1 | * Her makeup is based on ''Bosco'', an Creator/{{RTE}} children's programme. This is lampshaded frequently in her {{review}} of ''Bosco'', in which there is a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial about Bosco being an influence on her. |
2 | ** She remarks that Bosco's own minions appear to have the life expectancy of a [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap]] drummer. |
3 | * When Ilsa is playing with a dildo she cuts to an infamous clip from ''Series/DoctorWho'' of Jamie and The Doctor discussing the size of a spaceship. |
4 | * As a character is being burnt alive in ''Film/TurkeyShoot'' the "toasty" sound clip from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is dubbed in. |
5 | ** From the same review, after one of the prisoners gets run over she cuts to footage from ''Deathrace 2000''. |
6 | * She's fond of using footage from ''Film/BrainDead'', ''Series/TheDayToday'', and ''Film/AnotherGayMovie'' in most of her reviews. |
7 | * During her review of ''Left Behind'', she at one point says "[[Film/TheRoom2003 Oh hai]] token black guy!" |
8 | * During an appropriate scene in ''Raspberry Reich'', the sodomy song from ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'' is dubbed in, intercut with scenes from ''Film/TheProducers''. |
9 | * During the ''Film/CondorMan'' review she thinks the characters are now in [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Portmeirion]]- she's also on occasions worn a copy of Number 6's outfit. |
10 | * "[[Series/{{Angel}} Minion! Do the Dance of Exposition!]]" |
11 | ** Also, the music for the Dance of Exposition is from the [[CampGay Blue Oyster Bar]] scene from ''Film/PoliceAcademy 3''. |
12 | * During the ''Rats: Night of Terror'' review, she points out a woman in pseudo-Ren Faire rogue garb and makes a long string of ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' jokes. The film's [[AssPull strange final twist]] also earns the caption, "BEWARE THE [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} TECHNO-SKAVEN]]!" |
13 | ** There are also numerous voice clips of [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Megatron and Starscream]] during the subplot about the [[TheStarscream treacherous lieutenant]]. |
14 | * In ''Gwendoline'' during Willard's BigDamnHeroes moment, Hagan starts doing an impersonation of [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] [[Wrestling/UltimateWarrior the Ultimate Warrrior]], complete with mentions of [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment destrucity and skronk.]] |
15 | * Her review of the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "The Screwfly Solution" ends with a montage of the male on female violence set to "I'm Not a Killer" from ''Theatre/EvilDeadTheMusical''. |
16 | * Her second intro sequence is based on the intro to the anthology horror series ''Urban Gothic'', which she also reviews. |
17 | * During the ''Biggles'' review, Aleister does a parody of Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike. |
18 | ** In the same review, she gets her minion to use [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown the "SYMBOLISM!" gag]]. By beating him until he says it at the right volume. |
19 | ** Also in the same video she finds a letter from one of her minions who had travelled back in time, reading "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons It's cold in the past and there are wolves after me.]]" |
20 | * Between seasons she did a series of special reviews based on ''Series/QuantumLeap''. |
21 | * Aleister's full name is [[Series/DoctorWho Aleister Gordon Lethbridge Stewart]] D. Homelesssb'sterrd. |
22 | * "Oh, black censorship boxes, how I've missed you. [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} What fun we will have.]]" |
23 | * The villain in the ''Zombeak'' review is frequently compared to [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights Malachite]]. |
24 | ** A male reviewer in a hotel room crossover punching a female co-reviewer in the face? [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Sounds]] [[Creator/AllisonPregler familiar]]. |
25 | ** She greets Spoony in the ''Sting'' review while wearing Spider Jerusalem's glasses from ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''. |
26 | * In the ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub'' review, she drops in the "What's a ninja?"/"Just a fairy tale" exchange from ''[[Film/GodfreyHoNinjaMovies Ninja the Protector]]'', which itself has become a meme thanks to ''WebVideo/NinjaTheMissionForce''. |
27 | * In her ''Film/RazorBladeSmile'' review (already bedecked with one or two shout outs to [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade another World of Darkness game]]), she critiques how the script uses its master hacker to ''also'' deliver occult exposition, as the two fields aren't often linked. "[[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension The Technocracy]] isn't fucking real!" |
28 | * Another ''Vampire'' reference comes up in her ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' review, when the villain uses a disfigured mutant wearing a mask to fool the hero: "Ah, I see that Nosferatu has [[http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Obfuscate_(VTM) 999 faces left]]." |
29 | * Her review of ''Bitch Slap'' has her wondering if the answer to "You know what Kinky likes to play?" should be [[TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity a white card]]. |
30 | * Her review of ''Manborg'' compares the film to a mixture of several things: |
31 | ** ''Franchise/StarWars'' (it has "Force ghosts" in it) |
32 | ** ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' (the characters are basically Kano, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, and Sonya Blade, although she also makes a "Toasty!" reference when the villain is set ablaze) |
33 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' (the villain's right-hand man is tortured in a similar way to Starscream in the animated film) |
34 | ** WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment (the villain's right-hand man commits his evil plan ForScience, like Dr. Insano) |
35 | ** ''{{Franchise/Robocop}}'' and ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' (the main character is a cyborg, a dead soldier brought back with futuristic technology) |
36 | ** ''{{Film/TRON}}'' (there's basically a lightcycle sequence) |
37 | ** ''Film/MadMax'' and Music/BillyIdol (the character Justice is a post-apocalyptic-looking Aussie with blonde hair) |
38 | ** She describes Mina as a "an anime character", although she doesn't compare her to anyone specific. |
39 | * In her crossover review of ''Vikingdom'' with The Happy Viking: |
40 | ** A character saying "Look around you!" cuts to a scene from...''{{Series/LookAroundYou}}''. |
41 | ** The fight at the end between Thor and the protagonist is commentated on in the style of a Wrestling/WWESmackdown fight. |
42 | ** The badass ending leads to [[{{WesternAnimation/Metalocalypse}} Nathan Explosion]] responding, "Brutal." |
43 | * In her review of ''Left Behind 3'', she says that the actor playing the president has evolved into a [[{{StealthPun}} Gravitas-type]] {{Franchise/Pokemon}}. The villain, by contrast, is a {{Franchise/Digimon}}. |
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