My first reference is to the only two characters I know from commedia d’arte, or however you spell it. The second reference is to a joke I first heard in Boondock Saints, although it sounds like an old joke.
And for a third obscure reference, in the chatrooms I go into there’s a person with the screen name “Davey”, and I always call him “Davey, oh Davey”, after the Promise Ring song with that in the lyrics, and only myself and one other person get that. If I ever get in the front row of a Dashboard Confessional concert (fat chance, what with all the raging groupies,) and Chris announces his touring bass player, Scott Schoenbeck, I’m gonna scream “Yeah, Scott Schoenbeck!” and see if they get yet another reference to the song.
When I was driving with my dad in California City when I was an adolescent, we passed Victor Street. I said, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if the next street was “Hugo”?’ It was.
I ‘got’ your T-shirt!
The Poe thing reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman dresses as a ‘ghost’.
“It’s semi-permeable, but non-osmotic.” My answer to questions about how something works, when I don’t really know the answer (from Christmas Vacation).
Well, apparently not in the spirit of this thread, I wanted to point out a VERY obscure reference thta is being made in a commercial right now.
One of the new Starburst ads… Its in high school. A boy asks a girl to come with him. He has something to show her. He takes her into an art studio and pulls a tarp off his project. It’s a bust of the girl made entirely out of starbursts. The guy describes the reasons he used certain flavors (lemon for her lemony yellow hair) and finally gets to her cherry red lips. He starts to eat/make out with the bust. The girl is freaked and leaves.
The music in the background is “Hello” by Lionel Ritchie… which if you’ve seen the video for it waaaay back in the mid 80s IS FREAKING HILARIOUS! The video features Ritchie stalking a blind girl at a college campus… finally he gets the nerve to talk to her and it is revealed that despite being blind she knew he was there and what he looked like. She sculpted a horrific looking bust of Lionel Ritchie.
The reference in the starburst ad is amazing.
For myself and my friends if it ever comes up to say the word “mostly”… it is always preceded with " ‘They mostly come at night.’ Mostly"
Newt’s line from Aliens.
I admit that I don’t get the T-shirt reference. TomFlo?
My own favorite obscure reference gets used when someone asks for the time. I’ll encourage all within earshot to “Respect the Clock!” This is a takeoff of Tom Cruise’s character in Magnolia, who gives inspirational speeches which include the line “Respect the Cock.”
I caught this right away. It is pretty funny. In one of the VH1 “I Love the 80’s” shows, they talked about how bad the Lionel sculpture was. Even Lionel had to admit it was bad.
In A Hard Day’s Night, in one of the scenes on the train, they all have a bottle of Pepsi, and John lifts his to his nose with a finger on the other side, and inhales. He’s sniffing Coke, get it? All the kiddies missed that one.
“Getting to the fireworks factory” has come to be a favourite reference among my friends as the point in which a piece of entertainment reaches its peak. e.g. “Star Wars Episode III really got to the fireworks factory quickly” or “Lara Croft Tomb Raider never did get to the fireworks factory”.
It is of course, from the inaugeral Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie cartoon from the Simpsons.
Well, the best I’ve seen in a movie is in Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud, when Margaret Hamilton is murdered and we discover she was wearing ruby slippers.
I use them all the time, though I don’t play favorites, and they come up at the spur of the moment. For instance:
“If I could only write, I’d send a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.”
“Ott is my kendll, dokk is my room, none by dimp sheddows beset me.” (whenever the power fails)
