Cultural References
The episode makes mention of "40 classic films starring Jim Carrey", which include The Mask and "Ace Ventura VI". According to David Mirkin, this is a joke about how "huge" Carrey's movies were at the time, and how he was not garnering much respect as an actor. The sounds of the car are the same as the ones used in The Jetsons. Wrist communicators are using same sounds as communicators in Star Trek. In this episode's version of the future, apparently four of the major American television networks have been bought by ABC and merged into CNNBCBS. At the same time, Fox has gradually become a hardcore sex channel. Hugh Parkfield is a parody of English actor Hugh Grant. The beginning of Lisa and Hugh's romance is similar to the one in Love Story. Martin Prince's fate is a parody of The Phantom of the Opera. The song that he plays on the organ is a variation of "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy, a disco version of Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C Minor.
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