| 1 | !!General |
| 2 | * The town's schools are called [[Film/HorseFeathers Wagstaff and Huxley]]. |
| 3 | ** Another Creator/MarxBrothers reference: the local horse track is called [[Film/ADayAtTheRaces1937 Hackenbush]] Downs. |
| 4 | * The two daughters are named Tina and Louise, after the actress [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Louise Tina Louise.]] Linda's friend whom we never see is named Ginger, which is the name of Tina Louise's [[Series/GilligansIsland most famous character]]. |
| 5 | * Gene calls himself "The Squirrel Whisperer" in one episode, a shout out to "The Dog Whisperer". |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[AC:Season 1]] |
| 8 | * Lampshaded in "Crawlspace", when Gene asks if his dad sees [[Literature/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... |
| 9 | ** Bob mocks Linda by calling her "[[{{Pun}} Nag]][[Creator/AgathaChristie atha Christie]]" |
| 10 | * Linda's nightmare about Gayle's animal anus paintings in "Art Crawl" is a parody of "Pink Elephants on Parade" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''. |
| 11 | * In "Lobsterfest", Louise has a plush creature on her shelf that looks suspiciously Totoro-like. |
| 12 | * In "Crawl Space", one of the Burgers of the Day is called [[Creator/{{Toonami}} "Tunami"]]. |
| 13 | ** Considering "tunami" spells "I'm a nut" backwards, it could also reference ''Film/TheShining'' with the whole "redrum"-"murder" thing. |
| 14 | *** Not to mention the scene with Bob talking with the life-sized Kuchi-Kopi is pretty much directly based on the bar scene with Lloyd. |
| 15 | * ''Banjo'', the spaghetti Western series Bob and Gene become obsessed with, has many similarities to ''Film/{{Django}}'', including the ridiculous number of sequels. Though ''[[Film/TheSabataTrilogy Sabata]]'' is the one featuring a banjo-playing gunfighter. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | [[AC:Season 2]] |
| 18 | * "Hey, [[Music/JenniferLopez Jennifer Slow-Pez]]! Get the hell out of the road!" |
| 19 | * Dr. Yap attempts to follow advice from a pick-up artist named [[VideoGame/PrinceofPersia The Prince of Persuasia]] to woo Gayle. |
| 20 | * 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, [[Film/ReservoirDogs dancing in front of the the restrained Foodie while "Stuck In The Middle With You" plays.]] |
| 21 | * One of Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' stories follows the theme of ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' where butt-touching is outlawed in school (''Buttloose''). Tina heroically enters the scene in a parody of the Apple ''[[Literature/{{NineteenEightyFour}} 1984]]'' commercial. |
| 22 | * In "Beefsquatch" one of Gene's previous identities was [[Music/DavidBowie Ziggy Stardust]]. |
| 23 | * In Jimmy Pesto's Restaurant: [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay "Pasta La Vista Baby!"]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[AC:Season 3]] |
| 26 | * "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal" has a ridiculous absinthe-fueled reference to ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''. |
| 27 | * 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." |
| 28 | |
| 29 | [[AC:Season 4]] |
| 30 | * "Christmas in a Car" has the Belchers [[Film/{{Duel}} being stalked by a candy-cane truck]]. |
| 31 | * 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'', and before it got weirdly fetishized, Tina's was a spoof of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', down to Tina being a deputy sheriff (actually a hall monitor, but she reasons a hall monitor is the sheriff of the school). |
