While they are inside the torture chamber, Milhouse and Lisa walk past the Orb of Isis from Lost Our Lisa (1998).
Chief Wiggum says "where's your messiah now?" This line was famously spoken by Edward G. Robinson (on whose voice Wiggum's is based) in the biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956).
It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on April 4, 1999, the day Easter took place that year.
The clothes Moses wears have the three colors of the Egyptian national flag: red, white and black.
Santa's Little Helper speaks in Bart's fantasy, doing an imitation of the dog Goliath from the famous stop-motion animation series Davey and Goliath (1960).