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*When [[Lisa]] grabs the ball inside Maggie's play pen, she sticks her arms between the bars to pick the toy up. When she lifts the toy out of the play pen, however, she keeps her grip on the ball, meaning that her arms would've went ''through'' the top part of the frame.
 
*When [[Lisa]] grabs the ball inside Maggie's play pen, she sticks her arms between the bars to pick the toy up. When she lifts the toy out of the play pen, however, she keeps her grip on the ball, meaning that her arms would've went ''through'' the top part of the frame.
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*During the bumper car scene, when Bart targets the kid in the Lexus bumper car, it resembles an LS400; however, as Bart charges towards it, its appearance now resembles the IS300
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*Principal Skinner says the Periodic Table of Elements in his school has 16 elements, "all lanthanides". The lanthanide series only has 15 elements.
  
 
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References/Trivia


Season 13 Episode References
279 "Half-Decent Proposal"
280
"The Bart Wants What It Wants"
"The Lastest Gun in the West" 281


Cultural references

  • The episode title is a parody of the phrase by Woody Allen "The Heart Wants What it Wants".
  • While looking inside one of the classrooms at Springfield Preparatory School, Lisa remarks to Principal Skinner that the school's Periodic table has 250 elements on it. In reality there are currently only 118 elements.
  • Maggie can be seen playing with a plush toy of Bongo, the one-eared rabbit from Matt Groening's Life in Hell comic strip.
  • Marge tells Wolfgang Puck that she puts M&Ms in her Rice Krispies Squares.
  • When Marge makes a cooking suggestion to Wolfgang Puck, he immediately heads to the "Puckmobile" to the music of the 1960s Batman television series.
  • One of the studios Bart passes by is filming "Canadian Graffiti" which is a parody of the George Lucas movie "American Graffiti". Graffiti consists of "Obey the Rules!"
  • Milhouse's line "Take off hoser!" is a reference to Bob & Doug McKenzie.
  • The music playing when the family arrives in Toronto is "Take Off" by Bob and Doug McKenzie, featuring Rush lead singer, Geddy Lee.
  • Rainier Wolfcastle saying "Remember when I said I would eat you last? I lied!" to the piece of pie on the dinner table, is a parody of the movie Commando when Arnold Schwarzenegger says "Remember when I said I would kill you last? I lied!"
  • Lisa's determination not to be a "Gamecock" indicates her unwillingness to attend the University of South Carolina, whose mascot is the Gamecocks.
  • The "Paramountie Studios" logo is a parody of Paramount Pictures.
  • Lenny and Carl fight with microscopes similar to lightsabers from Star Wars.

Goofs

  • When Lisa grabs the ball inside Maggie's play pen, she sticks her arms between the bars to pick the toy up. When she lifts the toy out of the play pen, however, she keeps her grip on the ball, meaning that her arms would've went through the top part of the frame.
  • During the bumper car scene, when Bart targets the kid in the Lexus bumper car, it resembles an LS400; however, as Bart charges towards it, its appearance now resembles the IS300
  • Principal Skinner says the Periodic Table of Elements in his school has 16 elements, "all lanthanides". The lanthanide series only has 15 elements.
Season 13 References
Treehouse of Horror XII The Parent Rap Homer the Moe A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love The Blunder Years She of Little Faith Brawl in the Family Sweets and Sour Marge Jaws Wired Shut Half-Decent Proposal The Bart Wants What It Wants The Lastest Gun in the West The Old Man and the Key Tales from the Public Domain Blame It on Lisa Weekend at Burnsie's Gump Roast I Am Furious (Yellow) The Sweetest Apu Little Girl in the Big Ten The Frying Game Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge