Cultural References

I never realised just how many cultural references are in everything. TV shows, movies, books, songs, memes, literally everything. Picture when you are watching your favourite movie, and then one of your nerdy friends says "You know that this is an allegory for... like Shakespeare, right?" and then your little lightbulb goes off, and you can't believe that you never saw it, and it all makes so much sense. I think it's like that when you watch gringo TV and before you have lived in the US. I find myself explaining these cultural allegories all the time. Gringo TV is good, but when you watch it without the cultural allegories, it's like, well... trying to understand a joke in a language that you are almost fluent in, but not quite.
I'm not saying that this is anyones fault. It's not. It's just a fact.
So, for you gringos, try to pick out some of these next time you watch a movie. The Simpsons, for example, is full of them. Like when they play the Morning Addition (from NPR) music to Mr. Burns as a threat. Or high school in general. That's very gringo.
And for you non-gringos, if you were to live in the US for 4 months, I promise you, you'll have an epiphany.