From War of the Colossal Beast:
“One hundred years of solitude,
One hundred years of solitude.
Take one down, pass it around,
99 years of solitude!”
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When the villain ends it all at the close of Mighty Jack, Hemmingway also gets “credited.”
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“Now, a giant cockroach,” as young Gregor Samsa awakens in Keeping Clean And Neat. 
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From SF International:
Newspaper guy: “I want to check that story out with Conrad.”
Mike: “It’s called Heart of Darkness.”
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“Why does Noam Chomsky insist these women open for him?”
Not known for output of the literary variety,(in he wrote non-fiction/history) but i have read more words written by the man than nearly any fiction writer (outside of Val McDermid or perhaps Ian Rankin) and his dissection of history, as well as many normal reactions to a turbulent world, changed me forever… SO hearing the above riff from Girl In Gold Boots was kind of superb.
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Joel peeking into the dying guy’s nostrils in Castle of Fun Manchu:
“Becky! Tom! Are ya’ in there?!”
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“Stay away from the riverfront! And no more pretending you’re Lord Byron!”
– Mike as Jimmy, Teenage Strangler
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“Well, it seems our options are limited. Are you familiar with Rita Mae Brown?”
“Charly, help me oh, god!!”
– Flowers For Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
A two-fer from The Atomic Brain. 
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“Hi, I’m Billy Budd for Melville Buick! We’re havin’ a whale of a sale down here…” 
– Tom in The Human Duplicators
Also from this episode: Joel’s “I Sing The Body Pathetic”. lol Walt Whitman again.
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Which episode is it where some random guy with sunglasses is getting arrested in a police station (or something like that) and they riff that he’s Harlan Ellison?
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That would be Mitchell.
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That was fast! Thanks!
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“MISTER CHRISTIANSON, HOIST THE MAINSAIL!!!”
–Joel in Master Ninja I borrowing from Mutiny On The Bounty
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This was one that didn’t hit until one day, out of the blue, it just clicked!
I think it happened when I was thinking of the caves on Disneyland’s Tom Sawyer Island.
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I remember seeing the Tom Sawyer movie in the theater as a pup in the 1970s. So I don’t get all of 'em right away, but that one… 
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“He turned into V.S. Naipul.”
–Mike, The Starfighters
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“I will now read The Velveteen Rabbit.”
–Tom, as President Soporific, in Invasion: USA
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From Monster A Go-Go, in a scene where we see the “monster’s” feet descending a stairway: “Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time”.
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Was suddenly reminded of the scene in Village of the Giants when it shows three of the giant girls on stage.
“They wanted to do Little Women, BUT THEY CAN’T!”
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Back to back, in Bloodlust:
“Let’s kill all the lawyers.”
And,
“Arrrr, I dreamed I went to Manderley. Arrr…”
Shakespeare AND du Maurier, together at last!!
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