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== [[Film]] ==
* 1138: [[George Lucas]]' student film, later made a full motion picture, ''[[THX 1138]]''.
** Even referenced in the [[Disney Theme Parks]] in Star Tours
* "Hello, Clarice" from ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''. If used, it's
* The "One of Us" chant from ''[[Freaks]]''
* "I'll get you, my pretty! [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]!", from ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''
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* "Klaatu Barada Nikto!" From ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]''.
* The "I'm the king of the world!" stance from ''[[Titanic]]''
* "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" and "The horror
** Though "The horror...the horror..." [[Adaptation Displacement|is actually]] a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Heart of Darkness]].''
*** ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' is ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' [[Recycled in Space|in Vietnam]].
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** The line "You maniacs! You blew it up!"
* "I'll be back." From the films of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], including but not limited to the ''[[Terminator]]'' series.
* "[[Feed Me]]!" Or "Feed me, Seymour!", delivered in a [[Large Ham]] fashion, usually in a voice as deep as the speaker can manage; from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''▼
* "I'm walkin' here!", from ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''▼
* "Oh Captain, My Captain!", along with standing on a desk—from ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', and therefore often used with [[Save Our Students]] plots.▼
* "See you next Wednesday": to director John Landis' [[Creator Thumbprint]].▼
** This one was actually inverted once. [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5/msg/910d367e0e6bd61f See here.] JMS, creator of ''[[Babylon 5]]'', used the phrase in reference to the series being aired on Wednesdays and would have ''changed'' it if he knew it could be seen as a John Landis reference.▼
* "[[Tannhauser Gate]]", usually as a space battle in [[Science Fiction]]. From ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Spelling may vary. Or the whole speech may be used:▼
{{quote|I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [pause] Time to die.}}▼
* "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" from ''[[Taxi Driver]]''▼
* The first rule of Stock Shout-Outs to ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' is: You do not talk about Stock Shout-Outs to ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]''.<ref>The second rule of Stock Shout-Outs to ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' is: You do not talk about Stock Shout-Outs to ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]''.</ref>
== [[Literature]] ==
* 23: Used as a reference to its appearance in the ''[[Principia Discordia]]'', conspiracy theories (there was even a movie about that), or maybe just to ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''.
* "He who controls the X" from ''[[Dune]]''
* "Preciousssssss" or "my Precioussssss". ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[Room 101]] from, ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''
* [[Catch-22]], from the novel of the same name.
* "Nevermore." ''[[Edgar Allan Poe]]''{{'}}s "The Raven". Expect it wherever or whenever anything [[Ravens and Crows|corvid]]-related appears - but defied by ''[[Discworld]]''{{'}}s Quoth the Raven, who calls it "the N-word".▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* [[42]]: Most famous as the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', though it occurs over and over again in Lewis Carroll's works.▼
* 4 8 15 16 23 42: The ''[[Lost]]'' numbers, which notably include two numbers listed separately on this page.
* "Be seeing you!" with a particular hand-to-eye gesture: ''[[The Prisoner]]''
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* "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." from [[Incredible Hulk|the Hulk]].
== [[Music]] ==
* The phrase ''Welcome to the Jungle'' pops out everywhere.
* [[Pirate Jenny]], from the song by [[Bertold Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill]]
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
== Video Games ==▼
* 666: The [[Number of the Beast]], from [[The Bible/Source/Revelation|The Book of Revelation]] in [[The Bible]]. In Western works, it almost always signifies that supernatural evil is involved. In Eastern works, it's just a cool number with connections to other people's religion and can show up anywhere for any reason.
== [[Radio]] ==
▲* [[42]]: Most famous as the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', though it occurs over and over again in Lewis Carroll's works.
* "It's a bird! It's a plane!" from ''[[The Adventures of Superman (radio)|The Adventures of Superman]]''. Also, "This looks like a job for..."▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
* The [[Major-General Song]], from ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''; also a favorite stock parody▼
* "STELLLLLLLLLLLAAAA!!!!!!" ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''▼
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
* "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike", from ''[[Colossal Cave]]''.
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* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G8XH4WDxP4 children dancing] during ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]''.
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* A113: A reference to the California Institute for the Arts, specifically the classroom for first-year graphic design. This one is common in [[Pixar]] films (witness "special order A113" in ''[[WALL-E]]''), but Cal Arts grad and Pixar stalwart [[Brad Bird]] also included references in ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)
* [[Oh, the Humanity!|"Oh, the Humanity!"]] and/or the iconic "burning dirigible" image from the ''[[Hindenburg]]'' disaster.▼
▲* "[[Feed Me]]!" Or "Feed me, Seymour!", delivered in a [[Large Ham]] fashion, usually in a voice as deep as the speaker can manage; from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''
▲* "I'm walkin' here!", from ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''
▲* The [[Major-General Song]], from ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''; also a favorite stock parody
▲* "Nevermore." ''[[Edgar Allan Poe]]'''s "The Raven". Expect it wherever or whenever anything [[Ravens and Crows|corvid]]-related appears.
▲* "Oh Captain, My Captain!", along with standing on a desk—from ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', and therefore often used with [[Save Our Students]] plots.
▲* "See you next Wednesday": to director John Landis' [[Creator Thumbprint]].
▲** This one was actually inverted once. [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5/msg/910d367e0e6bd61f See here.] JMS, creator of ''[[Babylon 5]]'', used the phrase in reference to the series being aired on Wednesdays and would have ''changed'' it if he knew it could be seen as a John Landis reference.
▲* "[[Tannhauser Gate]]", usually as a space battle in [[Science Fiction]]. From ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Spelling may vary. Or the whole speech may be used:
▲{{quote|I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [pause] Time to die.}}
▲* "STELLLLLLLLLLLAAAA!!!!!!" ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''
▲* "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" from ''[[Taxi Driver]]''
▲* "It's a bird! It's a plane!" from ''[[Superman]]''. Also, "This looks like a job for..."
▲* "Oh, the Humanity!" and/or the iconic "burning dirigible" image from the ''[[Hindenburg]]'' disaster.
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