favorite "in joke"

Recently, on an episode of "NCIS," the leader Gibbs was talking about
what a party animal the pathology doctor Donald "Ducky" Mallard had
been during his youth. When asked by one of the team mates what "Ducky"
had looked like "back in the day." Gibbs thought for a second and
responded "Illya Kuriakyn!" David McCullum of course both played
Kuriakyn on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and currently plays Dr. Mallard.

allenkirshner...

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During the attempt at reviving "Get Smart," an episode bringing back
Smart's main nemisis, Siegfreid, had Siegfreid's daughter attempting to
seduce Smart's son! At a key point in the plot, she pulled a gun on
Siegfreid! She explained; "You lied to me! All those years you worked
for a subversive secret organization, you told me you were a doctor on
a cruise ship!"

Bernie Koppel played Siegfreid during the original run of "Get Smart"
and played the doctor later on "The Love Boat."

One last one.

I think the show was called "Step By Step" where two people married and
had to get their families from previous marriages to get along.

In one story, a 50's style restaurant had opened and the husband and
wife went to visit.

The husband exclaims that his place reminds him of the film "American
Graffitti" and mentions the blonde in the Thunderbird. His wife off
handily states; "Well you never know dear, she might be closer than you
think!"

Suzanne Somers who played the wife in the series was also the blonde in
the Thunderbird!

What's your favorite "in joke?"

Jack Bauer's Spunky Sidekick, Ian J. Ball...

The "ultimate" is, of course, the series finale of "Newhart".

jayembee...

In an episode of 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN, Dick (John Lithgow) was talking
to The Big Giant Head (William Shatner), who was complaining about his
flight, saying that there was someone standing out on the wing: a
reference to the TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", in
which Shatner played a man who sees a gremlin on the wing of the plane
he's flying in.

The kicker, though, is that Dick does a double-take and exclaims, "That
happened to me, too!" Lithgow played the same role in a remake of the
episode for TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE.

Steven L....

In the 1983 TV movie "Return of the Man From U.N.C.L.E.," Robert Vaughn
reprised his role as Napoleon Solo from the TV series, and Keenan Wynn
played his nemesis, THRUSH agent Piers Castillian. Vaughn still looked
pretty good despite being 15 years older, but Wynn had visibly aged. So
Castillian asks Solo, "How do you stay so young?" And Solo answered, "I
have a good makeup man!"

Also, the show "Lost" has too many in-jokes to list here. The most
obvious: The names of Michael and his son Walt are a reference to
Michael Eisner, the CEO of Walt Disney, which is the parent company of ABC.

Brian Thorn...

Samantha Carter telling Colonel O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) that
her team had "MacGuyver'd" a solution to make the Stargate work, in
the pilot episode of "Stargate SG-1". Anderson played MacGuyver in the
'80s action series.

Captain Picard, having set up a portable virtual reality world for his
holographic nemesis Moriarty, commenting that his own reality may be
"nothing more than a fantasy running in a little box sitting on
someone's table", in "Star Trek: The Next Generation's" episode "Ship
in a Bottle."

On "St. Elsewhere", guest star Betty White (as a Navy doctor) is
acosted by a deranged patient who insists she is Sue Ann Nivens.
White played Sue Ann on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".

Larry Smith...

On the "Yes Dear" rerun I watched a few days ago Shelley Long was
making a guest appearance. When she showed in a dream sequence with a
bottle of beer Greg said, "Wow, that was fast". And she replied, "I
used to work in a bar."

James Jones...

They do this on "Boston Legal" all the time. When Denny Crane's (William
Shatner) fiance wanted him to move to Hawaii, he responded with "What am
I supposed to do---BEAM myself to Boston every morning?"

And when some environmentalist was talking about a parasite fish that
attaches itself to larger fish he said "We call them cling-ons"--Denny
looked up and said "Klingons?"

ANIM8Rfsk...

Denny Crane's cell phone rings with a Trek communicator chirp.

FDR...

Dirk Bennedict in the opening credits of the A-Team, as a cylon walks by him
and he does a double take.

cloud dreamer...

Not sure of the movie, I think it was Corvette Summer, and Mark Hamill
is seen reading a Star Wars comic.

And Samantha Carter in the first episode of SG1, she looks at the first
DHD and comments on how they had to MacGyver their own. Richard Dean
Anderson is right next to her.

cloud dreamer...

Oh....this one wasn't directed at any one character but you knew they
were taking a jab at Star Trek when on the SG1 episode Wormhole Extreme,
three of the actors/producers are talking about being out of phase - and
being able to walk through walls and that - and the woman (I believe)
asks why they don't fall through the floor. All three of them stare at
each other for what seems like a very very long time, shrug and walk away.

tmcd...

I'm moderately sure only the Carter-analogue (was it the actress who
now plays Weir?) was on-camera and the enthusiastic producers are
off-camera.

