Line #43 ShoutOut/InCryptid


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4	!!General/Unsorted
5	* The Bat Boy from National Enquirer fame is an actual cryptid in this 'verse, as is TheMothman.
6	* Verity mentions ''Franchise/CarmenSandiego'' by way of witty banter.
7	* Verity quotes the sages: "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand you can't always get what you want]]."
8	%%* Metallica
9	%%* ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'': you'll know the scene when you get to it.
10	* ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'': Verity [[GenreSavvy specifically calls out the villain]] for [[CaughtMonologuing monologuing]].
11	* The two cuckoos in the family are Angela Baker and Sarah Zellaby, referencing Angela Zellaby from ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''. This, like their psi-etiquette, chosen from ''Series/BabylonFive'', is an in-universe character choice. Sarah's IM username is also "Midwich_Girl".
12	* An obscure reference to another [[FilkSong filker]]: "Emerald Green" is a Pegasus-winning song. The writer of "Emerald Green" also has a song about a Siren making a living as a singer.
13	* Music/DireStraits: Verity invokes "Money for Nothing" when having to talk to Candy about something (and the titles of ''Magic for Nothing'' and ''Tricks for Free'' are also references to the song).
14	* Because Antimony reads a lot of comics, she refers to one of Verity's moves as "pulling a [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Gwen Stacy]]".
15	** Sam invokes Gwen Stacy[[note]]which Seanan would later write for[[/note]] to put Timpani at ease when they're on the trapeze to assure her he won't death drop her.
16	* [[WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle Super Chicken]]: "you knew the job was dangerous when you took it" is paraphrased here as it was in ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'', although attributed to ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''; making it double as CreatorInJoke.
17	* WesternAnimation/KimPossible: Antimony uses Kim's CatchPhrase, "What's the sitch?"
18	* Antimony also peppers her internal monologue with references to shows and animation:
19	** The OpeningNarration to Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan runs through her head.
20	** She describes herself as [[CatchPhrase smarter than the average bear]], which is the catch phrase of WesternAnimation/YogiBear.
21	** Antimony describes herself as not wanting to Creator/DrewBarrymore herself in a reference to ''Film/NeverBeenKissed''.
22	** Antimony describes someone else's sudden change in attention as if they'd sensed a disturbance in [[Franchise/StarWars The Force]].
23	** Antimony, in a moment of antipathy toward her sister Verity, sneers at her for wanting to look like ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}.
24	* The field guide mentions that the Angler Tortoise may have inspired the Graboids of ''Film/{{Tremors}}''.
25	* In an [[https://www.facebook.com/metrolibrary/videos/3090299817856827 interview]][[note]]relevant quote at 49:47[[/note]], Seanan mentions that Evelyn is "basically [[Series/TheMunsters Marilyn Munster]], and that makes me happy."
26	* In a [[https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/67821621086/theres-something-ive-been-dying-to-know-and-now-seems Tumblr post]], Seanan confirmed that Verity was named after Creator/VerityLambert.
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28	!!Discount Armageddon
29	* Verity is thankful that her grandmother took shots at The Boob Fairy[[note]]a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMyntyvJbQ song by Deirdre Flint]][[/note]], resulting in the girls of the family being modestly endowed.
30	* ''Series/LandOfTheLost1974'': Verity refers to an unknown creature as a Sleestak until she finds out what it really is.
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32	!!Midnight Blue-Light Special
33	* Kitty is a fan of ''Series/SesameStreet'' and owns both Elmo slippers and Grover pajamas.
34
35	!!Verity Shorts
36	[[AC:Waking Up in Vegas]]
37	* The title may be from the Music/KatyPerry song of the same name.
38	* Dominic pulls apart the lyrics of "[[Music/JohnnyCash Folsom Prison Blues]]":
39	-->'''Dominic:''' Why would you shoot a man just to watch him die? If you shoot a man, it should be because you want that man dead. Shooting him simply to see what happens is a waste of both bullets and a good opponent. It makes no sense.
40	* The Aeslin mice watch the [=VH1=] Video Countdown and try to match Music/TaylorSwift's dance moves. Later on, they watch a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' marathon.
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42	[[AC:My Last Name]]
43	* Verity compares her mom's appearance to [[Series/TheBradyBunch Carol Brady]].
44	* The Aeslin mice's "yay, we're almost home" song includes several verses from "The Wheels on the Bus".
45
46	!!Half-Off Ragnarok
47	* Sarah likes watching mathematical television shows like ''Series/Numb3rs'' and ''Series/SquareOneTV''.
