I Second That Emotion (Futurama) - Cultural References

Cultural References

• One of the animals in the vet's office is a rust monster from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
• The title of the episode comes from the 1967 hit song by The Miracles titled I Second That Emotion (as well as a pun on the expression "I second that motion", when an action has been suggested by one member of a group and another member announces his support for it). In the audio commentary for this episode, the commentators debate whether or not the episode's title is also a reference to the fact that this episode is the season two premiere.
• A reference is also made to the movie Beneath the Planet of the Apes when Fry points out that the mutants worship an unexploded nuclear bomb.
• El Chupanibre is a direct reference to the Latin American legend of El Chupacabra, because El Chupanibre comes at night and eats their crocodiles (with Chupacabra it is farmer's cattle or livestock, most commonly goats, since Chupacabra literally translates to "goat sucker" in Spanish).
• Bender finds a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged amongst a pile of sewage and "crumpled porn".
• While exploring the sewers, Fry consults a Let's Go Sewers guidebook, a parody of Let's Go Travel Guides.
• A parody was made on the movie King Kong when Leela was being sacrificed.
• At the beginning of the episode when Bender, Fry, Leela, and Nibbler are at the veterinarians the veterinarian seems to use a device similar to the Sonic Screwdriver of Doctor Who fame.