Yellow Planet/References

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References/Trivia

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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the British nature documentary The Blue Planet. It mirrors the dynamics of the real-world series, featuring narration by Hugh Bonneville in the distinctive style of David Attenborough, who voiced the original documentary.
  • The episode was released on April the 22nd to mark Earth Day.
• In the episode select screen, the various icons are:
  • Disney+ size, a Disney for plus sizes.
  • Marble, a parody of Marvel.
  • Cosmic Wars, a parody of Star Wars.
    • When selecting if the user is sure to watch it, it asks if the user wants to watch something with Yodas in it.
  • Mixar, a parody of Pixar.
  • Nat-Gee-D'oh, a parody of National Geographic.
    • The episode is a National Geographic-style mockumentary.
• The narrator refers to the beluga whale as a "Darwinian whoopsie."
• The song sung by the beluga whales and the narwhals, "Summer Days", is a parody of "Summer Nights" from the musical Grease.
• The Monday Night Football theme song "Heavy Action" by Johnny Pearson is heard during the Galapagos land iguanas sequence, specifically when Bart gets rid of the other iguanas.
• The Moe fish says that he's twenty thousand leagues over Homer beluga whale's league, a reference to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
• Homer beluga mentions the fact that beluga whales sleep with one eye open.
• Homer struggles to resist the pressure of the water as he dives with Marge, showing the fact that narwhals are among the deepest-diving cetaceans, being able to dive to depths of up to 2,370 m.
• Morgan Freeman mentions the people that made the movie Happy Feet (and indirectly his companion documentary film March of the Penguins).
• The woodpecker finches migrate to an Amazon Fulfillment Center, where they eat Cheetos.

One of the fish eaten resembles Patrick Star. A crab looking like Zoidberg from Futurama is seen in the background

• Two of the types of fish eaten by the beluga whale and the narwhal resemble SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star. A crab resembling Zoidberg from Futurama and Ursula from The Little Mermaid are seen, the latter is then eaten.
• The whale tries to do a jump like in Free Willy.
• When Dinosaurs Built the Pyramids might be a reference to the memes saying History Channel airs weird documentaries after midnight, including pyramids being built by aliens.

Trivia

• The episode is the last to have Pamela Hayden in the cast, as for her retirement; however, the last episode she recorded was "O C'mon All Ye Faithful".
• Contrary to previous shorts or specials releasing at the same time everywhere in the world, this episode was released at midnight local time.
• A similar episode aired in Futurama, "Naturama", where characters are depicted as animal equivalents.
  • The iguana resembling Bart says "Hey, I got born!", similar to how Bender says "I'm born, baby!" in the episode.
• A character who has the same model as Diego from "A Star Is Born Again" is the cameraman filming lions.