#beverly lasalle

[mattachineparty]

Those were the days: In 1975, Norman Lear created the character of Beverly LaSalle (played by San Francisco performer Lori Shannon, née Don Seymour McLean). Appearing in a trilogy of "All In The Family" episodes, Beverly proved to be a formidable foil to lovable bigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) and a dear friend to his just-plain-lovable wife Edith (Jean Stapleton). In her final appearance in 1977, Beverly's senseless murder inspires a crisis of faith in Edith.

#mattachine #john cameron mitchell #amber martin #angela di carlo #julius' bar #nyc #dance party #hedwig #shortbus #paul dawson #all in the family #norman lear #carroll o'connor #jean stapleton #1975 #1976 #1977 #trans #lori shannon #beverly lasalle #Archie bunker

[mercedesvince]

Hello I’m Vince!!

I am a writer who is open to writing requests for x reader

Just a heads up that English is not my first language so apologies for any grammar or wrong use of words :(

RULES

This is meant to be a blog for x male or non-binary x readers

I will not write for female readers as of now (but might change in future)

I will only write for series listed below

no smut (I am not comfortable with that)

There are characters listed below underage, all characters will at least be aged up to teenagers, but even so I will only go as far as kissing

I will not write any sort of NSFW for any character under 18 (what i mean when i say NSFW I mean in a sexual way, things like cussing or slight violence I can do)

I can write angst, fluff or both

If you see a mistake in my writing please inform me on it so I can improve in future :)

If i missed a TW or you notice something i should let the readers know before reading PLEASE let me know, i’d hate for someone to be negatively affected by my writing

Please be nice and respect everybody and there wishes!!

SERIES & CHARACTER I WILL WRITE FOR

(If there is a character I have missed that is not on the list for a specific series and you would like a x reader for please ask and I will let you know whether or not I can write for them :))

South Park

Stan Marsh

Kyle Broflovski

Kenny McCornmick

Eric Cartman

Butters

Tolkien Black

Wendy Testaburger

Bebe Stevens

Heidi Turner

Criminal Minds

Spencer Reid

Aaron Hotchner

Derek Morgan

Emily Prentis

Jason Gideon

Jennifer Jareau

Penelope Garcia

David Rossi

Elle Greenaway

Matthew Simmons

Like Alvez

Kate Callahan

Tara Lewis

Sam Cooper

Gina LaSalle

Beth Griffin

Jonathan Simms

Mick Rawson

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Scott Pilgrim

Ramona Flowers

Envy Adams

Knives Chau

Kim Pine

Julie Powers

Wallace Wells

Lucas lee

Gideon Graves

Matthew Patel

Todd Ingram

Young Neil

Roxy Ritcher

Stacy Pilgrim

Stephen Stills

My Hero Academia

Disclaimer I have not watched the series recently, so I do not have everything up to date and can only write up to season 4 :(

Anyone from Class 1A

Anyone from Class 1B

Any Pro Hereos

Any Villians

Mirio Togata

Nejire Hado

Tamaki Amajiki

Saiki K.

Kusuo Saiki

Shun Kaido

Aren Kuboyasu

Aiura Mikoto

Kokomo Teruhashi

Reita Tortisuka

Riki Nendo

Kineshi Hairo

Chiyo Yumehara

Metori Saiko

Chisato Mera

Hunter X Hunter

Disclaimer I am only caught up on the series not the manga

Gon Freecss

Killua Zoldyck

Kurapika

Leorio Paradinight

Hisoka Morrow

Chrollo Lucifer

Any Phantom Troupe Memebers

Ging Freecss

Any Zodiac members

Kite

ROTTMNT

Leonardo

Raphael

Michelangelo

Donatello

April O’neil

Stranger Things

Eleven

Mike Wheeler

Will Byers

Dustin Henderson

Lucas Sinclair

Max mayfield

Steve Harrington

Eddie Munson

Nancy Wheeler

Robin Buckley

Jonathan Byers

IT

Disclaimer I have been trying my best to see the second movie but I have only managed to watch the first so I can only write for things relevant in the first movie :(

Stanley Uris

Ben Hanscom

Beverly Marsh

Bill Denbrough

Richie Tozier

Eddie Kaspbrak

SPIDERVERSE

Miles Morales (earth 1610 & earth 42)

Gwen Stacy

Peter B. Parker

Jessica Drew

Miguel O’hara

Hobie Brown

Pavitr Prabhakar

Spider Noir

Penny Parker

MASTERLIST LINK

This Masterlist includes all works i’ve written on this blog so far!

That is all for now! Thank you so much for reading and feel free to request, I am new to tumblr so please feel free to let me know if I need to add or be more specific on something :))

#south park #south park x male reader #south park x reader #criminal minds #criminal minds x male reader #scott pilgram vs the world #mha #saiki k #hunter x hunter #rottmnt #stranger things #it #it x male reader #into the spider verse #beyond the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #spiderverse x male reader

[elcomfortador]

Archie Bunker Goes to a Gay Bar

“The Boys’ Night Out” (February 13, 1983)

More than a hundred episodes later (of All in the Family but also of this podcast), we return to the Archie Bunker primary universe to find out if everyone's favorite bigot got over his homophobia. The answer: kind of? But that is probably just the result of season after season of broadcast TV sanding off his rougher edges.

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Media of note:

The Hollywood Reporter interview with Norman Lear about Carol O'Connor 

Washington Post article on the cancelation of Archie Bunker's Place 

The “Night of a Thousand Stars” video 

Beverly LaSalle, RIP (part one) as explained by the Totally Trans podcast

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#lgbt #gay #television #tv #sitcom

[latribune]

[cropswapla]

Sunday, 9/11 was the official opening day for our second microfarm, LaSalle! Homeowner Ms. Beverly invited her family and we had a wonderful celebration. Photo: Ms Beverly (left) CSLA Founder, Jamiah Hargins (right)

#agriculture #farming #vegetables #farmers #food justice #lasalle

[96thdayofrage]

A pair of true crime TV series, one about women murdered in Chicago and another about a triple murder in LaSalle County, make for worthwhile if difficult viewing, sorting through the failures of law enforcement and the criminal justice system.

On Discovery+, the three-part “Hunt for the Chicago Strangler” may have an artless news magazine format, but it’s a more sensitive project than its lurid title suggests. Narrated by the actress Tonya Pinkins (a Chicago native), the series centers on the murders of more than 50 women, most of them Black, who were found strangled on the South and West Sides over the past two decades. Their murders remain unsolved.

States attorney Kim Foxx is among those interviewed: “You’re talking about women who were thrown in the trash, who were found in abandoned buildings. Horrors that were just blips in the news, if at all.” Is this the work of a serial killer? Why do these cases remain open, the series asks, and how has apathy from police and the news media played into that?

