Talk:Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?

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Contents 1 Cultural references 1.1 Cultural references 2 Possible Sources 3 wait a minute

[edit] Cultural references

As I recently brought up at the wikiproject (here) it is time we did something about the cultural references sections. I am moving all unsourced references to the talk pages for the time being in hopes of creating a better, more thoroughly sourced article. Please discuss this action at the wikiproject link above so as not to split it over 72 different talk pages. The information removed from the article follows. Stardust8212 03:31, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural references

• The title comes from a lyric in the 1959 Dion and the Belmonts song "A Teenager in Love".
• In the gym scene, Zoidberg says he is going to work out with "the nautilus", and goes to play basketball with a nautilus-like alien. The company Nautilus, Inc. produces exercise equipment.
• In the gym scene, one of the "dirtiest, but subtlest jokes ever on Futurama" (as described by David X. Cohen on the DVD commentary) is seen: the Kegelcizer machine.
• Fry assisting Zoidberg in courting Edna is a parody of the story in Cyrano de Bergerac.
• The national anthem of Decapod 10 is the same music heard during the fight scene between James T. Kirk and Spock from the Star Trek: TOS episode "Amok Time". Several elements in this episode, such as Decapodian mating season and the ritualistic battle to the death also mirror plot details from that particular Star Trek episode. Also the traditional Vulcan weapon used in kalifee is shown as one of the weapons Fry can choose from. "Claw-plagh" also sounds a lot like "Qapla'!", the Star Trek Klingon word for "Succes". This entire sequence was used earlier on The Simpsons on the season five episode Deep Space Homer when Barney and Homer train to be astronauts.
• During claw-plagh Zoidberg cuts a 'Dr Z' in Fry's shirt, a reference to Zorro.
• When taking bets just prior to the Claw-plagh fight between Zoidberg and Fry, Bender refers to Zoidberg as "The Great Red Hope". This is a reference to "The Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries, who in 1910 fought Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, in a symbolic racial competition.
• The restaurant "Red Primate" is a parody of Red Lobster.
• When Zoidberg asks Amy to take the rubber bands off his claws (in a somewhat sexy manner), Amy's retort is "Fool me 7 times, shame on you. Fool me 8 or more times, shame on me." This line is a reference to a line in the Star Trek: TOS episode "Friday's Child".

Unsure on this one: is "claw plagh" a mutation (perhaps trying to sound Yiddish, since the Decapodians speak with Yiddish accents?) of "claw lock," a fighting activity engaged in by American (or Maine) lobsters at least? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mad2Physicist (talk • contribs) 05:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Sources

Posting this here in case anyone is interested in expanding real world coverage for this article. There's an article in The Hollywood Reporter which apparently discusses this episode however it is subscription only so if anybody is interested they should look here. Stardust8212 23:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

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IF decopodians die after they mate how come in one zoidbergs flashbacks we can see his mom?--Yowiki (talk) 02:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

That is not his mother, but his aunt, who raised him. Mad2Physicist (talk) 08:22, 14 May 2008 (UTC)