And now, for the hell of it, The Yoshimitsu Reference List!
by Gavok
UVR2
"Yes, it's the Yoshimitsu 2000! This remarkable unit slices! Dices! And, after disemboweling a fighter," he stabbed Brian Battler to demonstrate, "it's still sharp enough to cut through this tomato!"
- A reference to Ginzu commercials. Yoshi was so much simpler back in those days.
"You know, Ward, I'm really worried about the Beaver. I mean, he keeps coming up to me and trying to disassemble me. What can I do?"
- Doing an impression of June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver.
"Protect Haohmaru! Save the universe! Eliminate even the toughest stain!"
- Though the last part is taken from just about any laundry detergent commercial ever, the entire line is based off of Wreck-Gar from Transformers, who had a similar catchphrase in the movie. Wreck-Gar, who learned to talk via Earth's television transmissions, is the original basis for UVR Yoshimitsu.
"LOOOO-SEEEEEE! I'MMM HOOOOOOOOME! AND I BROUGHT COM-PAN-EEEEEE!"
- Doing an impression of Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy.
"Help help me Rhonda! And don't call me Chief!"
- The first part is a reference to the song Help Me Rhonda by the Beach Boys. The second part is a common catchphrase by comic character Perry White, the boss of Clark Kent.
"Thus, four out of six heroic fighters recommend that Ryo Sakazaki start telling everybody about the evil plot!"
- Reference to the many, many commercials that talk about how four out of five dentists or doctors or whatever agree on some product.
"The answers my friend, are blowin' in the wind. The answers are blowin' in the wind."
- Part of some protest song.
"Well, golllllllleeeeee, Sarge, I guess I am! Sha-ZAM!"
- Doing an impression of TV character Gomer Pyle.
"Survey says: *DING!* Yes!"
- A reference to the classic gameshow Family Feud.
"And now it's time for another Good Idea, Bad Idea."
- The opening line from a reoccurring segment from the cartoon Animaniacs, featuring a character Mr. Skullhead.
UVR3
"I'm the best there is at what I do, bub. And what I do isn't very nice."
- A catchphrase of Marvel's Wolverine.
"Well HELLLLLOOOO LUBBOCK!"
- I have no idea.
"This is our Independence Day!"
- The final line of Bill Pullman's speech in the movie Independence Day.
"We have only twenty minutes before the premiere episode of 'Deimos' Creek,'" Yoshimitsu whispered.
- Deimos Creek, of course, being a reference to the WB show Dawson's Creek.
"You couldn't knock me down, Mickey! You couldn't knock me down! "
- A reference to the movie Raging Bull, where Robert Deniro's character loses by decision and insists to his opponent that he couldn't knock him down.
"Not in my movie."
- From Scream 2. After one of the killers was thought to be dead, she then got up screaming. Neve Campbell shot her in the head and said that one-liner.
"The wonders to be found here are limited only by our own imaginations."
- No idea where this comes from.
"One 'bot enters! All men leave!"
- Reference to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, where the correct phrase is "Two men enter! One man leaves!"
"Hel-LO bay-BEE!"
- More than likely doing an impression of the Big Bopper from the opening of his song Chantilly Lace.
"There's only one thing to do in this situation," Yoshimitsu mused to himself, watching Erland vanish. "Strut."
- Originally a reference to Staying Alive, starring John Travolta. The way Yoshimitsu states it here is more of a reference to Bart Simpson's own parody.
"Do what ya gotta do, pilgrim."
- Impression of western legend John Wayne. At least we're back to an obvious one.
"This is Yoshi Casem! Up next on the Top 40 Beat Down, we have a dedication to one Doctor Boskanovitch! Here's Wesley Willis with 'I Just Kicked Ogre's Ass!'"
- Doing an impression of Casey Casem, the voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo and host of his own Top 40 Countdown show on the radio. Wesley Willis was an insane weirdo that made dozens of albums that were nothing but keyboard demos with nonsensical, yet consistently structured lyrics sung over them. Some of his songs include I Whipped Batman's Ass, I Whipped Superman's Ass, I Whipped Spider-Man's Ass, and Birdman Kicked My Ass.
"You threw me in the corner!" the robot wailed. "And nobody puts baby in a
corner!"
- The groan-inducing line from the end of the groan-inducing movie Dirty Dancing.
"Uh-oh," Yoshimitsu said. "Spaghetti-Os!"
- Spaghetti-Os' tagline, natch.
"Houston! We have a problem!"
