You could put a shot for shot recreation of this trailer in Rick and Morty’s next Interdimensional Cable, and no one would bat an eye.

So the timeline of the new Trek movies starts with the villain Nero going back in time. When he gets there, he destroys a ship called the USS Kelvin. That ship was not destroyed in the original Star Trek timeline, so the new timeline is called that because the Kelvin’s destruction was the first major point of divergence that lead to the other changes in that timeline

John Dies at the End?

That book is 4 unrelated novellas in one volume, but they’re referring only to The Langoliers. Assuming similar lengths for each one, we’re really only talking a bit under 200 pages.

Ahchoo?

Parachute pants, Dante’s trenchcoat, and a bolo tie, got it.

If he’s the best, then he’s the World’s Greatest World’s Greatest Detective Detective.

Are mechanical keyboard people an evolutionary offshoot of dice goblins? They’re both drawn to the clickyclack at the heart of it.

Day-Zee (the movie and video game)

This one is kind of fascinating to me, because even being from the US, I feel like Zed works better when it’s zombie-related. Probably both due to Shaun of the Dead (“Not using the Zed word!”), and because that makes it rhyme with “dead”.

Ah, so I’m guessing it wasn’t “Dragon Ball Zed” either, then.

I guess that makes sense, the Rush song doesn’t become YYZee in the US (mostly).

When I did the job in OR about 10 years ago, it wasn’t expected. More of a “oh hey here’s a dollar for washing my windshield while it pumped” or “$48.60? Here’s a 50, keep the change”, if anything.