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Pop culture can be an interesting thing. Slang is in a constant state of flux, always changing. But for some things that stand the test of time, it will be adapted into our descriptive terminology. Person as Verb is the practice of describing an action using a cultural reference—typically by naming a character known for doing the same thing. The name of the show/book/whatever, or the writer/actor/whatever, may also be used. Often the exact usage will be "They just pulled a... (character-name)" or "They did a... (character-name)." This is best used when it comes to the more universally understood terms. For example, instead of saying "Bob fell down the chimney", someone will say "Bob pulled a Santa Claus". In other times, just to play with this trope, writers will put in the most obscure reference to throw people off. A closely related use of this trope is to acknowledge the actual reference instead of just using it as a substitute, e.g. "So... is Santa Claus your hero?" Orphaned Etymology comes from these sort of terms being transported into a setting where it doesn't make sense (e.g. a fantasy setting wouldn't make reference to a movie in our world). This trope is widespread in Real Life, as the Real Life examples would suggest. It also happens on this wiki itself (such as with "MacGyvering") — we call this being a Trope Namer. Related to Buffy Speak. Compare Popcultural Osmosis, The Catchphrase Catches On, Malaproper, Memetic Mutation, Parody Displacement. Stuck on Band-Aid Brand is this trope in real life, applied to brand-name products. Also check out the various Self-Referential Humor tropes. |
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Dork Tower: "Pulling a Matt", named after the character Matt McLimore, involves failing on a date due to some kind of catastrophic geekdom-related mental breakdown such as mentally blogging the other person. | |
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"Ike Turner" is slang in some places for domestic abuse (for example pulling an "Ike Turner" or "Ike and Tina"), based on the real-life case of Ike and Tina Turner. Similarly, for a while after Chris Brown was arrested for beating up his then-girlfriend Rihanna, his name was slang for domestic abuse. | |
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Fans of Puella Magi Madoka Magica use the term "Mami-ing" or getting "Mami'd" (Mamiru) to refer to a character that had gotten her head chomped off. Among western fans, the definition was expanded to mean "a character introduced as a critical member of the cast that dies early on to set the tone for the series". | |
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Done rather cruelly in Flowers for Algernon: Pulling a "Charlie Gordon" is making a screw-up. Charlie himself doesn't get it in the moment, since the guy in question lost somebody's packages and Charlie never did that, but realizes later in the book what it actually means. | |
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Clone High: After her not-so-nice actions during the Death Maze, Joan's name is used to mean "screwing up". Ivan the Terrible even shows Joan that it's found its way into the Urban Dictionary. | |
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In Bojack Horseman, BoJack tells a girl he slept with to leave his house. He asks for her name and when she tells him it's Pam he says he doesn't want her "Paming up the place." | |
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Lampshaded in The Adventures of Pete & Pete when Ellen, followed by the rest of her class spends the episode systematically breaking math teachers by asking them why they even needed to learn algebra. The teachers feel they have one last secret weapon, with one substitute teacher named "Shrek" (not to be confused with the ogre of the same name). He appears have had some success until the class broke him too. The English teacher rushes into the teachers' lounge and exclaims, "They shrekked Shrek... and I just used a noun as a verb! What's wrong with me?" | |
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Gilmore Girls likes to use the "Person as Verbing" form. When Paris has an emotional breakdown and holes up at home for several days, she says that she's "totally Howard Hughesing it." When Lane spends a few days at Paris and Rory's dorm room, Paris tells her boyfriend that Lane has been "Nancy Spungening it." A second-person example comes when the staff of the Yale Daily News conspires to depose Paris as editor. Everyone involved in the process, including Paris, calls it a "Howell Rainesing".note In Real Life, Howell Raines had only recently been fired as editor of the New York Times, so the name would be familiar to most college journalists. |
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In Batman: Arkham Knight, if you keep getting into the Isolation Cell one of Batman's hallucination will "spell it out for you" and say that going in the cell will lead to Robin being "Jason Todd-ed," or killed. | |
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Angel: Related to the above example, after Angel has tried to track down a girl with telekinetic powers Cordelia asks him over the phone "Did she Carrie you?". This understandably causes confusion. |
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On Girls, Hannah threatened her boss that she and her colleagues could sue him for sexual harassment. She used a term "go all Erin Brockovich on one's ass". | |
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This trope is a defining feature of the main character in Psych, who frequently uses references to obscure 80's pop-culture, possibly in order to keep the show—which could easily become dangerously serious in light of its subject matter—relatively light and humorous. From "Poker? I barely know her!": |
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In the Cheers episode "What Is... Cliff Clavin?", Cliff competed on Jeopardy! and, despite having an insurmountable lead, lost after wagering everything on a "Final Jeopardy!" response of "Who are three people that have never been in my kitchen?" Since then, Alex Trebek, who appeared As Himself, would warn players not to "pull a Cliff Clavin" (overbet or endanger a likely win) in "Final Jeopardy!". | |
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In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Charlie does this to his own inventions. A "Charlie One-Two" involves someone throwing himself in front of a car and then blackmailing the driver. A "Grilled Charlie" is a questionable grilled sandwich containing butter, peanut butter, chocolate and cheese. | |
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Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki: After Yuki put her hand in a mouth of giant wolf, Hemrod accused her of "pullin Tyr" in a nice Norse Mythology shout out (not surprising, when you look at a premise...). | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer Defined", "Pulling a Homer" means doing something great through accident, luck, or stupidity and, optionally, looking rather stupid at the same time. The Dictionary of Bullshit actually lists "pulling a Homer" with the full definition from the episode, making it a rare valid example in a sea of self-referential jokes that never get notable pop-culture usage. The writers said on a DVD commentary that they were kind of hoping that "pulling a Homer" would catch on and end up in the dictionary for real, alas it was not to be. Although, in 2015, in the time leading up to the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Mark Hamill, who'd appeared As Himself in "Mayored To The Mob", urged fans not to "be a Homer", i.e. let spoilers out, in reference to the episode "I Married Marge", when Homer was shown in a flashback giving away the plot twist of The Empire Strikes Back. In "Girls Just Want To Have Sums", when Lisa reveals that she was masquerading as the boy Jake Boyman, Jimbo says "We've been Yentl'd!". In "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson," Springfield replaces its standard elementary with a high-tech STEM school which Lisa quickly discovers is only offering a real education to its "gifted" students while training everyone else to perform menial labor in the gig economy. Bart, who prefers the new system, follows her upon seeing her walking with purpose and realizing that she's about to "Lisa up a good thing." In "Warrin' Priests," Ned's kids reveal that he's forbidden them from leaving church before the pastor dismisses the service, a practice he apparently calls "Homer Simpsoning." |
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In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange tells Spider-Man and his friends that they need to "Scooby-Doo this shit", an informal way of saying that the three teenagers need to catch all the meddling villains. | |
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In-universe in The Magic School Bus, Tim likes commenting that the class "got Frizzled". | |
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1/0: "Pulling a Ribby" is the practice of removing yourself from the universe of the strip by literally getting lost in your imagination — you create a thought bubble and climb into it. | |