- Famous line from the non-fiction movie Apollo 13.
"Red ruuum! Red--"
- A reference to the Shining. The son in the movie started writing it on the walls and repeating "red rum" over and over again. Soon we find out that in the mirror, "red rum" spells "murder".
"BOING-Y! BOING-Y! BOING-Y! BOING-Y!"
- A sound the Warners make whenever bouncing around in Animaniacs.
"Dr. B. said he could rebuild me! He'd make me faster, stonger, more sniffable! And I became the Yoshimitsu '98!"
- Most of that comes from the lines from the opening of the Six Million Dollar Man. Though I remember adding the term "sniffable" based on the show Get a Life, where Chris Elliot's character referred to his bicycle as "my lovable, sniffable bike!"
"Oy!" he announced to the camera. "Dat right theya is an 'alf man/'alf werewolf! Now, I'm gonna try ta sneak up on tha bugga and trow him outta da ring!"
- For a little while in the ring, Yoshimitsu impersonated the Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, back in the days before Irwin almost fed his baby to a crocodile.
Yoshi shook his head in embarrassment. "Nope! Nope! Nope! Not gonna do it!
Nooooo! Not gonna do it!"
- Based on a bashful buzzard character from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons.
"Ya call dat a knife?" Yoshimitsu lifted his sword. "Now dis is a--"
- Going from Crocodile Hunter to Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan's famous line from that movie.
"Farewell! And don't think it hasn't been a slice of heaven! Because it hasn't."
- Fairly obscure Bugs Bunny line.
"BOOT TO THE HEAD!"
- Part of some song I have never actually heard. And I'm sure that probably shocks somebody out there.
"I've got Monster Truck Madness."
- Ah, now there's a nice reference. Based on a very bizarre commercial from the late 90's of the videogame Monster Truck Madness. The commercial featured wrestler Kevin Nash screaming the line at the top of his lungs, generating laughs from anyone watching it.
"How are you gentlemen."
- After grabbing the Power Stones, Yoshi was only able to speak lines from the opening movie from Zero Wing. If this is all new to you, let me be the first to welcome you to the internet.
"Available in 49 states. SORRY Tennes--"
- A regular catchphrase from back in the day when John Henson hosted Talk Soup.
"You're welcome!"
- At first glance it shouldn't be a reference to anything, but I'm certain I wrote this as a reference to wrestler Perry Saturn, who would yell, "You're welcome!" as a response to most anything said to him.
Yoshi held his blade in the air and retorted, "I have the POWER!"
- Catchphrase from He-Man. At the time he was making fun of Lord Raptor for looking like Skeletor.
"No you didn't! It was ACTING!"
"BRILLIANT!"
"THANK YOUUUUUUUUU!"
- Yoshimitsu and Lord Raptor reenacting a skit of the old Saturday Night Live character Master Thespian.
"My name is pronounced 'Da-ryl.'"
- Reference to Mark McKinney's character Daryl from Kids in the Hall.
The cowboy merely gave a mix of gasping, wheezing and stuttering as he pointed over Yoshi's shoulder. "Zo-zo-z-z-z-zo-zo-zo--!"
"Spit it out!" Yoshi smacked Hol upside the head and across the face a couple
times.
- Part of a bit where Yoshimitsu and Hol Horse act as Abbot and Costello, reenacting their many scenes where Costello would see something scary and would be unable to articulate what he saw.
"General Zod is in the ring?"
- General Zod is the main villain from the movie Superman 2.
"Come on, kid! There he is! Show 'im what yer made of, ya bum! I want you to go over there and give him what for! I want you to eat lightnin' and crap thunder! Murder him, kid!"
- Basic impression of Mick the trainer from the Rocky movies.
Yoshi looked away from the showdown and merely admired the Reality Gem in his hand. "Precioussss... precioussss..."
- Gollum references were in style back then.
"Hey," Hol started. "Put down that chainsaw and listen to me. It's time for us to join in the fight."
- Okay, not a Yoshimitsu line, but I couldn't resist. This is the opening line from Weird Al Yankovic's song Dare to Be Stupid.
"Whoa... Morpheus was right."
- This was after Yoshimitsu bent backwards and dodged a series of bullets. Of course, a Matrix reference.
"There can be only one!"
- Reference to Highlander. Just after saying it, Yoshimitsu chopped off Lord Raptor's head.
"Hooah! Ow! I got to dance, baby! I gots to dance! Haow! Hey!"
