Pretty Whittle Liar/References
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Cultural references
- The episode title is a reference to the TV series Pretty Little Liars.
- Marge is hosting book club with A Farewell to Arm by Ernest Hemingway.
- Agnes says to Cletus that Brandine is Jeopardy! smart, while Cletus asks her if she's Celebrity Jeopardy! smart.
- Lisa reports on the Matilda effect, using Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin and Jocelyn Bell Burnell as expample, their picture shown on the board.
- Brandine reads the boo Gray's Anatomy, a reference to the tv series Grey's Anatomy.
- "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky plays on the ballet scene and the scene where Brandine wants to leave the Simpson house.
- Among the books Lisa brings to Brandine are Stendhal's "The Red and the Black", Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons".
- Shauna calls Lisa a Little Miss Google Noodle.
- At the League of Extraordinary Geniuses:
- Brandine mentions more names for the Spuckler children, named after the companies Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson.
- Mountain Doo is a parody of Mountain Dew.
- Statues of Looney Tunes characters Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn, Hank Hill and Bill Clinton appear at Cletus's farm.
- "Goodbye Time" by Conway Twitty plays on Brandine's "farewell" scenes.
- Cletus' first book is Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham.
- Lenny learned to play as Elton John, while Moe, Sam, Barney and Carl learned to play as The Beatles.
- Cletus presents the book "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, and the film series film series, at Cletus on Books.
