The Girl Code/References
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Cultural References
- The title is a reference to the MTV Series Girl Code.
- The hF store is a reference to Hewlett-Packard. It then gets rebuilts as a Facelook store.
- Homer mentions both Siri and Amazon when asking for a beer delivered by a drone.
- Homer has a poster with a photo of Elizabeth Warren in his office.
- Marge shows Smithers his posts on Facelook.
- Mr. Burns asks Smithers if he's playing the game Grindr.
- A picture of Bob at Bob's Burgers's restaurant was shown.
- The BBC is mentioned by Lisa, though the shows mentioned are fictional.
- Conrad mentions Candy Crush.
- Quinn mentions Steve Wozniak and the first Apple computer.
- Some of the apps at the Appcrush are parodies or references of real life apps:
- PaidPal is a reference and a fictional app of Paypal.
- Cribble is a reference to Google (although there is an app named Cribble)
- Insta-Grandma is a reference to Instagram.
- Google Naps is a reference to Google Maps.
- Quitter is a reference to Twitter.
- Ripcord is a real app.
- Marge shouts "Cowabonga", a reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' catchphrase.
- One of the Conrad's friend apps is Gulp, a reference to Yelp.
- Conrad talks about WikiLeaks.
- Quinn has a sudo tattoo.
- The music played in Oddysey Diner is Zorbas from the film Zorba the Greek.
- Conrad said to Lisa for her not to ignore him like an update from Adobe. That's a reference to some Adobe programs which had updates so often that they started to be ignored by many people.
- The "Springfield" intro is a reference to the opening sequence from Silicon Valley.
- A character similar to Steve Wozniak and his dog appears at the AppCrush convention.
Continuity
- Lisa previously developed something related to a social media website. ("The D'oh-cial Network")
- Marge shows Smithers his posts on Facelook. A Facelook store is built. ("Blazed and Confused")
- Siri was previously used by Rafael. ("Four Regrettings and a Funeral")
- An NSA bot is seen snooping as part of Smithers' broken pad. ("The Simpsons Movie")
- Homer was previously fired. ("Homer's Odyssey")
- Lisa's eye lashes appearance is similar to A Clockwork Orange's Bart, Maggie and Moe. ("Treehouse of Horror III", "Treehouse of Horror XXI", "Treehouse of Horror XXV")
- Lisa's blue highlight on her hair makes her resemble her non-canon future daughter, Zia Simpson. ("Holidays of Future Passed")
Trivia
- The SWOT analysis on the bulletin board on the wall behind Lisa on "What if computers ran the world?" has a card reading "No more religion" in each one of the sectors. Matt Groening is proported to be an atheist.
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, 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.
