The Great Gatsby (1925) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Now that Carrie is unemployed, she makes a list of things she's always wanted to do, but never had the time. She says she's going to read 'The Great Gatsby', but never really gets around to it.

Drama is teased by the guys about being the "7th Wheel", because he doesn't have a date for Vince's big movie premiere. While they're in the store, picking up their suits for the night, Drama asks, Kelly, the hot sales girl, if she wants to go with him to his baby brother's premiere, telling her it's "Scorsese's 'Gatsby'".

At the charity golf event, Mark Wahlberg and Tom Brady arrive at the course, calling Vince and the boys 'Gatsby and the Funky Bunch'.

Lip wrote a paper on this book for a Korean student, but the kid doesn't have the whole $50 to pay for it.

Marshall calls Ted "Gatsby" at one point, in reference to the novel The Great Gatsby, in which Jay Gatsby throws successive parties in the hopes that the woman he loves, Daisy Buchanan, might attend. At one point in the party, the lamp next to the couch glows green, which is one of the most popular metaphors in The Great Gatsby.

Vince, upset over not being able to get a part in Gus Van Sant's film, gets a call from Martin Scorsese, promising him the lead role in his next film; a re-imagining of 'The Great Gatsby'.

Brick quizzes Axl on literature, because Axl wants a more meaningful relationship with his girlfriend.

The title of this episode is a reference to the book. Lew Ashby also refers to one of Hank's books as "his Gatsby".

The Great Gatsby is one of Charlie's 12 favorite books that his teacher assigns him to read.