Smoke on the Daughter/References

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	Season 19 Episode References
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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the song "Smoke on the Water".
• Angelica Button is a parody of Harry Potter.
• When Bart raises his head out of the pile of leg warmers in the smoke outside, the song "The End" by The Doors is heard, mirroring a sequence in the film Apocalypse Now, where Willard raises up from the mud. He is also wearing green cameo body paint.
• After Lisa quits ballet and rejects Busby, he puts on a bowler hat and struts out of the theater to the song "On Broadway", referencing a dance sequence in All That Jazz.
• Lisa makes a reference to the TV show "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody".
• Homer's mispronunciation of "Surgeon-General" as "Sturgeon-General" is a reference to the movie "Corrina, Corrina", starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta. In it, a small child refers to the "sturgeon-general"'s health warning about the dangers of smoking as an explanation for burying the adult characters supplies of cigarettes in her sandpit.
• The family watch CSI, the commercials feature Friends (Lisa Kudrow).
• Marge's shattered dreams mainly revolve around stethoscopes; doctor, safecracker, stethoscope saleslady.
• The music that plays as the raccoon climbs into the Ballet School sounds a lot like the theme from The Pink Panther.
• The sequence and music where the ballet teacher dances onto the bus is a parody of both Rocky and Chorusline.
• The section about "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" was edited out in repeats because of copyright issues.
  • When Lisa mentions the smoking on "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", she mentions that Zack tried smoking to impress a girl. This never happened in the real TV show.
  • On the couch gag Wile E. Coyote plants a fake couch which the Simpsons run into.