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This is Ourselves (Under Pressure) - Pop-Culture References used in the fic.
This is Ourselves (Under Pressure) – Title – A line from Under Pressure, a Song by Queen (featuring David Bowie).
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"Sam finally falls asleep with Dean's hand in his hair and John Mayer wondering in his ear whether or not he's living his life the right way." – The song Sam is listening to as he falls asleep is Why Georgia by John Mayer.
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They spend an hour and a half trying to dig and push and shove their car out of the mud. Sam makes no less than three references to My Cousin Vinny and Dean makes no less than five threats to Sam's life and/or various vital and functioning parts of his body. – Movie – In a scene in the movie, the title character and his fiancé are attempting to push their car out of thick Alabama mud. It doesn't go too well for them.
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It's only a small car chase; it probably wouldn't even have made the news if it weren't for the Blues Brothers car crash the cops got into that let them escape. – Movie – Blues Brothers has a famous and legendary (if you're from Chicago) car chase with an extensive pile-up of police cruisers. Blues Brothers 2000 has another good and absurd car chase ending in an absurd pile-up, but Dean is nothing if not a man of the classics, so he is referring to the first movie.
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"You know, when Harry did it, it actually made him invisible."
Dean cocks an eyebrow at Sam. "Who?"
Sam winces and struggles with himself for a moment, mouth opening and closing like a fish, before sighing. "Harry Potter." – Book – Dude, I hope I'm not telling anyone anything new when I say Harry Potter is a book about a boy who is a wizard. Apparently, he has a cloak that makes him invisible.
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"Hey, Hardy Boys, you two wanna focus?" – Book series – The Hardy Boys investigated stuff. That's the sum total of my knowledge on this.
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"[…] What do you want me to do, dye my hair blond and start going by some douche-baggy name like Chad?" – Celebrity – Chad Michael Murray is the biggest douche bag in the world. I love him and I say this. Really, there is no contesting this by anyone. He is also![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alazysod's sekrit lovah.
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He knows for a fact that Dean knows exactly what happened to Bonnie and Clyde – Celebrities – Bonnie and Clyde were killed May 23, 1934, on a desolate road near their Bienville Parish, Louisiana hideout. They were shot by a posse of four Texas and two Louisiana officers. The lawmen ambushed them and opened fire, killing Bonnie and Clyde while shooting a combined total of approximately 130 rounds.
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It's a '57 Plymouth Fury, a cherry '64 Rambler, and a brand new Aston Martin. It's a silver DeLorean, a black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, and a bright, prison orange '69 Dodge Charger. It's a beat to hell, falling apart at the seams '74 Dodge Monaco, a cherry '73 Ford Mustang and a run of the mill VW Bug. – TV, Movies – Okay. In order: The fury is Christine from the movie of the same name, the Rambler is the car from Third Rock from the Sun, The Aston Martin DBS is The Bond Car, the DeLorean is from the Back to the Future movies, the Pontiac Firebird is KITT from Knightrider, the Charger is the General Lee from Dukes of Hazard, the Monaco is the Bluesmobile from Blues Brothers, the Mustang is Eleanor from Gone in Sixty Seconds, and the Bug is Herbie the Love Bug.
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It's the motherfucking Batmobile and the goddamned Black fucking Pearl. – Comics, TV, Movies – The Batmobile is Batman's car. If you don't know this, my Geeky Little Comic Whore heart cries for you. The Black Pearl is Captain Jack Sparrow's ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Both are considered mythical in their own canons, not thought to actually exist. An urban legend and a ghost ship.
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On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha – Music – Opening line to Turn the Page by Bob Seger. Yeah, that's right, I worked Bob Seger into my porn.
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"You Shook Me All Night Long" is blaring from the speakers, words nearly lost to the loud, thumping bass of the stereo turned up to eleven. – Music, Movie – A two-fer! You Shook Me All Night Long is a song by AC/DC. The part with the stereo turned up to eleven is a reference to This Is Spinal Tap, a movie about a fictional rock band. If you still don't know the reference, you need to Wiki it now.
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Fox Mulder has bright yellow eyes and a tray full of razor-sharp and pointy instruments he hands to Sam. Gillian Anderson narrates the scene as Sam happily, gleefully hacks his big brother to thousands of tiny pieces. – TV – Obligatory The X-Files reference. Fox Mulder is a fictional FBI agent played by David Duchovnywhy don't you love me?, Gillian Anderson played his partner, Dana Scully.
