Shout Out / Girls5eva

Being about the music industry, Girls5eva has a lot of jokes to make about pop culture.

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Examples:

General

• The group becoming a foursome despite being named for its five members echoes Fifth Harmony retaining their name even after their lineup change.

Episode 1

• Li'l Stinker's options for sampling include "Baby Shark" backwards, Sharon Stone, and Oliver Stone.
• The girls have media appearances with Larry King and Carson Daly. In the present they reunite on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
• Larry is trying to make one of his clients "the next Billie Eilish".
• Summer mentions multiple failed auditions for Desperate Housewives.
• "We're not little Ariana Grande's anymore."
• Caroline is teaching a course about Dwayne Johnson.

Episode 2

• When Wickie claims that "Scott" is not a black name, Scott mentions Kid Cudi^note born Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, Scottie Pippen, and Travis Scott^note born Jacques Webster, and who took his stage name in part from the aforementioned Kid Cudi.
• The celebrities that played Jingle Ball in 2001: P!nk, Alicia Keys, and Jay-Z.
• "Let's warm up with some Britney scales. #FreeBritney"

Episode 3

• Alf Musik's contacts include Future (whom he rejected because he wants to work in the present), Justin Bieber's pastor, and Ed Sheeran.
• The girls get a meeting by pretending to be representatives for Masterclass.
  Emil: Alf is out of the country, but I'll relay the message.
  Girls5eva: Not a problem. We'll just call David Guetta instead.
  Alf: David Guetta? I am superior. Set the meeting, Emil.
• "It has been an entire Zendaya since you have recorded music."
• Charli D'Amelio gets a reference as one of the influencers who could help propel them to stardom.
• Dawn despairs when she hears her son Max, whom she fears is becoming a New York lonely boy, listen to NPR. At the end of the episode he's watching Chernobyl, something way above the average reading level for someone his age.

  Dawn: Shut up, Michael Barbaro!

Episode 4

• Dawn hallucinates Dolly Parton.
• Summer and Kev sing a song about likening Biblical characters to The Office (US).
• Dawn's song lyrics:
  "I'm afraid I could raise a son
  Who get radicalized on Reddit
  Or that he'll Back to the Future
  And I'll think he's hot"

Episode 5

• Dawn and Wickie tell Summer that The Beatles' songwriting process necessitated Paul McCartney handling the salad.
• "Dracula lives in a coffin. He's very rich."
• Daphne is a former winner of American Idol.

Episode 6

• Dawn's History with Celebrity involves hooking up with Derek Jeter and getting gifts from Drew Barrymore.
• "We're icons. We're Kylie Minogue. Robyn. Cher."
• Wickie headlined the musical adaptation of The Mask.
  Gloria: Wasn't "alrighty then" from Ace Ventura?
  Wickie: It was a pastiche of the Jim Carrey oeuvre.
• Summer encourages Dawn to create a Sexier Alter Ego, invoking Beyoncé's Sasha Fierce and Nicki Minaj's Roman Zolanski.
• Zander's portfolio of lip syncs: "Katherine Heigl losing it on the script supervisor on State of Affairs, Wendy Williams dressing down a CVS self-checkout machine... Hmm. I rode the Karen wave, obvs, did both sides of the David O. Russell/Lily Tomlin fights, whoever they are..."
• Scott is insecure that Dawn might leave him for someone more stardom-inclined, and cites celebrity couples Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez and A-Rod, and Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa, as well as non-famous exes "JLo's first husband, Sylvester Stallone's first wife, Meghan Markle's first husband".
  Dawn: Are you still jealous of Jeter? We didn't even finish 'cause Jordana Brewster called in the middle.
  Scott: It's gonna be so sad one day when I bike up to, like, Bon Jovi's mansion and go, "I'm here to pick up my son to take him to a free zoo."

Episode 7

• Lampshaded by Kev when trying to weasel out of showing Gloria the rest of the apartment: "Just always at work, work, work. That's a Rihanna reference for you."
• Mega-manager Nance Trace's Establishing Character Moment has her talk about Chrissy Teigen, wrangle Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, and field a call from Kamala Harris.
• When trying to get a meeting with Nance Trace they imitate Céline Dion's style of singing.

Episode 8

• One of the girls in the Terrible Interviewees Montage sings that the cast members of Friends are pedophiles.
• Part of Wickie's exclusivity clause is that she can't be on The Masked Singer.
• "I just pray Gal Gadot never sees what you did to her song "Imagine."
• Dawn mentions that she might've sold "4 Stars" to Dixie D'Amelio, sister of the aforementioned Charli D'Amelio and a musician in her own right.
• Ashley once guested on Charmed (1998) as "a benevolent Hot Witch".