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4 | !!General/Unsorted |
5 | * The Bat Boy from National Enquirer fame is an actual cryptid in this 'verse, as is TheMothman. |
6 | * Verity mentions ''Franchise/CarmenSandiego'' by way of witty banter. |
7 | * Verity quotes the sages: "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand you can't always get what you want]]." |
8 | %%* Metallica |
9 | %%* ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'': you'll know the scene when you get to it. |
10 | * ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'': Verity [[GenreSavvy specifically calls out the villain]] for [[CaughtMonologuing monologuing]]. |
11 | * The two cuckoos in the family are Angela Baker and Sarah Zellaby, referencing Angela Zellaby from ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''. This, like their psi-etiquette, chosen from ''Series/BabylonFive'', is an in-universe character choice. Sarah's IM username is also "Midwich_Girl". |
12 | * An obscure reference to another [[FilkSong filker]]: "Emerald Green" is a Pegasus-winning song. The writer of "Emerald Green" also has a song about a Siren making a living as a singer. |
13 | * Music/DireStraits: Verity invokes "Money for Nothing" when having to talk to Candy about something (and the titles of ''Magic for Nothing'' and ''Tricks for Free'' are also references to the song). |
14 | * Because Antimony reads a lot of comics, she refers to one of Verity's moves as "pulling a [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Gwen Stacy]]". |
15 | ** Sam invokes Gwen Stacy[[note]]which Seanan would later write for[[/note]] to put Timpani at ease when they're on the trapeze to assure her he won't death drop her. |
16 | * [[WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle Super Chicken]]: "you knew the job was dangerous when you took it" is paraphrased here as it was in ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'', although attributed to ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''; making it double as CreatorInJoke. |
17 | * WesternAnimation/KimPossible: Antimony uses Kim's CatchPhrase, "What's the sitch?" |
18 | * Antimony also peppers her internal monologue with references to shows and animation: |
19 | ** The OpeningNarration to Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan runs through her head. |
20 | ** She describes herself as [[CatchPhrase smarter than the average bear]], which is the catch phrase of WesternAnimation/YogiBear. |
21 | ** Antimony describes herself as not wanting to Creator/DrewBarrymore herself in a reference to ''Film/NeverBeenKissed''. |
22 | ** Antimony describes someone else's sudden change in attention as if they'd sensed a disturbance in [[Franchise/StarWars The Force]]. |
23 | ** Antimony, in a moment of antipathy toward her sister Verity, sneers at her for wanting to look like ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}. |
24 | * The field guide mentions that the Angler Tortoise may have inspired the Graboids of ''Film/{{Tremors}}''. |
25 | * In an [[https://www.facebook.com/metrolibrary/videos/3090299817856827 interview]][[note]]relevant quote at 49:47[[/note]], Seanan mentions that Evelyn is "basically [[Series/TheMunsters Marilyn Munster]], and that makes me happy." |
26 | * In a [[https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/67821621086/theres-something-ive-been-dying-to-know-and-now-seems Tumblr post]], Seanan confirmed that Verity was named after Creator/VerityLambert. |
27 | |
28 | !!Discount Armageddon |
29 | * Verity is thankful that her grandmother took shots at The Boob Fairy[[note]]a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMyntyvJbQ song by Deirdre Flint]][[/note]], resulting in the girls of the family being modestly endowed. |
30 | * ''Series/LandOfTheLost1974'': Verity refers to an unknown creature as a Sleestak until she finds out what it really is. |
31 | |
32 | !!Midnight Blue-Light Special |
33 | * Kitty is a fan of ''Series/SesameStreet'' and owns both Elmo slippers and Grover pajamas. |
34 | |
35 | !!Verity Shorts |
36 | [[AC:Waking Up in Vegas]] |
37 | * The title may be from the Music/KatyPerry song of the same name. |
38 | * Dominic pulls apart the lyrics of "[[Music/JohnnyCash Folsom Prison Blues]]": |
39 | -->'''Dominic:''' Why would you shoot a man just to watch him die? If you shoot a man, it should be because you want that man dead. Shooting him simply to see what happens is a waste of both bullets and a good opponent. It makes no sense. |
40 | * The Aeslin mice watch the [=VH1=] Video Countdown and try to match Music/TaylorSwift's dance moves. Later on, they watch a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' marathon. |
41 | |
42 | [[AC:My Last Name]] |
43 | * Verity compares her mom's appearance to [[Series/TheBradyBunch Carol Brady]]. |
44 | * The Aeslin mice's "yay, we're almost home" song includes several verses from "The Wheels on the Bus". |
45 | |
46 | !!Half-Off Ragnarok |
47 | * Sarah likes watching mathematical television shows like ''Series/Numb3rs'' and ''Series/SquareOneTV''. |
48 | * When discussing her scrambled brain, Sarah references classic children's stories through the Queen of Hearts and Humpty Dumpty. |
