Smoke on the Daughter/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The family also watches Entertainment Tonight (ET). The hostess leaves the audience with the question "Which former Friends star is speaking out against adult literacy?" To what Bart answers "Lisa Kudrow".
- No. 5 Pas de deux for Two Merry-makers from Act 1 in the ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is heard in the Chazz Busby Ballet Academy commercial.
- Chazz Busby's name is a reference to the famous director and choreographer of musicals Busby Berkeley and his character design is based on Joe Gideon, played by Roy Scheider, in the film All That Jazz directed by Bob Fosse.
- Lisa encourages Marge by telling her that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham danced well into her 70s.
- Homer wanted Marge to be a go-go dancer.
- The ballet moves Busby mentions include Bolshoi fifth position", battement glissé, a double changement de pied, two Swan Lake fouettás and a grand pas de chat.
- Busby mentions the Tony Awards.
- An off-key version of Frédéric Chopin's "Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2" plays when Lisa first dances ballet.
- Lisa tells the ballerina from her class that smoking is bad, as they show in an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. The episode Lisa refers to does not exist in real life.
- Homer and Bart made a PowerPoint presentation on jerkies.
- The Mystery of the Odd-Shaped Rock is a fictional book from the real world series The Hardy Boys.
- The smoke ghost of an adult Lisa mentions French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, Queen of England Elizabeth I, American actress Lauren Bacall, and American playwright Lillian Hellman.
- Lillian Hellman says she invented mayonnaise, referencing the well-known Hellmann's Mayonnaise and mentions Hellmann's tagline "Bring out the best".
- Marge dreams of watching Lisa perform at Lincoln Center.
- Homer's mispronunciation of "Surgeon-General" as "Sturgeon-General" is a reference to the movie Corrina, Corrina, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta. In it, a small child refers to the "sturgeon-general"'s health warning about the dangers of smoking as an explanation for burying the adult characters' supplies of cigarettes in her sandpit.
- Bart says he will follow Lisa closely like "fish stink on a Gloucester dog".
- The suite The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is heard during the ballerinas' practice.
- The suite is again heard during the credits.
- When Bart raises his head out of the pile of leg warmers in the smoke outside, a psychedelic rock song similar to the song "The End" by The Doors is heard, mirroring a sequence in the film Apocalypse Now, where Willard raises from the mud. He is also wearing green camo body paint.
- The music that plays as the raccoon climbs into the Ballet Academy sounds similar to the theme from The Pink Panther.
- After Lisa quits ballet and rejects Busby, he puts on a bowler hat and struts out of the theater to the song "On Broadway" by George Benson, a song featured in All That Jazz.
- Lisa wears Hello Kitty nicotine patches.
- Marge's shattered dreams mainly revolve around stethoscopes; doctor, safecracker, stethoscope saleslady.
- In one scene, Lisa's mouth is missing.
