* Lois and Brian discuss his love life as one of Lois’ students plays piano exercises, in a parody of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man.
* “It’s great to learn, ’cause knowledge is power!” is from Schoolhouse Rock!.
* The binary scene is a parody of a scene from the movie and play The Miracle Worker, in which Helen Keller learns to say “wa-wa” for “water.”
* Mayor Adam West’s line about Pee-Wee’s famous wrist refers to Paul Reubens’ famous arrest for masturbating in a porno theater in Sarasota, Florida in 1991. Reubens is Pee-Wee Herman’s real name.