Cultural References
Throughout the episode, George sings the song "Master of the House" from the musical Les Misérables. Les Misérables ran on Broadway Theatre for sixteen years, making it one of the longest running musicals in the history of Broadway. In response to George constantly singing "Master of the House", Jerry tells him about German composer Robert Schumann, who went insane from hearing the same note over and over in his head. George also mentions Bud Abbott, an actor and comedian during the 1940s and 1950s, who was part of the Abbott and Costello duo, with Lou Costello. When Jerry and George discuss their options in the bathroom at the hotel, George suggests that they should leave to which Jerry replies "he'll clunk our heads together like Moe"; this a reference to Moe Howard, one of The Three Stooges, who frequently clunked the heads of his brothers together. Alton mentions Fidel Castro, ruler of Cuba from 1959 to 2008.
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)