# Self-referential connection... thingies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618 "2014-05-30T05:06:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/21 "2014-06-02T03:48:23Z")
Wasn’t Henry Winkler in something a few years ago where he actually jumps over a dead shark while walking on a pier? And who can forget [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTqY7tMzFE) from 3rd Rock? (at about 0:35) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/22 "2014-06-02T03:56:39Z")
> [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > Wasn’t Henry Winkler in something a few years ago where he actually jumps over a dead shark while walking on a pier? _Arrested Development_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4jm6B31HKBw/hqdefault.jpg "Henry Winkler Jumps the Shark... again...") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jm6B31HKBw) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/23 "2014-06-02T04:17:01Z")
[From Family Guy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGIZm1ihM0) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/24 "2014-06-02T04:33:28Z")
The TV series _Fargo_ has included references to the movie _Fargo_, as well as _The Big Lebowski_. Some that I remember: -“White Russian Special” sign in restaurant -Norm’s Pizza -Gustavson Parking Garage There are others that I can’t remember, and there are also scenes in the series that are obviously homages to scenes from the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/25 "2014-06-02T19:15:41Z")
In the movie _The Big Store_, Groucho says late in the film: “I told you in the first reel [Grover] was a crook.” Another that comes to mind is Silvio doing Al Pacino impressions at Big Pussy’s request. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vCFVfwJZJT8/hqdefault.jpg "The Sopranos - Silvio's Al Pacino Impression") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCFVfwJZJT8) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/26 "2014-06-02T19:52:36Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > In the recent Million Ways to Die in the West, Neil Patrick Harris’s character utters the phrase “challenge accepted!” Or in How I Met Your Mother when they had an episode end with Barney typing away at his computer to update his journal while summing up the lessons learned in that episode. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/27 "2014-06-02T19:55:11Z")
The Simpsons episode _Brother From Another Series_, where Sideshow Bob’s brother is played by David Hyde Pierce. The episode also had a Frasier style inte98rtitle in the middle. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/28 "2014-06-03T00:14:21Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > The Simpsons episode _Brother From Another Series_, where Sideshow Bob’s brother is played by David Hyde Pierce. The episode also had a Frasier style inte98rtitle in the middle. And this is a reference to post #16 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/29 "2014-06-03T00:30:05Z")
D’oh ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/30 "2014-06-03T02:03:55Z")
Cary Grant in\* His Girl Friday\* where he ad libbed a line about Archie Leach (his real name) and called a character “Mock Turtle” (a role he played in _Alice in Wonderlanbd_). ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618/31 "2014-06-03T02:23:33Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > And sometimes they’re truly hilarious. Such as Castle’s [Nathan Fillion dressing as a ‘Space Cowboy’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3pdj9p6yI) > > “Didn’t you wear that, like, five years ago?” The one that had me in stitches was Peter Boyle’s Frankenstein constume in a Halloween episode of _Everybody loves Raymond_ (funnier than most of the actual show in fact). One where I happend to see both episodes referenced on TVTropes: > [@](#): > > In one episode of _Herman’s Head_, Louise angrily snaps “I do not!” into the phone, slams the receiver back into the cradle, and then asks, “Herman, I don’t sound like Lisa Simpson, do I?” Louise, of course, was played by Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson. > > And conversely, a _Simpsons_ episode has Lisa chuckling. When Marge asks her why she is laughing, Lisa replies “Oh, just remembering a joke I saw on Herman’s Head.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referential-connection-thingies/689618.md?page=1)