Lisa's Sax/References

==Trivia==
*The episode ends with a montage of clips of Lisa playing her saxophone from "Lisa's Pony", "'Round Springfield", "Moaning Lisa", "Lisa's Substitute", "Lisa's Rival", and "Separate Vocations".
*In addition to revealing Bart's reasons for being a troublemaker and underachiever, this episode is also notable for fueling suspicions of Milhouse's sexuality, after a school psychologist identifies the young Milhouse as having "flamboyantly homosexual tendencies." The episode is also notable for a rare glimpse at Snowball I.
*This is the last episode in which Doris Grau has a speaking role as Lunchlady Doris (although this episode aired nearly two years after her death). It would also mark the final time the character would speak until Season 18's "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (voiced by Tress MacNeille).
**Because this episode was produced during season 7 (Team Homer), the animation doesn't look like the season the former was currently in, looking a little more like season 7 and/or 8's colorings.
*The boy who eats worms was conceived by Al Jean in The Complete Ninth Season's commentary when he used to eat worms as a child and that he looks similar to him.
*There is a portrait of Albert Einstein on the wall at school for smart children.
*This was the second time when Bart tossed Lisa's saxophone into the window and into the street which reminds us of when Bart threw something owned or made by Lisa by mistake ever since the Thanksgiving incident of 1990.
*This is the second time Homer refers to a saxophone as a "saxo-ma-phone," after "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily."
==Cultural references==
*While telling Bart and Lisa about 1990, Homer says "the Tracey Ullman was entertaining America with ... crudely-drawn filler material," a reference to when The Simpsons started out as animated filler for The Tracy Ullman Show.
*Bart's blackboard punishment "I no longer want my " is a reference to the old MTV slogan "I Want My MTV" (and a jab at the channel's declining quality due to lack of music videos and an uptick in reality TV shows, like ), which was also featured prominently in the song "", which was also the first video to air in MTV Europe, in 1987.
*The song "Those Were the Days" parodies the opening credits of the classic television show . The show was also referenced with the narrator claiming that The Simpsons was filmed in a live action studio, and Homer referring to Bart as a meathead.
*Michigan J. Frog (or rather, a knock-off on him) briefly appears when announcing the new WB TV movie. In addition, his sing-song announcement, "We're proud to present on the WB, another bad show that no one will see!", is a jab towards 's notoriety for being in the bottom six in ratings, and its shows being last chances that will not make it to other networks.
*In the flashback, Dr. Hibbert fashioned his hair and attire like in .
*The song Lisa plays on her new saxophone near the end of the episode is "" by .
*A flashback to 1990 shows Homer watching as remarks, "That's some damn fine coffee you got here in Twin Peaks... and damn good cherry pie." is then shown waltzing with a white horse, under a tree with a traffic light hanging from a branch. Homer says: "Brilliant! I have absolutely no idea what's going on."
*When Bart tosses Lisa's saxophone out the window, her terrified gasp in slow-motion almost sounds like the Brachiosaurus from the 1993 film Jurassic Park.
*When Lisa's saxophone gets run over, one of the people who runs over it is a man on a tricycle, who promptly falls over. This is a reference to a character played by , an old man in a raincoat on a tricycle, which is a running gag from the NBC variety show .
*When little Bart skips along the grass, he bears a resemblance to sketches.
*In King Toot's music store, when Homer buys Lisa her first saxophone there is a guitar in the background that is similar to "Frankenstein" guitar.
*When Marge, Homer and Lisa visit a preschool recommended by a school psychologist, a child can be seen in the left hand corner of the screen, that appears to be painting 's famous painting "."
*The montage of Lisa playing her saxophone in the end of the episode features clips from past episodes, such as Lisa's Pony (in the talent show and aside Princess), So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show (aside Homer, who is in coma), Moaning Lisa (on a bridge with Bleeding Gums Murphy) and Separate Vocations (on top of a bench in the school courtyard).
==Goofs==
*Rod and Todd are still the same age in the flashback as they are in the present.
*Despite this episode showing Bart as a bad student due to his bad first day of kindergarten, "Lisa the Simpson" reveals that Bart -- along with Homer, Grampa, and a group of other male Simpson relatives -- is genetically predisposed to become stupid as he grows older. On top of that, "Homer Loves Flanders" has Bart pointing out that being a loser is genetic (with Bart saying "D'oh!" when he realizes that this affects him as well).
*Five years before 1997 would have been in 1992. It is possible Homer meant around 1990.
*When Homer has to choose between either an air conditioner or a Saxophone for Lisa, Lisa lacks any eyelashes.
* When Bart was walking on the grass, there wasn't any path, after Groundskeeper Willie shows the "Ach! Keep off the grass!" sign, there is a path.
*When Bart throws Lisa's saxophone out of the window, Lisa's room was shown to be at the front of the house, even though her room was usually shown to be next to Bart's room.
*For a brief moment, one of the Mackleberry twin's skin tone changes to yellow.
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