You Have Cracked Open Walter’s Brain - ANSWERS

Posted on October 9th, 2008 by
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Remember when we asked you to pick out the pop-culture references in Walter’s Lab Notes from “The Arrival?”

(See the Lab Notes here)

And while the writers had thought they had used nine, they forgot one.  So now there are 10 references:

1.    “All around the mulberry bush” — from an English nursery rhyme
2.    “Thank you sir, may I have another” — from the 1978 film Animal House
3.    “It’s a fair wind that bloweth no man any ill” — a take on an old proverb by English writer John Heywood: “An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.”
4.    “The walls, the walls, push [move] back the walls” — from Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22
5.    Sioux City Sarsaparilla — a root-beer-like soft drink, made famous in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski
6.    The Fisher King –  a mythological figure who guarded the Holy Grail; also, the title of a 1991 Terry Gilliam film
7.    “A tisket a tasket” –  from an English nursery rhyme
8.    “Back to where I [you] once belonged” — from the Beatle’s 1969 song “Get Back”
9.    “Kenneth, what’s the frequency?” — a question posed to Dan Rather by a deranged man in 1986; also, a 1994 song by REM
10.   “Turn the page” — a reference to the 1973 Bob Seger song

Big props to Pam who not only found most of them but even spotted some more references!

4 Responses to “You Have Cracked Open Walter’s Brain - ANSWERS”

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  2. I had most of them, but I didn’t notice the Bob Seger reference.

    Cool beans, I love things like this.

    Especially fond of the movie references from such classics.

    FRINGE rocks!

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