Idk if this is a hot take and I won't deny it can definitely get a bit cringe, but I feel like referencing things is just kind of a thing that people like to do and have done for about as long as there have been things to reference. It's not like people don't do that here too. Whomst among us has not made an ultimately not that funny joke about a spectre haunting something, yards of linen, or something to that effect?