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A Shout-Out that pops up in a lot of places. An oddly specific Shout Out.

Apparently multiple authors independently noticed the same detail and decided to reference it in their own story. The fact that so many authors possess such a thorough knowledge of the original story goes to show just how influential the subject of the Shout-Out is.

Stock Shout Outs differ from Stock Parodies in two ways: They aren't played for laughs (beyond the inherent in-joke-esque nature of the common reference point) and they're usually blink-and-you'll-miss-it short.

Some are so famous that they've become tropes themselves.

The Other Wiki also has more information.

Subtropes: If an example fits into one of these subtropes, it should be on that page, not here.

Examples of Stock Shout-Outs include:

Film[]

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [pause] Time to die.

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Literature[]

Live-Action TV[]

  • 42: Most famous as the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though it occurs over and over again in Lewis Carroll's works.
  • 4 8 15 16 23 42: The Lost numbers, which notably include two numbers listed separately on this page.
  • "Be seeing you!" with a particular hand-to-eye gesture: The Prisoner
  • "That's the second-[adjective]-est [noun] I've ever seen!" from Get Smart
  • "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." from the Hulk.

Music[]

  • The phrase Welcome to the Jungle pops out everywhere.
  • Pirate Jenny, from the song by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill

Radio[]

  • "It's a bird! It's a plane!" from Superman. Also, "This looks like a job for..."

Theatre[]

Video Games[]

  • "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike", from Colossal Cave.

Western Animation[]

Real Life[]

  1. The second rule of Stock Shout-Outs to Fight Club is: You do not talk about Stock Shout-Outs to Fight Club.