For those so inclined, I present here all the pop culture references I’ve collected for Seasons 3 through 5 of The Prancing Pony Podcast that hasn’t already been seen in my Season 5 post.
MUSIC
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Total
38 Special
1
1
AC/DC
1
5
6
Adam Ant
1
1
Arcadia
1
1
Avenged Sevenfold
1
1
Bad Company
1
1
1
3
Baha Men
1
1
Barry White
3
2
1
6
Beach Boys
1
1
Beatles
1
4
3
8
Billy Joel
1
1
Blue Őyster Cult
1
1
Bob Dylan
0
Bob Seger
2
2
Bon Jovi
1
1
Bonnie Tyler
1
1
2
Boston
2
2
4
Bruce Springsteen
1
1
Captain and Tennille
1
1
Carole King
1
1
Cars
1
1
Cash Cash
1
1
Cher
1
1
Chris de Burgh
1
1
Christmas carols
1
1
Clash
2
1
3
Commodores
1
1
Creedence Clearwater Revival
1
1
2
Culture Club
1
1
Cure
3
3
Daniel Powter
1
1
David Bowie
2
2
Dead or Alive
1
1
Deep Purple
1
1
Def Leppard
2
3
5
Depeche Mode
3
3
Devo
1
1
2
Disney’s Haunted Mansion
2
2
Don McLean
1
1
Doors
1
1
Eagles
3
3
Eddie Rabbitt
1
1
ELO
1
1
Elvis
2
2
4
8
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1
1
Enya
2
2
Falco
1
1
Five Man Electrical Band
1
1
Five Satins
1
1
Flatbush Zombies
1
1
Fleetwood Mac
1
1
Foreigner
1
1
2
Frank Sinatra
1
1
Frank Zappa
1
1
Fred Astaire
1
1
Frozen
1
1
Garth Brooks
1
1
Genesis
1
1
3
5
George Michael
1
1
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
1
1
Gerardo
1
1
Gilbert and Sullivan
1
1
Green Day
1
1
Grover Washington, Jr.
1
1
Hall & Oates
2
2
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1
1
Herbie Hancock
1
1
Howard Jones
1
1
Huey Lewis & The News
1
1
Iron Maiden
1
1
2
Irving Berlin
1
1
Jack Black
2
2
James Taylor
1
1
Jefferson Starship
1
1
Jim Croce
1
1
Johnny Cash
1
1
2
4
Joni Mitchell
1
1
Journey
11
5
16
Judds
1
1
Juice Newton
1
1
Kajagoogoo
1
1
Kansas
1
1
Kenny Loggins
1
1
Kenny Rogers
0
Lady Gaga
0
Led Zeppelin
2
1
4
7
Lionel Ritchie
2
2
Looking Glass
1
1
Lou Reed
0
Loverboy
1
1
Madness
1
1
Madonna
1
1
Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band
2
2
Marvin Gaye
1
1
MC Hammer
1
1
Men At Work
3
1
4
Milo
2
2
Miracles
0
Moana
2
2
Modern English
1
1
Moody Blues
1
5
1
7
Morrissey
1
1
Mothers of Invention
1
1
Mötley Crüe
1
1
Motorhead
1
1
Mr. Mister
2
2
Napoleon XIV
1
1
Nat King Cole
1
1
Night Ranger
1
1
Nirvana
1
1
Oingo Boingo
2
2
Otis Redding
1
1
Pat Benatar
1
1
2
Paul McCartney
1
1
Peaches & Herb
4
4
Percy Sledge
1
1
Peter Cincotti
1
1
Peter Gabriel
2
1
3
Pilot
1
1
Pink
1
1
Pink Floyd
1
3
2
6
Player
1
1
Poison
1
1
Police
5
1
6
Prince
1
1
Purple Rain
1
1
Queen
1
1
Quiet Riot
1
1
R.E.M.
