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"An elegant weapon from a more civilized age."
"Let's get ethical, ethical. I want to get ethical."
"Welcome to the jungle, people. Welcome to the jungle. We've got fun and games."
"Esteemed Spanish writer extraordinaire Miguel de Cervantes put the praise of Barcelona into the mouth of his fictional character Don Quixote."
"It's wild to me that this story isn't as covered as you think it would be because, like between the different layers of hell and stuff, the seven deadly sins, it's one of the most referenced pieces of media ever."
"The importance of the spear...it's just such a useful tool...George Miller picked this, the spear, but yet elevated it and continued to have it evolve."
"I look like I know what a JPEG is? I just want a picture of a God dang hot dog."
"Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild... it's like the first time you watched a crazy computer-generated flick... like how people felt when they saw that Avatar movie, the first Jurassic Park."
"Everything falls apart, the center cannot hold."
"The name Einstein has become synonymous with the word genius."
"This fragrance smells like Christian Gray from 50 Shades of Gray."
"It's not tea, it's not chai, it's nectar of the gods."
"Noritoshi's appearance when using blood manipulation was meant to be loosely based on the Japanese comedian Gorgeous."
"In the Japanese version, Ganondorf specifically mentions his Shoki or miasma."
"In Japan, Hitmonchan is named after Japanese boxing champion Hiroyuki Ebihara."
"I want him to paint me like one of his French girls."
"Comfortably numb' thing again, once again Pink Floyd was right."
"We have actually castrated a lot of men...can you imagine the land of the Vikings suddenly we have no men left?"
"It's tough to pick one. I gotta go with the Smash Mouth song. Like, that's just the meme, right?"
"It's 2022 man, you know what I'm saying? So, Chad listen, I'ma tell you right now you guys got to chill with the allegations."
"It's like Christmas! Does Fred Durst know we wanted exactly this movie?"
"It's also pretty perfect that this film was made in Vancouver, Canada, a city that's been weed crazy since long before it was ever legalized."
"They say the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
"Nobody above the Bronx ever sat on the throne."
"Weezie's penguin design is a tribute to the Linux mascot, Tux."
"Honestly, right now gives me solo leveling vibes."
"Deadly Premonition is kind of like the horror game version of the show Twin Peaks."
"This game is so cute, it reminds me of Adventure Time."
"Come to the dark side, it's fun, we have cookies."
"…and I wouldn’t have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids."
"It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine."
"What day is that everyone? The seventh-day Sabbath."
"A Trip to the Moon gets referenced everywhere from Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, to the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1996 music video for Tonight, Tonight."
"We're pioneers, I like to say, exactly, you know, as Britney Spears once said."
"A horrible night to have a curse, yo, big reference to Simon's Quest, big Castlevania 2 reference."
"It's the cult, they're busy preparing some Kool-Aid."
"Now the name of this stuff is actually a Sanskrit word that means immortality, which is about as on the nose as you would expect from the people who named an unobtainable rare mineral 'unobtainium.'"
"One hundred spokes, yeah if you know you know."
"Super Mario Galaxy introduced Star Bits, based on a Japanese candy called Konpaito."
"You know who else is a queen, I'm not even gonna say because you already know who it is."
"Everything kind of does have a Blade Runner vibe."
"Before we move on, here's a fun little fact: 'Bilkis' means wolf in Lithuanian, his brother's name 'Farkas' also means wolf in Hungarian."
"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."
"The only thing funnier than 420 to people like this is the number 69."
"The inclusion of a frozen dinner that someone 200 years later doesn't consider edible even when it was made is a great example of the humor the series is known for."
"Instead of gimmicks, just call it the Kabuki region. Yeah, give me some Kabuki forms."
"If that's the way our life is, like as the Lakota used to say, Hoka Hey, today is a good day to die."
"Why do they tease us with all this stuff and then there's nothing? You're killing me, smalls."
"Welcome back to the series where we go from old to gold, from rags to riches, from broke to baller."
"The kid that he saved was a young Professor Oak."
