Holy hell! Clues to Lost are popping up on other networks! OK, it's not really a clue. It's more of a shout-out. But still, that's pretty cool. Sunday night's episode of The War at Home on FOX showed the feuding family flying to Florida in an Oceanic Airlines jet. As you can see from the screen grab, the actual Oceanic symbol was not on the plane, just the name.
If you're keeping track, I believe this makes the third non-ABC show that has given a nod to Lost. The numbers appeared in Veronica Mars on January 25th and Dwight on The Office mentioned The Others in the 'Boys and Girls' episode on February 3rd, and even blogged about his Lost theory. Of course, Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 was also mentioned in Alias way back during season one of Lost.
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4-17-2006 @ 8:01AM
Jonathan Toomey said...
Wait, which Alias S1 episode had Flight 815 in it? I've watched the first season way too mnay times and I don't recall this at all..
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4-17-2006 @ 9:28AM
Joel Keller said...
Anna, Oceanic has been the standard "Generic Airline Name" on TV for years and years. I remember there being a hijack or some other sort of airplane-in-distress TV movie from the 90's that had Oceanic as the airline name.
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4-17-2006 @ 11:55AM
Guillermo said...
Check out the wikipedia entry for Oceanic Airlines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_Airlines
Joel, that movie is Executive Decision, with Kurt Russell and [about 5 minutes of] Steven Seagal.
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4-17-2006 @ 11:55AM
B said...
John: Alias mentioned it during Season one of Lost, not season one of Alias.
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4-17-2006 @ 11:55AM
John said...
Yea, I think you are giving the show WAY too much credit. Oceanic is a standard. They used it in Executive Decision and that was many years before Lost was ever thought of.
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4-17-2006 @ 12:01PM
Anna said...
Sidney Bristow was in LAX and the announcement for Oceanic Flight 815 to Sydney came over the loudspeaker (why it has the same number flight there and back, I do not know!)
Does anybody know if last night's shot of the plane was reused footage?
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4-17-2006 @ 12:18PM
Joel Keller said...
Guillermo: Thanks! I *knew* I remembered seeing it somewhere.
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4-17-2006 @ 12:38PM
Lampbane said...
According to that Wikipedia entry (which I've read before), the War at Home used stock footage from Executive Decision. The font is all wrong for Lost anyway.
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4-17-2006 @ 2:12PM
Holly Kim said...
Acutally, there is another reference. Hurley's numbers appeared on Tripping the Rift. The episode (I don't remember the title right off the bat) that had Six's "mother" on it.
The numbers were in the opening when Chode was in line at the Post Office.
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4-17-2006 @ 3:10PM
Justin Spalding said...
Dont forget about the Veronica Mars ep. that has the "numbers" on a fortune cookie
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4-17-2006 @ 4:18PM
Heather said...
Veronica Mars also gave LOST a shout out when Veronica's fortune cookie had Hurley's infamous numbers on it. This was in the episode Donut Run.
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4-17-2006 @ 4:22PM
Heather said...
Another crossover: In the fourth season of "Alias" (during the second episode, I believe) Driveshaft's song "You All Everybody" was playing in the background of a party at Sydney's house. Driveshaft, of course, is the band that Charlie from "LOST" was in.
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