History Main / YouTalkinToMe

* "You talkin' to me?", though not the rest of the sequence, was most famously originated by Alan Ladd's character in ''Film/ThisGunForHire'' (1942). The scene is iconic enough that when ''L. A. Confidential'' had the Veronica Lake lookalike character showing one of Lake's old films, they used that scene from that movie.
* The probable origin of Bickle's monologue is the 1953 film ''{{Shane}}'':

* In ''The Adventures of RockyAndBullwinkle'' live action movie, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) did this as an obvious ShoutOut [[ActorAllusion to his character in]] ''Film/TaxiDriver''. Although there was no gun and mirror involved; it was just a case of asking if they were talking to him.

A character has just gotten a new gun and checks himself out in the mirror. What does he do? Nine times out of ten, he starts [[MirrorMonologue talking to his reflection]], quoting RobertDeNiro's famous monologue from ''Film/TaxiDriver''. He doesn't even need a real gun - if he just wants to feel {{Badass}} there's always the trusty FingerGun.

* In KimNewman's spoof Gothic melodrama ''Mildew Manor'', a Regency ingénue, admiring herself in the mirror, murmers "are you addressing yourself to my person? ... you must be, for no one else is present ... fie! and la!"

* In GoodbyeChains, Colin does this with a deringer and a special quick-draw mechanism similar to the one in Film/Taxidriver. Subverted for humor when he accidentally sends the gun flying through the mirror.
* The speech is [[ShownTheirWork accurately quoted]] in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=801 this]] ''SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' strip.

* ''{{Series/SCTV}}'' did a series of trailers for ''TaxiDriver'' starring Gregory Peck, or stock character Sid Dithers, or Woody Allen ("I know what you're thinking, that violence isn't really my thing; that my idea of violence is a plaid jacket with striped pants, but...are you talking to me?")

* In GoodbyeChains, Colin does this with a deringer and a special quick-draw mechanism similar to the one in Taxidriver. Subverted for humor when he accidentally sends the gun flying through the mirror.

* ''SinCity'': "For a while, we just get the feel of each other back. Good as ever. I tell her about Goldie and what we have to do."

* One of the commercials for ''[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} [=WrestleMania=] 21]]'' had several wrestlers trying to do the line. At the very end, Batista pulls it off perfectly. A week afterwards, he said it in response to a rant by Triple H, further proving his GenreSavvy gimmick as well as being an obvious reference to said commercial.

* Occurs in ''AshesToAshes'', where one of the villains does it while carrying out an armed robbery. Of course the detectives recognize the quote, and even catch the guy when they see him doing it again.
* In ''StephenFry In America'', a documentary series where the British actor travels around the US in a black cab, he gets to fire a .44 Magnum revolver. He does the whole speech (as well as the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' speech), quoting it correctly. And makes it entirely non-threatening, because he's the only person in the world who could do that. And everyone loves him for it.

* ''SCTV'' did a series of trailers for ''TaxiDriver'' starring Gregory Peck, or stock character Sid Dithers, or Woody Allen ("I know what you're thinking, that violence isn't really my thing; that my idea of violence is a plaid jacket with striped pants, but...are you talking to me?")

** [[ShoutOut He quotes]] [[Creator/ClintEastwood the iconic "go ahead, make my day" scene too.]]

* In ''BonCopBadCop'', one character does this in a bathroom mirror. While wearing a squirrel costume.

* The old Nick show ''KaBlam!'' had a little shout out in the pilot near the end of the episode depicting a sheep in a taxi promptly saying "You talkin' to me?"

* Parodied in ThatMitchellAndWebbLook with ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egU-d1CRXkM Polite Taxi Driver]]''.

-->--'''Travis Bickle''', ''Film/TaxiDriver''

A character has just gotten a new gun and checks himself out in the mirror. What does he do? Nine times out of ten, he starts [[MirrorMonologue talking to his reflection]], quoting RobertDeNiro's famous monologue from ''TaxiDriver''. He doesn't even need a real gun - if he just wants to feel {{Badass}} there's always the trusty FingerGun.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture Part III.'' Marty wakes up and sees that's he's alone with a gun. Cut to Marty wearing his gunbelt over his long underwear, quoting the scene to his reflection.

* In ''The Adventures of RockyAndBullwinkle'' live action movie, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) did this as an obvious ShoutOut [[ActorAllusion to his ''TaxiDriver'' character]]. Although there was no gun and mirror involved, it was just a case of asking if they were talking to him.

* "You talkin' to me?", though not the rest of the sequence, was most famously originated by Alan Ladd's character in ''ThisGunForHire'' (1942). The scene is iconic enough that when ''L. A. Confidential'' had the Veronica Lake lookalike character showing one of Lake's old films, they used that scene from that movie.

* Referenced but not actually spoken out loud in ''EdenOfTheEast''. Granted, the entire ''scene'' in question is a ({{lampshade|Hanging}}d) ShoutOut to ''TaxiDriver''.
* Cal says the lines or at least imitates the scene in ''[[PhantomOfInferno Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~]].''

** [[ShoutOut He quotes]] [[ClintEastwood the iconic "go ahead, make my day" scene too.]]

->"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK."

* ''TheBill'' once featured someone doing the ".44 Magnum" speech from "Dirty Harry". Bits of the same speech have no doubt turned up in other shows, the most oft-quoted part being "Do ya feel lucky, Punk?!" (Technically, a BeamMeUpScotty; the actual line is "You'd better ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky'? Well, do you, punk?")

->Come on / I'm talkin' to you / So come on
-->--'''Music/TearsForFears''', ''Shout''

* In the LeapFrog educational release, ''[[ItsAWonderfulPlot A Tad of Christmas Cheer]]'', Tad tells his fairy godbug Edison that he's cuckoo and Parker asks him "Are you talkin' to me? Well, I don't see nobody else, so you must be talkin' to me." He says that he's talking to Edison and at that point, Edison reveals that nobody else can see him. "That's probably not good," deadpans Tad.

* ''Series/{{The X-Files}}'' episode "Small Potatoes" featured a baddie who disguised himself as Agent Mulder and returned to D.C. in his place. He clowns around in Mulder's room a bit, first practicing brandishing his FBI badge -- then he segues into "...you talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? I'm the only one here, you must be talkin' to me..."

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* In ''{{Balto}} III'', Balto and his friends encounter a moose who keeps saying "Are you talkin' to me?" before attacking them. When another moose arrives and challenges the first one, the first moose still asks "Are you talkin' to me?" This makes the other moose say "Yeah, I'm talkn' to you!"

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* This happened, sans gun, in ''Disney/TheLionKing'': Pumbaa launches into the first half of the speech after a hyena [[BerserkButton calls him a pig]], then ends it with the line, "[[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs They call me ''Mister Pig!'']]"
* One of the personas adopted by the Genie in Aladdin. "Are you talkin' to me? Did you rub my lamp?"

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