Bart of Darkness/References

==Trivia==
*The first Klassic Krusty episode is dated February 6, 1961. Krusty's guest was AFL-CIO chairman George Meany.
*The boardgame Bart is playing in bed is Stratego. He uses the pieces as action figures and says "I swear I don't know where the bombs are. Only the miners know that.". Which goes with the rules of Stratego, only the miners can defuse bombs.
*The second half of the episode is similar to the plot of The Monster of Walnut Grove from Little House On The Prairie, where they think a husband killed his wife. Bart (Laura) thinks Ned (Nels) killed Maude (Harriet).
==Previous Episode References==
* "When Flanders Failed", "Mr. Plow", "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", and "Homer Loves Flanders": The guy who punched the hippie singing "Sunshine on My Shoulders" is the same one who exasperatedly told Flanders to stamp his parking validation ticket, said, "You sicken me'" to Barney while he was working as the Lullabuy$ baby, insulted Marge's wishbone necklaces at the swap meet, and told Homer that, for all the days he missed work by camping out in line for an upcoming football game, he could have earned enough money to buy his tickets from a scalper.
* "Brush with Greatness": Bart and Lisa annoy Homer by repeatedly asking him for something ("Will you take us to Mount Splashmore?" in the former episode and "Can we have a pool, Dad?" in the latter).
*"Bart's Inner Child" and "Bart Gets an Elephant": The kids in town visit the Simpson house because of something they have in the backyard (a trampoline/Stampy the elephant/a pool).
* "Bart the Daredevil" and "Bart Gets Hit by A Car": Bart gets seriously injured and ends up in the hospital.
* "Lisa the Beauty Queen": The Springfield Wax Museum is seen.
*"Homer's Triple Bypass": Hans Moleman gets set on fire (the truck he's driving bursts into flames as Homer pulls into the gas station/his glasses concentrate the sunlight and set his shoulders on fire)
* "The War of the Simpsons": Homer secretly has a crush on Maude Flanders (his drunkenly asking her to look for party nuts while staring down her blouse in the former episode; his line, "Why would anyone want to kill Maude? She's such a fox" in the latter).
==Cultural References==
*The episode is a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window starring Jimmy Stewart. A character resembling Stewart also appears, looking at Bart through a camera with a telephoto lens.
* The Itchy and Scratchy episode featured in this episode "Planet of the Aches" actually refers to the second film in the series "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", which features a race of mutant humans with enlarged brains and telekinetic powers. 
* The future Itchies killing Scratchy by using telekinesis to cut him up with a lot of sharp objects is a parody of the ending to .
*The episode title is a pun on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
*The musical number in the pool involving the kids is a parody of similar scenes from various musical movies from the 30s and 40s, which often featured musical numbers performed in large pools by synchronized swimmers, usually led by Esther Williams.
*When Martin was naked, he is singing Frank Sinatra‘s ”Summer Wind."
*There are wax models of Beatles and actors from M*A*S*H at Springfield Wax Museum.
==Goofs==
*When Otto stops the poolmobile, the water splashes onto Otto despite a glass window being behind him.
*When Marge and Homer swim naked in the pool, the dress hanging on the pool's edge has straps even though Marge's dress is normally strapless.
*When Bart puts away the script for his play you can hear the sound of the closing drawer, but it remains open.
*As Bart adjusts the aim of his telescope, a white-colored section of the telescope turns black for a frame.
*In the HD remake, Matt Groening's name is misspelled as "Matt Gorening".
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