Bart's New Friend/References

== References ==
* A fan of the Chicago Cubs baseball team is shown at Don Bookner's retirement party.
* Marge mentions Homer's thumb being cut off (Trilogy of Error).
* Before the end of the episode, a shot of Maggie is shown where she is dressed in Liberty Leading the People and holding a flag which reads "Je Suis Charlie" (I Am Charlie) in memory of the people killed in the shooting at Charlie Hebdo in France.
* The silhouettes of the characters from Mystery Science Theater 3000 are shown at the movie theater.
* Homer spray-paints his graffiti nickname El Homo on a wall, just as he did in Large Marge.
* Booths at the circus include : Freaks and Geeks, a reference to the TV show Freaks and Geeks, which Judd Apatow is executive producer of. A booth of Drillbit Taylor (with a drill bit through his face cheeks), a reference to the movie character Drillbit Taylor. A booth of the 400-Year-Old Virgin, a reference to The 40-Year-Old Virgin movie and a booth with a man with the world's longest fingernails, which Homer breaks.
* Bart eats some Celtic Charms for breakfast, which are a parody of the cereal Lucky Charms.
* Lisa performs the song Baker Street on her saxophone for Homer and an audience of her stuffed toys.
* Sven Golly's name is a reference to Svengali, a fictional character in George du Maurier's 1895 novel Trilby. The word "svengali" refers to a person who, with evil intent, dominates, manipulates and controls a person.
* Just before Homer is re-hypnotized to regain his adult consciousness, he tells Bart to "stay ten forever." The irony in this statement is Bart has been 10 years old for the last 26 years.
* The final scene shows Sven Golly imprisoned deep beneath the Police station in a isolated Plastic Prison exactly like Magneto's cell in the X-Men movies.
*The episode is similar to an episode on the Disney Channel show Recess when Principal Prickly is unintentionally hypnotized by The Amazing Jefferey into thinking that he’s six-years-old.
==Continuity==
* Lisa performs the song Baker Street on her saxophone for Homer and an audience of her stuffed toys. She previously played this song in Lisa's Sax.
* When Marge explains to Homer about the time his thumb came off, it could have been a reference to Trilogy of Error when Marge accidentally chops off Homer's thumb.
==Trivia==
* Homer was also hypnotized by Mesmerino, a hypnotist who works at the restaurant The Pimento Grove. He hypnotized Homer into thinking he was twelve years old again. Homer then recalls a memory of him finding a dead body, in The Blunder Years.
== Goofs ==
* Homer says he hasn’t been to the circus when he was a kid, but in “Skinner's Sense of Snow”, he was seen being to the circus before the snowstorm.
* Maggie isn’t with the Simpsons when they go to the circus. It is possible that they left her at home with a babysitter.
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