The show has made some smart decisions about who it seeks out for context, including “Hood Feminism” author Mikki Kendall who recalls: “When I first heard about it, it almost sounded like an urban legend. There’s no way multiple Black girls have been found in alleys, killed in similar ways, and no one’s looking for them.” Her blunt assessment confronts the ways racism is at work. “One of the things that I think is important to understand about the stories of these women is that, largely, they are in neighborhoods that the city has neglected,” she says. “And then you say, ‘Well, we don’t know why these things are happening here.’ Yes, you do. Because you essentially created the perfect place to get away with murder.” Later, she concludes: “Chicago is my home. It is also a home that doesn’t love me back.”

Or as the activist and writer Beverly Reed-Scott describes the city’s intentional disinvestment in Black communities: “You look up one day and the neighborhood that you loved is hollow.” She pauses. There’s so much pain in this moment.

“The Hunt for the Chicago Stranger” is strongest when it centers the families of the murdered women. Their grief is raw, as is their exhausted anger. Angela Ford died in 2001, after setting out one day to pick up her children’s report cards from school. According to her father, Riley Ford, after her death the family encountered a revolving door of detectives. “Every time we talked to one, they know less about the case. Or cared less about the case, I don’t know.”

[tvguidancecounselor]

TV Guidance Counselor Episode 464: Phillip Iscove

This week Ken welcomes co-creator of Sleepy Hollow and co-host of Podcast like it's 1999 Phil Iscove to the show.

Ken and Phil discuss escaping the North East, growing up in Toronto, CTV, ER, The George Clooney narrative, people the Networks Love, Felicity, Owen Wilson, The Minus Man, Janeane Garofalo, Clay Pigeons, the 90s low point of SNL, bad 90s suits, Swingers, film festivals, indie movies, horror films, Eric Lasalle, Anthony Edwards, gore on TV, Michael Crichton, pulp, being the Stephen King of medical fiction, West World, Spielberg, Disclosure, evergreen genres, why latex gloves are the hardest park of medical acting, USA Network, 1999, grids, Awards Season, Blue Collar Shows, Werewolf, the early days of Fox, Married...with Children, why simple premises are best, The Simpsons, Fish Police, Melrose Place, why apartments are every writer's dream, The WB, high school years, UPN having no identity, Beavis and Butthead, wish fulfillment, Ren & Stimpy, Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, Chicago Hope, Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story starring Patsy Kensit, tactical werewolves in Full Eclipse, Tim Daly, Beverly Hills 90210 and the Flaming Lips, having your favorite band on your show, Ken's weird phone, Bjork, John Noble, hierarchy of fandom, one Great White Shark, Antonio Sabato Jr hosting The Hunt for Amazing Treasures, The X-Files, Sightings, the difficulty of juggling serialization and episodic stories, having no plan, and Chuck Connors as a werewolf sea captain with a pipe.

Check out this episode!

[mrboogie365]

Joe D Sexy Southern Soul Singer.mp4 from JBoogie365 on Vimeo.

The Southern Soul singer, Joe D, was born in Autaugaville Alabama and raised in Montgomery Alabama as Joseph F. DeRamus who grew up singing in the AME Church while watching his mother sing and direct the choir. At an early age, he knew he wanted to sing. As a result of these deep gospel roots and a love for singing, he also continues to sing in church. He was influenced and often imitated the sounds of the Isley Brothers, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Al Green, Johnny Taylor, and Luther Vandross. As a young adult, Joe D would perform at various festivals as a member of The Regency Band. They were the opening act for stars like Peabo Bryson, Denise LaSalle, and Tony Terry. His sensual and smooth groove lyrics are written to create a relaxing atmosphere for adult listeners. He has something for those who are relaxing alone, chilling with a significant other or simply wanting to dance.

[oldmotors]

#TBT today to 2017 and this gorgeous customized ‘65 #BuickRiviera. The original Riviera is one of Buick’s most famous cars, but actually didn’t start out as a Buick at all. A sleek, razor-edged shape that could legitimately feel as at home on the Côte d'Azur or Beverly Hills as it did in Detroit, the ‘63 Riviera was a masterpiece - and originally an idea for Cadillac. But Cadillac demurred and it was offered to all four other car divisions before Buick GM Ed Rollert enlisted the help of ad agency @mccann_mw to secure it for Buick - it almost didn’t happen. The story starts in 1959. As soon as the 4-seat Ford Thunderbird hit the market, GM dealers started crying to have one of their own. Early in 1959 new style chief Bill Mitchell assigned special projects man Ned Nickles - recently having finished the Corvair - to design such a car for Cadillac. Nickles’ design intentionally referenced the 1939 LaSalle in the details, but the shape spare, clean, and strikingly modern. Codenamed XP-715, it wore LaSalle badges for Cadillac’s review. Cadillac, selling everything it could build and still feeling raw after the Eldorado Brougham’s poor sales, wasn’t interested. Mitchell then took the design to Chevrolet - where Bunkie Knudsen passed on it too. It was then offered to the B-O-P divisions. Buick wanted it as-is, Olds and Pontiac did not, but the 14th Floor made the divisions compete and give marketing presentations for it. Thanks to McCann’s help, Rollert’s pitch for Buick got the nod. The Riviera was a cut above the T-bird in many ways - and a style standout. Buick, with sales flagging since 1958, needed a hit and got one, sort of. It never sold as well as the T-bird, but generated showroom traffic and attention. For the first 3 seasons, it stayed true to the original design - 1965 was arguably the cleanest of all and closest to the original concept. It revived Nickles’ original hidden headlamp pods, nods to the ‘39 LaSalle grill. It was also the fastest; with the optional GS package packing a Super Wildcat 425 pushing the Riv to 60 mph in 7 seconds - blinding speed for a big car then. The original gave way to a less classic, but better-selling, look in ‘66. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEHyRUClye2/?igshid=a37pdyb3n8g

#tbt #buickriviera

[couchcushings]

I was tagged by @majora-the-trekking-hobbit and tumblr actually managed to notify me of it at a normal time!! Thanks, hun c:

Rules: write your 10 favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 different people.

1) Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - I love her in the movies AND the books. Jane Marple is the definition of badass and she’s eight if she’s a day and love she fluffy pink knitting c:

2) Elizabeth Swan (POTC) - ALL HAIL THE PIRATE KING!

3) Lucy Pevensy (Narnia Series) - The youngest of the Daughters of Eve and by far the most wise, gentle personal who ever graced Narnia’s shores. She’s major faith goals tbh

4) Belle (BATB, not the new movie) - A girl who loves books AND doesn’t judge them by their covers? Perfect.

5) Mina Harker (Dracula) - Vampire hunting badass who’s dedicated to her husband and her cause. I hate that so many of the movies make her out to be weak. They clearly didn’t understand the source material.

6) Precious Ramotswe (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) - Precious has been through a lot and, in the books, still goes through a lot. But she survives it all with grace (the virtue and her business partner Grace Matakone) and shows kindness and mercy to everyone who crosses her threshold. She’s a mother, a businesswomen, and wife and juggles the three like a boss. Honestly, the books feel like summer and I recommend them to anyone who needs a break from the cold.

