Californication Season 2 Episode 2

Mia: (to Becca, referring to her book) I think this one might be a little too NC-17 for you, Juno.

This is a reference to the 2007 movie Juno. Ellen Page played the role of Juno MacGuff, a sixteen year-old who becomes pregnant. The movie won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Lew: (to Hank, referring to his biography) You can write it--be my Boswell.

This is a reference to James Boswell, a writer who lived in the 1700s and became famous for writing the biography of English author Samuel Johnson. Boswell's name has become synonymous with a companion or observer.

Lew: (to Hank) God Hates Us All, that was your Gatsby. What happened to you, man?

This is a reference to the classic 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby. The story is set in the early 1920s and offers a critique of the immorality and materialism that accompanied the prosperity in America after World War I.

Mia: (to Charlie) If it's all the same to you, Runkle, I think I'd rather sit down with David Fincher.

David Fincher is a movie and music video director. Some of his films include Fight Club and Panic Room, and he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for the 2008 movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Hank: (under his breath, as an inmate urinates with his pants down) There's no place like home, there's no place like home.

"There's no place like home" is a famous quote by Judy Garland from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. Garland's character, Dorothy, repeats the phrase to transport herself back home to Kansas.