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{{trope}}
{{quote|"''Welcome to Julie Taymor's Playhouse. ''[beat]'' Like five of you got that, but the five of you who got it are gonna be laughing''."
|'''[[Doug Walker]]''' during his tour of Austria.}}
When a reference or [[Shout-Out]] is made, and it's acknowledged [[In-Universe]] to be obscure.
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* In the ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' episode "S.O.B.s", Tobias brings up someone named Freddie Wilson while talking, prompting the other characters to say they "don't get that reference". This doubled as an in-joke about how some people thought the show's inability to gain mainstream appeal was caused by its numerous and sometimes obscure jokes about pop-culture and topical references.
* Played with in an episode of ''[[The Middleman]]'', where Middleman '69 (who has been [[Human Popsicle|in cryonic stasis for the past four decades]]) makes a ''[[Star Trek]]'' reference and notes the [[It Will Never Catch On|unlikeliness]] of Wendy getting it.
* On ''[[30
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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
* [[Stuart Ashen]] has a recurring segment in his reviews, "Quincy: a caterpillar that sings obscure Beatles songs".
* [[Hbi2k
* In ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'', after they'd been talking about Raditz, Nappa asks, "But what about the [[Fraggle Rock|Fraggles]]?" Vegeta answers "No one is going to get that reference, Nappa."
* [[The Spoony One]] occasionally succumbs to this:
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* In [[The Randomverse]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de06YM2mDlA Ways to Screw Up The Avengers Movie], it's mentioned that the villain is "not [[The Mighty Thor|Loki]], but [[The Avengers (1998 film)|Sean Connery and his weather machine]]". [[Deadpool]] appears to say "Obscure reference for the win!"
* ''[[Psycomedia]]'' does this, often via the use of Venn diagram. Often involving the Star Wars Expanded Universe in one of the host's case.
* In episode 13 ''[[Code MENT]]'', Lelouch calls himself "a regular [[
* Linkara of ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' does this once in a while.
{{quote|"My thanks to the three people who get that joke."}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'' did a short where the Warner brothers (and the Warner sister) met Rasputin. They did a pun between "Anastasia" and "anesthesia", and Dot said "Obscure Joke. Ask your parents."
* ''[[Archer]]'': the titular Archer frequently admonishes his colleagues to "Read a book", owing to the obscurity of his references.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' mentioned [[Benjamin Disraeli]] to set up a [[Cutaway Gag]]. It cut to Disraeli just looking at the camera and snapping that the viewers didn't have any idea who he was.▼
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* The ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold]]'' series finale had a character from [[The DCU]] appear for the first time.
{{quote|''"[[Ambush Bug]]? You're a pretty obscure hero, even for this show."'' }}
▲* ''[[Family Guy]]'' mentioned [[Benjamin Disraeli]] to set up a [[Cutaway Gag]]. It cut to Disraeli just looking at the camera and snapping that the viewers didn't have any idea who he was.
* ''[[Rick and Morty]]'': this trope is [[subverted]] in Season 2 Episode 1 ("[[wiki:A_Rickle_in_Time|A Rickle In Time]]"):
{{quote|'''Rick''': Man, that guy is the "Redgrin Grumble" to pretending he knows what's going on.
'''Summer''' and '''Morty''': Laugh
'''Rick''': You like that "Redgrin Grumble" reference? Well guess what? ''I made him up''. You really are [[Ignorant of His Own Ignorance|your father's]] children. Think for yourselves. Don't be sheep.}}
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has done this a few times.
{{quote|'''Grandpa Simpson''': I was lonelier than Estes Kefauver at a meeting of Murder Incorporated! <[[Beat]]> That actually makes sense. Look it up!}}
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'''Frink''': Yes, we call that the "Dennis Miller Ratio". }}
* An episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' spoofed the ending to ''[[Sleepaway Camp]]''. The director of ''Sleepaway Camp'' quickly showed up and was amazed that anyone would decide to spoof the movie, let alone know the movie even existed.
* On an episode of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', a hand puppet compared The Tick to Achilles in his tent. When no one, even his ventriloquist, got it he said "The Illiad?" (looks around) ''"Homer?"'' (still no reaction) "READ A BOOK!!"▼
* A joke from ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'':
{{quote|'''Bullwinkle:''' Twenty dollars!? That's antihistamine money!
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'''Rocky:''' I get it.
'''Bullwinkle:''' Thousands won't! }}
▲* On an episode of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', a hand puppet compared The Tick to Achilles in his tent. When no one, even his ventriloquist, got it he said "The Illiad?" (looks around) ''"Homer?"'' (still no reaction) "READ A BOOK!!"
▲* ''[[Archer]]'': several instances in [[Wikipedia:Archer_(season_9)|season 9 Danger Island]] occur:
▲** Ep 5 - Archer says "insert name of obscure cartographer" and Crackers replies "Henrik Hondius".
▲** Ep 6 - Archer says "nobody gets that" (about a [[Frisky Dingo]] reference).
▲** Ep 7 - Noah says "they won't get the reference" with regards to the cannibals. The audience ''might'', but the cannibals ''definitely wouldn't'', lacking any filmic references ''whatsoever''.
▲*** it very much depends on what is meant by obscure - to younger audiences, most of the references will be obscure, but attention is definitely called to references which are believed to be obscure for even the oldest audience members.
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