The Blunder Years/References

==Cultural references==
*The title references to the TV show The Wonder Years.
*The Simpson family looking for the body is a reference to the film Stand By Me, which is based on Stephen King's novella The Body. Ironically, both The Body and Stand By Me were set in Groening's home state of Oregon, and not Maine like most of King's work, at a time when Groening was writing his weekly comic strip Life In Hell.
== Trivia ==
*At The Pimento Grove, there are pictures showing characters and guest stars including Birch Barlow, Barry White, Bette Midler, Brooke Shields, Stephen Hawking, Rainier Wolfcastle, Johnny Carson, David Crosby, Leonard Nimoy, Anthony and Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ron Howard, Paul McCartney, Betty White and Bumblebee Man.
*In this episode, it hints that Waylon Smithers, Jr. became gay after Mr. Burns give false information about how Mr. Smithers Sr. passed away. Burns says that he told Mr. Smithers, Jr. that his father was killed by women in the Amazon rain forest, and says that he hopes it didn't have any effect him. Then, Waylon uncontently and hesitantly states that "they may never know" if it did or not.
*Homer recalls the time he attempted to jump the Springfield Gorge in "Bart the Daredevil" by showing a flashback but is interrupted by Lisa before he can finish.
*It reveals that Smithers' first word as a baby was "Sir", which he usually calls Mr. Burns.
*Homer's screaming has been reused in the near end of "Treehouse of Horror XV" as the Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television logos play.
*This is the final episode of the series to have Mike Scully as the showrunner of the series. He would later return to writing and showrunning the Season 14 episode “How I Spent My Strummer Vacation”.
*The skeleton probably would have been recovered are berried at the cemetery after.
== Goofs ==
*When Marge is talking over the phone to "Chad Sexington" (Homer), her neck is incorrectly layered over her hand for a few frames. As such, her hand looks incomplete.
*At the end of the episode, Homer is placing Smithers Sr.'s skull in a memories box on the coffee table. Moe arrives, and when he sits down, the memories box is gone. After a close-up of Moe's face, the table is gone.
*In this episode, Waylon Smithers, Jr. was an infant and Homer Simpson is almost a teenager, yet in "Bye Bye Nerdie", Smithers was around Homer's age when Homer reminisced about his "bully problem" in grade school. The body may have been there for a number of years by the time Homer found it. However, this contradicts Lenny's statement that the nuclear plant just opened.
*When young Moe shoots Fat Tony, it was clear that he has acne. However, when Fat Tony and his gang run for their lives, Moe's acne is nowhere in sight.
**He may have gotten rid of it.
*When Moe, Lenny, and Carl leave 742 Evergreen Terrace, they cannot be seen outside the window right next to the door.
*When Homer first discovers the body of Smithers Sr., the body had glasses and hair but when its face is shown, the body has no glasses or hair.
*When the film of Smithers Sr plays it shows him in brown pants, when homer finds he body the pants are blue.
*Also when the find the skeleton the pants are nowhere to be seen, although they may have disintegrated over time.
*When the flashback scene transitions to the quarry, Moe is narrating the scene. However young Moe can be seen talking, lip syncing the same words when older Moe quotes, "The next morning, we went out to the old quarry to have a swim."
*In most FXX reruns and probably Disney + too, after we hear Homer's scream during the Gracie Films animation, it doesn't continue into the 20th Century Fox animation.
*In a deleted scene, a clapperboard can be briefly seen.
==Call-Backs==
*When Homer explains how he almost made it across Springfield Gorge, Lisa informs him that everyone is tired at the memory, a reference to its repeated showings in other episodes before.
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