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I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/References

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References/Trivia


Cultural references

  • The title of this episode is a play on the title of the 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
  • The bank robbery is a parody of the movie Dog Day Afternoon.
  • When Dwight crawls though the prison sewage pipe, he sees a "Pure Mountain Spring Water" pipe next to it, and screams "Dammit!", this is a parody of Shawshank Redemption, where the main character in that film gains freedom from prison by crawling through a dirty sewage and waste pipe.
  • The song that featured during the sequence where Marge is being stalked by Dwight is "Who Can It Be Now?" by Men at Work.
  • When Marge and Dwight are at the amusement park you can see the ride "Dilbert's Flying Cubicle" in the background, a reference to Scott Adams's popular comic Dilbert. The theme song of the Dilbert animated series can be heard in the background for a large portion of the scene.
  • The ads in the school newspaper are the same text and font used by Coffee News, a small newsletter