Shout Out / Wolf 359

With a Reference Overdosed main character, it's not hard to reach Shoutout-overload.

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Season 1

Succulent Rat-Killing Tar

• Eiffel refers to "human-AI relations," possibly a shoutout to C-3P0's catchphrase.
• When told he needs to read Pryce & Carter's Deep Space Survival Procedure and Protocol Manual:
  Eiffel: Have you got this... Jimmy Carter thing in your databanks?
• Eiffel refers to Minkowski as the "resident Stasi agent."

Little Revolución

• Eiffel mentions sensing "the teeniest disturbance in the Force" as grounds for dumping their last tube of toothpaste into a bucket of oil.
• He also hallucinates Peter Sellers playing a Gameboy in the corner.
• Apparently, after seventeen hours shut in the comms room at -40º, happiness is vindicating your beliefs and cleaning your mouth out while humming Mercedes Benz by the immortal Janis Joplin.

Discomforts, Pains and Irregularities

• Eiffel tells Minkowski to just give the abnormal plant sample some "soylent chow."
• Eiffel refers to Hilbert as "Comrade Doctor Moreau."

Cataracts and Hurricanoes

• The title is a reference to King Lear.
• The episode opens with Eiffel monologuing over Also sprach Zarathustra for dramatic effect.
  Eiffel: Today I come to you direct from the final frontier, from the realm of the Alpha and the Omega. Today, I am recording... from outer space. There are no words to describe the experience. To stand upon the firmament, to gaze upon a star as an equal... today I am not unlike the Gods. "When once you have tasted spaceflight, you will forever walk with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to-" [BUZZER]
• Eiffel notes that his mag-boots are "not as Star Trek" as Minkowski's propulsion maneuvering unit.
• Eiffel describes his situation as "everything is Gimme Shelter."
  Minkowski: Eiffel none of us have time to figure out what that means. For once in your life just speak plain English.
  Eiffel: Really?! “Ooh, a storm is threatening, my very life -” All right fine, things are AWFUL out here, that plain enough!?

Cigarette Candy

• Eiffel notes he suspects Minkowski sneaks into his room to "NSA" through his logs.

Super Energy Saver Mode

• While procrastinating with Hera, Eiffel quotes "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and notes that any list of "Top 5 Stick-It-To-The-Man Songs" without "Anarchy in the UK" would be mathematically unsound.
• With Hera and most electrical systems offline, Eiffel compares the Hephaestus with the Overlook Hotel.
• Eiffel aptly likens his log to a horror radio show:
  Eiffel: (mock announcer voice) “We interrupt tonight’s presentation of Hammer Horror's The Amityville Space Station to bring you a quick word from our spons-”
• Eiffel refers to the weird whispering as "Stephen King FM."

The Sound and the Fury

• Title is a reference to the 1997 heavyweight boxing championship match between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson II.
  Eiffel: And you’re all just in time for tonight’s entertainment! Holyfield/Tyson, the Leo Constellation match. I don’t know who threw the first punch, but it’s been going for the past two hours. And of course, they decide to host The Sound and the Fury right outside my door...
• 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 Home Alone 2.
• Eiffel refers to Minkowski and Hera as the "clashing titans", calls Hera "our version of Clippy," and says he's a "huge fan of Switzerland when told to pick a side between them.
• Eiffel rates their situation on a scale of "Spidey-sense is tingling" to "Batsignal in the sky."
• Eiffel warns Hera and Minkwoski that they should really deal with the mutant plant monster currently choking Dr. Hilbert before it turns into an Audrey II situation.

Box 953

• One of Eiffel's reasons for not participating in the quarterly talent show:
  Eiffel: I can deal with the bad food, low shower pressure, and lack of Simpsons reruns around here, but I have my limits. It’s either not smoking OR Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus,” not both of them together.
• Eiffel refers to the start of the talent show as "the witching time of night" being upon them.
• Eiffel also describes the many bizarre contents of the store room as "some Raiders of the Lost Ark stuff."
• Minkowski decides to forcibly put on a production of The Pirates of Penzance.
• Eiffel describes Minkowski's forays into theater as her "releasing her inner Bob Fosse"

The Empty Man Cometh

• Title is a play on The Iceman Cometh
• Eiffel references the song Riders on the Storm.
• Eiffel describes the Empty Man's imminent attack as him going "Big Bad Wolf on our straw house".
• Eiffel tells Minkowski that "decoding transgalactic transmissions ain’t like dusting crops, farmgirl."

