The Dad Who Knew Too Little/References

References/Trivia

Trivia

According to this episode, Officer Lou's ex-wife's name is Amy.
When Bart and Homer are looking at the video kiosk in the mall, behind them is a kiosk labeled "Another Damn Candle Stand."
There's a season 5 episode with the opposite title: "The Boy Who Knew Too Much".
When Bart beams the laser at Principal Skinner, the red dot on his pants, when he pulls them down and Chief Wiggum stops in his car in front of him, how can the laser still be beaming on Skinner if Wiggum's car is blocking out the laser.
Bart appears to be reading Lisa's diary from back to front.
When Homer and Lisa pass by the "bridge out" sign we can see all the way to the bottom of the sign up to the letter U in out. When the sign is viewed after the branch is pulled back, we can see that the O and probably V in the word "overpass" should have been seen in the first place.

This episode won the 2004 WGA Award (TV) for Animation.
For the first time ever, we see what Lisa's hairline looks like in this episode when she colors it black. (Not counting 'Lisa The Beauty Queen' because she gets different hairstyles.)
Fox announced that it had renewed the show until 2005 and its 16th season. This will make the series the longest running comedy series in US TV history save for "Saturday Night Live", and it will have beaten the previous record holder for longest-running prime-time animated series (The Flintstones) by a full 10 years.
Homer's e-mail address is actually writer Matt Selman's e-mail address. Matt used to write back to fans as Homer until about a month after this episode aired. Later, the address was disabled due to too many sent letters.
The couch is Groening's version of the famous 1932 photograph "Lunch on a skyscraper".