Dead Connie Society: Difference between revisions

* [[Author Appeal]]: Dear lord, where to start?

** Well, obviously: [[Robin Williams]]. Not just Robin Williams, but Robin Williams as the story's [[Ms. Fanservice|Mr. Fanservice]], playing ''two'' characters, one being Mork and the other one being a savior for the show's [[Butt Monkey]]. By then end, he's a [[Memetic Sex God]], as it's revealed that he and Lois had an affair in the past, that he and Meg actually had sex during the course of "filming", and then there's Pam Dawber's reaction to working with him for the first time in years:

'''Pam''': I have missed doing that SO MUCH! (walks away, satisfied) }}

** I have a thing about [[Hot for Student|teacher/student]] relationships in general... Yeah.

** Also, Retro Rachel, as noted below.

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Twice.

And later:

* [[Character Filibuster]]: Twice. First Mr. Weaver rants about how modern culture is so [[Pedo Hunt|paranoid about adult men working with or helping out younger girls]] [[Mistaken for Pedophile|because they think there's only a sexual motive behind it]]. On one hand it's somewhat funny [[Hypocritical Humor|because he really is interested in Meg that way]], but there [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118903209653018615-lMyQjAxMDE3ODA5NjAwMzYyWj.html is sad truth behind it too]. And then there's his rant at the end about bullies ([[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful|Particularly, the attractive ones]]) getting away with everything, which is even longer.

** Parodied when Connie starts ranting about [[Nostalgia Filter|how certain things are only loved because of nostalgia...]] [[Take That|and then she dies]].

** He also finds teen pop stars [[Hannah Montana|Miley Cyrus]] and JoJo attractive, but also annoying. And yes, the JoJo thing was a deliberately [[Squick|Squicky]] [[Cast Incest]] joke (she played Robin's daughter in ''RV''). Ain't I a stinker?

* [[Disco Dan]]: Retro Rachel, an Eighties-obsessed fan character who appears in only one scene for no real reason. What we do know about her from her short appearance is that she's meant to be a rare sympathetic example of this trope, since she contrasts her peers' ignorance.

'''Boy #1''': [[What Are Records|What's VHS?]]<br />

'''Boy #2''': What's a book? }}

** Then there's a literal example of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [[South Park|Already Did It]] when Mr. Weaver hands Meg a note saying "You Are Meg Griffin". He gets confronted by Matt Groening's lawyers on the plane

* [[Kent Brockman News]]: The fact that JOLT cola (and other sodas from the company) are still being made is more discussed than Connie's "suicide". In addition, Tom Tucker makes inappropriate remarks about Connie on the air.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Of tropes in both the fic and the show proper.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: It's revealed that Connie [[Driven to Suicide|drove two girls to suicide]] at her 14th birthday party, and it's implied she did the same several other girls at different times. Also, she and her friend, Gina, tortured the "ugly kids" in a way not unlike Abu Ghraib ([[Dude, Not Funny|And that wasn't actually meant to be funny]], but more of a way to show how horrible Connie really was. [[Dead Baby Comedy|Although I wouldn't put it past the actual show to put something like that in there.]])

* [[Noodle Incident]]: It's never elaborated upon how Connie drove those girls to suicide, and Meg doesn't even want to bring up the "paper bag incident". Also, "Giggity" apparently means something really dirty on Ork, but if even Quagmire's never heard of it, [[You Do NOT Want to Know]].

* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: [[Lampshaded]].

'''Meg''': 17. <ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|When FG started in 1999, Meg was 15, which means 1995 would have presumably when she would have started middle school (when she was 11). However, she was 16 for several years (counting the time during cancellation) and just turned 17 two years ago in "Peter's Two Dads"]]</ref> }}

** Also:

'''Quagmire''': Yep, if there's one thing I love about Quahog, it's the vaguely-aged high school girls. Giggity, giggity, giggity! }}

* [[Whole-Plot Reference|One-third Plot Reference]]: A combination of ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', ''[[Heathers]]'', and ''[[World's Greatest Dad]]''.

* [[Rule of Funny]]: A lot of the jokes, as per the show as usual.

* [[Rule 34]]: Referenced in the dialogue by Brian and Stewie, who are not only familiar with it, but [[Squick|deeply traumatized by it.]]

* [[Running Gag]]: "They still make JOLT?"

** [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Two weeks after this fic was published, I found [http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20091029/BUSINESS/910290322/Fizzling+Jolt+Cola+may+close this article on how JOLT might go out of business]. *headdesk* [[Butt Monkey|Once again, the world hates me.]]

** The publisher, Steve Lehmann is named after Michael Lehmann, director of ''Heathers''. And of course, the late Ashley Dunnstock has the same last name as Martha (the fat girl) from that movie.

** And of course, '''plenty''' to this very wiki:

'''Meg''': Oh yeah? I'm [[Genre Savvy|savvy]] too. And I know this is [[All Just a Dream|all a dream.]] [[Crashing Dreams|I'll just think of something really loud to wake me up.]] }}

* [[Spoof Aesop]]

'''Meg''': Really? I thought it was that you shouldn't torment the "different" kids in high school. (narrows eyes) [[Who's Laughing Now?|Because you'll pay for it. With your life.]]<br />

'''Mr. Weaver''': Well, either way is pretty [[Warped Aesop|warped]]. }}