Extreme Danger Bug

• Eiffel decides to take a new approach to his log-making:
  Eiffel: Welcome, friends, to a very special live action episode of the log of Douglas Eiffel, communications officer to the stars. Today I’m gonna shake things up a little bit - be a little less NPR and a little more National Geographic with some mobile reportage.
• Eiffel calls the spider-filled room they discover "Charlotte's Lab."

Am I Alone Now?

• Eiffel says the psychological evaluation he has to take is to "make sure [he's] not about to go Norman Bates on everyone."
• Eiffel also refers to his crew mates by reference in his eval:
  Eiffel: Have you seen where I live? Ground Control to Major Tom, is your circuit dead, there’s something wrong. Look, here I am floating in a tin can, no one to talk to except G.I. Jane, Russian Doctor Doom, and Deep Blue Barbie, and my hotel room missed the delivery area for the nearest Domino’s by a couple of solar systems...
• Eiffel sets up a voice box to run himself through his psych eval to "give it that HAL 9000 touch."

Deep Breaths

• Eiffel's mournful speech about his last cigarette draws on Lord of the Rings:
  Eiffel: You join me, dear friends, on a day of sadness. A time of grim and mournful thoughts. An hour of wolves and shattered shields.
• Eiffel refers to Minkowski's efforts to hunt down his contraband cigarettes as the "local Gestapo raids."
• Eiffel quotes/references "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
• Eiffel says that the music broadcasts that he had been picking up were never "American Top 40 stuff."
• Also speculates that his job might be a psychological experiment to see if "he snaps and cuts off his left ear."
• Hilbert tells Eiffel that "when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however unlikely, must be the truth."
• After Hilbert takes control of the station by leaving Minkowski to die in space, Eiffel calls him Dr. Kevorkian.

Gas Me Twice

• Eiffel calls Hilbert Dr. Frankenstein, the Red Menace, and Boris Badenov.
• Emergency Code Alpha Victor is described as making Hera "go Manchurian Candidate."
• Eiffel refers to Hilbert's coup as the "October Revolution."
• Eiffel tells Hera to "hit me with your best shot" when they are brainstorming ideas of how to save the station from Hilbert.
• Eiffel calls his con to get Hilbert to give up information “Hilbert Phone Home.”
• After activating Hera's fire containment protocol, Eiffel has a gloat:
  Eiffel: Now we have the override. Ho-ho-ho.
• Eiffel calls Hera's fire precaution programming "Smokey Bear mode."

Season 2

The Kumbaya Approach

• Eiffel describes Hilbert's mutiny as "getting his Ernst Blofeld on," calls the alien transmissions their "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and calls the Hephaestus the "USS Mystery Machine."

What's Up Doc?

• Title is a reference to Bugs Bunny's iconic catchphrase.
• Eiffel calls Hilbert the Red Menace.
• Eiffel also asks whether they got Looney Tunes or Dr. Strangelove in Russia while pestering interrogating Hilbert.
• Eiffel doesn't miss an opportunity for a classic hammer joke:
  Minkowski: I'm going to ask you questions. You are going to answer in a very direct, very simple fashion. Every time you don't...
  Eiffel: It's hammer time for one of your hard drives!
• In their final attempt to interrogate Hilbert, Eiffel makes reference to Family Feud.

Painfully Ever After

• Eiffel refers to the alarms going off as likely being "bad news bears."
• Eiffel references President Obama's campaign slogan:

Eiffel: Commander, we can't keep this up.
Minkowski: Yes, we can.
Eiffel: No, Barack, we can't.

• Eiffel calls Hilbert "Dr. Iscariot", a Hitchcock antagonist, and (very sarcastically) Ghandi.
• When Minkowski argues for letting Hilbert repair Hera's hardware, Eiffel says that's "Hilbert Kool-Aid talking."
  Eiffel: You're not the one who just found out he's being used as a Build-A-Virus Workshop.
• As they attempt to boot Hera back up, Eiffel quotes Jurassic Park:
  Minkowski: Hilbert, plug her in.
  Eiffel: Hold on to your butts...

Bach to the Future

• Title is a play on Back to the Future.
• When Eiffel thinks his hour without pop-culture references is over, he immediately makes up for lost time:
  Eiffel: Get ready for the Recap: our Space Odyssey's getting Bach to Bach Good Mornings, Vietnam from Alien Radio Free Europe, and our Nostromo's one photon torpedo away from losing its deflector shields. Our paranoid android's having ED-209 moments, G.I. Jane's beginning of a beautiful friendship ended in marriage to Clark Kent, Darth Frankenstein's having a timeout in the cooler, what we've got here is a failure to communicate, and if you think any of that's gonna change anytime soon, forget it, Jake! IT'S CHINATOWN!

