Cultural References
The episode featured several references to war films. Several lines of dialogue, Bart slapping one of his soldiers for "being a disgrace", and the music was lifted directly from the film Patton from 1970 composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Fox owned the rights to this film, so it was no problem to use the soundtrack. The marching sequence is a nod to Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket from 1987. The Longest Day from 1962 is also referenced. Bart concludes the episode by stating that the only "good wars" are the American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars trilogy.
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