Being the first episode to air since "The Simpsons Movie," the intro segment was changed to reflect the events of the movie.
The date on the penny in the fountain was 1989. This was the year that the Simpsons aired its pilot episode.
The title is a parody of "We love to fly and it shows," a Delta Airlines advertising slogan first used in September 1987.
Colby says he's a graduate of "the Harvard of the South", a nickname commonly applied to Rice University (although he refuses to name it).
Bart's sentence on the chalkboard: "I will not wait 20 years to make another movie."