The Girl Code/References - Revision history

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */ replaced: {{ap|RoboCop|franchise}} → RoboCop

2025-01-22T14:48:50Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: {{ap|RoboCop|franchise}} → RoboCop

MediocreUsername: /* Continuity */

2024-10-25T19:01:20Z

‎Continuity

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */ replaced: Conrad → CONRAD (5)

2024-10-01T23:25:31Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: Conrad → CONRAD (5)

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: →

2024-04-27T17:04:55Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: →

California Girl: /* Cultural references */ "Sausage fest"

2023-04-15T05:49:24Z

‎Cultural references: "Sausage fest"

California Girl: /* Cultural references */ Randy Newman's "Short People"

2023-04-08T21:42:36Z

‎Cultural references: Randy Newman's "Short People"

California Girl: /* Cultural references */ clarified who was sent to Crossfit

2023-04-08T21:11:48Z

‎Cultural references: clarified who was sent to Crossfit

California Girl: /* Cultural references */ RBG ref more specific

2023-04-06T17:27:40Z

‎Cultural references: RBG ref more specific

SolarBot: /* Goofs */replaced: Cosine → Cosine

2022-03-13T14:08:51Z

‎Goofs: replaced: Cosine → Cosine

SolarBot: replaced: {{w| → {{W| (51), {{w2| → {{W2|

2021-10-16T06:57:11Z

replaced: {{w| → {{W| (51), {{w2| → {{W2|

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 **A {{W|SWOT analysis|SWOT board}}, which includes various references:
 ***"Spotty Skynet Coverage" is a reference to ''[[Terminator]]'', with {{W2|Skynet|Terminator}} being an AI system from that film.
-***"RoboCop memories might be boring", a reference to ''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}''.
+***"RoboCop memories might be boring", a reference to ''[[RoboCop]]''.
 ***"Have to wake up Bender", a reference to [[Bender]] from [[Futurama]].
 ***"Bionic Ruth Bader Ginsburg". {{W|Ruth Bader Ginsburg}} was a justice of the {{W|Supreme Court of the United States}}.

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 *[[Homer]] was previously fired. ("[[Homer's Odyssey]]")
 *[[Lisa]]'s blue highlight on her hair makes her resemble her non-canon future daughter, [[Zia Simpson]]. ("[[Holidays of Future Passed]]")
 == Trivia ==

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 **An American footballer holding a plate with crab legs who would be drafted in a later round. This is a reference to American footballer {{W|Jameis Winston}}: Winston was once accused of stealing crab legs from a store. During the time of the accusation, Winston was projected to be the first overall selection in the following {{W|NFL draft}}.
 *Homer mentions both {{W|Siri}} and [[Amazon]] when asking for a beer delivered by a {{W|Amazon Prime Air|drone}}.
-*The [[BBC]] is mentioned by [[Lisa]], although the shows [[Conrad]] mentions are fictional.
+*The [[BBC]] is mentioned by [[Lisa]], although the shows [[CONRAD]] mentions are fictional.
 *At the [[Odyssey Diner]]:
 **The characters dance {{W|sirtaki}}, a popular dance of Greek origins, while the music played is "{{W|Zorba's Dance}}" from the film ''{{W2|Zorba the Greek|film}}''.
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 *Quinn refers to Cribble as the "Filipino [[Google]]".
 *[[Comic Book Guy]] mentions [[Mark Zuckerberg]] and {{W|Eduardo Saverin}}.
-*Conrad mentions ''{{W|Candy Crush Saga|Candy Crush}}''.
+*CONRAD mentions ''{{W|Candy Crush Saga|Candy Crush}}''.
 *Quinn says that {{W|Steve Wozniak}} put in so many hours on creating the {{W|Apple I|first Apple computer}}.
 **A character similar to Wozniak and his dog "Chip" appear at the AppCrush convention.
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 **Quitter is a reference to [[Twitter]].
 **Ripcord is a real app.
-*Conrad said to Lisa for her not to ignore him like an update from [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]]. That's a reference to some [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] programs which had updates so often that they started to be ignored by many people.
+*CONRAD said to Lisa for her not to ignore him like an update from [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]]. That's a reference to some [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] programs which had updates so often that they started to be ignored by many people.
 *[[Horatio McCallister]] and [[Herman]] can be seen blowing candles of cakes with a {{W|Confederate flag}} icing. This flag is often associated with racism in the United States.
 *Quinn Hopper mentions {{W|Bridgestone}} tires.
-*One of the Conrad's friend apps is Gulp, a reference to {{W|Yelp}}.
+*One of the CONRAD's friend apps is Gulp, a reference to {{W|Yelp}}.
-*Conrad talks about [[WikiLeaks]].
+*CONRAD talks about [[WikiLeaks]].
 *The text on the mainframe when Lisa first walks over is the command line help from the microcontroller flashing utility [http://www.ladyada.net/learn/avr/avrdude.html avrdude].
 *Homer gets his payment for working at the Diner, but is only 2,000 drachmas. The {{W|Greek drachma}} was the currency used before the euro was introduced in 2001.