"It's got like a humor that's akin to Monty Python."
"We're at a point very close to what Terence McKenna called 'the end of time.'"
"If you dare to tell a public lie, then you deserve a goddamn public trial. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle, G.I. Joe."
"I saved this city decades ago. I built this city on rock and roll."
"You think I don't know anything about Zelda? You think that Twilight Princess reference just came out of nowhere?"
"As always though I'll see you guys later or like they say in the Netherlands zealot err."
"What do you think the one piece is? I think it's the friends they made along the way."
"No more promos, no more bezos, we get Jesus disciples ain't no more problems."
"Ladies and gentlemen and everything in between, that was a fun nostalgic time travel trip."
"Breaking Bad is probably gun to my head, to me the best show ever. Game of Thrones says hold my dragon."
"They're all Tatooine. Tatooine is like the Jerusalem or the Nazareth, right? It's where the messiah came from, yeah. So it's just the center of the Star Wars universe, yeah."
"We got the Russians to the Russians in Reno."
"I kind of wish that she named the first kid Little Jon." - Jake
"The Karen remains such a useful cultural touchstone because she can be adapted to almost any situation where someone's being unreasonably difficult."
"You miss 100 of the shots you don't take quote Michael Scott quote Wayne Gretzky."
"I was born white, as far as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster."
"Famous phrase by a lost alien and Macaulay Culkin's Phone Home Alone!"
"Sometimes spirits that moves death, that gotta be Mos Def."
"The game literally has French cuisine in it."
"He's like the grand lotus of the order of the white lotus."
"Yellowstone is like the Sopranos but in Montana."
"That's the Chris Watts salute. He felt absolutely helpless."
"All things must pass including Moore's law." - George Harrison
"We're living in like 1984 which, you know, sounds extreme but that book was very prescient."
"That means something to pull a Clarence Thomas."
"It feels like we're in the first part of 'I am Legend,' where she's talking about the cure for cancer, and then the next scene, it's three years later and Will Smith is driving through the apocalypse with his dog."
"Confucius says: 'Lads, I think I know how to fix this.'"
"He's literally in the sunken place... that's such a confusing signing."
"You can't say yes queen. I'm making a video about queens."
"Yelling Kobe after you make a shot isn't just for basketball anymore."
"Trump's vision for America is like Studio 54 in 1978."
"Dodge! Ahmed will soon go back to the House of Wisdom."
"Eleanor Rigby is buried in a Liverpool Cemetery that McCartney used to go to in his childhood."
"It was back in the age of ASL, you know, where it was like if you typed in Jesse it would be like what about s EJ?"
"People without kids be like, 'No one's gonna get this joke unless you watch the Omega Strikers part.'"
"I'm totally going with see in the future. Yeah, I definitely like the whole concept of going full Biff like Back to the Future Biff level."
"I think we're gonna have like a roaring 20s kind of period."
"Standing up to Thor like that is some big Greek energy."
"They're literally Amish stuck in the era of Reagan." - Rick
"Tomorrow will be better - that's a bad thing now? It's like these people don't even remember Obama's 'Hope' campaign."
"Everyone's life is chasing the Benjamins, a few for our viewers, a Benjamin is Benjamin Franklin."
"Drug dealers Anonymous, y'all think it's the future."
"You never know what you're going to get, like Boris Gump and his box of chocolates."
"Hopefully they'll take something positive from the experience of The Breakfast Club."
"It's like saying that you know hero from the spider-man 1 soundtrack is that dude."
"May my mother and father be given for you in ransom."
"There is a truth and one of the goals should be to ascend to some approximation of Truth."
"Just as the 1980s had notorious shoe collector Imelda Marcos, the 1600s had rabid shoe collector Louis XIV of France."
"Chris Rock did to the microphone what Will Smith did to Chris Rock."
"They are named after a Japanese karaoke song, the title of which translates to 'I've been a fool.'"
"Rule Britannia! Best served cold like an iced tea."
