Farscape

Crichton: Oh... munchies. Good idea, man. Don't eat so much, though. You'll Belushi-out, cat. A reference to the late comedian John Belushi who was often made fun of after a sudden weight gain.

Crichton: I don't know. They gave me the Full Monty, and it was working, and then I got this...this...this...this...flash! And...it was like it was soakin' up the drug. I snapped out of it. Most people are familiar with the term "the Full Monty" (meaning the whole deal) from the 1997 movie of that title, about some ordinary men who try to make money as strippers.

Title: The title "A Clockwork Nebari" is an reference to the 1962 Novel, A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess in which violent impulses were tortured out of the main character, Alex, through a process called Ludovico's Technique where the subject learns to associate violence with pain. It was later made in to a movie by Stanley Kubrick. The mind cleansing is almost identical visually to the procedure in the film.

Crichton: (singing) It's gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha! This is a paraphrase of the Blondie song "One Way or Another", which is very appropriate, since his nickname for Varla is Deborah Harry.

Crichton: (when offered death as the only alternative to mind cleansing) Hey, isn't that against your Nebari Prime Directive? The phrase "Prime Directive" originated with the original series of Star Trek, where those in the Starfleet were forbidden to interfere with development of non warp capable civilizations.

Crichton: When you first came on board Elvis had you in cuffs dragging you back to Nebari Prime. Now we got Deborah Harry doing the same thing. Crichton nicknames the two Nebari after rock stars that they resemble, Elvis, because of his black pompadour and long sideburns, and Deborah (Debbie) Harry of the band Blondie because of her short, wild mop of hair.

Crichton: Well hell, you must be the top of the $100,000 Pyramid. $100,000 Pyramid is the name of a game show in the early 90s where the contestants were asked to guess words from clues given by their celebrity partner. The higher the box in the pyramid, the higher the value of each correct answer.