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Dune related "in-jokes"

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Major_Gilbear

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Hmm, well I came across this by accident, and is extremely obscure, so be warned.

I was looking for a very old game called "A Boy and his Blob", in which you guide your character through the game with the aid of a blob. Said blob turns into various tools to help you complete the levels, and does this via the use of jellybeans that you collect and feed to him at the opportune moment.

The jellybeans are flavoured according to a loose association with their function: Tangerine turns him into a trampoline, apple turns him into a jack (as in apple jack), and so on. There is also a cinnamon flavoured jellybean turns him into a blowtorch.  ;D

As I said, the cinnamon/blowtorch is obscure, but I cannot see how it could possibly refer to anything else.

Major_Gilbear

Major_Gilbear

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The Sandworms have that fire in them that the books allude to, and they create Spice, which apparently tastes like Cinnamon.

Since the game was released in 1989, I think it perfectly possible/likely that this is the reference.

Kiyouta

Kiyouta

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Here is a Dune releated "in-joke":

Person 1: "Waiter Waiter, there is a sand-worm in my soup..."

Person 2: "Well I don't know where it came from, they just RANDOMLY appear!"

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Now wasn't that great? To @#*!& it was!! >:(

nemafakei

nemafakei

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Both seem to stem from Homer or similar.

[hide]Blindness/Prophecy: Demodocus (Od8) and perhaps Homer himself, as well as countless other references in ancient fokelore.

Heroes in city: A good part of the Iliad[/hide]

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Nefud

Nefud

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And there's a whole book which makes jokes about Dune. Unfortunately I do not know the English title of the book, but the Hungarian is "Dinnye: Avagy a homokbolyg

Loki

Loki

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erm, how could you all miss the greatest ever??

Earth Worm JIM!!!!!!!! sorry.

the cartoon, his little doggy friend would always recite the litany of fear, ALWAYS. hehehe, great cartoon.

Mahdi

Mahdi

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Great cartoon based on a great sega game.  Just like Sonic the Hedgehog (where he and his friends were rebels in a war against Doc Robotnik.  Most violent childrens program EVER according to japanese research.)

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Dante

Dante

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Was he refering to himself, and did you get that correctly? As far as I'm aware, the Doctor in Voyager is a hologram; was he 'made' there, perhaps?

Moose212

Moose212

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yes, he is a hologram but he is refering to the first time he was activated as being born. I didn't get the exact quote, but it was something about stepping onto the sandy soil for the first time.

Tako

Tako

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how could I have mist that one?

I wach voyager all the time but and know almost every episode, could be one I mist though

question: wich episode?

Vanguard3000

Vanguard3000

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Though I don't question the reference (Mahdi has already mentioned Star Trek's tendency to sneak Dune references in), Arrakis (sometimes Al-Rakis) is a real star, which can be seen from Earth.

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