Everwood Season 4 Episode 20

Bright: (to Irv) I was thinking if you get into that Oprah's Book Club thing, dude, we would be rich and famous, dating Halle Berry.

This is a reference to The Oprah Winfrey Show. Winfrey began the book club portion of her show in 1996, and she selects books for discussion. Many of the books that she selects go on to become best sellers because of the show's popularity.

Halle Berry is an actress who has starred in numerous movies, including Monster's Ball, Swordfish, and X-Men. Berry has won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards.

Harold: (to Edna) I tried to; you were too busy acting as if you'd just won the Publishers Clearing House.

Publishers Clearing House is a marketing company that sells household items and magazine subscriptions to consumers. The company is well known for its sweepstakes, in which the "Prize Patrol" shows up at the homes of the winners and surprises them with the news.

Andy: (to Ephram) Are you kidding? Patience is my middle name. I am all about maintaining the zen of my motorcycle, or whatever that book says.

This is a reference to the 1974 novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig. The book covers Pirsig's seventeen day motorcycle ride across the U.S., which included many philosophical discussions with his family and friends.

Eugene: (to Delia) I thought you were reading Little Women?

Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott about four sisters who work on overcoming character flaws as they grow up. The book was published in two parts in the late 1860s and was published as a single novel in 1880.

Ephram: (to Andy) There was an Ethan Hawke marathon on TNT the other day, you know he was in White Fang?

White Fang was a 1991 movie about the relationship between a gold hunter and a wolfdog during the Klondike Gold Rush in Yukon, Canada. The film was based on Jack London's novel from the early 1900s.

Ethan Hawke is an American actor who has appeared in numerous movies, including Hamlet, Training Day, and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

Eugene: (to Andy, referring to Irv's book) I'm ten pages from finishing. This thing's Da Vinci Code good.

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery novel by Dan Brown about a murder at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The book inspired a 2006 movie with the same name.

Amy wanted to marry Luke Skywalker when she was 6.

Luke Skywalker is a fictional character from the series of movies Star Wars.

The title, Goodbye, Love could possibly be a reference to the song from Rent (musical and movie), Goodbye, Love.

Ephram: I'm not saying it has to be candles and Coldplay, but it has to be special.

Coldplay is an English rock band from London. The group consists of vocalist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion.

Irv: Listen to me, Busta Rhymes, you need a plan.

Trevor Smith Jr. AKA Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper and actor.

Ephram: Seize the day. O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! My Captain! is a poem by Walt Whitman about President Lincoln.

'Seize the day.' is the common English translation of a Latin phrase, Carpe diem, in a poem by the Roman writer Horace.

Together these two poetic allusions form an allusion to the 1989 hit film Dead Poets Society, in which both quotations feature prominently, becoming well-known catchphrases for the film more than for the original works the quotations are actually from.