During the segment, Oliver played a video of Vance discussing the discredited theory, where he mispronounced the name of the Caribbean nation as “Haitia.” Oliver humorously remarked, “There is only one Haiti-related mispronunciation we recognize in this house, and it’s Alicia Silverstone in Clueless, delivering the iconic line: ‘And so if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haiteeans.’”
This reference is to the 1995 film Clueless, where Silverstone plays Cher Horowitz, a high school socialite who uses her matchmaking skills to navigate the complexities of teenage life. In a 2022 interview, Silverstone confirmed that she didn’t know how to pronounce “Haitians,” and that director Amy Heckerling chose to keep the mispronunciation in the final cut. Heckerling had stopped the script supervisor from correcting Silverstone, valuing the moment’s authenticity.