Warning: the following contains spoilers for season 2, episode 9 of Kaguya-Sama: Love is War, now streaming on FUNimation.

In the newest episode of the Kaguya-sama anime, the pop culture references and humor get dialed up to 11, and an animated classic lends its art style to the fun for just a moment.

Miko Iino got what she wanted: a spot in the student council. The problem: everyone on the council is perverted and evil, and Miko is on the verge of quitting. She's certain that Kaguya and Miyuki are tyrants, and she is practically helpless before them. But this is all in her imagination, and she pictures the issue in all kinds of colorful ways to make her (erroneous) point.

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Good Grief, Miko

Miko has some alone time with her friend Kobachi, who is the only person Miko can trust with private confessions like this. Miko lays it all out: Miyuki and Kaguya are monsters who expel students for trivial reasons, they punish Miko for the tiniest errors, and they engage in illicit behavior behind closed doors. Kobachi listens like a good friend, but she's not about to indulge Miko's claims. Instead, she makes a counter-offer.

The scene cuts to a Peanuts visual style, with Miko relaxing in her seat while turned to face Kobachi. Kobachi suggests that Miko just lean into all the wackiness and embrace it, or "go native." Miko can't stand the idea, and she cries out that it's total nonsense. Subtly, this entire scene feels like a wacky conversation that could easily happen in the actual Peanuts cartoon, and it just shows how rich Miko's imagination is. Perhaps one day, she'll be a cartoonist herself, but alas, the idea of a beagle sleeping atop its doghouse is already taken.

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Too Many Shades Of Insanity

Peanuts was not the only big pop culture reference this week. Miko is convinced that Miyuki is innocent, since he's the upstanding student president. Everything must be Kaguya's fault, according to Miko's paranoia, and she pictures X-rated scenes of Kaguya exploiting Miyuki and tormenting him. Kaguya is so refined and wealthy on the outside, but she's a sexual deviant on the inside, and this leads Miko to sum it up as a hardcover titled "Fifty Shapes of Love." Just like how Christian Grey is a charming businessman on the inside but a bedroom dominator on the inside. Miko can rest assured that Kaguya would be terrified of even one shade of gray, let alone all fifty.

A few more subtle references pop up too, such as Ai Hayasaka's athlete calming ritual for Kaguya. The visuals show magazine cutouts of athletes performing these rituals, and it looks not unlike something found in a Monty Python animation. Fans of the Scum's Wish anime may also recognize the harsh, erotic magenta and blue lighting in the X-rated Kaguya/Miyuki scenes.

Miko Iino is seeing demons everywhere, and she'll call up an army of pop culture references to make her point clear... even if it's all just in her head.

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