Future-Drama/References

== Trivia ==
*This is the 350th episode to air (not to be made), despite that "Don't Fear the Roofer" aired before this episode, though the real 350th episode (in production code order) is "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star", which was delayed following Pope John Paul II's death.
== Previous Episode References ==
* Lisa's Wedding and Bart to the Future: 
** An episode where most of the plot takes place in the future.
** (Bart to the Future only): Maggie is still a child in the future (in Lisa's Wedding, she's a teenager).
** (Lisa's Wedding only): Milhouse pines for Lisa and Lisa breaks up with him in a "look into the future" episode
** (Bart to the Future only): Bart realizes that his bad boy ways are ruining his life.
* Fat Man and Little Boy: Martin Prince's robot friend C.H.U.M. is seen.
* Last Exit to Springfield: Lisa wears visible, metal braces.
* $pringfield (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling): reference to a robot break-dancing (Homer says that his act on The Gong Show got more gong hits than "that break-dancing robot that caught on fire"/Lisa thinks Martin's robot friend is break-dancing, but really turned on his self-destruct mode)
* The Homer They Fall: Kearney as an adult looks like his father (one of the guys who beat up Homer at Moe's).
* Burns' Heir: Milhouse tries to defend himself by saying that his mom thinks he's handsome/cool.
* I Am Furious (Yellow): Someone goes on a Hulk-style rampage (Homer when his anger overcomes him/Milhouse on a 'roid rage when Lisa dumped him).
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* Selma's Choice and Homer Loves Flanders: A character drinks something that makes them hallucinate (Lisa and the tainted water on the Little Land of Duff ride/Marge drinking the spiked water after Homer says that Shelbyville tainted Springfield's water supply after Springfield burned down Shelbyville's city hall/Ralph drinking the punch spiked with kick).
* Treehouse of Horror XII ("House of Whacks"): A robot would rather self-destruct than spend time with an annoying/boring character (Ultrahouse beating itself with Patty and Selma's Egyptian pyramid lamp/C.H.U.M canceling his travel plans, then starting its self-destruct mode to get away from Martin Prince).
* Treehouse of Horror XV ("Four Beheadings and a Funeral") and Midnight Rx: Ralph Wiggum is high on a drug (opium/contraband pills/kick).
* Tis The Fifteenth Season: A character "steals Christmas" (Homer/Mr. Burns).
** The Old Man and the Lisa: Mr. Burns steals Christmas.
* Secrets of a Successful Marriage: 
** Smithers is in a heterosexual relationship to hide the fact that he's gay (his previous Cat on a Hot Tin Roof-style marriage/is on a date with a woman and has to take injections to curb his homosexual tendencies).
** Homer and Marge are separated.
*** Secrets of a Successful Marriage, Behind the Laughter, and Mommie Beerest: References to Moe being attracted to Marge.
* Marge on the Lam: Chief Wiggum comforts a depressed Simpson male who's outside all alone (Homer while trying to find something to do without Marge/Bart when Jenda dumps him).
* Lisa's Pony: A Simpson male (Homer/Bart) gets a degrading job at the Kwik-E-Mart to make a female character (Lisa/Jenda) happy.
* Homer Badman: Homer living under the sea.
* Rosebud: A future where apes rule over mankind (Mr. Burns' dream at the end of the episode/Homer and Bart pass by a billboard that says, "Give Apes The Vote: You Won't Regret It").
* A Star is Burns and Hurricane Neddy: A character from another animated show created by a Simpsons crew member appears (Jay Sherman from The Critic/Bender from Futurama).
* Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade: Bender from Futurama appears in a Simpsons episode (prior to season 26's Simpsorama)
== Cultural References ==
*The title, and Bender's appearance, are references to Matt Groening's other show Futurama.
*Lenny's Super pet is a reference to , 's pet dog.
*Magic being invented by scientists around 2013 may be an obscured reference to the Guilty Gear fighting game series, where in-world, Earth has been able to overcome energy crises and the strict regulation of technology upon the discovery of magic by scientists in 2010.
== Goofs ==
*When Marge calls to Bart and Lisa for their photo she is holding a very small camera but after they come down the stairs the camera is much larger and is now the size of a Polaroid one, which from the back appears white, but is in fact black when viewed from the front. Also, Marge is seen to put the camera down somewhere to her left, but when the view changes, we can see there is no surface to put it on, and the camera is nowhere to be seen. That must have to do with the "magic" that scientists have invented!
*When Snake is talking about robbing a man who went to Princeton, part of his ear briefly turns gray.
*Uter is at the prom despite disapearing on a field trip in the fourth grade.
*Several of the characters—e.g. Apu, Willie--look a bit too old for only eight years to have passed, but it can be attributed to job stress, especially for Apu, who has eight children and works at the Kwik-E-Mart nearly 24 hours a day. In addition, in the long shot of the school at the beginning of the prom, Willie's whiskers are red, but gray in closeup. The coloring error is repeated in a second long shot at the graduation ceremony.
*In the FOXCAST of this episode, the title is confused for the episode "Home Away from Homer", which aired two weeks after this episode.
*Several current second-graders, e.g. Ralph, Janey and Allison, are seen at the prom. With the exception of Allison, it is highly unlikely any of them (especially Ralph, who has been implied to be a special ed student) were accelerated another grade level to make them juniors eight years in the future. It could also be fine if they were going to the prom with seniors, as some schools do allow underclassmen to go to prom with seniors.
*When Frink shows Lisa a picture of her shocked face after discovering that Milhouse caused the house fire, Lisa is shown with regular braces. However, in Season 4's "Last Exit to Springfield", Lisa has already been given braces, which are shown to be invisible.
*Maggie is shown to be on vacation on the North Pole. This being eight years into the future, Maggie would merely be nine years old, yet seems to be on vacation on her own. However, she might be visiting the North Pole with a relative who probably took the photo. The relative could be Abe, Selma, Herb or Abbie. It is also possible the she is attending something like boarding school.
*It is useless to decompress when leaving the underwater house, as air pressure inside and outside the house would be almost the same. Only a tunnel would be enough.
*If Lisa was the valedictorian she would be able to get into almost any college on a scholarship. Given not as good as Yale but possibly the state college (university of Kentucky).
*Bart is told that he'll find the woman right for him at age 83, this could be construed by some fans as thinking that either Bart is unlucky in love or he can't find the right woman, implying he could enter into a homosexual relationship possibly with Milhouse.
**Also in other future episodes, Bart DOES hook up with Jenda and other women in his adult years making the 83 year old projection moot. Bart and Jenda have 2 kids together in another future episode though they are divorced and Bart lives in Springfield Elementary. 
== Production Notes ==
* The final draft for this episode was published on August 10, 2004.https://www.ebay.com/itm/125384915697?hash=item1d3185faf1:g:wdwAAOSwUp1gMkGQ
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