The Canine Mutiny/References

References/Trivia

Season 8 Episode References

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Trivia

This is the only episode showrun by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein to use a full opening theme.

The episode's name is a play on the classic maritime novel and war film The Caine Mutiny.
Jamming by Bob Marley plays at the end of the episode and during the credits.
Mr. Burns suggests Laddie was in Skull and Bones, an elite secret society at Yale University.

As Bart looks through the junk mail, his sleeve grows longer in the middle of the scene so that it goes beyond where his other arm overlaps.
When Fat Tony, Legs and Louie dump something rolled up in a rug into a hole, and Legs says to Bart "We didn't see nothin' if you didn't see nothin'", he has Louie's voice.
A brown section of Kent Brockman's dog's fur briefly is colored white.
After Maggie has oatmeal dumped on her head and Homer puts her back in the high chair, the oatmeal is gone.
Chief Wiggum kicks down the blind man's door. But when the shot moves to outside the house as the other officers arrive the door is back in place, and merely opened.
At the heroic dog scene, Laddie is not wearing a collar, however when he receives the medal he is wearing it.
The fence at the blind man's house is gray in close-ups but black in other shots.

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