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Over at Eurogamer, during their Bloodborne Let's Play, Johnny accidentally corrupted the save file of their first Bloodborne character, who for reasons that sort of make sense but would take a while to explain was named Sex Cop. Later, when Johnny and Aoife suffer a severe technical issue while playing Dark Souls III, Johnny immediately expresses concern that they might have "Sex Copped" the save file. | |
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Apart from "pulling a Louganis", being referenced by Castle's medical examiner Lainie also said the Body of the Week "did a Superman off that roof". | |
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In Heroes, after Claire beats up someone she thought was trying to attack her, the attacker says "don't go all Buffy on us!" | |
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In Wreck-It Ralph, people who find out about Ralph's game-jumping accuse him of "going Turbo". It turns out to refer to a previous video game character named Turbo who once pulled the same stunt and got two games shut down (for being "out of order"- the one Turbo left had lost its Player Character, and the one he entered got a gameplay disrupting glitch) in the process. The Big Bad of the movie, King Candy, turns out to be none other than Turbo himself. | |
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In The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dave spills water on his pants after witnessing the confrontation between Baltazaar and Horvath and everyone believes that he wet himself. Even ten years later, kids in grade school still call having a nervous breakdown "pulling a Dave Stutler." | |
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A Diplomatic Visit: As Swift-Pad reveals, a person "simply doing what they thought was right" is known as "a John move", after a griffon king who did the same without thinking it through and wound up effectively ruining his nation. | |
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In Lyrical Nanoha fanfic Infinity, to "pull a Chrono" means doing something very strenuously and then faint afterwards. Vita suggested to rename it into "pull a Takamachi", but then corrected herself that Nanoha Takamachi would just shrug it off and keep moving. | |
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The narration of Manehattan's Lone Guardian refers to Leviathan Foot Diving a swimming pool to splash a random pony as the pool being "Dr. Doomed". | |
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In The Bad Guys (2022), after their first "heist for good" ends in disaster, Mr. Wolf tries to talk the Governor into giving the gang a second chance by charming her. Mr. Shark refers to this as "the full Clooney". | |
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"Looks like she pulled a Barry Allen on us. Jay Garrick? Wally We—She moved real fast. Never mind." | |
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In The Weekenders episode "To Tish", Tish's name becomes a verb meaning to do something egghead-y. | |
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In 50% OFF, Nagisa refers to a Duck Season, Rabbit Season spat between him and Gou as getting "Looney Tuned". | |
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Community has something similar to the Peep Show example above: When Britta got the group's personality tests back with weird results in the episode "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps": Later in the same episode: Eventually deconstructed in "Herstory of Dance", where Pierce (of all people) calls Jeff out on this, pointing out that using a friend's name as a synonym for failure is actually an awful thing to do. Especially given how frequently and gleefully Jeff does it. Another episode had Jeff feel threatened by a classmate who is taking attention away from him. He starts obsessively researching this new rival, manically spouting his theories to the others, who point out that he's "Goldbluming". Jeff met this rival in pottery class, where the teacher has a rule against "Ghosting" that will get anyone kicked out of the class (because he's seen every variant of it done over and over again and he's just not going to put up with it anymore) Wingering is also used to describe a deep and emotional speech |
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"it out-Herods Herod" in Hamlet note This one's an allusion to one of the old cycles of Biblical Miracle Plays which were the roots of English theatre; the raging tyrant Herod was one of the most melodramatic, over-the-top roles. Hamlet's warning against overacting. | |
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Xander remarked on "People going all Felicity with their hair." | |
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Peep Show has this double whammy: | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: From Disagreements, referencing the Dark God of Brute Force, Azzathra: | |
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In Fun with Dick and Jane, when Dick meets with people who he thinks want to give him a job interview but instead just want to laugh at him they say that what he appeared to have done to lose company money is what they call "pulling a Dick". | |
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During one particular episode of Arrested Development, the term "Michael" becomes used to refer to chickening out (generally regarding something wildly illegal): | |
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On Xiaolin Showdown, Jack Spicer learns that, much to his chagrin, the supervillain community has been using his name in reference to immense failures. | |
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In Super Mario 64, a ceiling too close to a floor has certain exploitable properties. This was first discovered by a speedrunner named Pedro, accordingly, such locations are called "Pedro spots". | |
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Scrubs When Elliot's sorority sister hit the Jukebox to start it back up: "Hey, I'm the Fonz." J.D. also once tells Turk angrily that he Marcia Brady'd his ass. Amusingly enough, Turk's confusion stems not from his not getting the reference, but rather from disbelief that the clinic would choose J.D. over Turk. They detailed the formation of one of these when Dr. Cox got so frustrated with J.D. that he decided to substitute the word "wrong" with "Dorian." The staff soon caught onto the new phrase, which annoyed J.D. to no end. But later J.D. caught himself saying, "Dorian! ...Oh, great, now I'm saying it!" Doug Murphy is autoreferencial in this. He tells a coroner he probably knows what mistake a doctor made that caused a patient to die, then lays out a rather specific scenario. When the coroner asks if Doug has seen such a case before, he responds by scoffing and saying "Upstairs they call that a 'Doug'". |
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Rick and Morty In "Rick Potion #9," both Rick and Morty use the word "Cronenberged" both as a verb and a noun after a love potion mishap causes everyone to mutate into hideous monsters. In "Something Ricked This Way Comes", when Summer is screwed out of her boss's business after helping him make it successful, she proceeds to say that she's been Zuckerberged. A more in-universe example happens in another episode when Rick, unhappy with Morty, states he's going to go take a "biiiiig fat Morty." In "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy", after Summer's misuse of one of Rick's machines causes her to accidentally grow to a giant size, then get her body turned inside out, Morty says that "she Clive Barkered herself". |
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The first modern novel, Don Quixote, inspired the adjective "quixotic", which means to be an ordinary person with grandiose or impossible dreams. However, at least one dictionary uses "quixote" as a lower-case noun with the same connotation. "He's such a quixote." | |
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The Dresden Files: Jim Butcher says on this page about writing the middle of a novel: "It lurks between the beginning of your book and the exciting conclusion, and its mission in life is to Atreyu you right down into the yucky, mucky mire in order to prevent you from ever actually finishing." The mire was a swamp in the middle of the book that would suck in and trap anyone like a tar pit unless they had a certain frame of mind. Harry Dresden in the novels, many times. Like the time he tosses a stake to Inari and tells her to "make like Buffy." "To Dresden" means accidentally causing severe property damage, in-universe. |
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Supernatural: In the episode "Simon Said", a character uses a mind control on Dean Winchester to take his beloved 1967 Chevy Impala for a spin. Dean then calls Sam and says, "He full-on Obi-Wan-ed Me!" In the second season premiere, Dean is stuck in an out-of-body experience where he can't touch or affect anything around him. So he watches Sam and their father get into an argument, and Dean gets really angry at them for it, so he knocks a glass of water onto the floor. His father and brother stop and stare, and Dean says, with a look of shock on his face, "I full-on Swayze-ed that mother." |
