Game reference in a very wrong place.

[rampantcreature]

Thought of other things, though no specific examples.

Wait! I have one. In an episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot, I know there was a reference to "Life, the universe, [and] everything." But similarly, I was thinking of the countless references to 42 that abound everywhere.

And I know I've stumbled upon Cthulhu references in unexpected places.

 

[DrDeath3191]

I had a stripper at a stag night reference All Your Base. She proved her worth!

WIN, I like this.

During my orientation, one of the counselors made the same reference on stage. Eugh.

However in both cases do you think that they REALLY knew what what they said meant?

He said it shortly after referencing the T-shirt that said "Join the darkside: we have cookies." Yes, he knew what he was doing.

 

[rampantcreature]

What a wasted reference. I would think the kids who watch that show are too young/stupid to have played through Portal.

There's a difference between being made for the target audience (kids and obese gamer nerds) and being made 'for teh lulz' because the show's producers thought it was/would be funny.

 

[Extravaganza]

WIN, I like this.

Get out, Does the usage of the word "Win, Fail, Epic" ever seem.. Overdone to anyone else?

 

[Magnatek]

I know of a somewhat worse one from Spongebob. In an episode, Patrick is declared a king, and he makes a Gauntlet reference (i.e. "King needs food badly"). It was lame, but it still earned a laugh from me.

 

[Cody211282]

Anytime someone says OMG or LOL in real life I think its out of place, dont know if it counts but it buggs me

 

[TheLazyKnight]

A terrible rendition of Lara Croft painted on the wall of a laser tag place in Tennessee.

 

[Brnin8]

my old high school principal WAS gman, i shit you not, he looked JUST LIKE HIM.

Did he tell you to wake up and smell the ashes?
Anyway the only one I can think of is Porcupine Tree referencing the Xbox in Fear of a Blank Planet (not in a positive way).

 

[Warped Pixel]

Well I was also channel surfing and it came to rest on cartoon disney(disney Xd now atleast) or whatever and it for some reason had teddy rosevelt in it. Well teddy said "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in a fight scene and I seriously was thinking none of the intended audience will get that at all.

 

[Joshimodo]

I had a stripper at a stag night reference All Your Base. She proved her worth!

Are you serious??? Wow that's one particularly nerdy stripper. Nothing wrong with that, just strange.

Yup, dead serious. I was actually stunned for a moment before returning to watching the "show".

However in both cases do you think that they REALLY knew what what they said meant?

Yeah, because me and the guy who's party it was were going over things that he could never do now he was getting married, one was staying up all night watching retarded internet videos and memes, before we started repeating the quotes from AYB. The stipper in question then said "Aww, looks like you've set yourself up the bomb".

Was amusing.

 

[Brnin8]

A terrible rendition of Lara Croft painted on the wall of a laser tag place in Tennessee.

Crap that just reminded of the laser tag place near here, it had bad renditions of loads of games, Halo, Mortal Kombat, The Hulk, the list goes on.

 

[Dioxide20]

I left it on for a second, and the kid, Chowder, was getting kicked out a wedding. So he says: "But I was promised cake... The cake was a lie...".

They do that as hints to adults who are forced to watch the show with their kids.

 

[SebZero]

Anyone who just HAS to point out "OMG dood, epic fail! Epic. Fail!"

That gets annoying quickly, although I guess it isn't quite a game reference.

 

[griever0311]

I remember seeing a Johnny Bravo episode where he was dressed as a pig. I had seen it when I was young, but it took me until recently to understand the quote "four feet good, two feet bad!".

It was pretty damn funny though.

Reference to what?

He's referring to a book called Animal Farm, where the animals rise up against the humans and form their own society. Despite the premise, it's not a children's story, but a biting sociopolitical commentary of the time.

 

[(whitty name here)]

I literaly sat in front of my computer thinking for like, 10 minutes.
Unfortunately, No.

WAIT A MINUTE!!!!

In shawn of the dead, shaun uses a trampeline to jump over a fence. That might have been a reference to Zombies Ate My Neighboors. Does that count?

IDK but in Hot Fuzz they do the same thing and I'm pretty sure it was filmed at the same fence.

 

[hypothetical fact]

Videogame culture isn't private anymore, every hipster and their dog had to say the cake is a lie despite never playing portal.

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

Really OP? You were just "channel surfing" and you happened to come across that exact episode at that exact moment?

On topic, any time a tv show or movie depicts what they think gamers are, you know, the people that get all intense and flail there bodies widly.

 

[soren7550]

Well, in my American History class last year, I kept making references to The Orange Box (mainly Half Life 2). At one point I used the Ravenholm level as a comparison to a battle where the people were greatly outnumbered in a place that was full of hostels & having limited ammo (something like that), and the teacher got really pissed at me and said "Soren, if you reference that game in my class one more time, I'm going to throw you out and fail you."
I'm pretty sure I stopped around then, but because I wasn't allowed to use video games, I went on to using war movies and how much hotter a military uniform makes people look. (he hated it whenever I'd bring that subject up.)

But I did keep using the Half Life series, BioShock and Mass Effect as legitimate science in my Earth Science class. (She actually believed it was all true. It's not really, but they do lean on real science [most notably Mass Effect])