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"Approximately how long did Sofia have to fight? All my life."
"The symbolism of baby Dragobete runs very deep in this parallel as well, as he is the symbol of a warm spring, and his mother Babadokia symbolizes the end of a harsh winter."
"The name 'Python' actually comes from Monty Python's Flying Circus." - Chris Peach
"Cyber attack and Chinese Transformers, that's what I would think."
"And remember, as they say in Oz, to khaki it."
"The couple stuck to their guns and presumably horns and cloven hooves and won the battle to name their child after the Lord of Darkness."
"I'm afraid that if we don't give science some time to catch up to fiction, Mjolnir will be tearing up its wearers."
"And by the end of it, you shooting. Hell, y'all even pull Ray Charles into this. Willie Nelson, there were seven Spanish angels in the altar of the sun."
"I mean who doesn't like Italians? Yeah, oh come on."
"There's a deep eucharization. He's talking about how Ukrainian Ukraine, I thought he talked about deuteronomization as well."
"Use a grown ass person like Gilda Radner used to do it, like they used to do on Saturday Night Live with the Uncle Roy coming over to the glass bottom boat."
"Honestly, right now gives me solo leveling vibes."
"Why the Brits refer to half of the foods they eat as some kind of pudding... make good choices."
"What do you make of these Unsolved Mysteries?"
"I'd like say the KNG made it in now team como sometimes he didn't say good old Boggs never walked again it's a classic classic line right."
"I love the conspiracy theories that like Loki's digging into the whole DB Cooper one the Polybius game one those are fun."
"420 is a pot smoking reference, that in the real world isn’t funny, but it’s really hilarious if you are either a 15 year old boy, or a tech billionaire."
"Getting Dogmeat as a companion is a direct reference to Mad Max."
"To put it simply, I loved Cyberpunk's main story content. The main quest kinda feels like Billy Idol's Cyberpunk album had a baby with Blade Runner."
"Black Panther had a great comment at the end of the Civil War where he said revenge is eating everyone alive."
"They're here, they're Among Us, and they're shopping!"
"Mana, we're gonna disable divert trade and force you to commit seppuku again."
"What start off as Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh, Hoenn, and the Sevii islands, all references to real-life locations in Japan."
"This is artistry on steroids, bro. Like, that is crazy how they're able to link the cultural references in the past and in their presence into their lives."
"When I first noticed these music boxes and the songs they play, I couldn’t believe what a cool reference this really is!"
"Pulp Fiction went out of its way to cram the movie full of as many references to American life and culture as possible."
"Stay blessed, don't stress, namaste, may the Force be with you."
"Imagine King Von on GTA RP, man. King Von was living GTA RP, people."
"Peaky Blinders is an awesome show with a lot of references."
"It happened so often, in fact, that it became a running joke."
"That was an awesome, yeah, it was uh, it was Wilkerson woke."
"It brings me back to like movies like American Psycho with like the business cards and like like the coat like the whole like culture."
"What the hell you calling me up asking me to say 'how about them Cowboys' for you for?"
"This dance too is a reference, but not to The Mickey Mouse Club like you might have heard online."
"Minato's favorite phrase was the fire's shadow illuminates the village."
"In order to understand why somebody does what they do we have to go back way back back into time so sorry I had to pull out the Casey and Jo Jo lyrics you know because we're talking about like 90s R&B right now and I just had to do it."
"Uncle Tom was a hero. Man, damn, I just said you were my friend, brother, that you had to end with that."
"The Simpsons Hit and Run at Marathon runs is always funny because there are so many references."
"Araki kind of accidentally predicted 911 back in 1991 and he did it through Oingo Boingo. Coincidence? I think not."
"A mouthful: Pork Gibbs and meat skins snacks."
"Black people who have not experienced unfair policing think more like Spike Lee, while black people who have experienced unfair policing think more like characters in Spike Lee films."
"Except for dogs because All Dogs Go to Heaven."
"Simply watching it was no longer synonymous with being the walrus."
"Every solution for everything, you know what, it's all in The Witcher."
"It's like Tarzan you know and that's all they say and that gives us a great window to talk to the independence."
"The foot clan is essentially a Fagin-esque Oliver Twistian honey trap."
"Paperclip is like the known, the thing that Johnny Harris does."
"I could understand the argument that it's lazy if cartoons weren't doing blatant references for the last 20 years."
"If you want to live a good life live like ROM and if you want to live a happy life live like Krishna."
"Diamonds have to be worth a lot, I mean everyone knows that. We've all played Minecraft."
"May you live in interesting times" - a kind of depth to the thing.
"Black folks will lose your name. I'm Megan married a prince okay i'ma go see Prince Hakeem get married and coming to America - I'm good."
