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== Radio ==

* Garrison Keilor and Ira Glass have a fake feud going on, whereby they slip little insults to one another into their respective radio shows or public appearances. In Keilor's case, these often take the shape of mentions of Glass in his ''Prairie Home Companion'' sketches, impressions of Glass done by his actors, or pastiches of Glass' broadcasting style.

** The ersatz Keilor/Glass feud is itself a shout-out to Jack Benny and Fred Allen, two giants of the Golden Age of Radio, who first hit upon this idea as a running (and recognised) prank on the audience.

* Keilor also mercilessly lampoons other NPR figures in sketches, most notably news correspondents, who show up as voice impressions in ''PHC'' news sketches. Sometimes these pseudo-cameos are identified by name; often they are either un-named or given a ficitonal name, making the shout-out an inside joke among NPR staff and habitual listeners.

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** There are [http://www.wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Sailor_Moon_flowers several flower varieties called Sailor Moon]. Surprisingly, Naoko Takeuchi makes one of them as part of an artbook drawing, since she loves when fans homage her works, and compliments it back as she can.

** ''Strigiphilus garylarsoni'', a kind of chewing louse, after the creator of ''[[The Far Side]]'' and his frequently insect-related humour. And [[wikipedia:Thagomizer|the Thagomizer]]!

** ''Psephophorus [[Terry Pratchett|terrypratchetti]]'', a prehistoric turtle which is ''not'' [[Discworld|large enough to appear on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram]]. Terry keeps a fossil of it on his desk. And ''Gingoites nannyoggiae'', a Mesezoic plant. The "Ogg" multimedia format is ''not'' a reference to Nanny Ogg; however once the coincidence was pointed out, the makers named their audio format after Vorbis from ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]''.

** The trapdoor spider ''Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi'', and inevitably, ''Aptostichus [[Stephen Colbert|stephencolberti]]''.

** ''Heteropoda davidbowie'', another spider species. Note that one of [[David Bowie]]'s most famous early albums was ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars''.

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** The pachycephalosaur ''[[Harry Potter|Dracorex hogwartsia]]'' is shouting out loud and clear.

** The lemur ''Avahi cleesei'' is named for lemur-lover John Cleese.

** Two obscure fish found in New Zealand: ''Bidenichthys [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|beeblebroxi]]'' and ''Fiordichthys [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|slartibartfasti]]'', found in Fjordland.

** The sea slug ''Alderia [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|willowi]]''.

** The scientific name for the dinosaur [[wikipedia:Masiakasaurus|Masiakasaurus]] is ''Masiakasaurus knopfleri'' -- the expedition crews were said to be listening to a lot of [[Dire Straits]] at the time. Mark Knopfler himself once made an amusing self-effacing comment about how appropriate it was to have a dinosaur named after him.

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** The asteroid named after [[Hideaki Anno]]

** There's even one named after the {{spoiler|fictitious}} Czech genius [[wikipedia:7796 Jaracimrman|Jára Cimrman]]. Let's just say that the name of every other asteroid is a reference to something-or-other (since it's the discoverer who proposes the name, and there are few restrictions on the name choice.)

** White dwarf BPM 37093 in the sky with a crystallized carbon core (read: diamond). Informally named: [[The Beatles|Lucy]].

** The dwarf planet now known as "Eris" was nicknamed "[[Xena]]" for 2 years while a final name and designation were decided. Its moon was officially named "Dysnomia" (Lawlessness) as a shoutout to actress Lucy Lawless.

** [[Christopher Hitchens]] has an asteroid, [[wikipedia:57901 Hitchens|57091 Hitchens]], named after him.

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