Quotes / Lampshaded the Obscure Reference

"Just a quick side note for any aspiring writers out there. What I just did at the end of the preceding paragraph was make a joke that will only be understood by the same people who will hate me for making the joke in the first place. Try to avoid this in your own writing."

—Cracked, 5 More Upbeat Songs You Didn't Realize Are Depressing

"And that puts a longstanding wrestling mystery to rest - Hogan drove the hummer! [beat] See, the old-school wrestling fans out there, they just got a chuckle out of that one. The other 99% of you? [makes a motion of his hand flying over his head] WOO!!"

—Spoony, reviewing Santa with Muscles

"You don't even know who I am!"

— Benjamin Disraeli, Family Guy

Handy: Even now, he sulks in his tree house like Achilles in His Tent!
**Blank stares from the other supervillains**
Handy: Achilles?... The Iliad?... It's Homer?... READ A BOOK!

— The Tick, "The Tick vs Arthur's Bank Account"

Koyomi Araragi: Why would you go out of your way to compare her to the special attack of Prince Yamato, one of the main characters in Bikkuriman? Not only is it seriously obscure, but even my retort turned into an explanation!
Nadeko Sengoku: True. I didn't think you'd get it either.

— Bakemonogatari

Obscure reference for the win!

—Deadpool, I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC

"Tell me, have you ever danced with a Nobbu in the pale firelight!? Wait, what do you mean nobody will get that reference these days!?"

— Oda Nobunaga, Fate/Grand Order

"Five people left on the planet know who that is, and I'm not one of them!"

— Suzaku Kururugi when Lelouch vi Britannia makes a Dick Tracy reference, Code MENT

Charlie: The department obsessed with your metadata, can't find the second tab of a spreadsheet! Now, in their defense, Excel has been tougher since Microsoft got rid of Clippy the office assistant. "It looks you're trying to provide evidence to a joint Commonwealth/State terrorism review. Do you want help with that?" Now, I know that Clippy is a slightly dated reference, but it's better than our original Tab joke.
(Cut to clip from a Tab Cola commercial from 1982)
Charlie: Mm, refreshingly topical!

— The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, on national security

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