Let's Go Fly a Coot/References
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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 its current form, it wasn't established until 1947.
- The remark of one of the U.S. Air Force Veterans concerning POWs (Prisoner of war) and the Red Cross refers to the treatment of German POW prisoners by the U.S. Army in the Rheinwiesenlager in 1945, in which the Red Cross was prevented from visiting prisoners in any of the Allies' Rheinwiesenlager.
- 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 II, a parody of Grand Theft Auto and implied sequel to Grand Theft Walrus, is seen in the Kwik-E-Mart alongside a game called Marbury v. Madison, referring to the landmark Supreme Court case.
- The Movie The Exhaustibles 3: Arthritis Will Unite Us is a parody of The Expendables.
- Homer mentions the dystopian 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.
- The flashy red car Jack Kerouac is in is a Hudson Hornet.
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make a cameo appearance during Milhouse's party.
- Bart's run on the airport refers to Love Actually.
Trivia
- It's revealed that Kirk and Luann Van Houten are cousins and Milhouse has a forked tongue because of it.
- Jack Kerouac's driver has a cigarette pack held under the right sleeve of his T-shirt. It is a smaller pack than those of today, typical of the non-filtered cigarettes of the time.
- The jet Grampa flies resembles an F-104 Starfighter, a fighter the U.S. Air Force first flew in prototype form in 1956.
Continuity
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.