| 32 | * During "Slumber Party", Linda gets the girls to watch a movie called ''Twincinnati'', [[Film/TheParentTrap1998 a movie about two young, female, red-haired twins]] [[Creator/LindsayLohan who are played by the same actress.]] |
| 33 | * Louise in "Slumber Party": |
| 34 | --> '''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] |
| 35 | --> '''Tina:''' [[DullSurprise Woah,]] [[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable pil]]''[[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable -low]]'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint fight.]] |
| 36 | --> '''Gene:''' [[MundaneMadeAwesome It's about to go down.]] [[HurricaneOfPuns Goosedown!]] |
| 37 | * The end credits sequence for "Wharf Horse" is done in the style of ''Film/JamesBond'' films. |
| 38 | * 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''. |
| 39 | * The German chef in "The Kids Rob a Train" looks a lot like [[WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown Burgermeister Meisterburger]]... which... makes a ''[[StealthPun lot]]'' of sense, given this show... |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[AC:Season 5]] |
| 42 | * [[WordofGod As revealed in]] "Behind BOB'S BURGERS Live Episode 3", the political ads made in "The Millie-churian Candidate" are both highly referential. |
| 43 | ** The first, featuring Jimmy Pesto dancing and singing, is inspired by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQPN3UKQM-U Dr. Pepper commercials in the 70's]]. |
| 44 | ** The other more hateful ad calls upon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg an attack ad for Hilary Clinton]]. |
| 45 | * 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". |
| 46 | * "The Gayle Tales" has the [[Series/GameOfThrones "Gayle of Thrones"]] segment, which is a long parody of ''[=GoT=]''. The ending is particularly based on Tyrion Lannister's trial in Lady Lysa's court. |
| 47 | * 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 on 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). |
| 48 | * In "Midday Run", Tina and Zeke's exchange whilst she is chasing him is a shout-out to infamous dam scene in ''Film/TheFugitive''. |
| 49 | * "The opener for Dawn of the Peck" is spoof of the opener for ''Film/JurassicPark''. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[AC:Season 6]] |
| 52 | * 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. |
| 53 | * The Boyz 4 Now music video in "The Hauntening" is reminiscent of "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" by Music/BackstreetBoys, what with the boys all dressed as monsters and dancing in a creepy mansion. |
| 54 | * Also in ''The Hauntening,'' Bob calls Linda Frankenstien, to which she quickly corrects him that her name is Franken''stein''. Just like the Protagonist in Film/YoungFrankenstein does every time somebody mispronounces his name. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[AC:Season 7]] |
| 57 | * One of the songs in "The Quirk-ducers" rhymes "hotties" with "bodies" after a random explosion of violence, much like the Theatre/AmericanPsycho musical. |
| 58 | * Both {{Couch Gag}}s in "Aquaticism" are references to ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. The building next door is Pro-Pain Accessories Dominatrix Supplies and the extermination business is "Dale's Dead Bug", the name of Dale Gribble's extermination company. |
