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* Louise's story in "The Frond Files" is a parody of ''Film/TheTerminator'', but it also includes a homage to the kitchen scene in ''Film/JurassicPark''. Gene's story in the same episode spoofs ''Film/RockAndRollHighSchool''.

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* Louise's story in "The Frond Files" is a parody of ''Film/TheTerminator'', but it also includes a homage to the kitchen scene in ''Film/JurassicPark''. Gene's story in the same episode spoofs ''Film/RockAndRollHighSchool''.''Film/RockAndRollHighSchool'', and before it got weirdly fetishized, Tina's was a spoof of The Walking Dead, down to Tina being a deputy sheriff (actually a hall monitor, but she reasons a hall monitor is the sheriff of the school).
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* Before they let the "Moodie Foodie" go, Bob and the other restaurant owners argue over what to do with him. They eventually settle on giving him a wet willie. The sub shop owner is the one to administer it, [[ReservoirDogs dancing in front of the the restrained Foodie while "Stuck In The Middle With You" plays.]]

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* Before they let the "Moodie Foodie" go, Bob and the other restaurant owners argue over what to do with him. They eventually settle on giving him a wet willie. The sub shop owner is the one to administer it, [[ReservoirDogs [[Film/ReservoirDogs dancing in front of the the restrained Foodie while "Stuck In The Middle With You" plays.]]
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* Before they let the "Moodie Foodie" go, Bob and the other restaurant owners argue over what to do with him. They eventually settle on giving him a wet willie. The sub shop owner is the one to administer it, [[ReservoirDogs dancing in front of the the restrained Foodie while "Stuck In The Middle With You" plays.]]

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* The Boyz 4 Now music video in "The Hauntening" is pretty much just "Everybody" by TheBackstreetBoys, what with the boys all dressed as monsters and dancing in a creepy mansion.

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* The Boyz 4 Now music video in "The Hauntening" is pretty much just "Everybody" "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" by TheBackstreetBoys, what with the boys all dressed as monsters and dancing in a creepy mansion.mansion.
* The title of the Season Five episode "Housetrapped" [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} sounds suspiciously like a play on a certain webcomic]] (if it's not a pun on "mousetrap".)
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* The Bouz 4 Now music video in "The Hauntening" is pretty much just "Everybody" by TheBackstreetBoys, what with the boys all dressed as monsters and dancing in a creepy mansion.

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* The Bouz Boyz 4 Now music video in "The Hauntening" is pretty much just "Everybody" by TheBackstreetBoys, what with the boys all dressed as monsters and dancing in a creepy mansion.
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* Gene's version of what would've happened if Bob had met Linda without a mustache is Franchise/RoboCop but with a cybernetic mustache instead.

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* Gene's version of what would've happened if Bob had met Linda without a mustache is Franchise/RoboCop but with a cybernetic mustache instead.instead.
* The Bouz 4 Now music video in "The Hauntening" is pretty much just "Everybody" by TheBackstreetBoys, what with the boys all dressed as monsters and dancing in a creepy mansion.
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* Gene's version of what would've happened if Bob had met Linda without a mustache is [[Film/RoboCop Robocop]] but with a cybernetic mustache instead.

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* Gene's version of what would've happened if Bob had met Linda without a mustache is [[Film/RoboCop Robocop]] Franchise/RoboCop but with a cybernetic mustache instead.
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* Gene's version of what would've happened if Bob had met Linda without a mustache is [[Film/Robocop Robocop]] but with a cybernetic mustache instead.

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* Gene's version of what would've happened if Bob had met Linda without a mustache is [[Film/Robocop [[Film/RoboCop Robocop]] but with a cybernetic mustache instead.

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* The scene in "Bob and Deliver," where the students stand on their desk and rip open bags of microwave popcorn, mimics both the beginning (where the students rip a chapter out of their textbooks) and the end (where the students salute the departing teacher by standing on their desks) of ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.

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* The scene in "Bob and Deliver," where the students stand on their desk and rip open bags of microwave popcorn, mimics both the beginning (where the students rip a chapter out of their textbooks) and the end (where the students salute the departing teacher by standing on their desks) of ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''
* Gene's version of what would've happened if Bob had met Linda without a mustache is [[Film/Robocop Robocop]] but with a cybernetic mustache instead.
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* The end credits sequence for "Wharf Horse" is done in the style of ''Film/JamesBond'' films.

