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** This show, and Chloe's character in particular, do this a lot. Lois picked up the habit when she began trying to be a journalist. When the two talk it's crazy.

* On ''[[Community]]'', when Britta got the group's personality tests back with weird results:

'''Jeff''': (Shifty-eyed) ...[[Sure, Let's Go with That|yes]]. }}

** Later in [[Community/Recap/S3 E05 Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps|the same episode]]:

'''Pierce''': I don't get it. }}

* In ''[[Scrubs]]'', when Elliot's sorority sister [[Percussive Maintenance|hit the Jukebox to start it back up]]: "Hey, I'm the [[Happy Days|Fonz]]."

** JD also once tells Turk angrily that he [[The Brady Bunch|Marcia Brady]]'d his ass. Amusingly enough, Turk's confusion stems not from his not getting the reference, but rather from disbelief that the clinic would choose JD over Turk.

'''Turk''': Yeah, 'Marcia Gets Creamed', season 5, episode 3. Don't ever question me on 'The Bunch'. Besides, there's no way they liked you better than me. }}

** They detailed the formation of one of these when Dr. Cox got so frustrated with JD that he decided to substitute the word "wrong" with "Dorian." The staff soon caught onto the new phrase, which annoyed JD to no end. But later JD caught himself saying, "Dorian! ...Oh, great, now I'm saying it!"

** When Willow is going on her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], Andrew angrily chews out the others for not helping him and Jonathan "before [[Star Wars|Darth]] Rosenberg goes [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Dark Phoenix]] on our asses!"

** Then when she goes back to her senses and has a meeting with Giles, we have this bit:

** "Looks like she pulled a [[Flash|Barry Allen]] on us. Jay Garrick? Wally We--She moved real fast. Never mind."

** One entire episode revolved around the idea of Xander being [[Marx Brothers|"the Zeppo"]] - most useless and overlooked - of the gang.

** In "School Hard", when [[Badass Decay|pre-Decayed]] Spike first confronts Angel about having a soul: "You were [[Old Master|my Yoda]], man!"

** In "New Moon Rising", the normally [[Book Dumb]] Buffy threatens to "pull a [[William Telling|William Burroughs]]" on somebody. Nobody gets it.

* In ''[[The X-Files]]'', Mulder snaps at Deep Throat to "just cut the [[The Obi-Wan|Obi Wan Kenobi]]" crap.

* Sawyer and Hurley on ''[[Lost]]'' regularly supply such references. In "Eggtown," Kate tricks Hurley into a [[You Just Told Me]] revelation, to which Hurley replies, "You just [[Scooby Doo]]'ed me, didn't you?"

** And in the second season premiere, Dean is stuck in an out-of-body experience where he can't touch or affect anything around him. So he watches Sam and their father get into an argument, and Dean gets really angry at them for it, so he knocks a glass of water onto the floor. His father and brother stop and stare, and Dean says, with a look of shock on his face, "I full-on [[Ghost (film)|Swayze-ed]] that mother."

* Frequently [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] on ''[[Bones]]''. When someone makes a witty line, pop-culture challenged Brennan says [[Catch Phrase|"I don't know what that means."]] It's pretty much a [[Running Gag]] both saying it regularly, by Brennan herself and the other characters at one time or another, and the few times she does know what it means.

'''Brennan''': "I don't know what that means." }}

* Police procedurals in general seem to like to use "pulled a Louganis" as a euphemism for someone taking a suicidal leap; both ''[[CSI]]'' and ''[[NCIS]]'' have used it, and possibly others as well.

* This trope is a defining feature of the main character in ''[[Psych]]'', who frequently uses references to obscure 80's pop-culture, possibly in order to keep the show--which could easily become dangerously serious in light of its subject matter--relatively light and humorous.

** From "Poker? I barely know her!":

* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', after Claire beats up someone trying to attack her, the attacker says "don't go all [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] on us!"

* ''[[Fringe]]'' has the following, during a discussion about a man who apparently disappeared into thin air:

* ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' episode where Ray tapes over his wedding video; everyone jokes that this monumental blunder is going to be known as "pulling a Ray Barone".

* For an episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', people started using "Ted out" (to overthink) and "Ted up" (to overthink with disastrous consequences).

** "Pulling a Clavin" is also a reference to the episode where Cliff appeared on ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' and, despite having an insurmountable lead, lost terribly after wagering everything on a Final Jeopardy! response of "Who are three people that have never been in my kitchen?" ''Jeopardy!'' has made countless references to Clavin and that episode over time, making it somewhat of an [[Ascended Meme]].

