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Desperately Seeking Lisa/References
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"Desperately Seeking Lisa"
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Cultural references
- The episode title is a reference to the 1985 comedy-drama film Desperately Seeking Susan.
- The episode is an homage to Martin Scorsese's black comedy After Hours. Actress Rosanna Arquette plays the protagonist role of Marcy Franklin in After Hours and is also the fake Susan in Desperately Seeking Susan. Many elements from After Hours can be seen throughout this episode, including the chase involving Lisa and the use of songs from the film's soundtrack.
- Bart started to watch the TV series Mad Men when The Krusty the Clown Show was in reruns. He says that Marge and Lisa are "fighting like Don Draper and Pete Campbell after they lost their Lucky Strike account". Draper and Campbell are two of the main characters of Mad Men working at Sterling Cooper advertising agency, while the cigarette company Lucky Strike was one of the agency's most crucial and longstanding clients.
- The movement Allegro from Mozart's Symphony in D major "No. 45" is heard while Lisa travels to Capital City. This composition is also heard in the ending of After Hours.
 The Fearless Girl facing the gorilla parodies the real-world Fearless Girl, which was once located in front of the Charging Bull. Many other references to New York City are seen throughout the episode - The Erotic Sudoku book that Selma was doing references the 69 sex position, with all the boxes filled with 6s and 9s.
- Capital City parodies New York City:
- Lisa uses Oogle on her phone, a parody of Google.
- The busy street full of signs parodies Times Square:
- The cowboy sign on the Laramie Cigarettes Smokehouse Grill and the cowboy waiter are references to the Marlboro Man.
- Patty and Selma order "Cigs in Blanket", "Philly Wheeze Steak", "Vape Suzette" and "Phlegm Brûlée" parodies of Pigs in a blanket, Philly Cheese Steak, Crêpes Suzette and Crème brûlée, respectively.
- Julian saw on Facebook that Patty and Selma were coming to Capital City.
- Julian has a book of poetry by Sylvia Plath.
- Julian occasionally writes reviews on Airbnb.
- Freaks of the 'Field is a reference to the Freaks in a Field festival.
- Katya's loft is located at NoHoSoGoBloJoTo (North of Hobart Street, South of Gordon Avenue and Below Joseph Torrance Expressway), a pun on the famous neighborhood of SoHo (South of Houston Street). Since the 1970s, SoHo has been the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries.
- Cranberry: The Ocean Spray Juice-ical is a reference to the Ocean Spray brand of cranberry juice drinks. B. J. Novak stars in it as the Bog.
- The people outside of the hotel are dressed in costumes of Goofy, Charlie Brown, Pikachu and Shrek. Julian mentions Pikachu.
- "Bull in the Heather" by Sonic Youth plays during the montages and the credits.
- In the montage, the artists and Lisa jumping the turnstile of the Capital City Metro parody Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) trying to turnstile jump the New York City Subway in After Hours.
- A man reads Tropic of Cancer, a novel by Henry Miller, hinting the beginning of After Hours when Paul and Marcy meet.
- One of the exhibits at the Museum of Loft-Based Transgressive Progressivism is of Jesus Christ inside the Kool-Aid Man.
- According to the banner, the show Roach by Tracy Letts is "a Kafkaesque reimagining of The Metamorphosis". The Metamorphosis, however, is one of Franz Kafka's already-surreal best-known works. The subtitles refer to the character in the show as "Gregor Samsa", who is the main character of The Metamorphosis.
- Tracy Letts imagines a play starting at a Dave & Buster's.
- Julian refers to the Upper East Side as the "forbidden zone". The Upper East Side is the most affluent neighborhood in New York City.
- Lacey Van Aster mentions seducing Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
- Art pieces of Lisa in the Museum of Lisa the Thieving Poseur include parodies and references to:
- Lisa runs by a statue that resembles the Alamo.
- "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" is one of the ringtones heard on the ringtones documentary.
- Superintendent Chalmers mentioned playing Pickleball, a fast-growing racket sport.
- "Pay to Cum" by Bad Brains plays in Chalmers and Ms. Hoover's hotel room. The song is also part of After Hours soundtrack.
- The Fearless Girl statue is a gift from Goldman Sachs, an American multinational investment bank and financial services company.
- Lisa goes through an arch that parodies the Washington Square Arch.
- One of the balloons is American writer and novelist Joan Didion.
- When he thinks he has captured Lisa, Julian calls her John Gregory "Donne", a pun on writer John Gregory Dunne, who usually collaborated with his wife Joan Didion.
- Julian calls Katya "second-rate" Cindy Sherman.
- Tracy Letts tells Katya that if there was a gun in the first act, he'd shoot her right now. This is a reference to the narrative principle of Chekhov's gun.
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