Miracle on Evergreen Terrace/References

==Trivia==
*When Homer parks across 3 handicapped spaces it is the second time Marge has seen him do this the first is in "The Springfield Connection" when she is a cop (she arrests him in that scene for taking her hat).
*When Chief Wiggum is taking Maggie's dolls at the end, he is heard humming "."
**The rabbit is Binky from Matt Groening's Life in Hell comic series.
* Milhouse gets a Tickle Me Krusty doll for Christmas, a spoof of TMX Elmo. Later a real TMX Elmo will appear in "Moe Baby Blues".
* When the family is singing Here Comes Santa Claus Homer can be heard singing "Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh."
*Lisa strangles Bart for the first time.
*Lisa is seen in school in this episode, so either they go back to school right after the 26th, or 27th, or this episode takes place from Christmas Eve to early January when students go back to school after Christmas break.
* This is the only known episode to be rated TV-G rather than the usual TV-PG or TV-14 on release. The next episode, "All Singing, All Dancing" was also given a TV-G rating upon original release.
**However, Amazon.com rates the episode as TV-PG.
* Bart was wearing boots when he buried the tree.
* Barney is seen driving the Plow King from "Mr. Plow".
* It is unknown how the Simpsons got all of their possessions back after this episode. There's two theories behind this, one: The Springfielders eventually apologized and give them their stuff back, and two, Bart might have a false awakaning after dreaming about water.
*This is the last episode to air in 1997.
*This episode has become negatively received due to the Simpsons family being outcasts, following Bart's confession.
*When the Simpsons find their couch missing, they run up to it as they do in the couch gags.
*Christmas of 1997 was the second holiday Bart ruined since the Thanksgiving incident of 1990 in "Bart vs. Thanksgiving". Incidentally, both times involved him burning something by accident.
==Cultural references==
*Rudolph the red nose reindeer is referenced in the Chalkboard Gag
*Miracle on 34th Street – The episode title is a play on the Christmas film.
*"" – Alex Trebek's comment that Marge owed the show $5,200 (based on her negative $5,200 score; in reality, contestants ending with a negative score are still given minor payments as part of union regulations) is a spoof of criticisms concerning Trebek's sometimes stern rules enforcement of the shows he hosted, particularly during the early years of "Jeopardy!". Also a likely reference to Alex Trebek's early years of hosting was that he is portrayed on The Simpsons with a mustache. At the time of the episode's airing, Alex Trebek still had his mustache. But on September 21, 2001, he shaved off his mustache for a clean-shaven look, and has remained that way ever since.
* - the scene where everyone rallies around to support the Simpsons is reminiscent of the last scene of the classic holiday movie. The scene where George Bailey tells his child to stop playing the piano is also spoofed by Homer telling Lisa to stop playing the piano.
==Goofs==
*When the tree burns down, the sides of the two leftmost presents change color a few times.
*When Bart gives false information to the family that they were robbed by a burglar and they come to comfort him, Lisa's left arm appears on Bart's shoulder before Lisa actually comes.
*When Lou shrugs his shoulders, his right arm goes missing for a frame.
*At 742 Evergreen Terrace, the green on the left part of Apu's jacket disappears a few times.
*In this episode, the Old Jewish Man has a different voice than usual.
*Jasper would not have been able to dance if he claimed he could not feel anything below his chin.
*When Homer, Barney, and Moe watch the news at Moe's Tavern, the exterior of the Simpson garage appears green in a faraway shot before switching to its usual tan-brown in the close-up.
*First when the Simpsons tried to get more money, they go to the game show, but Maggie isn’t with them, neither when they are leaving, but when the mob happily greets the Simpsons, Maggie is with the family, then disappears in the next scene, and then reappears when they go to the couch area.
*It is unknown how the Simpsons got all their stuff back in the next episode.
**It could be possible that they did gain 15 000 dollars (off-screen) and were able to return it to the citizens of Springfield and thus they were given their stuff back, or that Bart had a false awakening after dreaming about water.
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