Hail to the Teeth/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The title is a reference to the song "Hail to the Chief", best known as the personal anthem of the President of the USA.
- The name of the Puber app is a reference to Uber and puberty.
- When Homer uses the Puber app on Bart, Homer calls Bart Aaron Eckhart.
- Things Homer drunk-bought from eBay include:
- A California Raisins lunch box. The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues animated musical group that was popular from 1986 to 2002.
- Paternity episodes from Maury by TV personality Maury Povich.
- The family receives a flier from Lowe's, the American retail company specializing in home improvement.
- Artie Ziff's hologram features rapper Tupac Shakur, who sings "My Boy Artie". The tattoos on his back parody his real-life tattoos, including:
- "Top of the World" instead of "Fuck the World".
- "Cry Now" instead of "Cry Later".
- "Balling" instead of "Ballin".
- At Artie's party, the "Groomsday Clock" parodies the Doomsday Clock.
- At the "Pick Your Own Superbowl Ring" table, a football player is complaining about his headache, in a reference to the concussions in American football.
- During Artie's party, "Flower Duet" by Léo Delibes, from the opera Lakmé, plays while the women perform synchronized swimming.
- Lisa reads E. B. White's novel Charlotte's Web to the class, mentioning the protagonists, Charlotte the barn spider and Wilbur the pig.
- Elizabeth Hoover consumed Zoloft, an antidepressant. The label of the medicine includes the production code for the this episode, "ZABF05".
- The woman in the film A Gal's Guide to Wowing the Workplace says that she's wearing a pound of Mary Kay, the multi-level marketing company that sells cosmetics and skin care products.
- "Spring" from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi plays at Artie's wedding, followed up by the "Bridal Chorus" by Richard Wagner.
- Milhouse's honeymoon with Lisa includes two days in Ohio, two days in Michigan and a visit to Ontario, Canada. In the drawings he made, the Uniroyal Giant Tire and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, both located in Michigan, can be seen.
- When Lisa thinks she can change things by taking advantage of her smiles, she imagines turning the Springfield Elementary School playground into a Zen garden.
- In Lisa's imagination, the bullies use the expression Hear, hear to agree with Martin. This expression is of common use in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
- Homer takes an Ah Fudge! from the hotel mini fridge, which has a packaging similar to that of the Hershey bar. He also takes a Toblerone bar, the well-known Swiss brand of chocolate with its distinctive triangular prisms.
- Several of the Marge robots look like Terminators from Terminator.
- One of the robots resembles Bender from Futurama.
- When the robots fly away after building the orphanage, Artie mentions that none of them had been given wings, to what Marge says "Life finds a way". This is a reference to Dr. Ian Malcolm's signature line in Jurassic Park that has become synonymous with actor Jeff Goldblum and the franchise itself.
- During the credits, a future Lisa is presenting her book Smiling Is for Suckers on the The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Continuity[edit]
- Kent Brockman is initially colored incorrectly at Artie's wedding, having cream hair and suit. He then goes back to having white hair and a brown suit shortly after.
