skzbrust ([info]skzbrust) wrote,
@ 2008-01-14 18:35:00
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Annoucement and a question
Announcement: I'll be out of touch for a while, on my way to Texas.

Question: If anyone saw the most recent episode of Shadow Unit--was the "chase" scene a deliberate poke at that Hitchcock scene, with the guy walking after the running woman?  With, of course, the usual Shadow Unit twist by doing that  thing with the make-up kit.  If so, then that's at least six references in that one scene (if you'll concede that any time a luger appears it's a Man From U.N.C.L.E. reference).  And I'm sure there are some I missed.

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-15 02:56 am UTC (link)
I think absolutely the Luger is an MfU reference. Especially when combined with a makeup kit.

And that gets Mission:Impossible in there too.

I was just watching the M:I today, where Jim Phelps prostitutes himself for his country.

I had forgotten that Jim was a gigolo.

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[info]pnh
2008-01-15 03:07 am UTC (link)
I missed that, but did you notice David Simon's cameo as the rental car agent?

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[info]coffeeem
2008-01-15 05:25 am UTC (link)
OMG, that WAS David Simon! I thought so! In an episode set in Baltimore, no less. Ex!

Now if they do Ed Burns as a Cop of the Week, I will burst a blood vessel laughing.

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[info]coffeeem
2008-01-16 12:26 am UTC (link)
Okay, I did just burst a blood vessel. Took me this long to realize that was BOTH a shoutout to The Wire and a Whedon reference.

Good grief!

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-16 04:57 am UTC (link)
Okay. The old guy. In the wheelchair.

With the velour jacket.

Was that Anthony Zerbe?

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[info]txanne
2008-01-15 03:07 am UTC (link)
AAAAAH!!! I missed it! Stupid nonsentient VCR. Why can't I have a TiVo like the cool kids?

But even though I haven't seen it, I'm going to say Yes, all resemblances to persons living or dead are purely not coincidental. Remember that ep with the cat? Rreferences to every single Trek series, in alphabetical order, plus Blake's 7. Nothing those writers do is by accident.

My other show is the best other show.

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-15 03:11 am UTC (link)
The critics agree.

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[info]txanne
2008-01-15 03:15 am UTC (link)
Can I just say that I'm SO VERY glad that SU isn't on Fox?

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-15 03:24 am UTC (link)
If it were on Fox, everybody would be falling into bed with everybody else by the end of the first season.

And I mean, tripping over the Duke/Reyes on the internets is bad enough without it making it into the actual show. Though I do think Daphne and Chaz have kind of an UST thing going on, but that does not mean I'm shipping them.

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[info]txanne
2008-01-15 03:29 am UTC (link)
No, it'd be canceled after 13 eps.

Ew. No. Reyes' OTP = Teh Job. (Or that's what I think so far.) And Chaz, well, I've never committed fanfic before, but I'm afraid there's a Mary Sue in my fingers...oh, the boy has such a lovely brain...

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[info]coffeeem
2008-01-15 05:27 am UTC (link)
Duke/Reyes is one of the least disturbing slashes, as far as I'm concerned. *g*

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-15 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, we don' talk about the fandom's OTP.

Not in my hearing, anyway.

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[info]txanne
2008-01-16 02:50 am UTC (link)
I'm not really plugged into the fandom yet--what am I missing?

(Why am I not in the fandom yet? Because if I let it, this show will EAT MY BRAIN.)

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[info]coffeeem
2008-01-16 12:28 am UTC (link)
Remember that ep with the cat?

That was an X-Files reference, too, I think, in the shot where Brady crouches down and calls the cat with the "Psss-psss-psss-psss" noise.

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-16 12:31 am UTC (link)
Well, and also Mission:Impossible. Again.

Remember the one where Barney has the jewel-thief orange tabby who follows commands from a throat mike? Except of course SU manages to turn it into a comment on the inadequacy of social services.

