Yellow Crush/References

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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the surfing film Blue Crush.
• When the pigeons start attacking Grampa, Milhouse exclaims "Holy Hitchcock!", a reference to the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds.
• Homer says that he and Marge had their second kiss during Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. He says that the film was so bad that Ice-T wrote the song "Cop Killer" after seeing it.
• The film Clerks plays at the Aztec Theater. Apu claims to have been a creative consultant on the film. Chasing Apu is a parody of Chasing Amy. Both Clerks and Chasing Amy are by Kevin Smith.
• Principal Skinner dresses in his mother's clothes while he and Edna Krabappel watch Psycho.
• Frankie claims to be a Juilliard-trained actor.
• Professor Frink says that butterflies are imprisoned in the Hong Kong Butterfly Detention Facility to prevent Irwin Allen-style horror.
• When Captain McCallister and Gil Gunderson get stranded on a desert island, the Captain says that it reminds him of a The New Yorker cartoon.
• The Beach Boys sent a letter congratulating Springfield on hosting a young offender surfing contest.
• Grampa tells Bart that he believes in him like he believed in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
• Comic Book Guy says that the ending, with the The Centenneplex heading out to sea, is a rip-off of Free Willy, and, to a lesser extent, Free Willy 2 and Free Willy 3.
• Captain McCallister and Gil watch Cast Away 2: Gilligan's Revenge, a sequel to the Tom Hanks film Cast Away. The title also references Gilligan's Island.
  • Other films showing at the Centenneplex are Swept Away, Gilligan's Island: The Movie, Swiss Family Robinson, and Robinson Crusoe.
• One of the upcoming films appears to feature the Hulk from Marvel Comics.