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An in-joke is something which is only funny to those people who have a certain piece of knowledge or information. From a sociological point of view, in-jokes are used by groups to identify those who are Not-
If you are in on the joke, these can be hilarious; if you aren't, then they get irritating fast.
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** 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.
** Almost every time a date or number is mentioned it has some kind of significance (most commonly 1013/October
* ''[[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."
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* 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."
* Folk singer-songwriter John Stewart included quotes from someone named Oliver Makin in the liner notes of two of his albums (''Sunstorm'', ''Wingless Angels''). Makin was supposedly "a poet from Kansas who died in 1909", but Stewart fans haven't been able to locate any of Makin's works. The fact that the quotes conveniently just happen to include [[Title Drop
* 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.
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* "[[Homestar Runner]]": The phrase "Kick it out, Behan" was something the creator's Mom said at track meets when he was a kid.
** A ''lot'' of things in ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' are creator in-
== Western Animation ==
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