"Making this video and not mentioning Toho would be like eating dry toast."
"It all led up to the infamous ad of Mario with the tribal tattoo."
"Brilliant one-liners, a plus physical comedy, those outfits, plus tons of references to Broadway and classic Hollywood."
"We're off to see the wizard, The Wizard of Oz."
"The true 13th sign is that of the 13th Crystal Skull and the 13th tribe of Israel."
"Fallout 1 is a landmark in PC RPGs, it wears its influences on its sleeve from having armor that looks like the road warriors jacket to having energy weapons that look like Flash Gordon."
"That's how you do it, right? You do it like it's a Christmas carol or It's a Wonderful Life."
"This date pun is much more substantive because it's referencing the way that you would say one piece in Japanese directly as well as connecting it to the sound of a bell."
"The card's exposed, eating [__], American Pie. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, keep watching, keep going."
"This special encounter is of course one of the many references to Monty Python inside Fallout 2."
"Darkness is good. Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, Satan. That's power."
"I always imagine just walking down Steven bumping into him like, 'Yo man, I see what you did, it's fat Drake man, we should do something.'"
"Marvel's true love... this is Superman and Lois, this is Romeo and Juliet."
"David Bowie played Nikola Tesla in the movie The Illusionist, and then there's a Tesla in space playing David Bowie."
"You just had Smoky Paprika and Almond Pringles. Paprika is commonly used in the cuisine of this country, and this country also happens to be the second largest almond producer in the world behind the USA, and that country is Spain."
"It's amazing how many memorable quotes and references there are."
"They got really meta with some of the references too."
"In 100 years we will have flying cars. 20 years later: Fear not, lady, I will save you. You're in the wrong meme."
"Speaking of others on the cannibal's menu, it's pretty obvious who the King is based on."
"Cheers Friday night, la chayama salud nostrovia strava! Every time you say it's Friday night, I think of Wayne's World."
"We are heading towards an Attack on Titan version of Ragnarok."
"Even if some stuff might not be in the original, it probably has heavy references."
"My concern with fishing is that it may turn into another Serenitea Pot."
"Who needs emotional moments when there are pop culture references to be made and fights to be had?"
"That's what I love about these Westeros girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."
"So like the doors was based off of Alice Huxley the doors of perception and how Huxley doing the Illuminati eye just like the doors doing the Illuminati eye."
"I do my best to figure out what's going on here and related to things that I feel like are truth in plain sight like Star Wars."
"Well, sir, this is Gotham but also, you know, extremely not."
"There's a reason why the whole 'but can he beat Goku' joke has become a cultural trademark in the anime Community."
"Remember when Odin called Asgard the real maternal? Well, let's hope these guys were a little more careful with using that word as their name."
"Luffy is the monkey for Momotaro. He also resembles or has inherited the will of a potential deity protector of Wano."
"Lori Loughlin, she better hope that when she faces the judge, the judge pulls up Uncle Jesse and he decides to have mercy."
"Tesla is more like watching Starship Troopers. It's like where grit meets science."
"New coke is better... it's almost like a meme."
"It's a Frankenstein moment. It's a Jurassic Park moment."
"There's no other arc in the series that does what Wano does. It's packed with references and details, thanks to Oda's love for his home country."
"Russian scientist dr. Cossack I mean come on seriously where's the Spanish scientist dr. flamenco and his tower is very well I think he was a big fan of hardman -"
"The practice of coding numbers into words again there's the song out there by the band Slipknot gematria the killing name."
"Dali was once popularly called 'dalifornia,' the home base of Chinese hippies."
"My name is Mike. My name is Mike. There has never been a hurricane named Chuck because it would have destroyed everything. Chuck Norris is the reason Waldo is hiding. No."
"Jokes are so hard. Easy jokes? Chuck Norris jokes."
"Let's get into some things that are very Delta."
"Don't you believe they put a man on the moon?"
"Barry Tompkins dude, Rocky V, Rocky IV, I mean come on."
"I'd say that Britney Spears had a more cogent slavery argument in the song 'I'm a Slave for You' than their mask thing."
"For the next 20 years, somebody's gonna be able to say 'shoe scene' and movie fans will know exactly what they're talking about."
"Make the world a better place... isn't that like a song lean on me?"
"This is a send-up of the well-known 'Paul is dead' hoax... it's an older reference but it still checks out."
"The wings could be a reference to the people of Skypiea, the Birkins, and therefore, connect it to the ancient weapon Uranus."
"Germany is a fancy fancy base what the heck are you looking at Chernobyl?"
"It's less used as a punch line and more uses of reference to how someone's mental changes over time."
