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!''Alan Wake''
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* Barry tries to convince Alan that he might be going crazy, because of all his talk about a Dark Presence. Once the Dark Presence goes after ''Barry'' and he complains about it on his cellphone, Alan shoots back that [[IronicEcho Barry should just relax because Alan's just going crazy]].
* Barry's "Night Springs" phone calls at the beginning of chapter 5. The funniest is when you stick around to the end: in spite of the urgency of the situation, Barry can't let himself interrupt a chatty person to tell them the code word.
* One particular episode of "Night Springs", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQyv7Pj_u3M Absence of Creativity]]" is pure NightmareRetardant: two women go into a basement, and discover a wormhole. Then a man appears in the basement, himself not sure what the deal with the wormhole is, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou with it being heavily implied that he's the writer of the episode, suffering from writer's block]].
* In chapter 2, during the bird attack, Barry is thankful that, in this horrible situation, at least he's not allergic to birds. [[OhCrap And then he sneezes.]]
* At one point, there existed a pirated copy of the game. It played the game entirely fine, with no real copy protection to speak of, except Alan is wearing a [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil silly eye patch for the duration of the game.]]
!''Alan Wake's American Nightmare''
* EmmaSloan offering Alan a "herbal detox suppository."
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* Barry's "Night Springs" phone calls at the beginning of chapter 5. The funniest is when you stick around to the end: in spite of the urgency of the situation, Barry can't let himself interrupt a chatty person to tell them the code word.
* One particular episode of "Night Springs", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQyv7Pj_u3M Absence of Creativity]]" is pure NightmareRetardant: two women go into a basement, and discover a wormhole. Then a man appears in the basement, himself not sure what the deal with the wormhole is, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou with it being heavily implied that he's the writer of the episode, suffering from writer's block]].
* In chapter 2, during the bird attack, Barry is thankful that, in this horrible situation, at least he's not allergic to birds. [[OhCrap And then he sneezes.]]
* At one point, there existed a pirated copy of the game. It played the game entirely fine, with no real copy protection to speak of, except Alan is wearing a [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil silly eye patch for the duration of the game.]]
!''Alan Wake's American Nightmare''
* Emma
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* Barry tries to convince Alan that he might be going crazy, because of all his talk about a Dark Presence. Once the Dark Presence goes after ''Barry'' and he complains about it on his cellphone, Alan shoots back that [[IronicEcho Barry should just relax because Alan's just going crazy]].
* Barry's "Night Springs" phone calls at the beginning of chapter 5. The funniest is when you stick around to the end: in spite of the urgency of the situation, Barry can't let himself interrupt a chatty person to tell them the code word.
* One particular episode of "Night Springs", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQyv7Pj_u3M Absence of Creativity]]" is pure NightmareRetardant: two women go into a basement, and discover a wormhole. Then a man appears in the basement, himself not sure what the deal with the wormhole is, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou with it being heavily implied that he's the writer of the episode, suffering from writer's block]].
* In ''American Nightmare'' a character under the influence of The Darkness gets her horniness dial turned up to eleven and basically throws herself at Alan. His response upon approaching her building during the second time loop boils down to: [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Ugh, here we go..."]]
* In Taken, during the bird attack, Barry is thankful that, in this horrible situation, at least he's not allergic to birds. [[OhCrap And then he sneezes.]]
* At one point, there existed a pirated copy of the game. It played the game entirely fine, with no real copy protection to speak of, except Alan is wearing a [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil silly eye patch for the duration of the game.]]
* In ''American Nightmare'' you can check the names of the movies playing at the drive in, during the first loop Alan will notice [[CoolVersusAwesome Samurai vs Conquistador 2]] is playing, apparently he hated the first one and is annoyed they made a sequel while he was in the Dark Place.
* Barry's "Night Springs" phone calls at the beginning of chapter 5. The funniest is when you stick around to the end: in spite of the urgency of the situation, Barry can't let himself interrupt a chatty person to tell them the code word.