1
1
Ray Charles
1
1
Righteous Brothers
1
1
Rolling Stones
1
1
2
Romantics
1
1
Rupert Holmes
1
1
2
Rush
4
5
4
13
Sam Cooke
1
1
School House Rock
2
2
Semisonic
0
Sex Pistols
1
1
Simply Red
1
1
Smiths
1
1
Sonny & Cher
1
1
Sound of Music
2
1
3
Soup Dragons
1
1
Starship
0
Stealers Wheel
2
2
4
Steve Miller Band
1
1
Stevie Wonder
1
1
Sting
2
12
14
Strong Bad
1
1
Style Council
1
1
Styx
4
4
Supertramp
1
2
3
Talking Heads
1
1
Tears for Fears
1
1
Temptations
1
1
Tesla
1
1
They Might Be Giants
3
1
1
5
Tiffany
1
1
Tom Petty
1
1
Tommy James & The Shondells
1
1
U2
1
1
Vanilla Ice
0
West Side Story
1
1
Who
2
4
6
Willie Nelson
2
2
Xavier Rudd
1
1
Yes I’m Very Tired Now
0
ZZ Top
1
3
4
TOTAL
72
145
105
322
MOVIES
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Total
Aladdin
2
3
2
7
Alice in Wonderland
1
1
Alien
1
1
Aliens
2
2
Apocalypse Now
1
1
2
Austin Powers
1
1
2
Avengers
1
1
Back to the Future
1
1
Beauty and the Beast
1
1
2
Beetlejuice
1
1
Beowulf
1
1
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
3
2
5
Bladerunner
1
1
Blues Brothers
1
2
Bodyguard
1
1
Brave
1
1
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
1
1
Breakfast Club
1
1
Christmas Story
1
3
5
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1
1
Dark Crystal
1
1
Despicable Me
1
1
Dune
2
4
3
12
Emperor’s New Groove
2
2
Exorcist
1
1
Far and Away
1
1
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
2
3
5
12
Fifty Shades of Grey
1
1
Fight Club
3
3
Fly
1
1
Forrest Gump
1
Frozen
1
1
2
Galaxyquest
6
9
2
20
Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1
1
Ghostbusters
1
1
3
6
Grease
2
Highlander
3
2
1
6
History of the World: Part 1
2
2
Hope and Crosby Road movies
1
1
How to Train Your Dragon
1
Hunt for Red October
1
1
Incredibles
2
2
Independence Day
2
2
Indiana Jones movies
4
2
6
Ireland
1
1
IT
1
1
It’s a Wonderful Life
1
1
James Bond
1
1
Jaws
1
1
2
Jungle Book
1
1
Jurassic Park
3
2
6
Lethal Weapon
3
1
4
Lion King
1
1
Little Mermaid
1
1
Love Bug
1
1
Mary Poppins
1
1
Matrix
1
1
2
Mission Impossible
1
1
Moana
4
4
Monsters, Inc.
2
1
3
Mulan
1
1
Narnia
1
1
Peter Jackson’s Hobbit
2
5
5
24
Peter Jackson’s LOTR
22
53
76
159
Peter Pan
1
2
Pinnochio
1
1
Pirates of the Caribbean
5
2
5
12
Planet of the Apes
1
1
Pocahontas
2
2
Poltergeist
1
1
Princess Bride
7
20
16
48
Rainman
1
1
Road to … (Crosby/Hope/Lamour series)
1
Serenity
1
1
Shawshank Redemption
1
1
Shrek
1
1
Silence of the Lambs
1
2
Snow White
1
1
2
Sound of Music
1
1
Spiderman
1
1
2
Spinal Tap
5
3
6
16
Superman III
1
1
Tangled
1
1
Taxi Driver
1
1
Teen Wolf
1
1
The Shadow
1
1
Thelma & Louise
1
1
Thor: Ragnarok
1
1
Top Gun
1
1
Toy Story
1
1
2
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1
1
Tron
1
1
Untouchables
1
1
Wedding Singer
1
1
West Side Story
1
1
