Most egregious pop culture reference in one of your stories

[M_K_Babalon]

I think I did a Scott Pilgrim reference in something, it was a scene in a cafe where when their caramel machiato was ready, the barista said "here's your Fucking Pilgrim" or something.

The chapter hasn't been submitted yet, but im that incest story of mine; his moms office had been hidden from view back when his dad ran the place. Having dinner with her sisters family, the convo steered towards their weekend plans, to which he replies; "we're going to try and find the office of misses Zarves, here."
Wayside School

 

[Djmac1031]

Oh, I do this kind of thing all the time. Some subtle, some pretty blatant.

One of my more recent ones, from Dare To Dream, where I literally break the 4th wall:

"Oh, thank God," Lexi giggles. "I worried for a minute I was gonna have to fuck you in the sand or on a rock or something."

I laugh. "Of course there's a bed. Sex on the beach is only romantic in movies. They never address the sand issue. I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere."

Lexi smacks my arm. "Couldn't get through this story without a Star Wars reference, could you?"

"Hey," I shrug, "it's me."

 

[Lifestyle66]

Pop culture refs coming in my next story:


(First-person female POV)
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They turned to look at me approaching, and the asshole leaning against my car glanced down at the hood of the car realizing it was mine, but not moving off. If he had seen a man like my husband come out and walk this way, his type would quickly scurry away. But he probably thinks he’s going to have some fun against a woman.

Stopping about four feet away from them in front of the car, I gave him a cold stare and commanded “Get off my car!”

He smirked and chuckled before saying “Huh … maybe for a blowjob,” and I saw it as his impotent attempt to intimidate me. He expected to make a woman crawl and ASK him to ‘PLEASE would you let me get into my car.’

I stomped my left foot as I firmly plant it in my dominatrix pose, and harshly replied “I can suck a cock, … or bite it off! Do you feel lucky? ... Well, DO you!?” I angrily shouted. There was no fear in my voice, only a determined assurance that it would be MY choice.

The surprise and brief flash of fear on his face was priceless, almost as if he needed to check his groin to see that it was still there.
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Inspired by the movies "Grand Torino" and "Dirty Harry"

 

[MyBareTorso]

I do this all the time. Often references to more than one movie / TV show in a single story.

Heaven & Hole had many such references. But the two most shameless were:



And…



And that’s just on page 1.

How about you?



Em

My story Halloween competition story "Oz Beach Boy Nude At Halloween Fest"(https://www.literotica.com/s/oz-beach-boy-nude-at-halloween-fest) is pretty much nothing but pop culture references. There are even cameos by Mia Goth and Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark! I had a ball writing it!

 

[Djmac1031]

Probably my most egregious is naming a character Derry, after the town in Maine SK's writing largely takes place in.

Nice. I named a character "Randi Freeman" after King's Randal Flagg In The Devil And Angel Em.

 

[Stimtheone]

I make many references in my works, some intentionally obscure to reveal only to particular individuals what is really happening. I find it to be a sort of "curation" of my words to make sure that the people not into such a point of view would not experience it, but those who know what happens when you incite a rebellion when the emperor is mourning his favorite femboy would know which country is getting its government slaughtered to the tune of a techno remix.

I think that one might be the one to qualify as the worst. Others... I made so many that it's hard to judge.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Also-Ran is one long X-Men AU.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I make many references in my works, some intentionally obscure to reveal only to particular individuals what is really happening. I find it to be a sort of "curation" of my words to make sure that the people not into such a point of view would not experience it, but those who know what happens when you incite a rebellion when the emperor is mourning his favorite femboy would know which country is getting its government slaughtered to the tune of a techno remix.

I think that one might be the one to qualify as the worst. Others... I made so many that it's hard to judge.

And then, of course, there's your signature. Are you watching the show?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Not in the story itself, but Cat Scratch Fever is a double dip since the short description is "...But if you try sometime you'll find You get what you need."
Funny thing is, the story doesn't really have anything to do with music.

