Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story/References
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"Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"
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Cultural references
- The concept of the episode, and LifeBoat, are based on Theranos, founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
- Persephone Odair followed in the footsteps of Bill Gates by dropping out of Harvard University.
- The dramatic squirrel that Mr. Burns cut a forest down over is a reference to the Dramatic Chipmunk meme.
- Persephone once tried to clone technology executive Sheryl Sandberg for a school project.
- Mr. Burns asks Persephone if John Muir, Friedrich Engels, or Mike Doonesbury, the main character of the comic strip Doonesbury, had sent her.
- The oil executive says that the chemicals they use to put out fires turns alligators into Godzillas.
- Persephone's Financial Vision Board includes a picture of Shrek and Barack Obama.
- Persephone says that Burns funding LifeBoat will put him in the same pantheon as J. Paul Getty, Vanderbilt, and the Spanx lady.
- Mr. Burns' wealthy friends include George W. Bush, Guy Fieri, Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch, and Bill Belichick.
- "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten plays multiple times in the episode.
- Other water brands seen on the bar graph include Dasani, Danone, and Aquafina.
- Mr. Burns and Persephone appear on the cover of Nintendo Power, with Burns parodying Mario and Persephone parodying Princess Peach from Mario.
- Homer asks if the documentary is like The Office where he has to always look at the camera and do a big take so the audience knows when to laugh.
- Professor Frink said that working for LifeBoat was still better than working for Zuckerberg.
- Lisa has a LifeBoat poster that says "Mission: Potable" on it, a reference to Mission: Impossible.
- The cover of Lucre magazine has a headline that says "Scrooge McDuck: You Can't Dive Into a Pool of Bitcoin."
- People on Twitter complained about Persephone. Mr. Burns then bought Twitter for her.
- Burns says that the previous owner of Twitter had to sell it after his self-driving Mars rocket crashed into the International Space Station, a reference to Elon Musk and Tesla's self-driving cars.
- Peter Jackson has a poster of Kong vs. Smaug on his wall, a reference to the films King Kong and The Hobbit, both directed by Jackson. He also has a picture of the characters from the film Meet the Feebles doing a parody of The Beatles' album Abbey Road. Jackson also directed The Beatles: Get Back.
- Jackson had footage of The Beatles (and Yoko Ono) discussing drinking water.
- ESPN's 30 for 30 presented the documentary On Thin Ice: The LifeBoat Naming Rights Scandal.
- The LifeBoat stadium was previously branded under FTX, MoviePass, Quibi, and Bartles & Jaymes Wine Coolers.
- Carl has been to over 700 Jimmy Buffett concerts.
- Jab soda is a parody of Tab.
- Carl says that the water the LifeBoat machines make still has more salt than all the glasses in "Margaritaville", a song by Jimmy Buffett.
- In the Ken Burns' documentary, Peter Coyote says that LifeBoat employees had drunk the Kool-Aid.
- Persephone's grandfather's hobby is fixing British spellings on Wikipedia.
Trivia
- Bart only has 3 minor appearances on this episode but he has no speaking lines. However, Nancy Cartwright is still credited despite she didn't voiced any of her characters on this episode.
- This makes Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer the only cast members to be heard in every episode of the series.
Continuity
