Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts/References

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Season 23 Episode References

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Cultural references

The episode title is a pun on the saying, "Stop to smell the roses."
In a flashback to Superintendent Chalmers' teaching days, he supervises a group of detention students in a scene resembling The Breakfast Club. However, the students say it's actually Fight Club and gang up on Chalmers, beating him up.
- The song playing while The Fight Club beat up Chalmers is "Don't You (Forget About Me)", part of the soundtrack of The Breakfast Club.
Chalmers says that the best movie about Theodore Roosevelt is Night at the Museum, either the first movie or the sequel. Roosevelt was played by Robin Williams and was a major character in the first film, but had less of a role in the second film.
The T-shirts that the school offers are parody versions of Phillips Exeter Academy and Andover
Bart mentions Theodore Roosevelt getting shot by a saloon keeper but carrying on with his speech. This actually happened when saloon keeper John Flammang Schrank shot Roosevelt.
Grampa mentions he hates all the family dynasties, including the Kennedys, Bushes, Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie, Mayor Daley and "his smart-assed son" The Daily Show. He mentions that he does like Stephen Colbert.

During the band room portion of the opening sequence, Lisa plays a tuba instead of her saxophone.
This is the first time that Gary Chalmers has been central to an episode.
Chalmers gets a promotion to Super-duperintendent.
Chalmers' wife's name is revealed to be Rosemary and is deceased.

One of the T-shirts that Edna Krabappel was selling was for Waverly Hills Elementary School. ("Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh")
Edna's Edibles muffins are for sale at the school auction. ("Bart Gets a "Z"")

When Chalmers asks Bart if he has ever seen a horse that his father wasn't betting on and Bart replied "no sir", this is wrong as Bart previously owned a racehorse named Duncan in "Saddlesore Galactica".
- Bart also rides a horse in "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
Nelson's Ha Ha! is heard, however, neither Nelson nor his mother said it as Nelson's face is still straight when it happened.
When Bart sees the presidents in a fold-out, "Roosevelt" is next to a crease on the fold. In a close up, "T." has appeared before "Roosevelt" and there is no crease or fold next to the image and caption of the president.
In the view of the Drowning in Debt theme in the gym early in the episode, Sherri and Terri's father is wearing a white tie. Later, when the kids are released from the school, he is wearing a red tie. The animators will have forgotten to color in the tie in the first scene.
When Bart says "Aye Caramba!" at the end of episode, his mouth doesn't move