7x03 Lassie Jerky

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originally posted April 13, 2015



SHAWN
Checked out Kate’s Bigfoot blog and agrees to join them in the woods to film
Lied to Gus that they were going to a secret BBQ called the “Sassy Quatch” built into the side of a cave
Follows “Harry and the Hendersons” fan site
Wrote John Lithgow
Decides to make a documentary about a documentary
Enrolled Gus in hermeneutics at UCSB
Believes Chavo dressed up in costume
Snoops around Kate and Chavo’s tent
Sees and is chased by Bigfoot
Has rope in his backpack
Takes Lassiter and Juliet to the hole but the bodies are missing
Corrects Chavo about Yeti
Sees tracks from bodies being dragged away
“Ladyhawke” grabs his camera
Tells on Gus eating the transmitter
Doesn’t want Juliet to go on her own
Never knew Juliet was so rugged and outdoorsy
Refuses to go hiking, camping or mountain biking with Juliet
Says a few words when they discover Lassiter is missing
Says Lassiter smells delicious when they see cooking meat
Realizes Bigfoot did some landscaping
Snoops around Ed’s cabin and finds documents, photos and a Purple Heart
Finds IDs of the dead men in Ed’s footlocker
Credits himself on everything for the film
Shows film at police station for everyone

GUS
Allergic to pine needles and most types of dirt
Kate calls him “Pootie Tang”
Wants no part of the search
Believes this is Shawn’s worst idea since Odwallapalooza
Worries he could have an exam and needs to find a syllabus in hermeneutics at UCSB
Hides behind a tree when they see Bigfoot from the blind
Eats the meat left out for Bigfoot
Sees and is chased by Bigfoot
Would eat flan if it were on the table but wouldn’t order it and lands between dead bodies
Falls down a hill and into a hole/well
Says he’s in a fully committed relationship
Takes Lassiter and Juliet to the hole but the bodies are missing
Says he’s twice as fast as Shawn
Runs off when he smells BBQ
Sees Lassiter’s clothes hanging by the meat
Says it’s been dry rubbed with apples and oranges
Ate roasting meat when they all thought it was Lassiter
Suspicious of Ed
Refers to Max as his son
Shawn credited him as “Gopher”

JULIET
Arrives at the campsite with Lassiter
Got a call from hikers about an abandoned blue Echo
Believes about the bodies
Knocks over a tree to save Lassiter
Patches up Lassiter’s leg
Takes over the situation and plans to go for help in the morning
Goes hiking, camping and mountain biking
Goes off into the woods with a gun
Refuses to believe that Lassiter is dead
Shoves Gus for thinking about the dry rub on “Lassiter”
Sets traps outside the cabin
Can shoot a crossbow
Holds Lassiter’s hand as he’s taken away by the EMTs

LASSITER
Arrives at the campsite with Juliet
Got a call from hikers about an abandoned blue Echo
Just shined his shoes
Asks Juliet if he can shoot her boyfriend – just a flesh wound
Would rather spend all day at the mall with McNab than hug Gus
Says it’s the zombie apocalypse
Believes Kate and Chavo are hoaxing and roped in Shawn and Gus
Furious that he came out to the woods and Gus and Shawn aren’t dead
Wants to arrest them and head back
Steps in a bear trap and tumbles into the river
Catches Shawn’s camera when the hawk drops it
Can’t tell Marlowe the truth
Kate calls him “the love child of Matthew Perry and Tony Randall”
Likes Kate’s angora blend wool hat, calling it “delightful”
Makes off-color LPGA jokes at the holidays when visiting his mother and Althea
Confesses his ankle is worse than he let on and he’s lost a lot of blood
Apologizes to Marlowe for not being strong enough
Apologizes to his Mom and Althea – their happiness is his happiness
Calls Juliet his best partner ever
Carried off by Bigfoot
Asleep inside cabin before fire dressed in oversized pajamas
Uses rifle from inside the cabin
Gets shot in the shoulder when Serb gets inside
Not pleased with how he’s portrayed but compliments Juliet’s heroics

HENRY
Absent-mindedly rubs shoulder where he was shot
Gets called “Papa Bear” by Kate

WOODY
Praises the film as the best he’s seen since “Love and Basketball”
Puts his arm around Vick
Likes Twizzlers and Coca-Cola

