here's a list of pop-culture references...

...for "the middleman" episode 1007, "the cursed tuba contingency"

- "happy scrubbing, tinkerbell" - reference to peter pan
- with the exception of "ride lonesome" the movie posters outside the theater are all for fabricated film featuring the names of members of the middleman staff
- the music heard in the theater was written for "the middleman" by composer tree adams, the real theme (or footage) from "ride lonesome" could not be used for copyright reasons
- "boba fett" and "jack bauer" - should be self explanatory
- peckinpah motel - homage to director sam peckinpah
- "agents boetticher and kennedy" - homage to the director and writer of "ride lonesome"
- the reason the american shrimp and crab amalgamated processors don't use the acronym for copyright reasons is that ASCAP stands for "american society of composers, authors and publishers": the professional organization that polices music residuals
- the csis were cast to look like the team from the first season of "csi," - the main csi is ever referred to as "bearded petersen guy" in the script
- "hawks lane" - homage to director howard hawks
- agents harland and wolff - homage to the shipyard where the titanic was built
- "downer's grove," illinois - i went to a sci-fi convention there once
- "southampton philharmonic" - the titanic was registered to southampton
- "the sound of salesmen" - homage to the rush song "spirit of the radio"
- "pop in a mario bava movie" - homage to the notorious italian horror director
- "edward j. smith public school" - homage to the captain of the titanic, if you look closely at the signange, you will notice that the school's team is the "fighting icebergs"
- "mister rogers!" - is it one of the middleman's colorful explanations, or a statement of fact? you decide
- the last names of rogers's aliases are all former classmates of hans beimler's
- "highlander with a tuba" - homage to the immortal scottish swordsman franchise
- "i'll do your hair, cinderella" - self explanatory
- lacey is never actually heard singing the theme song from james cameron's titanic for copyright reasons
- "not bad, shoeless joe" - homage to the famous ball player (played by ray liotta in "field of dreams")
- "agent roy ward baker/erica ambler" - the director and writer of the film "a night to remember"
- "get the axe, noser" - homage to the scene in "titanic" in which kate winslet frees leonardo dicaprio from handcuffs with an axe
- "sweet molly brown!" - homage to the famous titanic survivor, played by kathy bates in the film "titanic"