Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts/References

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References/Trivia

Appearances

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Credits

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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.
  • The song playing while The Fight Club beat up Chalmers is "Don't You (Forget About Me)", part of the soundtrack of The Breakfast Club.
• 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
• Bart mentions Theodore Roosevelt getting shot by a saloon keeper but carrying on with his speech. This actually happened when saloon keeper John Flammang Schrank shot Roosevelt.
• Grampa mentions he hates all the family dynasties, including the Kennedys, Bushes, Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie, Mayor Daley and "his smart-assed son" The Daily Show. He mentions that he does like Stephen Colbert.

Trivia

• During the band room portion of the opening sequence, Lisa plays a tuba instead of her saxophone.
• This is the first time that Gary Chalmers has been central to an episode.
• Chalmers gets a promotion to Super-duperintendent.
• Chalmers' wife's name is revealed to be Rosemary and is deceased.

Continuity

• One of the T-shirts that Edna Krabappel was selling was for Waverly Hills Elementary School. ("Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh")

Goofs

• When Chalmers asks Bart if he has ever seen a horse that his father wasn't betting on and Bart replied "no sir", this is wrong as Bart previously owned a racehorse named Duncan in "Saddlesore Galactica".
  • Bart also rides a horse in "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
• Nelson's Ha Ha! is heard, however, neither Nelson nor his mother said it as Nelson's face is still straight when it happened.
• When Bart sees the presidents in a fold-out, "Roosevelt" is next to a crease on the fold. In a close up, "T." has appeared before "Roosevelt" and there is no crease or fold next to the image and caption of the president.