Cultural References
- Hank starts his blog post with "Hank hates you all," a reference to his book God Hates Us All.
- Hank tells at dinner how Bill and Karen met and how they talked about "Zen and the Art of Midlife Crisis", a reference to the Robert M. Pirsig novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
- Hank's blog entry contains the line: "I probably won't go down in history, but I will go down on your sister". This is almost identical to the final lyric line in the 1991 NOFX song "The Moron Brothers." Since the show (arguably) does not often reference this musical genre, it is unclear whether this is an intended reference.
- The episode's title ("Hell-A Woman") is derived from The Doors song "L.A. Woman, of which a remix is featured. Added meaning comes from the name of Bill's magazine, "Hell-A".
- Hank refers to his agent's assistant as Dani California the name of a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers who sang the song from which the series takes its name.
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“They’re semiotic phantoms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off and taken on a life of their own, like those Jules Verne airships that those old Kansas farmers were always seeing.... Semiotic ghosts. Fragments of the Mass Dream, whirling past in the wind of my passage.”
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