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The postmark is from Winnemucca, Nevada. – Music – Winnemucca is the first place Johnny Cash mentions in his song, I've Been Everywhere.
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The name on the card reads Dick Kimble and the messy scrawl on the back says something he can't decipher. – TV, Movie – "Dick" is a shortened version of "Richard." Richard Kimble the leader character in The Fugitive TV shows and movie, an innocent man on the run from the law after being accused of a crime he didn't commit.
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The one-armed stick figure in the bottom corner mocks Victor from its perch next to his computer. – TV, Movie – See above. That crime Richard Kimble didn't commit? Was committed by the one-armed-man.
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The next postcard arrives from Panama, Oklahoma. – TV, Music – Okay, so this one is two-fold and I'm a loser. First ref is Johnny Cash again, another place he mentions in I've Been Everywhere. The loser bit of me is that this also vaguely references Prison Break, in which the world's smartest idiot and his wrongly-convicted brother plan to break out of prison and head to Panama. I know they don't mean Oklahoma, but I picked it anyway.
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The front of the postcard boasts of sunny Florida skies and has a crude, hand drawn arrow pointing randomly into the beach crowd boasting WALDO in large, messy letters. – Book – Where's Waldo is a popular children's book here in the US. Waldo is a tall, thin, man in a red and white striped shirt who is often seen hiding in massive crowds.
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Run! Run! Run!
As fast as you can!
You can't catch me!
I'm The Ginger Bread Man! – Children's Rhyme – Yeah, I don't know how to get much more specific than that without telling the whole story.
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It has been on the FBI watch-list for almost forty years, ever since Starkweather and his girlfriend grabbed burgers there on the way to Wyoming back in '58. – True Crime – Charles Starkweather and his juvenile girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, went on a week-long killing spree from Nebraska to Wyoming. Starkweather and Fugate are the inspirations for several team spree killers in entertainment such as those on Kalifornia and Natural Born Killers.
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"Keisha brought in the mail and asked why we got a postcard from Lincoln Burrows. […]" – TV – Lincoln Burrows is the name of one of the lead characters on Prison Break. He is currently on the run from every government agency there is and every cop around after breaking out of jail before he was to be executed for a murder he did not commit.
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Dean and Sam are at an all-night laundry mat in Oklahoma washing their clothes after a bad fight with a chick that tried to go all Carrie on her senior prom. It took four runs through the heavy-duty washers to get all the blood—sheep, cow, goat, and Carrie Jr.—out, but three hours later they're almost done. – Movie, Book – Carrie is a short story by Stephen King that was later turned into a movie. The main protagonist is a young girl named Carrie, a social outcast at school, who—after having pig's blood dumped on her upon being crowned prom queen—snaps and kills everyone at her prom.
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"Oh my God! Oh my God! I love your show! Can I have your autograph?"
Dean has no idea who the hell she thinks he is, but he's never been one to look a gift horse in the mouth. "Well, of course you can! Who should I make it out to?" – Celebrity – Three guesses, first two don't count.
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It's Tuesday night and Sam hasn't shaved since Saturday when he and Dean catch themselves on America's Most Wanted. – TV – America's Most Wanted is a popular show in the US hosted by John Walsh. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
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It's the times when they have to bunk down in the car because John Walsh has a hard-on for them that rivals pedophiles and they can't risk trying to get a motel room. – TV – John Walsh's son was abducted and murdered at a young age; this caused him to start America's Most Wanted. He is a well-known children's advocate and has a special abhorrence and hatred for those who hurt children.
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When Sam was in college, he dated a guy who lived and worked in Santa Cruz. Sam more or less lived with him for an entire summer and made his way up on the weekends to visit for months after classes started back up. – Movie – Yeah. I can't name the movie because I think it might be considered a crossover if I did but it's probably the one you're thinking of.
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They're sitting in the Saturn Café, a gimmicky theme restaurant, when it happens. – Place – Yes, this is a real vegetarian restaurant in Santa Cruz. Yes, it looks like this, yes, it's open that late, yes, that stuff is really on the menu and yes, the waiter/esses work there.
