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Joe Don Baker (1936- ) played the title character in the 1975 movie "Mitchell" (used in MST3K episode 512) and played Jack Wade in the 1995 James Bond movie "GoldenEye" (a role he reprised in 1997's "Tomorrow Never Dies").

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A pun on the name of jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.

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Paraphrases Peter Schilling's 1983 song "Major Tom (Coming Home)." Actual lyrics: "'Hello Major Tom / Are you receiving / Turn the thrusters on / We're standing by..."

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Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses (statements attacking various contemporary practices of the Catholic Church) to the door of Wittenburg's Church of All Saints. He did not, as far as history tells us, actually nail them to anyone's head.

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Due to a shortage of red paint, the few cans Tony Curtis' character managed to secure were mixed with white paint so that the submarine in the Cary Grant film "Operation Petticoat" ended up an extremely girly pink.

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A Papal bull is a communiqué composed by the Vatican chancery. These letters to the rest of the Catholic Church at large can take the form of constitutions, encyclicals, decrees, decretals, or rescripts.

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In a 1977 TV commercial, Brother Dominick produced 500 perfect copies of a manuscript overnight by using the Xerox 9200, instead of transcribing them by hand as monastics were wont to do. 

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In "A Fish Called Wanda," Otto (Kevin Kline) interrogates/tortures the stuttering, animal-loving Ken (Michael Palin) by eating all the fish out of Ken's aquarium-- including the Wanda of the film's title.

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A reference to Eric Clapton (1945- ), a Grammy-winning guitarist/singer/songwriter known for hit songs like "Layla" (both with the band Derek and the Dominos and later as a solo artist) and his cover of the Bob Marley song "I Shot the Sheriff".