It's just you, and you need to go back and refresh your memory on Phineas and Feb STAT
Ye who would Tope Meaninglessness. Ye who ignore All We Have. I say to you You Shall Not Pass!!
Removed (re: A Hearth's Warming Tail):
- A great episode with many reflections, allusions, similarities, nuances, references, shout-outs, and any other word for perceived connections. To begin with, the prominent plot element of this story within a story deals with how Snowfall Frost's intent to obliviate Hearth's Warming Eve for all time to come mirror's Starlight's earlier vendetta against Twilight to change the past in the finale of Season 5. The consequence of effacing Hearth's Warming Eve from everybody's minds mirrors the references presented earlier on this page for changing time. For the references, look to "The Cutie Re-Mark" in Season Five's folder.
I guarantee you that this show does not have as many shout outs as you think it does.
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Shout-Out is a frequently misused trope thanks to apophenia - people will assume that the similarity between two works is thanks to a reference when it may be just a coincidence. Any such examples (i.e only coincidental similarities) ought to be removed.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I agree, and while I use the words "nod, allusion, similarity, mirror, parallel...etc," I realize that these are heralds for my independent conjectures which may really coincidences, plain as day. Though I joined this wiki long after the post on "apophenia," I concur with the moderator's assertion. I also wish to thank the moderator for introducing me to the word "apophenia". I'm a word enthusiast/ logophile.
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I also enjoy seeing the ties people perceive between different story franchises.
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Enter the void
And by shout outs we mean 'Something that may or may not bear a passing resemblance to something you saw in your favourite TV programme once.'
Do what the clock does, keep going.
Scalon D. Dragon
The "baked bads" of "Applebuck Season" brought this t-shirt from the welovefine.come website:
http://www.welovefine.com/1533-baking-bad.html
About another human case of "cooking"—a chemistry teacher making Meth :P (You can guess this one)
Did anyone else notice that in the Winter Wrap-Up episode, when Spike pulls the covers over his head he looks like a certain cat we all know and love? *coughGarfieldcough*
I don't know if this counts as a reference, but I think it would, wouldn't it? I mean, Spike has the blue blanket and square box, and pulls the covers over his head just like Garfield does.
Is this Justifying Edit a valid one for the MLP entry?
- Prime example of the fandom forcing references where there are none. Amnion only means bowl in one single instance, "lamb's blood bowl". "Amnos" is Greek for lamb, not for bowl. So, there goes one third of the "pun". The second third, "morphic" means "shape-related", not "shaping". So, that's zero out of two. Finally, it's "bearded", not "hairy", so that's zero out of three.
This page is getting rather long. It may be time to separate it into folders.
Is it just me, or do Snips and Snails bare a passing resemblance to Phineas and Ferb?
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