Sorry. I was still a virgin yesterday and the little clicky button thingy is lost on me.

Cat Scratch Fever is a song by Ted Nugent. The short description is from one of the most iconic Stones songs ever...

 

[Duleigh]

I consciously avoid pop "culture" references because I don't want my stories to be "Dated." My characters don't watch much TV, they read books. They don't listen to the radio, especially when they should so they miss the reports of the blizzard heading their way. Because if I put a pop "culture" reference in a story and that part of pop "culture" fades in the past or does a and becomes a horrifically embarrassing event/item/person, I don't want that reference in my story.

My character are not immune from the outside world, Paul Jerecki in Andi's dream if a full blown Buffalo Bills fan, Andi Roberts is an orange bleeding Denver Broncos fan and both dislike the NFC. If I mention a song they like it will be a classic that should be known to all like "May I have This Dance" by Ann Murray because I don't want my readers to be hitting Wikipedia or scratching their head saying "What the hell is that?"

I do leave "Easter Eggs" in my stories that center around Western New York, little references to life in WNY that a local would get. These are not Pop "culture" references because everyone knows, they ain't no culture in Buffalo no how.

 

[Wifetheif]

I'm going to post one in a few days where a millionaire gives the location of the island he has taken a slumbering superheroine to. She asks where she is. He cites the latitude and longitude of Epstein's island of debauchery. The numbers mean nothing to her but anyone who looks them up is in for a surprise.

 

[StillStunned]

In "Flesh for Fantasy", the narrator watches a woman showering. She's playing a Billy Idol playlist: it begins with "Hot In The City", switches to "Eyes Without A Face" when he starts to watch and moves on to "Flesh For Fantasy" as she's playing with herself.

 

[Bramblethorn]

"Girl," Nadja stage-whispered in my ear, "I wanna take you to a gay bar."

Reference is, of course, Electric Six.

 

[RetroFan]

I consciously avoid pop "culture" references because I don't want my stories to be "Dated." My characters don't watch much TV, they read books. They don't listen to the radio, especially when they should so they miss the reports of the blizzard heading their way. Because if I put a pop "culture" reference in a story and that part of pop "culture" fades in the past or does a and becomes a horrifically embarrassing event/item/person, I don't want that reference in my story.

My character are not immune from the outside world, Paul Jerecki in Andi's dream if a full blown Buffalo Bills fan, Andi Roberts is an orange bleeding Denver Broncos fan and both dislike the NFC. If I mention a song they like it will be a classic that should be known to all like "May I have This Dance" by Ann Murray because I don't want my readers to be hitting Wikipedia or scratching their head saying "What the hell is that?"

I do leave "Easter Eggs" in my stories that center around Western New York, little references to life in WNY that a local would get. These are not Pop "culture" references because everyone knows, they ain't no culture in Buffalo no how.

Your post is interesting, I'm sort of the exact inverse as an author, in that I load up my stories with a past setting with lots of pop culture references to age it to the time it is set.

With regards to referencing songs and their lyrics, in Chapter 2 of my story series 'Crazy Cornelius & the Magic Pills' Cornelius behaves in similar ways to lyrics in the 1993 Denis Leary comedy song 'Asshole'.

Cornelius (who is a stupid and sadistic sociopath) deliberately drives his beat up old car at 20 km/hour in the outside lane of the Sydney Harbour Bridge just to piss off other drivers (I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane, while people behind me are going insane). He uses a disabled toilet and deliberately urinates all over the toilet seat (I use public toilets and I piss on the seat) and steals a disabled parking bay from a disabled driver, insulting the angry paraplegic man in the resulting altercation (sometimes I park in the handicapped spaces, while handicapped people make handicapped faces). He also visits a fast food restaurant for lunch and when done eating deliberately throws the packaging out of the car window while driving on a freeway (...then I'm going to toss the styrophome containers right out the side, and there's not a goddamn fucking thing anyone can do about it ...)