"The synthetic rewrite, remember that? Literally, in Babylon Berlin last night, do you remember the doctor, the mind control doctor in Babylon Berlin?"
"Namaskar, hello and welcome to P Guru's Channel. I'm your host sh. Monday mornings are Delhi are rajagopalan time and today is no exception."
"It's a beautiful day, and Andy's Irish, which I'm sure Paddy Power will appreciate."
"Live from New York it's a show that's wishing you from the bottom of my heart from deep down inside the log that I live in a happy Groundhog Day."
"May you live in interesting times. These are interesting times indeed."
"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."
"There's only one tribe which matches this description: the Zonai."
"What else is there to do? It's like Anthony Hopkins says in the Lion in Winter..."
"Oh, that must be Ariel, she said she was running late from her date with Prince Eric."
"Regina George is not cool. She's a life ruiner."
"Men at Work's 'Down Under': introduced us to the vegemite sandwich."
"That's the meme, you grow up thinking you're SpongeBob but then you actually grow up to be Squidward."
"But if you were born in 1993 maybe you haven't seen Top Gun yet but you better get on it."
"You need to turn it to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1989 Terminator."
"Nor of their sorceries, there's your Harry Potter right there."
"Stow-on-Side in Pokémon Sword and Shield is based on Stow on the Wall in England, incorporating Galar's sports theme into its name."
"nowadays everybody want to talk like they got something to say but nothing comes out when they move the lips just a bunch of gibberish and [ __ ] that they've got About Dre"
"With the burial like that, I would expect him to be Taz."
"Iconic that [ __ ] wallet belonged to Tarantino."
"Do you believe in magic? That's not just a philosophical question and a classic pop song."
"Can we all please pick up a white claw? It's like the Grog Bowl, you know."
"The center of the Marvel Universe is the very real New York."
"He's just always gonna rap about dope but it's just gonna take me back to the 80s like every time he raps."
"There should be a Terracotta Army in the basement of the Capitol building."
"I love Jollibee. It's like going to grandma's house and getting a hug."
"I feel like Bea Arthur in the Christmas special, this is awesome."
"It's like the Gerber baby. It's like the person whose foreskin has not been used."
"So much shame today, too much. You need a shame umbrella because it's raining shame. Bye Felicia."
"It's pure 80s nostalgia, and that's why I love it."
"Congratulations, we've effectively just made Mr. Potato Head the skater."
"The Simpsons did it seriously if i had a dollar."
"If it makes y'all comfortable call me Malcolm X, no problem."
"Is it really summer without a Fast and Furious movie?"
"Araki kind of accidentally predicted 911 back in 1991 and he did it through Oingo Boingo. Coincidence? I think not."
"When I met Ted in 1988, I had no word to describe him, but only because I didn’t speak German. Thank you Germans, for ‘Backpfiefengesicht‘."
"Now and forevermore it will be sort of the Godfather theme park."
"Well, that's about all I've got to say about that in the words of Forrest Gump."
"April 15th... it's like Judgment Day in Terminator two."
"It's like the norm McDonald of a comedy scene, it's so [__] inappropriate but it's so godamn hilarious."
"Jungle Cruise jokes refers to the fact that the whole Jungle Cruise itself is one giant joke."
"Black folks like it and it's a brunch it's not dinner but black folks like Luther Vandross [ __ ] will sing along to thanks to some 90s r b real quick could have played some Mint Conditions."
"A nervious happiness that is overflowing from his heart. In Korean that word is goo-geul, so he was feeling very 'goo-geul goo-geul' (sounds like 'Google'). A Korean Joke."
"You just said cannoli! I'll give you a slip."
"I personally think that’s a great badge of honor for these characters and an amazing way for DC to lampshade now owning several big characters that were inspired by Clark Kent."
"Nepal is often called the 'Roof of the world'."
"Hawk Moth's mask is a reference to the supervillain Fatih mosque."
"Smilingly looks like the human version of that 'it's fine' cartoon dog."
"He goes from saying 'language' to 'that is America's ass'."
