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| - Mike is imitating the catch phrase of ring announcer Michael Buffer: "Are you ready to RUUUUUUUMBBBBBLLLLEEEE..."
* "They look like Kraftwerk." The legendary German synth-pop group is famous for showing absolutely no emotion as they play.
* "Martin Bormann: Stock Car Racer." Martin Bormann was head of The National Socialist German Worker's Party and private secretary to Adolf Hitler.
* "I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine!" Lyrics from the song 'One Night in Bangkok' from the stage musical Chess.
* "Funky little shack! Funky little shack!" Lyrics from the B-52s Song 'Love Shack'.
* "I'm going to the city to be a stud." A reference to the film Midnight Cowboy, in which the protagonist Joe Buck had plans to leave his hometown in Texas and go off to New York to act as a prostitute for rich women.
* Servo: "He..." Mike: "He was a small, oily man..." Mike and Tom are singing to the tune of the Beatles' song "She's Leaving Home".
* "They whacked Toonces!" "He killed a made canary." A reference to the "Toonces, The Driving Cat" sketches from Saturday Night Live, which involved a cat who could indeed drive, but would inevitably drive off a cliff. In Mob circles, a "made man" is someone who has been inducted into the actual La Cosa Nosta organization, and thus killing them without permission of a boss would be punishable by death.
* "Hey! Here's a great new essay by Susan Sontag." Susan Sontag was a social and political essayist known for her radical commentaries on subjects like war, AIDS and human rights.
* "Augusta National. Proud to be restrictive." Augusta National is an exclusive golf course that was criticized for its former policies on not allowing African Americans or women to join, as well as requiring all caddies to be black.
* "NyaaaahhhhAHHH!" Referring to the wailing cry of Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song'.
* "We got some good songs too. Like um...like Cherry Pie...and Silver Thunderbird." "Yeah. And what's that one Asia song?" (The bots begin making annoying sounds.) 'Cherry Pie' is a song from the band Warrant, while 'Silver Thunderbird' is a ballad sung by Marc Cohn. "That one Asia Song" Crow is thinking of is 'Only Time Will Tell.'
* "Brought to you by a grant from the Onan Family Foundation." The Onan Family Foundation is a philanthropic organization that gives grants to various organizations in the Minneapolis area, but the reference is also to Onan, a character in the Bible, the source of the term "onanism" which generally refers to masturbation. Angelo is leaving his shack full of dirty pictures at the time.
* "Dressed like Pagliacci" Crow is referencing the "sparkling" outfit of the woman from the future, with the large circular attachments. Pagliacci is an Italian opera, whose main character is Canio, an actor playing a character named Pagliaccio in a comedic play (the opera itself is a tragedy). Pagliaccio wears a distinctive white outfit with large buttons on the front.
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