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Some of the allusions I've been able to see are directly related to my being a measure older than many of the patrons here.

Movies like The Goonies or The Black Cauldron, were never fresh in your mind.

They used the Post It note method of screenwriting on this show.

When Gorny, dressed as a pirate, yells about being traumatized, I see that as a Goonies reference in a pattern of references and wait for the corroborating evidences to appear. There's always a pattern, as if they shuffled around the notes and stuck them in accordingly.

This is why one of my favorite allusions is when Dipper throws the flashlight to distract the Shapeshifter. It's likely he learned that trick from his Hardy Boys type novels, that being the allusion in this instance.