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* When asked by the Middleman if she reads comics, Wendy first says that she thinks Jughead "is a real hoot." When the Middleman doesn't respond, she name-drops ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'', ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', ''ComicBook/{{Fell}}'', ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'', ''ComicBook/MouseGuard'', ''Franchise/XMen'', and the ''Franchise/TheFlash''. The Middleman asks if she's referring to [[Main/LegacyCharacter Barry Allen or Wally West]].

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* When asked by the Middleman if she reads comics, Wendy first says that she thinks Jughead "is a real hoot." When the Middleman doesn't respond, she name-drops ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'', ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', ''ComicBook/{{Fell}}'', ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'', ''ComicBook/MouseGuard'', ''Franchise/XMen'', ''ComicBook/XMen'', and the ''Franchise/TheFlash''.''ComicBook/TheFlash''. The Middleman asks if she's referring to [[Main/LegacyCharacter Barry Allen or Wally West]].



* After Roxy provides exposition about the earth elemental that is the antagonist of the episode, Wendy refers to him as the "[[Franchise/XMen Magneto]] of mud."

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* After Roxy provides exposition about the earth elemental that is the antagonist of the episode, Wendy refers to him as the "[[Franchise/XMen "[[ComicBook/XMen Magneto]] of mud."
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** The first episode's script is almost entirely unchanged from the original comic miniseries, but Wendy named different comics there, including ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'', ''Box Office Poison'', ''ComicBook/{{Demo}}'', and ''Dead@17''. ''Astro City'' is the only shout out preserved in the pilot episode.

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** The first episode's script is almost entirely unchanged from the original comic miniseries, but Wendy named different comics there, including ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'', ''Box Office Poison'', ''ComicBook/{{Demo}}'', and ''Dead@17''. ''Astro City'' is the only shout out preserved title in the pilot episode.both lists.
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* Wendy momentarily imagines herself dressed as ComicBook/{{Robin}}.

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* Wendy momentarily imagines herself dressed as ComicBook/{{Robin}}.ComicBook/{{Robin}}; in the original comic this was a thought bubble with the Burt Ward version of Robin.




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* Unlikely to be intentional so much as economical (cheaper to buy or rent a bunch of masks than make them for these huge crowd shots), but the wrestlers in the episode are wearing souvenir replicas of famous luchadores' masks sold on collector's sites or at live lucha shows. El Maestro del Ceremonias is wearing the mask of Abismo Negro with the visor mesh cut out (and no face paint); El Camelon wears the mask of Fishman. Others, from Mano Negra to Gran Naniwa to Mistico, are visible throughout the episode.

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** The first episode's script is almost entirely unchanged from the original comic miniseries, but Wendy named different comics there, including ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'', ''Box Office Poison'', ''ComicBook/{{Demo}}'', and ''Dead@17''. ''Astro City'' is the only shout out preserved in the pilot episode.



* When Wendy and Noser are playing Noser's musical reference game, she mentions Music/DuranDuran's "hungry Like the Wolf," Music/BruceSpringsteen's "Hungry Heart," "Hungry Eyes" by Music/EricCarmen, the theme song from the ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' films, and The Commodores's "Brick House."

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* When Wendy and Noser are playing Noser's musical reference game, she mentions Music/DuranDuran's "hungry Like the Wolf," Music/BruceSpringsteen's "Hungry Heart," "Hungry Eyes" by Music/EricCarmen, the theme song from the ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' films, and The Commodores's "Brick House."" The comic version included "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas.

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* Wendy refers to the monster that attacks her in the cold open as a "hentai tentacle monster."




!!The Cursed Tuba Contingency

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!!The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation

!!The Clotharian Contamination Protocol

!!The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome

!!The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse (unfilmed)

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!!The Clotharian Contamination Protocol

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!!The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome

Palindrome
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!!The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse (unfilmed)
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* Dr. Gill is a parody of Series/DoctorPhil.

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* Dr. Gill is a parody of Series/DoctorPhil.Series/DrPhil.
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* When Ida gets pinged by another Heydar, she starts breaking down by saying, "[[{{Film/Chinatown}} She's my sister... she's my daughter... she's my sister...]]".
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* Two of the Middleman's GoshdangItToHeck euphemisms in this episode reference older works: "Film/TheGrapesOfWrath!" and "Film/TheGunsOfNavarone!"

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* Two of the Middleman's GoshdangItToHeck euphemisms in this episode reference older works: "Film/TheGrapesOfWrath!" "Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath!" and "Film/TheGunsOfNavarone!"
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** Wendy discovers that the bomb is located at Twin Pines Mall. This is the mall that Doc Brown first performed his time travel experiment.

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** Wendy discovers that the bomb is located at Twin Pines Mall. This is the mall that Doc Brown first performed his time travel experiment. It is also where Doc Brown explains to Marty that the plutonium he obtained from the libyans was meant to be turned into a nuclear bomb.
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* Wendy refers to Ida as "[[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]]" after a series of strange aptitude tests. After learning that Ida is a robot, she calls her "[[Series/TheJetsons Rosie]]" and "Ida the Prune-Faced Android," a reference to [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy Marvin the Paranoid Android]].

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* Wendy refers to Ida as "[[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]]" after a series of strange aptitude tests. After learning that Ida is a robot, she calls her "[[Series/TheJetsons "[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Rosie]]" and "Ida the Prune-Faced Android," a reference to [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy Marvin the Paranoid Android]].
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!!The Sino Mexican Revelation

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!!The Sino Mexican Sino-Mexican Revelation
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** TheGodfather:

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** TheGodfather:''Film/TheGodfather'':
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* Wendy also lets loose with a "Yippee Ki Yay [bleeped expletive]" in the first of the series's many, many DieHard references.

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* Wendy also lets loose with a "Yippee Ki Yay [bleeped expletive]" in the first of the series's many, many DieHard ''Franchise/DieHard'' references.
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* Dr. Gill is a parody of DoctorPhil.

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* Dr. Gill is a parody of DoctorPhil.Series/DoctorPhil.
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* Roxy fires her assistant, Betty, possibly a reference to UglyBetty.

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* Roxy fires her assistant, Betty, possibly a reference to UglyBetty.''Series/UglyBetty''.

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