My Fair Laddy/References

References/Trivia

Trivia

In the show's entire 17-year run, this is the very first full-length episode centered around Groundskeeper Willie. He was however, the central character in "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", one of the three segments of "Treehouse of Horror VI", and had a large amount of screentime devoted to him in "Girly Edition"—in which his shack was also destroyed by Bart's shenanigans and left him temporarily homeless.
Connections: This episode covers the same topic as "My Fair Lady." This episode is also somewhat similar to the season 11 episode "Pygmoelian", in the sense that it features another secondary character getting a 'makeover' or 'new look', last time it was Moe Szyslak. "My Fair Lady" is also a retelling of Pygmalion.
In the gym teacher's datebook, "Double Bombardment" is listed on Christmas.
The episode was rated TV-PG for drug references, violence, coarse language and sexual references.
In this episode's end credits ,instead of the normal music there was a medley of the songs heard
The man in the commercial sits down and the music stops, but when homer and Eli Stern VI are have stopped talking, he is up again and the music is playing
Bart has D- and Lisa B+ on a book report in the song Adequate.

Starting with this episode, Anke Engelke took over as the German voice of Marge after her predecessor Elisabeth Volkmann's sudden death.
When Lisa is singing with Groundskeeper Willie in her bedroom, it is the same as when Stewie from Family Guy sang with a girl that he was teaching to be polite.

The episode title is a pun on the musical My Fair Lady.
- The musical is referenced throughout the episode, with Lisa in the role of Professor Higgins and Groundskeeper Willie as Eliza Doolittle.
- The episode also features songs similar to the style of the musical.

Coach Krupt's saying "What is your major malfunction, Simpson?" is a reference to Full Metal Jacket. In fact, the entire scene is modeled after a similar scene in the film, from camera angles to Bart's facial expression.
The wager that Jimbo Jones makes with Kearney is a reference to Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
The music heard in the Super Bowl commercial for Blue Pants is "Baby Elephant Walk," composed by Henry Mancini for the film Hatari!. This song was previously prominently featured in Dancin' Homer.