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[info]txanne
2008-01-16 02:48 am UTC (link)
...ow, my head.

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[info]lferion
2008-01-16 03:25 am UTC (link)
Oh, *and* a Highlander reference -- the episode where Methos is trying to get the Methusela stone and there's that cat there. Complete with cute 'talk to the cat' noises from Methos.

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[info]txanne
2008-01-16 12:31 pm UTC (link)
MMmmmmmmethos.

::happy fog::

Wouldn't it be great to see Wingfield on SU? Maybe as an old buddy of Duke's. Whose side he'd be on is, of course, up for debate.

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[info]mrissa
2008-01-15 03:28 am UTC (link)
Dude. ANy time [info]matociquala is writing, it's a Man From UNCLE reference.

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[info]chrismclaren
2008-01-15 05:43 am UTC (link)
I'm not sure if it's just my Dianna Rigg fixation or not, but I'm pretty sure that scene with the two agents and the champagne was not just a revealing character moment, but was also intended as an explicit Avengers nod.

I kept expecting to see her bust out some old school karate on someone for the rest of the episode. Or else show up in a cat suit or something.

I'm guessing at some point we'll see a two-shot that pulls back to show some amusing method of transport too.

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[info]karenhealey
2008-01-16 10:07 am UTC (link)
Okay, but the bit with the powder compact in the red purse - that was a total old-skool Batgirl shoutout, right?

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[info]coffeeem
2008-01-15 05:51 am UTC (link)
I should save this for the fan sites, but does anyone else see a kind of mirroring/subversion of the character of Barney from Mission: Impossible in Hafidha?

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-15 01:55 pm UTC (link)
...I would have gone Chaz for Barney.

Oh, wow.

Reyes and Todd, that's a Scotty and Kelly joke, isn't it? They even banter like them, endlessly yanking each other's chains!

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[info]yuripup
2008-01-15 07:37 pm UTC (link)
I so can't find this episode. :-(

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[info]coffeeem
2008-01-16 12:30 am UTC (link)
Stupid network "policed" the torrent sites again...

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-16 02:56 am UTC (link)
Have you ever noticed how much SU sometimes resembles The Library?

I'm not sure it's anything I can put my finger on.

Maybe it's more what they both *don't* do.

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[info]xengar
2008-01-16 03:39 am UTC (link)
Grrr. Why must you people keep making me wish I had a television? It's not like it would be worth the cost, with only one a very small handful of shows I'd want to spend time watching. Last one was Firefly, no wait, Who wants to be a superhero season 2. I suppose that just like them I'll have to just go out and track them down online. Who knows, Maybe I'll run into Hafidha out there :)

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[info]calanthe_b
2008-01-16 04:00 am UTC (link)
Please tell me I'm not the only one who caught the Farscape ref...I mean, refs. Because the rocks-paper-scissors thing was obvious, but then there was the other one...

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[info]matociquala
2008-01-16 04:07 am UTC (link)
I missed a Farscape joke?

Say it ain't so!

Unless you mean Wonder Woman in the leather pants.

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[info]calanthe_b
2008-01-16 04:13 am UTC (link)
Call it three, then. I missed the leather pants!

But I caught the stuff with the tongues.

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[info]mattador
2008-01-16 04:16 am UTC (link)
So, that brief flash when it showed he had six fingers rather than five: a reference to that episode of X-Files, or to the Princess Bride? Both? Neither? What does it imply about him?

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[info]delicious_irony
2008-01-16 08:12 am UTC (link)
WTF did I miss? Where do I get this episode?

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[info]brown_betty
2008-01-16 10:13 am UTC (link)
Was that red stapler a swingline stapler? I'm not sure what to make of that in this context: I mean, the obvious, but I'm not seeing the parallels. I hate it when that happens.

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[info]txanne
2008-01-16 12:34 pm UTC (link)
I thought it was just a joke about the eternal and unchanging nature of the Platonic workplace.

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