"She's gonna be wearing a leather jacket. Oh, she's a biker. She's a biker mice from mars."
"Dual shields is the true gentleman's weapon."
"The Babylonian Talmud is comparatively full of references to demons and magic."
"I feel like a bit of me just died. Aladdin was an amazing show that always kept it fresh and new with the genie's pop-culture jokes."
"Don't hold them up okay, and it's not just a Philly cheesesteak or Wawa or whatever, don't hold them up."
"The Matrix is breaking... The Matrix is glitching."
"Autumn, fall, spooky season - whatever the title, this time is well known for its crisp nighttime breezes, its picturesque cloud-covered moons, and its ghost stories."
"I think if they didn't do that one Taylor Swift line I think Taylor Swift would love the show."
"That's where this knife got its name: Kivar, kill a bear."
"Moon Knight is a mix of Egyptian Indiana Jones and Fight Club."
"Goodbye mega sparse you know you try so hard got so far but in the end I've made this joke way too many times I need to stop I need to cleanse myself of this stupid stupid song reference."
"Their love is epic, massive, like Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, Brad and Jennifer."
"Quick life lesson: People can't say mean things about you if you beat them to it first. That's right, I learned that as a kid while watching the hit 2002 film '8 Mile' starring Eminem."
"Aren't you gonna say the thing? What, no 'Avengers, assemble'? Yeah, we don't really say that. So where did people get the idea of you saying it?"
"That might be one of the craziest moments of the next decade."
"It's just like those little meta jokes are just so awesome."
"If you don't know now, you know." - "You already know."
"In bird culture, this is considered a dick move."
"I've that looks like danora no one in the chat knows who Dan Aura is he's a singer yeah and I know that and I was saying it to you."
"Raise your glasses for a toast to a little bit of chicken fry and cold beer on a Friday night."
"If Elon Musk says it, then it must be true, right?" - "Aliens built the pyramids obvi."
"Romancia straddled genres a bit like The Goonies to work though in very different ways."
"Even moments where if you're watching something and you don't recognize a reference but it feels like it's a reference."
"When their state of the art MK Ultra subliminal mind control psyops begin to falter and fail they revert right back to their Roots old-fashioned tried and tested Witchcraft and human sacrifice."
"Well, at least it gave us two banger quotes from Mewtwo and Meowth."
"We don't need multiplayer for now, China, I freaking love The Wizard of Oz."
"Nothing dates a movie more than saying Vanilla Ice is doing your soundtrack for it."
"I always irritated me immensely that so many people just recall their mental reference for anything on planet relating to off world is Area 51."
"A small but rather brilliant nod to Batman's past."
"Life is Strange abounds with pop culture Easter eggs."
"Champion isn't the only office connection either."
"I think the perfect ending would be like a Force Ghost thing, like the end of Return of the Jedi."
"It made us feel like Spider-Man. Like a Ghostbuster. Sorry. Like a Ghostbuster."
"People make references all the time in the real world."
"Children seem to connect to these images, you know like Aladdin and the princess here and Jasmine and your dinosaur and the fireman and you know these they're so powerful."
"That's the thing, but yeah, every time I see that from a chica monk, I can't help but think of a different chica, very, very ancient chica."
"He's rapping in Italian with a lot of Milanese references and a lot of African references."
"Wouldn't it be cool if a Marvel show actually had reference to my culture..."
"How did Bill Murray know there was a game going on down here?"
"It's been a long time, let's have fun, Peter. Pizza! Is there like a chance that he is like Peter Pan grown up? I guess so, yes."
"It's not just in how you can look, but how your character plays and develops. There's definitely going to be some Halo references in this."
"That's the sweetest thing you can take to say to a woman - at the time I thought it was like a stupid-ass song."
"The second that you no longer believe in it, you take the sunlight away from Superman is when it loses its power."
"I'm still mad you made me google pop clips for 60 seconds, dude. You could have just said the one line that I read, 'Predecessor to MTV.'"
"For some people, Valentine's is all about the chocolates and flowers, and for others, it's not Valentine's until Aragorn is crowned king once again."
"Every time we sacrifice a character or a dog to Kali, it adds points to her system."
"There's very like, 'Don't tug on Superman's cape,' don't tug on the lady of pain's neck blades or whatever, don't do it."
"Nobody can mess with Kim, only person would mess with Kim is Missy."
"Airwolf is never off topic, that's what's up."
"Even if you did, it doesn't matter cuz we love Shrek. Shrek's my checks, your what?"
"I can’t get enough of this saccharine baloney, it’s like Christmas Crack to me."
"Your morning regrets won't come close to the epic hangovers enjoyed by some of our favorite video game characters."
