On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Trivia

• This is the first episode written by former Futurama writer Jeff Westbrook.
• Nelson is wearing a T-shirt that says "Glaciers Suck," and says it's part of his "Things Suck" line of clothing. Bart had a similar idea in Fat Man and Little Boy.
• Grampa was earlier seen working at Sprawl-Mart in the episode The Fat and the Furriest.
• Gary Busey is the first celebrity this season to host a Troy McClure-esque video. A few episodes later, Robert Wagner would do the same.
• Worth noting: Following someone around on whom you have a restraining order (as Lisa does to Bart) is considered abuse of the order and is grounds for having it removed.

Cultural References

• The title is taken from the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
• The episode's couch gag spoofs the 1977 science education movie Powers of Ten, which shows the house, Springfield, the continent, the planet, the Milky Way, and the universe; and finally goes back to Homer's body. This gag was first used in The Ziff Who Came to Dinner.
• Songs/music used:
  • The song playing during the "Lisa poking Bart" montage is "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police.
  • When Bart drops his pants to pee outdoors ("The world is my toilet now!"), the music playing is the theme from Born Free.
  • During the montage showing Bart living with the pack of wild dogs, the music playing is from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
• The wicker statue of Lisa that Bart builds is a reference to the 1973 film The Wicker Man and its 2006 remake.
• Jimbo calls the Lisa statue "The Wicker Witch of the West," referencing both The Wicker Man and The Wizard of Oz.
• Bart's plea to Lisa to "Look in your heart" is a reference to the 1990 Coen Brothers film Miller's Crossing.

Errors

• Samantha Stanky from Bart's Friend Falls in Love is clearly visible in the field trip however in her episode she was sent to a girls only school.
• Uter is clearly visible in the field trip to Springfield Glacier; however, in the episode "The PTA Disbands" (the 21st episode from the 6th season) he is left behind on a previous field trip. In the episode "24 Minutes", he is seen stuck in a cobweb in the school air vents. In yet another episode, he is dead.