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Following sjm’s example (brilliant idea with the “Okay, I’m calling it…!”-thread) I open a thread where you can add any references of any seen or yet unseen episode that you come up with. These refernces just hit me at the strangest moments and I never know where to put them. Seems like such a waste of space to open a new topic for it. So, here’s the place for that!
The reference I was trying to fit an existing topic and which lead to this one:
Could the magic wardrobe from the Pilot be a nod to the wardrobe from the Chronicles of Narnia? My first thought was the resemblance to the vanishing cabinets of Harry Potter, but this seems far more probable. 🙂[adrotate group="5"]The bar the the girls went to was called The Rabbit Hole. Does that maybe mean an Alice in Wonderland character owns it?
When Regina said to Rumple that she had to deal with a certain mermaid, it made me think of The Little Mermaid.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
I have a friend who is a fan and a carpenter by trade…. His theory is that Pinocchio was made from the heart wood of the enchanted tree. The cabinet was made from the enchanted hollow tree. Pinocchio was transported to SB/ the real world because he was made from the same tree as the cabinet.
Nonnie …. SO I AM CALLING THIS THEORY
FURTHER MORE …. Pinocchio landed in the same place as EMMA and was the 7 year old boy that found Emma by the highway.
GEE …. LOST AM I ON IN THE FORUMS.
Mia Love it! and the objects thread too! Some of the things on that thread are proabably actually references, if not all to some degree 😀
NONNIE Need to put those on the “Calling it” thread
The man who answered the door eating the carrot in “Dreamy” is a nod to Alice in Wonderland
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The flying monkeys seen in Henry’s book are a reference to the Wizard of OzI was wondering how many other “worlds”/kingdoms there might be — Wonderland, Agrabar, Oz, Neverland and The Enchanted Forest, so far.
Those were flying monkeys!!!!!!!!!!!! You’ve got no idea how much I’ve been trying to find out what those flying things were! I thought they were The Seven Raven, but I was a bit thrown off guard because of the faces.
And yes, all the objects in the other thread are references, but I thought we’d split it up into actual objects and other references, like the ones mentioned here.
Yeah. They are the flying monkeys an illustration from the first edition of Wizard of Oz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_monkeys
LOL, that’s great hjbau! I never looked it up, that’s just what i thought the first time I saw it. So another reference might be the Kansas liscense plate on the Stranger’s motorcycle. I really thought he might be the Wizard of Oz when he first came to town, because I was looking for another reference to that story 😀 But maybe he just traveled there 😉
@sjm wrote:
The man who answered the door eating the carrot in “Dreamy” is a nod to Alice in Wonderland.
I figured he was Jack Sprat, judging by the fact he wasn’t eating fat but had a fat wife.
Speaking of vegetables in nursery rhymes, I figured that when Emma was telling Henry about his father and she said how he always used to ask for pumpkin pie, that was a shoutout to Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater. I don’t believe he actually WAS Peter, because I don’t believe Henry’s father is from FTL, but it seemed too specific of a detail to not be a shoutout to the nursery rhyme. Especially considering we know Emma’s been involved with a married man at some point and, well:
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn’t keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had another and didn’t love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well.
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