That '90s Show - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The title is a reference to That '70s Show and the failed spinoff That '80s Show.
• The scene with "Marvin Cobain", calling his cousin Kurt is a reference to the movie Back to the Future. There Marty McFly performs the song Johnny B. Goode (which had not been made yet, in 1955), prompting a man named "Marvin Berry" to call his cousin "Chuck" (who's been looking for a new sound), telling him to listen to the song Marty's singing. Here "Marvin" is the cousin of grunge rock band, Nirvana's front man, Kurt Cobain.
• The sculpture of a button in the Springfield University quadrangle is a reference to Claes Oldenburg's "Split Button" on the University of Pennsylvania campus. The episode's writer Matt Selman is a graduate of the college.
• In one scene, Comic Book Guy is heard telling a group, "And that is why 'The Lord of the Rings' can never be filmed."
• The song "Brain Freeze" played by Weird Al Yankovic is a parody of Nirvana's "Rape Me" and also a reference to his 1992 single "Smells Like Nirvana".
• The toy octopus that Homer and Marge own is a Beanie Baby by Ty Inc.
• The LP shown while Homer and Marge are dividing their possessions, is "The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd.
• When Homer divides up his and Marge's possessions, he gives himself "bad" or old fashioned things and her the "good" or modern things; namely LPs vs CDs, a typewriter vs a computer and Enron stock vs Microsoft stock.