It's not pseudo-intellectual to like the books you read (or were supposed to have read) in high school. I think it's really pretty bold of them, and not in a bad way, to be so obvious in their tribute to books. You'd rather pick more obscure characters and show off just how wonderful and erudite you are?
That said, I wouldn't do it, that thing they did.
That said, I hope their next one is Vardaman Bundren, and then a
Lennie Small, and then a
Nellie Oleson.