Stephen King References In Popular Culture

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The original pilot script for Castle had a scene with several people playing poker and Steve was one of them. They hadn't asked permission before doing so and later changed it to someone else after he found out through the grapevine.

That's interesting. It's understandable... His (or his look-alike's) appearance would have been like an endorsement and there was no way SK could have known the show would be as good as it is. I guess there were no hard feelings... when SK is mentioned in the show, it's respectful.

 

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Family Guy episode Three Kings is 3 short parodies of 3 SK stories - Misery, The Body/Stand by Me, and Shawshank Redemption. Wikipedia says that Seth McFarlane asked King before making it and Stephen agreed and enjoyed the episode. At the end of the episode, Peter says "thanks for watching, and thank you Stephen King, we'll see you in court"

He was also in a previous episode, being hit by a car, thrown into the air and writes a story before he lands a few seconds later.

I'd forgotten about those parodies! They were hilarious! Somehow I missed seeing the one where Sk is hit and writes a story before he lands... hopefully, it's on youtube

There's also that episode where Brian Griffin runs over Dean Koontz. Brian asks him if he's Stephen King. After he identifies himself as Dean Koontz, Brian gets back in his truck and runs him over again.

 

[not_nadine]

in a previous episode, being hit by a car, thrown into the air and writes a story before he lands a few seconds later.

That's terrible, but pretty funny.

 

[Neesy]

This one is a rather obvious reference. Do you think you would add this one to your collection @king family fan?

 

[Sundrop]

There was an episode of Friends where Joey was reading The Shining, and he put the book in the freezer when he got too scared....

 

[notebookgirl]

I can't help to think of Stephen King and The Gunslinger with this new HBO show True Detective. I know there is no connection. I am sure it's because I am reading the Tower series.

 

[AnnaMarie]

In Revolution there were a lot of SK references.

A character referred to as Randall. And a guy who says his name is Stu Redman and his friend is Frannie. There were more, but those are the ones I remember.

And since it's an apocalyptic show, The Stand is an appropriate book to reference.

 

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This one is a rather obvious reference. Do you think you would add this one to your collection @king family fan?

lol Neesy... I looked at this on imdb and read these trivia notes regarding movie character names. Two of the main characters have the surname Bachman. Sheriff Pangborn and Deputy Dodd are both recurring characters in Stephen King novels. Verrill is an eponymous character in a Stephen King short story, played by Stephen King himself in the movie Creepshow.

I wonder if the writer asked SK for his permission?

 

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[Lisey Landon]

I am not sure how I feel about this one...

 

[GNTLGNT]

...it defines the term "campy"...

 

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semi-inspired by the disturbed mind of best selling author Stephen King...

Joe Bob Briggs needs to come out of retirement to review this movie lol

I looked for the dvd on amazon and it's a UK import that isn't compatible with USA dvd players

 

[GNTLGNT]

..pop the title into the Ebay search engine, other versions have shown up that might work for your player...all I know is they're round, and light makes the magic happen....then I dance the dance of my people, before I stagger off into the woods and flip-off small quadrupeds...

 

[kingricefan]

King is mentioned in JA Jance's book Betrayal Of Trust, that I am currently reading. One of the characters refers to the Dean Koontz novel Watchers and another character states that they don't read 'those' type of novels like the ones written by Koontz and Stephen King. It's their loss I say!

 

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..pop the title into the Ebay search engine, other versions have shown up that might work for your player...all I know is they're round, and light makes the magic happen....then I dance the dance of my people, before I stagger off into the woods and flip-off small quadrupeds...

GNT is silly

 

[Lisey Landon]

GNT is silly

GNT's posts make me laugh so much that I feel embarrassed. Like a giggling teenager!!

 

[Out of Order]

There was an episode of Friends where Joey was reading The Shining, and he put the book in the freezer when he got too scared....

I remember that one. Rachel and he swap books and he ends up reading Little Women and being so upset that he ends up putting that one in the freezer too!!LOL

 

[Lisey Landon]

I remember that one. Rachel and he swap books and he ends up reading Little Women and being so upset that he ends up putting that one in the freezer too!!LOL

I can not remember this episode. Do you remember what season it was? I would love to see it.
(And, when I watched White Noise, I was so scared I put it out on the porch before going to bed. True story. )

 

[Sundrop]

I remember that one. Rachel and he swap books and he ends up reading Little Women and being so upset that he ends up putting that one in the freezer too!!LOL

Yep! That's the episode....hilarious stuff

 

[GNTLGNT]

GNT's posts make me laugh so much that I feel embarrassed. Like a giggling teenager!!

...I made you both smile, and that's worth all the gold in the world....