History TakeThat / SFDebris

* During the climax of ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', Chuck says that if he wanted to make a bunch of ships kill themselves, he'd play "MacArthur Park".

'''Chuck:''' But finally, Creator/{{Netflix}} has cancelled ''Series/IronFist''.

** In his miniview of "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds}} The Best of Both Worlds Part II]]", the picture for the "Worst [[Series/TheDefenders Defender]]" is Danny Rand.

* From "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E5FalseProfits}} False Profits]]," the Ferengi declare "greed is eternal," which Chuck says is [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome's]] new slogan.

* Makes a much deserved TakeThat at renowned anti-vaccine advocate Jenny [=McCarthy=], comparing her to the nanogenes in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances The Doctor Dances]]" (believing they're saving the world when they're really destroying it).

-->'''Michael''': One year. 212 days of torture. Of agony, my friends.
-->'''Chuck''': But finally, Creator/{{Netflix}} has cancelled ''Series/IronFist''.

--->'''Chuck:''' One actually-useful thing [Troi] does say, is that the assistant Kosinski brought over is... just blank. He may be occupying space, but he doesn't have any presence at all. Just like Joe Biden.

-->'''Chuck:''' There could be ''whole new species'' out here for him to find and surrender to! --But they could end up [[Series/StarTrekVoyager getting stranded out here and having to spend the entire rest of the series trying to get home]]. And who the hell wants to watch ''that'' crap?

* Creator/TerryNation named the second episode of ''Series/BlakesSeven'' "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E2SpaceFall Space Fall]]". Not ''Film/Skyfall'', because that would be a stupid name, wouldn't it?

* When O'Brien accidentally points his sonic whistle at Quark, it "hits him like an [=iPod=] full of {{Music/Nickelback}}" and he collapses in agony. ("Playing God")
** Similarly, O'Brien dryly notes that with the invention of a Bashir EMH, Bashir can annoy hundreds of people he's never met. "It's like being Music/JustinBieber." ([=DS9=]:"Doctor Bashir, I Presume")
* "This is a pyramid! One of the most mysterious objects in nature!" ([=DS9=]: "The Begotten")

* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E10TheDefector}} The Defector]]", Michael Pillar nicks one of Moore's lines of dialogue for his own script, "The Best of Both Worlds". This leads Moore to scoff, "Hah! As if that script will ever overshadow this one."

--->"If I start praying now, the only way I'll ever make it to Earth is if I start [[TheChrisCarterEffect spouting bullshit prophecies]] and a bunch of angelic hallucinations start patronizing me. I'd rather try to get back to Earth in a rowboat!"

* Fed up with the pomposity of first-season ''TNG'' in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E25TheNeutralZone}} The Neutral Zone]]", where the show tells us acquiring things is evil, he points out that it ''still'' costs a pretty penny to collect the show on DVD, and that even CreatorGeneRodenberry himself has ripped people off in the past (he cites an incident where Gene wrote unused lyrics for the original ''Star Trek'' theme so he could get part of the credit, and thus part of the royalties). "And yet, what a perfect metaphor for 20th century Communism! Taking the credit for the people who do the actual work, all while spouting party doctrine!"

* In "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the only crewman to speak in Gary Mitchell's defense "has the credibility of Bill O'Reilly." Spock contends that his judgement is better, as he has "no feelings", leading Chuck to concede that, okay, they ''both'' share similarities with O'Reilly.
* In "Where No '''One''' Has Gone Before" (''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]''):

* Provides a subtle StealthInsult towards the ''infamous'' endings of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''. Kirk, in "The City On the Edge Of Forever", wonders what if he tried changing history again with the Guardian to get a different ending. The only difference is that everything is blue-lit instead of red-lit.

* In TOS's "Doomsday Machine", Chuck laments that the Machine destroyed both sides and "kept on going, spreading misery long after it was relevant, like ''{{Series/Lost}}''."
* "Way to Eden's" hippie anthem which, if you were to buy if off [=iTunes=], would actually be [[EpicRocking longer than the iTunes contract itself]].
* When Spock's brain is stolen, Bones gives his prognosis as ''worse'' than death. "He's in ''[[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon Transformers 3]]'', Jim!"
* Kirk uncomfortably shifts in his seat as Sarek digs around through his brain (''The Search for Spock''). Sarek learns that the Shat smothered his great-grandmother ("Well, she ''was'' old."), is a chronic masturbator ("Alright, well, I just won't shake your hand anymore."), and liked ''Film/MeetTheSpartans''. This proves [[ArsonMurderAndjaywalking a bridge too far]].
--->'''Sarek:''' You ''are'' a diseased brain, aren't you? No wonder my son didn't leave his ''katra'' in it.
* Fed up with the pomposity of first-season ''TNG'' in "The Neutral Zone," where the show tells us acquiring things is evil, he points out that it ''still'' costs a pretty penny to collect the show on DVD, and that even Gene Rodenberry himself has ripped people off in the past (he cites an incident where Gene wrote unused lyrics for the original ''Star Trek'' theme so he could get part of the credit, and thus part of the royalties). "And yet, what a perfect metaphor for 20th century Communism! Taking the credit for the people who do the actual work, all while spouting party doctrine!"

* While examining how the language in "Darmok" could work, he brings up how people can instinctively perform actions without thinking about the words that go with them, like braking when you see someone in the road... "unless it's Rick Berman."
* Compares Riker's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jellico to how many writer's felt about Creator/GeneRoddenberry before he was KickedUpstairs.

