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== Film ==

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

* 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]].

* Everything John Landis has directed, be it a film, a music video, or a TV commercial, has included the line "See You Next Wednesday."

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== 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.

* "[[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.

** "Geronimo Jackson" is a band that is mentioned several times throughout the series. Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse swear the band was a legitimate one from the 70s that no one remembers, but the pair are known for making outrageous claims and jokes. However, they are unusually adamant that Geronimo Jackson was a real band. Several independent "investigations" (searches of music databases, copyright libraries, etc) have turned up no evidence Geronimo Jackson ever existed.

* ''[[The X Files]]'' loved this one:

* ''[[The X-Files]]'' loved this one:

** 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.

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** 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."

* ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' was named after something once said by a childhood friend of Noel Fielding (Vince): upon seeing the large curly hairstyle sported by Michael Fielding (Naboo) at the time, the foreign-accented childhood friend exclaimed "You've got a mighty bush!"

* ''[[~~Angel (TV)|~~Angel]]'': The "Astronauts versus Cavemen" debate in the fifth season episode "A Hole In The World" is funny enough as it is, but it was based on a real argument [[Joss Whedon]] started in the writers room that got way out of hand. He just wrote it on the chalkboard and came in later to find that the argument had effectively killed any work getting done.

* ''[[Angel]]'': The "Astronauts versus Cavemen" debate in the fifth season episode "A Hole In The World" is funny enough as it is, but it was based on a real argument [[Joss Whedon]] started in the writers room that got way out of hand. He just wrote it on the chalkboard and came in later to find that the argument had effectively killed any work getting done.

* 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.

* In the original proposal for ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Original Series ~~(TV)~~|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' that Roddenberry submitted to MGM in 1964, the ''Enterprise'' was to be commanded by Robert ''M.'' April. The name also turned up in two episodes of ''[[Have Gun Will Travel]]'' that Roddenberry wrote in [[The Fifties]].

* In the original proposal for ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' that Roddenberry submitted to MGM in 1964, the ''Enterprise'' was to be commanded by Robert ''M.'' April. The name also turned up in two episodes of ''[[Have Gun Will Travel]]'' that Roddenberry wrote in [[The Fifties]].

== Music ==

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* 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 (Video Game)|~~Bionic Commando]] and [[Lost Planet]].

* 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]].

* Some of the [[Halo]] games, especially the first one, contained a ton of [[Shout-Out]] references to [[Bungie]]'s older title ''[[Marathon ~~(Video Game)~~|Marathon]]'' which effortlessly go unnoticed by those who had never played their older games.

* Some of the [[Halo]] games, especially the first one, contained a ton of [[Shout-Out]] references to [[Bungie]]'s older title ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' which effortlessly go unnoticed by those who had never played their older games.

** Bungie also finds a way to put the number 7 in every [[Halo]] game.

* In "Orange Lights", the tie-in comic book for ''[[The Conduit]]'', the mailing address for [[Conspiracy Theorist]] Gordon Wells is actually the address of developer High Voltage Software.

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* 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.

* The "You call this a X?" from ''[[~~Romantically Apocalyptic (Webcomic)|~~Romantically Apocalyptic]]''.

* The "You call this a X?" from ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic]]''.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'' recycles a lot of characters and themes from Andrew's more obscure work. For instance Gamzee {{spoiler|a monster clown serial killer}} is partially based off his little known and [[Orphaned Series|orphaned]] graphic novel series, ''Whistles''. The Kids and the flavor of Homestuck in general comes from what Andrew described as an idea that never left the launching pad of magical kids learning how to focus their powers and taking the piss out of it. The characters on the pages on Rose's wall are the concept art from that series. Likewise there is a poster in Dave's room of two robot rappers, they were at one point planned to be minor characters and have a rap music album based on them, but it also never came to fruition.

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* "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 (Animation)|~~Gargoyles]]''. [[Keith David]] had known someone who used it that way, and improvised during a recording session. [[Throw It In|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.

* Captain Robert T. April in the ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Animated Series ~~(Animation)~~|Star Trek the Animated Series]]'' episode "The Counter-Clock Incident". In the original proposal for ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Original Series ~~(TV)~~|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' that Roddenberry submitted to MGM in 1964, the ''Enterprise'' was to be commanded by Robert ''M.'' April.

* Captain Robert T. April in the ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series|Star Trek the Animated Series]]'' episode "The Counter-Clock Incident". In the original proposal for ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' that Roddenberry submitted to MGM in 1964, the ''Enterprise'' was to be commanded by Robert ''M.'' April.