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In Anderson Quest: Killing Vampires and Werewolves and Leprechauns, members of the School of Mensis were so utterly fed up with their most successful and least useful member, Bergholt Stuttley Johnson, his name became a byword for catastrophically bungling, as in "Be careful, don't Johnson it." | |
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Among the fandom of 24, any character who disappears without explanation, often while being in a dangerous situation when they were last seen, is referred to as being "Behroozed," named after a minor character in Season 4 whose fate was only shown in a deleted scene. | |
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Married... with Children: The episode "He Thought He Could" has Al Bundy attempt to put back away overdue library book without officially returning it so he won't have to pay a late fee. He ends up being exposed in a very public and humiliating way. At the very end of the episode, a kid catches his friend doing the same thing and remarks "Hey, don't Bundy that book!" The episode "Bud Hits the Books" has Bud getting caught pleasuring himself in the school library. Al's NO MA'AM buddies immediately coin the term "Doing the Bundy" as a euphemism for masturbating in a public place, then share some of the places they "did the Bundy." In the episode where Bud officially becomes a Basement-Dweller, Al had decided that Bud was old enough to live on his own, and he tried to kick him out the second he arrived home from work. Peg tries to stand up for Bud, but he says that even though Al deserved to be "Menendez-ed"note the Menendez Brothers were arrested for their murder of their wealthy parents, and the case was sensationalized by the media he was right, and should move out on his own. |
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In the Discworld novels, Ankh-Morpork slang for "mad" is "completely Bursar". Also mad, as in angry, is referred to as going Librarian (pun on 'going ape', as he's an orang-utan). More rarely, properties where a certain genius idiot worked on are said to have been Johnsoned. | |
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Total Drama: When they're up against a female condor that Chris mentions has a 12-foot wingspan in "Rapa-Phooey!", Alejandro can't help but comment that means the wingspan is "two Alejandros wide". When it's time for the talent show, the challenge Sugar proposed in "Pahk'd With Talent", she warns Sky and Shawn that they're "going to get Sugar'ed bad". |
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During a fight scene in Sequinox, Hannah refers to tackling a Scorpi as "I'm gonna Helga Pataki it". | |
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A Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode has a non pop culture example in the title of the episode "Full Boyle". The term refers to detective Charles Boyle, and it means to get way too intense way too fast in a romantic relationship. | |
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When Lane spends a few days at Paris and Rory's dorm room, Paris tells her boyfriend that Lane has been "Nancy Spungening it." | |
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"The dummy tells us he's a demon hunter.... He takes off, and now there's a brain. Does anybody else feel like they've been Keyser Sozed?" | |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: "One more lesson like that and I just might do a Weasley." (After Fred and George drop out in spectacular fashion.) | |
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Happens in Johnny Test, when one of the sisters says "I think we've been Johnnied!" | |
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From one of the Dinotopia books, any instance of Ain't No Rule or Loophole Abuse is referred to as "Pulling an Andrew", after said Andrew wins an obstacle course race against a far more athletic dinosaur by simple virtue of ignoring the obstacles and running down the straightaway between the courses. | |
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Which he will be glad to tell you in Knights of the Old Republic 1, because there's a moral and a lesson in there...somewhere. | |
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Momentary Weakness: Milly is Mythra's daughter, and is identical to her mother. When she jumps through a window to help her sister, everyone notes that she's "pulling a Mythra again." | |
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A Curb Your Enthusiasm episode has Larry committing a fielding error that loses the game for his softball team, causing the coach to scream that he "Bucknered" it. Bill Buckner himself appears later in the same episode. | |
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At one point, Max Payne says that he "Made like Chow Yun-Fat" The game's film noir-esqe storytelling guarantees plenty of references of this kind. Max "plays it Bogart," and has to deal with "a regular Keyser Soze." |
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DuckTales (2017): In "The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!", Webby uses "pulling a Louie" to refer to Louie's tendency to rush into things and ignore the rules. | |
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VG Myths: This is used with Solid Snake, Metal Gear protagonist, in "Hyrule Myths - Can You Kill Ganon With A Cucco?", when talking about sneaking: | |
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The Order of the Stick: "Who knew all you had to do was break [Roy's] sword and he'd go all Lou Ferrigno." | |
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"She Phebes me" in As You Like It. | |
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Played with in Dave Barry Slept Here, describing the occasion of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the first July Fourth (October 8, 1776): "The members took turns lighting sparklers and signing their John Hancocks to the Declaration, with one prankster even going so far as to actually write 'John Hancock.'" In a column, he also stated that he was not at all bitter that the Phillip Morris tobacco company launched an ad campaign whose main character was named Dave. |
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My Name Is Earl Joy at one point says, "Son of a bitch Ferris Bueller'd me!" | |
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In Ready Player One, an anecdote early in the novel mentions a player named Pendergast who announces to the media what a particular clue means for a small amount of fame. Since The Hunt is a combination scavenger hunt and riddle, this is an incredibly bad idea, which gets immortalized by the phrase "pulling a Pendergast." | |
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Max Steel: "When the bad guys are up to no good, they use local lore to scare away the curious. That's the Scooby Way." | |
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In Max0r's An Incorrect Summary of Devil May Cry 5, as Dante is about to kill Urizen: | |
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Family Skeleton Mysteries: Late in book 1, Georgia tells Sid she's figured out why he didn't want to tell Madison about himself - he was afraid she'd "pull a Deborah" (that is, ignore him and pretend he didn't exist), and he didn't think he could cope with that. | |
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In one issue of her comic book, Flare says of a script titled The Romance of Venus: "I wouldn't want it to be like Vanna in that TV movie, though." | |
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InCryptid has several: Because Antimony reads a lot of comics, she refers to one of Verity's moves as "pulling a Gwen Stacy". Antimony describes herself as not wanting to Drew Barrymore herself in a reference to Never Been Kissed. Sarah mentions Artie talking her down from destroying the world as "very Crowley talking down Aziraphale before the Apocalypse". "Maybe we accidentally pulled a Dorothy and dropped a university campus on somebody's sister." |
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The Nostalgia Critic: On an infamous drug-themed PSA: "What a twist! They M. Night Shyamalan'ed my ass!" And during his review of Alone in the Dark (2005): The Critic also uses "Tarantinoing" to describe when characters engage in a dialogue that adds little to the plot but is quirky and funny to listen to. |
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Everybody Loves Raymond episode where Ray tapes over his wedding video; everyone jokes that this monumental blunder is going to be known as "pulling a Ray Barone". | |
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A JLA comic had Green Lantern moan to himself, "Doctor Light pulled a Houdini on me." | |