KATE
In the woods with Chavo filming their search for Bigfoot
Calls Gus “Pootie Tang” and “Nutella”
Sees and is chased by Bigfoot
Believes they should all be lovers in the nighttime
Is so turned on she goes away with Chavo
Grew up in a commune
Never had a map
Says Lassiter looks like the love child of Matthew Perry and Tony Randall
Wants Lassiter to have her camera during his watch
Gives Lassiter her hat
Starts singing “Eternal Flame” sitting by the campfire
Picks up the dropped camera to continue filming and is shot  still films

CHAVO
In the woods with Kate filming their search for Bigfoot
Sees and is chased by Bigfoot
According to Kate, once held Tantric positions for 45 minutes
Sets up camera aimed at cabin
Credited as “Chavo Seacrest” by Shawn

ED
Saved Lassiter’s life
Lost faith in the human race
Former Army Ranger
Has lived in the woods for the last 10 years
Created the suit for camouflage
Returns to the cabin and collapses with an axe in his back
Kills a Serb before collapsing again
Turned his back on modern medicine

PINEAPPLE SIGHTING
The napkin holder on the TV stand next to Lassiter

GUS’ NICKNAME
Pootie Tang (Kate)
Nutella (Kate)

CATCHPHRASES
“Suck it” (episode: 3 series: 22)
“C’mon, son.” (episode: 1 Series: 6)

