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Cultural references

The Big Birthday's spokesperson shouting at Homer is a reference to Network

The Spirit of Springfield, a parody of the Spirit of St. Louis

• The title of the episode is a reference to "Let's Go Fly a Kite", a song in Walt Disney's 1964 film Mary Poppins.
• At his birthday party, Milhouse wanted his father to cut the cheese in the shape of Pokémon characters. Kirk thought Milhouse wanted them in the shapes of Disney's Muppets. A cheese with the shape of Kermit can be seen.
• Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles made a CD singing Happy Birthday, Milhouse. They previously performed multiple songs for the special live show The Simpsons Take the Bowl.
• Homer spoils Jessica Lovejoy's birthday by stealing the animals hired for her party. He then brings the animals to Ned, who thinks it is a signal to build an ark.
• The Springfield Birthday Merchants Association (a.k.a Big Birthday) helicopter flying by means of balloons is a reference to Disney Pixar's movie Up.
  • The scene where Big Birthday's spokesperson shouts at Homer is a reference to Network, a 1976 satirical black comedy-drama film.
• Some graduates of Yale University appear dressed as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Some famous planes can be seen at the Springfield Museum of Flight:
  • The Spirit of Springfield, a reference to the Spirit of St. Louis.
  • World War II planes P-51 Mustang and Corsair.
  • Bell X-1, the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in controlled level flight.
  • Military aircraft Douglas Skystreak, F-86 Sabre and P-38 Lightning.
• Mach Ridley and his crew arrive in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named "Lulu".
• Mach Ridley's name is a reference to USAF test pilot Jack Ridley. The Mach number is widely used in high speed aerodynamics, something that the episode is largely based on.
• It's been established that Abraham Simpson served in World War II but during that conflict the U.S. Air Force did not exist in its current form, it wasn't established until 1947.
• The remark of one of the U.S. Air Force Veterans concerning POWs (Prisoner of war) and the Red Cross refers to the treatment of German POW prisoners by the U.S. Army in the Rheinwiesenlager in 1945, in which the Red Cross was prevented from visiting prisoners in any of the Allies' Rheinwiesenlager.
• Before fighting Ridley, Homer says the fight was not going to be a "tropical vacation like Iwo Jima". The battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle of World War II.
• Milhouse plays Sjoelbak, a Dutch variation of table shuffleboard.
• The arcade game Grand Theft Walrus II, a parody of Grand Theft Auto and implied sequel to Grand Theft Walrus, is seen in the Kwik-E-Mart alongside a game called Marbury v. Madison, referring to the landmark Supreme Court case.
• The Movie The Exhaustibles 3: Arthritis Will Unite Us is a parody of The Expendables.
• Homer mentions the dystopian future movies The Hunger Games, The Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Elysium, Snowpiercer, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Ender's Game, The Road, World War Z, Children of Men, After Earth, I Am Legend, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Maze Runner, District Nine, The Purge, Looper, Cloud Atlas, Divergent, Insurgent, The Island, Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play and Chappie.
• An Imperial Japanese Navy flag and a Pickelhaube are seen at the Veterans of Unpopular Wars bar.
• Milhouse, Bart and Annika Van Houten are playing Spijkerpoepen, an old Dutch game. The aim of it is to squat and place nail inside a bottle placed on the ground. The nail is connected to a rope that is placed around the player's waist.
• Annika says that Bart is small and cute like Lichtenstein, a small country in Europe.
• Jack Kerouac gives a ride to Abraham Simpson and hands him his novel On the Road and the first draft of it and tells him to destroy the latter, but an airplane passing over him destroyed the finished work.
• The flashy red car Jack Kerouac is a Hudson Hornet.
• Anikka is flying with KLM, a famous Dutch airline.
• Bart's run at the airport refers to Love Actually.
• Ridley and his crew have to fly to an air show in Reno, Nevada. Ridley says that in Reno silver-haired foxes are as common as frisbees on the Jersey Shore.
• Annika curses in Dutch during the credits:
  • Dutch: "Jullie kunnen mijn rug op, jullie kunnen de boom in. Ik heb geen zin om meer woorden aan jullie vuil te maken. Ik ga nu naar huis. Tot ziens."
  • English: "You can bite me, take a flying leap, I don't feel like wasting any more words on you. I'm going home now. See you."

Trivia

• It's revealed that Kirk and Luann Van Houten are cousins and Milhouse has a forked tongue because of it.
• Jack Kerouac's driver has a cigarette pack held under the right sleeve of his T-shirt. It is a smaller pack than those of today, typical of the non-filtered cigarettes of the time.
• The jet Grampa flies resembles an F-104 Starfighter, a fighter the U.S. Air Force first flew in prototype form in 1956.

Continuity

• Homer previously enrolled and ended up impersonating Krusty at public events. ("Homie the Clown")
• A sequel of Grand Theft Walrus, named Grand Theft Walrus II, is seen in the Kwik-E-Mart. (The Simpsons Movie)
• Jack Kerouac was previously mentioned in a comic story. (Ralph the Haiku Genius)
• The story of how Abraham Simpson met Mona Simpson is shown. ("Mother Simpson")

Goofs

• When Milhouse shows Lewis the Squishee machine, Lewis' legs are still in the walking position.
• At the party Richard's jacket changes from blue to beige.