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Their table has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G.I. Joes and Barbies with big, crimped hair under the glass. – Toys, TV – The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joes and Barbies are all toys that were popular in the eighties. The specific Barbie mentioned is Rocker Barbie.
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Dean points to the Donatello in the table locked in combat with a half melted Treasure Troll. – Toys, TV – Donatello is one of The Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles, the nerdy brain one to be exact. If Sam were a turtle, he'd be Donatello. Treasure Trolls were these ridiculous little naked toys with bright colored hair that stood on end and jewels in their tummies. It was said that if you made a wish and stroked the jewel or hair that your wish would come true.
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"[…] You know, the fact that you still play with your Boba Fett doll doesn't make you a girl. […]" – Movie – Boba Fett is an intergalactic Bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe.
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"[…] All that Bonne Bell lip gloss you wear—that's what makes you a girl. […]"– Womanly crap – Bonne Bell is a lip gloss for girls. It's girly looking and comes in shiny glosses and sparkly things and tubs and squeeze tubes and plain old chapstick tubes. They have a wide array of flavors like Dr. Pepper, vanilla, strawberry kiwi and other stuff like that.
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"Oh, you tubby motherfucker, come on, you can't be asleep right now." – Movie – Dean calling Sam a "tubby motherfucker" is a subtle nod to Jay and Silent Bob from Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse. Jay, the idiot man-child, calls his hetero life-mate, Silent Bob, a "tubby motherfucker" on several occasions throughout the movies.
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Dean hitches Sam up on his back, high enough to lift his Sideshow Bob feet off the ground and maneuver them both to see what the hell the noise behind them is. – TV – Sideshow Bob is a character from The Simpson's. He's very tall with huge feet and a genius. He was also put in jail for several crimes and used to get pies thrown in his face on a kid's show for a living (yes, those two are directly connected).
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Some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Leroy Jenkins' credit card. – Idiots – Really, the only way to explain it is to link you to the YouTube.
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"The website says, 'On April 12, 1968, several thousand sheep in Skull Valley were killed by VX gas,' that's nerve gas, 'released in a test from the nearby Dugway Proving Ground, as noted in the Stephen King novel The Stand.'" – Place – This really happened. See.
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"You hate Stephen King."
His older brother chuckles, giving Sam a crooked smirk. "No, you hate Stephen King. I think he writes great comedies." – Fic – Minor reference toeighth_horizon's Drunken Letters to Stephen King.
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"What about Spiderman?" – Comic, TV, Movie – Sam says it all, really. Bit by radioactive spider, got spider powers.
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Jerry, Maury, Montel, Starting Over. Fucking daytime TV.– TV – Daytime TV talk show. Jerry Springer, King of Trailer Trash; Maury Povich, who wants to know who the baby's daddy really is; and Montel Williams, who likes to talk to Silvia Browne and people who have lived through amazing things that should’ve killed them. I don't know exactly what Starting Over is but I still hate it.
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That night, he finds a phone book at the local Circle K, calls first motel, and asks for Rockford. – Movie – Sam and Dean's code for whenever they get separated, as told in The Usual Suspects.
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It takes him almost ten minutes to remember what the last name of the guy from Nightstalker is but when he finally does the man on the other line connects him to room 415. – TV – Nightstalker was a show about a journalist who hunts down stories about the supernatural.
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He's also gained a pair of clean briefs and his blanket, the soft electric blue one Dean stole for him from The Comfort Eagle in North Carolina last year. – Music – Comfort Eagle is the name of a CD by a band called Cake. It is also the name of a song they do.
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Stupid-ass birds. Fucking Alfred Hitchcock. – Movie – The Birds is a movie by Alfred Hitchcock about killer birds.
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In an instant, Dean knows what all millions of Japanese people in the Godzilla movies feel like as Sam seemingly falls forward and comes rushing at him with his full eight hundred pounds. – Movie – Godzilla is a series of movies. Godzilla comes from Japan where he stomps all over tiny Japanese people and attacks their city.
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Centralia, Pennsylvania is home to one of the longest burning fires, an underground coal fire. In the last forty years since the fire has started, the town's population dropped down to eleven people. Some died, some moved, and most were relocated with the help of government aid. – Place, Video Game, Movie – Centralia is a real place in Pennsylvania and everything in that paragraph is true. It is the real life inspiration for the town of Silent Hill in both the video game and the movie. I'm sure there aren't really demons there but the rest of the stuff comes straight from sites and articles on it.