48	* When discussing her scrambled brain, Sarah references classic children's stories through the Queen of Hearts and Humpty Dumpty.
49	* Chandi is a fan of ''Series/LazyTown'', while a gorgon child likes ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. Many child visitors to the zoo must be convinced that [[Literature/HarryPotter Slytherin]] doesn't make all snakes evil.
50	* Alex describes Sarah giving the Covenant agents LaserGuidedAmnesia in the previous book as convincing them that the inhabitants of New York [[Film/ANewHope were not the droids they were looking for]].
51
52	!!Magic for Nothing
53	* The person who trained Antimony on the flying trapeze was [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Grayson]] Campbell, which makes it a meta and in character MeaningfulName since Nightwing was circus born trapeze artist Dick Grayson in the comics, who grows up to use IShallTauntYou as a combat technique, much like Verity, Timpani and Sam do.
54	* Antimony has a female Aeslin Mouse she calls Mindy. When a male Aeslin shows up and joins them, she informs him she can't pronounce his real name and asks if it's all right to address him as [[Series/MorkAndMindy Mork]].
55	* Antimony calls for her Aunt Mary by reciting, "[[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Betelgeuse,]] Betelgeuse, [[RuleOfThree Betelgeuse]]," much to Mary's dismay.
56	* The Covenant uses ''Film/MenInBlack'' as a reference point and a method of making their goals accessible to modern day recruits.
57	* Antimony complains that the Covenant, being the dark side, [[MemeticMutation should have offered her cookies]].
58	* Timpani mentions the Stalk from ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' after meeting a [[TsuchigumoAndJorogumo cryptid]] who looks an awful lot like the character.
59	* Antimony ends up hitchhiking on a lonely stretch of road, like the end scene of every episode of ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977''.
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61	!!Calculated Risks
62	* Sarah mentions basing her "rules of telepathic conduct" on ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics and ''Series/Babylon5''.
63	* Mark compares Annie to ''Film/{{Firestarter}}''.
64	* Antimony mentions that the dimension they're trapped in "plays by ''Series/DoctorWho'' rules", with normal gravity and a [[NoBiochemicalBarriers/AllAtmospheresAreEqual breathable atmosphere]].
65	* Sarah calls her occasional BecomeARealBoy tendency a "Blue Fairy impulse".
66	* Sarah says the suns in the alien dimension look "more like the sun from the ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' than a real celestial body had any right to", though at least they don't have faces.
67	* "Not to get all ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' about my own situation, but removing myself from Annie's memories had definitely kicked the support out from some of her ideas about the world."
68	* The intro for one of the chapters gives the setting as "the classroom where this [[Literature/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay terrible, awful, no-good, seemingly endless day]] began".
69	* Sarah mentions Artie talking her down from destroying the world as "[[Literature/GoodOmens very Crowley talking down Aziraphale before the Apocalypse]]".
70	* This conversation:
71	-->'''Antimony:''' Isn't that why we have the mice? So nothing ever gets lost, or left behind, or forgotten?
72	-->'''Sarah:''' Getting a little ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' there.
73	* On the very next page, Annie compares Mark's little sister Cici to "the second coming of [[Literature/RamonaQuimby Ramona the Brat]]".
74	* When Sarah explains how she folded spacetime to get from Oregon to Iowa, Annie asks if they're going to "go all ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime''".
75	* "Maybe we accidentally pulled a [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]] and [[ItMakesSenseInContext dropped a university campus on somebody's sister]]."
76	* "It's not a horrible, life-threatening situation if we don't have to [[ScoobyDoobyDoors run back and forth across an easily drawn space]] like we're characters on ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''."
77	* Sarah mentions that the landscape in the "giant bug dimension" at night feels like {{Mordor}}.
78	* "In this case, the zombies really ''did'' want to eat brains, they just wanted to eat them on a psychic level rather than a physical one, which would be no more pleasant for their targets than the [[Film/LivingDeadSeries Romero method]]."
79	* Sarah mentions that "[[Franchise/StarWars Many Bothans died to bring us these plans.]]"
80	* When James pets Greg the GiantSpider, he says he feels like what [[Franchise/TheMuppets Sweetums]] would feel like if he were real.
81	* At the climax of the book, Sarah tells James she's feeling like the geophysicists in ''Film/TheCore'', and then has to explain to him what the movie's about.
82	* When Mark is explaining to the Johrlac children that Greg the GiantSpider is friendly and Sarah rides him, one of them asks, "Like [[WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower She-ra and Swift Wind]]?"
