 This episode parodies, and contains many references to, the famous  Scopes Monkey Trial and the play Inherit the Wind. Lisa, like  Scopes, is arrested for teaching evolution. Flanders, like  prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, answers questions about the Bible  on the witness stand. The prosecutor, Wallace Brady, has the same  initials as prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, whose name was  changed to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind. The defense  attorneys name, Clarice Drummond, is a play on Clarrence Darrow,  who was renamed Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind.