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* The crew are welcome to vote on what film they'll watch for movie night, though it's noted the only movie onboard is a VHS copy of [[Film/HomeAlone Home Alone 2]].

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* The crew are welcome to vote on what film they'll watch for movie night, though it's noted the only movie onboard is a VHS copy of [[Film/HomeAlone Home Film/{{Home Alone 2]].2|Lost In New York}}.
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* Eiffel refers to the now blue Wolf 359 as a [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs "smurf,"]] and when they realized the stars radiation is making them paranoid, as the [[Main/TheBigBadWolf "Big Bad Wolf."]]

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* Eiffel refers to the now blue Wolf 359 as a [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 "smurf,"]] and when they realized the stars radiation is making them paranoid, as the [[Main/TheBigBadWolf "Big Bad Wolf."]]
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--> '''Eiffel:''' Get ready for the Recap: our [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Space Odyssey]]'s getting [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]] to Bach [[GoodMorningVietnam Good Mornings, Vietnam]] from [[{{Music/REM}} Alien Radio Free Europe]], and our [[Film/{{Alien}} Nostromo]]'s one [[Franchise/StarTrek photon torpedo]] away from losing its [[Franchise/StarWars deflector shields.]] Our [[Characters/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy paranoid]] [[{{Music/Radiohead}} android]]'s having [[{{Franchise/Robocop}} ED-209]] moments, [[Film/GIJane G.I. Jane]]'s [[{{Film/Casablanca}} beginning of a beautiful friendship]] ended in marriage to [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Clark Kent]], [[DarthWiki/DarthVader Darth]] [[{{Literature/Frankenstein}} Frankenstein]]'s having a [[Film/TheGreatEscape timeout in the cooler]], [[Film/CoolHandLuke what we've got here is a failure to communicate]], and if you think any of that's gonna change anytime soon, [[{{Film/Chinatown}} forget it, Jake! IT'S CHINATOWN!]]

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--> '''Eiffel:''' Get ready for the Recap: our [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Space Odyssey]]'s getting [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]] to Bach [[GoodMorningVietnam Good Mornings, Vietnam]] from [[{{Music/REM}} Alien Radio Free Europe]], and our [[Film/{{Alien}} Nostromo]]'s one [[Franchise/StarTrek photon torpedo]] away from losing its [[Franchise/StarWars deflector shields.]] Our [[Characters/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy paranoid]] [[{{Music/Radiohead}} android]]'s having [[{{Franchise/Robocop}} ED-209]] moments, [[Film/GIJane G.I. Jane]]'s [[{{Film/Casablanca}} beginning of a beautiful friendship]] ended in marriage to [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Clark Kent]], [[DarthWiki/DarthVader [[Franchise/StarWars Darth]] [[{{Literature/Frankenstein}} Frankenstein]]'s having a [[Film/TheGreatEscape timeout in the cooler]], [[Film/CoolHandLuke what we've got here is a failure to communicate]], and if you think any of that's gonna change anytime soon, [[{{Film/Chinatown}} forget it, Jake! IT'S CHINATOWN!]]
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* Eiffel describes his situation as "everything is [[Music/TheRollingStones Gimme Shelter]]."

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* Eiffel describes his situation as "everything is [[Music/TheRollingStones [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Gimme Shelter]]."
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* Title honors the classic radio show ''[[Radio/QuietPlease Quiet, Please]]''

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* Title honors the classic radio show ''[[Radio/QuietPlease ''[[Radio/QuietPlease1947 Quiet, Please]]''
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* Eiffel calls Hilbert "[[{{Film/BorisAndNatasha}} Boris Badenov]]"
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* Eiffel calls Hilbert "[[{{Film/BorisAndNatasha}} Boris Badenov"]]

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* Eiffel calls Hilbert "[[{{Film/BorisAndNatasha}} Boris Badenov"]]Badenov]]"
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* Eiffel calls Hilbert "[[{{Film/BorisAndNatasha}} Boris Badenov"]]
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* Eiffel tells Hera to [[{{Music/PatBenatar}} "hit me with your best shot"]] when they are brainstorming ideas of how to save the station from Hilbert.