7) Marya aka The White Russian (Hogan’s Heroes) - DARLING! Marya is so over the top and confident and she has the world (and Lebeau) wrapped around her little finger. She’s fab af and I love Nita Talbot with my whole heart!!

8) Jane Angelica Thrift (F-Troop) - Janie knows what she wants (Cpt. Wilton Parmenter) and she goes for it! A side note of badassery: Melody Patterson was 15 when she was cast as Janie. She faked her age and lied to the studio for almost a year and they only found out because one of her high school teachers visited the set.

9) Margret Houlihan (M*A*S*H) - I love Margret. She’s so strong and so unsure of herself at the same time and it’s really encouraging to watch someone who has such a strong veneer of strength on the surface grow until she’s strong all the way through

10) The Entire Female Cast (Yancy Derringer) - I’m 100% sure you haven’t heard of this show and I’m sorry for you. There are so many strong female characters. There’s Madame Francine who owns and runs her own gambling club, was once a Pinkerton agent, knows her way around the gun, and doesn’t take any shit from the titular character. She has several female dealers who are all named after various gemstones and other precious things (Pearl-Girl, Goldie, Crystal, etc. etc.) who all have distinct personalities despite only have a small amount of scree time. 

Mei-ling Mandarin runs and owns the Sazarac Club, shuts down trouble makers (like Yancy) all on her own despite being maybe five feet tall, and shuts down Yancy’s romantic advances while still maybe bailing him out of jail for a midnight booty call supper.

Coco LaSalle is a French river pirate (played by one of my forever faves, Beverly Garland) who effortlessly commands an entire island of other pirates. The first time we see her, Yancy kisses her had and she slaps him and says: “You’ll kiss me when I tell you too--and it’d won’t be on the hand.” No one dares defy her. (I don’t blame them)

I could LITERALLY go one forever about the ladies in this show, but that would take an entirely separate post so for now I’ll just give honorable mentions to Franny Fine and Laura Holt and tag: @liggytheauthoress, @justastormie, @rynnwolfe, @doctor-harrison-wells, @herbertwestapologist, @ufonaut, and anyone else who wants to play!!

#tag games #about #hi i love yancy derringer and i Have Links #please excuse me i'm literally the only one in the fandom and I have to talk abt it somewhere #never ask me about pahoo you will never hear the end of it

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1. Driving west at sunset in the summer: blinded by the sun, you cannot see the cars ahead; the ugly warehouses and body shops are blazing orange. When the sun sets, everything becomes deeper: the brick facades acquire a bluish hue; there are charcoal smudges of darkness on the horizon. The sky and the city look endless. West is everywhere you look. 2. The way people in the winter huddle together under the warming lights of the Granville El stop, much like young chickens under a lightbulb. It is an image of human solidarity enforced by the cruelty of nature, the story of Chicago and of civilization. 3. The American vastness of the Wilson Street beach, gulls and kites coasting above it, dogs sprinting along the jagged waves, barking into the void, city kids doing homemade drugs, blind to the distant ships on their mysterious ways from Liverpool, England, to Gary, Indiana. 4. Early September anyplace in the city, when the sunlight angles have abruptly changed and everything and everyone appears better, all the edges softened; the torments of the hot summer are now over, the cold torments of the winter have not begun, and people bask in the perishable possibility of a kind and gentle city. 5. The basketball court at Foster Street beach, where I once watched an impressively sculpted guy play a whole game—dribbling, shooting, arguing, dunking—with a toothpick in his mouth, taking it out only to spit. For many years he was to me the hero of Chicago cool. 6. The tall ice ranges along the shore when the winter is exceptionally cold and the lake frozen for a while, so ice pushes ice against the land. One freezing day I stood there in awe, realizing that the process exactly replicates the way mountain ranges were formed hundreds of millions of years ago, tectonic plates pushing against each other. The primeval shapes are visible to every cranky driver plowing through the Lake Shore Drive mess, but most of them look ahead and couldn’t care less. 7. Looking directly west at night from any Edgewater or Rogers Park high-rise; airplanes hover and glimmer above O’Hare. Once, my visiting mother and I spent an entire evening sitting in the dark, listening to Frank Sinatra, watching the planes, which resembled stunned fireflies, transfixed with the continuous wonder that this world is. 8. The blessed scarcity of celebrities in Chicago, most of whom are overpaid athlete losers. Oprah, one of the Friends, and many other people whose names I never knew or now cannot recall have all left for New York or Hollywood or rehab, where they can wear the false badge of their humble Chicago roots, while we can claim them without actually being responsible for the vacuity of their front-page lives. 9. The Hyde Park parakeets, miraculously surviving brutal winters, a colorful example of life that adamantly refuses to perish, of the kind of instinct that has made Chicago harsh and great. I actually have never seen one: the possibility that they are made up makes the whole thing even better. 10. The downtown skyline at night as seen from the Adler Planetarium: lit windows within the dark building frames against the darker sky. It seems that stars have been squared and pasted on the thick wall of a Chicago night; the cold, inhuman beauty containing the enormity of life, each window a possible story, inside which an immigrant is putting in a late shift cleaning corporate trash. 11. The green-gray color of the barely foaming lake when the winds are northwesterly and the sky is chilly. 12. The summer days, long and humid, when the streets seem waxed with sweat; when the air is as thick and warm as honey-sweetened tea; when the beaches are full of families: fathers barbecuing, mothers sunbathing, children approaching hypothermia in the lake’s shallows. Then a wave of frigid air sweeps the parks, a diluvial shower soaks every living creature, and someone, somewhere loses power. (Never trust a summer day in Chicago.) 13. The highly muggable suburbanites patrolling Michigan Avenue, identifiable by their Hard Rock Café shirts, oblivious to the city beyond the shopping and entertainment areas; the tourists on an architectural speedboat tour looking up at the steep buildings like pirates ready to plunder; the bridges’ halves symmetrically erected like jousting pricks; the street performer in front of the Wrigley Building performing “Killing Me Softly” on the tuba. 14. The fact that every year in March, the Cubs fans start saying: “This year might be it!”—a delusion betrayed as such by the time summer arrives, when the Cubs traditionally lose even a mathematical possibility of making it to the play-offs. The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf. 15. A warm February day when everyone present at my butcher shop discussed the distinct possibility of a perfect snowstorm and, in turn, remembered the great snowstorm of 1967: cars abandoned and buried in the snow on Lake Shore Drive; people trudging home from work through the blizzard like refugees; the snow on your street up to the milk truck’s mirrors. There are a lot of disasters in the city’s memory, which result in a strangely euphoric nostalgia, somehow akin to a Chicagoan’s respect for and pride in “those four-mansion crooks who risk their lives in crimes of high visibility” (Bellow). 16. Pakistani and Indian families strolling solemnly up and down Devon on summer evenings; Russian Jewish senior couples clustering on Uptown benches, warbling gossip in soft consonants against the blare of obsolete transistor radios; Mexican families in Pilsen crowding Nuevo Leon for Sunday breakfast; African American families gloriously dressed for church, waiting for a table in the Hyde Park Dixie Kitchen; Somali refugees playing soccer in sandals on the Senn High School pitch; young Bucktown mothers carrying yoga mats on their back like bazookas; the enormous amount of daily life in this city, much of it worth a story or two. 17. A river of red and a river of white flowing in opposite directions on Lake Shore Drive, as seen from Montrose Harbor at night. 18. The wind: the sailboats in Grant Park Harbor bobbing on the water, the mast wires hysterically clucking; the Buckingham Fountain’s upward stream turned into a water plume; the windows of downtown buildings shaking and thumping; people walking down Michigan Avenue with their heads retracted between their shoulders; my street completely deserted except for a bundled-up mailman and a plastic bag fluttering in the barren tree-crown like a torn flag. 19. The stately Beverly mansions; the bleak Pullman row houses; the frigid buildings of the LaSalle Street canyon; the garish beauty of old downtown hotels; the stern arrogance of the Sears Tower and the Hancock Center; the quaint Edgewater houses; the sadness of the West Side; the decrepit grandeur of the Uptown theaters and hotels; the Northwest side warehouses and body shops; thousands of empty lots and vanished buildings no one pays any attention to and no one will ever remember. Every building tells part of the story of the city. Only the city knows the whole story. 20. If Chicago was good enough for Studs Terkel to spend a lifetime in, it is good enough for me.

