Pranksta Rap/References

== Trivia ==
*TV Guide initially reported that comedian Dave Chappelle would guest star in this episode. Early reports also stated that Bart had recorded a song with 50 Cent, but no such song appears in the episode.
== Previous Episode References ==
*"Burns, Baby Burns": 
**Someone stages a phony kidnapping.
**A Simpsons episode ends with everyone partying.
*"Bart the Daredevil": Bart has a picture of the famous scene of Homer jumping Springfield Gorge and falling.
*"Bart's Dog Gets an F": Santa's Little Helper has the TV remote in his mouth.
*"Homerpalooza": Rappers guest starring on The Simpsons.
*"The Great Money Caper": An episode ends with a character trying to explain the logistical errors of the plot, only to be interrupted by a silly, random event (everyone surfing/everyone at the rappers' party)
*"Mr. Plow": Homer tries his hand at rapping.
*"The Boy Who Knew Too Much": Bart would rather let a secondary character get in trouble than confess that he was somewhere where he wasn't supposed to be (Mayor Quimby's party/the rap festival).
*The "Who Shot Mr. Burns" two-parter: Chief Wiggum tries to solve a case, despite others not believing in him.
== Cultural References ==
*The rapper Alcatraaz is a parody of Southern Rapper Ludacris.
*The clock necklace seen in the footage of the rap concert is a part of Flava Flav's iconic stage costume. However, he does not set it to the actual time, and instead sets it to 3, 6, 9 or 12 o'clock to represent something (for example, 12 o'clock is "straight up").
*The jokes about Kirk getting trailer time with Springfield's craziest chicks is a reference to the many jailed serial killers (such as Susan Smith) who have placed ads looking for a partner and gotten thousands of responses.
*50 Cent asking about if giving advice to Bart counted as community service (it doesn't) is a reference to his criminal record before finding success in hip-hop.
*Chief Wiggum calls Bart "Bratty Hearst" after Bart asks Wiggum not to arrest Kirk Van Houten. This name is a reference to Patty Hearst, the newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in 1974 and who eventually bonded with her captors, famously helping them in the armed robbery of a bank.
*Barney Fife from the Andy Griffith Show talking directly to Chief Wiggum from black-and-white TV was parody of 1998 film Pleasantville which starred Don Knotts who also performed the role of Barney Fife.
== Goofs ==
*As Chief Wiggum says "Questions?" and pulls off his napkin the shaving cream on his face instantly disappears.
*Chief Wiggum tells Barney Fife that his "fat" has grown over his badge. He demonstrates this by lifting the fat so the viewers can see the police badge. However, in the next scene viewers can easily see the badge without Wiggum lifting up his fat.
* Lisa says "the truth can't be swept under the rug" but in "Lisa the Iconoclast" she preserves the lie of Jebediah Springfield due to it making everyone happier. Judge Snyder also preserves the lie of Principal Skinner’s identity in "The Principal and the Pauper" as it also made everyone happy (coincidently both lies involved both Jedediah Springfield and Principal Skinner having different names to begin with). For the "Principal and the Pauper" one, it was more like, "The writers wanted to pretend that Principal Skinner being Armin Tamazarian wasn't the continuity-snarling mess that made a lot of fans give up on the show."
* Homer is watching the Seminoles (most likely Florida State) but then the TV says that it is Sunday. College football is never played on Sunday which is reserved for pro football.
*When Bart starts rapping about Homer at the concert ("a hungry hungry hypocrite"), his face can be seen on the big screen behind him. However, he crosses in front of the screen (obscuring the audience's view of it) and when he has passed to the other side ("named Homer of course"), the screen is now blank.
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