Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts/References

References/Trivia

Season 23 Episode References

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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
When Bart mentions Theodore Roosevelt getting shot by a saloon keeper but carrying on his speech, this actually happened when saloon keeper John Flammang Schrank shot Roosevelt.

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