* During one particular episode of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', the term "Michael" becomes used to refer to chickening out (generally regarding something wildly illegal):

'''GOB''': "Hey, nobody's going all Michael on anyone." }}

* From ''[[Blackadder|Blackadder II]]'':

'''Baldrick:''' Well, when someone sets their foot in something a dog leaves on the street, they do tend to say "Whoops, I've trod in an Edmund." }}

* ''[[Married... with Children]]''. One episode has Al Bundy attempt to put back a way overdue library book without officially returning it so he won't have to pay a late fee. He ends up being exposed in a very public and humiliating way. At the very end of the episode, a kid catches his friend doing the same thing and remarks "Hey, don't Bundy that book!"

* An in-universe example is found in ''[[The Office]]'' when Andy tries convincing Michael that the employees describe anyone who screws something up horribly as having "Schruted" it.

* ''[[30 Rock]]'':

Liz: That's not a thing people are saying now, is it? Lemoned. Doing it awesome. }}

** ''[[30 Rock]]'' also had a episode centered around Jack "Reaganing" or going twenty four hours without making a mistake. Named, of course, after Ronald Reagan.

** And yet another episode had a plot to humiliate Liz at her high-school reunion being called an attempt to "[[Carrie]]" her.

* The pilot episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', also an [[Actor Allusion]] as Carter is talking to O'Neill at the time:

** Also referenced in a ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode, in which [[Insufferable Genius|McKay]], after one request for an impossible super-sciencey solution too many, protests that he is not [[MacGyver]].

* In ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'', Charlie does this to his own inventions. A "Charlie One-Two" involves someone throwing himself in front of a car and then blackmailing the driver. A "Grilled Charlie" is a questionable grilled sandwich containing butter, peanut butter, chocolate and cheese.

* Hank Green of the [[Vlog Brothers]] made 'Warner Chilcot' a curse word after the company of that name [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPf8vwnoEtU raised the price of his medication by 1200%.]

* Parodied to the point of [[Refuge in Audacity]] in the [[Riff Trax]] of ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', as Neytiri fends off the jackal-like animals attacking Jake's Avatar.

''[[Crosses the Line Twice|I heard Michael Vick pulled a]] [[A Date with Rosie Palms|PeeWee Herman]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|in the theater during this scene.]]'' }}

 

 

* "She's No Longer A Gypsy" from the musical ''Applause'':

And pulled a [[Shirley MacLaine]]! }}

 

 

* [[Bionicle]]:

'''Kopeke''': A Pohatu?<br />

'''Tahu''': Yes, that's right, a Pohatu. "When in doubt, smash everything, and then hope you're somewhere else when it all goes 'boom'". }}

* The competitive [[Pokémon]] community has a few, usually to describe particular flaws. For example, a Pokemon with an extremely limited movepool suffers from "Flareon syndrome".

* In ''[[My Sims]] Kingdom'', the player needs to gain the ability to make gears, only to find that Princess Butter has preemptively stolen the appropriate scroll.

* The ''[[Escape Velocity]]'' fandom uses the phrase "pulling a [[Monty Python]]" (also called the [[Attack Pattern Alpha|Monty Python Maneuver]]) to refer to abusing the AI's [[Suicidal Overconfidence]] by flying away from the target, then turning around and drifting backwards<ref>partial aversion of [[Space Friction]]</ref> while firing.

 

* ''[[Home On The Strange]]'': "[http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=22 I Buffy the door!]"

* ''[[Lackadaisy Cats]]'':

'''Ivy''': Viktor... someone needs to teach you how to tell a decent lie. }}

* ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'': After Yuki put hand in a mouth of [[Big Badass Wolf|giant wolf]], Hemrod accused her of "pullin Tyr" in a nice Norse Mythology shout out (not surprising, when you look at a premise...).

* ''[[Wicked Lasers]]'', a side story made by the creator of ''[[Sore Thumbs]]''.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' features both "pulling a Viper" and "pulling a Jade."

* In an episode of Dilbert, Wally's name used as an all-purpose pejorative.

* In the [[Terry Toons]] feature ''The Adventures Of Lariat Sam'' (a segment of the ''Captain Kangaroo'' show), whenever Sam and his horse Tippytoes fell victim to a plot from villain Badlands Meeny, Tippytoes would deadpan "We've been Meenyed again, Sam."

* On ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'', Jack Spicer learns that, much to his chagrin, the supervillain community has been using his name in reference to immense failures.