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I’ve been watching this first (and most likely only) season of The Middleman on ABC Family. The show is ripe with nerdy fun. Every week the show seems to pick a theme and hide references to certain topic (or two), or show, or movie throughout the episode. Typically they are do dense and so fats that even when I know the topic I can’t follow them all.
This last week was the season (series) finale. While some references where easy, like the evil twins of people having a beard ala Star Trek. Some were insanely hard, like the coordinates of the black hole given by the middleman correspond to the constellation serpens – the snake – a VERY subtle homage to snake plissken of “escape from new york”. One big one this week was entirely unintentional.
Yep the gun used by the “evil” Middleman is the same prop used by Dr. Horrible in Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible Sing-a-long blog. Just happen stance of them using the same prop.