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Sam lumbers through the thick smoke, flashlight in one hand, shotgun in the other. "It's like Silent Hill down here." – Video Game, Movie – A video game series and movie loosely inspired by Centralia. The signature of the game is the ever-present fog and the ability to both make grown men jump like little girls and exclaim, "That wasn't scary!"
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Sam raises his voice a little louder and tries again. "Silent Hill!"
"What about a siren?" – Video Game, Movie – In the Silent Hill series nightfall—when all the deadly creatures come out—is marked by a siren sounding. There is no siren sounding in this part but I wanted to give another Geektastic nod.
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"Why do I always have to fake the seizure?" – TV – This is a nod to the pilot episode of the Eddie Izzard show The Riches. In the pilot, the main characters are pulled over and get away after the oldest son fakes a seizure.
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"No it's not, ironic is…"
"Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife?" – Music – The line, "Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife?" is from the Alanis Morissette song Ironic. Ironically, enough there is not a single ironic reference in the entire song.
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She gets her answer a moment later when she moves to take down the license plate—Hawaii? How'd you get here in a car?—and the car rocks lightly before settling back in place. - TV - There's a skit on one episode of Who's Line Is It Anyway? where Ryan Stiles is answering the prompt of "Strange welcome greetings on signs as you enter different U. S. states."
"Sam finally falls asleep with Dean's hand in his hair and John Mayer wondering in his ear whether or not he's living his life the right way." – The song Sam is listening to as he falls asleep is Why Georgia by John Mayer.
They spend an hour and a half trying to dig and push and shove their car out of the mud. Sam makes no less than three references to My Cousin Vinny and Dean makes no less than five threats to Sam's life and/or various vital and functioning parts of his body. – Movie – In a scene in the movie, the title character and his fiancé are attempting to push their car out of thick Alabama mud. It doesn't go too well for them.
It's only a small car chase; it probably wouldn't even have made the news if it weren't for the Blues Brothers car crash the cops got into that let them escape. – Movie – Blues Brothers has a famous and legendary (if you're from Chicago) car chase with an extensive pile-up of police cruisers. Blues Brothers 2000 has another good and absurd car chase ending in an absurd pile-up, but Dean is nothing if not a man of the classics, so he is referring to the first movie.
"You know, when Harry did it, it actually made him invisible."
Dean cocks an eyebrow at Sam. "Who?"
Sam winces and struggles with himself for a moment, mouth opening and closing like a fish, before sighing. "Harry Potter." – Book – Dude, I hope I'm not telling anyone anything new when I say Harry Potter is a book about a boy who is a wizard. Apparently, he has a cloak that makes him invisible.
"Hey, Hardy Boys, you two wanna focus?" – Book series – The Hardy Boys investigated stuff. That's the sum total of my knowledge on this.
"[…] What do you want me to do, dye my hair blond and start going by some douche-baggy name like Chad?" – Celebrity – Chad Michael Murray is the biggest douche bag in the world. I love him and I say this. Really, there is no contesting this by anyone. He is also
alazysod's sekrit lovah.He knows for a fact that Dean knows exactly what happened to Bonnie and Clyde – Celebrities – Bonnie and Clyde were killed May 23, 1934, on a desolate road near their Bienville Parish, Louisiana hideout. They were shot by a posse of four Texas and two Louisiana officers. The lawmen ambushed them and opened fire, killing Bonnie and Clyde while shooting a combined total of approximately 130 rounds.
It's a '57 Plymouth Fury, a cherry '64 Rambler, and a brand new Aston Martin. It's a silver DeLorean, a black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, and a bright, prison orange '69 Dodge Charger. It's a beat to hell, falling apart at the seams '74 Dodge Monaco, a cherry '73 Ford Mustang and a run of the mill VW Bug. – TV, Movies – Okay. In order: The fury is Christine from the movie of the same name, the Rambler is the car from Third Rock from the Sun, The Aston Martin DBS is The Bond Car, the DeLorean is from the Back to the Future movies, the Pontiac Firebird is KITT from Knightrider, the Charger is the General Lee from Dukes of Hazard, the Monaco is the Bluesmobile from Blues Brothers, the Mustang is Eleanor from Gone in Sixty Seconds, and the Bug is Herbie the Love Bug.
