Writer:	Joel H. Cohen
Director:	Matthew Nastuk
Star:	Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson),  Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others),  Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others),  Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier),  Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others),  Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others)
Recurring Role:	Karl Wiedergott (Additional Voices),  Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others),  Tress MacNeille (Agnes Skinner, Brandine Del Roy, Dolph and others),  Marcia Wallace (Edna Krabappel)
Guest Star:	Terry Gross (Herself),  Topher Grace (Donny)

Blackboard Joke: The art teacher is fat, not pregnant.
Couch Gag: A pair of hands assembles a portrait of the Simpsons on their couch using a Lite Brite. The finished portrait lights up and is briefly animated when Maggie sucks on her pacifier. (edit)

Superintendent Chalmers: We're gonna put Bart Simpson away for a long, long time.
Principal Skinner: By law, the most we can give him is a 10-day suspension.
Superintendent Chalmers: That's long to a kid. (edit) Homer: Unlike love, respect can't be bought. (edit) Ralph Wiggum: (about Donny) When he grows up, I want to be like me! (edit) (After the Diet Coke and Mentos explosion.)
Superintendent Chalmers: Skinner! (Pause) Skinner?
Principal Skinner: I'm alright, sir.
Superintendent Chalmers: Don't ever scare me like that again. (edit) Lisa: I never dreamed an American car designed in Germany, assembled in Mexico from parts made in Canada, could be so amazing. (edit)

When Bart busts in on Martin in the darkroom, some of the photos that get ruined are of: a flying saucer, The Loch Ness Monster, and a shot of Elvis with his arm around Martin. (edit) Homer's loaner resembles a 2008 Cadillac CTS, the 2008 Motor Trend Car of the Year. (edit) Music from this episode
"Cruisin'" by D'Angelo (Played during the scene when Homer seduces Marge in his loaner car.)
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by Dropkick Murphys (Used during the montage scenes that parody The Departed) (edit)

LOST
Near the end of the episode Bart asks Donny what he's gonna do, and Donny replies, "The same thing I always do. Survive." This is an allusion to a line by Sawyer in the Season 4 premiere episode of LOST titled "The Beginning of the End". (edit) The Joy of Sex
The book that Lisa is reading in the beginning is titled The Joy of Sax, which parodies the title of the 1972 illustrated sex manual, The Joy of Sex. (edit) Principal Skinner: Sorry to plop, plop on your fizz, fizz.
This is a reference to the commercials for Alka-Seltzer ("Plop, plop, fizz, fizz--oh, what a relief it is"). (edit) Homer: (Singing) Driver of a loaner car...
Homer sings a parody of the Yes song "Owner of a Lonely Heart". (edit) The Departed
The title of this episode as well as many of the plot points including the rat that Ralph points out at the end of the episode, are parodies from the 2006 Martin Scorsese film, The Departed. (edit)