| 59 | * The laser show Bob takes Gene to in "The Laser-inth" is based on a ConceptAlbum titled ''General Inzanity''. Judging from Bob's description of the plot - the titular General bans rock music, and a man named Rebel writes a song to convince the people to rise up and defeat him - it is loosely based on ''Music/TwentyOneTwelve'' by Music/{{Rush|Band}}, with elements of ''Music/KilroyWasHere'' by Music/{{Styx}}. |
| 60 | ** In addition, "Special Girls," the store where Gretchen works in the same episode, heavily resembles an [[Toys/AmericanGirlsCollection American Girl doll store.]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[AC:Season 8]] |
| 63 | * "The Hurt Soccer" has a few nods to ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', Loren Bouchard's previous show: |
| 64 | ** The referee looks like Coach [=McGirk=]. |
| 65 | ** Mara, the goalkeeper for the Golden Dragons, is a dead ringer for Melissa, and is even voiced by the same actor. |
| 66 | ** The kid staying in the line for potty looks exactly like Brendon. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | !!PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle and Opening Gags |
| 69 | * [=S01E11=] - "[[Film/WeekendAtBernies Weekend at Mort's]]" |
| 70 | * [=S02E01=] - "[[Film/TheGoonies The Belchies]]" |
| 71 | * [=S02E02=] - "[[Film/DogDayAfternoon Bob Day Afternoon]]" |
| 72 | * [=S03E01=] - "[[Film/EasyRider Ear-sy Rider]]" |
| 73 | * [=S03E04=] - "[[Film/MutinyOnTheBounty Mutiny on the Windbreaker]]" |
| 74 | * [=S03E05=] - "[[Film/IndecentProposal An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal]]" |
| 75 | ** Pest Control: [[Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans The Last of the Mousehicans]] |
| 76 | * [=S03E08=] - "[[Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing the Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene]]" |
| 77 | * [=S03E12=] - "[[Film/BroadcastNews Broadcast Wagstaff School's News]]" |
| 78 | * [=S03E15=] - "[[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial O.T. - The Outside Toilet]]" |
| 79 | * [=S03E23=] - "[[Film/TheNatural The Unnatural]]" |
| 80 | * [=S04E01=] - "[[Film/{{A River Runs Through It}} A River Runs Through Bob]]" |
| 81 | * [=S04E03=] - "[[Film/{{Airplane}} Seaplane!]]" |
| 82 | * [=S04E04=] - "[[Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding My Big Fat Greek Bob]]" |
| 83 | * [=S04E06=] - "[[Film/PurpleRain Purple Rain-Union]]" |
| 84 | * [=S04E07=] - "[[Film/StandAndDeliver Bob And Deliver]]" |
| 85 | * [=S04E14=] - "[[Film/UncleBuck Uncle Teddy]]" |
| 86 | * [=S04E16=] - "[[Music/ColePorter I Get Psychic Out of You]]" |
| 87 | * [=S04E20=] - "[[Film/BringItOn Gene It On]]" |
| 88 | * [=S04E21=] - "[[Literature/WarHorse Wharf Horse]]" |
| 89 | * [=S05E02=] - "[[Film/{{Lars and the Real Girl}} Tina and the Real Ghost]]" |
| 90 | * [=S05E03=] - "[[Film/FriendsWithBenefits Friends with Burger-fits]]" |
| 91 | * [=S05E04=] - "[[Film/DawnOfTheDead Dawn of the Peck]]" |
| 92 | * [=S05E06=] - "[[Film/FatherOfTheBride Father of the Bob]]" |
| 93 | * [=S05E07=] - "[[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy Tina Tailor Soldier Spy]]" |
| 94 | * [=S05E08=] - "[[Film/MidnightRun Midday Run]]" |
| 95 | * [=S05E09=] - "[[Film/EasyRider Speakeasy Rider]]" |
| 96 | * [=S05E10=] - "[[Film/MidnightInTheGardenOfGoodAndEvil Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise]]" |
| 97 | * [=S05E11=] - "[[Music/TheBeatles Can't Buy Me Math]]" |