“Reasons Why I Do Not Wish to Leave Chicago: An Incomplete, Random List“ from The Book of My Lives, Aleksander Hemon

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10 Quotes From All In The Family That Are Still Hilarious Today

Very few shows have impacted audiences as much as All In The Family did. The series, which spawned numerous spinoffs, featured lots of extremely serious topics, which is why it is still talked about so much today.

But part of what made the show so great and memorable was the humor. Each of the characters were funny and charming in their own ways. There were many times during which this show took something that wasn’t very funny and added a little bit of humor to it. Here are some of the best lines that can be heard in the show All In The Family.

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10 “Next Time You Want To Time Something, Edith, Just Let The Sand Run Out Of Your Head.”

Archie Bunker says this to his wife, Edith, in the episode that is called “Cousin Maude’s Visit.” Anyone who has spent much time watching this show knows that one of the main themes of it is Archie’s jokes about Edith’s intelligence.

Edith definitely has a heart of gold, and there are many episodes during which she is the voice of reason, but sometimes she isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, which is why Archie says things like this to her. This episode is actually full of hilarious quotes from all of the main characters, since many of them are sick and in need of Edith’s care and attention.

9 “Well You Don’t Work, Maybe We’d Better Throw You Out.”

This quote is one of many jokes about the fact that throughout much of the series, Michael Stivic does not have a job. In one of the episodes of All In The Family, he and Archie are talking about politics, which is something they discuss a lot on the show, and Michael says something about how people no longer try to fix things if they are broken.

He claims that most people would rather throw that thing out and replace it than spend time trying to fix it. This prompts Archie to ask suggest that they should throw Michael himself out since he doesn’t work.

8 “Anybody That Goes To See A Psychiatrist Ought To Have His Head Examined.”

This is one of the many humorous things Archie says in an episode called “Edith Flips Her Wig,” which is the sixth episode of the third season of All In The Family. This episode focuses on the fact that Edith gets blacklisted from a store she regularly visits because she accidentally ran out of store before paying for something she was looking at, which was a wig.

Gloria and Michael believe that she should visit a psychiatrist, but Archie doesn’t think she needs to. He believes that it’s a bad idea, which is why he says this quote. In the end, the whole thing turned out to be a big misunderstanding, and Edith is once again allowed to shop at that store.

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7 “I Think I Would Have Rather Have Drowned.”

This quote is one of Edith’s lines in the episode titled “The Bunkers And The Swingers.” During this episode, Edith decides that she would like more friends to hang out with, so she answers a personal advertisement she sees in a magazine.

But what she does not realize is that the people who paid for the advertisement are looking for much more than a couple of friends. Edith invites them to visit, and she and Archie are rather horrified when they find out what the couple’s intentions are. The other couple tell Archie and Edith that their lifestyle saved them, and they felt as though they were drowning, and that is when Edith says that she would have preferred to drown.

6 “Well, I Liked Being Called A ‘Goddess Of Beauty,’ But Somehow It Seemed More Permanent When Your Father Called Me A Dingbat.”

During an episode called “Archie Is Jealous,” Gloria asks her mother why she chose to marry Archie over someone else that she once dated, and this quote is her reply. The whole episode is about Archie being jealous over a man that Edith was romantically involved with before the two of them were married.

At the beginning of it, Archie comes across a love letter Michael wrote for Gloria, which prompts Edith to tell him that she once spent an entire weekend alone with another man while he was away. Though, since Edith is not a character that typically does anything questionable, it is later revealed that the whole thing was very innocent, despite what Archie thinks.

5 “That’s Right. You Contribute Deposits, He Contributes Withdrawals.”

This quote comes from Archie in an episode titled “Mike’s Appendix.” It’s another humorous joke about the fact that Michael hardly ever seems to have a job during the earlier seasons of this series.

During this episode, Michael has to have emergency surgery to remove his appendix, but the issue is that the Stivics don’t have enough money to pay for it (which is because of Michael’s lack of a job). This also an episode that tackles an important social topic, since Michael does not want a female doctor to operate on him. The ending is pretty surprising since his surgeon turns out to be a woman.

4 “Edith, Somebody’s Gotta Be Dead; That’s Life.”

Archie says this to Edith in the episode titled “Archie And The Computer.” The whole episode is about how technology is taking over jobs that used to be held by human beings, and Archie is mistakenly declared dead due to a technological glitch.

Another accident similar to that one causes a company to start sending Edith lots of quarters, which Archie thinks she should keep, even though it is a mistake. During this episode, Archie explains to Edith that death is a part of life, but of course he phrases it in a rather humorous way that does not make much sense.

RELATED: Scrubs: 10 Best JD Quotes

3 “Oh, Ain’t That Smart. Who Better To Impersonate A Female Than A Woman?”

One of the supporting characters in the series tries to explain their lifestyle to Edith, and she responds to them by saying this quote. That character’s name is Beverly LaSalle, and this character was actually very important on All In The Family.

Beverly was a female impersonator, and the creators of the show did a really great job of giving their audience an accurate idea of what life is like for others who are similar to Beverly. Beverly’s presence on the show forced Archie and Edith to open up their minds a bit, and they eventually become very close friends with this character. But at first, Edith had a hard time understanding what a female impersonator is, which was a rather humorous moment on the show.

2 "I Don’t Know, The Nose Is A Pretty Strong Thing. One Time I Was Changing One Of Joey’s Diapers And I Nearly Passed Out.”

This hilarious quote will always be a classic one from the show, since it is something lots of people can relate to if they have ever changed a baby’s diaper. During the episode called “Too Good Edith,” Archie says this to his niece, Stephanie, when she claims that smelling cabbage cannot cause any serious harm to a person.