It's the motherfucking Batmobile and the goddamned Black fucking Pearl. – Comics, TV, Movies – The Batmobile is Batman's car. If you don't know this, my Geeky Little Comic Whore heart cries for you. The Black Pearl is Captain Jack Sparrow's ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Both are considered mythical in their own canons, not thought to actually exist. An urban legend and a ghost ship.
On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha – Music – Opening line to Turn the Page by Bob Seger. Yeah, that's right, I worked Bob Seger into my porn.
"You Shook Me All Night Long" is blaring from the speakers, words nearly lost to the loud, thumping bass of the stereo turned up to eleven. – Music, Movie – A two-fer! You Shook Me All Night Long is a song by AC/DC. The part with the stereo turned up to eleven is a reference to This Is Spinal Tap, a movie about a fictional rock band. If you still don't know the reference, you need to Wiki it now.
Fox Mulder has bright yellow eyes and a tray full of razor-sharp and pointy instruments he hands to Sam. Gillian Anderson narrates the scene as Sam happily, gleefully hacks his big brother to thousands of tiny pieces. – TV – Obligatory The X-Files reference. Fox Mulder is a fictional FBI agent played by David Duchovny
The postmark is from Winnemucca, Nevada. – Music – Winnemucca is the first place Johnny Cash mentions in his song, I've Been Everywhere.
The name on the card reads Dick Kimble and the messy scrawl on the back says something he can't decipher. – TV, Movie – "Dick" is a shortened version of "Richard." Richard Kimble the leader character in The Fugitive TV shows and movie, an innocent man on the run from the law after being accused of a crime he didn't commit.
The one-armed stick figure in the bottom corner mocks Victor from its perch next to his computer. – TV, Movie – See above. That crime Richard Kimble didn't commit? Was committed by the one-armed-man.
The next postcard arrives from Panama, Oklahoma. – TV, Music – Okay, so this one is two-fold and I'm a loser. First ref is Johnny Cash again, another place he mentions in I've Been Everywhere. The loser bit of me is that this also vaguely references Prison Break, in which the world's smartest idiot and his wrongly-convicted brother plan to break out of prison and head to Panama. I know they don't mean Oklahoma, but I picked it anyway.
The front of the postcard boasts of sunny Florida skies and has a crude, hand drawn arrow pointing randomly into the beach crowd boasting WALDO in large, messy letters. – Book – Where's Waldo is a popular children's book here in the US. Waldo is a tall, thin, man in a red and white striped shirt who is often seen hiding in massive crowds.
Run! Run! Run!
As fast as you can!
You can't catch me!
I'm The Ginger Bread Man! – Children's Rhyme – Yeah, I don't know how to get much more specific than that without telling the whole story.
It has been on the FBI watch-list for almost forty years, ever since Starkweather and his girlfriend grabbed burgers there on the way to Wyoming back in '58. – True Crime – Charles Starkweather and his juvenile girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, went on a week-long killing spree from Nebraska to Wyoming. Starkweather and Fugate are the inspirations for several team spree killers in entertainment such as those on Kalifornia and Natural Born Killers.
"Keisha brought in the mail and asked why we got a postcard from Lincoln Burrows. […]" – TV – Lincoln Burrows is the name of one of the lead characters on Prison Break. He is currently on the run from every government agency there is and every cop around after breaking out of jail before he was to be executed for a murder he did not commit.
Dean and Sam are at an all-night laundry mat in Oklahoma washing their clothes after a bad fight with a chick that tried to go all Carrie on her senior prom. It took four runs through the heavy-duty washers to get all the blood—sheep, cow, goat, and Carrie Jr.—out, but three hours later they're almost done. – Movie, Book – Carrie is a short story by Stephen King that was later turned into a movie. The main protagonist is a young girl named Carrie, a social outcast at school, who—after having pig's blood dumped on her upon being crowned prom queen—snaps and kills everyone at her prom.
"Oh my God! Oh my God! I love your show! Can I have your autograph?"
Dean has no idea who the hell she thinks he is, but he's never been one to look a gift horse in the mouth. "Well, of course you can! Who should I make it out to?" – Celebrity – Three guesses, first two don't count.