When Harry Met Sally
1
2
White Christmas
1
1
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1
1
Winnie the Pooh
2
2
3
7
Wizard of Oz
2
5
Wreck It Ralph
1
1
Young Frankenstein
1
1
Zootopia
1
1
3
Total Result
92
157
174
474
Phrases and Jokes
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Total
A good-bad
1
1
Always Blue
3
Balrog wings
8
3
18
Barliman’s Spreadsheet
1
Bashing the Fëanor piñata
7
12
7
40
Boromir, Sherpa
2
2
Bro-omir
2
2
Brupper
3
3
But we can’t have nice things
4
But we digress
33
21
24
84
Called LOTR a trilogy
2
2
Dad Reference
2
7
11
22
Elf eyes (matter of physics)
1
1
Elf/dwarf love
1
1
Em-wraithening
2
2
Embiggen
1
2
4
Ent spa
1
1
Eventually toast
1
1
Fell Winter Fest
2
2
Fellowship Contracting
2
2
Full circle
2
4
Gandalf 2.0
4
19
23
Gandalf 3.0
1
1
Gollum GPS
2
2
Gondorian Express Card
1
1
Groaner
18
50
76
172
Helpful Gandalf
2
2
Horse-alanch
1
1
In Soviet Fangorn
2
2
Inner Gandalf
1
1
It’s a burrahobbit
1
1
Legolas, strange elf
6
6
Little tiny baby dragons
4
4
Man-orc-en
1
1
Medicinal coffee
1
1
Mispronouncing Taniquetil
1
1
Old man fight
1
1
OMG Manwë
1
1
Orcs 2.0
1
1
OTROPATTA
5
2
1
8
Penitence chamber
2
2
4
Plant Nerdery
1
1
2
Plausible Speculation
2
2
Quick work for an Ent moot
2
2
Renaissance Nerd
1
1
Rude harp
4
Saruman 1.0
1
1
Saruman to English Dictionary
1
1
Sarumansplaining
1
1
Sauron’s Achievement Test (SAT)
1
1
Sins of Melchor
1
1
8
Sound effect used
5
5
SPBMI
4
14
19
50
Start at the very beginning
14
12
9
38
Suckfast
3
3
The Compass Points of Doom
3
The endless stairmaster
1
1
The fighting pool guys
1
1
The full PPP treatment
2
2
Theoretical comparative
1
1
Thingol CK bashing
2
2
Tulkas smash
6
Uglúk alarm clock
1
1
Ungoliant as Ilúvatar
1
Uruk-hai healing
1
1
We’ll get to that in X years
9
15
23
63
We’re not that old
3
3
6
We’re so old
1
2
Wizard-splains
1
1
Word Nerdery
40
69
60
202
X: The Untold Story
2
Total Result
145
251
296
848
LETTERS
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
TOTAL
7
1
1
19
1
1
25
1
1
26
1
1
34
1
1
35
1
1
2
52
1
1
64
1
1
79
1
1
85
1
1
93
1
1
96
1
1
105
1
1
109
1
1
117
1
1
123
1
1
131
15
13
3
39
133
1
1
2
144
3
4
1
8
148
1
1
153
2
3
2
10
154
3
4
155
2
2
156
2
3
5
10
163
3
2
6
165
1
1
2
168
1
1
171
1
2
3
174
1
1
175
1
1
2
180
3
3
181
2
2
5
183
1
1
202
1
1
208
1
1
210
6
3
2
11
211
2
2
1
6
212
1
2
213
1
1
214
1
1
229
1
1
230
2
2
234
1
1
241
1
1
2
245
1
1
246
6
2
1
9
247
1
1
1
3
257
1
1
2
264
1
1
281
1
1
294
1
1
297
4
4
301
1
1
306
1
1
309
1
1
312
2
2
319
1
1
320
1
1
321
1
1
338
1
1
339
2
1
3
340
1
1
343
2
2
347
1
2
3
Total Result
66
64
40
186
I hope that’s everything…! This round of data crunching has taken way longer than expected and I confess: I’m a tad weary. Let me know if I missed something obvious.