Happy to be of Assistance

• Eiffel calls Hera "Rosie" after the Jetsons robot maid.
• When queueing up the audio files found on an old terminal, Eiffel calls it "Blast from the Past volume one."
• Lovelace's audio log seems to be a grim report of alien attack until she clarifies:
  Lovelace: It is day 97 of our orbit around Wolf 359. We are not, I am happy to say, under attack by little green men.
• After hearing about Lovelace's crew, Eiffel wonders why Command "sent Captain Picard up here with only half the crew they gave Kirk."

Let's Kill Hilbert

• Title is a reference to the title of the Doctor Who episode "Let's Kill Hitler".
• Eiffel refers to their meeting about whether or not to kill Hilbert as a "very secret Night Court edition of the logs of Douglas Eiffel."
• As an alternative to killing Hilbert immediately, Eiffel suggests yelling "HILBERT" in Shatnerian fury.
• Eiffel refers to Hilbert as "Dr. Sputnik."
• In the same episode, Eiffel also calls Hilbert "Dr. Sex, Lies, and Audiotape."
• Eiffel mentions that his knowledge of plumbing "begins and ends with Mario Kart 2."
• While suffering from oxygen deprivation, Eiffel, "loopy" from the lack of air, jokes "Do machines read of electric sheep?"
• After Hera tricks Eiffel into pulling the release lever that almost kills himself and Dr. Hilbert, Eiffel refers to himself as the "the wrench that killed Mr. Boddy." A reference to the murder victim from the film Clue.

The Paranoia Game

• When Eiffel asks Minkowski why she would assume that he would mess up when overseeing Hilbert.
  Minkowski: Because you are you and he is he and I am me and we are all together.
  Eiffel: Goo goo g'joob?
  Minkowski: Oh good Lord, it's finally catching.
• Eiffel threatens Hilbert by saying that he can "still downgrade your quarters from Shawshank to Stalag Luft."

Minkowski Commanding

• Eiffel admits that the mutant plant monster is "not exactly Bambi's mom, but still would like for Minkowski to "just let sleeping dogweeds lie."
• Eiffel says that one of Minkowski's traps look like it was built by "Wile E. Cayote on speed!"
• Eiffel refers to Minkowski efforts to track down the mutant plant monster it as "Captain Ahab's Space Walkabout."
• When Minkowski cuts the station lights in order to track down the mutant plant monster, Eiffel mentions that it not unlike the lighting in Heart of Darkness.
• For a time, Eiffel relents and allows Minkowski to work the "The Most Dangerous Game" thing out of her system.
• When Eiffel is finally fed up with Minkowski's mission and stubbornness, he admonishes her by saying that although everyone is entitled to a "Howard Beale breakdown," he can no longer take her antics and is concerned for her health and sanity.

Mutually Assured Destruction

• When Eiffel and Minkowski are preparing to meet Captain Lovelace, they are both understandably paranoid as they assumed and were told that she was dead. Minkowski tells Eiffel that if a "tap-dancing dinosaur" steps out of Lovelace's pod, she doesn't want to hear Eiffel so much as blink. Eiffel responds by saying that he'll set his "Barney sensors" to "maximum prejudice."
• When Minkwoski and Lovelace are pointing guns at each other, Eiffel tries to deescalate he situation by telling them to put down the gun before "anybody starts asking if anybody else is feeling lucky."
• When brainstorming how Lovelace could possibly be alive, Eiffel suggests that they test her with a Voight-Kampff kit.
• Eiffel says that he knows that there is "something rotten in the state of Denmark" with the whole Lovelace situation.
• Eiffel refers to fixing Lovelace's pod to get back to earth as MacGyvering the ship.
• Eiffel calls Minkowski's suspicions about Lovelace her "spidey-senses"
• Eiffel imitates Porky Pig when talking to Lovelace.
• Eiffel asks Lovelace if she really plans on going Edmond Dantes on Cutter and the rest of Command.

No Pressure

• Eiffel refers to Lovelace as Dread Pirate Lovelace.
• Eiffel cautions Minkowski and Hera against taking direct action against Lovelace because he is pretty sure she will find a way to Rambo them back for it.

Tactical Brain Damage

• In an attempt to prove to Lovelace that he is not trying to sabotage her plans of escaping the Hephaestus, Eiffel says that he "got the Cigarette Smoking Man breathing down my neck, Comrade Honeydew using me as an Easy Bake Oven for Space-nish Influenza, and Commander Queeg riding my back. And that was all before you appeared with a powerful urge to blow up my timeshare. What, exactly, do you think I have the energy to try?!"