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In Azumanga Daioh, Yukari, tired of teaching language (and unable to teach Math), drags everybody out into the cold for some P.E. The first game? Soccer. When Tomo asks Yukari if she even knows the rules, she says "I'm Pelé" (manga, ADV translation), "I'm Mia Hamm" (anime, ADV translation), or "I'm Nakata" (anime, original). In any case, Tomo doesn't know what Yukari is talking about. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Yamcha- To be defeated unceremoniously. Vegeta- to massively screw things up due to egotism. After the Ginyu Force's... campy introduction, Freeza internally remarks "sure is Zarbon in here." |
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The Daily WTF forums use "Hanzo'd" after a character from a series of articles. | |
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In "Something Ricked This Way Comes", when Summer is screwed out of her boss's business after helping him make it successful, she proceeds to say that she's been Zuckerberged. | |
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CinemaSins, after their take of Green Lantern (2011), made a continuous trend of referring to sealing ancient beings/artefacts of power away as 'Parallaxing them'. Mostly with a tone of 'Why didn't you just destroy it, and who in the audience actually believes this would work?'. | |
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The Hardly Working sketch "Lady Macbething" has CollegeHumor writers Owen Parsons and Brian "Murph" Murphy alternately trying to convince each other to kill their boss in order to ascend the ranks. Their verb usage of the noun "Lady Macbeth" to describe what they're doing is somewhat marred by Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure as it turns out Murph has never actually read Macbeth and thinks that the verb also implies betrayal of the recipient, which, as Owen points out too late after Murph has stabbed him, "doesn't happen in the play." | |
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The X-Files In "The Erlenmeyer Flask", Mulder snaps at Deep Throat to "just cut the Obi-Wan Kenobi crap". In "Hollywood AD", a movie based on Mulder and Scully's case is made, and one Composite Character based on the in-universe villains O'Fallon and Cigarette Smoking Man is known as "Cigarette-Smoking Pontiff". Mulder expresses concern that in the Hollywood version of the story, everything becomes oversimplified and trivialized and Cigarette-Smoking-Pontifficized. |
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Robyn Hood: Because of Robyn's habit of impetuously throwing herself into dangerous situations, "pulling a Locksley" has become a slang phrase in the NYPD for "completely ignoring orders and jumping headfirst into danger." | |
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Spenser, in Hush Money, refers to an apparent suicide jumper as "doing a Brodie", an old slang term. | |
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Person as adjective in NUMB3RS. Apparently, sometimes the only way to describe Larry is as himself. A fully straight example occurs in a later episode, when Charlie tells Larry, who is employing a little Mathematician's Answer, to "Stop trying to Fleinhardt your way around answering me." |
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In The Red Badge of Courage, Henry, after running away from a battle, fears that his name will become "a slang phrase" for cowardice. | |
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In Entourage Drama says that Matt Damon "Jason Bourned him". | |
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In competitive Overwatch circles, to "C9" is to accidentally leave the objective while you are in the process of winning, resulting in a loss. The origin comes from a tournament in which the team Cloud 9 lost two matches in this manner. | |
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In Dwarf Fortress, a Good Bad Bug resulted in artifacts being constructed with far more materials than normally necessary, with each extra material becoming an extra decoration. The first widely-known result of this bug had the amusingly appropriate name "Planepacked", and thus until the bug was fixed, deliberately exploiting it was referred to as "planepacking". | |
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And during his review of Alone in the Dark (2005): | |
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This match intro dialogue from Mortal Kombat 1: | |
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In The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, when Flynn is resurrected, Lodge (the Game Master) notes that "Flynn pulls a Lazarus." | |
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The Escape Velocity fandom uses the phrase "pulling a Monty Python" (also called the Monty Python Maneuver) to refer to abusing the AI's Suicidal Overconfidence by flying away from the target, then turning around and drifting backwardsnote partial aversion of Space Friction while firing. | |
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Farscape. John Crichton does this all the time. Seeing as he's a long way from Earth, naturally no-one understands a word he's talking about, though the crew of Moya seem to get the general gist after a while. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures features both "pulling a Viper" and "pulling a Jade." | |
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Billy Gunned: A wrestler receives what seems to be a major push that ends up not going anywhere. | |
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Smallville does this all the time. Clark was beaten up badly after losing his powers and Chloe remarked, "You said it was bad but not Raging Bull bad." This show, and Chloe's character in particular, do this a lot. Lois picked up the habit when she began trying to be a journalist. When the two talk it's crazy. |
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The pilot episode of Stargate SG-1, also an Actor Allusion as Carter is talking to O'Neill at the time: | |
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Archer: In "Three to Tango", Archer announced he was "Archer-izing" their plan. | |
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A Rocket Power ep has a character worried that he's unleashed a curse by taking a small Hawaiian statue saying "I pulled a Bobby Brady." | |
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Steven Universe: In "Joking Victim", Steven makes a mess in the donut shop, and Sadie says that she cleaned "the last five Stevens." | |
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In the Seinfeld episode "The Strike," George is irritated by dentist Tim Whatley's holiday gift of a charitable donation in his name, but is later inspired to "pull a Whatley" to save money on Christmas presents for his coworkers (using a Fake Charity, of course). | |
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In Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged, Cloud has become so infamous for fucking up that Red XIII asks if he "did a Cloud," much to Cloud's chagrin. Especially notable as Red XIII usually calls him "Blond One." | |
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Zebra Girl: Harold's comment on Jack's ascension: "You've pulled a Gandalf! Congratulations, my boy!" | |
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In their Dungeons and Dragons playthroughs, to "be a Dob" is "engaging in reckless behavior that causes harm to your compatriots." It's entered the lexicon so much that the greedy pirate has a side hustle selling a Fun T-Shirt with the phrase. | |
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In episode "Darmok", the entire language of the alien race works this way, making communication impossible with those who don't know the references. The example they give is "Juliet on the balcony" representing a declaration of love; unless you know the name and the scene, it means nothing. Picard is able to decipher just one thing — Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra means two former warriors who became friends facing a shared danger.note Temba, his arms wide! Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. Which becomes Dathon and Picard at El Adril. Dathon at Tanagra. Picard at Tanagra. Rai and Jiri at Lunga. Kadir beneath Mometah. Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. Dathon and Picard at El Adrel. The Beast of El Adrel. Kailash when it rises. Uzani, his army; Shaka when the walls fell. Kiazi's children, their faces wet. Picard at El Adrel. Sokath, his eyes uncovered. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Darmok and Jalad on the ocean. | |
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Batman is known for vanishing abruptly while in the middle of a conversation. So when Nightwing, his first protege, does it to him, he smiles and mutters "Kid pulled a me". | |
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An in-universe example is found in The Office when Andy tries convincing Michael that the employees describe anyone who screws something up horribly as having "Schruted" it. | |
