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@animaniacs-references
“No Place Like Homeless”
PESTO: Don pardo!
The late Dominick “Don” Pardo was a longtime radio and TV announcer. He worked for NBC for 70 years, spending the last 39 of them announcing for Saturday Night Live from 1975 (when the show debuted) until his death in 2014.
“No Place Like Homeless”
PESTO: You know, you belong on a pirate’s shoulder, ya miserable laguardia!
Fiorello La Guardia was an ex-Congressman who became one of the most famous and popular mayors of New York City. LaGuardia Airport was named in his honor.
“No Place Like Homeless”
PESTO: What do I look like here, a doorstop? Ronzoni!
Ronzoni is a pasta brand that started as a macaroni company in 1915 and is currently owned by the New World Pasta Company.
“No Place Like Homeless”
PESTO: Julius la rosa, that hurts!
Julius La Rosa is an American traditional popular music singer active since the ‘50s who has also done some TV work, including an Emmy-nominated recurring role on Another World.
“No Place Like Homeless”
PESTO (dizzily): Pia zadora...
Pia Zadora is an actress and singer who started her career inauspiciously by appearing at age 11 in the notorious flop Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). She later won both a Golden Globe and a Razzie for her role in Butterfly (1981) and was nominated for a Grammy in 1985.
“No Place Like Homeless”
MRS. MUMPHEAD: Nasty, nasty bloodsucking bird! Nosferatu!
F.W. Murnau’s 1922 horror classic Nosferatu (full title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) was an unauthorized Dracula knockoff, with the titular “nosferatu” (a word with an uncertain etymology) being used instead of “vampire”.
“No Place Like Homeless”
RUNT: When are we gonna find a nice home, Pesto? PESTO: How am I supposed to know? Am I intimate friends with Donald Trump? Do I work for Century 22? Are my pockets bulging with real estate listings awaiting your perusal?
Donald Trump is a billionaire business magnate and investor who started amassing his fortune in real estate.
BONUS REFERENCE: Century 21 is a major real estate agent franchise company founded in 1971.
“No Place Like Homeless”
PESTO: Boca raton, what a nanook.
Nanook is the Inuit deity who is the master of bears. His name entered wider pop culture as the pseudonym given for Allakariallak, the subject of the first feature-length documentary, Nanook of the North (1922).
BONUS FACT: Boca Raton is a large city in Florida.
“In the Garden of Mindy”
BRAIN: Using the gardener’s weed killer, some manure, and a little zoysiagrass, I will construct a powerful stink bomb!
Zoysia is a genus of creeping grasses found in coastal areas or grasslands, and is commonly used for lawns and golf courses. (The original CRGA entry claims it was “developed by the US Government and the US Golf Association for use as golf course turf”, but I can find no proof to lend credence to this claim. Golf and/or grass aficionados, feel free to correct me on this.)
“In the Garden of Mindy”
I’m not sure about this but the title is so specifically constructed that it must be a reference to something and this is probably it. The title to the 1968 hard rock song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (released by Iron Butterfly in the album of the same name) is a garbled version of the original title, “In the Garden of Eden”, with conflicting reports as to the reason behind it.
“Animaniacs Stew”
The background music in the opening segment starts off as “Someone’s in the Kitchen With Dinah”, an English song from the 1830s or ‘40s that later got absorbed into the American folk song I’ve Been Working on the Railroad, which first appeared in print in 1894. A later segment has Yakko, Wakko and Dot singing along to the main part of the song.
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“Very Special Opening”
This episode’s intro with the swirling text is a direct spoof of the old opening title for the CBS Special Presentations of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Episode 34 references completed!
The 1812 Overture gets pressed into use again during the bit with the balloon cannon.
On Mars, the clown entertains mini Marvin-the-Martians.
DYN: The call letters of the country music station are K-HIX, i.e. hicks.
"Bubba Bo Bob Brain"
BRAIN: Do you realize what will happen if the world hears my song just one more time? PINKY: An angel will get its wings?
As we are informed by the holiday standard It's a Wonderful Life (1946), an angel gets its wings each time a bell rings.
"Bubba Bo Bob Brain"
In our final country music cameo (we promise!) we have Kenny Rogers warming up the Grand Ole Opry crowd for the Brain, singing a parody of his 1978 #1 hit The Gambler.
"Bubba Bo Bob Brain"
The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert held in the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville every week since 1925, showcasing the stars of the genre. It is considered the "big time" in country music, so the Brain had truly come close to succeeding in his plan.