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• Rick and Morty: "butter robot" (robot with insignificant purpose):

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs

• Rick and Morty "internet explorer robot" (robot with insignificant purpose, but modified to directly implicate internet explorer's purpose to install chrome)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0d79wHTCcA

• Top Gear: "a tv show about cars and sorta engineering, British and ridiculous"

  • example: sending Reliant into Space, sorta
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJdrlWR-yFM

• Larry the Cable Guy

• Almost anything Star Wars or Star Trek Related

  • Star Trek: "data the abstract concept vs data the android"
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCGrAOF7J_M
  • Star Wars: appropriate watching order
  • "only do, there is no try"
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4hb7NcrJzQ

• Larry the Cable Guy:

  • said, "why does this make so and so want to watch Larry the cable guy. Who is that?"

• Indiana Jones "we reached got them under the ban like Indiana Jones grabbing his hat as the door closed"

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ui85HwTX1s

• the "the more you know star" in 1980s & 1990s Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on broadcast television. Referenced in "the more you know" star used as emoji on Slack.

  • Will Smith example of 'stay in school' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVjI5o0Ed9k Scott pilgram saves tge world girl with streak in

• Simpson's Homer quote, "alcohol, the cause of and solution to all life's problems" used in reference to global variables being the cause of and solution to all coding problems.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUVwR0rw5fk

• Google's user of the name "Parsey McParseface" that references the boat name "Boaty McBoatface"

  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/17/has-googles-parsey-mcparseface-just-solved-one-of-the-worlds-big/
  • http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36225652

• Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken (SNL), "I've got a fever and the only prescription, is more cowbell"

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3S4jTOGGKA

• "Fat guy in a little coat" joke from "Tommy Boy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYB3Fx0a8-4

• "Portlandia's Feminist Bookstore" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrcGeSmEdC4

• It isn't like he's the Fonze. Who is the Fonze? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonzie

• Monty Python search for holy Grail coconut reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqtS9xyl0f4

• Transformers: More than meets the eye, robots in disguise!

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers
  • http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)

• Highlander: unsure of quote

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Series

• The Eye of the Tiger Video played at end of a job before going onto a new organization as a way to get someone excited.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4

• Didn't fully understand suggestion to reply with a "Wrath of Khan" gif to someone who was displeasing. This was in reference to the 1981 Star Trek movie "Wrath of Khan" and in particular a scene where Captain Kirk yells in anger with a famously unpleasant look on his face. https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/8c26ky/nasa_break_room_problems_are_different_than_most/ and https://giphy.com/gifs/star-trek-james-t-kirk-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-5U4uFSd7JDsQ

• Referring to building up a few different stacks in a balanced way as "monopoly rules"

  • https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Monopoly/Official_Rules#Properties,_Rents,_and_Construction
  • https://monopoly.fandom.com/wiki/Houses