The Buddha's statue that appears, really it's not Buddha. It's a monk called Budai, who lived around the 10th century in China.
Also he's known as "Laughing Buddha" or "Fat Buddha", however, he's NOT the Buddha of the Buddhism, prince Siddhartha Gautama, who later would be Gautama Buddha or Buddha Shakyamuni.
Maybe, the confusion comes, in the other factors, from the words Buddha and Budai are homophones, and that with time, it became a deeper mistake hard to revert.
Turk tells Carla that if she had no hair, she would look like Danny DeVito. The scene then dissolves to the roof light of a taxi cab. Danny DeVito starred in the TV series "Taxi" from 1978 to 1983.