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Players of Touhou LostWord have the phrase "getting Sunny Milked" after a low-tier character with a reputation of spooking players during summons. Sunny Milk is also a prankster in canon, causing her to reach Memetic Troll status in favor of other Low Tier Letdowns. | |
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On Transformers: Prime, when Jack is convinced to sneak onto the battlefield, his first words upon arriving are "Oh man. I pulled a Miko!" | |
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Professor Flitwick rants at Harry and Dumbledore that if there are any other odd plans or plots that go wrong in spectacular fashion again (It's a Long Story), then Flitwick would kick Harry out of Ravenclaw and he could go to Gryffindor where all of the Dumbledoring belonged. | |
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30 Rock: Liz Lemon, of course, gets hits with this. 30 Rock also had a episode centered around Jack "Reaganing", or going twenty four hours without making a mistake. Named, of course, after Ronald Reagan. Bonus points for Jack eating jelly beans while Reaganing. There is also an episode centered around both Jack's and Liz' reactions to extreme hilarity or excitement. Jack "jacks" which refers to getting so excited that you vomit. Liz "lizzes" which is also a portmanteau of laugh and whiz. Another episode featured a classical example where Jack bases his relationship strategy on Fabius Maximus and at the end of the episode this strategy is countered by one based on Hannibal. Jack says she "Hannibaled" his "Fabius." And yet another episode had a plot to humiliate Liz at her high-school reunion being called an attempt to "Carrie" her. A variation on this trope occurs in an episode featuring former trope-namer "Weird Al" Yankovic, in which Jenna releases a heartfelt song that gets parodied by him. Furious, she sets out to write an unparodiable song that ends up being full of fart jokes and sounding a lot like a Weird Al number - he retaliates by releasing an inspirational, patriotic parody with serious lyrics. |
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Outside Xbox After Ellen Rose pulled a given trick in multiple quizzes, they started using "to ellen" and "ellenings" to mean "to ask a multiple choice question where the correct answer is not given as one of the choices", although the term has since broadened to refer to any trick question. "Mike-ing it" or "going full Mike" means to approach a stealth project in a manner containing no stealth and plenty of gunfire and explosions, based on a favored tactic by Mike Channell. In their Dungeons and Dragons playthroughs, to "be a Dob" is "engaging in reckless behavior that causes harm to your compatriots." It's entered the lexicon so much that the greedy pirate has a side hustle selling a Fun T-Shirt with the phrase. |
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In Being Human, "Sally" is being used as a verb for "don't screw this up" by her old friend Zoe. | |
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Sawyer and Hurley on Lost regularly supply such references. In "Eggtown," Kate tricks Hurley into a You Just Told Me revelation, to which Hurley replies, "You just Scooby-Doo'ed me, didn't you?" | |
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In NCIS NSA Agent Ellie Bishop is told to remain in the car since she doesn't have her pistol, while the other agents go after the suspect. When said suspect runs into the parking lot, Bishop drives up to block his escape. This act is referred to by Agent DiNozzo as 'pulling a Palmer', referencing a similar incident from a few seasons back where Palmer crashes his car into a suspect's car to prevent his escape. Speaking of NCIS, some people have taken to referring to the Dope Slap as 'Gibbs', after the team leader who routinely slaps DiNozzo in the back of the head. |
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In a late 6th season episode of Boy Meets World, Shawn and Angela are attempting to have a simple, no-strings-attached romp in the sack when Shawn suddenly bursts out that he loves her. After realizing what he did he smacks his forehead and groans "I Cory'd it up!", referencing Cory's way of getting over-emotional about such things. | |
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Anton Nasser, a friendly NPC with a grossly overpowered ship in the game Transcendence, is notorious for shooting players while firing at hostile ships. It happens often enough that players often call getting destroyed by friendly NPC “getting Nasser’d.� FreeSpace 2's stock AI, and some of the variations via the source code down the years, have inspired a similar comment about getting "Alpha 2'd". This doesn't refer to shooting, however; it refers to being killed when your wingmate rammed you due to bad collision avoidance. |
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In Dykes to Watch Out For Sydney and Mo at their very first meeting discuss a lesbian poet. Mo, who has a crush on her, passionately defends her, telling Sydney to look below the surface, but Sydney is typically dismissive: "If I looked below her surface, you know what I'd see? Nothing. Zip. The void. One big Foucauldian lacuna." The word Foucauldian refers to French philosopher Michel Foucault. | |
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BattleTech novels written by Michael Stackpole have given rise to "The Stackpole Effect" or "Stackpoling" thanks to his depiction of 'Mechs with breached engines Going Critical. | |
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"Maybe we accidentally pulled a Dorothy and dropped a university campus on somebody's sister." | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: After Joseph has a bad experience with an Egyptian toilet, he says this in the English dub of the animeExplanationThe person he's referring to, Jean Pierre Polnareff, seems to be cursed when it comes to bathrooms to the point where it's pretty much become a Running Gag that he just waits until he gets to a hotel to do his business: | |
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From The Dragon Prince: "Okay, what is that, with the nose, the finger? Not everyone speaks Claudia, Claudia!" | |
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Dragon Ball Super: In the English dub, when King Kai warns Vegeta that Beerus is on his way to Earth, he tells him "No fighting, no insulting, no Vegeta-ing of any kind!" | |
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Shot and Chaser: Olly says "Wow, you just straight up Grandpa Simpsoned out of there." when Tre steps into a convenience store, then turns around and walks back out after seeing no one inside is wearing masks. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Beefsquatch", the name of Gene's on-air alter ego Beefsquatch gets used as a verb several times. According to "Best Burger", Gene's short attention span is such that his family refers to losing focus and screwing up as "Gene-ing out". In "Itty Bitty Ditty Committee", after Linda learns that Gene was kicked out of his own band, she says he got David Lee Roth-ed. |
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The Lupin III: Part II English translation would occasionally give some gems in the dialogue. After performing a daring but unnecessary car stunt, Lupin and Goemon looked at Jigen and asked what he was doing. With a sly grin he replied, "I was inspired by the spirit of Steve McQueen." | |
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Referenced in Stick It, when Haley talks about how skills get named after gymnasts (this is Truth in Television; see Sports folder). | |
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Freeman's Mind adds one after Freeman encounters Dr. Issac Kleiner at the beginning of Half-Life 2. | |
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The Good Place: Eleanor does this to herself, though she's done so many horrible things it's not immediately clear which one she's referencing. | |
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Regular Show has "Pulling a Mordecai", which is described as "The act of never making a move, but at the same time, not knowing what to do with your hands". | |
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Sarah mentions Artie talking her down from destroying the world as "very Crowley talking down Aziraphale before the Apocalypse". | |
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J.D. also once tells Turk angrily that he Marcia Brady'd his ass. Amusingly enough, Turk's confusion stems not from his not getting the reference, but rather from disbelief that the clinic would choose J.D. over Turk. | |
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In Season 2.0 of BattleBots, full-body spinner Mauler lost its only battle after a collision with Bigger Brother unbalanced it and caused it to flip over. Ever since, a full-body spinner losing its balance and flipping over has been referred to by robot combat enthusiasts as "doing a Mauler", and the distinctive rocking motions of an out-of-control spinner are known as a "Mauler dance". | |
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Brazil has the slang verb "to Joker" (or more specifically, "Coringar") to define delving into Sanity Slippage, Rage Breaking Point, and other explosive emotional breakdowns. | |