"One could say there are three constants in life: death, taxes, and The Simpsons"
"It's like the end of Return of the Jedi with the Ewoks."
"Stuff like this is a fun wink and a nod to fans of the Mandela effect."
"So next time someone asks you who your favorite early 20th century german experimental playwright is just scream dan harmon and then run away before they can call it into question."
"Sing it with me, my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard!"
"Sophia's failure tears her apart, just saying that Joy Division is Gnostic scripture sometimes."
"It's the end of the world as we know it and you know what guys I feel fine."
"Johnny Rotten said it best: 'It's better to burn out than to fade away.'"
"Have you ever heard a bottle break or a cat all advice incident like glass shatter and then like I can't go meow or something like that that's like the classic Hollywood kid yeah that's clear."
"Bacon is epic, the name escapes me currently."
"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."
"The direction of the Division franchise has deteriorated to the point where it is summed up precisely and eloquently by the lyrics of the venerable musician polymath and disinformationist Reggie Watts in his now legendary song [ __ ] [ __ ] stack."
"Insane, right? Well, that weird stranger is MTV."
"Anyone who calls it a crime-infested hellhole is dead wrong. No way hell has such great pierogis."
"Drone means you've got something that's operational on its own. It's kind of doing its own thing like a Hal out of a 2001 Space Odyssey."
"The way people are acting, you would think that someone got on the table and yelled 'Squid games!'"
"I love that goddamn Kendrick 'We gon be all right'... like that's me on the hook."
"Comparisons between Veloth and a real-world historical figure from South America named Sir Notch can be drawn."
"Ding dong the witch is dead." - Lisa Vanderpump
"I was a teacher at the time, and one of them said, 'Oh, that's a Five Nights at Freddy's game.'"
"Making this video and not mentioning Toho would be like eating dry toast."
"Reality is often disappointing, as a certain man once said."
"It does show that it almost feels like it's a scene from Home Alone or something because it's so weird."
"This is all a simulation... this is Grand Theft Auto, this is The Truman Show."
"We are finished as a society it's over I just go to the the pods hotels in Japan get yourself some slap therapy get yourself a nice tiny home in the suburbs."
"Legend returns and they know, boys. They know."
"It all led up to the infamous ad of Mario with the tribal tattoo."
"Bless the maker and his water. Bless the coming and the going of him. May his passage cleanse the world."
"Who's your daddy? Daddy meaning the original black man and the original black woman."
"This little girl is the perfect representation of the innocence of Ryloth."
"Nobody wants to fight... It's The Roadhouse."
"Dan's father referred to him as the Yiddish word 'mench,' which means a person of integrity and honor."
"You messed with the daughter of a Yakuza boss."
"How can ANY of you BE in a BOOKSTORE when you don't know PAUL SHELDON?"
"I don't know what in the freaking Walter White slash Heisenberg is going on here."
"At the end of the day, I wasn't taking a pop at Patrick Swayze being dead. I meant like Patrick Swayze in the film 'Ghost,' which is a good film."
"I could have danced all night, my fair lady."
"We're off to see the wizard, The Wizard of Oz."
"Oompa loompa doompety doo, I've got a perfect puzzle for you, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Mary Poppins, it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
"Number one, America, West Side Story, Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion."
"The Japanese had all these problems, but they had a lot of success early on, don't they?"
"Wakanda forever, man. I know you'll take care of it, brother."
"You can't read Shakespeare without knowing the Bible."
"Captain America: Winter Soldier, a political thriller with Robert Redford. Come on, that's like '70s classic movie stuff!"
"Yeah now this level theory looks like podracing"
"I've heard a rumor if you say that in front of a mirror at 3am, Shane Isaac is behind you."
"She's got those Jersey Mike's, baby, you feel me?"
"Wouldn't you expect Thor Ragnarok to have a sequence where Thor tries to copy Steve Rogers' style with the shield?"
"I'm going with Miguel from Coco. Oh, guitar so all day every day, we're gonna have music in our lives, it's gonna be great."
"Can you imagine if the real world had cult? Like it would be insanely handy."