| 98 | * [=S05E12=] - "[[Film/{{The Manchurian Candidate}} The Millie-churian Candidate]]" |
| 99 | * [=S05E15=] - "[[Film/AdventuresInBabysitting Adventures in Chinchilla-sitting]]" |
| 100 | * [=S05E16=] - "[[Film/TheBreakfastClub The Runway Club]]" |
| 101 | * [=S05E18=] - "[[Literature/EatPrayLove Eat, Spray, Linda]]" |
| 102 | * [=S05E18=] - "[[Theatre/TheMousetrap Housetrap]]" |
| 103 | * [=S05E20=] - "[[Manga/LoneWolfAndCub Hawk & Chick]]" |
| 104 | * [=S05E21=] - "[[Literature/TheHungerGames The Oeder Games]]" |
| 105 | * [=S06E01=] - "[[Film/SlidingDoors Sliding Bobs]]" |
| 106 | * [=S06E06=] - "[[Film/TheCookTheThiefHisWifeAndHerLover The Cook, The Steve, The Gayle and Her Lover]]" |
| 107 | * [=S06E11=] - "[[Film/HouseOf1000Corpses House of 1000 Bounces]]" |
| 108 | * [=S06E12=] - "[[Film/StandByMe Stand By Gene]]" |
| 109 | * [=S06E13=] - "[[Film/WagTheDog Wag The Hog]]" |
| 110 | * [=S06E16=] - "[[Film/ByeByeBirdie Bye Bye Boo Boo]]" |
| 111 | * [=S06E17=] - "[[Film/TheHorseWhisperer The Horse Rider-er]]" |
| 112 | * [=S06E19=] - "[[Film/DudeWheresMyCar Glued, Where's My Bob?]]" |
| 113 | * [=S07E03=] - "[[Film/TeenWitch Teen-a Witch]]" |
| 114 | ** Store Next Door: [[Film/DragMeToHell Sag Me To Hell]] - Bra Boutique |
| 115 | * [=S07E04=] - "[[Film/TheyShootHorsesDontThey They Serve Horses, Don't They?]]" |
| 116 | * [=S07E05=] - "[[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou Large Brother, Where Fart Thou]]" |
| 117 | * [=S07E06=] - "[[Film/TheProducers The Quirk-ducers]]" |
| 118 | * [=S07E07=] - "[[Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft The Last Gingerbread House on the Left]]" |
| 119 | * [=S07E08=] - "[[Film/ExMachina Ex Mach Tina]]" |
| 120 | * [=S07E09=] - "[[Film/LoveActually Bob Actually]]" |
| 121 | * [=S07E10=] - "[[Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun There's No Business Like Mr. Business]]" |
| 122 | * [=S07E11=] - "[[Film/AFewGoodMen A Few Gurt Men]]" |
| 123 | * [=S07E12=] - "[[Literature/LikeWaterForChocolate Like Gene For Chocolate]]" |
| 124 | ** Store Next Door: [[Film/PlayItAgainSam Brush It Again, Sam]] - Refurbished Toothbrushes |
| 125 | ** Pest Control: [[Film/NoCountryForOldMen No Country For Old Mice]] |
| 126 | * [=S07E13=] - "[[Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel The Grand Mama-pest Hotel]]" |
| 127 | ** Pest Control: [[Film/WhenAStrangerCalls When A Stranger Crawls]] |
| 128 | * [=S07E15=] - "[[Music/LouisArmstrong Ain't Miss Debatin']]" |
| 129 | * [=S07E17=] - "[[Film/ZeroDarkThirty Zero LARP Thirty]]" |
| 130 | * [=S07E18=] - "[[Film/{{Labyrinth}} The Laser-inth]]" |
| 131 | * [=S07E19=] - "[[Film/ThelmaAndLouise Thelma and Louise except Thelma is Linda]]" |
| 132 | * [=S07E21=] - "[[Film/SexLiesAndVideotapes Mom, Lies, and Videotapes]]" |
| 133 | * [=S07E21=] - "[[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Paraders of the Lost Float]]" |
| 134 | * [=S07E22=] - "[[Film/IntoTheWild Into the Mild]]" |
| 135 | * [=S08E02=] - "[[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs The Silence of the Louise]]" |
| 136 | * [=S08E03=] - "[[Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet The Wolf of Wharf Street]]" |
| 137 | * [=S08E04=] - "[[Music/BritneySpears Sit Me Baby One More Time]]" |
| 138 | * [=S08E06=] - "[[Film/TheHappening The Bleakening]]" |
| 139 | * [=S08E07=] - "[[Film/VForVendetta V For Valentine-Detta]]" |
| 140 | * [=S08E08=] - "[[Film/YTuMamaTambien Y Tu Ga-Ga Tambien]]" |
| 141 | * [=S08E11=] - "[[Film/SleepingWithTheEnemy Sleeping With the Frenemy]]" |
