The Simpsons

The Sea Captain: Dawn goes down to day, nothing gold can stay. The Sea Captain quotes Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leafs a flower, But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. This poem was also featured in the movie The Outsiders.

Some popular phrases that, through minor variation, become Bart's T-shirt slogans:
• Bored in the USA – Inspired by Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
• Impeach everybody – In real life, people wore these T-shirts, encouraging lawmakers to "Impeach Nixon" and "Impeach Clinton."
• Weapon of ass destruction – A non-schoolable re-write for the non-schoolable "Weapon of mass descruction."
• Life ends at ten – The opposite of "Life begins at 80."
• Pobody's sherfect, nithead – You figure out the last word (especially when you rearrange the appropriate letters), but "Pobody's Nerfect" was a popular T-shirt slogan in the late 1970s and 1980s.
• Get bent – One of Bart's popular catchphrases early in the series.
• Don't blame me, I voted for Scooby-Doo – Not sure how popular the cowardly mongrel is on Election Day, but it's another reference to a famous Hanna-Barbera canine detective.
• If you can read this, the backpack fell off – "If you can read this ..." was another series of popular T-shirt slogans in the late 1970s and 1980s.
• I'm not getting older, I'm getting bitter – Play on the phrase "I'm not getting older, I'm getting better."
• Wish you were beer – a la "Wish you were here."
• America's least wanted – a play on the Fox TV series, "America's Most Wanted."
• Top of the dude chain – aka "Top of the food chain."
• Stop world hunger, eat my shorts! – The "eat my shorts" is another Bart endorsed phrase.

Toys in Bart's Toybox • Spirogram – the real-life Spirograph. • Sketch-an-Etch – resembles Etch-a-Sketch. • Sock-Em Knock-Em Cyborgs – fighting robots, just like Rock-Em Sock-Em Bots. • Ravenous Ravenous Rhinos – exactly like Hasbro's oft-mentioned Hungry, Hungry Hippos. • Duopoly – The Springfield version of Monopoly. • Parchoosey – A not-too-subtle take on Parcheesi. • Humor Putty – The molding substance, just like Silly Putty.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory The character of eccentric Goose Gladwell is essentially the same as Willy Wonka from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Krusty's selection, all featuring Itchy and Scratchy characters:
• Austin Powers Itchy – much like Austin Powers in the 1997 original and two sequels (1999 and 2002).
• ScratchBob Itch-Pants – combining features of the cat and mouse into a parody of SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Osama bin Scratchy – A la the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
• Poochie (and Scratchy Poochie) – The oft-referenced failed character on the Itchy & Scratchy Show.