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If you are in on the joke, these can be hilarious; if you aren't, then they get irritating fast.

 

 

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== Film ==

* The film ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact|2010]]'' features a cover of ''Time'' magazine with the American president and Soviet premier. The former is [[Arthur C. Clarke]], and the latter is [[Stanley Kubrick]].

* The phrase "Poopy Trim", from [[Kevin Smith]]'s [[The View Askewniverse|films]].

 

== Literature ==

* When authors [[Tim Powers]] and James Blaylock were in college together, they invented a fake poet named "William Ashbless" to satirize the quality of their college's literary magazine. He ended up appearing as a character in both of their novels, entirely independently.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* "[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]": The word "chippy", which gets used a ''lot'', comes from some weird foreign porn Tim and Eric once saw.

* From ''[[Lost]]'', the song "You All Everybody" and its only known lyrics ("you all everybody, acting like these stupid people wearing expensive clothes") came from an inside joke among the writers. One of them had seen someone use the phrase on a talk show many years earlier.

** Chris Carter's best friend as a child was called Fox and his mother's maiden name is Mulder.

** Various other characters are also named after people the writers knew.

* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' 5th season finale episode "If It's Only In Your Head". Lynette is told she's pregnant and says "Are you sure it's not cancer?" This was based on creator Marc Cherry's personal experience: when his mother was told by doctors in in the early 80's that she was either pregnant or had cancer, she said "God, I hope it's cancer."

** Bree's immediate response to learning that her son is gay is the same as Cherry's mother: "I'd love you even if you were a murderer."

* Roughly half the characters in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' were named Arthur, Ken, or Eric.

* In ''[[Lexx]]'', Xev's home planet B3K took its name from the production company's Halifax postal code.

 

== Music ==

* The band [[Jimmy Eat World]] was named after an in-joke from their childhood: "The band's name came from a crayon drawing made after an incident between Linton's younger brothers, Jim and Ed, who fought frequently. Jim usually won, but Ed got his revenge by drawing a picture of Jim shoving the Earth into his mouth; the picture bore the caption "Jimmy eat world".

* [[Nickelback]] was named after what one of the guys from the band said when he worked at Starbucks: "Here's your [[Canada, Eh?|nickel]] back."

* Beginning with 1990s ''Under The Red Sky'', [[Bob Dylan]] has credited himself as "Jack Frost" whenever he's produced one of his own albums.

* [[Elton John]] was fond of his [[The Eighties|1980's]] [[Camp Gay]] pseudonym, "Lord Choc Ice", and it appears in many manifestations. An instrumental B side was called "Lord Choc Ice Goes Mental", he credits his co-writing credit for the [[Cher]] co-written ''Leather Jackets'' song "Don't Trust That Woman" to "Cher/Lady Choc Ice" (he was upset that Cher wanted first billing, and tried to upstage her for revenge), he credits "Lady Choc Ice" as an "inspiration" in ''Leather Jackets'' 's liner notes, and "Lord Choc Ice" is billed as "director" on the closing clapperboard in his "I'm Still Standing" video. He was known to substitute "foreign guy" in the line "Susie went and left me for some foreign guy" in "Crocodile Rock" with "...Choc Ice guy" in his 1982 concerts.

 

 

* In ''[[Doom]]'', the cheat code '''iddqd''' was named after a fraternity one of the developers formed in college.

* Almost every Capcom franchise has included a character named Joe. From the more well-known [[Viewtiful Joe]] and the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series' Sniper Joe, there's been one in [[Street Fighter]], [[Phoenix Wright]], [[Bionic Commando]] and [[Lost Planet]].

 

== Web Comics ==

* From ''[[Its Walky]]'', Walky's catchphrase "Wiigii" was inspired by a typo of the author's when he was trying to type "Woo hoo" and his right hand was off to the left.

 

== Web Original ==

* "[[Homestar Runner]]": The phrase "Kick it out, Behan" was something the creator's Mom said at track meets when he was a kid.

 

== Western Animation ==

* "A113" is an inside joke amongst a number of animators who graduated from the California Institute for the Arts; it's the classroom number where animation classes were held. See [[wikipedia:A113|the other Wiki]] for a listing of some of the references.

* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'': Dean calls Orpheus's pendant a "Dracula trophy". The phrase was originally something overheard during childhood by one of the show's creators, and it stuck.

* "Jalapena" as an exclamation in Disney's ''[[Gargoyles]]''. [[Keith David]] had known someone who used it that way, and improvised during a recording session. [[Throw It In|It stuck.]]

* Apparently, a lot of the gibberish Stitch says in ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' is things like this, only garbled. One phrase is the name of an animator's wife, the other one is a restaurant near the studio.

* ''[[Futurama]]'' prefers Al Gore as a constant source of humor for several reasons. Back when the show was new, people thought he was humorless, not knowing that his daughter writes for the show, and she had to get it from somewhere.

** A subtle one from ''[[Futurama]]''- Leela is upset and tears one half of a Kleenex to wipe her tears away. On the DVD commentary, they said that everyone assumed it was a joke because of her one eye, but the writers were referencing that they (the writers) would all use one half of the Kleenex to save money.

 

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