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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
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* 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]]''
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* "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 ==
== Radio ==▼
* 666: The [[Number of the Beast]], from [[The Bible/Source/Revelation|The Book of Revelation]] in [[The Bible]].
▲== [[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 ''[[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]]''.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* 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)|Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol]]''.
* [[Oh, the Humanity!|"Oh, the Humanity!"]] and/or the iconic "burning dirigible" image from the ''[[Hindenburg]]'' disaster.
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