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The Editing Room: The script for Wrath of the Titans. | |
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The competitive Pokémon community has a few, usually to describe particular flaws. For example, a Pokemon with an extremely limited movepool suffers from "Flareon syndrome". | |
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Futurama: In one episode, after discovering the Planet Express crew had fallen victim to a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax, Amy refers to it as being "Scooby-Dooed". In another, when facing an alien whose ego manifests as a separate monstrous entity, he's giving a performance where the attention is making said entity grow to massive sizes: A "Zoidberg," naturally, is "an awful, incompetent doctor." |
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In No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! the main character, Kuroki, attempts to stand out more in class by performing some wacky introductions. For her efforts, her name becomes synonymous in her class for doing something exceptionally poorly. | |
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In Man of the House, a pair of the cheerleaders are being dragged back to the house after starting to get in a barfight, and complains about being 'rescued' by saying "I was about to go all Buffy on his ass." | |
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Dead pool boards use the term "Huxley'ed" to describe someone whose death is overshadowed by an even more famous or newsworthy death. The phrase is named after Aldous Huxley, whose death on 22 November 1963 was overshadowed by someone else's death. | |
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In The Iliad, Apollo, while in the guise of one of Hector's friends, tries to rile him up by accusing him of being "in fight a Paris". | |
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In an episode of Dilbert, Wally's name used as an all-purpose pejorative. | |
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By the time of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, "pulling a Bindo" has come to refer to a Jedi breaking the Jedi Code by marrying, referring to the first game's Jolee Bindo, who did just that. Bad joke, bald guy, long story. Which he will be glad to tell you in Knights of the Old Republic 1, because there's a moral and a lesson in there...somewhere. |
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Fans of Five Nights at Freddy's have begun using the phrase "pulling an Afton" to refer to anyone or anything that sticks around or keeps coming back long after it's worn out its welcome, or wholesale using "getting Aftoned" as a euphemism for Hijacked by Ganon. | |
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On Orphan Black, Felix needs to coach Alison into being able to impersonate Sarah (who has a vaguely lower-class English accent). He describes it as "pulling a full-reverse Pygmalion on you." | |
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UberHaxorNova often does a Gay Tony jump in his videos, probably referencing the base-jumping from that add-on. | |
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On the first season of the reality show Big Brother Canada, Topaz became a person-verb when she accidentally voted for Jillian to win instead of her best friend, Gary, in the finale. Adding insult to injury, she was the swing vote, causing Gary to lose 4 to 3. As the rules were made very clear to the jurors before voting started, her vote stood. Houseguests and jurors in later seasons would express a strong desire not to "pull a Topaz" when voting in the finale. A secondary usage is "to be Topaz'd", referencing the time when Topaz had to make a difficult decision while unbeknownst to her the rest of the houseguests watched and heard everything. In season 2, Ika was put in the same position by Big Brother; afterwards, Adele ran outside and told her she "got Topaz'd, just before the rest of the houseguests screamed at her for insulting them. |
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"Debbie Downer", the recurring Saturday Night Live character played by Rachel Dratch, has since become another term for The Killjoy or The Eeyore, since Debbie always shares depressing facts or stories in her sketches. | |
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In Booster Gold #1, second series, the title character mentions he "pulled a Pete Ross" when he had to lose a football game on purpose. | |
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In Freedom Planet 2, when Carol apologizes to Milla for running off on her own without the others' permission to try to negotiate with her older sister Cory (who has joined Merga's forces), Milla explains that she and Lilac are already used to it, and even refer to the act as "pulling a Carol", even keeping count on how many times it happened in the past. In every character ending barring Lilac's, Neera joins in onto using the term, referring to Lilac going off to find Merga as her "pulling a Carol", much to Carol's dismay. | |
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The Taming of the Shrew has "Petruchio is Kated," which in context means both "Petruchio has married Kate (and is now stuck with her)" and "Petruchio's become like Kate." | |
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From No Gods, Only Guns, a Borderlands and Mass Effect Fusion Fic: "Torgue'd" and "Urdnot'd". | |
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White Sheep (RWBY): Yang's mother Raven abandoned her as a baby, leaving her with her father. So when Yang's boyfriend impregnates her and then runs off with her sister (it's less horrible in context) Yang declares "No man is going to pull a Raven on me!" and chases after him. | |
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And yet another episode had a plot to humiliate Liz at her high-school reunion being called an attempt to "Carrie" her. | |
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One chapter of Reborn! (2004) has Tsuna's mother "pulling a Yamamoto". (Which is to cheerily come up with a mundane explanation for the obviously dangerous situation at hand.) | |
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The English translation of one of the later volumes of Love Hina has Naru screaming at Keitaro "Don't go all Shinji on me!", when our hero is being mopier than usual. | |
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The two protagonists of Gerry are named Gerry and Jerry. It becomes clear that in the personal argot of their friendship, a "Gerry" has come to mean an incident of getting turned around and hopelessly lost somewhere, and that the film's title actually refers to this term. | |
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In Zombieland: Double Tap, according to Reno "Murraying" is the term for killing a human after mistaking them for a zombie. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In the "Krusty Krab Training Video", the viewers are instructed not to be a Lazy Bum with their work ethic, using Squidward as an example. | |
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El Goonish Shive: 2017-05-22: Read more comics ... if you're going to Cheerleadra. (Be a superhero). | |
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To "Tulfo" in the Philippines (e.g. "ipapa-Tulfo kita", translating to "I'll file a complaint about you to Tulfo!") means to bring an issue to the attention of Raffy Tulfo or in some cases his brother Ben Tulfo, who also hosts a similar programme. | |
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In one short story of The Punisher, Frank snarkily calls a goon trying to stab him as the guy "trying to pull an Anthony Perkins", because of the over-head position of the knife a la Psycho. | |
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From Blackadder II: | |
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Hulking Up: A wrestler gets a Heroic Second Wind and proceeds to No-Sell his opponent's offense. | |
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Freed Sellzen escaping using a flashbang became such a common occurrence in Marriage of Heaven and Hell that Makoto at one point begins referring to escaping in a flash of light as "pulling a Freed Sellzen." | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the season 9 premiere "The Beginning of the End", Pinkie Pie refers to Twilight Sparkle's panicking over a job she can clearly handle as "Twilighting". Ironically enough, part 2 really gives her something to Twilight over, yet she handles it a bit more gracefully. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series uses '4Kids'd!' to refer to Atem's Dub Name Change. | |
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The Beetlejuice animated series occasionally had characters use "Beetlejuicing" to refer to Beetlejuice's tendency to use his reality-warping abilities to cause trouble and screw with people. | |
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Little Green Men has a footnote explaining what the neologism "Bobbitting" means. | |
