1 | * Ash's father is fittingly named [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Brock.]] |
2 | * Near the beginning of "Brujo" Kelly says "[[Theatre/DrivingMissDaisy Drive, Miss Daisy]]" to Ash. |
3 | * During his VisionQuest, Ash says he wants to go "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz back to Kansas]]." |
4 | * "There ''is'' no [[spoiler:Kelly]] anymore!" from "The Host" is a reference to ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''. |
5 | * In "The Killer of Killers", Pablo quotes Yoda's speech about the nature of revenge from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' to Kelly. |
6 | * Linda's severed head being told she's "just a head" and her offer to [[{{Pun}} give Ash head]] are likely references to ''Film/ReAnimator''. |
7 | * Ash offhandedly remarks that he'd like to "bang Mary-Anne from ''Series/GilligansIsland''." |
8 | * In "The Dark One" Ash likens [[spoiler:Ruby's]] plan to ''Film/TheGodfather'', remarking that he didn't like that movie [[TakeThat because it was too long]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and there weren't enough boobies]]. He then goes on to say that he's "more of a ''Film/DeathWish'' kind of guy." |
9 | * Ash apparently [[ICallItVera calls his chainsaw and shotgun]] "[[Film/TheThreeStooges Moe and Larry]]." |
10 | * In "Last Call", when Ash's car is possessed by the Necronomicon, the car burst into flames similar to [[ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider the Ghost Rider's car]]. Also is very similar to {{Film/Christine}}. |
11 | * Ash's childhood bedroom in "The Morgue" is decorated with several era-appropriate posters featuring the likes of Music/BlackSabbath, Music/AliceCooper, Music/TheStooges and Music/SuziQuatro. There's also a large cardboard standee advertising "[[Film/TheThreeStooges Shemp's]] Beer." |
12 | * When Ash is attempting to remove the Necronomicon from [[TreasureChestCavity inside a corpse]] in "The Morgue" and is met with resistance from the entangled guts he says "What the [[Creator/RayHarryhausen Harryhausen]]?" |
13 | * When Ruby is bleeding in "Trapped Inside" Kelly tells her to "Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} that shit up." |
14 | * In "Delusion" upon seeing the Ashy Slashy puppet, Kelly asks "What the Series/FraggleRock is that thing?" |
15 | * In "Ashy Slashy" Kelly calls the Ashy Slashy puppet a [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]]. |
16 | * In "Home Again" the 1980s theatre Ash drives by is showing a double feature of ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'' and ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}.'' It also has posters on display for ''Film/{{Stripes}}'', ''[[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 The Hills Have Eyes]]'', and ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial.'' |
17 | * In "Second Coming," [[spoiler:Ash is honored as a hero by his hometown and sees [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi the ghosts of Cheryl, Chet, and Brock cheering him on]]]]. |
18 | * In "Second Coming", [[spoiler:Ruby's decapitated head, thrown unceremoniously in the back of the Delta (by her 80's-self), marks the second time Creator/LucyLawless has been [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess beheaded off-screen]].]] |
19 | * Ash constantly mispronounces the name of the manipulative demon who wants to throw the world into an age of chaos and darkness and who wants to get his hands on a TomeOfEldritchLore as [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill]]. |
20 | * In "Unfinished Business", Kelly calls Brandy WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}. |
21 | * In "Unfinished Business", Brock refers to his fists as "Ike & Music/TinaTurner's Greatest Hits" when threatening a Knight of Sumeria. |
22 | * "Tales from the Rift" names a parallel dimension as the Dead Lands. Campbell is a fan of the ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' RPG. |
23 | * In "Tales from the Rift", Marcus comes back possessed and fuses with another hapless Knights of Sumeria member, similar to ''Film/TheThing2011'', where a victim gets his face and eventually his whole body fully assimilated by the Thing. |
24 | * When Ash is attempting to pilot a [[TankGoodness tank]] in "The Mettle of Man" he tells himself it'll be just like ''[[Videogame/Battlezone1980 Battlezone]].'' |
25 | * Might be coincidence, but when Ash [[spoiler:is in the future in the final moments of the series finale, his gray temples and the jacket he wears make him resemble the future old Wolverine from ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast.]] |
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