But other than that, this episode is actually more touching than it is funny. Perhaps that is part of what makes the quote so funny, since it really lightens the mood up a bit. The writers of this series were great at adding humor to serious topics.

1 “Why Don’t You Go To Sleep And Dream About The Tragedy That Is Your Life?”

In the episode called “The Return Of Stephanie’s Father,” Archie says this quote to a to a vagrant they pass by when they are going to meet their niece’s dad, and the fact that it is such an unexpected line makes it so funny. This episode is another one that touches on some very sensitive topics in a way that only some of the best television shows can.

After leaving Stephanie with the Bunkers, her father returns. He asks them for money, and he threatens to take her back if they do not give it to him. They eventually reach a deal, since they love her as if she were their own daughter.

NEXT: Jurassic Snark: Dr. Ian Malcolm’s 10 Most Iconic Quotes

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Masterlist

A master list of all- and I mean all- my works thus far. I will try to update it as much as possible. So, here you go, my dears: everything I’ve ever written since the very beginning! Read away!

Supernatural

Being Protected From Metatron (Castiel)

Working out in Between Cases (Sam Winchester)

Being Teleported to Another World (Gabriel)

Getting Your Christmas Tree set on Fire (Lucifer)

Celebrating Christmas Eve (Teen!Sam & Dean Winchester)

Marvel

Teaming up With the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen (Matt Murdock)

Having Your Best Friends Fight Over You (Peter Parker/Wade Wilson)

Talking in Bad Puns (Tony Stark)

Getting Homework Help (Pietro Maximoff)

Fancy Dinner Date (Steve Rogers)

Decorating the Christmas “Tree” (Bucky Barnes)

Helping with Controlling Powers (Rogue)

Getting Cheered Up (Wade Wilson)

Laser-Tag Lock-in Double Date (Harry Osborn)

Being Best Friends With Wade & Weasel Would Include... (Weasel Hammer)

Krabby Patties (Mortimer Toynbee)

John Allerdyce Headcanon Game

Doctor Who

Travelling Time and Space (Doctor of Choice)

Bubble Tent Camping (10th Doctor)

Dancing to Christmas Carols (Captain Jack Harkness)

Dancing at a Party (9th Doctor)

DC

Gotham Villain’s Favourite Physical Trait of Yours (Preference)

Batman Trilogy Perfect Date Night (Preference)

Part 1 to a Fanfiction That Will Never Get a Part 2

Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Bruce Wayne)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Doing Research (Xander)

An Accidental Reveal (Spike)

Overprotective Sister Auntie (Spike)

Terrible Things (Spike)

Wedding Day (Spike)

Rumor Has It (Angel)

Killed by the Enemy (Spike)

Sherlock

Being the Favourite Sniper (Jim Moriarty)

Decorating a Christmas Tree (John Watson)

Your Wedding Cake (Preference)

Sherlock Holmes Headcanon Game

Riverdale

I Never Planned on You (Sweet Pea)

Houdini And Doyle

The Peculiar Case of Mr. Smith (Harry Houdini)

Criminal Minds

Being A Part of the BAU Team

Only Referring to Each Other in Nicknames (Morgan)

Bones

Examining Evidence (Zack Addy)

Taking Art Classes (Angela Montenegro)

It (1990/2017)

Beverly Marsh Headcanon Game

Pirates Of The Carribean

Sailing on the Black Pearl

Harry Potter

Going to Hogsmeade (Fred/George Weasley)

Attending the Yule Ball

Being The Fifth Marauder

Watching the Quidditch World Cup (The Weasleys)

Once Upon A Time

Being Stranded in Neverland (Peter Pan)

Being Welcomed to Neverland (Peter Pan/Felix)

Narnia

Sailing the High Seas on the Dawn Treader

Man From Uncle

Spending All of Your Time With Him (Illya Kuryakin)

Disney

Watching The Nightmare Before Christmas (Disney Descendants)

Left Behind But Not Forgotten (Gil)

Not Left Behind Anymore (Gil- Part 2 to ^)

Together At Last (Gil- 3rd and Final Part to ^^)

Interview (Harry Hook)

Memories (Gil)

Star Trek

Touring The Galaxy (Spock/Kirk/Bones)

The Mortal Instruments/ Shadowhunters

Being Magnus’ Sibling and Being In Love (Simon Lewis)

Christmas Hot Chocolate Date (Simon Lewis)

The Hunger Games

Decorating Cakes (Peeta Mellark) 

Teen Wolf

Being Asked to the Halloween Dance (Stiles)

N.C.I.S.

Going to a Shooting Range (Chris LaSalle)

Being Gibb’s Child and Secretly Dating a Coworker (Tony DiNozzo)

Van Helsing

Attending the Masquerade Ball (Dracula)

Maze Runner

Being Left in WICKED Headquarters (Newt)

Holding Out For A Hero (Newt)

Scorpion

Fixing Up Old Cars (Happy Quinn)

Broadway

Protect One Another (Newsies- Crutchie Morris)

Nonna (Newsies- Spot Conlon)

A Little Too Much (Newsies- Finch Cortes)

Crutchie Morris Headcanon Game (Newsies)

Kid Blink Headcanon Game (Newsies)

Connor Murphy Headcanon Game (Dear Evan Hansen)

Aftermath (Newsies- The Delaney Brothers)

Bets (Newsies- Sarah Jacobs)

Thank You (Newsies- Medda/Jack- written on personal)

Twin Trouble (Newsies- Mike)

Photograph (Newsies- Ike)

I, Frankenstein

Making a Christmas Sweater (Adam Frankenstein)

Stitches (Adam Frankenstein)

Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda/Love, Simon

Mistakes and Decisions (Leah Burke)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Detroit: Become Human

Emotions (Connor)

A list of fandoms I write for is here

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Visual Aid: 107 Danny Phantom Facts

So I did this again.

(It’s what keeps me occupied when my husband’s asleep and the tablet pen is charging~)

((This one was barely longer than the 10 Years Later, Part 2, but it took all day for some reason...))

Let’s get this thing started~

Hey everybody, Butch Hartman here. I am so excited today because I'm teaming up with Channel Frederator today to talk about my show, Danny Phantom. Can give you the inside scoop.

You guys remember the fandom? Are you kind of curious about the show? Well, relax, we've got something for everybody here as we talk about the 107 facts about Danny Phantom.

For example, did you know that the 2005 Michael Jackson trial was actually features on Vlad's TV on one episode? It's there.

107 Facts: Danny Phantom.

001 Danny Phantom was created by me, Butch Hartman, after I had previously worked on the Fairly Odd Parents with Nickelodeon.

002 When making the show, I drew a lot of inspiration from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ghostbusters.

003 The title Danny Phantom was inspired by the titles of 1960's cartoons like Jonny Quest. More specifically, I wanted to create a title with a real first name, followed by a last name that was also kind of an action word. Some of these alternative action words were "Danny Thunder" "Danny Lightning" and "Danny Power". "Danny Phantom" was the name I went with cause I thought it sounded the coolest.