Lame-O Superhero Origin Story

• Eiffel refers to Hilbert in this episode as Darth Virus, Kurtz, and Tolstoy.
• When Hilbert slips up and tells Eiffel something personal about himself, Eiffel rewards 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 "Boldly Go."

Do No Harm

• Eiffel jokes that he wants to stay on the Hephaestus in order to continue DJing NOW That's What I Call Music, 1789.
• Eiffel brushes off Hera's concern by saying that he appreciates her "Care Bear Stare."
• Eiffel calls the eight-light year journey back to earth in a make shift pod the "Sub-Light Derby."

Knock Knock

• Eiffel refers to the now blue Wolf 359 as a "smurf," and when they realized the stars radiation is making them paranoid, as the "Big Bad Wolf."
• Eiffel also refers to Wolf 359 turning blue as its "blue period," and calls it "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 "Joni Mitchell."
• As the crew becomes increasingly more paranoid, Eiffel suggests locking away all of the dangerous firearm on the station before anybody starts "Here Johnnie-ing" anybody else.
• Eiffel also suggests that Hera be in charge of the key to the arms locker to make sure that "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 "Benedict Arnold."
• Minkowski rebuts Eiffel's concerns about Hilbert by saying that he was the one who put Eiffel's "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 "tangled up in blue."

Who's There?

• Eiffel refers to Wolf 359 as the "Cookie Monster."

Season 3

Pan-Pan

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

Mayday

• Eiffel refers to deep space as "the kingdom where the light don't touch."
• After the version of Minowski that is a 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 The Great Escape.
• Eiffel mentions that he has a mental discography of John Williams soundtracks.
• Eiffel refers to Hilbert as Zoidberg.
• The version of Hilbert from Eiffel's imagination spitefully tells him to "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 The Empire Strikes Back.
• 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, Good Night, and Good Luck..
• Eiffel says that the aliens that they talked to in the episode "Who's There?" made Wolf 359 go "all Dr. Manhattan Project on us."

Sécurité

Controlled Demolition

Don't Poke the Bear

A Matter of Perspective

Need to Know

Fire and Brimstone

• Eiffel commenting on Minkowski's decision to go rogue:
  Eiffel: Commander, you know how tingly I get whenever you break out your Sarah Connor game but are you listening to yourself? This is murder!

Overture

Happy Endings

All Things Considered

• Eiffel calls the military inquiry conducted by Kepler a rerun of A Few Good Men.
• When using a tool, Jacobi refers to the noise it makes as similar to that of a lightsaber.

Limbo

Memoria

• Maxwell compares observing Hera's memories to a Pensieve from Harry Potter.

Time To Kill

Persuasion

Desperate Times

Desperate Measures

Boléro

• Title refers to Ravel's Boléro.

Season 4

Into the Depths

Theta Scenario

Out Of the Loop

The Hiccups Method

Shut Up and Listen

Constructive Criticism

Dirty Work

The Watchtower

• Title refers to the song All Along the Watchtower.
• Eiffel eventually realizes that the illusory room that The Dear Listeners have placed him in is straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

A Place for Everything

Idle Hands

The Devil's Plaything

Quiet, Please

• Title honors the classic radio show Quiet, Please

Crash and Burn

Terms and Conditions

Brave New World

• The title is a reference to The Tempest by William Shakespeare.

Mini-Episodes

Are Space Suits Itchy?

Day One

Variations on a Theme

Meanwhile

Long Story Short

Once in a Lifetime

Rebranding

Language Mapping

Greensboro

Things That Break Other Things

Decommissioned

Pagliacci

• Title refers to the opera Pagliacci.

Kansas

• Title is part of a Wizard of Oz reference.
  Mr. Cutter: Come on, Dorothy. Don't you want to see what's behind the curtain?

One of Them

Mission Mishaps: A Little Night Music

Mission Mishaps: The Space You're In

Mission Mishaps: You Want, I Solve

Mission Mishaps: The Veldt

Mission Mishaps: Lights Out

• Title honors the classic radio show Lights Out

Mission Mishaps: Cold Turkey

Mission Mishaps: No Complaints

Mission Mishaps: Happy Holidays

Specials

Deep Space Survival Procedure and Protocol Manual

Change of Mind

• 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 Cabin Pressure. Gabriel Urbina has confirmed he's a fan of the show.

Volte Face