Jack Napier / Conrad Veidt 2020!

"No puppet. You're the puppet."

I've got the laugh down, but for some reason I still can't get a crash of thunder to spontaneously occur when I reach the end.

Here he is with Bishop Calvin Woods

I would have gone with a high-brow literary reference, like Bartholomew J. Cubbins.

Henrik Ibsen?

-My grandfather, with regard to Bob Seger's "Like a Rock"

I was thinking more Vincent D'Onofrio in Men in Black, with some giant alien cockroach inside there.

Coincidentally enough, the origin of "pulling oneself up by their bootstraps" was even misatributed to the similar pigtail episode in Baron Munchausen back in 1901. Somewhere along the way it came to mean a task that wasn't literally impossible, because if you use words the wrong way long enough, sometimes society…

While Slapstick is not as good overall, I also liked his take on favor and misfortune there:

We're not hunting them for sport, because it's not very sporting. We're hunting them for our jaded amusement.

I was thinking "Flight of the Valkyries", like the Illinois Nazis in The Blues Brothers.

They get better once The Rock shows up?

"Why should the American people and their tax dollars pay for a new security advisor when the old one is still functional? We should run through the advisors we have before go out and vet anyone new."

The Deer Hunter and The Country Bears?

If only they had an outdated system that gave disproportionate weight to the winners of less populated administrative regions, and allotted votes within those regions on a winner-take-all basis, allowing someone to succeed in spite of a lack of popular support.

Or a kangaroo

Drinking Bud Light? Well, they certainly deserve it, but I hope further punishments are forthcoming.

I also liked the bit where he would adjust himself in his chair more and more, until he had done a complete 360.

European fans realize he's no Chance the Gardner, if there's no possibility of him Being There at the concert.