Shoplifting/References

== Trivia ==
*This plot was used in a later Simpsons episode, "Marge Be Not Proud", where Bart steals a game from Try-N-Save and gets caught.
*This aired two years before the film Boyz n The Hood was released and featured character Darrin "Doughboy" Baker getting arrested as a kid for shoplifting. Unlike Bart, Doughboy, who was an African American from the South Central area of Los Angeles, would serve seven years for his shoplifting offense. Boyz n The Hood stars Ice Cube-who in the film portrayed the 17 year-old version of Doughboy- and Cuba Gooding Jr. later had working relationships with Fox (with Ice Cube being in the film version of 21 Jump Street and even having his film company Cube Vision work a partnership with 20th Century Fox TV and Fox 21 TV Studio for at least two years) and Simpsons co-producer James L. Brooks (who cast Gooding in his Oscar winning film Jerry Maguire and as Good As It Gets.
*The security guard sounds and looks like Homer Simpson, and the store manager sounds like Ned Flanders.
*The store guard partially resembles Lenny.
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