Did you hear that reference!?!?

[oreopizza47]

if a show can hold it's own without references, they are icing on the cake.
but if it needs them to survive, might as well take them off the life support.

that being said, i reiterate the second post.
why were you watching chowder?

 

[zombiejoe]

if a show can hold it's own without references, they are icing on the cake.
but if it needs them to survive, might as well take them off the life support.

that being said, i reiterate the second post.
why were you watching chowder?

YOU DID NOT LISTEN! *thunder*
lol

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Phineas and Ferb has about a million references to Star Wars, cop shows, and other grown up things that the kids watching will never get. They even had a David Caruso shades+YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH! reference in an episode about the boys being detectives. That show rules.

I loved that CSI reference especially. The show is quite possibly the only redeeming feature the Disney channel has.

OT: I can't stand some references though. Whilst shows like Phineas and Ferb pull it off well, others feel like they've jammed them in there to win popularity points with "the kids".

As for your topic, I've seen quite a few shows reference Halo.

Like Halo references. None of the ones I've seen have worked, especially in the awful adverts for that film. I think it was called "Aliens in the Attic". "They've turned off the gravity-" PLUG ACTIVATED "-like in HALO!" When was gravity "turned off" in Halo?

Child comedy = usually bad. Children aren't funny 90% of the time, especially when they think it'll be funny to have the entire cast of a show tormented by one child, who never gets his/her comeuppance, because the creators have made them the Wesley and consider them a cheeky little scamp, whilst everyone else wants to see them burn.

Sturgeon's Law can be applied to children I'm sure.

Anyway, apologies for the rant. I feel better now.

 

[jam.on.the.toasts]

ok, so there's this ad on Australian TV at the moment it's one that's encouraging people to quit smoking but any way there's the cigarette packed in a bell jar or something doesn't point is that the cigarette packet is labelled THE MASTER and is telling some guy playing football (Aussie rules) that he wont be able to quit just like the last time he tried then the guy says he has help of THE DOCTOR who has prescribed him niccorette tablets or some such.

Thing is I really have no idea if it's an intentional reference or not because it's from a series of ads they all feature the cigarette packet and it really doesn't seem targeted at the demographic but goddamn if I don't think about it every time I see it

 

[Yoshemo]

Spongebob randomly said "chocolate rain" this morning. It caught my attention fast

 

[Smagmuck_]

I was watching Billy & Mandey save Christmas. When Mandey was explaining how Christmas was a corporate lie. One of the items going acroos the screen was labeled "Helo 2" With a smiling master chief on the cover. They've also made referances to Street Fighter and Cooking Mama...

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

SNIP

I've gotta say that I generally agree with you. Too many kids shows try to appeal to adult audiences too and fail horribly. Phineas and Ferb somehow manages to do it right though. I suspect it's related to the fact that the creators used to work on Family Guy and Spongebob (which has a lot more grown up humor than I expected).