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[Eden]

C squared, in "Birth of a Salesman" I think Cindy's book was something from 'Gone With the Wind'.

[cancel_me]

Okaaay, so, maybe this isn't in direct line with the topic, but I thought I would post this...


I'm sure a lot of you have seen this commercial, but I'mma post it for shits and giggles. "Call me ISHMAEL."
Oh, Sheen.

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

OMG, I love this commercial just for that moment!! It's in my YT favorites.

[Eden]

I love it for that too! When I first saw it I was like Jimmy Neutron! And my parents just thought I was weird, hee.

[Jimmy Neutron King]

There is no swearing in Jimmy Neutron so please do not cuss. I want to keep this site clean.!!!!! Also I have an IPod Touch but not the Blackberry Bold

[Mara=^.^=]

Resurrecting this, the greatest of episode topics, because yesterday I made a list of all the episode title parodies I could think of:

• I Dream of Jimmy -> the 1960s sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie

• Lady Sings the News -> the 1972 film, Lady Sings the Blues

• Clash of the Cousins -> the 1981 movie Clash of the Titans

• Sleepless in Retroville -> 1993’s famous romcom Sleepless in Seattle

• The Junkman Cometh -> the play The Iceman Cometh, written by American playwright Eugene O’Neill in 1939

• Trading Faces -> Trading Spaces, the TLC reality show

• Birth of a Salesman -> Death of a Salesman, a pulitzer-prize winning play written in 1949 by Arthur Miller

• Crouching Jimmy Hidden Sheen -> the 2000 martial arts film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

• Best in Show -> references the 2000 improvisational comedy by the same name

• Men at Work -> takes its name from the identically-titled Australian Rock band (who, incidentally, were famous for that song “Land Down Under”)

• Love Potion #976/J -> based on the title of the 1959 song and the 1981 romantic film Love Potion No. 9

• The Eggpire Strikes Back -> Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Duh

• A Beautiful Mine -> refers to the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind

• Who Framed Jimmy Neutron -> the 1988 classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit

• My Big Fat Spy Wedding -> the 2002 romcom My Big Fat Greek Wedding

• Maternotron Knows Best -> parody of the 1950s sitcom Father Knows Best

• Send in the Clones -> spoofs Send in the Clowns, a song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music

• Raise the Oozy Scab -> the 1976 adventure film, Raise the Titanic

• Grumpy Young Men -> the 1993 comedy Grumpy Old Men

• Journey to the Center of Carl -> Jules Verne’s 1864 science fiction novel, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

• Make Room for Daddy-O -> the 1950s sitcom Make Room for Daddy

• Nightmare in Retroville -> the 1984 slasher movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street

• The N Men -> X Men from the comics and movies

• Billion Dollar Boy -> 1941 film Million Dollar Baby

• Incredible Shrinking Town -> 1957 movie The Incredible Shrinking Man


There are of course other references and plays-on-words in JN episode titles, but these are the ones that directly parody names of famous things.

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[Scythe/Alden]

This show REALLY was reference heavy, wasn't it?

 

"Lights, Camera, DANGER" possibly being the most references I've ever seen packed into a single episode.