004 Some of the alternative first names I had for our hero included "Billy Phantom", "Kenny Phantom", "Jackie Phantom", and "Davey Phantom". I think you'll agree they don't quite have the same ring as "Danny Phantom" does.

005 I came up with the concept for the show Danny Phantom while driving a moving van from Las Vegas to Los Angeles with my mother. Unfortunately, she was more fascinated by the sight of a desert tortoise, than the birth of a new, awesome Nicktoon.

006 Before settling on a superhero show, one of my first concepts for Danny Phantom was a bit more in the main Ghostbusters. It was called Danny Phantom and the Specter Detectors, and it would have focused on a powerless Danny and his friends hunting down ghosts, using an array of ghostbusters-like gadgets.

007 Danny Phantom was pitched to Nickelodeon executives over dinner. Execs treated me  after they ordered more episodes of Fairly Odd Parents, and they happened to ask me if I had any more ideas for TV shows. And, yes, being treated to nice dinners is definitely an appreciated perk.

008 There's some early concept art of Danny showing a surprising design. I originally drew him with the Superman-type body, which was basically a lot of unrealistic buff muscles. I reverted to the slimmer design when I decided it's be more interesting to portray Danny as a fourteen-year-old kid.

009 I decided Danny should be fourteen years old because that age is kind of a bridge between childhood and adulthood. It's more of a period of self-discovery which certainly fits the theme of Danny learning to live and control his ghostly abilities.

010 Danny's skinnier, final design, was the collaborative effort of character designers Steven Silver, Shannon Tyndall, and - surprise - me.

011 Unlike many other cartoon characters, Danny has five fingers. Take that Timmy Turner.

012 You may notice that when Danny goes ghost, only his hair turns white and his eyebrows stay black. They're actually meant to be white as well, but we all thought the white brows made Danny look like an old man so we, uh, kept 'em.

013 Sam and Danny were originally meant to share a psychic connection, so one would know where the other one was at all times. But I scrapped this to keep things simple. Only Danny was finally to have the superpowers.

014 Danny was originally gonna have a pet owl named Spooky that would be able to track ghosts. I scrapped the concept as Harry Potter rapidly gained popularity. I  didn't want his series to be constantly compared to the boy wizard.

015 I wanted to give Danny a really cool ghost motorcycle to use as his primary means of transportation, but then I realized that giving a motorcycle was pointless because, you know, he can fly really fast.

016 The father-son duo of Jack and Danny Fenton are a reference to Jack and Danny Torrance from The Shining, which explains why Jack Fenton constantly accuses his children of being ghosts.

017 I gave Danny an older sibling because, unlike Timmy Turner, I felt that Jazz Fenton would make Danny feel less in control at home and give him somebody to contend with. I thought this lack of control would make Danny's experience with his superpowers all the more satisfying for him.

018 Jazz Fenton was named after a character in John Byrne's 1990's comic book Next Men. I always thought the name Jazz was cool.

019 Tucker Foley's name is a combination of actor and comedian Chris Tucker and Eddie Murphy's character from Beverly Hills Cop, Axel Foley.

020 Danny's teacher, Mr. Lancer, is named after a family restaurant in Burbank called, you guessed it, Lancer's.

021 Vlad Masters was originally going to be a vampire, but Nickelodeon execs thought making him a Vampire could lead to some pretty violent territory and I thought that too. So he was changed into a ghost.

022 A remnant of this scrapped concept can be found in his villain name "Vlad Plasmius". Plasma is found in blood which, you know, vampires kind of have a thirst for.

023 I refer to Vlad Masters as Danny Phantom's Lex Luthor. Like Luthor, Vlad uses his wealth to exert his power, or at least some of it. He also has a personal connection to Danny that gives him the upper hand in most scenarios.

024 Danny's love interest, Paulina Sanchez, is a parallel to Superman's love interest, Lois Lane. Both characters have no romantic interest in the protagonist because they have a crush on the protagonist's superhero alter ego. Lois loves Superman, but not Clark Kent, and Paulina loves Danny Phantom, but not Danny Fenton. Paulina: But you still have no shot with me Oh, the cruel irony.

025 Danny's ghost sense is identical to Spiderman's spider sense. Both senses alert their respective heroes whenever danger is nearby.

026 The parallels of Spiderman don't end there. Dash Baxter is a parallel to Peter Parker's football playing bully, Flash Thompson. Not only do Flash and Dash bully the protagonists of their universes, but they idolize the protagonist's superhero alter ego without realizing the hero is actually the person they bully. Their names both words that describe their quick movement and rhyme with each other.

027 The ghosts of Danny Phantom's world aren't the spirits of the deceased as ghosts tend to be in pop culture. Instead, they're monsters from another dimension. We call them ghosts because it's easier to say and it's more appealing than saying monsters from another dimension.

028 Danny's hometown, Amity Park, is a tribute to the settings of a few famous horror stories. Amityville, Long Island is the location of the famous haunted house known as the Amityville Horror. But Amity Park is also named after Amity Island, the location of the book and Steven Spielberg film Jaws.

029 Danny's high school, Casper High, is named after Casper the Friendly Ghost. Hey, if we hadn't added all these paranormal references, you may have forgotten the show is about ghosts.

030 Quite a few key members from the Fairly Odd Parents had a hand in making Danny Phantom, including writer  Steve Marmel and art director Bob Boyle.

031 One of the major differences working on the Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom was the latter series' more serial format containing everything from character arcs to recurring story lines. Danny Phantom embraces storytelling angle by making the episodes 22 minutes long as opposed to Fairly Odd Parents whose 22 minute run time consisted of 2 eleven minute episodes.

032 One of the most challenging aspects of creating a superhero show like Danny Phantom, was giving all the superhero tropes a unique and interesting twist. We wanted to keep the series fresh an unique.

033 I originally wanted to cast a fourteen year old boy for the role of Danny, but I couldn't find anybody that sounded heroic enough. That heroic voice I searched for was ultimately provided by David Kaufman. Before playing Danny, Kaufman broke into the realm of voice acting when he played Marty McFly in Back tot he Future: The Animated Series.

034 David Kaufman kept his audition for Danny as a CD in his car that he would listen to towards the beginning of the show whenever he drove to the studio to record. He did this to remember what Danny sounded like in order to immerse himself into the character efficiently.

035 I wasn't the only one Kaufman's performance left a deep impression on. His daughter, Grace, calls him Daddy Phantom.

036 Sam Manson is played by actress Grey Griffin. I basically made an effort to include her in every show I created back then. Thus far, she's played Vicky in the Fairly Odd Parents and Kitty Katswell from T.U.F.F. Puppy.

037 Tucker isn't the first loyal friend Ricky D'Shon Collins has played. Before hunting ghosts with Danny, he helped TJ Detweiler keep balance and order on the playground as Vince LaSalle in Disney's Recess.

