Smoke on the Daughter/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 19 Episode References
← 414 "Dial "N" for Nerder"	415 "Smoke on the Daughter"	"Papa Don't Leech" 416 →

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 watches CSI: Miami, 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 & get hurt. Maggie then zooms in and says the Road Runner's catchphrase "Meep Meep!"
• Lisa is dreaming of Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, Elizabeth I, Lauren Bacall and Lillian Hellman as ghosts smoking cigarettes.

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.

Goofs

Lisa's mouth goof

• In one scene, Lisa's mouth is missing.

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