# Media references that NOBODY ever gets.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 17, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498 "2003-12-17T07:55:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/261 "2003-12-30T08:54:44Z")

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It’s one of Happy Noodle Boy’s random rantings from Johnny The Homicidal Maniac.

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**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/262 "2003-12-30T14:52:38Z")

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OK. Here they come :

Twin Peaks :

- This must be where pies go when they die.

- How do you like it?

- Black as a bull’s togus on a moonless night.

- Pretty black.

- Next up - rocket science.  
Kentucky Fried Movie (Whenever somebody screws up)

- Twy again. This time with feewing.  
Buffy

- I always get the funny syphilis.

- I am through being everybody’s butt-monkey.

- Kay. No butt-monkey.  
Weird science

- Gimme the keys!! Gimme the keys!!

- Chicks can’t hold the smoke.  
Big Lebowski  
-Well, that’s just like your opinion… man.

- Thankfully I am adhering to a strict drug regiment to keep my mind limber.  
Snatch

- I want a caravan for me mother. [unintelligible murmur] She’s terribly partial to periwinkle blue.

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**Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/263 "2003-12-30T21:05:09Z")

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“Helloooooooooooooo Nurse!”

And diku reminded me yesterday that if someone says “now you know” it must be immediately followed by “…And knowing is half the battle!” (singing “Geeeee Ayyyyye Joooooooooe!” afterwards is optional.)

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**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/264 "2003-12-30T22:01:54Z")

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“Yep”  
– Mr. Blanding’s Dream House

“Tell me about the rabbit’s again, George”  
– Warner Brothers cartoon

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**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/265 "2003-12-31T00:03:43Z")

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**AcidKid:** I hate to tell you this, but those Warner Brothers cartoons were making a media reference of their own. What, you never read _Of Mice and Men_ in school? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-references-that-nobody-ever-gets/219498/266 "2003-12-31T00:44:23Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by vinryk \*  
> \*\*  
> Weird science
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> - Gimme the keys!! Gimme the keys!!
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> - Chicks can’t hold the smoke.  
> . \*\*

I dont know if it was in Both of them (same director and all)  
But “Chicks cant hold the smoke” was in The Breakfast club too.

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