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The Names of Characters From Other Works

posted 11 years ago by calcaneus67
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My guess is that the names of characters from other works were "Easter eggs" for certain people i.e. a person involved in the production of Sex & Death 101 had a fan or friend whose favorite movie is Vertigo so as a subtle shout out, one of the incidental characters was named Carlotta Valdez. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5994) a year ago

Carlotta Valdes was the fictional dead person in Hitchcock's film Vertigo.

Wint, Kidd, Thumper and Bambi were characters from a James Bond movie.

There was also Officer Krupke, from West Side Story.

I see that there's another thread that covers a lot more of these, and probably the trivia section of the IMDb page.