Inglourious Basterds cellar scene

Rihanna-Rude Boy

The latest single from Rihanna isn't too dissimilar to the Busy Signal track in terms of content. The remixes of the track particularly the duet with Assassin are closer to the dancehall style of Busy Signal.Interesting to note in the video how Rihanna is channeling both Keith haring and Grace Jones. The video also owes a debt to M.I.A.s work. Diplo's remix of Rude Boy refers to this.

Kung Fu

In Pulp Fiction's final scene in the coffee shop a reference is made to Jules wandering the earth like Kaine from Kung Fu. The clip shows Kaine (David Carradine) meeting with Master Po.

The Mason-Dixon line

The Mason-Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. It forms a demarcation line among four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia). In popular usage, especially since the Missouri Compromise of 1820 (apparently the first official use of the term "Mason's and Dixon's Line"), the Mason-Dixon Line symbolizes a cultural boundary between the Northern United States and the Southern United States (Dixie).

Seven Samurai trailer

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer

The Untouchables baseball bat scene

The Toolbox Murders trailer

Marilyn Monroe-The Seven Year itch

The iconic sequence from The Seven Year Itch. Recreated by Tarantino in the Jack Rabbit Slim scene in Pulp Fiction.

Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks in a promo still from GW Pabst's Pandora's Box.

Pulp Fiction intertextuality

Jules quoting from the Bible is reminiscent of Robert Mitchum's character quoting from the Bible in Night Of The Hunter (1955 Charles Laughton)

Mia's haircut styled after Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box (1928 G.W. Pabst)

The moment where Butch waiting at a crossroads in his car has his path crossed by Marcellus Wallace is a direct reference to the moment in Psycho (1960 Alfred Hitchcock) when Marion Crane sees her boss walk in front of her car after fleeing from him, having stolen $40,000.


Marilyn Monroe's skirt flying up over a subway grating in The Seven Year Itch (1955 Billy Wilder)

The weapons that Butch considers before saving Marsellus:

Hammer—The Toolbox Murders (1978)
Baseball bat—Walking Tall (1973); The Untouchables (1987)
Chainsaw—The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974);The Evil Dead II (1987)
Katana (samurai sword)—many, including Seven Samurai (1954); The Yakuza (1975); Shogun Assassin (1980)

Seinfeld-Frogger

George from Seinfeld tries to cross the road in the style of the frog from the famous video game. The birds eye view shot even replicates the view from the original game. A great example of intertextuality.

Family Guy clips

Visiting Ground Zero



Dinner With Jesus


Hitler and Eva


Three great Family Guy clips, poking fun at America and it's response to the attacks on 9/11, Jesus and also religion and finally Hitler and Eva Braun, turning their joint suicide into a little game. Family Guy is definitely a cartoon for adults and it works on differnet levels, two being its base humour and probing insight into 21st century American attitudes.