It's Tuesday night and Sam hasn't shaved since Saturday when he and Dean catch themselves on America's Most Wanted. – TV – America's Most Wanted is a popular show in the US hosted by John Walsh. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
It's the times when they have to bunk down in the car because John Walsh has a hard-on for them that rivals pedophiles and they can't risk trying to get a motel room. – TV – John Walsh's son was abducted and murdered at a young age; this caused him to start America's Most Wanted. He is a well-known children's advocate and has a special abhorrence and hatred for those who hurt children.
When Sam was in college, he dated a guy who lived and worked in Santa Cruz. Sam more or less lived with him for an entire summer and made his way up on the weekends to visit for months after classes started back up. – Movie – Yeah. I can't name the movie because I think it might be considered a crossover if I did but it's probably the one you're thinking of.
They're sitting in the Saturn Café, a gimmicky theme restaurant, when it happens. – Place – Yes, this is a real vegetarian restaurant in Santa Cruz. Yes, it looks like this, yes, it's open that late, yes, that stuff is really on the menu and yes, the waiter/esses work there.
Their table has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G.I. Joes and Barbies with big, crimped hair under the glass. – Toys, TV – The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joes and Barbies are all toys that were popular in the eighties. The specific Barbie mentioned is Rocker Barbie.
Dean points to the Donatello in the table locked in combat with a half melted Treasure Troll. – Toys, TV – Donatello is one of The Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles, the nerdy brain one to be exact. If Sam were a turtle, he'd be Donatello. Treasure Trolls were these ridiculous little naked toys with bright colored hair that stood on end and jewels in their tummies. It was said that if you made a wish and stroked the jewel or hair that your wish would come true.
"[…] You know, the fact that you still play with your Boba Fett doll doesn't make you a girl. […]" – Movie – Boba Fett is an intergalactic Bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe.
"[…] All that Bonne Bell lip gloss you wear—that's what makes you a girl. […]"– Womanly crap – Bonne Bell is a lip gloss for girls. It's girly looking and comes in shiny glosses and sparkly things and tubs and squeeze tubes and plain old chapstick tubes. They have a wide array of flavors like Dr. Pepper, vanilla, strawberry kiwi and other stuff like that.
"Oh, you tubby motherfucker, come on, you can't be asleep right now." – Movie – Dean calling Sam a "tubby motherfucker" is a subtle nod to Jay and Silent Bob from Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse. Jay, the idiot man-child, calls his hetero life-mate, Silent Bob, a "tubby motherfucker" on several occasions throughout the movies.
Dean hitches Sam up on his back, high enough to lift his Sideshow Bob feet off the ground and maneuver them both to see what the hell the noise behind them is. – TV – Sideshow Bob is a character from The Simpson's. He's very tall with huge feet and a genius. He was also put in jail for several crimes and used to get pies thrown in his face on a kid's show for a living (yes, those two are directly connected).
Some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Leroy Jenkins' credit card. – Idiots – Really, the only way to explain it is to link you to the YouTube.
"The website says, 'On April 12, 1968, several thousand sheep in Skull Valley were killed by VX gas,' that's nerve gas, 'released in a test from the nearby Dugway Proving Ground, as noted in the Stephen King novel The Stand.'" – Place – This really happened. See.
"You hate Stephen King."
His older brother chuckles, giving Sam a crooked smirk. "No, you hate Stephen King. I think he writes great comedies." – Fic – Minor reference to
eighth_horizon's Drunken Letters to Stephen King."What about Spiderman?" – Comic, TV, Movie – Sam says it all, really. Bit by radioactive spider, got spider powers.
Jerry, Maury, Montel, Starting Over. Fucking daytime TV.– TV – Daytime TV talk show. Jerry Springer, King of Trailer Trash; Maury Povich, who wants to know who the baby's daddy really is; and Montel Williams, who likes to talk to Silvia Browne and people who have lived through amazing things that should’ve killed them. I don't know exactly what Starting Over is but I still hate it.
That night, he finds a phone book at the local Circle K, calls first motel, and asks for Rockford. – Movie – Sam and Dean's code for whenever they get separated, as told in The Usual Suspects.
It takes him almost ten minutes to remember what the last name of the guy from Nightstalker is but when he finally does the man on the other line connects him to room 415. – TV – Nightstalker was a show about a journalist who hunts down stories about the supernatural.
