“OK, kids, who wants ‘Manning Coleslaw’, and/or an explanation of why that’s funny?”
All I’ve had today is like, three gummy bears and some scotch.
That is pretty much the standard music in the US for any comedic barbershop scene.
Yeah, but most of those scenes were in Jerry’s apartment (and that of the guy he wanted to cut his hair, IIRC).
Holy cow, I completely missed that!
It goes back further than that, S01E11, where the Dean prints Greendale on condoms and ruins them, Abed has to announce that the condoms are flawed. The couple is seen in the background throwing the condom away and getting amorous . There may even be a scene later where the boyfriend is seen arguing with Abed blaming him for the pregnancy.
Several labels on the Enterprise’s consoles and access panels in Star Trek: The Next Generation, too small to be seen at time of broadcast, make references to pop culture, including to Buckaroo Banzai (“No matter where you go, there you are” and “Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems,” IIRC) and Gilligan’s Island (“A three-hour tour”).
Another one from Community that is likely lost on people under 30 but completely understood by anyone that grew up watching TV in the 80s/90s.
A quick exchange between Jeff and Andre, who we just met in this episode, having only heard about him previously.
Jeff: Nice Sweater
Andre: Thanks, my dad gave it to me.
For those of you that haven’t seen the show, I’m guessing you can work out from the dialogue and picture which one is Andre and which one is Jeff.
I’m over 30, but I don’t understand the reference.
The actor is Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show.
“Andre” is played by Malcolm Jamal Warner, who played a Cosby kid in the 90s - and is wearing a very Cosby-like sweater that his “father” gave him.
Ah, that explains it. I never liked the Cosby show, even before the scandals.
Reminds me of another Cosby reference that most people won’t get watching reruns.
The Simpsons originally aired on Thursday nights, opposite The Cosby Show, in the days before DVR’s, when even VCR’s weren’t very common. The two shows were locked in a tight ratings battle and it was unclear if The Simpsons would survive its first couple of seasons.
In a season 3 episode, Homer is desperately trying to bond with Bart and finds some relevant advice in a parenting book written by Bill Cosby. He then exclaims, “Thank you, Bill Cosby! You’ve saved the Simpsons!”
Too late to edit: If I recall correctly, Cosby had also publically criticized The Simpsons as vulgar and family-unfriendly - which is quite ironic now!
I’m not sure how many people realize it today, but it always seemed clear to me that Dr. Hibbert of the Simpsons was a Cosby parody.
And Buckaroo Banzai (probably Star Trek) was referencing Thomas Pynchon’s V for Yoyodyne.
Similarly, Robocop’s “Would you buy it for a dollar?” is a reference to Cyril Kornbluth’s “The Marching Morons” (adjusted for inflation).
In Repo Man, they refer to the first law of a repo man, which is a paraphrase of Asimov’s first law of robotics
In Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Tony Curtis’s character is often mistaken for Jack Lemmon, who played Tony’s buddy in Some Like It Hot (1959). At one point in the film, Tony puts on a woman’s robe and says “I was thinking I look just like Jack Lemmon did in that movie where he dressed up like a girl.”
These were all over the Enterprise-D, courtesy of the show’s Art Department
You realize that the movie Bohemian Rhapsody was about Freddie Mercury (and Queen) and that the main actor was , in fact, playing Freddie Mercury.
you realize that, right?
I believe you just got whooshed there.
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In the SyFy show Killjoys, they are talking about a porn movie, and how there was a sequel. The female lead (Dutch) says she much prefers the sequel, while the two male protagonists are all about the original. That season aired after “Ant-Man and the Wasp” came out, and Dutch was played by Hannah John-Kamen who was the anti-hero Ava/Ghost.
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In Leverage, there was a fictional PI themed costume party where Timothy Hutton’s character was accused of not wearing a costume. He demurred and said he was dressed as Ellery Queen, who of course had been played by his dad Jim on the TV series.