To the kids' dismay, Jessie has Emma, Ravi, and Zuri take the subway to the cultural fair for Emma's social studies
assignment for Battery Park because Emma put the project off, but Jessie has trouble reading the map and they keep taking the wrong train further uptown to Washington Heights, Chinatown, and Yorkville. Meanwhile, Bertram and Luke look for a pesky spider that has made its home in the apartment. We learn that they have a fear of spiders.
Jessie struggles to keep Luke and Emma from killing each other.
In this episode, there was a reference to Lady Gaga is made when there was an old woman dressed in one of Gaga's outfits on the train and Emma called her "Granny Gaga."
The title refers to the real life A train service, a long-running New York City Subway service along the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan, IND Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn and Queens, and the IND Rockaway Line in the Rockaways and connects JFK airport. It is also the longest train service of New York City Subway that goes from the Inwood-Washington Heights area to The Rockaways.[1]
This is the first time Ravi doesn't wear indian clothes, but rather an I Heart New York shirt tucked in with khaki shorts, a black belt, a fanny pack, and a red jacket. He is wearing socks with sandals like always though.
When Luke slides across the floor in his shirt and boxers, this may be a reference to the Tom Cruise film Risky Business.
When Bertram and Luke are gettting ready to use the spider spray and Bertram says “saynaora spidy” and Luke says “he’s woven his last web” they do so in a voice like green gobilin from Spider-Man
Goofs
When Emma is showing Jessie the pictures she took on the subway, there is a moment when you can hear Emma talking but you can't see her mouth moving.
Emma shows Jessie a picture of Ravi throwing up some of the German food, but Ravi spit it out instead of throwing it up, and Emma didn't get a picture of it. However, Ravi possibly threw up later off camera and she took a picture then.
Emma said that she signed up for Social Studies. However in real life Social Studies is a subject you have to take in middle school and high school.
At one point when Emma is showing the pictures she took, the reflection of the cameraman can be seen in the window over them.
Memorable Quotes
Jessie: OMG, I am turning into my dad. All I need is a crew cut and a weird desire to have someone punch me in the stomach.
Jessie: Don't worry, Zuri. I will get you to a park. And a bathroom. Zuri: "I already took care of the bathroom thing... You don't wanna know.
Luke: Bertram, you've already failed at life. I've still got a life full of failure ahead of me."
Luke: Here's the plan, You charge at him, and if he goes right, you hit him with this.
Bertram: What if he goes left? Luke: You hit him with this. Bertram: What if he comes right at me?
