The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Rating: 3.9 (151 votes)

Memorable quotes

Skinner: Why, there are no children here at the 4H club, either! Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.

Bart: Oh my God, he is like some sort of...non...giving up...school guy!

Wiggum: Oh my God! Someone's taken a bite out of the big Rice Krispie square! Oh yeah, and the waiter's been brutally beaten.

Skinner: (thinking) I know you can read my thoughts, Bart. Just a little reminder: if I found out you cut class, your ass is mine. Yes, you head me. I think words I would never say.
Homer: (thinking) I know you can read my thoughts, boy. (singing) Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.

Moe: Freddy Quimby was with me the entire... night in question. We were collecting canned goods for the starving people in... er, you know, one of them loser countries.

Dr. Hibbert: Well, only one in two million people has what we call the "evil gene". Hitler had it, Walt Disney had it, and... Freddy Quimby has it.
Lionel Hutz: Thank you, Dr. Hibbert. I rest my case.
Judge: You rest your case?
Lionel Hutz: What? Oh no, I thought that was just a figure of speech. Case closed.

Homer: So if we don't all vote the same way, we'll be deadlocked and have to be sequestered in the Springfield Palace Hotel--
Patty: That's not going to happen.
Jasper: Let's vote. My liver is failing.
Homer: --where we'll get a free room, free food, free swimming pool, free HBO... ooh! Free Willy!

Homer: I'm only doing what I think is right. I believe Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel.

Skinner: You're stealing a table?
Homer: I'm not stealing it. Hotels expect you to take a few things. It's a souvenir!
Skinner: Ah. Is that my necktie you're wearing?
Homer: Souvenir.

Homer: Marge, it was horrible. Everyone was against me in that jury room. But I stood by the courage of my convictions and I prevailed. And that's why we had Chinese food for lunch.

Skinner: His brand of gum: Doublemint. Trying to double your fun, eh, Bart? Well, I'll double your detention. I wish someone was around to hear that.

Chief: (On TV) Well McGarnicle, Billy's dead! Slit his throat from ear to ear.
McGarnicle: Hey, I'm trying to eat lunch here!

Notes

• Bart uses the "Li'l Bastard Clock-Tampering Kit."
• The sign outside Quimby's house reads: Thursday Is Ladies' Night.
• McBain (based on Arnold Schwarzenegger) is with his wife, who looks like and has the same name as Schwarzenegger's wife.
• There is "El Barto" graffitti outside the courthouse.
• The courtroom artist is Matt Groening.
• At the end of the episode, Homer has several lamps and other items he stole from the hotel.

References

• The title of this episode comes from the film, "The Man Who Knew Too Much".
• The episode plot is similar to that of "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
• Homer's "Meow" song comes from a TV commercial.
• The scene in the hotel, where Skinner picks up Homer's cigar is actually from "The Odd Couple."
• The waiter is very similar to Inspector Clouseau from ''The Pink Panther''.
• Bart escapes from Principal Skinner by hiding under a dark green blanket in the back of Freddy Quimby's car, parodying Back To The Future II. Similar music to that from the film also plays.