24 Minutes/References

==Trivia==
*The "House of Blues" cigarette pack that mentions Anaheim is a reference to the House of Blues once located in Downtown Disney at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, which was permanently closed in 2017, ten years after this episode premiered.
*Despite being titled 24 Minutes, the actual episode is about 21 minutes without commercials. Airing with only three minutes of commercial would bring it up to 24, and this would not have to matter with it not having a 30 minute length, as the next episode is intended to air after this episode.
**However, the commentator says that the episode takes place between 2:34 and 3:04, 30 minutes.
**Additionally, episodes of 24 are actually about 45 minutes long (with exception of the Season 2 and 3 premieres being 51 minutes). The show instead gets it's name as every season (except Live Another Day/Season 9) has 24 episodes. Every season takes place across one day, thus each episode covers one hour and is told in real-time.
*Ingredients of the stink bomb: roadkill, burnt hair, the retainer case of Jimbo's sister, six weeks of bottled farts, possum placenta, sweat from a walk-around Goofy suit, and TCBY (That Container of Botulized Yogurt).
*When Milhouse is listed as eliminated on the board, there are other names: Sherri, Terri and Wendell all with X's through their names on a list of field agents (Living).
*The upside-down newspaper Milhouse is holding is the Springfield Shopper. The headlines read "Mayor's Breath Still Problem", "Corn Less Popular" and "Bake Sale Today".
*Among the professional staff at Springfield Elementary is a secretary named Mrs. Lord.
*Martin's Ant Farm brand is from Uncle Milton. In "Bart on the Road", Bart calls him "Milton" by mistake.
*The name of Jimbo's mother is Carol.
*This episode won the 2008 Annie Award for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production.
*Bart's profile is a reference to The Simpsons Movie, where he drinks whiskey. The movie actually comes out after the next episode "You Kent Always Say What You Want".
**To a lesser extent, it also references "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment", where Bart accidentally got drunk as a result of a spray of beer going down his funnel during the Saint Patrick's Day parade.
*The opening name credits during the episode extend the longest of any episode before or after, appearing throughout the entirety of the first act (the first eight minutes of the episode).
*When he accidentally calls Bart, Jack Bauer introduces himself by saying "I'm Jack Bauer, who the hell are you?", a nod to one of Bart's old catchphrases.
*Kearney’s last name was revealed to be Zzyzwicz in this episode.
== Cultural References ==
*The entire episode is a parody of the show 24. It may also be a reference to the 2003 made-for-TV film 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out, whose crime-themed plot progresses along with the story. 24 uses the same episode structure and style, such as the numerous split screens, title and recap sequence and the timer.
**Unlike 24, the episode does not end with the final scene of the timer counting down to next hour. Every episode of 24 ends this way (e.g. the premiere ends with episode ending at 1:00am, before the next episode starts at 1:00am and ends at 2:00am) except the series finale, ending at 0:00:00am.
*Jack Bauer, the main character of 24, and his friend, Chloe O'Brian, make cameos in the episode.
**O'Brian's coworker, Edgar Stiles, was also planned to cameo, but he was cut. He was also planned to be killed off during the episode, much like how he dies in 24's fifth season.
*The CTU (Counter Truancy Unit) is a parody of the organization Bauer and O'Brian work for, the Counter Terrorist Unit, both being similar in name and layout.
*The bullies attempting to contaminate the school with a stink bomb may also be a reference to a scene 24's fifth season where the villains dispersed nerve gas at CTU.
*The bomb blowing up at the end is a reference to 24's sixth season, specifically the ending of the fourth episode.
*Much like every 24 season, a mole within CTU is revealed. In the episode, the mole is none other than Martin Prince.
*Lisa and Bart serve as obvious parodies of O'Brian and Bauer.
===Continuity===
*Marge explaining about someone having 'tummy' trouble from eating Bart's shorts is a inside joke about Bart's common phase "Eat My Shorts!".
*Bart being able to drive without being pulled over is because he got a driver's license in "Little Big Girl".
== Notes on Known Profiles ==
*Lisa Simpson
**Head Hall Monitor - Loves ponies, hates phonies
*Seymour Skinner - Principal
**Mama's Boy
*Milhouse Van Houten, Martin Prince, and Database
**Dork, Dirk, Dingus
*Springfield Nuclear Power Plant
**Available for Weddings
*Homer Simpson
**ATM User, devoted father of two
*Bart Simpson
**Two months sober
*Marge Simpson
**Unemployed
==Goofs==
*If a bake sale provides 90% of Springfield Elementary's annual funding, there's no way they could possibly afford an underground lab equipped with computers, printers and access to every security camera in Springfield. That could have been old equipment or equipment bought with the grant money from season ten's "Lisa Gets an A". Though the more logical answer is that, since this is a crossover episode with 24, it's only there to be more like 24 and is, therefore, non-canon.
*According to the stat sheet on Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney, Jimbo was last seen at Duff Gardens, indicating that they had already known that he wasn't in school. It's also illegal for a school to track its students while off-campus. That's pretty on-brand with Springfield Elementary to do unethical and illegal things. Remember when Principal Skinner busted Bart for the Scotchtoberfest scam on "Bart's Girlfriend"? Or how Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers kept the grant money Lisa got for the school by cheating on "Lisa Gets an A"? Or Principal Skinner forcing Bart to keep his affair with Mrs. Krabappel a secret in exchange for putting Milhouse's name on Bart's permanent record on "Grade School Confidential"?
*Somehow, the lettering on Martin's sash can be read properly in the mirror's reflection.
* Miss Hoover was unconscious most likely with Santa's Little Helper in the ventilation shaft. However, she appeared in the Bake Sale. The same thing happens to Üter - he is tangled in the spider's web in the ventilation pipe, but is seen in the Bake Sale.
* Apparently, Sherri, Terri, and Wendell all died while protecting Springfield Elementary from bullies, but all three of them are seen at the bake sale.
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