* One particular episode of "Night Springs", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQyv7Pj_u3M Absence of Creativity]]" is pure NightmareRetardant: two women go into a basement, and discover a wormhole. Then a man appears in the basement, himself not sure what the deal with the wormhole is, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou with it being heavily implied that he's the writer of the episode, suffering from writer's block]].
* In ''American Nightmare'' a character under the influence of The Darkness gets her horniness dial turned up to eleven and basically throws herself at Alan. His response upon approaching her building during the second time loop boils down to: [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Ugh, here we go..."]]
* In Taken, during the bird attack, Barry is thankful that, in this horrible situation, at least he's not allergic to birds. [[OhCrap And then he sneezes.]]
* At one point, there existed a pirated copy of the game. It played the game entirely fine, with no real copy protection to speak of, except Alan is wearing a [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil silly eye patch for the duration of the game.]]
* In ''American Nightmare'' you can check the names of the movies playing at the drive in, during the first loop Alan will notice [[CoolVersusAwesome Samurai vs Conquistador 2]] is playing, apparently he hated the first one and is annoyed they made a sequel while he was in the Dark Place.
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* Barry tries to convince Alan that he might be going crazy, because of all his talk about a Dark Presence. Once the Dark Presence goes after ''Barry'' and he complains about it on his cellphone, Alan shoots back that [[IronicEcho Barry should just relax because Alan's just going crazy]].
* Barry's "Night Springs" phone calls at the beginning of chapter 5. The funniest is when you stick around to the end: in spite of the urgency of the situation, Barry can't let himself interrupt a chatty person to tell them the code word.
* One particular episode of "Night Springs", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQyv7Pj_u3M Absence of Creativity]]" is pure NightmareRetardant: two women go into a basement, and discover a wormhole. Then a man appears in the basement, himself not sure what the deal with the wormhole is, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou with it being heavily implied that he's the writer of the episode, suffering from writer's block]].
* In ''American Nightmare'' a characterWhile under the influence of The Darkness the Dark Presence, Serena gets her horniness dial turned up to eleven and basically throws herself at Alan. His response upon approaching her building during the second time loop boils down to: to, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Ugh, here we go..."]]
*In Taken, during the bird attack, Barry is thankful that, in this horrible situation, at least he's not allergic to birds. [[OhCrap And then he sneezes.]]
* At one point, there existed a pirated copy of the game. It played the game entirely fine, with no real copy protection to speak of, except Alan is wearing a [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil silly eye patch for the duration of the game.]]
* In ''American Nightmare'' youYou can check the names of the movies playing at the drive in, during drive-in. During the first loop Alan will notice [[CoolVersusAwesome ''[[CoolVersusAwesome Samurai vs Conquistador 2]] 2]]'' is playing, playing; apparently he hated the first one and is annoyed they made a sequel while he was in the Dark Place.
* Barry's "Night Springs" phone calls at the beginning of chapter 5. The funniest is when you stick around to the end: in spite of the urgency of the situation, Barry can't let himself interrupt a chatty person to tell them the code word.
* One particular episode of "Night Springs", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQyv7Pj_u3M Absence of Creativity]]" is pure NightmareRetardant: two women go into a basement, and discover a wormhole. Then a man appears in the basement, himself not sure what the deal with the wormhole is, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou with it being heavily implied that he's the writer of the episode, suffering from writer's block]].
* In ''American Nightmare'' a character
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** During the tour of the lodge, at some point squeaky noises can be heard. Go around the corner and one sees Tor hit a board game with a colorful toy hammer aggressively.
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* During the TV interview we see Alan do via {{Flashback}}, the other guest on the show is Remedy's Sam Lake. Lake, the original actor for Max Payne, is asked if he could "Do the face!". He replies by making a [[VideoGame/MaxPayne constipated expression]].
