Skinner's Sense of Snow/References

==Trivia==
*In syndicated reruns and on Disney+, Guns N' Rose's "Welcome to the Jungle" is replaced with an instrumental soundalike of the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" when the kids run amok through Springfield Elementary School while Skinner is bound in a dodgeball sack.
==Cultural References==
*The episode title is a pun on the 1997 film Smilla's Sense of Snow.
*The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was is a parody of Babes in Toyland.
*When Bart tells Skinner "Mau! Di Di mau!" after capturing him, it is a reference to a scene from The Deer Hunter.
*When Homer is watching football, he is supposedly wearing a Green Bay Packers jersey. He also mentions then-Packers quarterback Brett Favre.
*The Christmas Hobgoblin's long song to Little Bo Peep is a reference to the song "The Wish That I Wish Tonight" from Christmas in Connecticut. .
*Skinner calls his school-opening streak "Cal Ripken-like", referring to baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., who holds the record for the most consecutive games played.
== Previous Episode References ==
*"Mr. Plow": Flanders mentions Homer's old snowplow business and Homer still wears the jacket.
*"Homer the Heretic": A snowstorm traps people inside a building (the church/the school)
*"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" and "Last Tap Dance in Springfield": Lisa watches a low-budget, black and white movie in school.
*"Homer's Night Out" and "Treehouse of Horror VIII": Homer's obsession with belly dancers (dances with Princess Kashmir/dresses as a belly dancer during the first Halloween/imagines himself as a sultan being pleasured by belly dancers, then imagines Bart as a belly dancer).
*"Moaning Lisa": Someone is pelted with dodgeballs (Lisa, because she's too depressed to play/Principal Skinner, because the kids put him in the dodgeball sack and Skinner foolishly asks where the dodgeballs are).
*"Whacking Day": "Johnny Tremaine" is mentioned (only in "Whacking Day," Bart actually read and liked the book. In this episode, he burned the book).
*"They Saved Lisa's Brain": A book burning is seen (Reverend Lovejoy drives a book-burning mobile/the kids burn books in the library)
*"Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" and "Team Homer": Springfield Elementary goes to hell thanks to Bart's antics (taking the dog to school, which gets Principal Skinner fired and replaced with Ned Flanders/wearing a "Down With Homework" T-shirt/rebelling against Principal Skinner).
*"Mountain of Madness": 
**People trapped in a snowed-in building and going insane
**A Simpson character trying to tunnel out of a snowed-in building.
*"Lisa the Simpson": Lisa reads a made-up word ("dumbening"/"know-it-all-ism") and declares that it's not a word.
*"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": Someone is put inside a sack (Bart is put in an onion sack after his lice-ridden clothes are burned/Skinner is put in a dodgeball sack as part of the school's revolution against him).
*"Homer Goes to College": Bart and Lisa miss an Itchy and Scratchy episode where something finally happens (Scratchy finally kills Itchy/Itchy and Scratchy finally kiss).
*Bart Gets an "F": 
**Bart is summarized as being an "underachiever and proud of it,"
**the people of Springfield enjoying a snow day (except for a select few [Bart in the former episode/the kids of Springfield Elementary in the latter])
**A male character "writes his name" in the snow.
*"Bart on the Road": Someone foolishly believes that cruise control drives a car for you.
*"The Principal and the Pauper": 
**Skinner says he is very good at pretending things didn't happen.
**"The Principal and the Pauper" and "I Love Lisa": Flashbacks to Skinner fighting in Vietnam.
*"Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": A rescue animal's captions are revealed to be morbid (the dolphins' squeaking is translated as "You're all going to die"/the wolves' snarling is translated as "I smell fresh meat.")
==Goofs==
*At the circus, the "audience member" is black in all shots he appears in, except for the first, when the clown approaches him.
*Uter is at the school, but "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner" established that Uter is missing and presumed dead (possibly from the disastrous field trip at the beginning of "The PTA Disbands")
*Skinner starts up The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was at the start of the school day. When the DVD breaks some time later, it's suddenly near Springfield Elementary School's usual dismissal time (3:00 PM). While the movie did drag on (Milhouse complained that the hobgoblin had been singing to Little Bo Peep for two hours), it's very unlikely an American Christmas movie from 1938 would be at least six hours long.
*Skinner's line while Bart is burning books is, "Not Huck Finn! I spent hours crossing out the sass-back!", but in the closed captioning, it reads, "Oh, now you're just burning innocent linoleum. What did it ever do to you?". This goof has since been corrected.
*When the children are in flour sacks as they go to sleep, Bart rests his head on his red jacket. When Skinner switches the light off, it turns gray.
* When Skinner was trying to call the kids' parents, the telephone hook was gray, but when he hangs it up, the hook turns to blue.
*If Homer and Ned were thinking of a way to be free from the frozen plow truck, why didn’t they just punch through the windows? The carbon monoxide filling the car most likely reduced their ability to think rationally. Or they just didn't think to do that.
* Lisa is not present in most of the school scenes, such as in the cafeteria or when the kids rebel against Skinner. She reappears when the kids are going to sleep. It is unlikely that she left the room since Skinner locked the doors.
* Nibbles' hamster-ball crashed through Ned's' car windshield, but when the vehicle hit the salt silo, it was intact.
* Rod and Todd are in the car at the end scene, although they were never seen in the car or at the school before Homer and Ned picked up the Simpson kids (They were on the bus on the way to school though).
* "Grade School Confidential" showed that Bart's permanent record was thicker than what's depicted in this episode, and has Milhouse's name on it after Bart made a deal to keep Skinner's relationship with Mrs. Krabappel a secret. The only logical explanations for this are either (a) the permanent record Bart reads is old. He did ask how old it was if it still says he's "an underachiever and proud of it" (which would have dated the record to the season two episode "Bart Gets an F"), or (b) Skinner had to redo Bart's permanent record after Bart broke his promise to keep Skinner's relationship with Mrs. Krabappel a secret and didn't think to transfer Bart's papers from the file that had Milhouse's name on it.
== Production Notes ==
* The final draft for this episode was published on April 13, 2000.https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search_Arg=cabf06&Search_Code=FT%2A&CNT=25&PID=FFCJCK7gl_3UedOAgBVucilH5Z6
== Citations == 
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