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Jaycee Dove
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I noticed on Hollyoaks last Tuesday that there was a brief shot right at the start of a newspaper hoarding carrying a headline about a dog called Beauchamp winning a prize.
David Beauchamp was directing the show that day so this was presumably an in joke.
Does anyone know any other examples?
There was an episode of Fringe earlier this year (a series about weird events) where two FBI vans had registration plates shown very briefly in shot that were R 2 D2 and C 3 PO - more or less.
Again obviously an in joke from a Star Wars fan.
David Beauchamp was directing the show that day so this was presumably an in joke.
Does anyone know any other examples?
There was an episode of Fringe earlier this year (a series about weird events) where two FBI vans had registration plates shown very briefly in shot that were R 2 D2 and C 3 PO - more or less.
Again obviously an in joke from a Star Wars fan.
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Some of the background music in the Vic in EE can be very ''in''
Don't the names of the characters in New Tricks have some connection with a well-known football club because of the original writer's support
Alfred Hitchcock made fleeting appearances in his own films - that was meant to be very ''in''
Gibbs replies 'Illya Kuryakin'!
Keith Duffy in Corrie made some comment about listening to 'good boybands' when trying to give one of the younger guys tips on romance.
Star Trek:TNG had the number 47 appear somewhere in each episode.
Peter Deluise used to appear in the background of the Stargate episodes that he'd direct.
Samantha Carter used the word 'Macgyver' when talking to Richard Dean Anderson's character about putting a system together.
Indeed it was; NCC-1701. I noticed it straight away
I remember someone in fringe referencing Oceanic flight 815 from Lost (another JJ Abrahms prog).
I think there was a terrible episode of Diagnosis Murder, where Amanda met Victoria Rowell (who plays Amanda :eek: )
There was an episode of EE where Steve McFadden and Ross Kemp referred to each other by their real names but I suspect it wasn't an in joke, no-one spotted it.
Also the number plate on The Impala was had 2Y5 on the end which means 2005 when it first aired.
(2) In an episode of NCIS when Jethro was asked what the character Ducky looked like when he was younger, he said Ilya Kuryakin (a character from The Man from Uncle TV series). Both characters were played by the lovely David McCallum.
I love it when they do things like that
2) In an episode of Ellen, Ellen was watching televison with friends and one remarked that she hoped the programme did not contain anything shocking. Ellen said they would have put up a warning triangle if that was so (the Ellen show featuring Ellen coming out was shown in the US with such a warning, much to Ellen DeGeneres's annoyance). Cue knowing laughter from the audience.:)
I remember that and it has even been in Hollyoaks (made by the same company) since.
But I read that they did it to save money they would have had to spend by paying rights to actual childrens TV characters....though once they spent money making the Magic Rabbits episodes (as they were called) they had to keep on using them and it became a sort of in joke as you say.
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).
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.
I think the same thing happened with an episode of Casualty
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Season 1
"The Jersey Devil" - In the autopsy report on "Jane Doe", the name of the coroner is K.H.Hawryliw. Ken Hawryliw is the prop master on the show.
Season 2
"Die Hand Die Verletzt" - The message left by the devilish teacher for Mulder and Scully, 'Good-bye - It's been nice working with you' also served as Morgan and Wong's farewell to the cast and crew, since this was their last episode with the show until they came back for a brief stint in season four.
Season3
"Piper Maru" - The name of the episode is also the name of Gillian Anderson's daughter.
they do indeed, Jack Halford, Brian Lane and Gerry Standing take their names from West Bromich Albions "Halford Lane Stand".