"Numerous historical figures have been referenced in Thomas, the current list includes Christopher Columbus, Jesse James, Harry Houdini, William Shakespeare, and Theodore Roosevelt." - Number 93
"It's kind of like Huck Finn as well, we all know the book but we have yet to have that definitive movie."
"Film noir, Hong Kong action cinema, Norse mythology."
"The truth is that the Mayan Long Count calendar actually ends on August 8, 2023, marking the destruction of your wallet."
"Slowpoke would say McGarrett Carol get the experience."
"Dude is really out here waiting to get rebooted like Fortnite."
"Stay back, I have the power of God and anime on my side!"
"It sounded like something ritualistic from like the craft or something."
"Whenever we have a plague of apocalyptic proportions, Egypt just seems fitting to start off."
"That moment when he was there on one knee described that I think for every girl like she always thinks of this feeling Kay kabuki I got Mooji Bulaga to Musa shaadi Karogi."
"Honestly, The Twilight Zone makes more sense than the current reality we live in."
"He brings a little book of Dante for Meadow and for AJ he brings the gobeto, the little hunchback. The hunchback is a good luck charm."
"From reaffirming that Digimon is best Issa guy to someone finally pronouncing 'Futomomo' the correct way, the Rant Cafe has truly been blessed with men and Whamon of culture."
"He's like a Greek god mixed with Rick from Rick and Morty."
"There's a movie called gaslight, and that's where it came from."
"The myth of Queen Elizabeth II reptilian Anunnaki overlords... Oh, and play so."
"The term metaverse was first coined 30 years ago in a science fiction book called Snow Crash."
"That's cool. Admit it, admit it. That's it, when I hear a wasp, and I specifically hear like Asian wasp, I'm thinking of all those other [ __ ] types of Asian wasps."
"The great con man Harold Hill once allowed a boy Brass Band so kids didn't fall victim to dangerous crimes like gambling, smoking, or reading Balzac."
"Instead of dead memes, they should be called memories."
"If it's good enough for James Bond, Hitler, Elvis Presley, I mean, that's the triple threat."
"There's a moment in the movie where Elvis learns about Sharon Tate's death."
"Great, that's it, that sounds more like the '80s, you got it."
"Whatever the year was, I get 2k, and then whatever the... might not even be 2k, could be three, but we still have gravestones."
"The Pirates movies provide the opportunity for bringing in famous lore from all parts of the world."
"In those days all you ever heard was Colors or Gigs."
"Train robberies have long been part of popular culture."
"Maybe some of you can relate to this nostalgia, and maybe some of you were born in 2005. So let me take you on a little journey back in time to the land of cropped jackets, beaded necklaces, low rise everything, in-your-face logos, Ugg boots..."
"Life is good, yeah, and growing up in Benin City in Nigeria, what were you wearing back then?"
"Cinderella being black. What black girl you know leaving the club before midnight, bro? And leaving her shoe at the club? Unless there's some cheap shoes, that ain't happening."
"The TL of this generation is actually one of my most favorite driving cars."
"I separate white from everything else, Jim Crow law, I go off talking Snowman Olaf, even got a little John."
"It's like the first time you watch Twin Peaks and you see Andy crying by the dead body of Laura Palmer, a police officer actually affected by a death instead of treating it with the bored expression of a professional."
"Are they gonna have to deal with Ryan and Homelander? And I'm wondering, is that gonna be like a white nationalist pipeline reference thing about young kids getting radicalized by falling in with the wrong crowd?"
"...a reverse Harry Styles in One Direction."
"I rest my case Shane watch his channel for anymore ET on relays it used to have its finger on the pulse that tunnel it was Rocco it was a dispatches hear me a 1931 film from the Bern but I know the country."
"A British and a French fighting a black nurse. Anime."
"Listen, in order to maintain air speed velocity, a swallow needs to get to the point, you know?"
"You know what I think? There's a lot more comparison to the Harry Potter universe than I originally thought."
"I just think it's funny because it's kind of a dumb little thing but yet, you know, hey when you talk about the Schwarzen Trooper Amish where I come from, where I grew up in the very strict Amish, everything, there's a rule to everything."
"The decade kicked off when a sex pervert future president played the saxophone and a drug-addled grunge rocker played Smells Like Teen Spirit."
"The story of the NP includes Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Jay Cooke, James J Hill, General George Custer, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, JP Morgan, and one great, big, baked potato."
"Somebody said, 'Are they going to talk about Jesus on this one or no?' And I just thought that was hilarious."
"Harman's distinct knack for obscure meta pop culture and academic references captivated more jaded viewers."
"It's like two Stoners arguing whether or not Sid Barrett was the heart of Pink Floyd."