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Police procedurals in general seem to like to use "pulled a Louganis" as a euphemism for someone taking a suicidal leap; both CSI and NCIS have used it, and Veronica Mars used it in reference to the previous season's killer leaping off the roof of the hotel Logan lives at. | |
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From Disenchantment: | |
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In The Horse and His Boy it's mentioned near the end that after the events in the story, and Rabadash's later death, the phrase "a second Rabadash" enters the vocabulary of Calormen as an insult towards foolish schoolboys. | |
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Forever: When Medical Examiner Henry is on leave and away from the OCME for too long, and starts diagnosing what killed a rat in his basement lab, an exasperated Abe tells him to go back to work and quit "Sherlocking rats." | |
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Northernlion refers to raising an object above your head in a Legend of Zelda-like fashion as "zeldaing". Especially prevalent in his The Binding of Isaac Let's Play. | |
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Dusty finish: A Disqualification-Induced Victory used to screw over a face. | |
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The term is used in a Johnny Bravo episode by Little Suzy when she does it to Johnny. | |
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Pillmanized: To have one's arm, ankle, or neck placed inside a folding steel chair and then attacked by the opponent stepping on the chair. Came into use after "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (kayfabe) injured Brian Pillman's ankle in this manner. | |
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Dumbing of Age's Joe uses the phrase "Danny it up" to refer to, well, Danny messing up a situation due to his social ineptitude. It's become a running use in the fandom as well. | |
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In How the Light Gets In, Dean calls digging yourself out of your own grave "pulling a Buffy". | |
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On QI in series G episode 18 "Just the Job" the panelists are given Slinkies and small sets of stairs to play with. Resident Butt-Monkey Alan Davies fails at his first several attempts to walk the Slinky down the stairs, which host Stephen Fry dubs "The Alan Effect." | |
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One Big Nate strip sees Teddy showing the fifty-two he got on a math test to Francis, who says that he thought only Nate got scores that low. The two quickly start saying that Teddy "Nated" it. Cut to Nate following them: | |
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In League of Legends, a more derogatory term is "Olafing/ed". Basically, Riot took a balanced champion (Olaf, obviously) that benefited from the current meta,and nerfed him to the ground by making every skill borderline useless, and then left him to rot for over a year until his rework, which initially was an even bigger disaster that made Olaf even more useless. Eventually, Olaf received a few buffs to make him semi-viable on one specific team composition, and then was nerfed out of existence again. With Olaf having eventually made it back into general viability, this term has declined somewhat. There are also three examples from the game's massive competitive scene named after the pro players who popularised them: 'xPeke' - to sneak or teleport into the enemy base and knock down their structures, or even their Nexus, earning your team a comeback victory, coined after this famous play. 'InSec' - to dash in behind someone and knock them back towards your team, named after the famous Korean jungler who popularised this tactic with his superlative Lee Sin play. 'MadLife' - to throw out a skillshot crowd control (most famously a Thresh hook, which has a long wind-up) to catch an enemy after they use a Flash Step by predicting where they're going to go so they jump into it, in an extreme form of Lead the Target. Named after the Korean support who was particularly infamous for being able to do this regularly, perhaps most famously demonstrated here. Jinx's Image Song, called 'Get Jinxed!' is all about what it looks like to be hit with her brand of aimless terrorism. |
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In MySims Kingdom, the player needs to gain the ability to make gears, only to find that Princess Butter has preemptively stolen the appropriate scroll. | |
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In The Matrix Reloaded, Neo was "doing his Superman thing." | |
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After the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise pioneered the technique of speeding up audio to make it higher-pitched, the technique has been referred to as "chipmunking" in nearly any context. | |
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South Park: When Kyle is urging Stan to admit he did remove his STANdground bracelet and just eat crow and embrace the truth, he tells Stan that he needs to "Bill Clinton" it. The term "Hot Cosby" is used for date rape. However, by way of Snowclone, "Slow Cosby" refers to actually developing a genuine and loving relationship with someone. Kyle suspects Stan of sabotaging their efforts to find Jimmy (and vice versa), and sneers that it's "very Cartman of you." Cartman, who is watching the fight with relish, comments that that's a low blow, and indeed, when Kyle says it again Stan outright attacks him. |
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A Rabbit Among Wolves: Adam was such a harsh employer, "Adam" is used by his minions to describe when he doled out very harsh punishments. They also use "Adam" when describing his incredibly violent acts of terrorism. | |
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In the Chakona Space 'verse, Neal Foster has been known to work anywhere from 12 to 36 hours straight, often skipping meals or otherwise working through meals. In chapter 6 of "Tales of the Folly", Neal's apprentice engineers try to "pull a Foster" and do the same thing. | |
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In Big Nate In the Zone, Nate inadvertently ignites a school-wide fad after doodling all over his sneakers. As the other kids begin picking up on it, they begin saying that they "Nated" their shoes. | |
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In The Legend of Korra, an angry Varrick coined two in the same sentence: "Zhu Li'd" for an act of betrayal, and "Varricked" for suicide by Fantastic Nuke. | |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: When the Grinch comes down the chimney for the first time, the narrator uses "grinch" as a verb, which apparently just means "to talk like the Grinch": | |
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In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Pikachu calls kidnapping someone and trapping them in a basement or similarly enclosed location for dubious and likely sexual purposes to "Jessebelle" them, in reference to James' old fiancée. | |
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In No Game No Life, whenever Stephanie screws up or she can't keep up with the conversation together with the siblings, that would prompt them to scold her for being such a "Steph", much to her chagrin. | |
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In Kingpin, protagonist Roy Munson is chagrined to learn that "getting Munsoned" has come to mean being screwed over and abandoned after his past encounter with an unscrupulous rival bowler. | |
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In "The Universe Doesn't Cheat" Admiral Arkad wonders if Eleya will "pull a Kirk", in reference to James T. Kirk having cheated to win the Kobayashi Maru. She doesn't (even when she does the absolute craziest things you can pull off with a starship to try to win anyway). The Title Drop happens when she effectively defends herself in the aftermath debriefing by pointing out how hard (and unfeasible by In-Universe real-life physics) the computer did. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Xander remarked on "People going all Felicity with their hair." "The dummy tells us he's a demon hunter.... He takes off, and now there's a brain. Does anybody else feel like they've been Keyser Sozed?" When Willow is going on her Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Andrew angrily chews out the others for not helping him and Jonathan "before Darth Rosenberg goes Dark Phoenix on our asses!" Then when she goes back to her senses and has a meeting with Giles, we have this bit: "Looks like she pulled a Barry Allen on us. Jay Garrick? Wally We—She moved real fast. Never mind." One entire episode revolved around the idea of Xander being "the Zeppo" - most useless and overlooked - of the gang. In "The Pack", when Giles suggests that Xander's strange behavior may have a mundane explanation, Buffy replies, "I can't believe that you of all people are trying to Scully me!" In "School Hard", when pre-Decayed Spike first confronts Angel about having a soul: "You were my Yoda, man!" In "New Moon Rising", the normally Book Dumb Buffy threatens to "pull a William Burroughs" on somebody. Nobody gets it. In a prom episode, Buffy makes a comment about stopping someone from "pulling a Carrie on the prom". |