038 Maddie Fenton's voice actress, Kath Soucie, has essentially crafted a career out of voicing cartoon mothers. She played Dexter's mom in Dexter's Laboratory, Betty DeVille in Rugrats and Miriam Pataki in Hey Arnold.

039 Danny's father, Jack, is played by legendary voice actor Rob Paulson, who's played iconic roles like Yakko Warner, Pinky, Carl Weiser, Experiment 625, Donatello in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Raphael in the old one, and way too many more to mention here.

040 Although Mr. Lancer is far from hardcore, his voice actor, Ron Perlman, has played quite a few characters throughout his career that redefined the word, He played Hellboy in the Guillermo del Toro films of the same name and he voices Slade Wilson, also known as Deathstroke, on Teen Titans, as well as the Lich in Adventure Time.

041 Valerie Grey was originally played by Grey DeLisle for the episode My Brother's Keeper before renowned voice actress Cree Summer was chosen to take over the role. If her name doesn't sound familiar, you've probably heard her voice as Penny on Inspector Gadget or maybe even as Susie Carmicheal on Rugrats.

042 Valerie isn't the only one that's had a change in her voice. Dani, that's Dani with an I, was voiced with two different actresses through the series. She was played by AnnaSophia Robb in her debut episode Kindred Spirits. The role was then taken over by Krista Swan in the episode D-Stabilized, which was Dani's second and final speaking appearance.

043 Tara Strong plays two of the show's recurring villains: Ember McLain and Penelope Spectra. This is definitely not the first time I've worked with her. You probably know her best as Timmy Turner in the Fairly Odd Parents, which proves she can effectively play both the hero and the villain.

044 Every celebrity guest in the show was cast as a ghost, similar to how celebrity guests would play villains on the 1960's Batman series starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Some of these celebrities include Particia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond as the Lunch Lady, and Matthew St. Patrick from Six Feet Under as Skulker, and Will Arnett from Arrested Development as the Ghost Writer, and Martin Mull as Vlad Plasmius.

045 These celebrity voice actors typically played their ghosts for a limited time before different voice actors took their roles. Sometimes as soon as the ghost's second appearance. Series Kath Soucie took over the role of the Lunch Lady and Kevin Michael Richardson became Skulker.

046 Tucker's dad, Maurice Foley, is voiced by Phil Lamarr who voices Hermes Conrad on Futurama and Samruai Jack on Samurai Jack.

047 Mark Hamill plays Undergrowth. He's, of course, best known for playing Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, but also as countless voice acting credits, including the Joker and Fire Lord Ozai.

048 The ghost child Youngblood was played by actor Taylor Lautner when he was just nine years old. Lautner would later be featured in everybody's favorite love story Twilight. Wait, who wrote that? Do I have to say that?

049 Danny's ultimate enemy, Dark Danny, is played by Oscar-nominated acting legend Eric Roberts. His impressive resume includes everything from the Dark Knight to the Cable Guy.

050 The first recording session for Danny Phantom took place on November 21, 2002, about a year and a half before the show premiered. The first episode to be recorded was also the first episode to air: Mystery Meat.

051 In fact, Danny Phantom premiered on April 3, 2004, right after Nickelodeon's annual Kid's Choice Awards.

052 Unlike many other animated shows, the cast of Danny Phantom recorded their dialogue in the same room together. David Kaufman described the experience as something akin to a stage play.

053 It takes the actors around 3 hours to record dialogue for a single episode. David Kaufman knows that shouting "I'm goin' ghost!" so many times made his voice hoarse by the end of the day.

054 In the episode What You Want, I voiced a football announcer that also looks a lot like me except he's, you know, a cartoon. I mean, he looks a lot more like me than Dr. Bender does. I hope.

055 The theme song we hear today wasn't the only one recorded for the show. An alternate version got so far into production that an alternate opening sequence was storyboarded all the way around it. The alternate song sounds very similar to the final product with different lyrics that focus more on explaining Danny's abilities.

056 The theme song was changed because Nickelodeon wanted it to tell Danny's origin story. This way, new views wouldn't feel alienated when watching the show for the first time no matter what episode they started out with.

057 Luckily, changing the lyrics wasn't an overly complicated, make-10-calls, logistical nightmare since I wrote the lyrics of the theme song. Both of them actually.

058 I based the show's theme song after the song The Invisible Man by Queen, one of my favorite bands.

059 One thing I learned from working on the Danny Phantom theme song is that your first idea isn't always your best idea, and to never stop pushing yourself until you've made something truly awesome. You're welcome for that halfway through burst of inspiration.

060 I also co wrote another fan favorite song Remember, performed by Ember in the episode Fanning the Flames, which also happens to be my third favorite episode. Yes, my third favorite. I am very, very specific.

061 Danny Phantom was the first show to be produced by my very own company, Billionfold Inc. which was co-founded with my wife. Billionfold comes from a biblical term, hundredfold.

062 A single episode of Danny Phantom took approximately 10 months to produce, stretching all the way from pre-production to post.

063 While the pre-production phase took place in Burbank, California, Danny Phantom's animation was done by a Korean animation studio called Rough Draft. Rough Draft's resume includes work done on other animated classics like Futurama, The Simpsons, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

064 The individual villains found within Danny Phantom's rogues gallery was based on ideas that I had. Ember McLane stemmed from a pitch regarding an episode about music fads, and the effects they have on teenagers. The Lunch Lady was generated from my very astute knowledge that students tend to hate school prepared lunched.

065 Vlad is a Green Bay Packers fanatic because Danny Phantom's story write, Steve Marmel is a cheesehead himself. We nearly got sued for this, but luckily Marmel was smart enough to make the team colors of the Danny Phantom Packers gold and green instead of green and gold.

066 One scrapped running gag Marmel wanted to incorporate was that Vlad's home would be blown up after every encounter he had with Danny, but this recurring joke was mainly lost in editing.

067 Had the series gone on, Danielle would have been taken in by the Fentons, effectively becoming the younger sister of Danny and Jazz.

068 Technus was intended to have another upgrade, Technus 3.0, in the episode Identity Crisis. The design was scrapped after we decided the upgrade didn't really fit anywhere in the episode's story.

069 The addition of Danny Phantom's logo later in the series was the suggestion of Nickelodeon executives, who thought he needed a symbol akin to heroes like Batman, Superman, and Spiderman. But perhaps more honest reason was because the execs wanted to make the hero more marketable.

070 Danny officially became 99.99% marketable in the season 2 episode, Memory Blank, in which Sam gives him his D logo.

071 The series score was composed by Guy Moon, who is also responsible for the music heard in the Fairly Odd Parents.

072 When Guy Moon and I met to discuss a soundtrack of an episode, I would usually sing over the episode in progress to give Moon an idea of how I wanted the music to sound. Moon would bring a camera to these sessions and record my, admittedly, unskilled singing to remember my instructions.

073 Not everyone can become a half ghost, half human. If Sam or Tucker had gotten caught int the middle of the Fenton's malfunctioning Ghost Portal, it would have likely killed them.

