I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh/References
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Cultural references
- The title of the episode is a reference to the song "I Cain't Say No" from the play Oklahoma!.
- Llewellyn Sinclair originally directs a version of this play.
- The couch gag "My Three Kids" is a parody of the opening of the sitcom My Three Sons.
- Lenny sings "Jingle Jangle Jingle" by Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loesser.
- Among the books Marge reads are:
- Chekov's Gun and Other Alibis by Sideshow Bob
- a book by Konstantin Stanislavski
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
- The Empty Space by Peter Brook
- A Director Prepares by Anne Bogart
- Act One by Moss Hart
- The play that Marge directs rips off Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
- Grampa mentions that Lin-Manuel Miranda is "the guy from In the Heights".
- Lisa asks who their Alexander Hamilton could be. An employee from "Hamilton Heating and Cooling" then says that's him.
- Chloe reads the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty.
- Marge has a "The Bald and the Beautiful" shirt, a reference to The Bold and the Beautiful.
- When Bart is singing "Lisa Is So Stupid" to Lisa, he does the Floss dance.
- Sideshow Mel quits the play to go and play Prospero in The Tempest.
- Bumblebee Man wasn't available as he was playing Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha.
- Professor Frink says he has a Gomer Pyle voice, a reference to Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C..
- Homer dreams of the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence.
- Marge says "There's no business like show business", a reference to Annie Get Your Gun.
- When Marge asks Krusty how hard it's going to rain, Krusty mentions the movie Waterworld.
- The video in the credits is "White Wine Spritzer" by Okilly Dokilly, the band that plays "Nedal" music, metal music themed around Ned Flanders.
Continuity
- A brown Bully-Vern appears on the title screen. ("Married to the Blob")
- Adverts seen on the screens in the TV truck:
- Sassy Madison ("Dangers on a Train")
- A rescue dog commercial ("Forgive and Regret")
- Maxwell Flinch's commercial ("The Last Traction Hero")
- Radioactive Man Re-Rises ("Steal This Episode")
- Thicker than Waters ("Homer the Father")
- The Ricola commercial ("Flanders' Ladder")
