I love the scene when the teens try to guess who sang the song, and J&TBs start hollering out every obscure band they can think of. "The Beatles! Bobby Goldsboro! 1910 Fruit Gum Factory (a real band, BTW)! Johnny Thunders! etc."
Joel does a great reptile voice, too.
Since I'm always curious about the references of some of the more obscure jokes, I thought I'd start off with a few I know.
"The horror, the horror.."--last line spoken by Col. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of Darkness." Also spoken by Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in "Apocalypse Now", which was based on HOD.
One of my favorite riffs was when a car accident occurs, and the camera switches to the gila monster. "I just know I'm going to get blamed for this..."
And at the end, Crow laments "They killed the only likeable character!" (referring, of course, to the gila monster).
How 'bout the scene when you can see the director's hand reflecting in drunk old guy's windshield b4 train wreck?? I love bloopers.
All in favor of slapping Chase for sadistic singing...say I??? Anyone??
"Her braces shorted out the house."
As the drunk guy in the car starts racing the train one of the bots makes a Dirty Larry, Crazy Mary reference.
While funny, how did the bot know the reference? Did the Mads show them Dirty Larry, Crazy Mary in an unaired episode?
A wizard did it?
Here's my own head-canon regarding this phenomenon. Remember how in The Black Hole Yvette Mimieux's character had some sort of telepathic link with the robot voiced by Roddy McDowall? Yeah, I don't get it either, but let's roll with it. I propose that Joel had installed similar telepathic connection circuits in the Bots. This way, Joel is able to impart a wealth of pop culture information without having to go through the tedious process of manually programming it. However the Bots don't always have a full understanding of the context, hence the occasional parent/child discussions. This would also explain why the Bots of the original series have a pop culture base of someone who grew up during the Sixties and Seventies, while the Bots of the new series have a pop culture base of someone who grew up during the Eighties and Nineties.