In A Bug’s Life, the circus ringmaster is a flea. It’s a flea circus.
Admittedly I had heard the term “flea circus” my entire life but only this morning looked up what it actually was. I mean it’s pretty straightforward, a bunch of fleas made to look like they’re in a circus, but I was missing the history and context.
In the Futurama episode where Leela gets blinded there’s another patient in the hospital who asks “Doctor, how’s my cyst?”
The little Doctor, who appears to be an anthro-Chihuahua says “Grande”
I still have no idea what this is about.
I’m not sure it was meant to be that deep. Grande just means large in Spanish.
If anything maybe it was a reference to the Taco Bell dog?
Also hehe “dogtor”
“Lake Flacid” from The Simpsons episode where the grandpa is selling that drink that makes you horny that he makes in the bathtub.
I thought it was a legal way around mentioning Lake Placid without having to say the actual name - then felt so dumb when i became a teenager and actually got it
Nostalgia Critic has lots of Star Trek references I didn’t get until years later. I only started getting into Star Trek around 8 years ago
I was in my late 30s when I realized the Beatles were not spelled the same as the insect beetles, and that their band name was a pun on “beat.”
TIL beetles (the insect) is written with double e instead ea.
Not really a joke, but when Bon Jovi sang “Like Frankie said I did it MY WAY” I had no idea who he was talking about until It’s My Life came on the radio a couple months ago
There was the “Finger Prince” joke from Animaniacs, but I’m sure there were a LOT of Simpsons gags I can’t think of right now.
“No one who speaks German could be an evil man.”
The Bart, the.
Lord Farquad from Shrek.
Farquad. Fuckwad.
Shrek is full of little jokes like that the kids don’t get but the parents enjoy.
Animaniacs: finger prince.
Animaniacs: finger prince.
I don’t think so.
Spongebob squarepants, who is friends with a pink starfish and works for mr crabs in bikini bottom.
And Mr Krabs’ daughter is a whale.
Not a joke, but…
In Star Wars, the moments where Anakin turns to the dark side and leaves the dark side were meant to mirror each other. In both instances, he’s watching someone he’s close to being attacked mercilessly, and on the verge of death, and struggles with which side to choose before finally taking action.
Most of the rationing jokes in '40s era cartoons.
In the original Fallout I was quite proud of myself for picking up on the fact that Dogmeat was a Road Warrior reference.
It took me years to realize that the leather jacket and (to a lesser extent) sawed off shotgun were also riffing directly on Road Warrior.
