Bart After Dark/References

== Previous Episode References ==
* Bart of Darkness: A Simpsons episode title with "Bart" and "dark" in it.
* Marge vs. the Monorail: 
** A couch gag where The Simpsons are joined by a large group of ancillary characters.
** A character tells Marge that she should have written a song to argue her case over something.
* Homer's Barbershop Quartet: The Simpsons writers reference The Beatles (Homer's barbershop music career is basically what happened to The Beatles/the couch gag is a reference to the Sgt. Pepper album cover).
* Homer's Night Out: 
** A Simpson male (Homer/Bart) gets in trouble for getting involved with adult entertainment (Homer dancing with Princess Kashmir, Bart gets a photo of it, and Marge kicks Homer out and will only take him back if he shows Bart that Princess Kashmir is not just a sex worker/Bart gets a job at the Maison Derriere, Principal Skinner sees him and tells the local moral guardians and Marge that Bart is working there).
** Springfield has a red light district.
** Homer apparently didn't learn his lesson in objectifying women as he drools over Princess Kashmir in front of Bart.
* The Front and Homer Goes to College: An Itchy & Scratchy episode gets interrupted (Bart accidentally changes the channel/one of the nerds unplugs the TV for his rock tumbler/the V-chip in the TV turns it off and the news interrupts Itchy about to attack Scratchy with a broken bottle).
* Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily: 
** An Itchy & Scratchy Show episode where Itchy attacks Scratchy with a broken bottle.
** Homer Alone, Marge in Chains, Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily, and $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling): The Simpson house goes to pot thanks to Marge not being there.
*** Homer Alone: Bart messes around with a bra (Aunt Patty's cone bra/a bra with handprints on the cups)
* The Telltale Head: The residents of Springfield become an angry mob and either Bart or Homer tries to calm them down.
* The Springfield Connection: Marge is terrible at ventriloquism (with McGruff the Crime Dog puppet/with her ventriloquist dummy)
* Bart the Murderer: Bart works for an adult who has a shady business (Fat Tony and his local Mafia/Belle and the Maison Derriere)
* Radio Bart: A celebrity (Sting/Rainier Wolfcastle) says that he's not doing a charitable action for publicity.
== Goofs ==
* When Bart picks up his plate (which was previously in front of a glass), only the segment of the glass was previously visible is on-screen. The part that was previously covered by the plate is cut off.
* When Belle opens the door of the Burlesque house, her sleeve is first yellow.
* At the Town Hall meeting, Lenny's beard is yellow.
*In the couch gag, Lou is shown with yellow skin.
* In another shot at the Town Hall Meeting, Sanjay is wearing a green jacket instead of his usual white one.
* In the town hall meeting the tan lines that Mayor Quimby has disappear after his initial joke. 
*During Bart's standup act, Dr. Nick appears without his coat, despite wearing it in that same scene.
*In some FXX reruns, the instrumental version of We Put The Spring in Springfield does not play when the episode transitions to credits, but it plays after commercials.
== Cultural references ==
*Belle could possibly be named after Belle Watling, the owner of the burlesque house in Gone with the Wind.
*The couch gag in this episode is a parody of the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
*When Homer stops the destruction of the burlesque house, Reverend Lovejoy says "This house is a very, very, very fine house," a reference to the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song "Our House."
*The oil spill depicted in this episode is most likely a reference to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
*Mayor Quimby and the Quimby family, throughout Simpsons history, have been made to resemble JFK and the Kennedy family. In this particular episode, Mayor Quimby's wife is seen wearing a dress similar to one of Jackie Kennedy's dresses.
*A V-chip kicks in while Bart and Lisa are watching Itchy and Scratchy, prompting them to yell "Dad, V-chip, V-chip" at Homer, who then unblocks the show.
*In French, "derrière" means both "behind" (something that is not in front of you) and "Backside" as in the human bottom, so Belle is correct when she calls it the 'Back House'.
*The musical number instigated by Homer (accompanied by Belle and her backup dancers) convincing the town not to destroy the house is a parody of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. However, unlike the episode, the "chicken ranch" is forced out of business.
*Milhouse's theory about the Maison Derrière being a secret lab where they place zombie brains into other zombies to create super zombies may have been a reference to the Resident Evil series, of which the first game was also released a few months before the episode aired.
*"It's 11:00, do you know where your children are?" was a frequently used public service announcement by television stations prior to their local 11:00pm news program.
== Production Notes ==
* The final draft for this episode was published on May 24, 1996.https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search_Arg=the%20simpsons%204f06&Search_Code=FT%2A&CNT=25&PID=R6HyXiLF6KYP7NPgRNwhMrrXQ0H5
== Citations == 
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