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 **Two women dressed as [[Hitler]] that would be banned from the Museum of Tolerance.
 **Bob from ''[[Bob's Burgers]]''', whose restaurant would be "boycotted by short people" due to what the blackboard had written on. The "Burger of the Day" blackboard is a running gag from ''Bob's Burgers''.
-***The Burger of the Day "Short People got no Braisin' to Rib Burger"  is a parody of the {{W|Randy Newman}} song, "{{W|Short People}} (got no reason to live)."
+***The Burger of the Day "Short People got no Braisin' to Rib Burger" is a parody of the {{W|Randy Newman}} song, "{{W|Short People}} (got no reason to live)."
 **[[Krusty]] ruining his career. Krusty can be seen exiting an airplane with angry black people waiting for him holding a <code>#HasKrustyLandedYet</code> sign. This is a reference to the {{W|Justine Sacco|Justine Sacco incident}}. Sacco made a racist comment on Twitter related to {{W|AIDS}} before boarding a plane to South Africa. A hashtag, <code>#HasJustineLandedYet</code>, began to trend worldwide with a great repulsive reaction from people towards her. Only after landing Sacco found out she had been fired and she realized the outcome of her tweet being posted.
 **An American footballer holding a plate with crab legs who would be drafted in a later round. This is a reference to American footballer {{W|Jameis Winston}}: Winston was once accused of stealing crab legs from a store. During the time of the accusation, Winston was projected to be the first overall selection in the following {{W|NFL draft}}.

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 *[[Marge]] shows [[Smithers]] his posts on [[Facelook]], a parody of [[Facebook]].
 *The [[Springfield Elementary School|school]]'s new coding teacher, [[Quinn Hopper]], mentions several concepts related to coding: {{W2|Asynchrony|computer programming}}, the famous programming language {{W|JavaScript}}, {{W|malware}} and {{W|ciphertext}}.
 **She refers to [[Lisa]] as "Silicon Sally", a pun on [[Silicon Valley]]. Silicon Valley is a region mostly associated with the high-tech industry.
 *[[Mr. Burns]] asks [[Smithers]] if he's playing the game {{W|Grindr}}. Grindr is an online dating application for gay, bi, trans, and queer people.

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 *The [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] intern [[Angry Ricky]] went to {{W|Northwestern University}}.
 *When Marge wishes that an app could tell her what would happen if she posted the image that got [[Homer]] fired, the [[Apple]] Mac startup sound plays and there is an icon of the [[Apple]] iPad app Tips above Lisa's head.
-*The kids that attended the coding classes were forced to do {{W|CrossFit}}.
+*Quinn Hopper rejected all the kids other than Lisa from coding class ("You're all terrible") and sent them to do {{W|CrossFit}}.
 *At the Simpsons house when the programmers are developing Lisa's app:
 **Quinn Hopper has a <code>C:\></code> tattoo on her right arm. This is a very common {{W|root directory}} found on Microsoft Windows. On her left arm, she has a "{{W|sudo}}" tattoo, a program for {{W|Unix-like}} operating systems.

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 ***"RoboCop memories might be boring", a reference to ''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}''.
 ***"Have to wake up Bender", a reference to [[Bender]] from [[Futurama]].
-***"Bionic Ruth Bader Ginsburg". {{W|Ruth Bader Ginsburg}} was an American lawyer and jurist.
+***"Bionic Ruth Bader Ginsburg". {{W|Ruth Bader Ginsburg}} was a justice of the {{W|Supreme Court of the United States}}.
 ***"Blaine might die" is a reference to ''{{W2|Silicon Valley|TV series}}'', more specifically to the episode "Homicide".
 ***"Matrix not as cool as we thought", a reference to ''[[The Matrix]]''.

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 == Goofs ==
 *[[Lisa]]'s blue hair point changes position (left vs. right) several times over the course of the episode.
-*At the first coding class, Lisa was sitting behind [[Cosine Tangent|Cosine]], but when the kids were mocking Quinn because of her gender, Lisa was replaced by a tan-skinned boy with a cyan sweater. In later scenes, she's still sitting behind Cosine and the boy is beside her.
+*At the first coding class, Lisa was sitting behind [[Cosine]], but when the kids were mocking Quinn because of her gender, Lisa was replaced by a tan-skinned boy with a cyan sweater. In later scenes, she's still sitting behind Cosine and the boy is beside her.
 *When [[Lisa]] first shows [[Homer]] the mainframe, the color of her necklace changes from red to white in one scene.