83	* "He was bathed in {{lens flare}}, like a character from the Creator/JJAbrams ''[[Film/StarTrek2009 Star Trek]]'' reboot."
84	* Sarah mentions how much [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen Gwen Stacy]]'s supporting cast must hate her fondness for WallCrawling.
85
86	!!Spelunking Through Hell
87	* Despite [[https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/seananmcguire/679944655550496768 Seanan confirming]] that Alice was ''not'' named after another DimensionalTraveler, she does note the connection to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' a few times.
88	* Alice describes the rounded doors in the Autarch's compound as "[[Literature/TheHobbit Hobbit-hole doors]]".
89	* She compares Sally and the other guards' armor to ''Film/MadMax'' costumes. She also calls [[DeathWorld Helos]] to a cross between ''Mad Max'' and ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''.
90	* Alice says KirksRock from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' would fit right in with the badlands of the bottle world.
91	* Sally calls Alice the "Film/BrideOfFrankenstein", and says "Bride of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]]" doesn't have the same ring to it.
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93	!!Backpacking Through Bedlam
94	* Alice notes that Sally is "[[Literature/{{Dune}} walking without rhythm so she won't attract the worm]]" (actually a giant mole, which may eat giant worms).
95	* When they're heading to meet Kenneth, Alice says they're "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz off to see the wizard]]", and she describes the aftermath of Sarah's teleportation of the university campus as "going full Dorothy".
96	* Sally quotes the catchphrase "We provide...Series/{{Leverage}}", to Alice's confusion.
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98	!!Antimony shorts
99	[[AC:Singing the Comic-Con Blues]]
100	* "I am what happens when nerds are allowed to marry nerds and thus produce even ''more'' nerds, like nerdiness squared, like what happens when Seymour from ''[[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors Little Shop]]'' is allowed to hook up with Jordan from ''Film/RealGenius''. And if you got both those references, odds are good that [[JustForFun/OneOfUs you're a nerd, too]]."
101	* Artie jokingly suggests ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' as a solution to the siren problem.
102	* Antimony talks about Alex's membership in the UsefulNotes/SocietyForCreativeAnachronism in the exposition.
103	* "As if reading comics were anything unusual in a world where ''Film/IronMan'' is still breaking merchandising and box office records."
104	* "[[Series/{{Leverage}} Age of the geek, baby.]]"
105	* The Aeslin mice completely clear any leftover food from plates, described as one of their more WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}-esque attributes.
106	* Once they get to Seattle, Sarah points out a cosplayer dressed as [[ComicBook/XMen Marvel Girl]], another telepath.
107	* Antimony cosplays as [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] (or at least a generic tomb-raiding female AdventurerArchaeologist). Sarah cosplays as a Jedi, appropriate for someone using {{Jedi Mind Trick}}s to get into the convention.
108	* Annie likens the show floor opening up to [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Wonka's chocolate factory]].
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110	[[AC:Blocked]]
111	* Annie describes herself as "more [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams]] than [[Series/TheBradyBunch Marcia Brady]]".
112	* She says being on the field cheerleading "felt like I was going to pull a [[ComicBook/XMen Jean Grey]] and ignite from within". HilariousInHindsight when we learn she has [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic powers]] in the later books.
113	* In the next scene, she's reading ''Astonishing X-Men''.
114	* When Kevin tells her he wants her to "be part of the world", she says he's "coming dangerously close to reciting lyrics from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid\|1989}}''".
115	* Annie picks her fake last name "Thompson" because it's the last name of the protagonist from ''Film/{{A Nightmare On Elm Street\|1984}}''.
116	* Elsie says Annie would be happy if she was "that dude on ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone\|1959}}'' who [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E8TimeEnoughAtLast lived through the bomb being dropped and then had all the books in the world and no one to tell him to put them down]]". Annie points out that he [[TwilightZoneTwist broke his glasses]].
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118	!!Fran and Jonathan shorts
119	[[AC:Stingers and Strangers]]
120	* Fran calls Eleanor "[[Literature/TheWizardOfOz the Wicked Bitch of the West]]", and compares [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Heloise]] to Literature/SnowWhite.
121
122	!!Alice and Thomas shorts
123	[[AC:Take the Shot]]
124	* Mary asks Thomas "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Are you a good witch or a bad witch?]]" after finding out he's a sorcerer.
125
126	[[AC:Off-Balance]]
127	* Thomas expected Aeslin mice to sound like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse.
128
129	!!Other shorts
130	[[AC:IM]]
131	* Artie compares Johrlac to [[ComicBook/TheBroodSaga the Brood]].
132	[[AC:Sleepover]]

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