No, Stargate: SG-1 wasn't taking a jab at Star Trek. On ST:TOS, they
actually did it right: Kirk was in a spacesuit that came with him (so
he had his own out-of-phase air supply) and Kirk did indeed drift thru
floors as well as walls.

Stargate: SG-1 was taking a jab at ... Stargate: SG-1. In the
previous episode "Crystal Skull", Daniel ends up out-of-phase, but
WITHOUT a spacesuit (so how does he breathe? and if he can breathe
normal air, he's affecting it, so why can't he make sounds that other
people can hear?) and Daniel stays firmly on the local floor.

wdstarr...

On the other hand:

Star Trek: The Next Generation
124. 5-24 224 18 May 92 The Next Phase

Stargate SG-1
100. 5-12 512 8 Sep 01 Wormhole X-Treme!

...so they could have been throwing a punch at Trek -- albeit
non-TOS -- as well.

lionelhutz6...

On the Growing Pains front, I remember one episode where Mike is
talking to his Dad in the kitchen and maybe he asks what his dad is
doing there, but Alan Thicke responds with something like "I am where I
am every Tuesday at 8:30..." Wish I could remember more, but he was
definitely referencing the shows airtime.

Big Fat Guy...

On the series "St. Elsewhere" Byron Stewart played orderly Warren
Coolidge, the character which originated on the series "The White
Shadow." Timothy Van Patten had the role of "Dean" in three epsodes
of St. Elewhere. He also played Mario 'Salami' Pettrino in The White
Shadow. I clearly remember one scene where the Van Patten's character
"Dean" ran into Stewart's character "Coolidge." Warren Coolidge saw
him and exclaimed, "Salami?!" to which Dean said, "No man, you got the
wrong guy" oe something to that effect.

arnold kim...

Smallville- Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) driving in his truck, listening
to the "Dukes of Hazard" theme in one episode.

Brian Thorn...

In another episode, Schnieder's "Dukes" co-star (Tom Wopat) plays an
old friend of Jonathan's and does a "hood slide" after racing up to
the Kent farm in his car.

ANIM8Rfsk...

And has to climb in through the car window . . .

Arnold Kim

Rob Jensen...

There are *loads* of Dukes of Hazzard references on Gilmore Girls.

Dr. Woodard...

As someone who managaged to miss DOH as often as possible I didn't
know that.

I've even successfully missed the DOH movie.

Lorelai, who lives in Uncle Jesse's house on the Warner Brothers
studio lot, wore Daisy Dukes to Rory's first day at Chilton in the
second episode of Gilmore Girls. Also, she drives a Jeep (probably
even the *same* Jeep as Daisy drove, just repainted), has a ruggedly
handsome on-and-off boyfriend named Luke, who is Uncle to Jess(e). Lor
also has a friend (Sookie, not a Dukes reference) whose husband
(Jackson, also not a Dukes reference) has a brother named Bo/Beau.

Benji...

Although Sookie does live in Boss Hogg's house. Here's another. Boss

Ronnie...

Which is just a variant of the same old cliche of the "romantic"
girl prodding her "unromantic" boyfriend to see a film with "chick
appeal."

And please stop calling me dude.

Wayne Brown...

Unfortunately, that's one of his more persistent immature pop-culture
affectations, so he's unlikely to stop.

Ronnie...

Oh, good grief.

Ronnie...

Oh, good grief.

Ronnie...

That is not "multi-level writing."

Now, excuse me....I need to go shut off my "fanboy" alarm now. It's
screaming at maximum volume.

Wayne Brown...

You certainly have Rob pegged correctly.

Hogg's wife is named Lulu.

Benji

Moreover, the Stars Hollow town square (including the Gazebo) *is*
downtown Hazzard County.

Also -- Amusing, but not the subject of in-joke (as of yet): The
Dragonfly Inn was the family home on The Waltons.

Dr. Woodard...

I'm suprised Lorelai, Rory, Michele, Sookie didn't call each
other on their cell phone to say good night.

Moreover, Gg contains many subtle and not-so-subtle references to the
movie Casablanca because the interior of Lorelai's house and the
interior of the Dragonfly were both shot on the same soundstages that
Casablanca was shot on (Lorelai's house is on the soundstage that
Rick's Cafe Americain was on and the Dragonfly interiors are on the
soundstage that the final airport-farewell scene and Rick-Louie
"Beautiful Friendship" tag were shot on).

In the season finale of s2, Lorelai (Rick) sends her first love,
Christopher (Ilsa) back to his estranged fiancee, Sherry, (Victor
Lazlo) after receiving news that Sherry is pregnant (ie: for the sake
of Europe).

In the s4 episode, "An Affair to Remember," Lor and Luke have their
first (but unofficial) date, when Luke comes over to to her house to
watch Casablanca with her.

-- Rob