074 Wulf is fluent in Esperanto, a language created in 1887 by Dr. Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, perhaps better known by his pseudonym of Doktoro Esperanto. Esperanto was created in the hope of replacing every language in the world as the one universal language. Judging by the fact that this video is in English, you can probably guess how that plan worked out.

075 The episode titled Shades of Grey is obviously a play on Valerie's last name, but the title could have a much deeper meaning. The term "shades of grey" refers to an unclear position on the scale of good to evil, usually somewhere in between. This certainly applies to Valerie, as she doesn't necessarily fight ghosts for good or evil. but for her own personal reasons.

076 During Shades of Grey, Danny names the ghost dog Cujo. Cujo's also the name of a horror novel by Stephen King about a dog bitten by a rabid bat, which turns the dog into a cold-blooded killer.

077 The green glowing, double bladed melee weapon Maddie uses to slay the legion of Vlad's monsters in Maternal Instincts is practically identical to Darth Maul's double bladed lightsaber in Star Wars Episode One, save for the red color.

078 Because I know everyone loves multiple Episode One references, the the title of the second season's 9th episode The Fenton Menace is obviously a play on the title of everybody's favorite Star Wars film, the Phantom Menace. Yes. Everybody's favorite Star Wars film.

079 To continue the Star Wars nods, the Danny Phantom universe has its own line of popular toys called Space Wars featuring characters that resemble Chewbacca and R2D2.

080 Some of the computers in the Danny Phantom world have pears in the back of them which you probably guess was a nod to Apple computers. Timmy's dad in Fairly Odd Parents has the same symbol on his laptop.

081 Save for the creepy pictures of Maddie, the programs and icons on both Danny and Vlad's computers are exactly the same, in the exact same order.

082 Skulker's hunt for Valerie and Danny in Life Lessons closely resembles the plot of Richard Connell's famous short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Much like the story, Skulker kidnaps two very skilled humans on his property for the sole purpose of hunting what he considers to be the most challenging prey out there, or, the most dangerous game.

083 Mr. Lancer spouts the titles of books in place of shouting swear words. Some of these exclamations include The Great Gatsby, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Moby Dick, which is about as close as we'll be getting to colorful language on a Nicktoon, except for maybe Ren and Stimpy, or Rocko, or SpongeBob. We're slick here at Nickelodeon.

084 In the episode What You Want, Paulina transforms into a popular anime cat names Sayonara Pussycat, who resembles the character Hello Kitty. But Sayonara is actually a rather dramatic and final sounding word for "goodbye" in Japanese.

085 In Teacher of the Year, all 13 levels that Tucker shows Technus are based on the eight worlds from the 1990 NES classic Super Marion Bros. 3. The level 0 glitch is a reference to the infamous Minus world from the original Super Mario Bros.

086 Before sending Danny into the Ghost Zone in the episode Prisoners of Love, Tucker can be seen playing Space Invaders on his PDA.

087 Valerie Grey lives on 461 Elm Street, an obvious reference to the classic horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street. She'd probably stand more of a chance against Freddy Krueger than the other kids in the Street as well.

088 Johnny 13 and Kitty's voice actors, William Baldwin and China Phillips, are a married couple in real life. The knot has been securely tied since 1995. Way before they were cast.

089 In Fanning the Flames, Danny quips "Do you take requests? How about Beat It." in addition to telling Ember to hit the road, Danny's referencing Michael Jackson's classic song Beat It. Good one, Danny. And good one, me.

090 Michael Jackson makes a more obvious cameo in the episode Infinite Realms where he's seen in at his 2005 trial while Vlad is flipping through channels.

091 When we see Tucker's report card in What You Want, we learn that Tucker is not only highly proficient in computers, but sewing as well. If Danny ever needs a suit redesign, he who he can call. Not the Ghostbusters, they'll likely kill him. He should call Tucker.

092 The Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat from The Million Dollar Ghost are an unsubtle jab at Mystery Inc and Scooby-Doo. An additional fact fact for you guys, I actually worked for Hanna-Barbera, the animation studio that created Scooby-Doo.

093 The secret government organization dedicated to eliminating paranormal entities known as the Guys in White are obviously a parallel to the Men in Black who essentially do the same thing but with evil extraterrestrials.

094 I've gone on record saying the reason Danny is not shirtless when he's at the water park is because he gets sunburned very easily.

095 We can all infer that Sam has good taste in films. For instance, a poster for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange can be seen in her room.

096 In Memory Blank, Sam wants to see Trinity of Doom, a movie starring Femalien, the female version of Alien that’s a Predator, not a Xenomorph, you uncultured swine!, Terminatra, the female Terminator, and Nightmerica, the female version of Freddy Krueger. I'd still go see that.

097 Danny has a birthmark that's shaped like the state of Florida.

098 Timmy Turner's favorite comic book hero, The Crimson Chin, appears at the Ember concert as one of her many adoring fans in the episode Fanning the Flames. I officially sanction your conspiratorial speculations.

099 In the episode What You Want, Danny and Tucker can be seen playing an arcade machine titles Crash Nebula. Crash Nebula is one of Timmy Turner's favorite heroes of the Fairly Odd Parents. The plot thickens!

100 The cross referencing continued over into the Fairly Odd Parents, too. In Poulter Geeks, a wanted poster for Danny Phantom can be seen in the ghost hunting basement of Timmy's parents.

101 Or you guys could be thinking about this all wrong, and Danny could just be a fictional hero. In the Fairly Odd Parents Crash Nebula special, Danny can be seen on the back cover of a comic book. The truth is out there.

102 If Vlad were real, Steve Marmel would have made him the happiest half man/half ghost on the planet. The writer purchased a brick at Lambeau Field, the home of the Packers, and engraved it with "Someday I will rule - Vlad Plasmius".

103 David Kaufman's favorite episodes tend to be the ones in which Danny spends time with one particular member of his family and the plot strengthens their bond and understanding of each other. He cites the episodes Maternal Instinct and My Brother's Keeper as prime examples.

104 Like every great superhero, Danny Phantom has transcended into the realm of video games. His first outing was a Game Boy Advance adaptation of The Ultimate Enemy, a 2D side-scrolling beat-em-up ordeal.

105 The second was called Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle, which was released for both Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS and it was a side-scrolling shooter.

106 There was once a Danny Phantom themed ride at the indoor Nickelodeon Universe theme park at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Danny Phantom: Ghost Zone's design was that of an Ali Baba. In other words, it consisted of a stationary horizontal gondola with a 360 degree swinging pendulum. Unfortunately, the rise was taken down in 2015.

107 Danny Phantom ran for three season, from 2004 to 2007. A total of 53 episodes were created for the series. The news of Danny Phantom's cancellation was not well received by the fans at all. The Danny fandom took to the streets of New York City and protested outside of Nickelodeon's building to bring the ghost boy back into production. Unfortunately, to no avail. But thank you. Seriously, thank you.

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