Episode Notes
Chalkboard: My pen is not a booger launcher
Couch: Repeat of the couch gag from "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" where The Simpsons are construction workers in an homage to the photograph, Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper.
Episode Quotes
(Bart and Homer are pulling wooden ties out from under railroad tracks.)
Bart: Isn't this dangerous?
Homer: It's okay, Bart. This track has been abandoned since 19… uh-oh!
(Homer hears a blaring horn and sees a train coming towards the loose track section fast! The train rides on the now-wobbly rails and flies through the air, the passengers screaming. It lands perfectly back on the track, unscathed, and travels off.)
Homer: Nothing beats flying across the country on a train!
Kent: Mr. Simpson, how long have you been a cat person?
Homer: All my life, Kent, I prefer Catsup to Ketchup, and to me, Yusef Islam will always be Cat Stevens.
Kent: (chuckling) Terrific stuff, you must really love the Broadway musical Cats!
Homer: God no, it sucks!
Homer: Don't worry son, I'll build you a new treehouse. One so grand that it will be an affront to God himself.
Bart: Can it have a rope ladder that you can pull up after you?
Homer: Only if it's an affront to God.
Cultural References
This title is combination of the 1956 children's novel by Fred Gipson, “Old Yeller” and later the 1957 Disney film and the phrase used for a coward, Yellow Belly