* "The Outcast" (TNG) presents us with a world of genderless beings. Kinda like a world of bisexuals. "It's like ''Torchwood'', where your choices are either [[EveryoneIsBi bisexual]] or [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Welsh]]."
* Gul Madred gloating to Picard that the ''Enterprise'' is destroyed, the invasion successful, that no one is ever going to come for him now, and ''Film/{{Masterminds}}'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking was a box office disaster]]! (TNG: "Chain of Command")

* A writer's room reenactment of Ronald D. Moore. (TNG: "Genesis")

* In "The Defector", Michael Pillar nicks one of Moore's lines of dialogue for his own script, "The Best of Both Worlds". This leads Moore to scoff, "Hah! As if that script will ever overshadow this one."
* [[invoked]]Janeway's retort to Leonardo Da Vinci, who suggests that she pray for deliverance. (VOY: "Scorpion.") No hitting below the belt, Chuck:

* In "The Voyager Conspiracy", the inventor of a graviton catapult takes a moment to throw shade on both shows at once.

* Janeway gravely quotes the Cylon creed ("All of this has happened before...") after predicting the future in "Fury." However, when Chakotay asks if that is true, she snaps "''No.'' When I break a time loop [[ScrewDestiny it damn well stays broken!]]"

* Chuck's Janeway offers a plausible excuse for why she [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/star-trek/10754474/Kate-Mulgrew-duped-into-geocentric-documentary-voiceover.html provided the voiceover for a pseudoscience documentary]]. Whoops. ("Future's End")
--->'''Janeway:''' For the last time, I never said that the universe revolves around the Earth. I said the universe revolves around ''[[ItsAllAboutMe me]]!''
* Flashing back to 1998, Steve Jobs offers to let Creator/GeorgeLucas in on the ground floor of his [=iPad=]. Feh! {{It will never catch on}}. ([=DS9=]: "Timeless")
--->'''George:''' [[Creator/{{Pixar}} Traitor!]] It'll be [[TemptingFate a cold day in hell before I ever work with Disney]]! [...] I'm going to let you go and go back to writing the speeches for all the Oscars I'm gonna win [for ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''], okay?"
* For Vulcans, a repressed memory can cause brain damage until the patient tries to lobotomize himself. "Kind of like what happens when you watch an Uwe Boll film." (VOY: "Flashback")
* "Not since ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'' have I seen such a ludicrous concept with the window dressing of a legal thriller." (VOY: "Ex Post Facto")

* Tom's run the numbers, and the results aren't good. "We've built an Edsel! A lemon! A disaster waiting to happen!!" (VOY: "Timeless")
--->"It's called Creator/{{UPN}}!"
* We pan on Creator/SarahSilverman wheedling away her days at [=SETI=], hopelessly listening for sounds of intelligent life in space, and Chuck responds that the audience feels the same way listening to her. ("Future's End")
* It's only natural that the Xindi would select 2004 AD to begin annihilating the human race, and they'd want to disintegrate {{Music/Eminem}} first. (ENT: "Carpenter Street")
* When Riker, as "Chef", indulges himself by playing every single role on the ''NX-01'', Chuck proclaims him the Creator/QuentinTarantino of space. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")
** Also made fun of in the review of "Out of Gas" from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' when the injured Zoe is administered adrenaline and later Mal [[ShotToTheHeart jabs himself in his own heart, too]]. Chuck reflects that one really shouldn't take medical advice from Tarantino films.

* Chuck relates the story of why the Xenomorph was designed as a collection of dicks and teeth. "It was this or the ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' guys, really."

* When Batman drops Maroni off a building, Chuck says "That's for [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie}} the Doctor Who movie!]]"
* Agent Smith removing Neo's mouth, depriving him of [[Creator/KeanuReeves his greatest assets as an actor]]: "whaa...?" "duuude", and "unnh?"

* A little of the Doctor's "jiggery pokery" can send cell phone signals 5 billion year away.

* In the "[[Recap/DoctorWho5thASTheDayOfTheDoctor Day of the Doctor]]", we're led into a basement filled with art deemed too dangerous for humanity to see. Among the works is the ''Jar Jar Binks Animated Dancing Hour'', which the Queen is holding onto [[SuckinessIsPainful in case of a planetary war]].
* In his review of ''Farscape'''s "Liars, Guns, and Money I", Chuck figures that the only way the Moya crew's heist of the shadow depository can go wrong even after the entire crew escapes with the loot is if said loot turns out to be in bitcoin. When the money turns out to be disguised metal eating spiders, Chuck insists that the spiders are still better than bitcoin.
* Jool's [[IAteWhat urine-spiked]] home remedy, also known as "[=PBR=]" among earthlings. ("Different Destinations"), not to mention his dig about planetary memorials that tend to mind rape the visiters ala ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]''
* Creator/RobLiefeld comes to mind when observing Dark City, a dystopia filled with anachronisms and crafted by gods with no creativity or good taste.
* Makes a much deserved TakeThat at renowned anti-vaccine advocate Jenny [=McCarthy=], comparing her to the nanogenes in "The Doctor Dances" (believing they're saving the world when they're really destroying it).

* In his review of ''Deep Space Nine'''s "The Way of the Warrior", he compares Dukat selling Cardassia out to the Dominion to make it stronger to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's presidential campaign:
--->"Make Cardassia gray again!"

* From "Revulsion".

* From "False Profits," the Ferengi declare "greed is eternal," which Chuck says is [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome's]] new slogan.