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Referenced in a Stargate Atlantis episode, in which McKay, after one request for an impossible super-sciencey solution too many, protests that he is not MacGyver. | |
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In Kingdom Crossovers, Zim's various screw-ups were so notorious that "I pulled a Zim" was a common saying on Irk. | |
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The Negima! Magister Negi Magi thread has "Kaede'd". | |
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In 12 Monkeys, Bruce Willis' character is referred to as having "pulled a Houdini." He was a time traveler, and got pulled back out of impossible-to-escape restraints. | |
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Amphibia: In "Grubhog Day", one of Sprig Plantar's ancestors screwed up a previous Grubhog Day celebration by eating the grubhog. When he gets a chance to restore his family's honor by looking after this year's grubhog, the guidebook he's giving includes the warning "Don't pull a Plantar!" | |
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John Cena'd: A loss to a major star (often specifically John Cena) that kills a wrestler's momentum and leaves him stranded in the midcard. | |
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To slashdot a website is to overwhelm the server with (legitimate) hits, in a sort of accidental DDOS attack performed by real humans. Named because a link from Slashdot could often have this effect on smaller sites, especially when web servers weren't as capable as they are now. | |
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In some places, it's still possible for paramedics to be told not to "John Gage" syringe caps, flipping off with a thumb. This comes from the Emergency! character's habit, and unfortunately can shoot the thing into someone's face if done wrong, hence disgouraging it. | |
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In Pop Team Epic, one kid uses the term "getting a little PopTePiPic" (read: grouchy, rude, and irritable) to describe Popuko getting antsy when hungry. | |
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In the fanfic A Child Shall Lead Them (Transformers) the term "pulling a Starscream" comes up on one occasion. | |
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The French series Les Guignols de l'Info turned soccer player Zlatan Ibrahmovic into a Memetic Badass who uses his own name to describe what he's doing (usually a synonym of "kicking ass"). | |
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How I Met Your Mother: For an episode, people started using "Ted out" (to overthink) and "Ted up" (to overthink with disastrous consequences). A later episode had characters referring to the act of repelling a potential partner with an admission of love as a "Mosby". Marshall once uses the term "Lily all over the place" to refer to making impulsive decisions out of panic. When Marshall is caught inside the ladies' room, Carl the bartender talks about "pulling a Marshall Eriksen". Marshall tries to do the same, using Carl's name to mean someone who jumps to conclusions, but is derailed when he doesn't know Carl's last name. |
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From Kingdom of Loathing, you "pull a Tonya Harding" when you attack people with a club. Technically, you pull a Tonya Harding when you have a club equipped in your main hand by hiring someone to beat up your enemy. |
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On Wander over Yonder, when Lord Hater finds that his idol, Major Threat, did a Heel–Face Turn thanks to Wander, he describes him as being "Wanderized". | |
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Screw Attack recently coined a new one in their Top 10 Zombie Games list: Frank Westing. It means "Grabbing the nearest object and using it to kill zombies" | |
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In It's a Wonderful Life there's a reference to Clarence having "pulled a Brodie" — period slang for jumping off a bridge, after New York bridge-jumper Steve Brodie. | |
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Friends had Monica's mother's use of the phrase "Pulling a Monica" to describe awkward mistakes (such as in the episode mentioned, Monica loses one of her false nails in one of the mini-quiches she made for her mother's party, not knowing which one it is). Monica points out that Judy once promised Monica's psychiatrist that she would stop. During the episode Phoebe tries to change the meaning to "completing the job you were hired to do" instead. | |
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In the second season premiere, Dean is stuck in an out-of-body experience where he can't touch or affect anything around him. So he watches Sam and their father get into an argument, and Dean gets really angry at them for it, so he knocks a glass of water onto the floor. His father and brother stop and stare, and Dean says, with a look of shock on his face, "I full-on Swayze-ed that mother." | |
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In Succession, Tom uses the term "Gregging" to describe the process of an underling getting him coffee. When Greg gets promoted, Tom refers to his new underlings as "Greglets". | |
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In the Transformers fanfic community, fanon especially, something blowing up or exploding is known as 'Wheeljack' and 'Pulling a Wheeljack', such as "Dude, your computer just pulled a Wheeljack." In the fanfic A Child Shall Lead Them (Transformers) the term "pulling a Starscream" comes up on one occasion. |
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Tear Of Grace sometimes uses "Sonic O'sixing" when referring to video game enemies that dart across the screen, and "Casper the friendly ghosting" when enemies appear to be hovering in mid air. | |
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Super Smash Bros.: Making excuses for losing a match has become known as "Johning'' after a player who became infamous for such behavior. There's a grabbing technique that Ice Climbers can use called "Wobbling," named after the player who created the technique, Wobbles. |
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The Fugitive with Tommy Lee Jones: "He did a Peter Pan right off this dam here." Earlier, of a train driver: "Bet he did a Casey Jones." | |
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The strategy game Age of Empires III has a cheat called "Soo good", where every unit kill would be accompanied by a bugle blast and an on-screen message along the lines of "KILLER UNIT'D!!!". So, if one was killed by a rifleman, he would get a message called "MUSKETEER'D!!!" or when the killer was a cavalryman there would be a message like "HUSSAR'D!!!". There are even circumstances where cannons or experienced units are named, with their whole titles; "IMPERIAL HOWITZER'D!!!". It is also awesome. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In episode "Darmok", the entire language of the alien race works this way, making communication impossible with those who don't know the references. The example they give is "Juliet on the balcony" representing a declaration of love; unless you know the name and the scene, it means nothing. Picard is able to decipher just one thing — Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra means two former warriors who became friends facing a shared danger.note Temba, his arms wide! Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. Which becomes Dathon and Picard at El Adril. Dathon at Tanagra. Picard at Tanagra. Rai and Jiri at Lunga. Kadir beneath Mometah. Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. Dathon and Picard at El Adrel. The Beast of El Adrel. Kailash when it rises. Uzani, his army; Shaka when the walls fell. Kiazi's children, their faces wet. Picard at El Adrel. Sokath, his eyes uncovered. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Darmok and Jalad on the ocean. There is the Picard Maneuver, a tactic for sneak attacks against ships lacking FTL sensors. Engage your warp drive and pop in right next to them - they'll never see you coming! More accurately, you use the Warp drive to move faster than the light reflected off the ship. Depending on the disparity of distances, it appears as if there are two of the same ship as a result, but this only lasts so long depending on how much distance there is to work with. There's a second Picard Maneuver, named after the aforementioned in-universe one, used by production staff and fans. The sharp tug on the bottom of his uniform shirt was dubbed "The Picard Maneuver". Fans have named actor Jonathan Frakes' peculiar method of sitting in a chair (approaching from behind and swinging one leg over the back) "The Riker Maneuver." |
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