In Citizen Kane the Snow Globe That Kane Drops at the Beginning of the Film Is Seen Again Where

Being one of the virtually famous films e'er made, Denizen Kane has had its share of parodies and homages, including its famous catastrophe. Expect Maurice LaMarche to pop up a lot.

---

Comic Books

• The Batman Chronicles #21 featured "Citizen Wayne", a Whole Plot Reference to Denizen Kane, replacing the pic characters with that of the Batman (with the inclusion of Clark Kent in the Jerry Thompson role) and a slight twist on the original ending: "Rosebud" was the name of the gun used to murder Bruce's parents.
• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck:
  • The last chapter in the saga, "The Richest Duck in the World" has most a verbatim reference of the unabridged opening, upwardly to and including the "News on the March" sequence. The opening panel "pans" through the window of Scrooge'due south big mansion and shows him sitting there with a world similar to Kane'southward, whispering the give-and-take "Goldie" (on a close up of his nib). After in that chapter, Donald even finds the original Rosebud sled in a storage room in Scrooge's money bin. Don Rosa himself was really intent on this all the manner.
  • The story "Last Sled to Dawson" makes a point of having Scrooge getting back his old sled (yes, a sled he had lost decades earlier - It Was His Sled). Donald'south nephews besides recite the end of the movie verbatim, stating that this sled represents "something he lost, or never got, or both".

Comic Strips

• Peanuts has referenced the motion picture several times, including in a Sunday strip where Linus is watching the motion picture for the starting time time on Goggle box, and Lucy spoils the ending for him by telling him It Was His Sled.

Films - Animated

• Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out: A sled with with the phrase "Rosebud" painted on information technology tin exist seen in Wallace'south basement.
• Over the Hedge: Ozzie says "Rosebud!" when he stages a hammy death scene.

Films - Live-Activity

• François Truffaut's Twenty-four hours for Dark pays tribute to the movie in a dream sequence depicting a babyhood memory of the character played by Truffaut stealing publicity photos from the movie.
• Indecent Proposal: John Gage gives a spoken communication nigh a adult female he remembers even after only seeing her once that'southward exactly the aforementioned as the spoken language Bernstein gives about a woman in Citizen Kane.
• Velvet Goldmine's narrative construction is modeled on the film, in that the reporter Stuart tries to solve a mystery about Slade, traveling around to interview Slade's lovers and colleagues, whose recollections are shown in 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s flashback sequences.
• Immortal Beloved uses a similar plot structure, taking the perspective of a reporter as he interviews several people in Beethoven'southward life to find out who his Immortal Honey is.
• Muppets Most Wanted: Pepe says that Spanish reviewers gave El Muppet Show five out of 5 jamón serranos (non knowing they were bribed), while Citizen Kane got but four.
• The shot of Rey in the hall of mirrors in The Final Jedi is a reference to a like shot in Citizen Kane.

Literature

• In the John le Carré novel Amanuensis Running in the Field, one of the British agents is running an operation on a Russian named Orson; naturally, the lawmaking-name of the operation is "Rosebud".
• In the Massive Multiplayer Crossover Angels of Music, Charles Foster Kane appears as a Bail-villain-esque adversary.
• Carlos Fuentes' novel The Expiry Of Artemio Cruz was partially inspired by the film.
• The Area: There's a quick Shout-Out in Leviathan Wakes that goes:

  "Razorback", Naomi said. "What'due south that?"
  "It's a sled," Miller replied. ^note This is really a double Shout-Out - The term sled in racing circles is shortened from lead sled, which denotes a very fast vehicle. What was the Razorback? A racing star-ship.

• In There's More Than 1 Way Home, Anna thinks that the stock footage of Crime Conquerors makes Godzilla look similar Citizen Kane.

Live-Activity TV

• NCIS: In the episode "One Last Score" they mention the building looks like Denizen Kane's house.
• Sesame Street: A 1999 Loews Theaters policy trailer, which is well-nigh the history of motion pictures, features Cookie Monster eating the Rosebud sled.
• On a tertiary-season episode of Veronica Mars, Keith is hired to discover a missing college trustee by her hubby, whose name is Budd Rose (not just that, only the missing trustee is played past Patty Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, the model for Charles Foster Kane).
• In the The Adventures of Pete & Pete episode "Sick Day", when young Pete is holding the snow globe, he utters the words "Sick Mean solar day" then gain to drop the snow world which smashes on the ground. This is nearly identical to the first scene in Citizen Kane in which Charles Foster Kane says "Rosebud."
• Blood-red Dwarf: Rimmer's death (as depicted in "Me2") is a parody of the opening scene, right downwardly to a falling slow globe and cryptic terminal words.
• In the third Rock from the Sun episode "Citizen Solomon," the storyline near Tommy becoming a School Newspaper News Hound is a Whole Plot Reference to Citizen Kane. Tommy is Kane, Alissa is Susan, Baronial is Leland, and the master is Mr. Thatcher.

Music

• Kate Bush-league's "King of the Mountain" draws parallels between Kane and Elvis Presley, amid other things surmising that Elvis Lives and is now spending his days in hiding, playing "in the snow with Rosebud." The music video furthers this by using Elvis' mansion as a framing ready similar to Xanadu, ending with a shot of Rosebud near exactly similar the one that ends Citizen Kane.
• The White Stripes paid unauthorized tribute to the pic in the vocal "The Union Forever".