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* The end credits sequence for "Wharf Horse" is done in the style of ''Film/JamesBond'' films.films.
* The scene in "Bob and Deliver," where the students stand on their desk and rip open bags of microwave popcorn, mimics both the beginning (where the students rip a chapter out of their textbooks) and the end (where the students salute the departing teacher by standing on their desks) of ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.
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* ''Banjo'', the spaghetti Western series Bob and Gene become obsessed with, has many similarities to Film/{{Django}}.

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* ''Banjo'', the spaghetti Western series Bob and Gene become obsessed with, has many similarities to Film/{{Django}}.Film/{{Django}}, including the ridiculous number of sequels. Though ''[[Film/TheSabataTrilogy Sabata]]'' is the one featuring a banjo-playing gunfighter.
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* The kids attend Wagstaff Elementary, named after Professor Wagstaff, [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho's]] character in ''Film/HorseFeathers''.
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* "Hey, [[JenniferLopez Jennifer Slow-Pez]]! Get the hell out of the road!"

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* "Hey, [[JenniferLopez [[Music/JenniferLopez Jennifer Slow-Pez]]! Get the hell out of the road!"



* The end credits sequence for "Wharf Horse" is done in the style of ''JamesBond'' films.

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* The end credits sequence for "Wharf Horse" is done in the style of ''JamesBond'' ''Film/JamesBond'' films.
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* The German chef in "The Kids Rob a Train" looks a lot like [[SantaClausIsCominToTown Burgermeister Meisterburger]].

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* The German chef in "The Kids Rob a Train" looks a lot like [[SantaClausIsCominToTown Burgermeister Meisterburger]].Meisterburger]].
* The end credits sequence for "Wharf Horse" is done in the style of ''JamesBond'' films.
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* One episode had a ShowWithinAShow about a traveling samurai with his child called ''[[{{Manga/LoneWolfAndCub}} Hawk and Chick]],'' with a few differences: ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' does have a series of movies like ''Hawk and Chick'', but they're based off a manga. The "Wolf" is a wandering samurai, while "Hawk" is a barber who happens to be a samurai as well. "Chick" is also older than the "Cub", and female (while the "Cub" is male).

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* One episode had a ShowWithinAShow about a traveling samurai with his child called ''[[{{Manga/LoneWolfAndCub}} Hawk and Chick]],'' with a few differences: ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' does have a series of movies like ''Hawk and Chick'', but they're based off a manga. The "Wolf" is a wandering samurai, while "Hawk" is a barber who happens to be a samurai as well. "Chick" is also older than the "Cub", and female (while the "Cub" is male).male).
* The German chef in "The Kids Rob a Train" looks a lot like [[SantaClausIsCominToTown Burgermeister Meisterburger]].
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* The two daughters are named [[Creator/TinaLouise Tina and Louise]] as well as Linda's friend we never see is named Ginger, which is the name of Tina Louise's [[GilligansIsland most famous character]]

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* The two daughters are named [[Creator/TinaLouise Tina and Louise]] Louise]], as well as Linda's friend we never see is named Ginger, which is the name of Tina Louise's [[GilligansIsland most famous character]]character]].



* One episode had a ShowWithinAShow about a traveling samurai with his child called ''[[Manga/TheLoneWolfAndCub Hawk and Chick]].''

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* One episode had a ShowWithinAShow about a traveling samurai with his child called ''[[Manga/TheLoneWolfAndCub ''[[{{Manga/LoneWolfAndCub}} Hawk and Chick]].''Chick]],'' with a few differences: ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' does have a series of movies like ''Hawk and Chick'', but they're based off a manga. The "Wolf" is a wandering samurai, while "Hawk" is a barber who happens to be a samurai as well. "Chick" is also older than the "Cub", and female (while the "Cub" is male).
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* "Hey, [[JenniferLopez Jennifer Slow-Pez]]! Get the hell out of the road!"

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* "Hey, [[JenniferLopez Jennifer Slow-Pez]]! Get the hell out of the road!"road!"
* One episode had a ShowWithinAShow about a traveling samurai with his child called ''[[Manga/TheLoneWolfAndCub Hawk and Chick]].''
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* "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal" has a ridiculous absinthe-fueled reference to ''MyNeighborTotoro''.

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* "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal" has a ridiculous absinthe-fueled reference to ''MyNeighborTotoro''.''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''.

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* [[WordofGod As revealed in]] "Behind BOB'S BURGERS Live Episode 3", The political ads made in The Millie-churian Candidate are both heavy references.

