To Surveil with Love/References
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"To Surveil with Love/References"
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Cultural references
- The title could be a reference to the movie To Sir, with Love, or the 1963 James Bond film, From Russia with Love.
- The song played on the beginning of the episode is "Tik Tok" by Ke$ha. It is part of the "Fox Rocks" promotion, a week of music themed episodes in different TV shows on the FOX Channel.[1]
- The Channel 6 News name for the explosion of Homer's bag, "Chattanuclear-Choo-Choo" is a reference to the Glenn Miller song Chattanooga Choo Choo.
- The company that installs the city-wide camera system is called "Orwell Security", a reference to George Orwell and his novel 1984, about a dictatorial government that maintained control over the population by keeping everyone under surveillance.
- During the video where Nigel Bakerbutcher shows the video surveillance network he previously set up in London:
- Mary Poppins (from the film of the same title) is seen using her umbrella to gently descend to the ground, accompanied by music from the film.
- After she lands, she sheds her human disguise, revealing herself to really be a camera-equipped robot endoskeleton that resembles the Terminator.
- Mr. Burns' line "Ooh, that's a bingo" could be a reference to Hans Landa's same line in Inglourious Basterds.
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