Skip to content
Pop Culture References

Pop Culture References

Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more.

Primary Menu
  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
Robert Reed and Florence Henderson Do a Double Take When They Meet on the Love Boat Robert Reed reacts to seeing Florence Henderson

Robert Reed and Florence Henderson Do a Double Take When They Meet on the Love Boat

What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 6, “Flatbush”? Loretta and Oliver talk to each other

What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 6, “Flatbush”?

Don’t Form Opinions Based on Headlines

Don’t Form Opinions Based on Headlines

What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 5, “Tongue Tied”? Howard introduces LESTR

What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 5, “Tongue Tied”?

Did Robert Redford Really Play High School Baseball With Don Drysdale? Robert Redford in the Natural

Did Robert Redford Really Play High School Baseball With Don Drysdale?

Trending

Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie? 1

Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie?

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars? 2

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars?

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship? 3

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship?

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space? 4

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space?

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’? 5

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’?

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs 6

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs

Pop Culture Wake-Up Call – Friday I’m In Love 7

Pop Culture Wake-Up Call – Friday I’m In Love

Robert Reed and Florence Henderson Do a Double Take When They Meet on the Love Boat Robert Reed reacts to seeing Florence Henderson

Robert Reed and Florence Henderson Do a Double Take When They Meet on the Love Boat

In the latest Meta-Messages, we see how Robert Reed and Florence Henderson reacted when seeing each other on The Love Boat.
Read More
What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 6, “Flatbush”? Loretta and Oliver talk to each other

What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 6, “Flatbush”?

Brian shares the opening title Easter Eggs from the sixth episode of the fifth season of the hit Hulu TV series, Only Murders in the Building, "Flatbush."
Read More
Don’t Form Opinions Based on Headlines

Don’t Form Opinions Based on Headlines

Brian explains why you simply cannot form opinions based on headlines.
Read More
What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 5, “Tongue Tied”? Howard introduces LESTR

What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 5, “Tongue Tied”?

Brian shares the opening title Easter Eggs from the fifth episode of the fifth season of the hit Hulu TV series, Only Murders in the Building, "Tongue Tied."
Read More
Did Robert Redford Really Play High School Baseball With Don Drysdale? Robert Redford in the Natural

Did Robert Redford Really Play High School Baseball With Don Drysdale?

In honor of the passing of the iconic actor, I revisit an old legend I did on whether Robert Redford actually played baseball with Don Drysdale in high school
Read More
TV Needs to Drop the Whole ‘You’re Right Every Time, But This Time We Doubt You’ Deal Morgan contemplates a case

TV Needs to Drop the Whole ‘You’re Right Every Time, But This Time We Doubt You’ Deal

Brian pokes some fun at shows where the police all continue to doubt the detective who is always right about their cases.
Read More
What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 4, “Dirty Birds”? The gang reads a text message

What Was the Opening Title Easter Egg in Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 4, “Dirty Birds”?

Brian shares the opening title Easter Eggs from the fourth episode of the fifth season of the hit Hulu TV series, Only Murders in the Building, "Dirty Birds."
Read More
Regis and Kathie Lee Can’t Figure Out if It’s Cool for Bronson Pinchot to Talk About How Big His Co-Star’s Breasts Are Bronson Pinchot talks about his co-star's breasts

Regis and Kathie Lee Can’t Figure Out if It’s Cool for Bronson Pinchot to Talk About How Big His Co-Star’s Breasts Are

Brian shares the time that Regis and Kathie Lee didn't know what to do with Bronson Pinchot talking about his co-star's breasts
Read More
The First Three Only Murders In The Building Season Five Opening Title Easter Eggs The cast of Only Murders in the Building Season 5

The First Three Only Murders In The Building Season Five Opening Title Easter Eggs

The openings of each episode of Only Murders in the Building all have Easter Eggs. Here are the first three of Season 5!
Read More
‘We Decided to Make Season Three of And Just Like That the End…And Not Tell The Actors’ The cast of Sex and the City and Just Like That

‘We Decided to Make Season Three of And Just Like That the End…And Not Tell The Actors’

Brian explains how absurd the explanation being give for the finale of And Just Like That is.
Read More

Posts pagination

1 2 3 4 … 140 Next

Recent Comments

  • Brian Cronin on How Bob Dylan Let Sinead O’Connor Down At His 1992 Tribute Concert
  • Brian Cronin on Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’?
  • Frankie on Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’?
  • Michael Swaine on How Bob Dylan Let Sinead O’Connor Down At His 1992 Tribute Concert
  • Michael Charles on When Did Hill Street Blues Jump the Shark?

If you’re interested in any of the shows, albums or movies I mention, you can help support the site by buying them via the Amazon ad links in the articles. You can also support the site by using the ad links to then purchase other items. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Archives

Click here to see our twice-weekly update of a master archive of TV shows and when they jumped the shark (if they did jump the shark at all)

Categories

  • A Wall Between Us
  • Abandoned an' Forsaked
  • Abandoned Love
  • Ain't No Accident
  • All a Big Joke
  • All I Really Want to Do
  • All the Best Things
  • Allow Me One More Chance
  • And Of Course
  • Announcements
  • Archie Sundays
  • Back Door Blues
  • Classic 1950s TV Christmas
  • Classic 1960s TV Christmas
  • Classic 1970s TV Christmas
  • Could Have Done Better
  • Cover Up
  • Cronin Theory of Pop Culture
  • Disgrace Distract and Bother Me
  • Don't Got No Sports
  • Don't I Know Your Name?
  • Drawing Crazy Patterns
  • Foggy Ruins of Time
  • Following a Star
  • Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
  • Gonna Make a Change
  • How Can I Explain?
  • I Ain't Looking to Advertise You
  • I Can't Cross Over
  • I Know Every Scene By Heart
  • I Love Ya But You're Strange
  • I Saw It Advertised One Day
  • I've Been Here Before
  • Inside the Museums
  • Just a Reminder
  • Just Can't Jump It
  • Just Like the Time Before
  • Knowledge Waits
  • Legends Revealed
  • Me – I Expected it to Happen
  • Meta-Messages
  • Moves Too Fast
  • My Name It is Nothin'
  • Never Did Plan
  • Nothing Was Delivered
  • Only Passing Through
  • Parents Who Provide
  • Politics of Ancient History
  • Pop Culture Easter Eggs
  • Pop Culture Questions Answered
  • Pop Culture References Advent Calendar
  • Pop Culture References Dictionary
  • Pop Culture References Tournament
  • Pop Culture Reviews
  • Pop Culture Theme Time
  • Pop Culture Wake-Up Call
  • Prophesizing with the Pen
  • Pull Back the Curtain
  • Put Back the Cover
  • Quite a Story
  • Reason to get Excited
  • Remember to Forget
  • See the Meaning
  • Somewheres in This Universe
  • Speak of the Future
  • Spread the News
  • Suddenly Sondheim
  • The Past Was Close Behind
  • The Way You Talk
  • Theme of a Melody
  • Things That Turned Out Bad
  • This Album Is Good
  • This Movie Is Good
  • To Quote a Phrase
  • Too Much Information About Nothin'
  • Took Me By Surprise
  • Top Five
  • TV Bingo
  • Uncategorized
  • We Better Talk This Over
  • What It's All About
  • When We First Met
  • Won't Repeat That Mistake
  • World of Mystery
  • Written in the Book
  • You Act Like We Never Have Met
Copyright © Brian Cronin All rights reserved.