Line #13 GeniusBonus/WebOriginal


1	Works with their own pages:
2	* ''GeniusBonus/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''
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4	!!Other:
5	* ''WebVideo/AMVHell'', despite being mostly lowbrow humor, has a degree of this in that you need a lot of knowledge about a lot of different shows to get all the jokes.
6	* Maddox, owner of ''[[http://maddox.xmission.com The Best Page In The Universe]]'', occasionally interjects these in his pages:
7	--> "In fact, this book can be expressed mathematically by the following theorem: lim(manliness -> â) Books = ''The Alphabet of Manliness''" \
8	"36 NEW PAGES! 8 FULL-COLOR INSERTS! ''NEW ISBN NUMBER!'' '''HOLY SHIT!'''"
9	* In Berleezy's [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m0t5kuvAY2I JIMMY NEUTRON: EXPOSED]] Berleezy references [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra the Project MKUltra experiments]].
10	* ''Literature/ChaosFighters'' shows the constituents of various alloys and composites which can be understand better if one has the periodic table of elements.
11	* The first impression show ''Continue?'' follows these with '''''SMART JOKE''''' vibrating in big red letters appearing onscreen.
12	* ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'' is laden with little references that are not necessary to the plot but are quite interesting to know about nonetheless. The catch is that one must be fairly well versed in science to understand them.
13	* ''Literature/DreamHighSchool'':
14	** Mr. Army (who isn't the brightest bulb) capitalizes the names of two cheeses wrong ''in his dialogue.'' [[StealthPun Yes, you read that correctly.]]
15	*** You can tell the writer knew the correct capitalization too, because Miss Paloma, who apparantly knows about cheeses, correctly capitalizes them in her dialogue immediately before and after Mr. Army's line.
16	*** The particular line of dialogue, "Well, Burrata is good, but I'm much more partial to gouda myself." was provided by a reader who won the opportunity to give the writer a sentence to use in the story. Was the reader testing the author, or was it an accident?
17	* In ''WebVideo/DemoReel'', Uncle Yo compares Donnie to Sisyphus. Sisyphus was punished for his lies by having to walk a rock up a steep hill over and over. Donnie has told nobody about his tragic past by this point, and his punishment is self-loathing.
18	* This happens frequently in the ''WebVideo/DrGlaucomflecken'' series since the primary audience of the series is doctors:
19	** Glaukomflecken is an ocular characteristic that is a sign of acute angle closure glaucoma.
20	** Ortho is frequently shown to really love Ancef. Ancef aka Cefazolin is an antibiotic that is administered to prevent infections related to surgery and to treat bone and joint infections.
21	** In [[https://youtu.be/lX1ZbR50bso Bill does a Lumbar Puncture]], Neurology hands Bill a bottle of red wine for the "traumatic [spinal] tap" he did. A lumbar puncture without the presence of red blood cells is considered a "champagne tap," so a red wine tap would be one with red blood cells.
22	** In [[https://youtu.be/icgTvRLjw0o Showdown in Dialysis]], Nephrology says, "Why is this patient getting dialysis? Yesterday she had four functional nephrons." Nephrons are filtering units in kidneys, and the average person has one million nephrons per kidney.
23	** In [[https://youtu.be/K6PTkwtyU0U The Anesthesiologist Goes to Therapy]] Psychiatry mentions that Anesthesia wrote "The General Surgeon is a Mallampatti IV" on a whiteboard in the hospital. The Mallampatti scale is a measurement of the distance between the tongue base and the roof of the mouth, which is a predictor of how difficult it will be to intubate a patient for surgery. A IV on the Mallampatti scale is the highest possible score and is a predictor of a more difficult intubation.
24	* ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' (a narrative playthrough of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' "voiced" by Gordon Freeman himself) does this a ''lot.'' Sophisticated jokes about quantum physics pop up from time to time (Gordon is supposed to be a physicist, after all) and the episode where Gordon does nothing but talk like a pirate is full of archaic English and historically accurate nautical terms. Fortunately the show is still very approachable from a lowbrow perspective.
25	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' once recites Coulomb's Law, though he mistakes it for the sum of two and two.
26	** A Strong Bad email featured a jumbled spam message to which Strong Bad says, "Did the quadratic formula explode?".
27	** In "Ballad of The Sneak", the eponymous creature is referred to as "The Strong Bad's [[Theatre/DonGiovanni Leporello]]".
