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== Cultural references == | == Cultural references == | ||
| − | *The title is a reference to the song " | + | *The title is a reference to the song "[[Smoke on the Water]]" by {{W|Deep Purple}}. |
*[[Angelica Button]] is a parody of ''{{w|Harry Potter}}''. | *[[Angelica Button]] is a parody of ''{{w|Harry Potter}}''. | ||
*When [[Bart]] raises his head out of the pile of leg warmers in the smoke outside, the song "''{{W|The End (The Doors song)|The End}}''" by {{W|The Doors}} is heard, mirroring a sequence in the film ''{{W|Apocalypse Now}}'', where Willard raises up from the mud. He is also wearing green camo body paint. | *When [[Bart]] raises his head out of the pile of leg warmers in the smoke outside, the song "''{{W|The End (The Doors song)|The End}}''" by {{W|The Doors}} is heard, mirroring a sequence in the film ''{{W|Apocalypse Now}}'', where Willard raises up from the mud. He is also wearing green camo body paint. | ||
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Cultural references
- The title is a reference to the song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple.
- Angelica Button is a parody of Harry Potter.
- When Bart raises his head out of the pile of leg warmers in the smoke outside, the song "The End" by The Doors is heard, mirroring a sequence in the film Apocalypse Now, where Willard raises up from the mud. He is also wearing green camo body paint.
- After Lisa quits ballet and rejects Busby, he puts on a bowler hat and struts out of the theater to the song "On Broadway", referencing a dance sequence in All That Jazz.
- Homer's mispronunciation of "Surgeon-General" as "Sturgeon-General" is a reference to the movie "Corrina, Corrina", starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta. In it, a small child refers to the "sturgeon-general"'s health warning about the dangers of smoking as an explanation for burying the adult characters supplies of cigarettes in her sandpit.
- The family watch CSI, the commercials feature Friends (Lisa Kudrow).
- The music that plays as the raccoon climbs into the Ballet School sounds a lot like the theme from The Pink Panther.
- The sequence and music where the ballet teacher dances onto the bus is a parody of both Rocky and Chorusline.
- When Lisa mentions the smoking on "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", she mentions that Zack tried smoking to impress a girl. This never happened in the real TV show.
- On the couch gag Wile E. Coyote paints a fake couch on the wall which the Simpsons run into.
Trivia
- Marge's shattered dreams mainly revolve around stethoscopes; doctor, safecracker, stethoscope saleslady.
Edits
- The section about "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" was edited out in repeats because of copyright issues.
