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Season 1 1x04 Dead man dating 1x09 The witch is back 1x16 Which Prue is it, anyway? 1x20 The power of two 1x21 Love hurts Season 2 2x05 She's a man, baby, a man 2x06 That old black magic 2x18 Chick flick Season 3 3x02 Magic hour 3x04 All Halliwell's eve 3x07 Power Outage 3x09 Coyote Piper 3x15 Just Harried 3x21 Look who's barking 3x20 Exit strategy Season 4 4x03 Hell hath no fury 4x04 Enter the demon 4x07 Brain drain 4x09 Muse to my ears 4x10 A Paige from the past 4x12 Lost and bound 4x17 Saving Private Leo 4x18 Bite me 4x19 We're off to see the wizard 4x21 Womb raider Season 5 5x02 A witch's tail 5x03 Happily ever after 5x04 Siren's song 5x08 A witch in time 5x09 Daddy dearest 5x12 Centennial Charmed 5x13 Obsessions 5x14 Dream Spell 5x15 Special delivery 5x16 Baby's first demon 5x17 Lucky Charmed 5x19 Naughty nymphs 5x20 Sense and sense ability 5x22 Oh my Goddess Part 1 5x23 Oh my Goddess Part 2 Season 6 6x05 Love's a witch 6x06 Fantasies in the flesh 6x08 Charmed in Camelot 6x10 Chris crossed 6x11 Witchstock 6x13 Used Karma 6x14 The legend of sleepy Halliwell 6x17 Hyde School Reunion 6x18 Spin City 6x21 Reality check 6x22 It's a bad, bad, bad, bad world, part 1 Season 7 7x04 Charrrmed! 7x08 Charmed confidential 7x11 Ordinary witches 7x13 Charmaggedon 7x14 Carpe Demon 7x15 Show Ghouls 7x16 The seven year witch 7x20 Imaginary fiends Season 8 1x04 Dead man dating Quote: Piper (reading): "A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved faced, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart." Meaning: This is a quote from "The Plague" by Albert Camus top 1x09 The witch is back Quote: Melinda Warren: Owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness. Meaning: Melinda and Leo are quoting "As you like it" by William Shakespeare here. top 1x16 Which Prue is it, anyway? Quote: Piper: This is ridiculous. This is like... this is like "The Parent Trap" with a B cup Phoebe: I think I might have just found a way to take some of the Disney out of our life Meaning: The Parent Trap was a Disney film in 1961, specifically about a pair of twins. It was remade in 98, though the original is concidered to be better. Thus both of the above refrences are connected to the idea of having an extra (or in this case two) person around who looks like someone else. Quote: Coroner: Then I'd get on the horn to Ripley's Believe It Or Not because as far as forensic medicine can tell, this woman is Prue Halliwell. Meaning: Ripley's Believe It Or Not is a famous museum of human and animal oddities founded by Robert Ripley. Spell of multiplicity Coincidence? there is a move with pretty much the same storliine, called "Multiplicity". top
1x20 The power of two 1x21 Love hurts Quote: Phoebe: Stella, we are getting our groove back. Meaning: This is a reference to the book and film "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" (1997) by Terry McMillan. Quote: Phoebe: It's supernatural freaky friday. Meaning: Phoebe makes a reference to a movie called "Freaky Friday" where a mother and daughter switch bodies. top
2x05 She's a man,
baby, a man 2x06 That old black magic The treasure hunters parodies the movie "The Blair Witch Project". top 2x18 Chick flick Quote: Piper: I am being stalked by psycho killers and I hide in the shower?! Meaning: This refer to the famous scene in the classic Alfred Hitchcock horror film "Psycho" which premiered in 1960, where the victim was killed while taking a shower. top 3x02 Magic hour Quote: Piper: I could swear I'd seen this in a movie before. Meaning: Piper is alluding to the movie, "Ladyhawke", starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rutger Hauer as cursed lovers. He is a man by day and a wolf by night, while she is a hawk by day and a woman by night so they can never be together as humans. top 3x04 All Halliwell's Eve Quote: Piper: We are not in Kansas anymore. Meaning: Its a quote originaly from the 1939 movie "The wizard" Quote: Leo: Glinda helped innocents didn't she? Meaning: Glinda the good witch of the North, is a character from the same movie. Quote: Prue: Uh, unless we're dead and this is the here after, I don't think so. Phoebe: Eternally Elvira, yecch. Meaning: A reference to the movie "Elvira the mistress of the dark" top 3x07 Power Outage Quote: Piper: Well, that's a bit of an understatement. It was big. Leo: How big? Prue: Um, do you remember Pearl Harbor? Meaning: In December 1941 a single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke by the Japanese removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant. Source: Naval Historical Center Quote:
