I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/References

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References/Trivia

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	Season 19 Episode References
← 403 "Midnight Towboy"	404 "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"	"Treehouse of Horror XVIII" 405 →

Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on Maya Angelou's 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
• The bank robbery is a parody of the movie "Dog Day Afternoon".
• When Dwight crawls through the prison sewage pipe, he sees a "Pure Mountain Spring Water" pipe next to it, and screams "Dammit!", this is a parody of "Shawshank Redemption", where the main character in that film gains freedom from prison by crawling through a dirty sewage and waste pipe.
• The song that featured during the sequence where Marge is being stalked by Dwight is "Who Can It Be Now?" by Men at Work.
• When Marge and Dwight are at the amusement park you can see the ride "Dilbert's Flying Cubicle" in the background, a reference to Scott Adams's popular comic Dilbert. The theme song of the Dilbert animated series can be heard in the background for a large portion of the scene.
• The ads in the school newspaper are the same text and font used by Coffee News, a small newsletter.
• In the part where Bart and Lisa are watching Itchy and Scratchy, Scratchy appears to be wearing a Star Wars rebel pilot helmet when he is piloting the jet.
• Agnes Skinner says Johnny Stabbo and Dwight are like "Johnny and Clyde", a take on Bonnie and Clyde.
• Chief Wiggum watches "The Negotiator" on a portable DVD player to learn how to deal with a hostage situation during the bank robbery.
• The Itchy & Scratchy episode "The Un-Natural" parodies the baseball steroids scandal, and the title references the book and movie The Natural.

Trivia

• Johnny Stabbo's prison number is the same as the production code for this episode, JABF19.
• The names on Marge's list of women Homer can marry if she dies are Booberella, Lindsay Naegle and "And feed the cat"

Goofs

• Dolph's hair is covering hes left eye instead of hes right one.

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