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| - * There are lots of references to James Bond, including the beginning, quotes, etc.. One of Tearjerker's henchmen is called Gums, which is a parody of Jaws.
* As the title suggests, the movie Oscar Gold is a pastiche of many of the clichés about Oscar-nominated movies and features every element that supposedly guarantees a nomination, including:
**Nazis/Fascists/Holocaust
**World War II
**Handicapped protagonist
**Struggling with illness or addiction
**Child protagonist
**Cruel humans
**Death of a loved one and attendant epiphany
* Tearjerker's appalling and weepy opus about a retarded Jewish boy living in an attic during WWII not only recalls The Diary of Anne Frank, but also an oblique reference to the infamous never-released surreal weeper The Day the Clown Cried, starring Jerry Lewis as a clown who entertains Jewish children in a Nazi death camp.
* Greg and Terry's outfits are an homage to The Beatles in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
* Roger attempts an escape in a tear-shaped escape pod and the mountain face is shaped like Roger, just like Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers series.
* When Johnny Depp is being taken off to the spa by Mani and Pedi, Pedi makes a remark that he's going to "try and touch Gilbert's Grapes" a reference to the Depp film What's Eating Gilbert Grape?.
* When Mani and Pedi run after Stan and shock against a post because they were holding hands, it possibly refers to the The Adventures of Tintin's comic book The Black Island, when Thomson and Thompson shock against a post because they were handcuffed to each other.
* When Stan meets Matthew McConaughey, the actor is playing bongo drums. This is a nod to McConaughey's 1999 arrest for disturbing the peace by playing bongo drums. After the robot McConaughey falls to his death in the pit, he is surrounded by cats, a reference to a similar scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indiana Jones falls in a tomb full of snakes.
* The DVD commentary for this episode reveals the ending scene, Tearjerker's burned hand is an homage to the 1980 movie, Flash Gordon.
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