“Well, that was a waste of time.” – Janey
“Janey, school is never a waste of time.” – Lisa Simpson
“Since we have fifteen minutes until recess, please put down your pencils and stare at the front of the room.” – Ms. Hoover

Doctoral theses could be written about this episode, but let me just add this.  The following things are mocked in this brief, twenty-two minutes of television:

• Elementary education
• Standardized testing
• Post grad education
• Law enforcement
• The army
• Hope
• Sexual bondage
• Cop shows
• Action movies
• Oedipal complexes
• The space program
• The Wild One (1953)
• Handwriting analysis
• Hippies
• Law
• Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
• Fascism
• Aspiration and authority of any kind, stripe or variety

And I’ve omitted far more than I’ve listed.  Ladies and gentlemen, The Simpsons.