12/24/2023 0 Comments Ungawa bwanaIn the short story with Thomas' birthday, when a Black Court vamp starts threatening them over the intercom, Harry quickly asks what she was like in life.Harry calls Jenny Greenteeth a "watery tart", an epithet nicked from Dennis the Constitutional Peasant in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.Harry mentions wanting to chant " There's no place like home!" while in a slight panic.Most un-savvy people assume that knowing magic means Harry can make his dishes wash themselves, like in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.Bob says "Ungawa, bwana", a line co-opted from Tarzan.There are vintage Star Wars actions figures scattered around Billy's and Georgia's apartment.Bob calls her "Buffy" in the same story.The short, blonde demon fighter, Karrin Murphy, says, "you have fruit punch mouth." In the season 1 finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the short, blonde demon fighter, Buffy Summers, says the exact same phrase, albeit under very different contexts.Harry sarcastically says "And maybe Elvis and JFK are shacked up in a retirement home somewhere"-a reference to Bubba Ho-tep, a Bruce Campbell film.The title itself is a reference to Old, New, Borrowed and Blue.When their conversation accidentally parallels HMS Pinafore, River Shoulders gruffly states that he's not going to quote Gilbert and Sullivan.After sending one of said "monkeys" flying with a Forzare-strike staged to look like a judo flip, Harry taunts the other guards while mouthing his lines like badly-dubbed Bruce Lee.And even more so, when she calls the campus's security guards "the flying monkeys".Meeting Irwin's infirmary caregiver, Harry quotes Yakko and Wacko Warner, and is delighted when she recognizes his "hello, nurse" reference.Discussing his phone-book ad with Bob, Harry quips " Style is as style does" in mentally-challenged tones.Expressing his dislike of fighting, Irwin says he doesn't even like to play Street Fighter.Irwin is reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when Harry first sees him, triggering a prompt flurry of Vogon jokes and other references from Dresden.Harry muses that his imagination is like an Etch A Sketch.The Astors bought Faith a bunch of Barbie toys, then told her to leave them in their packages so they'd retain their collectible value.Bitter, Faith dismisses Disney specials she's seen where parents automatically adore their kids as nonsense.Warned by Nick that the police are searching for a pair of suspected kidnappers, Harry guesses that the suspects match the descriptions of Mickey and Donald.Pretty good, especially for a nine-year-old girl ( Ouch! My shin! Ten, I meant ten!) who was probably in kindergarten when the Marlboro Man billboards were banned in Illinois. Faith Astor scores a triple whammy, citing El Dorado, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and tobacco advertising in a single paragraph.
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