Video Games

• Nancy Drew: In Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Loulou sometimes says "Rosebud..." if y'all poison her to death.

Web Original

• The Defunctland episode on Walt Disney's original vision of Epcot is framed by homages to Citizen Kane: in the opening Disney dies saying 'Epcot' and drops a model of its planned Cosmopolitan Hotel, while the end shows a picture of Disney in front of his plans for Epcot burning before cutting to a picture of him in his childhood and his childhood home, Marceline, Missouri, burning likewise, implying that Epcot, and indeed everything Disney had ever done, was an attempt to recreate his babyhood.

Western Animation

• Animaniacs:
  • 1 of the interchangeable lyrics from the theme vocal is "Citizen Kane-y!". Yakko is also holding up the Rosebud sled.
  • From the song sequence in "Video Revue"...

    There was a sled named Rosebud
    And a citizen named Kane
    He rode information technology 'till the snow was melted
    At present he's Singin' in the Rain

  • At the kickoff of the motion picture Wakko's Wish, the Warners are using the Rosebud sled as firewood.
• Crash-land in the Night: In the episode "I Dream Of Silverfish" a sled with "rosebud" written on it is shown.
• CatDog: In the episode "Information technology'due south a Wonderful Half-Life", the shut up of True cat's lips proverb "Winslow" so dropping his ball of yarn and rolling into his bedroom door in the beginning of his dream mirrors the film's opening sequence.
• Family unit Guy:
  • In a cutaway from "Screwed the Pooch" about Peter getting banned from the video store for taping over their movies, the scene cuts to a scene from the film being interrupted by the famous quote...

    Peter: It'south his sled. It was his sled from when he was a kid. There, I just saved you two long, boobless hours.

  • At the beginning of "Rich Old Stewie", there was a shout-out to this motion picture where Stewie says "Fart joke" instead of "Rosebud".
• In Garfield'south Thankgiving, Garfield'south talking calibration mockingly mistakes him for Orson Welles, and claims to have seen Citizen Kane eight times. When Garfield destroys the scale, it says, "Rosebud".
• Looney Tunes: In Coal Blackness and de Sebben Dwarfs, Prince Chawmin arrives to wake upwardly So White and makes this statement.

  I'll requite her a kiss, and it won't be a dud
  I'll bring her to life with my special rosebud

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Ponyville Confidential", Diamond Tiara becomes the editor of her schoolhouse's newspaper and makes a oral communication in front of a giant portrait of herself.
• Pet Alien: The opening is parodied with Swanky saying "Roast beef" instead.
• Phineas and Ferb: In "The Lake Nose Monster", Captain Webber whispers "Nosebud" and drops a snowglobe when he is rendered immobile by a cramp and sees the boat Nosebud heading straight toward him.
• Pinky and the Brain: A scene from "Snowball" features where Pinky, living the loftier life with Snowball simply alone without his friend, mutters "Brain" in his sleep and drops a snowglobe model of Acme Labs a la the moving picture's opening scene.
• The Real Ghostbusters: "Ghostbuster of the Yr" was a Whole Plot Reference concerning the ghost of Charles Foster Hearse, publisher of ghost-related periodicals. The entire episode hinges on Maurice LaMarche'south peerless Welles impression.
• Robot Chicken had a sketch that was a Whole Plot Reference to the movie with Britney Spears in the starring role.
• There take been so many references on The Simpsons, the staff joked that they might just recreate the entire moving picture with clips from the series.
  • Several moments from "Ii Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish", including Mr. Burns making a speech in front of a giant flick of himself, and a scene of him shouting "I'm Charles Montgomery Burns!" and trashing the Simpsons' living room.
  • In "A Streetcar Named Marge", Homer plays with a piece of newspaper while attending the play, similar to Joseph Cotten.
  • In "Marge Gets a Job", Smithers puts on a big performance at Mr. Burns' birthday party, which is a parody of the testify put on for Kane.
  • The appropriately titled "Rosebud" has a scene of Mr. Burns dropping a snowglobe in his sleep and a flashback of Mr. Burns leaving his parents for a "twisted, loveless billionaire" with a shot of his teddy conduct Bobo lying in the snow. There's even Kane's sled in the background among Burns' stuff.
  • In "Sideshow Bob Roberts", Sideshow Bob makes a speech in front of a giant picture of himself when he is elected mayor of Springfield.
  • The third segment from "Treehouse of Horror Vii" is titled Citizen Kang.
  • In "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?", the Simpsons are looking at picture show props on display at Planet Hype, and Lisa looks at "the cane from Citizen Kane" before realizing at that place was no pikestaff in Citizen Kane. ^note Actually, there is a "cane" in 1 scene.
  • In "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington", Mayor Quimby hears his mistress's screechy voice for the starting time time and laments "Now I regret edifice you lot that opera firm".
  • In the "Treehouse of Horror XVII" segment The Day the Globe Looked Stupid, Chief Wiggum threatens Orson Welles with "...and I'll punch ya in the nose, bud!", leading Welles to ponder "Nosebud".
• The Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Citizen Max" is a Whole Plot Reference to this film.
• The Critic: Jay attends a lecture on the later on works of Orson Welles. The film starts with a closeup of Welles saying Rosebud, before pulling back to reveal Welles is talking about Rosebud Frozen Peas.

---

barhamramessanies89.blogspot.com

Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ReferencedBy/CitizenKane