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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.

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