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3x21 Look who's barking Quote: Prue: Geez, who let the dogs out? Meaning: The song "Who Let the Dogs Out?" is song by the Baha Men Quote: Piper: Hi, Cujo, who you growling at? Meaning: Cujo is a 1983 movie about a St. Bernard that contracts rabies and goes crazy, terrorizing a small town in the US. More Info Quote: Phoebe: (to Piper, after she accuses Phoebe of being in denial about her feelings for Cole) "Okay, well... If you'll forgive me, Dr. Laura, I have a different demon to worry about." Meaning: Dr. Laura (Schlessinger) is a syndicated radio call-in show MFCC (a marriage/family/children counselor). Quote: Prue: I think you're barking up the wrong demon Meaning: A play on the phrase "Barking up the wrong tree" top 4x03 Hell hath no fury Quote: Cole: She has no regard for her life or anyone else's. She's Charles Bronson cubed. Meaning: Charles Bronson can be described as the archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features. top
4x04 Enter
the demon Meaning: While practicing her potion-making, Paige imitates Chef Emeril Lagasse by using his catch phrases ("Bam" and "kick it up a notch") top 4x07 Brain drain Quote: Phoebe (takes an empty milk carton out of the fridge): Got milk? Meaning: A rip-off of the punchline from The California Dairy Board's hugely successful advertising campaign. The ads focus on an absence of milk and beg a single question: Got Milk? Source:
TVTome.com 4x09 Muse to my ears Quote: Piper: What is this, Dr. Seuss? (Responding to Phoebe's excessive rhyming) Meaning: Dr. Seuss is a children's writer who wrote his stories in rhyme. Quote: Phoebe: Um, honestly, Bev, I think the forties is your era. I mean, you already have this, kind of Veronica Lake thing goin' on. Meaning: Veronica Lake was an actress especially remembered for the films and performances from 1941-1946. Quote: Phoebe: Bev, I'm telling you, forties night is perfect. I mean, think about it, the zoot suits, the saddle shoes, the patriotism. What more could you ask for? Meaning: A zoot suit is a man's suit with wide-legged, tight-cuffed, or "pegged," trousers; a long coat with wide lapels, and wide, padded shoulders. Zoot suits first gained popularity in Harlem jazz culture in the late 1930s. The word "zoot" probably comes from the French word zut (meaning "damn!"). They were extremely popular with African-American youth and also with young Latinos, most particularly in the Los Angeles Chicano community. In March of 1942, the War Production Board banned zoot suit production, because it deemed the style wasteful of valuable suiting material during wartime. But the fashion persisted, despite restrictions placed on the amount of fabric in the production of garments. The young men who wore these suits were accompanied by girls dressed all in black. They were called the black widows. top 4x10 A Paige from the past Quote: Leo: Get your butt down here you fetid worm from the bog of eternal stench! Meaning: The "bog of eternal stench" is clearly a reference to the movie "Labyrinth", in which a young girl must solve a gigantic, magical maze (hence the labyrinth) to get back her baby brother who was stolen by the Goblin King. Within the labyrinth, there was a place called The Bog of Eternal Stench, where it apparently smelled *really* bad, and anybody who actually fell into the actual bog would wreak of the scent forever. The Goblin King seemed to like threatening to send people to the Bog. Apparently, Leo found a creative way to say that Clyde's mom stunk. Quote: Piper: My sister was just possessed with a supernaturally born killer ... Meaning: "Natural Born Killers" was a movie released in 1994, about a young couple that go on a killing spree. top 4X12 Lost and bound Quotes Phoebe: I mean, I like Samantha but I never actually wanted to become her. See, Samantha, she was married to a human, Darren. And Darren completely suppressed Samantha's magic, completely denied who she was. Meaning: This refers to the TV series "Bewitched", about a witch who was married to a mortal man and how they had to hide her magical abilities from the rest of the mortal world. top 4x15 Marry-go-round Quote: Seer: I had a vision. This Source will have a son, the greatest power in the history of magic. Dark Priest: And you'll be the hand that rocks his cradle. Meaning: A reference to the movie "The Hand that rocks the Cradle" top 4x17 Saving Private Leo Quote: Paige (holds up a piece of paper): Who are you gonna call? Meaning: This is the tagline from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters. top 4x18 Bite me Quote: Leo: It's true, vampires have been ostracized from the underworld for centuries. As far as I know they're a part of a whole different network now. Meaning: "they're a part of a different network now" is a joke about the show Buffy (the vampire slayer) switching networks from WB (where Charmed airs) to UPN. top 4x19 We're off to see the wizard Quote: Piper: I can't believe we let that slimy Lord of the Rings wannabe use us. Meaning: A reference to J. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. top 4x21 Womb raider Quote: Piper: (to Phoebe, whose unborn is attacking Paige) You, you're gonna hit the Book of Shadows and figure out a way to control Chucky, there. Meaning: Chucky is the name of the doll possessed by the spirit of serial killer Charles Lee Ray in "Child's Play". top
