every season finale for the first five seasons and worked regularly on the series, but died after its fifth season. The exploding storefront is an actual location in the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood on Fresh Pond Road (one of the two main local shopping streets). Other cultural references When Benny calls Tony to confirm the destruction of Phil's wireroom, he refers to Phil as "the Shah" due to his resemblance to the deposed Shah of Iran. Christopher's comments about penguins spending a long time guarding an egg only to lose the chick inside refers to the documentary film March of the Penguins. During his sit-down with Tony, Phil notes the disappearance of "Fat Dom" Gamiello and surmises that the Soprano family killed him because Dom was last seen in Jersey. Tony denies that claim and adds: "So was the Hindenburg," referring to the disaster which took place in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Phil and Butch believe Tony killed Dom in retaliation for Phil's murder of Vito. Butch compares this to 9/11—Tony now has their attention, and it is time to defeat him. Patty Leotardo calls the irritable Phil Ebenezer Scrooge when discussing Christmas dinner with him. Julianna questions Christopher's intention to title his film Cleaver because of the possibility that people will think of Beaver Cleaver (Leave It to Beaver TV show). Christopher mentions Saw and Hostel as examples of successful one-word horror movie titles. A.J. and Blanca are watching the comedy film The 40-Year-Old Virgin in her apartment before the noise outside wakes Hector up. A.J. gives the street punks making noise outside Blanca's place a Gary Fisher mountain bike. Blanca says A.J. was born on the same day as Jesse Ventura, a "politician." Christopher and Julianna are watching Hitchcock's Vertigo at a movie theater after smoking heroin in his car. In what appears to be a joke towards writer Terence Winter, Christopher mentions that the "50 Cent movie" aka Get Rich or Die Tryin' was being given away free at the car wash. Winter wrote the script for that film and co-wrote this episode. Christopher tells Tony he told Julianna to buy a Luther Vandross boxed set for Kaisha for her birthday. Christopher mentions The Jerry Springer Show when he walks and talks about his AA meetings. He tells "Murmur" that there is nothing but "white trash and narcotics" who talk about their problems, he recalls it as a