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Trivia[]
- This episode title is a reference to the movie Little Big Man and to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
- What Bart did to a Lake Land butter box at the beginning of the episode is a reference to a common practical joke involving Land o' Lake butter boxes.
- According to this episode, Lisa wants to study at Wellesley College.
- Flags of Japan, Israel, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Brazil are up at their country booths except booth likeness France, China, Italy, and Africa don't have flags in the Springfield elementary school hall.
- Darcy has a mole on her left cheek just like Natalie Portman who provides her voice for the role.
- At the beginning of the episode, it is revealed that Nelson is of German heritage and that he is proud of it. He holds a dachshund (Dackel/Teckel) and a beer jug, also he is wearing a tyrolean hat from the state of Bavaria in Germany.
- In this episode, we learn that Lenny and Carl share a mother. This would indicate that they are possibly half-brothers, or their mothers are colleagues.
- When the cow in the barn kicked a bucket to douse flames after a newborn chick inadvertently wrecked a lit lantern while escaping from a hawk that had set fire to the barn, it makes a reference to what may have caused the Great Chicago Fire in October 1871. It was alleged that a cow kicked a lit lantern over, which set fire to the farm and then Chicago.
- This is the second episode where Bart has a driver's license (the first being "Bart on the Road").
- Sign upon leaving town: "Now leaving Springfield, birthplace of Nelson".
- The Spuckler Family Tree shows that Cletus' wife Brandine is the child of Cletus and an alien. Also, Cletus and Brandine have twelve children, with one being a sheep and one being a walking hot dog.
- The episode shows that Dolph has ancestors from one of the many ethnic groups that wear lip plates, most likely Suyá or Botocudo.
- North Haverbrook has a Hispanic version of Jeffery Albertson and his Comic book shop named "Mylar Baggins Comic Book Shop. Mylar is a material used to make protective casing for comic books, while Baggins is the surname of Frodo, the protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
- Two of the towns Bart drives past are Ogdenville and North Haverbrook. Lyle Lanley sold monorails to these towns before coming to Springfield in the episode "Marge vs. the Monorail".
- The scene in which Bart and Darcy are slurping the same spaghetti, references Lady And The Tramp, when it has the same scene. But Lady and Tramp kiss each other, when they were done slurping that spaghetti, and in the Simpsons, Darcy kisses the dog instead, and both Darcy and Bart laugh.
- Coincidentally, Natalie Portman (who voices Darcy) went on to play a character who is friends with a person named Darcy in Marvel's ''Thor" movies. Don Payne, who wrote this episode, also co-wrote the screenplay to the first "Thor" movie as well as writing the story to its sequel, "Thor: The Dark World".
- After Smithers claimed he was on fire, Mr. Burns wordlessly turned off the hose and gives a suspicious aside glance to the screen as Smithers is doing the stop-drop-and-roll technique in order to get the flames off him. This was because the manner which Smithers stated he was on fire ("But sir, I'm flaming!") involved Smithers declaring he had the appearance of someone who was stereotypically homosexual.
- The scene where Bart refers Utah as "The Home of America's Most Powerful Weirdos" is a reference to the largest Mormon Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints based in the State Capital of Salt Lake City whose members includes Utah's Governor, Gary Herbert, members of the 115th US Congress and the US Senator for the State of Utah, Mitt Romney.
Soundtrack[]
- Powerhouse by Raymond Scott (used during the sequence at where the fire is lit).
- Low Rider by War (played when Bart drives to North Haverbrook).
- Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets (played after Bart's visit in the comic bookstore).
- Polovtsian Dances from Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor (during Bart's fantasy life in Utah).
- Jessica, a 1973 instrumental song by the Allman Brothers Band (played during the parody of the opening sequence, also known as the theme song of Top Gear).
- Für Elise (Bart's cellphone ringtone).
Goofs[]
- When Bart and Homer are singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Bart's tongue is green.
- Both Bart and Darcy are under the legal marriage age in every state, also without court approval and/or parental consent, the lowest age you can marry in any state is 18 (except in Nebraska where the age is 19 and in Mississippi where the age is 21).
- The minister at Wives "R" Us mentions polygamy, which is also illegal.
- In the parody opening sequence with Bart driving the car, Helen Lovejoy's hair is colored orange instead of gray.
- She could just have dyed her hair.