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* Eiffel says that the music broadcasts that he had been picking up were never "[[{{Radio/AmericanTop40}} American Top 40 stuff]]"

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* Eiffel says that the music broadcasts that he had been picking up were never "[[{{Radio/AmericanTop40}} American Top 40 stuff]]"stuff.]]"



* Eiffel calls his con to get Hilbert to give up information [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial “Hilbert Phone Home”]].

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* Eiffel refers to Hilbert's coup as the "[[{{UsefulNotes/RedOctober}} October Revolution]]."
* Eiffel calls his con to get Hilbert to give up information [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial “Hilbert Phone Home”]].Home.”]]
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* Eiffel says that the music broadcasts that he had been picking up were never "[[{{Radio/AmericanTop40}} American Top 40 stuff]]"
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* Hilbert tells Eiffel that "[[Literature/SherlockHolmes when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however unlikely,must be the truth]]."

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* Hilbert tells Eiffel that "[[Literature/SherlockHolmes when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however unlikely,must unlikely, must be the truth]]."
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* Eiffel describes Minkowski's forays into theater as her "releasing her inner [[{{Creator/BobFosse}} Bob Fosse]]

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* Eiffel describes Minkowski's forays into theater as her "releasing her inner [[{{Creator/BobFosse}} Bob Fosse]]Fosse]]"
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* Eiffel refers to Minkowski as the as the "resident [[UsefulNotes/TheStasi Stasi]] agent."

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* Eiffel eventually realizes that the illusory room that [[spoiler: The Dear Listeners]] have placed him in is straight out of ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey''.

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* Eiffel eventually realizes that the illusory room that [[spoiler: The Dear Listeners]] have placed him in is straight out of ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey''.''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
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* Eiffel eventually realizes that the illusory room that [[spoiler: The Dear Listeners]] have placed him in is straight out of ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey''.
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* The exchange "I'm fine, I'm fine" / "Well, anything you have to say four times is obviously true" is almost word for word from an episode of Radio/CabinPressure.

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* The exchange "I'm fine, I'm fine" / "Well, anything you have to say four times is obviously true" is almost word for word from an episode of Radio/CabinPressure. Gabriel Urbina has confirmed he's a fan of the show.
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--> '''Eiffel:''' Commander, you know how tingly I get whenever you break out your [[Franchise/Terminator Sarah Connor]] game but are you listening to yourself? This is murder!

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--> '''Eiffel:''' Commander, you know how tingly I get whenever you break out your [[Franchise/Terminator [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Sarah Connor]] game but are you listening to yourself? This is murder!
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* The exchange "I'm fine, I'm fine" / "Well, anything you have to say four times is obviously true" is almost word for word from an episode of Series/CabinPressure.

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* The exchange "I'm fine, I'm fine" / "Well, anything you have to say four times is obviously true" is almost word for word from an episode of Series/CabinPressure.Radio/CabinPressure.
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* The exchange "I'm fine, I'm fine" / "Well, anything you have to say four times is obviously true" is almost word for word from an episode of Series/CabinPressure.
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* Eiffle refers to Minkowski as the as the "resident [[UsefulNotes/TheStasi Stasi]] agent."

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* Eiffle Eiffel refers to Minkowski as the as the "resident [[UsefulNotes/TheStasi Stasi]] agent."



* Hilbert tells Eiffle that "[[Literature/SherlockHolmes when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however unlikely,must be the truth]]."

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* After the version of Minowski that is a figure of Eiffel's imagination tells Eiffel to stop the pod's trajectory from going into deep space "anyway you can," Eiffel calls her "Commander Harvey." Possibly a reference to the song "Anyway you Wanta" by Harvey Fuqua but this troper is unsure.