Cornelius also is engaged in a war with a grouchy elderly neighbour across the street, and torments the man by constantly playing the same song at him on a stereo all day. The song is not named, but I describe it as 'an early 1960s novelty song about an avian creature who enjoys a water sport that originated in Hawaii sung by a one hit wonder boy band that suggests they are garbage collectors), so it can easily be determined what the song is.

 

[SamBomb]

In my holiday story I had Santa's daughter point at a christmas decoration and use the line from Miracle on 34th street pointing out the problem with it.

 

[Duleigh]

the 1993 Denis Leary comedy song 'Asshole'.

An underappreciated Classic. When I was a flightline expediter in Korea in the USAF my weapons load teams did not have the most spotless of reputations. One of my teams would sing that song at the top of their lungs as they moved from one job to the next. My poor, long suffering Wing Commander heard them as they strolled past his airplane one day and he spotted me and demanded my presence with a crooked finger. I'm going to write a story about the silly shit that happened over there and the conversations the "Wing King" and I had.

He uses a disabled toilet

The first thing I thought was "Why would he use a broken toilet?"

I love the idea! If you want more songs like that, there's a comedy singer from my home town named John Valby, he's also known as Dr. Dirty. I have been tempted to do something similar with what you did based on John Valby's songs "Bang-Bang Lulu" and "Philosophical Bullshit." A search on the internet should fill you with all the twisted ideas you could ever want. (I honestly am shocked that John Valby is not considered a musical God in Australia)

 

[Bramblethorn]

I love the idea! If you want more songs like that, there's a comedy singer from my home town named John Valby, he's also known as Dr. Dirty. I have been tempted to do something similar with what you did based on John Valby's songs "Bang-Bang Lulu" and "Philosophical Bullshit." A search on the internet should fill you with all the twisted ideas you could ever want. (I honestly am shocked that John Valby is not considered a musical God in Australia)

There's a fair bit of competition here:

https://www.songlyrics.com/kevin-bloody-wilson/don-t-touch-your-sister-a-tasmanian-love-song-lyrics/

 

[Duleigh]

There's a fair bit of competition here:

https://www.songlyrics.com/kevin-bloody-wilson/don-t-touch-your-sister-a-tasmanian-love-song-lyrics/

Good, but you need the live audience to make it fun. Here's a holiday favorite from John Valby

 

[Stimtheone]

And then, of course, there's your signature. Are you watching the show?

Don't know what show you mean. The signature is about this

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Don't know what show you mean. The signature is about this

Foundation. Empire is a main character. That’s kind of his tag line. Based on a series of novels by Robert Heinlein

 

[Duleigh]

Foundation. Empire is a main character. That’s kind of his tag line. Based on a series of novels by Robert Heinlein

Wait - Foundation and Empire? You can't fool me, that's a book by Isaac Asimov

 

[Stimtheone]

Foundation. Empire is a main character. That’s kind of his tag line. Based on a series of novels by Robert Heinlein

Huh. Maybe I SHOULD watch that to help with gathering ideas for RotS

 

[StillStunned]

Wait - Foundation and Empire? You can't fool me, that's a book by Isaac Asimov

If I recall correctly, Empire isn't a character in the books. It's very cool concept in the show, and in Season 1 at least they're the best part.

(I've wondered whether they stole the idea from "Among Thieves" by Douglas Hulick, which refers to the Emperor constantly being reborn again.)

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Wait - Foundation and Empire? You can't fool me, that's a book by Isaac Asimov

Yeah, of course you’re right. DOH…

 

[WendyTrilby]

I make sure to set my stories against real events. In my story PORTMANTEAU: MORE THAN A FEELING, I work in the largest art theft in the US, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

My current story, just posted, is called WILL YOU MERRY ME and mostly takes place in a mall in 1983, 2003 and 2023. It is all about the pop culture of mall life in those decades from Radio Shack to Merry Go Round, to Sbarro Pizza and more. I use the mall as a metaphor of life. Strong and vibrant '83, a bit shaky in '03, and dead in '23.