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"This private's rifle is named Charlene, sir!" Someone really loves that movie, goddamn.
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And the repeated references to Full Metal Jacket. Hell, episode 15, wherein the class is trapped on a bus teetering on the edge of a cliff, seems to be based on an episode of South Park. And then there is the Discworld reference in episode 15 with Himeko as A'Tuin. This eventually culminates in a still of Chuck Norris' character lying dead after his fight with Bruce Lee in that one movie. It has several Chuck Norris jokes in the original Japanese dialogue. For instance, a shot-for-shot Shout-Out to the Catwoman origin scene in Batman Returns. Pani Poni Dash!.oh God, where to even start? That show has references to almost anything. There's also a reference to Friday the 13 th in the chapter where some of the characters go on a vacation to a cabin in the woods. Turns out that cartoon is quite popular in Japan, the only American series amongst the top 100 animated series in Japan. The conflict between Kyo and Yuki is compared to that between another famous cat and mouse, Tom and Jerry. TV TROPES SOUL NOMAD AND THE WORLD EATERS MOVIE
The manga also contains a reference to the movie Runaway Bride. In a Christmas episode, Osaka rambles in her typical Cloudcuckoolanderish way about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Another pair of episodes are titled in a way evocative of directly copying the Japanese names of the first two movies in the Austin Powers movies. There's one line in which the protagonist's relationship is compared to that between Anakin and Amidala. The video itself is set to an Electric Light Orchestra song, and the animators took the opportunity to include as many cameos of sci-fi, animation and fantasy characters as possible: not only Japanese Sentai and Anime characters show up, but a crapload of Western characters appear as well, including but not limited to the Tin Man, Snake Plissken, the female robot from Metropolis, a Martian from the 1953 film version of The War of the Worlds, and even. The notorious Daicon IV short film made by then-unknown Gainax animators. 
Being a series based around pop-culture-themed alternate dimensions, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi runs up and down the buffet line between western and eastern popular culture of multiple genres. Tower of God: Repellista Zahard's door has a sign with Fus Roh Da written on it.
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