MyPods and Boomsticks/References

References/Trivia

Cultural References

The episode title is a pun on the 1971 Disney movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Mapple is a parody of Apple, and Mapple's "My"-tech product line is a parody of Apple's "i" products.
When the doors of the Mapple Store open, they sound like the doors of the Enterprise in Star Trek.
Mapple owner Steve Mobbs is a parody of Apple owner Steve Jobs.
When Comic Book Guy throws the sledgehammer into Steve Mobbs' image on the wall video screen (after Bart hacked into the newsfeed to play a joke on the Mapple Store shoppers), it is a reference to the "1984" Super Bowl commerical that introduced the Macintosh personal computer.
Bart tries to use a MyCube to help in his escape from the store, and all that happens is that the MyCube plays music. The song it plays is "Lovin' You" by Minnie Riperton.
Mapple's undersea headquarters are accessed via a submersible that resembles a USB flash drive.

When Krusty gave Lisa the mypod and showed her Music to Sherri and Terri her Mypod is like the iPod Classic. But when she showed her an exclusive episode of Itchy and Scratchy, her Mypod is like the iPod Touch. The reason why because their are no buttons in the center, the homescreen has apps, and touch the episode of the Itchy and Scratchy.
Lisa owed Mapple $1200 for downloading her music which cost $0.99 (or $1.00), but the bill would have said $1212 because she downloaded 1212 songs in her Mypod.