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* After the version of Minowski that is a figure figment of Eiffel's imagination tells Eiffel to stop the pod's trajectory from going into deep space "anyway you can," Eiffel calls her "Commander Harvey." Possibly a reference to the song "Anyway you Wanta" by Harvey Fuqua but this troper is unsure.
* Eiffel whistles the tune of the main theme song from the Film/TheGreatEscape.
* Eiffel mentions that he has a mental discography of Music/JohnWilliams soundtracks.
* Eiffel refers to Hilbert as [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Zoidberg.]]
* The version of Hilbert from Eiffel's imagination spitefully tells him to [[Franchise/StarWars "go back to drowning yourself in Carbonite"]] when Eiffel refuses to listen to him. Eiffel notes that there is no way that the real Hilbert would have heard of Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack.
* When Eiffel puts himself in cryogenic stasis for what he thinks will be the last time he uses newscaster Edward R. Murrow's sign off, Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck.
* Eiffel says that the [[spoiler: aliens that they talked to in the episode "Who's There?"]] made Wolf 359 go [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} "all Dr. Manhattan Project on us."]]
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* Eiffel refers to Wolf 359 as the [[Series/SesameStreet "Cookie Monster."]]


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* When the Hephaestus has temperature control issues, Lovelace compares it to a "Space Yukon."


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* Eiffel refers to deep space as [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 "the kingdom where the light don't touch."]]
* After the version of Minowski that is a figure of Eiffel's imagination tells Eiffel to stop the pod's trajectory from going into deep space "anyway you can," Eiffel calls her "Commander Harvey." Possibly a reference to the song "Anyway you Wanta" by Harvey Fuqua but this troper is unsure.
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* When it becomes clear that the Hephaestus is being pulled into Wolf 359 increased gravitational pull Eiffel says that they are getting [[Music/BobDylan "tangled up in the blue."]]

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* Eiffel refers to the now blue Wolf 359 as a [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs "smurf,"]] and when they realized the stars radiation is making them paranoid, as the [[Main/TheBigBadWolf "Big Bad Wolf."]]
* Eiffel also refers to Wolf 359 turning blue as its [[Creator/PabloPicasso "blue period,"]] and calls it [[Creator/PabloPicasso "the big, scary Picasso painting in the sky."]]
* When Minkowski tells that a star "suddenly changing color and principle characteristics" is not something that "happens," Eiffel calls her "Copernicus" and tells her to look out the window and smell the [[Music/JoniMitchell "Joni Mitchell."]]
* As the crew becomes increasingly more paranoid, Eiffel suggests locking away all of the dangerous firearm on the station before anybody starts [[Film/TheShining "Here Johnnie-ing"]] anybody else.
* Eiffel also suggests that Hera be in charge of the key to the arms locker to make sure that [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest "nobody's packing until we all get one flew farther away from the cuckoo's nest."]]
* Eiffel is against allowing Hilbert out of his restraints because the last time there was a deep space anomaly Hilbert went [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution "Benedict Arnold."]]
* Minkowski rebuts Eiffel's concerns about Hilbert by saying that he was the one who put Eiffel's [[Main/NurseryRhyme "Humpty Dumpty ass back together again."]]
* When it becomes clear that the Hephaestus is being pulled into Wolf 359 increased gravitational pull Eiffel says that they are getting [[Music/BobDylan "tangled up in the blue."]]
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* Eiffel calls the eight-light year journey back to earth in a make shift pod the [[UsefulNotes/RollerDerby "Sub-Light Derby.]]

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* Eiffel calls the eight-light year journey back to earth in a make shift pod the [[UsefulNotes/RollerDerby "Sub-Light Derby.]]"]]
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* Eiffel jokes that he wants to stay on the Hephaestus in order to continue [[Music/NowThatsWhatICallMusic DJing NOW That's What I Call Music, 1789]].
* Eiffel brushes off Hera's concern by saying that he appreciates her [[Franchise/CareBears "Care Bear Stare."]]
* Eiffel calls the eight-light year journey back to earth in a make shift pod the [[UsefulNotes/RollerDerby "Sub-Light Derby.]]
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* Eiffel refers to Hilbert in this episode as [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Virus]], [[Literature/HeartOfDarkness Kurtz]], and [[Creator/LeoTolstoy Tolstoy]].
* When Hilbert slips up and tells Eiffel something personal about himself, Eiffel rewards [[Literature/HarryPotter 10 points to Slytherine]].
* Eiffel refers to Lovelace wanting to escape the Hephaestus and head back to earth in their make-shift pod as her wanting to [[Franchise/StarTrek "Boldly Go."]]

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