The Sound of Bleeding Gums/References
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Cultural references
- The episode title is a reference to The Sound of Music.
- The song played by Lisa in the couch gag and on her MyPad is "Salt Peanuts" by Dizzy Gillespie.
- The ad for Everything+ mentions that they have shows that the streaming service Peacock rejected.
- The name Mr. Crow Jangles is a reference to the song "Mr. Bojangles" by Jerry Jeff Walker.
- So You Think You Can Dentist is a parody of So You Think You Can Dance.
- Bleeding Gums Murphy played alongside Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse.
- Lisa has a Kenny G music book, Songs for the Uninspired.
- Bart mentions they killed Kenny A to F, a reference to South Park, where they kill Kenny many times during the series.
- Pictures on the wall at The Jazz Hole include McCoy Tyner who played with John Coltrane, Gerald Wilson who Lisa calls "the west coast Duke Ellington", and Sarah Vaughan.
- Treasured Artist Records sold Bleeding Gums Murphy's rights to Nike, Lay's potato chips, Turkish oligarchs and Evil Corp.
- Bleeding Gums Murphy tells Lisa that he's always magically here for her, like Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance and Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy. He then plays the theme song for Driving Miss Daisy.
- In Lisa's imagination, Bleeding Gums Murphy crashes into the characters from Green Book.
- The Sky's the Limit is a reference to No Limits, a charity for deaf children who were thanked in the credits for the episode.
- Monk Murphy is directing a production of Richard III.
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