ALLUSIONS
Found footage – This is an approach to film making in which all or a substantial part of a fictional film is presented as if it were discovered film or video recordings. The events on screen are typically seen through the camera of one or more of the characters involved, often accompanied by their real-time off-camera commentary. For verisimilitude, the cinematography may be done by the actors themselves as they perform, and shaky camera work and naturalistic acting are routinely employed. The footage may be presented as if it were "raw" and complete, or as if it had been edited into a narrative by those who "found" it.
“Plus, Bigfoot won't come out of the cave.” – Bigfoot is the name given to a cryptid ape- or hominid-like creature that is said to inhabit forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. The term sasquatch is an anglicized derivative of the Halkomelem word sásq'ets. Hence Shawn’s name of the BBQ The Sassy Quatch.
“Dude, I would pick up that camera and forge ahead like Denzel picked up the flag in Glory.” – Denzel Washington is an American actor and filmmaker. Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko (in the 1987 film Cry Freedom), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X (in the 1992 film Malcolm X), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (in the 1999 film The Hurricane), football coach Herman Boone (in the 2000 film Remember the Titans), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson (in the 2007 film The Great Debaters), and drug kingpin Frank Lucas (in the 2007 film American Gangster). He has been a featured actor in the films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and was a frequent collaborator of the late director Tony Scott. Washington has received two Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical drama-war film Glory (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). Glory is a 1989 American drama war film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay was written by Kevin Jarre, based on the personal letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the novel One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard (reissued in 1990 after the movie), and Lay This Laurel (1973), Lincoln Kirstein's compilation of photos of the monument to the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on Boston Common. The film is about the first formal unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War to be made up entirely of African-American men, as told from the point of view of Colonel Shaw, its white commanding officer. They were the first unit of what became known as the United States Colored Troops and known for their heroic actions at Fort Wagner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wISGR_wDAoU At the climactic battle scene, Denzel’s character picks up the falling flag and plans to carry it forward, rallying the troops. He is cut down in a hail of bullets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjr5MSmxKJ0
“But wait, there's more.” - The phrase is used in a number of TV infomercials selling products, mainly for the kitchen. Ronald M. "Ron" Popeil (/poʊˈpiːl/; born May 3, 1935) is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie ("Set it, and forget it!") and for using the phrase, "But wait, there's more!" on television as early as the mid-1950s. He is perhaps best known for pitching the Pocket Fisherman collapsible fishing pole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abLB7aTmnE4
“I thought it was a screen cap of Angelina Jolie in Original Sin.” – Original Sin is a 2001 erotic thriller film starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. Original Sin is set in the late 19th century Cuba during the Spanish rule, and flashes back and forth from the scene of a woman awaiting her execution by garrote while telling her story to a priest, to the actual events of that story. Jolie was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award in 2001 for Worst Actress for her work in Original Sin. It turns out to be a story of fraud, greed, passion and murder. Jolie was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award in 2001 for Worst Actress for her work in Original Sin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYbMp8TFCAQ Angelina Jolie Pitt (/dʒoʊˈliː/ joh-lee; née Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie's starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a leading Hollywood actress. She continued her successful action-star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010), and received critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Beginning in the 2010s, she expanded her career into directing, screenwriting, and producing, starting with the wartime dramas In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) and Unbroken (2014). Her biggest commercial success came with the fantasy picture Maleficent (2014). In addition to her film career, Jolie is noted for her humanitarian efforts, for which she has received a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and an honorary damehood of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG), among other honors. She promotes various causes, including conservation, education, and women's rights, and is most noted for her advocacy on behalf of refugees as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As a public figure, Jolie has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the world's most beautiful woman, by various media outlets. Her personal life is the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, she has been married to actor Brad Pitt since 2014. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally.
“He hid in a bush when he heard you guys coming because he thought you guys were Bigfoot and he forgot to take his Midol this morning.” – Midol is a brand of an over-the-counter drug for menstrual cramping and other effects related to premenstrual syndrome and menstruation.
“I, uh--I stumbled upon Kate and Chavo's blog when I was messing around on the Harry and the Hendersons fan site.” – Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 American fantasy comedy film directed and produced by William Dear, and starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche, David Suchet, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Lainie Kazan, and Kevin Peter Hall. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film (uncredited) while Rick Baker provided the makeup and the creature designs for Harry. It is the story of a family's encounter with the cryptozoological creature Bigfoot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DOX1Poxro4
