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* [[Airport Novel]]: Referenced/parodied when it's stated that any novel taken to a beach will spontaneously turn into a [[Doorstopper]] conspiracy thriller with [[Mad Lib Thriller Title|at least one Greek letter in the title]]. The Lecturer in Recent Runes' book turns into ''The Omega Conspiracy''.
* [[Australian Wildlife]]: disturbingly accurate in that [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Everything Really Does Try To Kill You]] down under. Yes, this includes the spiders, the snakes, the kangaroos, the koalas ''and'' the earth itself. Also, a surprisingly accurate analogy of the Melbourne underworld (... and no, sadly enough, this is ''not'' a joke).
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* [[Readings Blew Up the Scale]]: Ponder's magic-measuring thaumometer melts when the magic field used to create XXXX exceeds its limit of one million thaums.
* [[Recursive Crossdressing]]: One of the transvestites Rincewind encounters actually is female, and laments "Being a female impersonator is no job for a woman."
* [[Shout-Out]]: Rincewind encounters [[Mad Max|a mad dwarf in a heavily armed and armored cart]] and [[Priscilla Queen of the Desert|a trio of traveling transvestites]], inspires a folk song similar to "Waltzing Matilda",<ref>Once a moderately jolly wizard camped by a dried-up waterhole under the shade of a tree he was completely unable to identify. And he swore as he hacked and hacked at a can of beer, saying, [[It Will Never Catch On|"What kind of idiots put beer in tins?"]]</ref>
** Two in the fight scene between [[Mad Max|Mad]] and a random Ecksian bar-goer. "You call that a knife? ''[[Crocodile Dundee|This]]'' [[Crocodile Dundee|is what I call's a knife.]]" "No worries. ''This'' is what I call [[Raiders of the Lost Ark|a crossbow]]."
** And another with <s>Skippy</s> Scrappy the Bush Kangaroo.
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