Several chapters into this project, I realized that my media references are all over the place, so I thought it would be fun to catalog them all. I have a weird idea of fun.
My X.Y.Z nomenclature here goes Part, Book, Chapter; 1.3.2, for example, indicates Part I, Book 3, Chapter 2.
Books/Stories
Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, When We Walk By — 1.2.1
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess — 1.2.3, 1.2.7, 2.3.4, 2.3.8, 2.3.9, 2.4.4
Matthew Desmond, Evicted — 1.4.3
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby — 1.6.1
Melissa Gira Grant, Playing the Whore — 1.5.11
Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality — 2.3.2
O. Henry, “The Gift of the Magi” — 1.5.10
Mick Herron, Slow Horses series — 1.7.10
Larissa MacFaquhar, Strangers Drowning — 1.1.14
Thomas More, Utopia — 1.1.4, 1.2.7
Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree — 1.5.10
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — 1.1.6, 1.2.6, 2.3.4, 2.4.3, 2.5.5
Susan Strasser, Never Done — 1.1.5
Movies
Ant-Man — 1.2.9
Barbie — 1.1.14
Black Panther — 1.2.8
Conclave — 1.1.12
The Dark Knight Rises — 1.2.7
Die Hard — 1.1.7
Finding Nemo — 1.2.3
The Emperor’s New Groove — 1.1.8
Ever After — 1.1.4, 1.2.7
Good Will Hunting — 2.3.7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame — 1.8.3
The Incredibles — 1.8.4, 2.2.3
The Indiana Jones movies — 2.5.5
Inside Out — 1.2.13
Kiki’s Delivery Service — 2.2.3
Knives Out — 1.7.1
Lord of the Rings trilogy — 1.1.10, 1.2.3, 1.7.1, 1.7.5, 2.1.10, 2.1.12
Mean Girls — 1.2.1, 1.5.5
Napoleon — 1.1.11
A Quiet Place — 2.4.5
Rogue One — 1.2.6
The Sound of Music — 1.2.6
Succession — 1.3.3
Star Wars trilogies — 2.1.4
Tangled — 1.1.2
Zoolander — 1.3.2
TV Shows
30 Rock — 1.3.1
Andor — 1.2.6
Arrested Development — 1.5.6, 1.6.2, 2.3.2, 2.3.8
Brooklyn 99 — 1.5.10, 1.6.2
The Good Place — 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.13, 1.1.14, 1.2.1, 1.5.3, 1.7.8
The Mandalorian — 2.3.11
The Office — 2.1.4
Old Enough! — 2.3.3, 2.3.8
Parks and Recreation — 1.3.1, 1.3.7, 2.3.8
Reading Rainbow — 2.4.3
Succession — 1.5.13
Twin Peaks — 1.2.1
Musicals
For what I hope are obvious reasons, I will not track references I make to Les Misérables the musical.
Cats — 1.2.11
Chicago — 1.5.12
Grease — 1.3.2
Hamilton — 1.1.2
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — 2.3.8
The Music Man — 1.1.7
The Phantom of the Opera — 2.5.6
Songs
“There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” — 2.1.17
“Waterloo” — 2.1.3
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” — 1.3.1
Poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 — 1.7.1
Paintings
Jean Honoré Fragonard, “The Swing” — 1.3.4
People Quoted/Referred To
The Buddha — 1.1.14
Martin Luther King, Jr. — 1.1.10
Karl Marx — 1.1.8
Max Verstappen — 2.1.10
Video Games
Animal Crossing: New Horizons — 1.1.6