Separate Vocations/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 3 Episode References
← 052 "Homer at the Bat"	053 "Separate Vocations"	"Dog of Death" 054 →

Cultural references

• Lisa's flippant remark of "What 'cha got?" to Miss Hoover is similar to Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
• Bart's fantasy of being a drifter and remarking that he was banished from a town by a sheriff is similar to First Blood, which revolves around the fact that the film's protagonist, John Rambo, was banished from a town on account of the fact he was scruffy and long-haired and the sheriff did want his kind in the town.
• Bart's courtroom appearance (where his face is concealed by a blue dot and his voice is altered to sound like Steve Allen's) is a reference to the 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith. In television coverage of the trial, his accuser's face was concealed with a blue dot.
• The chalkboard gag references Bulimia nervosa.

Trivia

• Dr. Pryor has pictures of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud on the wall behind his desk.
• When Bart is assigned detention, he has to write "I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty." on the blackboard over and over.
• A tiny skull hangs on a chain from Snake's rearview mirror.
• Career Aptitude Normalizing Test (CANT): Name of the test given to the students at Springfield Elementary.
• According to the DVD commentary, it took nine takes to get guest star Steve Allen to pronounce "Aye, Carumba" correctly.
• In 1992, Nancy Cartwright won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for this episode.
• Snake's car Lil' Bandit makes an appearance, albeit without a snake design and gets smashed halfway through the episode.
• Dr Pryor makes a rare non-cameo appearance in the episode.

Goofs

• When Bart and Principal Skinner are closing in on Lisa's locker, several shots of them opening lockers are repeated.
• When the people to collect the tests enters the room, we can clearly hear "Here for the tests", but both of them don't open their mouths.
• The color of the school keeps switching from purple to orange throughout the episode.
• In one scene of Lisa's detention, the Aa sign on the strip above the blackboard is missing, and has just the color orange in its place
• When Kearney gives Milhouse a wedgie, he and Dolph are the same size as the other kids.
• When in the police car, as Lou talks, there is a closeup to his face, but behind him, there is no window or roof.

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