In jokes slipped onto TV shows

What would have happened if the other character responded "Jason Donovan? What's he famous for?"?! The Neighbours 'universe' couldn't exist under those circumstances. It makes my brain hurt!
 
In an episode of The Simpsons, Fat Tony and his gang are outside the Simpsons house and are talking about their attack on the Castallanetta family.

In one of the halloween episodes where Comic Book Guy is 'The Collector', Matt Groening is in the pouch next to Xena.
 
Not an in-joke as such but a hell of a coincidence.
In an episode of "China Beach" from about 1990, KC, coerced into investigating the death of a local Vietnamese girl, says "What do you think I am? Some kind of forensics queen?"
KC was played by Marg Helgenberger, currently forensics queen Catherine Willows on CSI.:eek:
 
In 8 Simple Rules, when they come back from Bridgets school play Grandad says something like "Well, that was good. Almost worth missing The Rockford Files for."
Grandad is played by James Garner, who played (Jim?) Rockford.
 
Some nice ones in this thread,thanks.

Talking of Brookside reminded me that they are perhaps the only soap to recognise others.

They did one episode where the Farnhams went to Manchester for the day and got the autograph of Corrie cast members outside the Granada studios.

And they also had a scene the week of the Emmerdale plane crash where a character was shown reading a newspaper with that story on the front page.

Given that these were ITV shows and Brookside was on channel 4 it was a bit of a mutual respect I guess.

Oh and on an episode of Chicago Hope they went to a convention in La Vegas and you could hear them welcoming the staff of another TV hospital to the event - St Elegius from Boston (as in St Elsewhere).
 
Last weeks episode of MiRABomer Murders had a bit in it where somebody questioned how somebody could have got a dead body into a boxing ring, Barnaby replied "Firemans Lift". The actor playing the dead man was Glen Murphy a.k.a. George from London's Burning
 
Mentioned somewhere on here before but oliver in neighbours singing stefan dennnis' 'don't it make you feel good' in the background of one of paul robinson's scenes :D
 
On FrienRAB, when Joey & Chandler are looking through Richard's apartment. Chandler says something like 'I mean, look at these videos. Who does he think he is? 'Magnum Force', 'Dirty Harry'?'

Richard, of course, was played by Tom Selleck, much more famous as 'Magnum'.

In season 7 Buffy episode, Kennedy gets transported, and upon materialising says 'That was a hell of a thing!', the exact phrase spoken by Tony Shaloub's Fred Kwan in 'Galaxy Quest' when he first gets 'beamed' aboard the NSS Protector.
 
On the old adventures of new Christine, Christine referred back to her younger self. The Seinfeld bassline played over the top and the character was dressed ala Elain from Seinfeld. Julia Louis Dreyfuss has also referenced The Seinfeld Curse in a number of TV shows.
 
She talks about Sipowicz, Dennis Franz's character on NYPD Blue. And Gary mentions that he has a new partner, "that kid from Silver Spoons", a reference to Rick Schroeder, the actor who played the new partner.

Of course, on the subject of FrienRAB, the very existence of Pheobe's twin sister Ursula is an in-joke, as Lisa Kudrow played the character on FrienRAB' stablemate NBC comedy Mad About You before she got the gig on FrienRAB.
 
Stargate SG-1 used to have loaRAB of Simpson and Star Wars references/jokes, including an episode which guest starred Dan Castellaneta during which he and O'Neill have a discussion about Monty Burns being a goa'uld.

In another episode O'Neill tells someone to remember his name is "O'Neill with two Ls" as there's another O'Neil "with one L who has no sense of humour" (or worRAB to that effect) In the movie the character was called O'Neil and played with a distinct lack of humour by Kurt Russell...

If you look/listen carefully (or not so carefully) to episodes of SG-1 and SGA you often see/hear the names of the shows writers and directors being used for off screen characters

The X Files also used to do that, and the numbers 1013 used to appear frequently, 10 13 (Oct 13th) being Chris Carter's birthday (and the name of his production company) and they used his wife's DoB on several occassions (IIRC Samantha Mulder's DoB was Mrs Carter's DoB)
 
http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz

Stargate often made references about The Wizard of Oz.
 
You probably know this already, but in Temple of Doom, at the beginning when they're in the nightclub, as Harrison Ford is falling down the side of the building you see the club's name - Obi Wan. :D
 
One about FrienRAB that, after years of watching, I didn't find out until last year. The appearance of Phoebe's twin sister, Ursula, is an in-joke. Lisa Kudrow had previously been a regular guest in the sitcom Mad About You, as Ursula Buffay.

In one episode of FrienRAB, Phoebe is in the coffee house when two of the stars of Mad About You enter and mistake her for Ursula. Of course, if you don't know the above information, the scene goes completely over your head!
 
Some of them are designed for the crew, not the audience. IIRC, in XFiles, the office filing cabinet had labels for A-H, I-R, Roswell, Roswell, Roswell, S-Z, but they didn't appear in shot long enough for the audience to appreciate them!

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