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* [[WordofGod As revealed in]] "Behind BOB'S BURGERS Live Episode 3", The political ads made in The Millie-churian Candidate are both heavy references.highly referential.



* ''Banjo'', the spaghetti Western series Bob and Gene become obsessed with, has many similarities to Film/{{Django}}.

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* ''Banjo'', the spaghetti Western series Bob and Gene become obsessed with, has many similarities to Film/{{Django}}.Film/{{Django}}.
* "Hey, [[JenniferLopez Jennifer Slow-Pez]]! Get the hell out of the road!"
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* In Jimmy Pesto's Restaurant: [[TheTerminator "Pasta La Vista Baby!"]]

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* In Jimmy Pesto's Restaurant: [[TheTerminator [[Film/TheTerminator "Pasta La Vista Baby!"]]



* One of Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' stories follows the theme of ''{{Footloose}}'' where butt-touching is outlawed in school (''Buttloose''.) Tina heroically enters the scene in a parody of the Apple '1984' commercial.

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* One of Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' stories follows the theme of ''{{Footloose}}'' ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' where butt-touching is outlawed in school (''Buttloose''.) Tina heroically enters the scene in a parody of the Apple '1984' commercial.



* In "Beefsquatch" one of Gene's previous identities was [[DavidBowie Ziggy Stardust]].

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* In "Beefsquatch" one of Gene's previous identities was [[DavidBowie [[Music/DavidBowie Ziggy Stardust]].



** The first, featuring Jimmy Pesto dancing and singing, is inspired by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQPN3UKQM-U&spf Dr. Pepper commercials in the 70's]].
** The other more hateful ad calls upon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg an attack ad for Hilary Clinton]].
* ''Banjo'', the spaghetti Western series Bob and Gene become obsessed with, has many similarities to [[Film/Django]].

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** The first, featuring Jimmy Pesto dancing and singing, is inspired by [[https://www.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQPN3UKQM-U&spf com/watch?v=gQPN3UKQM-U Dr. Pepper commercials in the 70's]].
** The other more hateful ad calls upon [[https://www.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg an attack ad for Hilary Clinton]].
* ''Banjo'', the spaghetti Western series Bob and Gene become obsessed with, has many similarities to [[Film/Django]].Film/{{Django}}.
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** The other more hateful ad calls upon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg an attack ad for Hilary Clinton]].

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** The other more hateful ad calls upon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg an attack ad for Hilary Clinton]].Clinton]].
* ''Banjo'', the spaghetti Western series Bob and Gene become obsessed with, has many similarities to [[Film/Django]].
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* In "Beefsquatch" one of Gene's previous identities was [[DavidBowie Ziggy Stardust]].

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* In "Beefsquatch" one of Gene's previous identities was [[DavidBowie Ziggy Stardust]].Stardust]].
* [[WordofGod As revealed in]] "Behind BOB'S BURGERS Live Episode 3", The political ads made in The Millie-churian Candidate are both heavy references.
**The first, featuring Jimmy Pesto dancing and singing, is inspired by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQPN3UKQM-U&spf Dr. Pepper commercials in the 70's]].
**The other more hateful ad calls upon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg an attack ad for Hilary Clinton]].
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* When the kids freeze the floor on the storage freezer in "Friends with Burger Fits", Linda dresses as [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Auntie Entity]] to referee their ice shoving matches, even calling the freezer "Freezerdome".

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* When the kids freeze the floor on the storage freezer in "Friends with Burger Fits", Linda dresses as [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Auntie Entity]] to referee their ice shoving matches, even calling the freezer "Freezerdome"."Freezerdome".
* In "Beefsquatch" one of Gene's previous identities was [[DavidBowie Ziggy Stardust]].
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* One of Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' stories follows the theme of ''{{Footloose}}'' where butt-touching is outlawed in school (''Buttloose''.) Tina heroically enters the scene in a parody of the Apple '1984' commercial.

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* One of Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' stories follows the theme of ''{{Footloose}}'' where butt-touching is outlawed in school (''Buttloose''.) Tina heroically enters the scene in a parody of the Apple '1984' commercial.commercial.
* When the kids freeze the floor on the storage freezer in "Friends with Burger Fits", Linda dresses as [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Auntie Entity]] to referee their ice shoving matches, even calling the freezer "Freezerdome".
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* One of Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' stories follows the theme of ''{{Footloose}}'' where no butt-touching is allowed in school (''Buttloose''.) Tina heroically enters the scene in a parody of the Apple '1984' commercial.