“John Lithgow is never writing you back.” - John Arthur Lithgow (/ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ lith-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, singer, and author. Lithgow has received acclaim and many accolades in his career including two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and was also nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into American Theater Hall of Fame. Lithgow is well known for his television roles as Dick Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun and Arthur Mitchell in Dexter as well as for his roles in films Obsession, Blow Out, The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Footloose, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Harry and the Hendersons, Raising Cain, Cliffhanger, The Pelican Brief, Shrek, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Kinsey, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Homesman, Love Is Strange and Interstellar. On the stage, he appeared in many Broadway productions including the musical adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in Neil Bartlett's production of Twelfth Night. He has also recorded music, such as the 1999 album of children's music, Singin' in the Bathtub, and has written poetry and short stories, such as Marsupial Sue, for children. His work for children earned him Grammy Award nominations and two Parents' Choice Silver Honor Awards.
“Anything but Capturing the Friedmans.” – Capturing the Friedmans is an HBO documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki. It focuses on the 1980s investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman for child molestation. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2003. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGrD_vVE5bQ
“They're making Don Quixote.” – Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of a nameless hidalgo (at the end of Part II given the name Alonso Quixano) who reads so many chivalric novels that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood.
“We're making Lost in la Mancha.” – Lost in La Mancha is a 2002 documentary film about Terry Gilliam's unfinished film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a film adaptation of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It was shot in 2000 during Gilliam's first attempt to make the film with the purpose of being its making-of, but Gilliam's failure in making the movie led it to be retitled Lost in la Mancha and to be released independently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-elMvdIhjE
“This is the worst idea you've come up with since Odwallapalooza.” – Shawn has blended Odwalla with Lolapalooza. Odwalla is an American food product company that sells fruit juice, smoothies and food bars. It was founded in Santa Cruz, California, in 1980 and is headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California. Lolapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups and various visual artists.
“I think it's the study of The Munsters, so we should be fine.” – The Munsters is an American television sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters. It stars Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional monster movies and the wholesome family fare of the era, and was produced by the creators of Leave It to Beaver.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuHr00nxeew
“Life's not The Notebook, you know?” – The Notebook is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple who fall in love during 1940. Their story is narrated from the present day by an elderly man (portrayed by James Garner) telling the tale to a fellow nursing home resident (played by Gena Rowlands). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M7LIcH8C9U
“It's Wild Orchid.” – Wild Orchid is a 1990 American erotic film directed by Zalman King and starring Mickey Rourke, Carré Otis, Jacqueline Bisset, Bruce Greenwood, and Assumpta Serna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StwWLUzLbg8
“It's Last Tango in Paris.” – Last Tango in Paris is a 1972 Franco-Italian romantic erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci which portrays a recent American widower who begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young betrothed Parisian woman. It stars Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, and Jean-Pierre Léaud. The film's raw portrayal of sexual violence and emotional turmoil led to international controversy and drew various levels of government censorship in different venues. Upon release in the United States, the most graphic scene was cut and the MPAA gave the film an X rating. After revisions were made to the MPAA ratings code, in 1997 the film was re-classified NC-17 for "some explicit sexual content." MGM released a censored R-rated cut in 1981.
“It's Jungle Fever.” – Jungle Fever is a 1991 American romance drama film written, produced, and directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. It was Lee's fifth feature-length film. The film mainly explores interracial relationships against the urban backdrop of the streets of 1990s New York City. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTlgjhDyhw
“I rarely order flan.” – Flan is an open pastry or sponge cake containing a sweet or savoury filling. A typical flan of this sort is round, with shortcrust pastry. It is similar to a custard tart or a South African melktert.
“You know, he's got the bladder of a six-year-old girl, but he can hold most of the tantric positions for, like, 45 frigging minutes.” – Neotantra, navatantra (Sanskrit: नव, nava 'new') or tantric sex, is the modern, western variation of tantra often associated with new religious movements. As tantric practice became known in western culture, which has escalated since the 1960s, it has become identified with its sexual methods in the West. Consequently, its essential nature as a spiritual practice is often overlooked. The roles of sexuality in tantra and in neotantra, while related, are actually quite different, reflecting substantial differences in their cultural contexts. Some frequently appearing aspects of neotantra, such as animal magnetism, are similar to the 19th century coitus reservatus techniques called "Karezza" used in the Oneida Community.
“I've got pepper spray and Chinese throwing stars.” – A shuriken (Japanese 手裏剣; literally: "sword hidden in user's hand") is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was generally used for throwing, and sometimes stabbing or slashing. They are sharpened hand-held blades made from a variety of everyday items, such as needles, nails and knives, as well as coins, washers, and other flat plates of metal. Shuriken is the name given to any small-bladed object, while shaken is traditionally used to indicate the well-known "throwing star".
“I mean...I'm--I'm a ninja.” - A ninja (忍者?) or shinobi (忍び?) was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, and open combat in certain situations. Their covert methods of waging war contrasted the ninja with the samurai, who observed strict rules about honor and combat. The shinobi proper, a specially trained group of spies and mercenaries, appeared in the Sengoku or "warring states" period, in the 15th century, but antecedents may have existed in the 14th century, and possibly even in the 12th century
“Hang on, Nutella.” – Nutella is the brand name of an Italian sweetened hazelnut chocolate spread. Manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero, it was introduced to the market in 1964.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIrw_LpuRA
