Dean: Or it’s a Bigfoot. You know, and he’s some kind of a…alcoholo-porno addict. Kinda like a deep-woods Duchovny. Referencing actor David Duchovny, who plays a sex addict in the Showtime series Californication. A year after the show began its run, Duchovny admitted to having a sex addiction of his own. Todd: Kneel before Todd!…
Title: Referencing It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown which originally aired in 1966, and is the Charlie Brown Halloween special. While the rest of the Peanuts gang celebrate Halloween, Linus waits in the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin to appear. Dean: Umm, I’m Agent Geddy, this is Agent Lee. Referencing Geddy Lee, lead vocalist…
Hutchinson: You’re scared of Donny? Don’t be, he’s a sweetheart. It’s Marie you got to look out for. She smells fear. Donald Clark “Donny” Osmond and Olive Marie Osmond are a brother-sister duo of singers, actors, and television hosts. They also had very successful solo careers and have worked with other members of their show…
Dean: It looks like we stumbled upon a midnight showing of Dracula Meets the Wolf Man. In actuality, there is no film entitled Dracula Meets the Wolf Man. Dean must have mixed up the title of another monster match-up film, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Bela Lugosi. It detailed…
Dean: So, what, God’s my co-pilot, is that it? Referencing the autobiography by USAF pilot Robert Lee Scott Jr., detailing his exploits in World War II with the Flying Tigers in China and Burma. It was made into a movie in 1945, and a queercore band took the name in 1991. Title: This episode title…
Dean: All I know is I was not groped by an angel. A play on the show titled Touched by an Angel (1994-2003) starring Della Reese and Roma Downey, about angels who live among people, influencing their lives. Bobby: If you’re going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk. This quote is from the classic western The…
Dean: I know. I should look like a Thriller video reject. Referencing the Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983), a 13-minute music video for the song of the same name. Thriller was a horror film spoof featuring choreographed zombies performing with Jackson, and directed by John Landis. Dean: The name’s Wedge Antilles. Referencing Red Two (Denis Lawson)…
EPISODE 316: NO REST FOR THE WICKED Dean: Hell, she probably wants you to become her little Antichrist Superstar. Referencing Marilyn Manson’s second album, Antichrist Superstar (1996). The concept album in turn referenced the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, originally released as a rock album in 1970 by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber then made into…
EPISODE 314: LONG-DISTANCE CALL Title: The episode bears the same name as a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone in which a boy (played by Billy Mumy) talks to his dead grandmother on a toy telephone. His family suspects she tries to kill him when he is hit by a car. Back to Season 3…
EPISODE 313: GHOSTFACERS Sam: Daggett was the Norman Bates stuff-your-mother kind of lonely. Referencing Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 movie Psycho starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Perkins plays Norman Bates, a hotel owner suffering from a split personality, who pretends to be his dead mother and kills anyone unfortunate enough to cross “her” path. Back to…