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| Pop Tart -- Hey, we know what these are by now... | Pop-Tart web page designed by a dedicated fan |
Spanish profanity: On the blackboard is written:
CHUPE MIS CHI CHIS.
NO ME TOQUEN LOS HUEVOS.
MI VERGA ES FEA Y MURENA.
Translated, this roughly means:
SUCK MY TITS.
DON'T TOUCH MY EGGS (balls, cahones).
MY DICK IS UGLY AND DARK. |
| Kathie Lee Gifford -- Morning television star who was once worshipped as some kind of do-no-wrong angel until it was discovered that a clothing brand line of hers was a sweat shop for children. Her husband also cheated on her, and she used her TV show as a counseling session. And it is unknown what her real hair color is. Sad. | Strangely, I couldn't find any nice KLG sites... Kill Kathie Lee Gifford KLG Sweat shop information Flush KLG down toilet |
| "pissant white bread" -- the mayor is ranting using American terms for useless, annoying, and bland. | |
| "little crackers" -- this is basically a racial slur that blacks used to refer to whites. | |
| Frank Gifford -- Kathie Lee's adulterous husband. | Frank Gifford |
| "If they could see me now..." -- this song is used because it is the song Kathie Lee used to sing for Carnival Cruise Lines, a company for which she was spokeswoman, until her little mishap with the clothing company scam. | Carnival Cruise Lines |
| Jesus and Pals -- this is funny because every other channel on American cable seems to be some kind of religious channel or talk show. The writers have combined this phenomenon. | Christian Broadcasting Network
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| Weight Gain 4000/90 pound weakling -- In America, there are nutrition stores where you can buy products which will "bulk you up", not that most Americans need any help, mind you. It is very popular that young males appear more "beefy", so they buy this stuff. The "90 pound weakling" may be a reference to the famous "98 pound weakling" Charles Atlas body-building program. | Mega Mass 2000 Weight Gain powder Charles Atlas/98 pound weakling page |
| spinning head -- a reference to the film, The Exorcist, where a young girl is possessed by demons, and among other things, her head spins clear around. | The Exorcist |
| "You talkin' to me?" -- Mr.Garrison is imitating Robert De Niro in the
1976 movie Taxi Driver, where De Niro's character, Travis, was
practicing in front of a mirror with a gun. | Quotes from
Taxi Driver |
| "wide load" -- Trucks (lorries) on America's highways (motorways) have to carry signs saying "wide load" if their width is larger than the distance between the lines painted on the road. | |
| "Stan and Wendy sitting in a tree" -- this is a song children sing to make fun of couples. The rest of the song would be "K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Stan (or Wendy) in a baby carriage. Sucking his thumb, wetting his pants, doing the hula hula dance." No, I didn't make it up. Really. | |
| Wendy's grade on her essay of 72 -- The American grading system is usually as follows: 90-100 is an A which is fab, 80-90 is a B which is good, 70-80 is a C which is average, 60-70 is a D which is bad, and below this is an F, which means Failure and no credit for the course. | |
| "When I first wrote these words..." -- this is the opening to Walden, a book by renowned American writer Henry David Thoreau, about his time living on the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. All students are supposed to read this book before they graduate from American schools. Obviously, this is not always the case. | Walden Pond's Thoreau page |
| "book depository" -- a reference to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was allegedly shot from the Texas Book Depository...or the grassy knoll...or.... | Book Depository: The Sixth Floor Museum |
| Kathie Lee's bubble -- a reference to when the Pope revisited America after the assassination attempt on his life | Popemobile image 1 Popemobile image 2 Popemobile image 3 |
| Mary Tyler Moore -- America's most wholesome female icon and television star. This woman is like the nicest person in the world, or something, and is the only person to have ever made tight brown turtleneck sweaters (jumpers) look good. | Mary Tyler Moore Page |
| APB -- All Points Bulletin, a message sent out by policemen in an emergency to all cars and personnel telling them to be on the lookout for someone or something. | |
| "It is too late for me, young Wendy" -- a reference to the quote in Return of the Jedi by Darth Vader as he is dying. He says to Luke Skywalker, "It is too late for me, my son". | Official Star Wars site |
| "sitcom" means situation comedy | |
| podunk -- means nowhere-land, back woods, dirt roads kind of place | |
| hick redneck -- people who live in podunk, stereotyped as gun-loving, racist, and low-IQ kinda folk. | You might be a redneck if... |
| "I coulda gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling kids" -- a reference to "Scooby-Doo", a television cartoon series about sleuthing teenagers and their pet dog, Scooby Doo. Everytime they solve a mystery and catch the bad guy, the bad guy always says, "I coulda gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling kids". | Scooby Doo Tribute |
| Geraldo -- Geraldo Rivera, television talk show host who specializes in shock value. Has been punched in the nose on the air for basically being an ass. Example: He is really Jerry Rivers, a New York Jew, but to be more cool he changed his name to sound as if he were Hispanic. It is presently very cool in America to be important and a member of a fashionable minority. | HACK Bio of Geraldo |