| 142 | * [=S08E12=] - "[[Film/TheHurtLocker The Hurt Soccer]]" |
| 143 | * [=S08E13=] - "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles}} The Trouble With Doubles]]" |
| 144 | * [=S08E14=] - "[[Literature/GoTellItOnTheMountain Go Tina On The Mountain]]" |
| 145 | * [=S08E15=] - "[[Literature/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret Are You There, Bob? It's Me, Birthday]]" |
| 146 | * [=S08E16=] - "[[Series/{{Baywatch}} Boywatch]]" |
| 147 | * [=S08E18=] - "[[Music/{{Coolio}} As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps]]" |
| 148 | * [=S08E19=] - "[[Music/TheNotoriousBig Mo Mommy, Mo Problems]]" |
| 149 | * [=S08E20=] - "[[Series/MissionImpossible Mission Impos-slug-ble]]" |
| 150 | * [=S09E02=] - "[[Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree The Taking of Funtime 123]]" |
| 151 | * [=S09E04=] - "[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare On Ocean Avenue Street]]" |
| 152 | * [=S09E05=] - "[[Film/LiveAndLetDie Live and Let Fly]]" |
| 153 | * [=S09E06=] - "[[Film/BabyDriver Bobby Driver]]" |
| 154 | * [=S09E10=] - "[[Film/BetterOffDead Better Off Sled]]" |
| 155 | * [=S09E11=] - "[[Film/LorenzosOil Lorenzo's Oil? No, Linda's]]" |
| 156 | * [=S09E14=] - "[[Film/EveryWhichWayButLoose Every Which Way But Goose]]" |
| 157 | * [=S09E15=] - "[[Music/DJJazzyJeffAndTheFreshPrince The Fresh Princ-ipal]]" |
| 158 | * [=S09E16=] - "[[Film/RomanHoliday Roamin' Bob-iday]]" |
| 159 | * [=S09E17=] - "[[Film/WhatAboutBob What About Blob?]]" |
| 160 | * [=S09E20=] - "[[Literature/TheGreenMile The Gene Mile]]" |
| 161 | * [=S10E01=] - "[[Literature/TheRing The Ring (But Not Scary)]]" |
| 162 | * [=S10E02=] - "[[Music/CyndiLauper Boys Just Wanna Have Fungus]]" |
| 163 | * [=S10E03=] - "[[Series/MurderSheWrote Motor, She Boat]]" |
| 164 | * [=S10E04=] - "[[Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina Pig Trouble in Little Tina]]" |
| 165 | * [=S10E07=] - "[[Series/LandOfTheLost1974 Land of the Loft]]" |
| 166 | * [=S10E09=] - "[[Film/AllThatJazz All That Gene]]" |
| 167 | * [=S10E10=] - "[[Film/MeetMeInStLouis Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas]]" |
| 168 | * [=S10E11=] - "[[Film/{{Unforgiven}} Drumforgiven]]" |
| 169 | * [=S10E12=] - "[[Film/AFishCalledWanda A Fish Called Tina]]" |
| 170 | * [=S10E13=] - "[[Film/ThreeMenAndABaby Three Girls and a Little Wharfy]]" |
| 171 | * [=S10E14=] - "[[Film/WagTheDog Wag The Song]]" |
| 172 | * [=S10E15=] - "[[Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels Yurty Rotten Scoundrels]]" |
| 173 | * [=S10E19=] - "[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory The Handyman Can]]" [[labelnote:*]]Referencing the song "The Candy Man Can"[[/labelnote]] |
| 174 | * [=S10E20=] - "[[Music/BritneySpears Poops! I Didn't Do It Again!]]" |
| 175 | * [=S10E21=] - "[[Film/LocalHero Local She-Ro]]" |
| 176 | * [=S10E22=] - "[[Series/TheGoldenGirls Prank You For Being A Friend]]" [[labelnote:*]]Referencing the song "Thank You For Being A Friend", by Andrew Gold[[/labelnote]] |
| 177 | * [=S11E02=] - "[[Film/TermsOfEndearment Worms in the Rear-ment]]" |
| 178 | * [=S11E03=] - "[[Music/BarryManilow Copa-Bob-bana]]" |
| 179 | * [=S11E04=] - "[[Music/ElvisPresley Heartbreak Hotel-oween]]" |
| 180 | * [=S11E05=] - "[[Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh Fast Time Capsules At Wagstaff School]]" |
| 181 | * [=S11E06=] - "[[Literature/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Kids]]" |
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