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Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a parody of the title of the movie Boyhood.
  • The song "Hero" by Family of the Year (Boyhood's soundtrack), is heard during the episode intro.
• The couch gag is animated in rotoscoping.
  • Lisa's characterization of it as "a noble experiment that failed" is an expression often used to describe Prohibition.

The opening sequence, as well as most of the episode, is a parody of the 2014 film Boyhood

• The episode is a parody of Boyhood. The scene in which the word "Barthood" is written in the sky while Bart and Homer are laying on the grass is a parody of the opening scene of Boyhood.
  • The song heard is an instrumental version of "Hero" by Family of the Year, which was prominently used in that film.
• Abe Simpson and Bart rides a 1954 Studebaker Starliner Commander.
• A copy of Jack and Jill can be seen in the pile of books on the table when Bart is learning to read.
• Marge is reading What to Expect When You're Not Expecting, a reference to the book What to Expect When You're Expecting.
  • The book was previously parodied in "At Long Last Leave" with a book titled What to Expect When You're Ejected and with the episode title of a Season 25 episode, "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting".
• Homer is watching the NHL on TV, and fictional players "Andreychuk and Hamilton" are mentioned. This is a reference to the Canadian couple Marcia Andreychuk and Joel Hamilton who got international attention after turning their kitchen into a replica of the Simpsons' house kitchen.
• Bart says that he and Homer got a lot of Starwood points at the hotel. Starwood was a large, now defunct, hotel chain.
• There is a sticker at the rear of Homer's car that says "This car does not play NPR".
• Wiggum tells a joke on A Nightmare on Elm Street.
• Lisa is going to the Mayo Clinic Pre-Medical Summer Camp.
• Apple car is a reference to the Apple electric car project.
• Paintings of Marie Curie and Frida Kahlo can be seen in Lisa's bedroom.
• Abe mentions Myrna Loy and compares her eyes to those of a Persian cat.
  • Abe connects this to Persia, saying that in his times "Persia extended from Algiers to Constantinople till the revolt of the eunuchs in 1916". He is actually mistaking the Persian Empire with the Ottoman Empire.
• There are caricatures of Woody Allen, Marilyn Monroe and Clint Eastwood on Bart's small business sign.
• Darryl is drawn as Superman.
• Milhouse imagines he will have a girlfriend named Alberta that lives in Alberta, Canada.
• Lisa is going to Yale University.

Nelson dresses like Jim Stark from Rebel Without a Cause

• Nelson dresses like Jim Stark from Rebel Without a Cause.

Canonicity

• Several characters tombstones are seen at the cemetery.
  • Bleeding Gums Murphy ("'Round Springfield")
  • Frank Grimes ("Homer's Enemy")
  • Maude Flanders ("Alone Again, Natura-Diddily")
  • Hyman Krustofsky ("Clown in the Dumps")
  • The Great Raymondo ("The Great Simpsina"); though Raymondo has yet to die in the regular canon.
• Bart previously drove a car to the 1982 World's Fair. ("Bart on the Road")
• Homer previously took drugs, in the form of medical marijuana. ("Weekend at Burnsie's")
• Gunderson Realty is a reference to Red Blazer Realty. ("Realty Bites")
• Krusty previously crashed and exploded in a plane, though it was a fake death. ("Bart the Fink")
• Nelson and Lisa previously dated. ("Lisa's Date with Density")
• Bart paints caricatures, on the pier, where he previously met an avuncular Woody Allen. ("Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing")

Goofs

• Lisa, as a young child, paints the sailboat picture seen hanging above the couch, but in "The Trouble with Trillions", it's revealed that Marge painted it as a gift for Homer.

Trivia

Fast-foward histories

• The first fast-forward history of this episode takes place in the year 2017, 2 years from 2015, when the episode aired. Unsurprisingly, however, mid to late Season 28 episodes (from "Pork and Burns" to "Dogtown") have been set in 2017 like its broadcasting year (2016–2017) and so would early Season 29 episodes (from "Springfield Splendor" to "Gone Boy", except "Mr. Lisa's Opus") (2017–2018).
• The second fast-forward history of this episode takes place in the year 2020, 5 years from 2015, when the episode aired. Unsurprisingly, however, mid to late Season 31 episodes (from "Hail to the Teeth" to "The Way of the Dog") have been set in 2020 like its broadcasting year (2019–2020) and so would early Season 32 episodes (from "Undercover Burns" to "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas") (2020-2021) without any reference to the COVID-19 pandemic, except the opening sequence of the episode "Treehouse of Horror XXXI".
• Contrary to other episodes that are set in the future, though only partially set in it, this one is canon.^[1]

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