August 10th, 2007 | 
Author: As part of my ongoing effort to watch some arbitrary list of essential movies, I just finished watching The Graduate starring Dustin Hoffman.
As I watched the ending sequence, something occurred to me.
The ending sequence of the famous “banned” Family Guy episode (“Wish Upon a Weinstein”), which, by the way, has now been officially shown more times than any other episode of anything ever on Adult Swim (that…is…irony!), is a parody of the ending sequence of The Graduate that I was completely oblivious to until just now.
At about 2:24 in the following clip, the whole sequence is practically identical to The Graduate: the car, running out of gas, yelling and banging on the glass, using the Star of David both as a weapon and a door securing device, right down to the very last scene on the bus.
Keep in mind I’ve been watching this episode over and over for years now and completely missed this!
This is why I love obscure reference comedy: there’s just so much comedy to discover and unearth, and finally “getting” the joke feels like I’ve achieved something.
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ahh..my good r..e..tarded friend Matt
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Yeah, Matt, that’s one of those scenes you should “get” even if you’ve never seen the movie. Like – I’ve never seen Bonnie and Clyde but I know when two people get themselves and their old-style car absolutely destroyed by machine gun fire it’s a reference to Bonnie and Clyde.