superintendent Chalmers' teaching days, he supervises a group of detention students in a scene resembling The Breakfast Club. However, the students say it's actually Fight Club and gang up on Chalmers, beating him up.
• Chalmers says that the best movie about Theodore Roosevelt is Night at the Museum, either the first movie or the sequel. Roosevelt was played by Robin Williams and was a major character in the first film, but had less of a role in the second film.
• The T-shirts that the school offers are parody versions of Phillips Exeter Academy and Andover

Trivia

• During the band room portion of the opening sequence, Lisa plays a tuba instead of her saxophone.

Goofs

• In Chalmers' flashback scene, when he first talks, the words he's saying don't match his mouth movements.