Let's Go Fly a Coot/References
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Cultural references[edit]
 The Big Birthday's spokesperson shouting at Homer is a reference to Network- Some famous planes can be seen at the Springfield Museum of Flight:
- Mach Ridley and his crew arrive in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named "Lulu".
- Mach Ridley's name is a reference to USAF test pilot Jack Ridley. The Mach number is also a widely used quantity in high-speed aircraft.
- 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.
- Before fighting Ridley, Homer says the fight was not going to be a "tropical vacation like Iwo Jima". The battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle of World War II.
- Ridley proceeds to beat Homer by only flicking him with his middle finger, just like Sean Connery did to a bar bully with his right thumb while playing a tough military cop in 1988 movie The Presidio.
- Milhouse plays Sjoelbak, a Dutch variation of table shuffleboard.
- 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.
- An Imperial Japanese Navy flag and a Pickelhaube are seen at the Veterans of Unpopular Wars bar.
- Ridley and his friends leave Grampa, saying they have to fly their B-17 to Reno for an air show. In 2011, a heavily modified North American P-51D Mustang WW2 fighter crashed during Reno Air Race, killing the pilot and ten spectators on the ground.
- Milhouse, Bart and Annika Van Houten play Spijkerpoepen, an old Dutch game. The aim of it is to squat and place a nail inside a bottle that is on the ground. The nail is connected to a rope that is tied around the player's waist.
- Annika says that Bart is small and cute like Liechtenstein, a small country in Europe.
- Jack Kerouac gives a ride to Abe and hands him his novel On the Road (first published in 1957 by Viking Press of New York City) 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 and Neal Cassady are in a Hudson Hornet.
- Anikka is flying with KLM, a Dutch national airline.
- Bart's run at the airport refers to Love Actually.
- Ridley and his crew have to fly to an air show in Reno, Nevada. Ridley says that in Reno silver-haired foxes are as common as frisbees on the Jersey Shore.
- Annika curses in Dutch during the credits:
- Dutch: "Jullie kunnen mijn rug op, jullie kunnen de boom in. Ik heb geen zin om meer woorden aan jullie vuil te maken. Ik ga nu naar huis. Tot ziens."
- English: "You can bite me, take a flying leap, I don't feel like wasting any more words on you. I'm going home now. See you."
- 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.
- The car Grampa Simpson abandoned after getting a flat tire in his flashback has TABF13 on the license plate which is also the production code for this episode.
- When the spokesperson of Big Birthday tells Homer that he is banned from ever hosting a birthday party again, Marge tells Bart and Lisa that they will have to stay the same age for the rest of their lives. This could be a reference to the fact that cartoon characters never commonly age.
Continuity[edit]
- 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.
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