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* One of Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' stories follows the theme of ''{{Footloose}}'' where no butt-touching is allowed outlawed in school (''Buttloose''.) Tina heroically enters the scene in a parody of the Apple '1984' commercial.
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* Gene calls himself "The Squirrel Whisperer" in one episode, a shout out to "The Dog Whisperer".

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* Gene calls himself "The Squirrel Whisperer" in one episode, a shout out to "The Dog Whisperer".Whisperer".
* One of Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' stories follows the theme of ''{{Footloose}}'' where no butt-touching is allowed in school (''Buttloose''.) Tina heroically enters the scene in a parody of the Apple '1984' commercial.
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* In the episode "Boys 4 Now," Louisa tries to bluff her way past a concert security guard with a fake Southern accent: "I'm Detective [[Series/TheCloser Brenda Lee Johnson]] and there's been a ''murder'' backstage."

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* In the episode "Boys 4 Now," Louisa tries to bluff her way past a concert security guard with a fake Southern accent: "I'm Detective [[Series/TheCloser Brenda Lee Johnson]] and there's been a ''murder'' backstage.""
* In Jimmy Pesto's Restaurant: [[TheTerminator "Pasta La Vista Baby!"]]
* Gene calls himself "The Squirrel Whisperer" in one episode, a shout out to "The Dog Whisperer".
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* The two daughters are named [[Creator/TinaLouise Tina and Louise]] as well as Linda's friend we never see is named Ginger, which is the name of Tina Louise's [[GilligansIsland most famous character]]

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* The two daughters are named [[Creator/TinaLouise Tina and Louise]] as well as Linda's friend we never see is named Ginger, which is the name of Tina Louise's [[GilligansIsland most famous character]]character]]
* In the episode "Boys 4 Now," Louisa tries to bluff her way past a concert security guard with a fake Southern accent: "I'm Detective [[Series/TheCloser Brenda Lee Johnson]] and there's been a ''murder'' backstage."
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** In "Lobsterfest" Louise has a plush creature on her shelf that looks suspiciously Totoro-like as well.
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* "[[Disney/{{Dumbo}} Butts! Butts! Butts! Butts...]]"
* "[[Film/TheGoonies The Belchies]]".
* "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal" has a ridiculous absinthe-fueled reference to ''MyNeighborTotoro''.
* "Christmas in a Car" has the Belchers [[Film/{{Duel}} being stalked by a candy-cane truck]].
* Louise's story in "The Frond Files" is a parody of ''Film/TheTerminator'', but it also includes a homage to the kitchen scene in ''Film/JurassicPark''. Gene's story in the same episode spoofs ''Film/RockAndRollHighSchool''.
* In "Crawl Space", one of the Burgers of the Day is called [[Creator/{{Toonami}} "Tunami"]].
** Considering "tunami" spells "I'm a nut" backwards, it could also reference Film/TheShining with the whole "redrum"-"murder" thing.
* "What's that, [[Creator/AgathaChristie Nagatha Christie]]?"
* Dr. Yap attempts to follow advice from [[PrinceofPersia The Prince of Persuasia]] to woo Gayle.
* Lampshaded when Gene asks if his dad sees [[TheLiontheWitchandtheWardrobe "a lion, a witch, or a wardrobe"]] while he's in the wall. Bob doesn't understand the reference at first. Then it dissolves into a SeinfeldianConversation...
* During "Slumber Party", Linda gets the girls to watch a movie called ''Twincinnati'', [[Film/TheParentTrap a movie about two young, female, red-haired twins]] [[Creator/LindsayLohan who are played by the same actress.]]
* Louise in Slumber Party:
--> '''Louise:''' Alright, you want a slumber party? [[Film/SCARFACE1983 Then say]] [[FunWithHomophones pil]]''[[FunWithHomophones -low]]'' [[Film/SCARFACE1983 to my little]] '''[[Film/SCARFACE1983 friend!]]''' [strikes Jessica with pillow]
--> '''Tina:''' [[DullSurprise Woah,]] [[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable pil]]''[[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable -low]]'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint fight.]]
--> '''Gene:''' [[MundaneMadeAwesome It's about to go down.]] [[HurricaneOfPuns Goosedown!]]
* The town's schools are called [[Film/HorseFeathers Wagstaff and Huxley]].
* The two daughters are named [[Creator/TinaLouise Tina and Louise]] as well as Linda's friend we never see is named Ginger, which is the name of Tina Louise's [[GilligansIsland most famous character]]

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