Drederick Tatum “My infinity pool broke. Its edge is now finite. I’m up to my eyeballs in contractors and physicists.”
Homer enters a store to purchase an exercise bicycle for Marge.
Salesperson: Our starter model goes for 1500 dollars.
Homer: 1500 dollars?!
Salesperson: Don’t worry. We do have an installment plan. $40 a month for (mumbles) months.
[The salesperson writes an infinity symbol on the contract.]
Superintendent Chalmers: Skinner, your school’s test scores made the paper!
Skinner: Hmm?
Chalmers: The Chinese press is using them as proof of the decline of the American educational system.
[Chalmers holds up a newspaper with a photo showing Ralph solving 4 + 2 as 7 (with a hotdog).]
Professor Frink’s chalkboard contains the same mathematical writing as in “Trust but Clarify” (season 28).
2. Professor Frink's whiteboard contains mathematical writing.
Terrence: Those pearls! That hair! The game of the ‘30s played by a dame from the ‘50s?! It’s retro on kitsch to the power of vintage.
2. At night, Marge lies in bed and stares at the ceiling, imagining bowling strategies. Homer imagines pizza. At the bowling alley, Marge imagines bowling strategies again.
Homer views a website of longshot football gimmick bets including "Math Is Inconsistent" with odds 1/0.
Bart and some other children have transferred to Krusty’s new clown school. Their teacher stands in front of a whiteboard reading “Parabola” and a graph of the curve y = 25-x^2.
Teacher: Now, for a demonstration of the parabolic curve.
[Using a catapult, he launches a cream pie, which is traced in the air by a red parabolic arc until hits him in the face.]
2. At a Science Bowl, Bart and classmates from Krusty’s school are in a competition against Lisa and other students from Springfield Elementary, moderated by Kent Brockman.
Kent: Time for the final question, in math!
[As Lisa and Martin Prince look at each other excitedly, he opens his shirt to reveal a T-shirt displaying multivariable calculus formulas.]
Kent: Give the equation for a parabolic curve.
[Bart throws a cream pie in a parabolic arc and answers.]
Bart: y equals x-squared plus a constant c.
In a flashback, young Bart opens a letter addressed to his mother from the First Bank of Springfield.
Bart: I saw that Mom was getting a hundred thousand dollars a month!
Lisa: Then I explained to Bart how decimal points work.