He's also gained a pair of clean briefs and his blanket, the soft electric blue one Dean stole for him from The Comfort Eagle in North Carolina last year. – Music – Comfort Eagle is the name of a CD by a band called Cake. It is also the name of a song they do.
Stupid-ass birds. Fucking Alfred Hitchcock. – Movie – The Birds is a movie by Alfred Hitchcock about killer birds.
In an instant, Dean knows what all millions of Japanese people in the Godzilla movies feel like as Sam seemingly falls forward and comes rushing at him with his full eight hundred pounds. – Movie – Godzilla is a series of movies. Godzilla comes from Japan where he stomps all over tiny Japanese people and attacks their city.
Centralia, Pennsylvania is home to one of the longest burning fires, an underground coal fire. In the last forty years since the fire has started, the town's population dropped down to eleven people. Some died, some moved, and most were relocated with the help of government aid. – Place, Video Game, Movie – Centralia is a real place in Pennsylvania and everything in that paragraph is true. It is the real life inspiration for the town of Silent Hill in both the video game and the movie. I'm sure there aren't really demons there but the rest of the stuff comes straight from sites and articles on it.
Sam lumbers through the thick smoke, flashlight in one hand, shotgun in the other. "It's like Silent Hill down here." – Video Game, Movie – A video game series and movie loosely inspired by Centralia. The signature of the game is the ever-present fog and the ability to both make grown men jump like little girls and exclaim, "That wasn't scary!"
Sam raises his voice a little louder and tries again. "Silent Hill!"
"What about a siren?" – Video Game, Movie – In the Silent Hill series nightfall—when all the deadly creatures come out—is marked by a siren sounding. There is no siren sounding in this part but I wanted to give another Geektastic nod.
"Why do I always have to fake the seizure?" – TV – This is a nod to the pilot episode of the Eddie Izzard show The Riches. In the pilot, the main characters are pulled over and get away after the oldest son fakes a seizure.
"No it's not, ironic is…"
"Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife?" – Music – The line, "Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife?" is from the Alanis Morissette song Ironic. Ironically, enough there is not a single ironic reference in the entire song.
She gets her answer a moment later when she moves to take down the license plate—Hawaii? How'd you get here in a car?—and the car rocks lightly before settling back in place. - TV - There's a skit on one episode of Who's Line Is It Anyway? where Ryan Stiles is answering the prompt of "Strange welcome greetings on signs as you enter different U. S. states."
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I just wanted to thank you. Because when I really love a fic, I make an effort to take the time to really give a review/comment, not just a 'great fic!', and really, I love getting any reply from an author to a comment, but it's sometimes frustrating when I really gush about a fic and then get a 'thanks! glad you liked it!' back, just the same as the 'great fic!' comments. Not that I think there's anything wrong with either type, but I really, really, really appreciate you taking the time to give me the long answer, and would far rather get a reply farther down the road and have this, than the next day and get a 'thanks!'. :)
I love talking to authors about their fics, especially when I find them particularly insightful re: the characters or plot development, as I did this one, so I'm thrilled to hear your comments about why you decided to do things the way you did, and your impressions of the characters. (and wow, I'm pretty famously oblivious, and I totally had not realized how much of a parallel Dean and Henrickson are, so I really loved that insight)
And. OMG. YES. You are so right about the way they show love, and YES, they do love each other more than life, as evidenced by the fact that they are both totally willing to (or HAVE) die for each other, and the show *IS* Wincest without the sex. All the things that make Wincest fics satisfying for me are in the show, and the sex just seems like a natural progression.
And the Thermometer/Toothbrush thing was a truly inspired turn of phrase. It is a perfect way to state everything you need to know about Sam and Dean, and SamandDean, and Sam/Dean, without having to spell it out explicitly.
And I friended you after I read this, I hope you don't mind. I didn't want to miss anything. :)
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I'm fairly certain that short of picking a fight with the person you're responding to it's more than okay netiquette to respond to a comment.
I understand exactly what you mean; knowing an author read your comment is good but it kinda sucks when you put so much time and effort into a well thought-out comment and get "thank you" in response. It's still good but it kinda makes you step back and wonder why you bothered to spend all that time trying to be coherent.
