Lisa Gets the Blues/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 29 Episode References
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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the film Schultze Gets the Blues.
• The title screen references The Flintstones.
• Offscreen, Homer bets with Bart on the Final four and loses, he writes "I will not bet with Bart on the final four" on the blackboard.
• Skinner shows Lisa pictures of Yo-Yo Ma, Shaun White and Albert Einstein.
• The scene where Bart gets dressed as Little Orphan Annie is a reference to the musical Annie..
• The song playing while the family leaves for Gainesville is Randy Newman's Gainesville.
• The pilot of the plane calls the co-pilot Scott Rudin.
• In New Orleans, Homer and Lisa go to the Cafe Beau Beurre, Pat O'Brien's, Bourbon Street, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Bevi Seafood Co, Jamila's Cafe, Emeril's New Orleans, Bon Ton Cafe, Johnny's Po-Boy Restaurant and Gene's Po-Boy, Crabby Jack's, Tracey's, Cochon, DiMartino's, Parasol's, Jacques Imo's Cafe, Mulate's, Mahony's Po-Boy, Frankie & Johnny's, Cajun Seafood, Parkway Bakery & Tavern, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, Dooky Chase's Restaurant, Central Grocery & Deli, Katie's, Brennan's, Coop's Place, Antoine's Restaurant, Loretta's Authentic Pralines, The Praline Connection, Arnaud's, Palm Court Jazz Cafe, The Court of Two Sisters, Commander's Palace and The Spotted Cat Music Club.
  • Cafe Beau Beurre is the only place that is not a real location.
• A tube from the Keystone Pipeline (written as XL Pipeline) is seen in the river.
• Madame Midnight House Of Voodoo is a reference to the real life Madame VooDoo House Of Ink.
• Homer visits the Saint Louis Cemetery number one.
• The song that plays when Lisa and Homer traverse the streets, after meeting the Trombone Shorty statue is Louis Armstrong's When the Saints Go Marching In.
• Homer, Lisa and Bart eat beignet at Cafe Du Monde, and Homer says, breaking the fourth wall, that the next episode will beat Gunsmoke, but Bart retorts that he's not counting the radio episodes. Homer shuts him up by making him eat a beignet.

Continuity

• The Tracey Ullman Show short The Aquarium is shown before the title screen, till the shark is seen with Bart in his mouth.
• The billboard makes reference to when Burns was shot and how no one was arrested for it. ("Who Shot Mr. Burns?")
• A picture of Yo-Yo Ma is shown. ("Puffless")
• Bleeding Gums Murphy's nephew shows Lisa a picture of her and Murphy on the bridge playing sax. ("[[Moaning Lisa]")

Trivia

• In the opening sequence, Gerald Samson helds a banner saying "Happy 635th", a reference on how this is the 635th episode of the show, being tie with Gunsmoke as TV's longest running primetime scripted series. The next episode, Forgive and Regret, the show will surpass Gunsmoke and take the record.

Goofs

• The Court of Two Sisters is written as The Court of the Two Sisters in the episode.

← Season 28 Season 29 References Season 30 →

The Serfsons • Springfield Splendor • Whistler's Father • Treehouse of Horror XXVIII • Grampy Can Ya Hear Me • The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be • Singin' in the Lane • Mr. Lisa's Opus • Gone Boy • Haw-Haw Land • Frink Gets Testy • Homer Is Where the Art Isn't • 3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage • Fears of a Clown • No Good Read Goes Unpunished • King Leer • Lisa Gets the Blues • Forgive and Regret • Left Behind • Throw Grampa from the Dane • Flanders' Ladder

← Season 28 Season 29 References Season 30 →

The Serfsons • Springfield Splendor • Whistler's Father • Treehouse of Horror XXVIII • Grampy Can Ya Hear Me • The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be • Singin' in the Lane • Mr. Lisa's Opus • Gone Boy • Haw-Haw Land • Frink Gets Testy • Homer Is Where the Art Isn't • 3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage • Fears of a Clown • No Good Read Goes Unpunished • King Leer • Lisa Gets the Blues • Forgive and Regret • Left Behind • Throw Grampa from the Dane • Flanders' Ladder