Bart creates a voodoo doll to make his sickly sweet art teacher ill, but when he ends up making her pregnant, every childless couple in Springfield flocks to Bart for his magic touch — and Fat Tony and his goons kidnap Bart so he can work his magic on a racehorse.
Tropes:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: When Bart tells Skinner he only wanted Mrs. Trunch to get a stomach-ache, the latter replies, "Classic wish-maker's mistake: vague language." All the same, he tells Bart that voodoo isn't how pregnancy works, though because Bart is a fourth-grader he can't give Bart the details on pregnancy.
- Comically Small Demand: When couples start coming to him in desperation asking him to cast spells in order to help them conceive, Bart, being ten years old, sets his price at five dollars a pop (plus an additional dollar for insurance against being "haw-hawed" by Nelson). The first couple he helps still need to get cornered into paying cash after writing him a check that bounces.
- Comic-Book Time: The epilogue takes place a year later and, as always, none of the Simpson kids have aged a day.
- Connected All Along: This episode reveals that Shauna is Superintendent Chalmers' daughter.
- Continuity Nod: One of the bars represented during the meeting at Moe's is Poppa Wheelie's.
- Fair-Weather Friend: Moe stops defending Homer and Bart from Fat Tony's goons when Homer says he's out of cash.
- Forceful Kiss: Shauna grabs Bart and kisses the young boy in order to "make somebody mad."
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Bart's business of performing voodoo rituals to help couples conceive has a remarkable success rate, and he, at least, fully believes in his own power (more than some of the couples themselves do as they're mostly just desperate enough to try anything). The question doesn't apply when it comes to breeding the horses as Bart's convinced that voodoo only works on people and doesn't even try.
- Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Implied: Bart dislikes his art class because teachers are always sending his work to therapists.Milhouse: Your stuff is pretty disturbing.
Bart: I've never acted on any of it! - Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title of the episode spoofs the film What to Expect When You're Expecting.
- That Came Out Wrong: Lisa just laughs when, in what appears to be a classic Ralph moment, Ralph insists that "Bart Simpson got a teacher pregnant." She's less amused when Milhouse comes along saying the same thing.
- Would Hurt a Child: Fat Tony and his goons are perfectly willing to execute ten-year-old Bart if the child fails to breed a horse for him.
