i was going to guess that old coartoon on The Electric Company until i remembered that it was Letterman, not Wordman.
Would that be “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” by Peter Hoeg?
You don’t happen to be happily deceased, would you?
I stand corrected. 
However, I think it’s safe to say that Happy Scrappy Hero Pup took his name from the in-demand kids flick in Clerks.
Thought of another one: Nutty Bunny takes her name from a Kids in the Hall sketch: “I’m Nutty Bunny Number Two! You like me and … me like you!”
Go away–and plague me no more.
Prisoner 24601 (who made a total of 53 posts) is named after the hero of Les Miserables.
Sam Stone is from the John Prine song.
There’s a hole in daddy’s arm, where all the money goes…
I’m a Zappa tune.
I couldn’t say where she’s coming’ from,
But I just met a lady named dinah-moe humm
She stroll on over, say look here, bum,
I got a forty dollar bill say you can’t make me cum
(y’jes can’t do it)
Sigh. Forgotten again. Ah, well. I’ll just assume mine is so obvious no one felt the need to mention it.
Mine’s really not that obscure, but the “-chan” suffix probably confuses people.
I’m the cute one.
You’re right - that’s not it.
stately plump buck mulligan – the first line of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
“We are the Dioscuri…Leda bore us long ago.”
Having flashbakcs to several years ago. Girl I was dating was in Helen, and that monologue’s always stuck in my head. Mostly because I knew the guys who played (was it Castor and Pollux?), and, during rehearsals, they’d always improvise how they did the scene. One time, they’d be Beavis & Butthead, the next Martin and Lewis.
Smeggin’ hell! We all knew where your name was from! Now where’s my vindaloo?
Brilliant. 
I assume owlstretchingtime is from the Monty Python’s FC episode of that title.
…or was that the alternative original name of the show (Python)? I forget…
Owl Stretching Time was one fo several alternative titles considered for the show. Most of the losers (including this one) were used as episode titles in the first season.