There's tons winks to rock lore in Spinal Tap too. Example: I always thought that the bit during the credits where Nigel is talking about haberdashery is a callback to Ringo's wanting to become a hairdresser.

Remember when I said I do crunches last? I lied!

@pair: It doesn't really matter I suppose. Anyway, DC Cab will always have a place in my heart, being one of the first VHS tapes I ever watched. Also, Adam Baldwin and I share the same HS and Bday. Woot!

I'm probably missing the joke, but I'll stick my literal neck out to note that Mr T wasn't a wrestler at first but a bodyguard and bouncer. He got his big break after appearing on a televised toughest bouncer contest back in early 80's. Yes, I actually remember. Yes, I'm an old old man. No, you can't have my stuff…

Same here Fred. I was a cook in a restaurant at the time, and one of the waitresses fainted in the kitchen, dropping her fully laden tray, when she heard the news. Quite a clatter. But more of a bummer.

Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..

You can't make friends with salad.

Sonny and Cher on Scooby Doo?

When it was just Ira, it was cool cuz it was Ira talking like Ira (or at least how Ira wanted to sound like on the radio). It was just a single, quirky, personality thing, and I never thought about it other than "Hey, it's Ira, TAL must be on, cool." . But now every goddam show on the radio has to sound like TAL, and…

Yep.

The BBC series was terrifically bad. Like a Dr Who production from the same era. Awful, low budget effects. I remember loving it when it came on PBS in Chicago.

Police Academy II meets Terms of Endearment

Ooo that was good. Write it again. Write it again!

I get Kirk Douglas running from the cops.

No fake lady has such small hands. — ee cummings

Exactly. It's played during the scene where Sundance shoots Butch's ear off.