Beware My Cheating Bart/References

== Cultural references ==
* The title could be a reference to the line "beware my foolish heart" from the song "" by and .
** The title could also be a pun on "Be Still My Beating Heart," which is the title of a by Sting and a centuries-old catchphrase denoting breathless excitement, particularly in a romantic context.
* The title screen gag and the chalkboard gag are references to Matt Groening's having revealed in an interview that the Simpsons's Springfield was named for .
* The films seen at the Springfield Mall reference to many recently released at the time of this episode films, including:
** Jackass: The Funeral, a reference to the franchise and possibly to Jackass member , who died in a traffic collision on June 20, 2011.
** Cars 3: New Merchandise, a reference to Disney/Pixar's franchise. Note that episode premiered before the actual film came out in 2017.
** Horrible Premise, a reference to the 2011 comedy film .
** Happy Little Elves II: The Sequelf, a reference to the 2009 action-comedy film , the second film.
** Transformers of the Caribbean, a reference to the and the franchises.
** Crawlspace, a possible reference to the .
* During the montage of scenes with Shauna and Bart going on dates:
** The song playing is "" by .
** When Bart stares open-mouthed at what is revealed to be Shauna's arm in Moe's Tavern, the view before the camera zooms out is a sight gag on the movie poster from the 1967 comedy-drama film , which also features music by Simon & Garfunkel and which also revolves around a male protagonist being seduced by a significantly older woman.
** The scene where Bart and Milhouse cross the street is a reference to the 1969 drama film .
* Stranded is an obvious parody of , a TV series that follows survivors of a plane crash on a supposedly deserted island.
** The strange glyphs on the mountain say, "Watch Futurama Thursdays at 10" in the Futurama alien alphabet. This is a reference to how Futurama aired on Thursday nights on Comedy Central primarily between seasons 21 and 22, and between seasons 22 and 23 of The Simpsons (apart from "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular", which aired the Thursday before "The Fool Monty"). By the time "Beware My Cheating Bart" aired, Futurama had not aired any new episodes for seven months, and when the next Futurama episode, "The Bots and the Bees" aired two months later, it was on a Wednesday.
** "The Lava Being" is a parody of the Smoke Monster, a shape changing being that kills several characters. Homer alludes to the show showing characters that make returns appearing in the "previously on" clip.
** Homer's comment about how one of the episodes' flashbacks "raised more questions than answers" referenced the various confusing elements in Lost.
** The characters resemble Lost characters Jack, Hurley, Locke, and Sayid.
** Homer refers to a Korean couple that can't speak English. This is a reference to Sun and Jin, although the season 1 episode "House of the Rising Sun" reveals Sun can speak English but is hiding it.
* Other television shows found on the Butt-Whisperer 9000 that are parodies include:
** Alaska Nebraska (from "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"), a parody of .
** The Chimpsons, an obvious parody of the show itself.
** Ice Road Joggers, a parody of .
** Keeping Up with the Krustofskys, a parody of .
** Thicker than Waters (from "Homer the Father"), a parody of .
* Characters that can be seen when the screen zooms out from Earth at the end of the episode (listed in order of appearance) include:
** God and the Devil arm-wrestling.
** An alien in a spaceship looking at the plaque (upside down) from the Pioneer 10/11 space probes.
** Fry and Leela from Futurama sitting on a distant planet.
** And finally, the Earth is revealed to be one grain in a cosmic kitty-litter box with a red eyed cat saying "purr-plexing, isn't it!" As we hear Homer say "D'oh!"
* At the pool, the lifeguard's phone appears to be a first-generation iPhone.
*At The Android's Dungeon:
**Jeffrey Albertson tells Bart and Shauna to think of The Android's Dungeon as their personal and to think of him as their all-seeing , guardian of the Gate, a reference to the comics.
** When Jeffrey Albertson gets into a flame war with Shauna, he says "oh, flame on", the 's catchphrase from the comics.
** The comic book From Heck is a reference to Alan Moore's comic book series.
** The Little Lolo comic book is a reference to the comic strip.
* The end of the episode zooms outward into the Universe, in the style of Power of Ten. This is an encore of the couch gag used in The Ziff Who Came to Dinner. It also acts as a brick joke to Marge's reveal about Stranded's ending.
== Lists ==
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== Trivia ==
* Squeaky-Voiced Teen's name tag says "Steve" at The Brown Burrito, even though outside references state that the Squeaky-Voice Teen's real name is Jeremy Freedman.
* Marge is kind to Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney in this episode, however in "The Blue and the Gray," Jimbo shouts an insult at her, and Marge backs up the car to tell him off, and the bullies run away. Marge being nice could have been because she had forgiven him, forgotten about the insult, or did not know that it was him that insulted her.
* In the International/online version of this episode, the title screen gag is repeated from the episode "Elementary School Musical," and the chalkboard gag is "Teacher does not have to pay an "Ugly Tax"."
* Admiral Baby from "Homer to the Max" are one of the television shows on the Butt-Whisperer 9000.
* A poster for Tic-Tac-Toe: X v. O from "The Squirt and the Whale" is seen.
* The last episode where a girl (Laura Powers) had a relationship with both Bart and Jimbo was in "New Kid on the Block".
== Goofs ==
* When Homer is saying "Watch whatever you want...," Milhouse is in front of a Transformers of the Caribbean movie poster and Bart is standing next to him. Then Homer, Bart and Milhouse keep walking. Afterwards, Homer looks round at them, but the boys are in exactly the same position as they were.
*When Bart says "Doesn't anyone here realize I'm only ten years old?", a duplicate pair of eyes and nose can be seen for a split second.
* Jimbo mentions that Bart has two baby teeth. However, he lost his last baby tooth in "Fat Man and Little Boy."
* When Jimbo picks Bart up to see if he's a good chaperone for Shauna, he wipes a temporary tattoo off Bart's arm. The tattoo was not there before he wiped it off, and is not there when Jimbo puts Bart back down on the ground.
* When Homer looks out the window to see Jimbo holding Bart upside-down by his ankles, as the shots change, the treehouse moves place slightly. The window also changes design.
* When Shauna says, "Bart, here's my thank you gift," she has a bag on her right arm. In the very next shot, the camera moves behind her as she flashes Bart, but the bag disappears.
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