MyPods and Boomsticks/References

References/Trivia

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Cultural references

The episode title is a pun on the 1971 Disney movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Mapple is a parody of Apple, and Mapple's "My"-tech product line is a parody of Apple's "i" products.
When the doors of the Mapple Store and Mapple's headquarters open, they sound like the doors of the Enterprise in Star Trek.
Mapple owner Steve Mobbs is a parody of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
When Comic Book Guy throws the sledgehammer into Steve Mobbs' image on the wall video screen (after Bart hacked into the newsfeed to play a joke on the Mapple Store shoppers), it is a reference to the "1984" Super Bowl commercial that introduced the Macintosh personal computer.
Bart tries to use a MyCube to help in his escape from the store, and all that happens is that the MyCube plays music. The song it plays is "Lovin' You" by Minnie Riperton.
Mapple's undersea headquarters are accessed via a submersible that resembles a USB flash drive.
Homer's dream references the 1992 Disney film Aladdin with its carpet ride, Robin Williams' Genie, and music in the style of "A Whole New World". Dan Castellaneta, Homer's voice actor, voiced the Genie in the first sequel (The Return of Jafar), the animated series and the Kingdom Hearts video game series.

In the episode "Lisa the Drama Queen", it is shown that Lisa still owns her MyPod.
Bart, Bashir, and Amid attempt to blow up OLD Springfield Mall.

When Krusty gives Lisa the MyPod, and when Lisa shows her music to Sherri and Terri, her MyPod is like the iPod Classic. But when the three of them watch the exclusive episode of Itchy & Scratchy, her Mypod is like the iPod Touch. The giveaway is that there are no buttons in the center, and the homescreen has apps.
Lisa owed Mapple $1200 for downloading her music, which cost $0.99 for each song, but the bill would have said $1,199.88 because she downloads 1212 songs.
- We never see the total on the bill, so Lisa could have just rounded the total as she spoke. Or sales tax or other fees could have been added.
When Homer is flying on the magic carpet, he's covered in his blanket, but when the camera zooms out, his blanket is gone.
Krusty should have received the MyBill, rather than Lisa, since he was the actual owner of the MyPod and Mapple would not have known that Lisa was a customer. (Not so. Lisa evidently registered the MyPod to herself, as the Mapple employee referred to her by her MyTunes username JazzGal62 when she visited Mapple headquarters and Steve Mobbs immediately said her real name.)

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