Let's Go Fly a Coot/References

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References/Trivia

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	Season 26 Episode References
← 571 "The Kids Are All Fight"	572 "Let's Go Fly a Coot"	"Bull-E" 573 →

Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a reference to "Let's Go Fly a Kite", a song in Walt Disney's 1964 film Mary Poppins.
• It's been established that Abraham Simpson served in World War II but during that conflict the U.S. Air Force did not exist in it's current form, it wasn't established until 1947.
• Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles made a cd singing Happy Birthday, Milhouse. They previously performed multiple songs for the special live show The Simpsons Take the Bowl.
• The arcade game Grand Theft Walrus, a parody of Grand Theft Auto, is seen in the Kwik-E-Mart alongside a game about the Marbury v. Madison case.
• The Movie The Exhaustibles 3: Arthritis Will Unite Us is a parody of The Expendables.
• Homer mentions the distopian future movies The Hunger Games, The Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Elysium, Snowpiercer, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Ender's Game, The Road, World War Z, Children of Men, After Earth, I Am Legend, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Maze Runner, District Nine, The Purge, Looper, Cloud Atlas, Divergent, Insurgent, The Island, Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play and Chappie.
• Jack Kerouac gives a ride to Abraham Simpson and hands him his novel On the Road and the first draft of it and tells him to destroy the latter, but an airplane passing over him destroyed the finished work.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make a cameo during Milhouse's party.

Trivia

• It's revealed that Kirk and Luann Van Houten are cousins and Milhouse has a forked tongue because of it.
• This is the first time that Bart and Lisa are seen crying together (but without tears).

Goofs

• When Milhouse shows Lewis the Squishee machine, Lewis' legs are still in the walking position.
• At the party Richard's jacket changes from blue to beige.

Continuity

• Homer previously enrolled and ended up impersonating Krusty at public events. ("Homie the Clown")
• Grand Theft Walrus is seen again in the Kwik-E-Mart. ("The Simpsons Movie")
• Jack Kerouac was previously mentioned in a comic story. ("Ralph the Haiku Genius")
• The story of