#tv references

[tuttle-did-it]

M*A*S*H reference on Stargate SG1.

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[parabare-the-scholar]

References in Penny Dreadful

Characters from:

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Literature within the show:

THEATER:

The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (Proteus is named after one of the characters of the play)

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (Brand quotes it)

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (The Creature gets the name Caliban from here. Young Vanessa names a bird after Ariel)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (this one is actually funny, because a witch quotes a line of one of the witches, and I enjoyed the parallelism)

Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare (Vanessa says she first met Joan of Arc in Shakespeare, this is the play where she appears)

The Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller (Vanessa says she read this play about Joan of Arc, calling it just "the Schiller")

Sweeney Todd by Thomas Prest (?) (represented at the theater)

POETRY:

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Frankenstein has the book)

Adonais by Percy B. Shelley (The Creature mentions it)

Wordsworth's Poetical Works (Young Frankenstein has the book)

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

The Poetical Works of Milton (The Creature gifts this book to Maude)

Paradise Lost by John Milton (Maud then says that The Creature's gift was this book, which has me confused but ok)

NOVEL:

Up North in a Whaler by Edward A. Rand (Frankenstein has the book)

Varney The Vampire (a Penny Dreadful that Professor Van Helsing gives to Victor)

One Thousand and One Nights (Mister Lyle mentions Aladdin, so let's say he got the reference from here)

The Bible (though it is odd to categorize it as a novel, but please allow me to do it for the sake of order)

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Mister Lyle says to feel like a Lilliputian next to Ethan)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne (Dracula is a fan)

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (The Creature's kid is reading this book)

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (The Creature read this to Vanessa in his past life :( )

Also mentioned:

John Keats (poet)

William Wordsworth (poet. He's a fav of the doctor's. Also the Creature's)

John Clare (poet. He's a fav of the Creature's)

Alfred Tennyson (poet. He dies. That's the only thing he does)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet)

William Makepeace Thackeray (writer)

Charles Dickens (writer. Most of these are mentioned by Mister Lyle)

Ibsen (playwright)

Henry Irving (actor)

Wagner (musician)

Audubon (painter)

I've also posted the specific poems that are quoted throughout the series.

I'd have liked to post the art that is shown (Dorian Gray has a marvelous collection), but alas, I'm quite ignorant of art, and I find it far more difficult to find than the rest of the references that I include here.

If I've missed any, please do let me know. I want this list to be as thorough as possible.

I've really enjoyed this show...

[mintystripez]

That Bojack Horseman phone call scene with him and Diane from the 2nd to last episode, but it’s Orin and Santi bc they made the grave mistake of trying to reason with Wick and dialed the wrong number for help

(They were trying to call anyone/someone to come pick them up and take them to the continental; but ended up typing Santi’s number from muscle memory.)

[foreverfallingalwayswingingit]

I’m sorry, did I ask for a reminder of one of the darkest moments of TV history with my CinemaSins?

[jonahsimms]

brooklyn nine nine  + tv shows 

[amodernstoryteller]

One of the perks of rewatch "Community" (for a thousand times) is discover again its awesome stories and characters.  I miss the study group, and I hope that one day we will be able to see the "Community" movie! Also, I think every TV reference should be allowed to have this. Abed was the best,  I don't know many characters who can pull out all the meta and TV references he said during the six seasons of this show.

[parabare-the-scholar]

Seen in: A Discovery of Witches (3x07)

Is he native to this realm? No,

his wide nature grew out of both worlds.

They more adeptly bend the willow's branches

who have experience of the willow's roots.

When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk

on the table: it attracts the dead—

[...]

Nothing can mar for him the authentic image;

whether he wanders through houses or graves,

let him praise signet ring, gold necklace, jar.

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnet 6

[jonahsimms]

brooklyn nine nine  + tv shows