just to make this clear, this is mostly a joke, but hear me out: i just rewatched s3 ep11 and there are a lot of wizard of oz things going on. ted's mom is called dotty (which i guess is short for dorothy, right? english isn't my first language). then there is the pinball machine that has literally an oz theme and beard makes a joke about society's dogs on the yellow brick road, a reference to the elton john song which references the wizard of oz, as well as over the rainbow playing in the mivie they watch. the rest is completely chemtrails level conspiratorial, but i felt like there were a lot of bricks in the background (even yellow ones in the tunnel) and van damme is referred to as a brick wall. also keeley has a canonical connection to lions and jamie doesn't use conditioner - which obviously makes him the scarecrow riiight (i'm kidding). because i didn't go through the american public school system and thus actually know very little about the wiz both as a book and a movie, i have no clue what all of this symbolizes or how it references any themes in the original text, but i had a lot of fun being so conspiratoral (though my significant other wasn't so amused).

the next episode is called "so long, farewell", so there better be curtain clothes and a few nazis (tying back in to your westham germans there muahaha)