Ok, even I didn’t know where I was going with this title. But there is an important point here. Ya see, even the most shallow low brow humour cartoons these days seem to have a deeper layer. I mean in Family Guy series 3 alone there are references to American Beauty and the Breakfast Club - how many kids are going to have seen those?
Another example is from the Simpsons, where Homer goes to buy illegal fireworks and tries to act cool (in the episode where he is staying that Ned Flander’s beach house). That quote is actually a reference.
"Let me have one of those porno magazines… large box of condoms… a bottle of Old Harper… a couple of those panty shields… and some illegal fireworks, and one of those disposable enemas. Eh, make it two."
The quote is a reference to American Graffiti which was releaded in 1973 (again how many kids are going to have seen that) directed by George Lucas - it was really his breakthrough movie, winning him his first Golden Globe. Anyway to compare quotes, the one from Toad in American Graffiti:
"ok yeah, let me have err, a Three Musketer’s and a ball point pen, one of those combs there, bottle of Old Harper, a couple of flashlight batteries and beef jerky."
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