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Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story |
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Cultural References[]
- The title of this episode is a reference to the 2009 documentary film Capitalism: A Love Story.
- This episode parodies Elizabeth Holmes, a con artist who owned a company called Theranos, where she sold so-called "immediate results" blood-tests that turned out to be completely fraudulent, resulting in her arrest and sentence of a little under 10 years in prison.
- The Dramatic squirrel viral video is referenced in this episode.
- Four companies shown on the arena when LifeBoat fails to pay for the arena naming rights are:
- FTX, which itself lost the naming rights to FTX Arena (home of the Miami Heat NBA team) in Miami after a bankruptcy judge terminated the deal due to the FTX cryptocurrency scam.
- MoviePass, a movie ticket subscription service whose business model of heavily discounted moviegoing proved unsustainable.
- Quibi, a doomed streaming platform led by former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman and former Disney chairman (and DreamWorks founder) Jeffrey Katzenberg, who were over 60 years old when it launched in 2020. It shut down after 7 months.
- Bartles and Jaymes, a cooler manufacturer.
- The soft drink Jab is a parody of Tab, which was discontinued by Coca-Cola also in 2020.
Episode Connections[]
- The gif of Ralph rolling down the hill shown on Twitter is taken from season 12's "Little Girl in the Big Ten".
- Augustus Redfield from "Meat Is Murder" returns in this episode as one of the board directors at LifeBoat.
Trivia[]
- Bart Simpson had no dialogue in this episode. This is the fifth episode where the character has no spoken dialogue, the first was "Four Great Women and a Manicure" (where Bart doesn't appear and it's not mentioned), the second was "My Fare Lady", the third was "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" (gasps only) and the fourth was "The Many Saints of Springfield" (laughs only).
- Unlike the 4 mentioned previous episodes, Nancy Cartwright didn't voice any of her characters in this one, despite her name being in the end credits.
- Mr. Burns buys the production company behind the documentary that is, ironically, inside the episode This, of course, is a fartaken 4th wall destruction.