Talk:List of allusions/@comment-24329506-20140330032413/@comment-24468230-20140330064033

I'm not sure this is a Pete's Dragon reference; the whole schtick about selling a "cure all" tonic that doesn't really do anything is well-known. Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson used a similar plot in their "Say Say Say" music video.

In fact, "snake oil" is another term for a useless "cure", and comes from similar real-life salesmen in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States.