Dowisetrepla - Cultural References

Cultural References

• After Ted finishes revealing Marshall and Lily's argument, he puts on sunglasses in a manner of Horatio Caine from the television series CSI: Miami. The pun he makes is parodying a series of Internet memes based on Caine.
• The flavor of ice cream when Ted is in the kitchen is Ben and Jerry's "Cherry Garcia."
• When Ted plays detective, he refers to himself and his sister as the "Mosby Boys", a reference to the Hardy Boys, and remarks that "There's a reason why your name is Robin and not Batman" to Robin.
• Marshall references the MTV series The Real World.
• Dowisetrepla ("DO"wn "WI"nd of the "SE"wage "TRE"atment "PLA"nt) is a parody of other neighbourhoods in NYC popularly referred to by their acronyms, such as SoHo (South of Houston Street), TriBeCa (Triangle Below Canal Street), Nolita (North of Little Italy) and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass).
• Robin incorrectly tells Lily that the highest mountain in Canada is Mount Waddington (4019 m). The highest mountain is actually Mount Logan (5956 m); Mount Waddington is actually the 19th highest peak in Canada, but the highest peak wholly contained in a province and the highest peak outside of the Saint Elias Mountains.