5x02 A witch's tail 5x03 Happily ever after Quote: Phoebe: Hey, I'm walking here! Meaning: Phoebe is forced to walk in front of a cab because of the glass slippers she is wearing. A taxi cab stops short of hitting here and Paige. She slams her hand on the hood of the car and yells, "Hey, I'm walking here!" This is the memorable line that Dustin Hoffman (as Enrico Salvatore 'Ratso' Rizzo) used in Midnight Cowboy (1969). Quote: Evil Witch: I'm melting... I'm melting... I'm melting Meaning: Reference to the 1939 MGM movie from Warner Brothers "The Wizard of Oz". The Wicked Witch of the West screams and moans, "I'm melting...I'm melting...I'm melting" after Dorothy throws water on her. top 5x04 Siren's song Quote: Piper: Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir. Meaning: Means "Do you want to sleep with me?" top
Quote: Bacarra (after having killed Phoebe and Paige and aiming at Piper): "And Then There Were None" Meaning: This is a reference on the Agatha Christie book with the same title.. top 5x09 Daddy dearest Quote: Phoebe: What, you mean like Mary Poppins? Meaning: Mary Poppins was a magical nanny to two children in England. She was played by Julie Andrews in this classic. top 5x12 Centennial Charmed Quote: Paige: And you, you're not La Femme Nikita! You're a Charmed One. Meaning: "La Femme Nikita" is a show about a woman who is accused of a crime she did not commit. She must either join Section One, a government anti-terrorist agency, or be executed. top 5x13 Obsessions Quote: Piper: (to Paige, as she's leaving to see Glen) Alright, Sally, go meet Harry. Meaning: Reference to the 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally. More Info top 5x14 Dream spell Quote: Piper (to Leo): Honey, we've got our own dreams to deal with and the Tracer, we'll deal with your Mr. Mom issues later. Meaning: Refers to the movie "Mr. Mom", in which Michael Keaton agrees to stay home with the kids while his wife goes to work. top 5x15 Special delivery Quote: Phoebe: Yeah, but I liked his whole 'world without magic' speech. Very Capra. Meaning: Refers to director Frank Capra and, indirectly, to his 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life". Quote: Phoebe: Our Dad is a bit like Darren Stevens when it comes to our magic Meaning: A reference to cult classic Bewitched in which Darren Stevens never like his wife Samantha using witchcraft and always asked her to stop using magic although she kept ignoring him and using it anyway top 5x16 Baby's first demon Quote: Paige: ...he could just zap them onto a roof like Harry Potter would or something., Piper: After seeing what the kid can do inside the womb, he's no muggle. Phoebe: Hey, what about Potter? Potter Halliwell? Meaning: All three make reference to the popular Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling. Harry is a young wizard who, when he was young, would mysteriously have the things he wanted to happen do so. His last name, Potter is a suggestion made as a P name for the baby. A Muggle is the term Rowling gives to the people in her books who have no magic in them. top 5x17 Lucky Charmed Quote: Seamus: Don't even try it, Neil. I already hit you with my best shot. Meaning: A nod to the episode's musical guest, this line is a paraphrasing from Pat Benatar's 1980 chart-topping single "Hit Me with Your Best Shot." Quote: "Cyrano73: Like the poem? Cinderella29: Cute. Made my day. Meaning: Phoebe's chat partner Cyrano73 is a reference to Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac". Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because he has an enormous nose. Secretly in love with the lovely Roxane, Cyrano agrees to help his inarticulate rival, Christian, win her heart by allowing him to present Cyrano's love poems, speeches, and letters as his own work. Eventually Christian recognizes that Roxane loves him for Cyrano's qualities, not his own, and he asks Cyrano to confess his identity to Roxane; Christian then goes off to a battle that proves fatal. Cyrano remains silent about his own part in Roxane's courtship. As he is dying years later, he visits Roxane and recites one of the love letters. Roxane realizes that it is Cyrano she loves, and he dies content. read Cyrano de Bergerac top 5x19 Naughty nymphs Quote: Reporter: Sorry to interrupt, Mr. Dean, but it looks like those Godiva girls popped back again. Meaning: A reference to Lady Godiva, a Saxon lady, who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England. Quote: top 5x20 Sense and sense ability Quote: Piper: Okay everybody Speak and Spell Meaning: Speak n' Spell was the name of a popular children's technology computer where the voice would say a word and if you spelled it incorrectly it would spell the word correctly for you. top 5x22 Oh my goddess, part 1 Quote: Piper: I'm going to go see what Future Boy is up to. Piper: I'll blow his ass Back to the Future, orbs and all Meaning: 'Future Boy' is what Doc Brown in 1955 called Marty McFly when he revealed that he had come from 1985 in a DeLorean time machine that Doc's future self had invented. This was in the first film of the "Back to the Future" movies.
