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| - Charles "Bebe" Rebozo was a Floridian businessman and personal friend of Richard Nixon's, who often took him on fishing excursions in his boat.
* "Aw poor Robert Shaw. Eaten again!" Robert Shaw was the actor who played the grizzled sea captain Quint from Jaws. Quint was eaten by the giant shark in the film.
* "Same picture of Mark Spitz, even." Mark Spitz was an Olympic swimmer.
* "Devil Fish: The Story of Aleister Crappie!" A reference and play on words to both famous occultist Aleister Crowley and the crappie, a common freshwater fish.
* "Hey, temp workers!" Dolphin Staffing is a temporary office staffing service based in Minneapolis.
* "Don't say/Things you're gonna regret..." A lyric from the Alan Parsons Project song "Eye in the Sky".
* "Too much time on my hands..." The chorus from the Styx song "Too Much Time on My Hands"
* "I've located a Gary Wright song." The sound that the piece of equipment makes sounds vaguely like the synths at the beginning of Wright's song "Dream Weaver."
* "It was more of a horrifying sound, full of hate..." "Oh, like Bob Dornan." Bob Dornan was an ultraconservative congressman from Southern California, known for provcative—and for many, offensive and hateful—statements. He's the "star" of Episode 612, Starfighters.
* "Maybe the frequency was too high or too low." "Kenneth." A reference to an incident in which CBS News anchor Dan Rather was attacked by a man who kept asking him the cryptic question "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" The incident inspired the R.E.M. song "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"
* "Is that Fab or Rob?" Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus made up the disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli.
* "You colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is 'enuf'!" A reference to the play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
* "I'm listening to Shonen Knife!" Shonen Knife is an all-female Japanese rock band.
* "Kick, punch, it's all in the mind." Referring to a lyric in the video game Parappa the Rapper.
* "Gotta finish this bomb for Pakistan by Saturday." Pakistan conducted its first successful test of a nuclear device on May 28, 1998, a few months before this episode first aired.
* "I can't believe I directed 'North'! North was a critically panned 1994 movie directed by Rob Reiner, whom the character resembles.
* "What's that?" "Kraftwerk." Kraftwerk is a pioneering electronic music group from Germany.
* "Dolphins win the Super Bowl! Yaaaaay!" A callback to the "Packers win the Super Bowl! Woooo!" bit from "The Giant Spider Invasion ."
* "Didn't she star in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'?" Mike is comparing the female lead's appearance to the character of Jack Skellington in the movie.
* "I got the Amiga working!" Amiga was a line of computers made by the now-defunct Commodore company, which still have a devoted following to this day despite never being as popular as PCs or Macs.
* "This guy dubbed by J. Peterman?" J. Peterman is a retail and fashion company that does most of its sales through catalogs. The riff here however is based on the infamous "I knoooowww!" line. This is more an allusion to a fictional portrayal of the company's owner on Seinfeld; Jacopo Peterman.
* "I'm going to try and put him to sleep!" "I'm going to read him something from Joan Didion." Joan Didion is an American author and literary journalist.
* "What's going on? I say hey-ey-ey-ey! Hey-ey-ey..." A reference to the song "What's Going On?" by 4 Non Blondes.
* "Now it's '10' as rewritten by Terrence McNally!" 10 was a feature film directed by Blake Edwards, best known for its scene of actress Bo Derek walking out of the water onto the beach in a tight wet bathing suit. Playwright Terrence McNally is known for exploring gay issues in his works.
* "Please, Francisco Franco died quicker!" A reference to Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and the many premature announcements of his death, which was famously parodied on Saturday Night Live.
* "The Ox-Fish Incident!" The Ox-Bow Incident is a Western novel in which three innocent men are accused of cattle rustling and lynched.
* "B-baby, we ain't seen nothin' yet, over" Lyric from BTO's song You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.
* "Southern Man, gonna EAT YOUR HEAD!" A spoof on Neil Young's song Southern Man.
* "Someone threw a match on the Cuyahoga River!" The Cuyahoga River is a river that flows through Cleveland, infamous for its heavily polluted water. It was so polluted that it caught on fire on several occasions.
* "You know, I don't need Neil Young 'round, anyhow." A reference to Lynyrd Skynyrd's song Sweet Home Alabama, written in protest to Southern Man.
* "You know, that door isn't even red, and I want to paint it black." A reference to the first line of the Rolling Stones song "Paint It Black", which is "I see a red door and I want it painted black.
* "Ed Wood's octopus scene was a lot more convincing than this." A reference to an infamous prop in Ed Wood's movie Bride of the Monster, a mechanical octopus with a motor that didn't actually run, forcing the actors to sort of flop around in the water as they held its tentacles to themselves.
* "Get your flame-throwers out, grab a stick of Juicy Fruit!" Juicy Fruit is a brand of chewing gum. During the 1980s, Juicy Fruit TV commercials would begin with a jingle similar to the one Mike made up based on whatever activity the commercial depicted, such as water-skiing.
* "Janet?" "Oh, I forgot, I'm nasty..Miss Jackson!" Fro this line in in the song "Nasty" by Janet Jackson: "No, my first name ain't baby/It's Janet/Miss Jackson if you're nasty."
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