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

References/Trivia

Trivia

Johnny Stabbo's prison number is the same as the production code for this episode, JABF19.

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
In the part where Bart and Lisa are watching Itchy and Scratchy, Scratchy appears to be wearing a Star Wars rebel pilot helmet when he is piloting the jet.