Ice Cream of Margie (with The Light Blue Hair) - Cultural References

Cultural References

• This episode's title is a reference to the first words of Stephen Foster's "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," lyrics that also inspired the title of the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
• Greta Wolfcastle makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in this episode.
• The episode features the songs "Get Ur Freak On" by Missy Elliott, "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits, "Feels So Good" by Chuck Mangione, and varied scorings of "Pop Goes the Weasel".
• The revelation of the customized ice cream truck is a parody of Pimp My Ride (which, coincidentally, had an episode about a man with a broken-down ice cream truck that gets pimped out by Xzibit); Bart also says "Wow Otto, you totally pimped Dad's ride".
• The scene where Homer gets dressed in his ice cream man uniform is a reference to the opening of Da Ali G Show.
• The TV show Marge watches, Opal, is a parody of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Opal reappears in "Husbands and Knives" and "Funeral for a Fiend".
• When Homer is speeding to Marge's art show, the theme from the 1970s TV show The Streets of San Francisco is heard.
• Homer mistakes a huge Popsicle-stick sculpture of himself for Magilla Gorilla.
• The episode predicts a bleak future in which humanity is enslaved by anthropomorphic giant iPods.
• When Snake Jailbird hijacks the helicopter, he tells Kent Brockman about a "tie-up on the 101/405 interchange." The interchange between the 101 and 405 Freeways is actually in Sherman Oaks, California.