Difference between revisions of "I Am Furious (Yellow)/References"

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Cultural references[edit]

• The title is a reference to 1967 Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow), notorious for its sexual content.
• Pictures in the Springfield Speakers Bureau include those of Walter Mondale, Marvin Hamlisch, Mark Fuhrman, he former President of Procter & Gamble, Joyce Brothers, and Maya Angelou.
• In "Danger Dog", Danger Dog says he has a date with "Sarah Jessica Barker" referring to Sarah Jessica Parker. The plot of the cartoon also references Danger Mouse and Underdog.
• When Stan Lee shows up, Comic Book Guy says that his heart is pounding like Thor's hammer on Doctor Doom's titanium-infused face-plate.
• Stan Lee asks if Comic Book Guy was the person who was stalking ‎Lynda Carter.
• Stan Lee says that his "Spidey sense is tingling", a reference to Spider-Man and one of his catchphrases.
• When Stan Lee insults Comic Book Guy, Comic Book Guy says that in Bizarro World that means Stan Lee likes him.
• When Bart is trying to come up with an idea for a comic book, he sees:
  • A bat, and thinks of Batman.
  • A green lantern, and thinks of the Green Lantern.
  • Marge then mentions Little Dot and asks if he could rip that off.
• Homer sees an advert for a TV show called When Dinosaurs Get Drunk, a parody of When Animals Attack!.
• After the When Dinosaurs Get Drunk ad, a program called The Boring World of Niels Bohr comes on. The opening image is of the scientist himself, and an expanded version of the Bohr model of the atom.
• Comic Book Guy calls Bart's pencilling "sub-Ziggy".
• Stan Lee shoves a figure of The Thing into Database's Batmobile toy.
• After breaking Database's Batmobile, Stan Lee starts to hum the "Spider-Man" theme song.
• When Todd Linux tells Bart that he wants to make Angry Dad into an Internet cartoon, Bart says that he'll be in cyberspace next to the Nabisco cookie website.
• Bin Laden in a Blender is a parody of the viral web animation "Frog in a Blender" from Joe Cartoon.
• Lou Rawls: Secret Agent features an animated Lou Rawls in a trenchcoat trying to escape from a trap.
  • Lou Rawls sings "You'll Never Find That Microfilm of Mine" a parody of "You'll Never Find Another Love like Mine".
• The voice actor for play Angry Dad is a caricature of (and voiced by) Simpsons voice actor Dan Castellaneta.
• When Krusty asks his assistant to book the animal that always chomps on his groin, his assistant asks if he meant Susan Anton.
• The way Angry Dad's head bursts is the same as Arnold Schwarzenegger's head swells in the movie Total Recall when he's on the planet with no atmosphere.
• Bart asks Homer if he'd like to be played by John Goodman in an Angry Dad movie. Homer then says that it should be Gary Oldman.
• Ned sings "Rise and Shine", a Christian children's song.
• Homer sings "Mellow Yellow" by Donovan when he tries to control his anger.
• When Stan Lee sees Homer looking like The Hulk, he says that he's the Hulk and starts to rip his clothes off.
• Comic Book Guy says that Stan Lee couldn't even change into Bill Bixby.

Trivia[edit]

• Pictures seen on the wall of the Springfield Speakers Bureau include Chuck Garabedian, Kent Brockman, The Rich Texan, and Lindsey Naegle.
• Dan Castellaneta voiced himself doing the voice of Angry Dad.
• In Springfield Elementary School, the fire alarm tone is a bell. Most schools in the United States do not use bells for fire alarms. They usually use a buzzer or a high-pitched beeping tone, and some modern schools use a voice-evacuation message over a speaker system. However, bells for fire alarms are more commonly found in Canada.
• Homer says he is passionate "..Like all us Greek" implying he is of Greek origin.

Continuity[edit]

• While watching When Dinosaurs Go Drunk, where a drunken stegosaurus is depicted stumbling into a tar pit, Homer claims, "Boy, I've been there." In "Bart Gets an Elephant", Homer got trapped in a tar pit.
• "Angry Dad: The Movie" is a sequel to this episode.

Goofs[edit]

• Rod and Todd Flanders are seen in Springfield Elementary, despite not going there at the time.
• Ralph is seen in Bart's class, despite being in the second grade.
• When Homer gets out of the cacti on the 'Trap' scene, he has 2 boils on his neck but just before he approaches the dirty diapers, they disappear.