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** Most have at least one scene with a speeding vehicle (''[[THX 1138]]'', ''[[American Graffiti]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', etc.). Though this may have less to do with [[Author Appeal]] and more to do with the majority of his films being action films, where speeding vehicles can be expected.

** The number 327 is also frequently encountered, although it's not clear why. One theory is that Lucas' first car was a Chevy 327.

** And speaking of [[Pixar]], nearly every film by the company will contain a reference to Pizza Planet or A113 (more info under Western Animation).

* [[Steven Spielberg]]'s first film, ''[[Duel (film)|Duel]]'', used a dinosaur roar sound effect as the tanker truck goes over the cliff, which he has incorporated into the climax of just about every film he's made ever since.

** ''Macroscope'' involved the game ''sprouts''.

* Many of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s stories involve talking cats, imposter mothers, and, of course, eye trauma.

** On a more "meta" level, he is also very, very fond of playing with the inside/outside aspect of things (i.e. what you thought was outside was really inside something bigger, or you were the one being inside all along - and not just in spatial terms) as well as the concept of stories within stories. For example, one Sandman book has the protagonist telling a barman the story about a time he got stranded in a strange inn, where people told each other stories to pass the time. One of the travellers tells a story about a boat voyage, during which Hob Gadling tells the protagonist of ''that'' story another story. That's 4 levels of indentation, 5 if you count "Neil Gaiman telling the reader the story of that guy telling the barman...".

*** 6, if you count "[[TV Tropes]] telling you the story of Neil Gaiman telling the reader the story...", but you really shouldn't.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Jerry [[Seinfeld]]—both the actor and character—likes [[Superman]]. [[Seinfeld|It]] [[Once an Episode|shows]].

* [[Tina Fey]] and the other writers of ''[[30 Rock]]'' like to make ''[[Star Wars]]'' references. In the second season, they managed to get Carrie Fisher to guest star and say, "Help me, Liz Lemon... you're my only hope!"

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Mushrooms

*** See [[Magic Mushroom]] and [[Fungus Humongous]]

 

== Western Animation ==

* Watch a few episodes of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' and it becomes pretty obvious that show creator Tom Warburton has a love affair with [[Humongous Mecha]], whether they're made of houses, amusement park rides, giant rotting sandwiches, or ''baby chickens.'' [[Rule of Cool|Not that anyone minds.]]

* Greg Weisman is a self-described "Shakespeare nut, probably with the emphasis on 'nut'." ''[[Gargoyles]]'' had Puck, Oberon and Titania, the Weird Sisters and MacBeth as recurring characters, and another trio known [[All There in the Script|in the script]] as Othello, Iago, and Desdemona. Meanwhile, ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has a running subplot about a [[School Play]] of ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' - in particular, "Growing Pains" takes advantage of the auditions to have Shakespeare quotes punctuate the story.

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