Oh God, you really shouldn't've said that about talking to authors because given even the slightest bit of encouragement I will go on and on and on about what I write. Especially with this fic because I spent so many months on it. It's funny (you'll find out why in a moment) because some parts had to be written and rewritten and rewritten again and others came out just right the first time. Like Henrickson.
I knew from the start I wanted him to be a mirror of Dean (after metaing to a friend that if we didn't know about Sam and Dean what we know that we'd be cheering on Henrickson and hoping he catches those "evil monsters.") and I knew what I wanted him to say. It was a matter of getting the words in the right order though. It was hard to get his voice without just bleaching it and turning him into some generic "these guys are bad so we want them" guy. He truly believes they're killers and he truly believes they're dangerous. As far as he knows he's doing the right thing.
The thing about Wincest fic to me is that people focus so much on the sex and that's just not a big thing for me. I think I've only seen one first time fic where Sam and Dean start out and then don't immediately have sex. And I mean...
I am such a complete snob about Wincest, I'm so hesitant to write my version of their first time because it's so radically different from everyone else's because everyone else seems (at times) to fall back on one pining and swooning after the other and the other having to be coaxed into it (in the non-abusive way) and then immediately they have full-on, big gay anal sex. Whereas in my version Sam hit puberty and started having thoughts about Dean that he knew weren't exactly "right." When my version of Sam and Dean got together--after the puberty thing, that was just there for time reference--it was slow and scary for them both, kissing was more than enough for a long time. And okay, yeah, part of that is likely because I see them starting up Pre-Stanford (and it playing a significant part in Sam leaving) but either way I just don't see them immediately having sex the moment they realize they both feel the same. [/mini!rant]
The Thermometer/Toothbrush thing is really just hilarious to me because that's one of those lines that just came out immediately. I wanna say and thought and thought about it to get it perfect but I just threw it out there and by luck it managed to fit. My big thing in that scene was really that I wanted them to share the toothbrush because that to me said how they lived and how comfortable they were with each other. They only have one toothbrush because they only need one toothbrush. They shared before they started kissing, when germs were still "icky" and they share now because it's them. The Thermometer/Toothbrush thing was just an unconscious bit to me. Very "of course Dean understands him, they've been doing this since Sam got his first tooth." And the fact that everyone loves it so much, that it came across so clearly, makes me downright giddy.
And I just friended you right back, expect comments in the next few minutes! :D
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Second: yes, yes, yes to everything you say about first time Wincest fics in general. Not to say I haven't read my share of the 'take a left at the second kiss, and straight on to cocks-in-asses' kind of fic, but I tend to feel....unsatisfied by them. If I just want to read porn, just 'tab A, slot B' porn, then I can find that anywhere. If I'm reading Sam/Dean, then I am a lot less interested in the hardcore sex, and a lot more interested in the build to get there. I like first time fics that give me a reason to believe that, even as much as they're in each other's back pockets, as much as they're *part* of one another, that they would let it go that far.
And hey, mini!rec, as an example of a pretty much perfect first time fic for me: Bad Blood, by astolat (http://astolat.livejournal.com/142940.html). Because it's so full of cliches, and it's pretty much just sex, but it's...they're Sam and Dean through the whole thing. They're bitching, and griping, and teasing each other, and the way San gets Dean to go through with it is by asking him if he'd rather watch *Sam* die, not if he'd rather die himself. I have plenty of other recs (and GOD I need to do a rec post), but this is the second fic I read in the fandom, and the one that got me watching the show, because I wanted to know the boys in this story. I'm pretty sure most of fandom has already read this, but I wanted to put it as an example of the kind of fic that always gets me. Funny, and hot, and taking into consideration the fact that it wouldn't be all falling into bed with them.
Also, another little rec: ANY of
And yes, I completely agree with what you said about Henrickson. I think part of the reason I like his character so much is that he's believable. I can put myself in his shoes, and think, 'HELL YEAH I'm gonna catch those bastards, and they're gonna PAY' because Sam and Dean have the kinds of records that make good guys have nightmares, that would let Henrickson believe that every second he can't catch them they're out there hurting someone innocent, and that if he caught them, well. Promotion. BIG promotion. ;)
And yeah, I was a little blown away by the thermometer thing, but the fact that they shared the toothbrush was so...intimate. So comfortable. And that too was wonderful. :)
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