49 | * Chandi is a fan of ''Series/LazyTown'', while a gorgon child likes ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. Many child visitors to the zoo must be convinced that [[Literature/HarryPotter Slytherin]] doesn't make all snakes evil. |
50 | * Alex describes Sarah giving the Covenant agents LaserGuidedAmnesia in the previous book as convincing them that the inhabitants of New York [[Film/ANewHope were not the droids they were looking for]]. |
51 | |
52 | !!Magic for Nothing |
53 | * The person who trained Antimony on the flying trapeze was [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Grayson]] Campbell, which makes it a meta and in character MeaningfulName since Nightwing was circus born trapeze artist Dick Grayson in the comics, who grows up to use IShallTauntYou as a combat technique, much like Verity, Timpani and Sam do. |
54 | * Antimony has a female Aeslin Mouse she calls Mindy. When a male Aeslin shows up and joins them, she informs him she can't pronounce his real name and asks if it's all right to address him as [[Series/MorkAndMindy Mork]]. |
55 | * Antimony calls for her Aunt Mary by reciting, "[[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Betelgeuse,]] Betelgeuse, [[RuleOfThree Betelgeuse]]," much to Mary's dismay. |
56 | * The Covenant uses ''Film/MenInBlack'' as a reference point and a method of making their goals accessible to modern day recruits. |
57 | * Antimony complains that the Covenant, being the dark side, [[MemeticMutation should have offered her cookies]]. |
58 | * Timpani mentions the Stalk from ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' after meeting a [[TsuchigumoAndJorogumo cryptid]] who looks an awful lot like the character. |
59 | * Antimony ends up hitchhiking on a lonely stretch of road, like the end scene of every episode of ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977''. |
60 | |
61 | !!Calculated Risks |
62 | * Sarah mentions basing her "rules of telepathic conduct" on ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics and ''Series/Babylon5''. |
63 | * Mark compares Annie to ''Film/{{Firestarter}}''. |
64 | * Antimony mentions that the dimension they're trapped in "plays by ''Series/DoctorWho'' rules", with normal gravity and a [[NoBiochemicalBarriers/AllAtmospheresAreEqual breathable atmosphere]]. |
65 | * Sarah calls her occasional BecomeARealBoy tendency a "Blue Fairy impulse". |
66 | * Sarah says the suns in the alien dimension look "more like the sun from the ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' than a real celestial body had any right to", though at least they don't have faces. |
67 | * "Not to get all ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' about my own situation, but removing myself from Annie's memories had definitely kicked the support out from some of her ideas about the world." |
68 | * The intro for one of the chapters gives the setting as "the classroom where this [[Literature/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay terrible, awful, no-good, seemingly endless day]] began". |
69 | * Sarah mentions Artie talking her down from destroying the world as "[[Literature/GoodOmens very Crowley talking down Aziraphale before the Apocalypse]]". |
70 | * This conversation: |
71 | -->'''Antimony:''' Isn't that why we have the mice? So nothing ever gets lost, or left behind, or forgotten? |
72 | -->'''Sarah:''' Getting a little ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' there. |
73 | * On the very next page, Annie compares Mark's little sister Cici to "the second coming of [[Literature/RamonaQuimby Ramona the Brat]]". |
74 | * When Sarah explains how she folded spacetime to get from Oregon to Iowa, Annie asks if they're going to "go all ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime''". |
75 | * "Maybe we accidentally pulled a [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]] and [[ItMakesSenseInContext dropped a university campus on somebody's sister]]." |
76 | * "It's not a horrible, life-threatening situation if we don't have to [[ScoobyDoobyDoors run back and forth across an easily drawn space]] like we're characters on ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''." |
77 | * Sarah mentions that the landscape in the "giant bug dimension" at night feels like {{Mordor}}. |
78 | * "In this case, the zombies really ''did'' want to eat brains, they just wanted to eat them on a psychic level rather than a physical one, which would be no more pleasant for their targets than the [[Film/LivingDeadSeries Romero method]]." |
79 | * Sarah mentions that "[[Franchise/StarWars Many Bothans died to bring us these plans.]]" |
80 | * When James pets Greg the GiantSpider, he says he feels like what [[Franchise/TheMuppets Sweetums]] would feel like if he were real. |
81 | * At the climax of the book, Sarah tells James she's feeling like the geophysicists in ''Film/TheCore'', and then has to explain to him what the movie's about. |
82 | * When Mark is explaining to the Johrlac children that Greg the GiantSpider is friendly and Sarah rides him, one of them asks, "Like [[WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower She-ra and Swift Wind]]?" |
83 | * "He was bathed in {{lens flare}}, like a character from the Creator/JJAbrams ''[[Film/StarTrek2009 Star Trek]]'' reboot." |
