De acordo com o fansite dos Simpsons, o The Simpsons Archive , o filme tem semelhanças com Laurel e Hardy Marcha dos soldados de madeira :
The film that Skinner shows the class is similar to the Laurel and Hardy film, the March of the Wooden Soldiers. Based on the tale Babes in Toyland, the film features the duo as Stanley Dumb and Ollie Dee, two residents of Mother Goose Land. There, they help Tom-Tom, the Pipers son and Little Bo Peep to fall in love while, with the help of giant wooden soldiers, saving the town from Barnaby, the Crooked Man, and the Bogie Men, man-beast creatures that the hobgoblins in the school film resemble.