“That's right, Los Lobos.” – are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños. They gained international stardom in 1987 when their cover version of Ritchie Valens' La Bamba topped the charts in the US, the UK and in several other countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAWPrCUQQ0
“You two Nimrods have orchestrated a little hoax so that your film's not a total waste of time, and you found the perfect two chowder-heads to fall for it.” – In most English-speaking countries, Nimrod is used to denote a hunter or warrior, because the Biblical Nimrod is described as "a mighty hunter". In American English, however, the term assumed a derogatory meaning, probably because of Bugs Bunny's references to Elmer Fudd as a "poor little Nimrod". While this was most likely using the term's "hunter" sense, it contributed to the development of a sense "one who was easily confounded". An alternative explanation of this sense is that it derives from the John Steinbeck memoir Travels with Charley: In Search of America, in which Steinbeck used the term sarcastically while describing an inquest that was held after a hunter accidentally shot his partner: "The coroner questioning this nimrod...”
“They live in much snowier climates like Hoth.” – Hoth is a fictional planet featured in the Star Wars universe. It appeared in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back and has also been a setting in Star Wars books and video games. Hoth is depicted as the sixth planet of a remote system of the same name. It is a terrestrial planet blanketed by snow and ice. Many meteorites from a nearby asteroid belt pelt the planet's surface, making temporary craters in the planet's ever-moving snow drifts. Hoth has six moons, all uninhabited. Its native creatures include the wampa and the tauntaun; both of these creatures appear in The Empire Strikes Back.
“Ha! Chupalo!” - It's the Spanish version of "suck it"
“That lady hawk stole my camera!” – LadyHawke is a 1985 fantasy film directed by Richard Donner, starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, and Michelle Pfeiffer. A knight is cursed to be a wolf at night while the woman he loves is a hawk during the day, keeping them apart even when together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEh0kwDqZZ0
“It's like we're in Bridge on the River Kwai but you get to be Bill Holden.” – Bridge on the River Kwai is a World War II epic film directed by David Lean, based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMmJMNRv-Q
“The love child of Matthew Perry and...Tony Randall.” - Matthew Perry is an actor with dual American and Canadian citizenship. He is known for his role as Chandler Bing on the long-running NBC television sitcom Friends. Tony Randall was an American actor, producer, and director, best known for his role as Felix Unger in the television adaptation of Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple.
“It was meant for the animals and Jeff Probst.” – Jeff Probst is an American game show host and an executive producer. He is best known as the Emmy Award winning host of the U.S. version of the reality show Survivor.
“Not really Probst, because everyone knows that after wrap, he goes to the Marriott.” – Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International's flagship brand of full-service hotels and resorts. The company, based in Washington D.C., is repeatedly included on the Forbes Best Companies to Work for list, and was voted the fourth best company to work for in the UK by The Times in 2009. As of September 2013, there were 505 hotels and resorts operating under the brand. The loyalty program is called Marriott Rewards.
“Hey, have you guys ever seen Cannibal Holocaust?” – Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal film. The film tells the story of a missing documentary film crew who had gone to the Amazon to film cannibal tribes. A rescue mission, led by the New York University anthropologist Harold Monroe, recovers the film crew's lost cans of film, which an American television station wishes to broadcast. Upon viewing the reels, Monroe is appalled by the team's actions, and after learning their fate, he objects to the station's intent to air the documentary. The presentation of the film team's lost footage, functioning similar to a flashback, inspired the found footage style of narrative filmmaking, later popularized by such films as the The Blair Witch Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYqgKTJmBQ
“Eternal Flame” – a ballad and love song by the Bangles from their 1988 album Everything. It became a hit single, when released in 1989, peaking at number one in the charts in nine countries, including Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4
“I won't be making any more off-color LPGA jokes during the holidays.” –The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world.
“An angel in wolf’s, bear’s and elk’s clothing” – “Wolf in sheep's clothing” is an idiom of Biblical origin. It is used of those playing a role contrary to their real character, with whom contact is dangerous. As a fable it has been falsely credited to Aesop and the theme is now numbered 451 in the Perry Index. The confusion has arisen from the similarity of the theme with fables of Aesop concerning wolves that are mistakenly trusted by shepherds; the moral drawn from these is that one's basic nature eventually betrays itself.
“Now, I was an Army Ranger back in the day, so I knew I could exist at one with nature.” - The United States Army Rangers are an elite military formation of the United States Army, that serve in designated U.S. Army Ranger units or are graduates from the U.S. Army Ranger School. The term ranger has been in use unofficially in a military context since the early 17th century. The first military company officially commissioned as rangers were English soldiers fighting in King Philip's War (1676) and from there the term came into common official use in the French and Indian Wars. There have been American military companies officially called Rangers since the American Revolution. The 75th Ranger Regiment is an elite airborne light infantry combat formation within the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC). The six battalions of the modern Rangers have been deployed in wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and saw action in several conflicts, such as those in Panama and Grenada. The Ranger Regiment traces its lineage to three of six battalions raised in World War II, and to the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)—known as "Merrill's Marauders", and then reflagged as the 475th Infantry, then later as the 75th Infantry. The Ranger Training Brigade (RTB)—headquartered at Fort Benning—is an organization under the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and is separate from the 75th Ranger Regiment. It has been in service in various forms since World War II. The Ranger Training Brigade administrates Ranger School, the satisfactory completion of which is required to become Ranger qualified and to wear the Ranger Tab.
