MyPods and Boomsticks/References
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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 Apple's "i" products.
- When Comic Book Guy throws the sledgehammer 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 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.