Bart the Mother/References

==Trivia==
* This is the last speaking appearance of Troy McClure, due to Phil Hartman's murder in 1998.
* This episode was actually a B-story that had been unused for a long time due to having no place in the plot. The original story, however, focused on Homer finding a bird's nest in one of the nuclear plant towers and trying to find a home for the birds before the winter comes.
* Running Gag: Homer falling down the basement stairs.
* This is the final episode to have a short version of the intro until season 13's "She of Little Faith".
* Normally, The Simpsons is rated TV-PG on American television since the start of the TV content ratings in 1997 (mostly for offensive language [L] and suggestive dialogue [D], but some episodes can be rated TV-PG for sexual situations [S] and/or violence [V] and a lot of later episodes have been rated TV-14 due to use of stronger language, crude humor, drug abuse, stronger violence, and sexual content that would be too much for the TV-PG rating). However, this episode, joining season eight's "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" and season nine's "All Singing, All Dancing", is rated TV-G, despite containing scenes of animal violence (the lizards attacking and eating birds), emotional upset (Marge emotionally cutting off Bart as punishment for killing a mother bird and Bart getting upset over the prospect of losing his pet lizards), sexual innuendo (Skinner naming off birds that have sexual-sounding names, like titmouse, booby, and woodpecker), threat (Bart trying to save the lizards from getting killed), and comic violence (Homer getting hit with baseballs and Homer falling down the stairs three times).
== Previous Episode References ==
* Marge Be Not Proud: Marge is so upset over something bad Bart has done that she emotionally cuts him off.
* El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer): A couch gag where Homer falls from a great height (because his parachute won't open/misses the couch when the firefighters are rescuing the family).
* Lisa the Simpson: reference to FOX's reality specials (Homer, Bart, and Lisa watch "When Buildings Collapse" and "When Surgery Goes Wrong"/the Family Fun Center was seen on "When Disaster Strikes 4").
* Selma's Choice: Nelson crashing into people on his go-kart is similar to Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney stealing bumper cars from Duff Gardens.
* Homer Badman: reference to the sexual innuendo behind the word "titmouse" (Homer tells Marge that he's so bashful, he can't say the word "titmouse" without giggling like a schoolgirl/Skinner mentions the titmouse alongside other sexually-named birds like the woodpecker and the booby).
* Homer at the Bat and Burns, Baby Burns: Homer gets hit with a baseball.
* Bart on the Road and Lisa's Date with Density: Nelson lives in a shack with little to no parental supervision.
* Homer's Phobia: Bart refuses to kill an animal.
* Two Dozen and One Greyhounds: The family gather around to see the birth of an animal.
* Lisa on Ice and There's No Disgrace Like Home: The kids argue over who gets to ride in the front seat with Homer.
* Bart Gets Famous: A character voiced by Nancy Cartwright (Bart/Nelson) hums or whistles the theme to The Simpsons.
* Bart Carny: The "In Memoriam" screen for Phil Hartman is reused for this episode.
==Goofs==
*The “Bolivian tree lizard” is a fictional species. However, its behavior mirrors the habits of birds which are brood parasitic, such as the cuckoo and cowbirds. Its impact on birds may also be a reference to the brown tree snake and its impact on Guam's native birds.
*The go-karts are first shown going counterclockwise, but in the next cut with Bart and Homer, they are shown going counter-clockwise.
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