“You know, Gus and I thought about doing the same thing after we saw The Village, but then we didn't because that movie was horrible.” - The Village is a 2004 American psychological thriller film, written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver. The film is about a village whose inhabitants live in fear of creatures inhabiting the woods beyond it. Like other films written and directed by Shyamalan from the same time period, The Village has a twist ending. The film received mixed reviews, with critics especially divided about the plausibility and payoff of the ending. The film gave composer James Newton Howard his fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_B_ukrGKo
Paul Wight (Big Ed Dixon) - Paul Donald Wight Jr. (born February 8, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name (The) Big Show. He is signed to WWE, where he has performed since 1999. He began his career in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he was known by the ring name The Giant, which remains a nickname in WWE. Wight has been a world heavyweight champion seven times and is the only person to have held the ECW, WWE (both) and WCW world heavyweight championships. Wight has also found success in the tag team division, having been an 11-time world tag team champion, holding the WWF/World, WWE and WCW World Tag Team Championships multiple times with various partners. Having also been Intercontinental, United States and Hardcore Champion, Big Show is the 24th Triple Crown and 13th Grand Slam winner in WWE history. Between WWE and WCW, Wight has held 23 total championships. He has also won WCW's 1996 World War 3 60-man battle royal and the 30-man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31. Wight has headlined many pay-per-view shows for WCW and the WWF/E since 1995, including the 2000 edition of WWE's premier annual event, WrestleMania. Outside of professional wrestling, Wight has appeared in feature films and television series such as The Waterboy, Star Trek: Enterprise, and USA Network's comedy-drama Royal Pains and the action-drama Burn Notice. In 2010, he had his first lead role in the comedy film Knucklehead, which was produced by WWE Studios.
“God, you're like Predator.” - Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of an elite special forces team, who are on a mission to rescue hostages from guerrilla territory in Central America. Kevin Peter Hall co-stars as the titular antagonist, a technologically advanced form of extraterrestrial life secretly stalking and hunting the group. Predator was written by Jim and John Thomas in 1985, under the working title of Hunter. Filming began in April 1986 and creature effects were devised by Stan Winston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1txEAywdiw
Purple Heart medal - The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military. With its forerunner, the Badge of Military Merit, which took the form of a heart made of purple cloth, the Purple Heart is the oldest military award still given to U.S. military members – the only earlier award being the obsolete Fidelity Medallion. The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is located in New Windsor, New York.
“I am sensing it was a girl with a dragon tattoo on the calf.” –The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor, "Men Who Hate Women") is a crime novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. It is the first book of the Millennium trilogy, which, when published posthumously in 2005, became a best-seller in Europe and the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAF53S2NTD4 (English trailer)
“Go pro or go home.” – GoPro is an American corporation that develops, manufactures and markets high-definition personal cameras, often used in extreme-action video photography. They are compact, lightweight, rugged, and are wearable or mountable on vehicles. The cameras capture still photos or video in HD through a wide-angle lens. Users can configure the degree of remote control or intervention required.
“We are light on firearms, but he's got a gun in the back, and God knows what he used to do with that morning star.”– A morning star is any of several medieval club-like weapons that included one or more spikes. Each used, to varying degrees, a combination of blunt-force and puncture attack to kill or wound the enemy.
“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1” by The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1" is a song by the American alternative rock band The Flaming Lips, released as the second single taken from their 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. It reached #18 in the UK Singles Chart as the highest charting single from the album, after which the band made its debut appearance on Top of the Pops. It is also a playable song in Rock Band 3 and Fantasia: Music Evolved with 2 remixes: Mumbai and Grimecraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDHi5SSIlM
“Did that just say ‘Seacrest’?” - Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American radio personality, television host, and producer. He hosts talent competition American Idol, the syndicated countdown program American Top 40, as well as On Air with Ryan Seacrest, a morning radio show on KIIS-FM. He received Emmy Award nominations for American Idol, and won an Emmy for producing Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.
“That is the best film I have seen since Love and Basketball.” - Love & Basketball is a 2000 American romantic drama film starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan. The film tells the story of Quincy McCall (Epps) and Monica Wright (Lathan), two next-door neighbors in Los Angeles, California who are pursuing their basketball careers before eventually falling for each other. The film was produced by 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, and marks the directing debut of screenwriter Gina Prince-Bythewood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur83i6_BjbE
Gopher (or Gofer) - primarily refers to an errand runner.
“No Lassies were harmed in the filming of this motion picture. Serbs? That’s another story” – At the end of films or TV using animals, a disclaimer appears “No animals were harmed” and it stems (supposedly) from the 1939 film Jesse James, wherein a blindfolded horse was ridden off a cliff to its death. This moment is the direct cause of the founding of the American Humane Association (the trademark holder on the phrase).

CONTINUITY
Gus says he’s in a committed relationship – (7x02 “Juliet Takes a Luvvah”)
Lassiter is compared to Tony Randall – (2x01 “American Duos”, 4x08 “Let’s Get Hairy”)
Lassiter’s mother’s partner Althea – (6x03 “This Episode Sucks”, 6x11 “Heeeeere’s Lassie”)
Lassiter chasing Gus with a sword – (6x11 “Heeeeere’s Lassie”)
Stern bush – (1x11 “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Oops, He’s Dead”, 5x14 “The Polarizing Express”)
The Super Smeller – (1x02 "Spellingg Bee", 1x04 "Woman Seeking Dead Husband: Smokers Okay, No Pets", 1x07 "Who Ya Gonna Call?", 2x09 "Bounty Hunters!", 2x10 "Gus' Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy", 3x06 "There Might Be Blood", 3x12 "Earth, Wind and... Wait for It", 4x15 "The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode", 5x14 “The Polarizing Express”)
Papa Bear – (6x11 “Heeeeere’s Lassie”)