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{{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.}}
|'''[[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 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', Liz tells her writers not to use Krang from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' on sketches. "No one knows who Krang is! It would be a waste of time to talk about Krang on television! No more Krang!"
 
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Dennis MillerMille]]r constantly uses obscure pop culture references in his stand-up routine. He occasionally mentions that he's doing so and that many of the people watching won't get them.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' did a scene which referenced [[Rickroll]], ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''. Tea said she was leaving due to getting annoyed by all the obscure references.
* [[Stuart Ashen]] has a recurring segment in his reviews, "Quincy: a caterpillar that sings obscure Beatles songs".
* [[Hbi2k|Hbi 2 k]] calls some of his jokes "2 percenters" based on how much he thinks his viewers get them.
* 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 [[Comic Strip/Dick Tracey|Dick Tracey]]." Suzaku says back, "Five people left on the planet know who that is and I'm not one of them!"
* 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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* ''[[Archer]]'': the titular Archer frequently admonishes his colleagues to "Read a book", owing to the obscurity of his references.
** Several instances in [[Wikipedia:Archer_(season_9)|season 9 Danger Island]] occur:
*** EpEpisode 5 - Archer says "insert name of obscure cartographer" and Crackers replies "Henrik Hondius".
*** EpEpisode 6 - Archer says "nobody gets that" (about a [[Frisky Dingo]] reference).
*** EpEpisode 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.
* 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|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.}}
{{quote|'''Summer''' and '''Morty''': Laugh}}
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