28	* [[http://gomerblog.com/ GOMERBlog]] is basically ''Website/TheOnion'' for medical personnel, mostly physicians. It is chock full of these kinds of jokes, such as when a nurse's "Eyes Get Stuck After Aggressive Eyeroll," leading her to have a case of Eyeroll-Induced Strabismus (ERIS). Eris is the Greek goddess of strife.
29	* ''WebVideo/{{Jontron}}'':
30	** {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d for laughs in his review of ''Film/BirdemicShockAndTerror'' when he jokes that the movie was written by 18th century novelist and poet Creator/CharlotteBronte.
31	---> My god! Every character speaks in run-on sentences! I'm sorry, I wasn't aware this movie was written by Charlotte Brontë!
32	---> (The words '''''SMART JOKE''''' fill the entire screen to triumphant music)
33	** In his review of ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'', he questions the movie's lack of focus and asks if it's a Shakespearean classic while zooming in on [[{{Squick}} Tim Allen's crotch.]] While it may seem like a random joke that makes no sense (Which is typical for Jon), it's a lot funnier if you know that Shakespeare was far from a stranger to dick jokes and the like.
34	* [[Website/TheAgonyBooth Mr. Mendo's]] [[http://www.agonybooth.com/video645_Coal_Black_and_de_Sebben_Dwarfs_Censored_Eleven.aspx review]] of a racially insensitive propaganda cartoon ends with a lengthy soliloquy about how the animators must have been "sulky and dissatisfied". With some slight re-purposing, this is a word-for-word quote from an [[http://www.google.com/books?id=mjkCAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA707&#v=onepage&q&f=false actual medical journal]] from over 150 years ago talking about the supposed "disease" of black slaves wanting freedom from their white captors.
35	* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': TransparentCloset Jonath-ahem, Than, compares Brittany Matthew's genitalia to [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings The Eye Of Sauron]]. To put it this way, [[ReferenceOverdosed a good portion of this series]] (as well as its sister show, ''WebAnimation/DrHavocsDiary'') isn't as funny if you don't have an above-average knowledge of pop-culture stuff.
36	* ''WebAnimation/TheNekciMenijShow'' is fueled by Genius Bonuses, particularly in regards to the modern music industry. No bit of Billboard chart knowledge or tidbit about an artist's personal life is too obscure to be joked about.
37	* Players who haven't read ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing'' will have a hard time understanding the plot to ''VideoGame/OedipusInMyInventory''.
38	* One of ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'''s mods is Kukulu, a CaptainErsatz of [[Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu Cthulhu]]. If you look at his profile, his country section says he's from "Pitcairn", which is the name of one of the three RealLife countries nearest to the canon location of R'lyeh.
39	* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
40	** During ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]'', at one point [[TVGenius Simmons]] claims that it's so cold that it's -40 degrees Celsius. [[BookDumb Grif]] and [[GuileHero Tucker]] only respond with blank stares (with Grif even asking him to "[[GlobalIgnorance repeat it in American]]"), to which Simmons sarcastically responds by claiming that it's actually -40 degrees ''Fahrenheit'', and they're all idiots. In reality, -40 degrees is the point where the two scales are identical.
41	** In the [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueSeason14 season 14]] episode "Immersion: Warthog Flip", [[GratuitousSpanish Lopez]] refers to the movie ''Film/{{Speed}}'' by calling it ''Maximum Velocidad''. [[ShownTheirWork That was the actual Latin American title]] for ''Speed'' in reality, and it's a rather impressive detail to include considering how Lopez's Spanish is [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels usually meant to be intentionally awful.]]
42	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The episode [[Recap/RWBYV6E6AloneInTheWoods "Alone in the Woods"]] is one long ShoutOut to Creator/HermanMelville’s classic short story "Bartleby the Scrivener," which focuses on a Wall Street copyist who eventually dies [[spoiler:because he is too depressed to work or even feed himself]].
43	* Of a sort: Sears.com had a zombie-themed page for Halloween with the text almost entirely in Zamgrh, one of the user-created languages of ''VideoGame/UrbanDead''.
44	* The Finnish-made science fiction parody ''WebAnimation/StarWreck'' is full of this trope. For example, most Star Trek items are called the by the names given to them by older bad translations of the shows.
45	* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
46	** Phase is almost as [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] as WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}, with refs covering everything from Shakespeare and Sinclair Lewis to Umberto Eco and Spenser. Also doubles as "Showing off the Research".
47	** When Chaka is deciding on her codename ('chaka' means 'leopard'), she mentions some old book by some Belgian guy who said that pound for pound, the leopard is tougher than the lion. Most readers won't know this is supposed to be ''Congo Kitabu'' by Jean-Pierre Hallet.

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