Bart's Friend Falls in Love/References
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Cultural references
When Homer rolls from the stairs, it mimics the iconic scene where Indy has to stay ahead from a huge rolling boulder in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The scene where Bart steals Homer's change jar parodies the famous sequence from the Indiana Jones film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- When Bart grabs the change jar = Indy grabs the idol
- When Homer falls down the stairs = The boulder scene
- Maggie fires a suction arrow = The booby traps
- When the garage door closes = The chambers door closes
- Homer gets stuck in the door = Satipo in a booby trap
- Homer chases Bart with a rake = The Hovitos with spears chase Indy
- Bart escapes on the bus = Indy escapes in a plane.
- The major difference is while Bart did make off with the treasure, Indy did not.
- The theme song "The Raiders March" composed by John Williams is heard as well.
- Kirk Van Houten bought Milhouse a Magic 8-Ball at Circus of Values.
- Bart refers to Uncle Sam by "Uncle Sucker".
- According to Kent Brockman, obese Americans have grown up with the image of actor Dom DeLuise, film director Alfred Hitchcock and Santa Claus.
- Bart trades Milhouse's Carl Yastrzemski baseball card for his Omar Vizquel card. Bart also trades a card of Mickey Mantle for a photo of Homer sleeping on the couch.
- Milhouse compares kissing to opening an Eskimo Pie. Eskimo Pie was an American brand of chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped in foil.
- The article "The Year 2525: Were Zager and Evans Right?" read on the front page of Eternity magazine is a reference to the American rock-pop duo Zager and Evans hit "In the Year 2525".
- The song "Memories" by Elvis Presley is heard when Homer says goodbye to his stomach.
- There is a poster of Albert Einstein in Martin's bedroom.
- The title of The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode "I'm Getting Buried in the Morning" is a pun on "I'm getting married in the morning", a line of the song "Get Me to the Church on Time" from the musical My Fair Lady.
- The "Bridal Chorus" can be heard in this episode.
- When Mr. Stanky takes Samantha away, Bart cites "'tis better to have loved and lost...", a famous phrase in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "In Memoriam A.H.H.".
- Milhouse compares his love affair with Samantha as that of Romeo and Juliet.
- A poster of the fictional band Spinal Tap from the film This Is Spinal Tap is seen in Milhouse's bedroom.
- While fighting with Milhouse, Bart's hand gropes for a weapon in a parody of Grace Kelly's scissor-stabbing scene in Dial M for Murder.
- The French Canadian nun at Saint Sebastian's School for Wicked Girls is performing "Dominique", a 1963 worldwide hit French language song by Belgian Soeur Sourire aka the Singing Nun.
- "La Marseillaise" is heard at Saint Sebastian after Samantha kisses Milhouse for the last time.
- The final shot of Bart and Milhouse leaving Samantha's school in the fog parodies the ending of Casablanca.
Trivia
- When Milhouse and Samantha kiss for the first time, their arms make a heart shape.
- This episode marks the first time that Bart and Milhouse fight each other.
Goofs
- The robot head on Lisa's magazine is colored yellow instead of gray briefly.