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* During the TV interview we see Alan do via {{Flashback}}, the other guest on the show is Remedy's Sam Lake.Lake (pictured above). Lake, the original actor for Max Payne, is asked if he could "Do the face!". He replies by making a [[VideoGame/MaxPayne constipated expression]].
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* A subtle one, but near the beginning of The Signal, a phone appears which is clearly a Verizon phone. Zane calls, and the first thing he says is a perfect shout out to the classic Verizon commercials.
-->'''Thomas Zane:''' Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?
-->'''Thomas Zane:''' Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?
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!Per wiki policy, Administrivia/SpoilersOff applies here and all spoilers are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.
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* Alan and Barry getting drunk off the Andersons' moonshine and drunkenly spouting nonsense about being able to write ten books a year and becoming booze millionaires, respectively. Overlaps with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments when Alan breaks down about Alice and Barry pats his head.
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* While Breaker, Wheeler, and Wake are moving through the town, the Dark Presence possesses a Deerfest vehicle to send after you, and after hitting or trying to hit you, it then ''pulls up and parks the damn thing next to a few other cars.''
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-->'''Barry:''' [[{{Shaft}} 'Cause you're a complicated man and no one understands you-]]
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* In Taken, during the bird attack, Barry is thankful that, in this horrible situation, at least he's not allergic to birds. [[OhCrap And then he sneezes.]]
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*** [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes DUCK SEASON, FIRE!]] *blam blam* (This troper's immediate response)
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* Mr. Scratch's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cEXYWJPMIA Super Effective Sales Trailer]]. Basically he goes on a killing spree at Remedy Entertainment's offices, {{Squee}}s over all the good reviews he's gotten, and then enslaves the game's lead writer (and a potted plant) so he can force them to write more games about him. He spends the entire trailer as a [[LargeHam hammy]] [[AttentionWhore]]. It's the large amount of dark humor that makes this great.
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* Mr. Scratch's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cEXYWJPMIA Super Effective Sales Trailer]]. Basically he goes on a killing spree at Remedy Entertainment's offices, {{Squee}}s over all the good reviews he's gotten, and then enslaves the game's lead writer (and a potted plant) so he can force them to write more games about him. He spends the entire trailer as a [[LargeHam hammy]] [[AttentionWhore]].[[AttentionWhore attention grabbing bastard]]. It's the large amount of dark humor that makes this great.
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* Mr. Scratch's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cEXYWJPMIA Super Effective Sales Trailer]]. Basically he goes on a killing spree at Remedy Entertainment's offices, {{Squee}}s over all the good reviews he's gotten, and then enslaves the game's lead writer (and a potted plant) so he can force them to write more games about him. He spends the entire trailer as a [[LargeHam hammy]] [[Attention Whore]]. It's the large amount of dark humor that makes this great.
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* Mr. Scratch's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cEXYWJPMIA Super Effective Sales Trailer]]. Basically he goes on a killing spree at Remedy Entertainment's offices, {{Squee}}s over all the good reviews he's gotten, and then enslaves the game's lead writer (and a potted plant) so he can force them to write more games about him. He spends the entire trailer as a [[LargeHam hammy]] [[Attention Whore]].[[AttentionWhore]]. It's the large amount of dark humor that makes this great.
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** [[PokeThePoodle At 1:27 he flips off a poster of Alan and at the end he steals a bunch of snacks and stuffs them into his jacket.]]
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him. He spends the entire trailer as a [[LargeHam hammy]] [[Attention Whore]]. It's the large amount of dark humor that makes this great.
** [[PokeThePoodle At 1:27 he flips off a poster of Alan and at the end he steals a bunch of snacks and stuffs them into his jacket.]]]] It's not that he steals the snacks, it's how he looks around to make sure he doesn't get caught.
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* Barry tries to convince Alan that he might be going crazy, because of all his talk about a Dark Presence. Once the Dark Presence goes after ''Barry'' and he complains about it on his cellphone, Alan shoots back that [[IronicEcho Barry should just relax because Alan's just going crazy]].
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