Keeping track of every pop culture reference Abed has made on Community can drive a man insane, or at least make him curl up with a bottle of no-no juice. There are references on top of references on top of spoofs on top of meta references; the layers of Star Trek go seven timelines deep. But I did the best I could: consider this your glimpse inside the mind of Abed. I kept track of every pop culture reference Abed has made, with a few guidelines to keep me away from the Greendale Asylum: 1) For the most part, I only included exact references, i.e. Doctor Who isn’t included because it’s not mentioned by name, only in homage with Inspector Spacetime (same with the spaghetti westerns that are lovingly paid tribute to in “A Few Paintballs More” — I broke this rule a few times, though; blame it on Evil Josh); and 2) I didn’t bother with season four. No Dan Harmon, no care.
The Abyss
Alien
An American Tail
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
Bad Influence
The Beatles
Belushi, Jim
The Big Lebowski
Blade
The Brady Bunch
The Breakfast Club
The Bucket List
Can’t Buy Me Love
The Cape
The Chronicles of Riddick
Cougar Town
The Dark Knight
Desperate Housewives
Diaz, Cameron
Douglas, Michael
Dungeons & Dragons
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Farscape
First Blood
Foster, Jodie
Friends
Goldblum, Jeff
Goodfellas
Guzmán, Luis
I Am Legend
Indecent Proposal
Indiana Jones
Jonny Quest
Knight Rider
The Last Starfighter
Law & Order
Lost
M*A*S*H
Mad Men
Murray, Bill
My Dinner with Andre
Operation
Overboard
Over the Top
The Poseidon Adventure
Predator
Pulp Fiction
The Right Stuff
RoboCop
Runaway
Saw
Scooby-Doo
Sesame Street
Shue, Elisabeth
Sixteen Candles
Snakes on a Plane
South Park
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Wars
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Streep, Meryl
The Terminator
Tron
True Lies
Who’s the Boss
Williams, Brian
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Winslet, Kate
The Wire
Multiple References
Cheers/Seinfeld/Entourage
Dick Van Dyke/Cheers/Scrubs/Boys Don’t Cry
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial/Edward Scissorhands/Back to the Future
My Bodyguard/Meatballs/Full Metal Jacket/Entourage
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Short Circuit/Mork & Mindy/2001: A Space Odyssey/Knight Rider/Doctor Who/Peanuts/Star Trek
VH1/RoboCop 2/Back to the Future 3
Who’s the Boss/Friends