- In the world of Dance Dance Revolution, Yoshimitsu did his best James Brown impression.
"Hey everybody! It's Yoshimitsu! The guy who goes to parties and says his catchphrase over and over again!"
- This bit is a reference to the classic MTV show The State, which featured a character named Louie, who would constantly scream, "I wanna dip my balls in it!" whenever somebody offered him anything.
"Yeah, just ignore him. It'll work! In theory. In theory communism works."
- A very random reference to an old Homer Simpson quote.
"Lying cheat sneak thieves should never be trusted!" said Yoshimitsu. "Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat! It goes against the wonderful light of justice!"
- I'm positive MMK wrote this. Where it came from, I have no idea.
"Winners don't use drugs!"
- The famous message that appears on many, many arcade machines in demo mode.
"I bring you love! And a message from Ralf."
- "I bring you love!" is a quote from a drugged up Mr. Burns on the Simpsons when everyone thought he was an alien.
Yoshimitsu looked around cautiously then whispered to Clark. "Injun Joe is ticklish."
- A reference to an old Porky Pig cartoon that is a little too silly to briefly explain.
"Well, you can call me Ray! And you can call me Jay! And you can call me Ray Jay! But you can't call me Jay Ray!"
- Ray Jay Johnson was a comedian with a really tired shtick that got old immediately. For some reason he's constantly talked about on the Simpsons.
"Okay, ramblers. Let's get rambling."
- A line said by Joe Cabot in the beginning of the movie Reservoir Dogs.
"Warriors... come out and play-ee-ay!"
- Turns out the correct line is "come out TO play", but it's a reference to a movie from the late 70's called The Warriors.
"Go, do you hear? You be strong, you survive... You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you!"
- Daniel Day Lewis' most famous line from the movie Last of the Mohicans.
"Get three coffins ready..."
- One of Clint Eastwood's more badass lines from the movie A Fistful of Dollars. After the ensuing gunfight, he walked back to the undertaker and said, "My mistake. Four coffins."
"Okay, I love you, bye-bye!"
- Guy certainly quotes Animaniacs enough. Reoccurring phrase of the crappy Animaniacs character Mindy.
"Exit! Stage right, even!"
- Catchphrase of Hanna Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss.
"YOSHI RULES! Because I kick all the bad guys in the jewels!"
- A reference to Peter Griffin's bizarre interpretation of The King and I from Family Guy.
"My mother zapped me with a mystical orb once. Once!"
- A line Joe Piscapo used a couple times in the movie Johnny Dangerously.
"I'd dare, double dare and physical challenge!"
- On the Nickelodeon gameshow Double Dare, if the contestants couldn't answer the trivia question, they would have the option of saying "dare", then "double dare", then "I'll take the physical challenge."
"Hi, Iori. I'm Yoshimitsu. You might remember me from such films as Dial M for Manji and Abbot and Costello Meet the Space Ninja."
- Yep, another Simpsons reference. Here he steals Troy McClure's famous bit.
"The answer to your first question is: shaddap."
- A temporary catchphrase of my favoritest comic book character Deadpool. The longer I wrote Yoshimitsu, the more he started to resemble Deadpool more than Wreck-Gar. Hey, blame Capcom and their lack of fighting games with Wade as a playable character.
"I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."
- The line from the movie Chariots of Fire prior to the playing of the famous, inspirational theme song.
"As the award ceremony begins, the crowd can be heard whispering... 'Where is the champion? Where is Geese Howard?' Where is Geese Howard as his admirers chant his name? Already seeking the next challenge, ceremony means nothing to him. The fight is all."
- If this doesn't look familiar to you, then you know nothing about fighting games. It's the text from Ryu's Street Fighter 2 ending.
"This is the end... beautiful friend. Father? Yes, son? I want to kill you. Mother? I want to--"
- A couple scattered lyrics from The Doors' song The End.
"Watch out for those old men and their allowances!" He turned to Rimururu. "I wish I knew what the hell I just referenced."
- In Virtua Fighter 4, Lion Rafale has a very weird victory quote of, "I don't make allowances of old men!"
"But as for now, you stay. I go. No following."
- A reference to the robot's parting words in the animated classic The Iron Giant.
"Thundercats! HOOOOOO!!"
- Catchphrase from the old, animated show, obviously.
"Who's house?! Say what?! Run's house!"
- Chorus to the Run DMC song.
"Back in the high life again, Doc."
- Back in the High Life Again is a song by Steve Winwood.