22 Short Films About Springfield/References

== Trivia ==
*This the first episode where Homer appears after the commercial break.
*This episode, alongside "Simpsons Bible Stories", "Four Great Women and a Manicure" and "The Fight Before Christmas" are the only non-Treehouse of Horror anthology episodes that contain more than three stories.
*This episode has the highest number of writers (11) and is the first episode since season three's "Colonel Homer" to have Matt Groening credited as a writer.
*The "Skinner and the Superintendent" intro includes clips from "Whacking Day", "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", "The PTA Disbands", "'Round Springfield", and "Team Homer".
*The "Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel" intro includes clips from "Bart Gets an Elephant", "Itchy & Scratchy Land", "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", and "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield".
*This episode was supposed to be the pilot episode for a spinoff series that focused on the lives of everyone in Springfield except the Simpsons. It was stated that it would have been too much work and the idea was abandoned.
*There was originally going to be a scene on a plane with Ralph Wiggum and Krusty the Clown.
*When Lisa has the gum thrown on her hair you can see across the street the house president Bush bought earlier in the season. The house is gone in every other episode except for "Much Apu About Nothing".
*Every character who came by during the time when the gum was in Lisa's hair: Ned Flanders, Groundskeeper Willie, Horatio McCallister, Otto Mann, Julius Hibbert, Melvin Van Horne, Lionel Hutz, Üter Zörker, the Capital City Goofball, Leopold, Dr. Colossus, Handsome Pete, Lenny Leonard, and Kent Brockman.
*Homer's scene in the episode, which is between Skinner and Chief Wiggum's scenes, is the only scene in which he and Maggie appear.
*This is the last episode where Snake Jailbird's car Lil' Bandit is a 1969 Dodge Charger. Later on in the episode "Realty Bites" of Season 9 the car is now a 1968 Pontiac Firebird. It is likely Snake's actions in this episode resulted in the Dodge being written off as he crashed it into a wall so sometime offscreen until the events of "Realty Bites" he either bought or stole the Firebird as a replacement.
*This is the first episode since "A Streetcar Named Marge" to use the season 3 long end credits theme during the credits, but this time, it is edited. The same thing happens with "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", "Gump Roast", "Special Edna", "Bart-Mangled Banner" and "Million-Dollar Abie".
== Cultural References ==
*Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: The episode's title is a play on that of the 1993 film.
* Like Quentin Tarantino's film, Pulp Fiction, the episode's plot is episodic and interconnected. Additionally there are several more lengthy parodies. The ensemble of the Chief Wiggum, Snake and Herman plot is based on the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Wiggum, Lou and Eddie's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion between Vince Vega and Jules Winnfield. Later, Snake runs down Wiggum like Butch Coolidge does to Marsellus Wallace. He then crashes into a wall, running down a fire hydrant and mailbox just like in the film. The two then fight and roll into Herman's shop, he ties them up, ball gags them and waits for Zed to arrive before being knocked out by a medieval weapon yielded by Milhouse. This again mirrors the film, with Herman in the role of Maynard and Snake and Wiggum in the role of Wallace and Coolidge after they were tied up and gagged with similar mouth straps holding red gag balls. Herman even uses Maynard's line "the spider caught himself a couple of flies" when Snake and Wiggum stumble into his store; in the film, however, Maynard delayed saying this line until he called Zed. In the film, Maynard and Zed were homosexual rapists. Unlike the film, however, Zed does not arrive by the time Herman is subdued, which prevents the rapes from happening to Snake, Chief Wiggum and later fellow prisoner of Herman Kirk Van Houten.
*1999: Apu's line "I'm going to party like it was on sale for $19.99!" references Prince's song.
*'Slacker': This episode's parody of Richard Linklater's episodic independent drama comedy film. Smithers and Burns even referenced the title.
*Freak-A-Zoid: Apu sings the song by Midnight Star.
*E.R.: Dr. Nick's scenes parody the popular medical series.
*: When people are giving suggestions to Lisa, Lionel Hutz suggests that Lisa keep the gum in as evidence, as Bazooka Joe has deep pockets.
*Van Heflin: Jasper says he would like Van Heflin's nose.
*Maggie's giggle was also used as a sound effect for a commercial for Huggies Diapers.
== Goofs ==
*The front of the Kwik-E-Mart has traditional swinging doors instead of the automatic sliding doors the store is usually seen with.
*Smithers suffers severe allergic reactions to the bee sting in this episode, yet in "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" he was stung by several bees but suffered no problems at all. Bee sting allergies are often triggered on the second instance of being stung, Smithers could have developed his life-threatening allergy after the previous episode.
*Despite having returned to the house on a date with Agnes Skinner in "Bart the Fink", in this episode Chalmers apparently required directions to Skinner's house as if he had never been there before. This episode may take place prior to Bart the Fink. It is also possible that Chalmers just doesn't care enough about Skinner to remember where he lives. Or it could also be possible that Chalmers wasn't really told how to get to Skinner's house (as he apparently already knew that) but was just sarcastic.
*Chief Wiggum loses his hat in the fight with Snake, but in the next chapter of his story he is wearing it again.
*Barney's bar tab at Moe's Tavern is at $14 billion, but after Barney paid $2,000, Moe said that it's "at least halfway." But this could mean Moe was not going to school when he was young, missing math lessons or beer killing Barney's brain cells (or he simply could've been to lazy to do the actual math right then and there). Also: in order to pay off his $14 billion bar tab, Barney would need to pay for ten beers a day, at $2 each, for roughly 1.95 million years.
* Jasper supposedly got a nose job, but he is seen with his regular nose later on.
**He could've got his regular nose back or Dr. Nick was just kidding or Jasper changed his mind.
**It was either botched or he changed his mind and decided to not have the surgery
*Snake and Chief Wiggum open the door of Herman's store inwards, but in the scene inside the store, it is open outwards.
*The knight helmet that Milhouse wears has holes which are colored black but which turn gray for a frame.
*After Nelson laughs at Lisa's deplorable hairstyle, she walks to where the tall man was driving, but she is then seen near the sewer where Nelson was hiding, which was on the opposite direction.
**Lisa could seen that Nelson is running away so she could've turned around and walked towards him in order to tell the tall man where Nelson is
*Mrs. Glick trips, falls and gets stuck into a trash can during the Nelson segment, but is later seen among the crowd that is laughing at Nelson.
**Somebody could've pulled her out off-screen and she then could've walked towards the crowd.
*When Chalmers says "Despite the fact they are obviously grilled", the bite mark on his burger disappears. In addition, when Chalmers picks up a burger, three out of four of them disappear.
*The Springfield Shopper already isn't free, but it costs 25 cents.
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