A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 23 Episode References
← 504 "Beware My Cheating Bart"	505 "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"	"The Spy Who Learned Me" 506 →

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 "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:
  • "Xbox with PS3 controllers".
  • "Human Super-Mario Brothers", a reference to Mario.
  • "Sith training with certified Sith Lord", a reference to Star Wars.
  • Real life Tetris.
  • Power Ranger lessons from a former Pink.
• 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 Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka.
• 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.
• The song played when the Simpson family slides down an ice slide in Antarctica is "Winters Love" by Animal Collective.

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.
• This episode marks the Simpson family finally visiting every single continent on Earth. While Antarctica has appeared in a previous Simpsons episode, the family had never set foot on it.

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.

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