Heh, my three as well.

You missed the Jack Horkheimer, Star Hustler reference

And the Dewey Defeats Truman reference at the end.

oh you got that one. nevermoind.

How dare he put down Bradbury. Hard science fiction nerds are dorks.

They truly are the most insufferable of nerds, and that's not an easy title to earn.

Bart could also be Hillary, or Bernie, Al Gore, or Dewey. There's an element of Kennedy in there, too - I think the sick, disheveled Martin was supposed to be a reference to the Nixon/Kennedy debates.

It's a convoluted metaphor and I'm not sure where poeTV stands on this clip's predictive meaning.

The metaphor is that populism is stupid.