Separate Vocations/References

References/Trivia

Season 3 Episode References

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Trivia

Dr. Pryor has pictures of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud on the wall behind his desk.
When Bart is assigned detention, he has to write "I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty." on the blackboard over and over.
A tiny skull hangs on a chain from Snake's rearview mirror.
Career Aptitude Normalizing Test (CANT): Name of the test given to the students at Springfield Elementary.

Lisa's flippant remark of "What 'cha got?" to Miss Hoover is similar to Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
Bart's fantasy of being a drifter and remarking that he was banished from a town by a sheriff is similar to First Blood, which revolves around the fact that the film's protagonist, John Rambo, was banished from a town on account of the fact he was scruffy and long-haired and the sheriff did want his kind in the town.
The chalkboard gag references [[wikipedia:Bulimia nervosa|Bulimia nervosa]

When Bart and Principal Skinner are closing in on Lisa's locker, several shots of them opening lockers are repeated.
When the people to collect the tests enters the room, we can clearly hear "Here for the tests", but both of them don't open their mouths.
The colour of the school keeps switching from purple to orange throughout the episode.
In one scene of Lisa's detention, the Aa sign on the strip above the blackboard is missing, and has just the colour orange in its place

According to the DVD commentary, it took nine takes to get guest star Steve Allen to pronounced "Aye, Carumba" correctly.
In 1992, Nancy Cartwright won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for this episode.