Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure: Difference between revisions

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== Type 1 ==

== "Who's X?" (previously called "Type 1") ==

=== Comic Books ===

* In ''[[Birds of Prey (comics)|Birds of Prey]]'' #1 (2010 series), Lady Blackhawk (a time traveller from World War 2) doesn't get a reference to "[[Putting the Band Back Together]]". However, she has been in the present long enough to understand one to [[Twitter]].

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'''Troy:''' ''[[Can't Buy Me Love]]'' was the remake for white audiences.

'''Shirley:''' That's so uncomfortable when they do that, I can't believe they didn't insult anyone. }}

* Temperance "[[Bones]]" Brennan's [[Catch Phrase]] for virtually any [[Pop Culture]] reference: "I don't know what that means." (She notably ''did'' know who [[Family Guy|Stewie]] was when it came up.) She is sliding from ~~Type~~ 1 to ~~Type~~ 2, albeit slowly. In one episode, she tries to console Sweets (who's just broken up with his girlfriend) by offering to take him to the [[Gretzky Has the Ball|"bowling rink"]]....

* Temperance "[[Bones]]" Brennan's [[Catch Phrase]] for virtually any [[Pop Culture]] reference: "I don't know what that means." (She notably ''did'' know who [[Family Guy|Stewie]] was when it came up.) She is sliding from "Who's X?" to "X was in Y, right?", albeit slowly. In one episode, she tries to console Sweets (who's just broken up with his girlfriend) by offering to take him to the [[Gretzky Has the Ball|"bowling rink"]]....

* ''[[Lost]]''

** Sawyer constantly uses pop-culture references in his sarcastic quips and derisive nicknames. This backfires when he calls another character "Bobby", and specifies that he's referring to ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', only to get the response "What the hell is ''The Brady Bunch''?" This exchange implies that the character grew up on the island and has little knowledge of the outside world.

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=== Puppet Shows ===

* ''[[Mongrels]]'': In episode 3, cat Marion's [[Jail Bait]] girlfriend Lollipop fails to understand references to ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', [[Friends|Ross and Rachel]], and ''[[Gavin and Stacey]]'' because she is just that young, making it a ~~type~~ 1D.

* ''[[Mongrels]]'': In episode 3, cat Marion's [[Jail Bait]] girlfriend Lollipop fails to understand references to ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', [[Friends|Ross and Rachel]], and ''[[Gavin and Stacey]]'' because she is just that young, making it a "Who's X?" D.

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* [[Truth in Television]]: A teacher didn't think a kids choir needed to have the lyrics or music to the song "One Tin Soldier" since those kids should have [[Seen It a Million Times|heard it a million times]] and learned it through [[Popcultural Osmosis]]. They hadn't, resulting in a very awkward moment on performance day.

* As described on our very own page for ''[[Gargoyles]]'', in the entry for [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: "When describing Brooklyn and Katana's relationship in "Timedancer", [creator] [[Greg Weisman]] mentioned [[Cheers|Sam and Diane]]. No-one got it. Then he mentioned [[Much Ado About Nothing|Beatrice and Benedick]]. ''That one'' people got, which should tell you a lot about the kind of fans this show has."

== Type 2 ==