Astonishing X-Men & Excalibur (Farscape refs?)

[Patrel Rushlock]

Wow, I don't stop by for a week or 2 and when I do, Claudia's appearance on SG-1 goes from an expected 1-ep to 5, and Ben is going to be a regular?!

Anyway, I collect comics and there have been uses of "Frell" before, but the newest issue of Excalibur had it, and Magneto using his powers to open a wormhole for the first time.

I also believe 'frell' was used in Astonishing X-Men this month, which is written by Joss Whedon, former writer of Buffy.

Chris Claremont writes Uncanny X-Men and Excalibur, and "frell" gets several mentions in each series.

So, any other readers/collectors here want to relate what they've noticed in comics?

[StephX]

Frell, that's cool! ;)

[pendragon]

I suppose it was just a coincedence, but I was amused when my 8 year old daughter was watching Elle Enchanted: the town she lived in was named Frell .. she was Ella of Frell! :D

[Egraine]

Doesn't surprise me that Whedon would make reference....Spike dialog "well, bring on the comfy chair..." when he was going to be tied to a chair and one ep has Xander exclaiming "YOTZ".

I also saw two things Scape related. TLC's "While you were out" host Evan Farmer yells "Can I get a Hell Yeah?" (almost fell out of my seat) and "Bringing Down the House (Queen Latifah & Steve Martin)...Michale Duncan Clarke's gangstah character was wearing the communicater pendant that is produced in OZ.

[RydraWong]

Some of those may not be Scape references per se, though, but references to the things Farscape was referring to - e.g. "bring on the comfy chair" is a Python-ism, and I believe "Can I get a Hell Yeah?" may be a wrestling thing.

[Patrel Rushlock]

Right, "Can I get a Hell Yeah?" duing his fight with the neural clone was just John quoting Steve Austin, pro wrestler.

And I'd forgotten about that other line being in Python movie, but I recalled Spike from Buffying saying it. Though I didn't recall Xander saying "YOTZ", I thought he said something like "ZONKS" from Scoobie? I dunno.

[grinner]

Chris Claremont uses ALOT of science fiction television show references in his comics. He has referenced Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Babylon 5 and many other shows. Heck, he even had a Dalek appear in the background in an issue of X-Men.

[grinner]

Xander says 'Zoinks' not 'Yotz'... it is a Scooby reference. He actually says it more than once.