"Essential Shopkeeper" Pack's Spoken Dialogue with Culture References Aplenty


It is no secret that the Spoken Dialogue files Addon was a project mainly for fun.

In addition to testing the text-to-speech capabilities of my AI assistant 

I made sure to include lines which reference modern television and gaming.

Watch the Presentation video and see how many lines seem/feel familiar,

then challenge yourself to identify the specifics of the reference.

Here is a listing of the lines included in the video and the media they reference to;


The "Essential Shopkeeper" Dialogue pack Reference quiz

List of dialogue files in video order, from 1st to 40th. 

 5 featured lines are common phrases with no specific reference...

1. Christmas has come early this year. - Inside Man, 2006

2.Unlike the eggs here, I also wasn't born Yesterday. - South Park, Kenny Dies "Just like these fetuses here, I also wasn't born Yesterday"

3.you trying to play me, Punk - DIrty Harry, You feeling lucky, Punk

4. Work hasn't been this fun since gentleman Jim Stacy ran the guild - ES3 Morrowind, Gentleman Jim Stacy is the secretive Thieves Guild Leader

5.Nobody Lays a finger on my Lobby Boy - The Grand Budapest Hotel

6.Nobody Bothered to check if weasel could swim - The Suicide Squad, After weasel Drowns

7.dont even think about it.

8. It Ain't the 80's and you're no smooth Criminal - Michal Jacksons Music Video for Smooth Criminal featuring mobsters and machine guns.

9.Neither of you knows what to say about the sexual tension - Goes Wrong Show, Courtroom Drama, Denis, known for being a terrible actor, says out loud "The sexual tension thrummed between them"

10. The Cake is a Lie - The promise of cake in the Portal series keeps you going forward.

11. A Baller like that can do anything, on anyone - China Illinois, S02E01, Frank doesn't believe the star basketball player would take pony on a date.

12. Come on, Get a firm grip on yourself - American dad, Stan's night out (Team jokes telling Dick to get a firm grip on himself)

13.I will kick you square in the Groin - South Park, Cartman threatens to kick classmates square in the nuts.

14. Looks like somebody here likes doing old ladies - South Park, Shopping Network Scams, Asian lady says this when cartman gets a "great deal" on jewelry.

15.you call that a deal - 

16. i will kick you square in the groin - 

17. The time to buy is when there is blood in the streets - Moonbeam City, Lights Camera Re enaction... Dazzles Film backer says this is true what they says

18. That price is dishonorable - 

19. Come on, Show me the money - Iconic line from 1996 Sport Comedy, jerry Macguire

20. We aint in silent hill anymore - Wizard of Oz uses "we ain't in kansas no more"

21.That price is dishonorable

22. poppycock. Disbelief... reference to brattish carmel corn company (cracker jacks)

23.Now that's one hell of a deal chicken chaser. Fable, one of the earliest titles you can buy is "Chicken Chaser"

24.Whatll it be.

25.Gil? We dont take gil here. Reference to Gil, the currency in Final Fantasy 7, among others...

26. Dont like it, go elsewhere... Reference to the rpg trope of "Solitary Trader", where each town only has 1 of each kind of merchant.

27. At that price all 9 of my kids will starve. reference to the "Born to succeed salesman" who wont hesitate to earn sympathy with photos of his alleged 5+ children

28. You want this, for that?

29.It's time, for something, new.

30.Bring it out, ill see what i can do - References weapons upgrade smiths. Able to somehow turn a weapon into a whole new one that apparently is more deadly.

31. get a firm grip on yourself (Dick) - American Dad reference

32.Hey you got the stuff?

33. You suddenly began to feel like a teenager again - American dad, where Stan is addicted to near death experiances and their visions of his life.

34.Welcome outlander, you have removed weak blood - MAd Mad 2/3, references policy of the strong ruling via combat and the weak deserving to be slain.

35.it isn't poison or anything. - West of Loathing, using oats to tame a horse you say a similar line to the horse.

36.A new tape that kills you seven days later - The Ring, follows the story of a tape that does kill you seven days after watching.

37. just a squirt of La Penache - Grand Budapest, Escaping prison the first thing gustave asks for is La penache, his signature perfume.

38.one rope and a single chocking bandanna - King of the Hill, Episode where dale buys supplies to kill a wooden dummy. He tries on bandannas at a store by putting them in his mouth and screaming.

39. Denial isn't just a club - References grief counselling joke/saying how "Denial ins't just a river in Egypt"

40. Cat beds for kittens - A simple rhyme

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