84 | * Sarah mentions how much [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen Gwen Stacy]]'s supporting cast must hate her fondness for WallCrawling. |
85 | |
86 | !!Spelunking Through Hell |
87 | * Despite [[https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/seananmcguire/679944655550496768 Seanan confirming]] that Alice was ''not'' named after another DimensionalTraveler, she does note the connection to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' a few times. |
88 | * Alice describes the rounded doors in the Autarch's compound as "[[Literature/TheHobbit Hobbit-hole doors]]". |
89 | * She compares Sally and the other guards' armor to ''Film/MadMax'' costumes. She also calls [[DeathWorld Helos]] to a cross between ''Mad Max'' and ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''. |
90 | * Alice says KirksRock from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' would fit right in with the badlands of the bottle world. |
91 | * Sally calls Alice the "Film/BrideOfFrankenstein", and says "Bride of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]]" doesn't have the same ring to it. |
92 | |
93 | !!Backpacking Through Bedlam |
94 | * Alice notes that Sally is "[[Literature/{{Dune}} walking without rhythm so she won't attract the worm]]" (actually a giant mole, which may eat giant worms). |
95 | * When they're heading to meet Kenneth, Alice says they're "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz off to see the wizard]]", and she describes the aftermath of Sarah's teleportation of the university campus as "going full Dorothy". |
96 | * Sally quotes the catchphrase "We provide...Series/{{Leverage}}", to Alice's confusion. |
97 | |
98 | !!Antimony shorts |
99 | [[AC:Singing the Comic-Con Blues]] |
100 | * "I am what happens when nerds are allowed to marry nerds and thus produce even ''more'' nerds, like nerdiness squared, like what happens when Seymour from ''[[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors Little Shop]]'' is allowed to hook up with Jordan from ''Film/RealGenius''. And if you got both those references, odds are good that [[JustForFun/OneOfUs you're a nerd, too]]." |
101 | * Artie jokingly suggests ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' as a solution to the siren problem. |
102 | * Antimony talks about Alex's membership in the UsefulNotes/SocietyForCreativeAnachronism in the exposition. |
103 | * "As if reading comics were anything unusual in a world where ''Film/IronMan'' is still breaking merchandising and box office records." |
104 | * "[[Series/{{Leverage}} Age of the geek, baby.]]" |
105 | * The Aeslin mice completely clear any leftover food from plates, described as one of their more WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}-esque attributes. |
106 | * Once they get to Seattle, Sarah points out a cosplayer dressed as [[ComicBook/XMen Marvel Girl]], another telepath. |
107 | * Antimony cosplays as [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] (or at least a generic tomb-raiding female AdventurerArchaeologist). Sarah cosplays as a Jedi, appropriate for someone using {{Jedi Mind Trick}}s to get into the convention. |
108 | * Annie likens the show floor opening up to [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Wonka's chocolate factory]]. |
109 | |
110 | [[AC:Blocked]] |
111 | * Annie describes herself as "more [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams]] than [[Series/TheBradyBunch Marcia Brady]]". |
112 | * She says being on the field cheerleading "felt like I was going to pull a [[ComicBook/XMen Jean Grey]] and ignite from within". HilariousInHindsight when we learn she has [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic powers]] in the later books. |
113 | * In the next scene, she's reading ''Astonishing X-Men''. |
114 | * When Kevin tells her he wants her to "be part of the world", she says he's "coming dangerously close to reciting lyrics from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''". |
115 | * Annie picks her fake last name "Thompson" because it's the last name of the protagonist from ''Film/{{A Nightmare On Elm Street|1984}}''. |
116 | * Elsie says Annie would be happy if she was "that dude on ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' who [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E8TimeEnoughAtLast lived through the bomb being dropped and then had all the books in the world and no one to tell him to put them down]]". Annie points out that he [[TwilightZoneTwist broke his glasses]]. |
117 | |
118 | !!Fran and Jonathan shorts |
119 | [[AC:Stingers and Strangers]] |
120 | * Fran calls Eleanor "[[Literature/TheWizardOfOz the Wicked Bitch of the West]]", and compares [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Heloise]] to Literature/SnowWhite. |
121 | |
122 | !!Alice and Thomas shorts |
123 | [[AC:Take the Shot]] |
124 | * Mary asks Thomas "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Are you a good witch or a bad witch?]]" after finding out he's a sorcerer. |
125 | |
126 | [[AC:Off-Balance]] |
127 | * Thomas expected Aeslin mice to sound like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse. |
128 | |
129 | !!Other shorts |
130 | [[AC:IM]] |
131 | * Artie compares Johrlac to [[ComicBook/TheBroodSaga the Brood]]. |
132 | [[AC:Sleepover]] |
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