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* G) the work itself is [[Fan Myopia|thought to be so popular]] that all who know it think it will be passed on through [[Popcultural Osmosis]] -- with the result that it ''isn't''.
Note that A-F can go both ways (for example, someone too old to know [[Britney Spears]] or The [[Backstreet Boys]] may have fond memories of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' or [[wikipedia:
This, by the way, is the reason character-named tropes are often renamed. For example, if you're not familiar with original [[Sherlock Holmes]] tales, you won't know who [[Inspector Lestrade]] is; if not well-read in 19th-century French literature (or [[All Musicals Are Adaptations|Broadway musicals]]), [[Inspector Javert]] may be unknown to you.
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'''Danko:''' Who is Dirty Harry? }}
* In ''[[I Am Legend (film)|I Am Legend]]'', Anna doesn't know [[Bob Marley]] (but apparently knows his son Ziggy).
* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'': [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] [[Captain America (comics)]] has only a blank expression when Coulson drops [[Stephen Hawking]]'s name in a conversation. Used from the other perspective when Thor mentions an animal from Asgard that Coulson has clearly never encountered. Later, Cap is happy when he gets a ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' reference that is lost on Thor.
* Subverted in ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]''.
{{quote|'''Bryan Mills:''' Who's [[Beyonce]]? ''([[Beat]])'' Just kidding.}}
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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Empty Child", Rose jokingly refers to the Doctor as "Mr. Spock". Jack, who's from the future, doesn't get the reference and assumes it's actually the Doctor's name.
* Happens a lot in ''[[Star Trek]]'' due to the various alien races interacting with a mostly human main cast. The largest examples are Data's various failures in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' and Kira being frustrated several times by Sisko's references to baseball and never having heard of Captain Kirk in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]''.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''
** In the episode "Bad Guys", Cameron compares someone to John McClane. Daniel doesn't understand. Teal'c, who is not even from Earth, explains, ''[[Die Hard]]''.
** Vala also regularly complains about her teammates using Tau'ri pop culture references, which she never get.
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** In one instance, Omi miswords one of his attempted references so badly that none of the other characters can figure out what he was actually trying to say.
* Brian of ''[[Family Guy]]'' at one point takes Frank Sinatra, Jr. out club hopping, where his attempts to flirt with one vapid young woman fall completely flat because she doesn't recognize any of the names Sinatra keeps dropping. Brian has to stop an increasingly frustrated Sinatra from backhanding the girl.
* ''[[American Dad]]'': This probably keeps Stan and Steve from bonding well. Notably, during a father-son road trip when Stan needed to complete restoring his DeLorean, but have never heard of ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' which Steve always reference.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' 2011 episode; when Cheech and Chong are making a reunion tour -- ironic considering ''The Simpsons'' ran throughout the 90s, but [[Comic Book Time]] may apply:
{{quote|'''Bart:''' Who the hell are Cheech and Chong?
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