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How many references?

9/24/2017

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For no other reason than my own amusement, I am going to sit here - right now! - and rack my brains trying to think of every pop culture reference in the text of "Red Cross" (out Sep 25th).

Some of these are blatant.  Some subtle.  Some no one but me will ever get.  And that's the way I like it.

So what references are there?  Let's see if I can remember...

Movies
Star Wars
The Terminator
Paper Towns
Die Hard
Alien
Big
Saw
The Revenant (kinda...)
War Games
Knute Rockne: All American
Ghostbusters
Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone (and yes, it's definitely the movie being referenced)
High School Musical
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Room (accidentally)

Books
Paper Towns (again)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Twilight
Handbook For Mortals
Nausea

Sherlock Holmes (in general, not a specific story)
To Kill A Mockingbird

TV Shows
The Walking Dead (referenced as The Ambling Dead)
LOST
Truth & Justice: Crime Scene Division (a made-up Law & Order/CSI series)
Arrested Development
Scooby-Doo
Grey's Anatomy
MacGyver

Comics
Super-Boy

Games
Outlast
Vacate the Room
Call to Action (an obvious "Call of Duty" ripoff)
Heavy Rain
Five Nights at Freddy's

Music
"Friday" - Rebecca Black
"Loverman" - Charlie Parker
"Now's the Time" - Charlie Parker

Plays
Julius Caesar
Henry V

Poems
The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot
The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats

Memes
Cash me ousside
The floor is lava


Hmmm...  I'm sure there are more than that.

I know I deleted a clumsy reference to the movie The Wizard of Oz.  And a couple other tidbits besides.

Off-hand, though, I'd say this list comprises at least the majority of the references.  How many will you catch?

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    J Douglas Burton

    Author of "The Sleepwar Saga" YA fantasy series.  Also Victorian pulp SF series "The Star Travels of Dr. Jeremiah Fothering-Smythe".

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