A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again/References
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Cultural references
- The episode title is a pun on the non-fictional novel collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
- The song played in Bart's weekday drudgery montage is "The Boy From School" by Hot Chip.
- The music that plays after Bart says "That's our ship!" is the 3rd movement, "Rondo: Allegro agitato", from the Harp Concerto in C by François-Adrien Boieldieu.
- On the cruise's Fun Schedule:
- Kung Fu Person, which stars Jack Black, is a reference to Kung Fu Panda, which also starred Jack Black.
- The music that plays as Bart goes through his Fun Schedule is the overture to the opera The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai.
- After the virus is announced, the KidZone Elite kids take on the task of preserving the world's great literature, and are seen working on the following:
- Creating an illuminated manuscript featuring Itchy and Scratchy.
- Transcribing The Little Prince (which is a real life book).
- Playing a scene with Professor X and Magneto from The X-Men.
Trivia
- The couch gag was previously used in the season 22 episode "500 Keys".
- This opening sequence cut from the logo to the couch gag.
Continuity
- Maggie tries to give Bart her pacifier. He gained a liking for pacifiers in the short, "The Pacifier", when Maggie gave him one.
- Zelda, Grampa's girlfriend from "The Old Man and the Key", is seen on the Royalty Valhalla.
- Cregg Demon appears again. ("The Great Simpsina")
Goofs
- The computer that Bart is using has four rows of keys, but a real one has five.
- During Bart's Everything Sale, there is no line across the money jar to mark where the money for the cruise has to fill up to.
- When Moe opens Bart's baby tooth box, there is a baby tooth at the corner of the box which is the same color as the box.
- Bart's knife seems to appear and disappear strangely.
- Bart moves from one end of the couch to the other in a split-second.
- Marge's voice is very gravelly when she tells Bart to eat his dinner.
- When Marge and Homer are kissing on the boat, the alarm sounds. The people in the background react to the sound before the alarm even begins.
- When Bart says "Squirt!" the second time in the communications room, his mouth remains closed.
- At the Fun Court, there is a black-skinned man to the right of Dave. But, after Bart admits the virus was a hoax, there are a group of people to the right of Dave.
