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Working Title: Surprisingly Unwoolseyized: From YKTTW
Erpegis: This trope needs some American examples. Anyone?
KKDW: Edited this bit...
- In Hayate The Combat Butler, when the show isn't referencing Japanese television, it throws in a few American references to shake things up. In one instance, there's a very obvious Knight Rider parody; simultaneously, the KITT stand-in has the iconic moving red eye of a Cylon.
Nornagest: Cut —
- ** Not to mention the skillfully made Phoenix Wright in episode 8. Have a look for yourself.
Unless I'm missing something, this isn't cross-cultural.
Inkblot: Can someone explain the picture? They're Ren & Stimpy Expies, they're wearing condoms/acorns on their tales and they're incontinent. What the hell?
- Warhammer 40 K has quite a few references to American pop culture - in particular, the Necrons are based on the robots in the Terminator films, and the Tyrannids are inspired by the Xenomorphs of Alien.
- In the Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child", when the Doctor was unconscious, Rose told a doctor that his name was Mr. Spock. The Doctor was not pleased.
- An early draft of the script actually had him say "I'd take 'Doctor Who' over Star Trek any day!"
- Conversely, the Star Trek Voyager two-parter "Future's End" involved the holographic, nameless Doctor from that show being suspected of being the other Doctor by a Californian. His unusual wardrobe was a factor.
- Uhh, no. The character actually said "I'm thinking alternate dimension, and close encounter." She specifically didn't mention time travel, which was actually the correct explanation in that case.
Not cross-cultural; a UK company referencing something American is expected.
Vampire Buddha: So? Given the wide reach of American pop culture, it's really no less likely than a Japanese production doing the same thing. And you really don't want to tell a British person that their culture is basically the same as America's.
Burai: Regarding ...
- ** No-one's yet mentioned that the premise of FFVI (a rebel alliance going up against an evil empire) is pretty much derived from Star Wars?
