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A [[Shout-Out]] that pops up in a lot of places. An oddly specific Shout Out.

Apparently multiple authors independently noticed the same detail and decided to reference it in their own story. The fact that so many authors possess such a thorough knowledge of the original story goes to show just how influential the subject of the [[Shout-Out]] is.

Stock Shout Outs differ from [[Stock Parodies]] in two ways: They aren't played for laughs (beyond the inherent in-joke-esque nature of the common reference point) and they're usually blink-and-you'll-miss[[Self-Referential Humor|-]]it short.

Some are so famous that they've become tropes themselves.

[[The Other Wiki]] also has [[wikipedia:Category:In-jokes|more information]].

'''Subtropes:''' If an example fits into one of these subtropes, it should be on that page, not here.
* [[Classic Cheat Code]]s
* [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare|Shout-Out to Shakespeare]]
* [[Stock Scream]]s
* [[Standard Snippet]]s
* [[Alice Allusion]]s

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== [[Film]] ==
* 1138: [[George Lucas]]' student film, later made a full motion picture, ''[[THX 1138]]''.
** Even referenced in the [[Disney Theme Parks]] in Star Tours
* "Hello, Clarice" from ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''. If used, it's often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] as well ("''Who is Clarice?''").
* The "One of Us" chant from ''[[Freaks]]''
* "I'll get you, my pretty! [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]!", from ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''
* The Metropolis Tower, from ''[[Metropolis]]''
* ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'':
** [[The Monolith]]
** [[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]
** "Open the pod-bay doors, HAL." Often paired with:
** "I'm afraid I can't do that." or the [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|misquote]], "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."
* "Klaatu Barada Nikto!" From ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]''.
* The "I'm the king of the world!" stance from ''[[Titanic]]''
* "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" and "The horror... the horror..." from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''
** Though "The horror...the horror..." [[Adaptation Displacement|is actually]] a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Heart of Darkness]].''
*** ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' is ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' [[Recycled in Space|in Vietnam]].
* "Be afraid. Be very afraid." From the 1986 remake of ''[[The Fly]]''.
* ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'':
** The Statue of Liberty half-buried or submerged
** The line "You maniacs! You blew it up!"
* "I'll be back." From the films of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], including but not limited to the ''[[Terminator]]'' series.
* "[[Feed Me]]!" Or "Feed me, Seymour!", delivered in a [[Large Ham]] fashion, usually in a voice as deep as the speaker can manage; from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''
* "I'm walkin' here!", from ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''
* "Oh Captain, My Captain!", along with standing on a desk—from ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'', and therefore often used with [[Save Our Students]] plots.
* "See you next Wednesday": to director John Landis' [[Creator Thumbprint]].
** This one was actually inverted once. [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5/msg/910d367e0e6bd61f See here.] JMS, creator of ''[[Babylon 5]]'', used the phrase in reference to the series being aired on Wednesdays and would have ''changed'' it if he knew it could be seen as a John Landis reference.
* "[[Tannhauser Gate]]", usually as a space battle in [[Science Fiction]]. From ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Spelling may vary. Or the whole speech may be used:
{{quote|I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [pause] Time to die.}}
* "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" from ''[[Taxi Driver]]''
* The first rule of Stock Shout-Outs to ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' is: You do not talk about Stock Shout-Outs to ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]''.<ref>The second rule of Stock Shout-Outs to ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' is: You do not talk about Stock Shout-Outs to ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]''.</ref>

== [[Literature]] ==
* 23: Used as a reference to its appearance in the ''[[Principia Discordia]]'', conspiracy theories (there was even a movie about that), or maybe just to ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''.
* "He who controls the X" from ''[[Dune]]''
* "Preciousssssss" or "my Precioussssss". ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[Room 101]] from, ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''
* [[Catch-22]], from the novel of the same name.
* "Nevermore." ''[[Edgar Allan Poe]]''{{'}}s "The Raven". Expect it wherever or whenever anything [[Ravens and Crows|corvid]]-related appears - but defied by ''[[Discworld]]''{{'}}s Quoth the Raven, who calls it "the N-word".

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* 4 8 15 16 23 42: The ''[[Lost]]'' numbers, which notably include two numbers listed separately on this page.
* "Be seeing you!" with a particular hand-to-eye gesture: ''[[The Prisoner]]''
* "That's the second-[adjective]-est [noun] I've ever seen!" from ''[[Get Smart]]''
* "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." from [[Incredible Hulk|the Hulk]].

== [[Music]] ==
* The phrase ''Welcome to the Jungle'' pops out everywhere.
* [[Pirate Jenny]], from the song by [[Bertold Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill]]

== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* 666:  The [[Number of the Beast]], from [[The Bible/Source/Revelation|The Book of Revelation]] in [[The Bible]].  In Western works, it almost always signifies that supernatural evil is involved.  In Eastern works, it's just a cool number with connections to other people's religion and can show up anywhere for any reason.

== [[Radio]] ==
* [[42]]: Most famous as the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', though it occurs over and over again in Lewis Carroll's works.
* "It's a bird! It's a plane!" from ''[[The Adventures of Superman (radio)|The Adventures of Superman]]''. Also, "This looks like a job for..."

== [[Theatre]] ==
* The [[Major-General Song]], from ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''; also a favorite stock parody
* "STELLLLLLLLLLLAAAA!!!!!!" ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''

== [[Video Games]] ==
* "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike", from ''[[Colossal Cave]]''.

== Western Animation ==
* "[[You Meddling Kids]]!" or the whole line, "I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for [you/these/those] meddling kids" from ''[[Scooby Doo]]''.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G8XH4WDxP4 children dancing] during ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]''.

== [[Real Life]] ==
* A113: A reference to the California Institute for the Arts, specifically the classroom for first-year graphic design. This one is common in [[Pixar]] films (witness "special order A113" in ''[[WALL-E]]''), but Cal Arts grad and Pixar stalwart [[Brad Bird]] also included references in ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol]]''.
* [[Oh, the Humanity!|"Oh, the Humanity!"]] and/or the iconic "burning dirigible" image from the ''[[Hindenburg]]'' disaster.

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