Lisa's Rival/References

References/Trivia

Season 6 Episode References

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Marge says that Homer lost $40 by not going into work that day. Assuming Homer works an average 8-hour shift, that means Homer makes $5 an hour, or not much over minimum wage, which was $4.25 an hour in the USA at the time the episode originally aired.
Bart reads Bad Boys Life magazine.
Allison has an autographed picture of Bleeding Gums Murphy in her room.

The scene where a federal agent confronts Milhouse at a dam is identical to a scene from the 1993 movie The Fugitive. The agent resembles Tommy Lee Jones' character and uses his signature line "I don't care."
Marge is seen reading (and fantasizing about) a romance novel titled Love in the Time of Scurvy, which is a pun on Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.
Homer's "In America" speech while guarding his sugar pile comes from Scarface.
- His line "Oh, what a world!" when the sugar melts was used by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
Ralph's diorama contest entry is just original Star Wars action figures: his collection includes Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Chewbacca.^[1]
Lisa's hiding of The Tell-Tale Heart diorama under the gym floorboards is a parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".
The speech patterns of the beekeeper voiced by Hank Azaria are based on Adam West's portrayal of Batman.
Lisa's nightmare features her playing in a band with famous backup artists: Art Garfunkel, John Oates and Jim Messina.

Ralph also upstages Lisa and Allison in a contest, and in the same sort of bumbling fashion, in a Ralph's Room comic story.