MyPods and Boomsticks/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Cultural References

• The episode title is a pun on the 1971 Disney movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
• Mapple is a parody of Apple, and Mapple's "My"-tech product line is a parody of Apples's "i" products.
• When Comic Book Guy throws the sledge hammer into Steve Mobbs' image on the wall video screen (after Bart hacked into the newsfeed to play a very cruel joke on the Mapple shoppers), it is a reference to the wikipedia:1984_(advertisement)1984 Super Bowl commerical that introduced the Macintosh personal computer.
• Mapple's undersea headquarters is accessed vis a submersible that resembles a USB flash drive.

Trivia

• In the episode Lisa the Drama Queen it is shown that Lisa still owns her Mypod.