Quote: Phoebe: Elise, you brazen hussy! Meaning: When Phoebe calls Elise a "brazen hussy", this is a clear allusion to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Puritanical-classic "The Scarlet Letter" in which the lead character, Hester Prynne, is called a "brazen hussy" by the townswomen. top 5x23 Oh my goddess, part 2 Quote: Cronus: Who the hel are you? Paige: The Supremes Meaning: The Supremes were a 1960s female singing group with the lead singer Diana Ross.
Quote: Quote: Chris: Spare me the Morpheus speech, old man. Meaning: This could be a reference to the movie The matrix when the character Morpheus tells Neo in depth what is going on and why. With other words, Chris isn't interested in details or long explanations. Fitting that in Greek mythology Morpheus was aso the god of sleep and dreams. Chris was just bored by the old man's speech and wanted to cut it short. top 6x06 Fantasies in the flesh Quote: Phoebe: "I never posed for those pictures." Meaning: Phoebe's response to an autograph-seeker's request to sign some photographs of her is in fact a very sly reference to Alyssa Milano's real-life struggle with faked photographs of herself floating atround the internet. 6x08 Charmed in Camelot Quote: Phoebe: Her majesty has left the building. Meaning: This refers to the famous sentence "Elvis has left the building". Fitting since Elvis is usually also just named the King. It has first been heard on 15 December, 1956. By this time Elvis was verging on superstardom. Ten thousand kids jammed the youth building on the fairgrounds in Shreveport and screamed at the top of their lungs for the duration of the King's 45-minute show. After Elvis had given his final encore and left the stage, the crowd headed for the exits, even though many other acts were still waiting to perform. Horace Lee Logan, founder and longtime producer of Louisiana Hayride, the country-music radio show, took the microphone and pleaded with Elvis's fans to return to their seats: "Please, young people . . . Elvis has left the building. He has gotten in his car and driven away. . . . Please take your seats." Source: StraightDope.com top 6x10 Chris crossed Quote: Adult Wyatt: Et tu Chris? Meaning: This is a reference to Shakespear's "Julius Caeser". Caeser has been betrayed by everyone he trusted including his best friend Brutus Casius (the Latin means nothing else than: you too, Chris"). Quote: Leo: They're a family of assassin witches who are very elite, very powerful and who were born with a distinct birthmark symbolising the rise from Salem's ashes. Meaning: Leo refers to the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Although no witch was actually burnt there many people still think so. Obviously images from the dark ages of the Spanish inquistion with its witch hunts and burning at stake have been confused with memories of the Salem witch trials. top 6x12 Prince Charmed Quote: Order Leader: I find your lack of faith disturbing. Meaning: In Star Wars: A New Hope, Lord Vader was refering to the lack of faith a guy had in the Force. The guy said the Death Star was "the ultimate power in the universe" to which Vader replied that it paled in comparison to the Force. The guy made fun of Vader and his devotion to the Force and Vader used the force to strangle him. top 6x13 Used Karma Quote: Phoebe: Saved by the orb Meaning: An adapted saying from Saved by the bell. Quote: Paige: Since when did you speak freedom fry? Meaning: After President Bush began fighting in the Middle East, France decided that they did not want anything to do with America and so Americans (including Bush) began to substitute Freedom for the work France or anything related to it (ie freedom fries, freedon toast, ect) Quote: Paige: Then how do you explain my sister walking around like the nudie version of Les Mis? Meaning: Les Mis is the shorter title of Les Misérables. Les Misérables is a very famous story by Victor hugo about a French man who excapes prision and goes from rags to riches while still being presude by a fomer prison guard. Les Misérables has been turned into a movie and has been performed in many theaters. Quote: 6x14 The legend of sleepy Halliwell The Magical School is a pretty clear spin on Hogwarts from Harry Potter Quotes: Paige (about Gideon): Who does he think he is? Obi-Wan Kenobi? Meaning: Refers to Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the main characters of Star Wars (IV, A new hope) top 6x17 Hyde School Reunion Quote: Paige: Speaking as someone who has seen "Carrie", both versions, I'd say this reunion's over. Meaning: In 1976, Sissy Spacek stared as Carrie White, an awkward teenager who had the ability to move objects with her mind. She turns prom night into a blood bath, letting all know the rage she holds inside. In the 2002 remake of the classic, Angela Bettis stars as Carrie White, the granddaughter of THE Carrie White. She learns that she, like her grandmother, can move objects with her mind. Her own prom night will be a night no one is soon to forget. top
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