#35: My Winona
Usually, television shows don’t star such household Hollywood names anymore, so when we saw Winona Ryder show up on the screen back in season 1, I’m sure I speak for a few people that it was a pleasant surprise. And when you cast a star like her, you have to carefully thread plenty of references to her past works.
When Joyce first heads over to Mrs. Clarke’s home ‘My Bologna’, a parody of The Knack’s, ‘My Sharona’ sung by Weird Al Yankovic was playing. This is actually the song in the film Reality Bites, one of Ryder’s known films. The next involves the film Heathers… JD, played by Christain Slayter, asks Veronica if she wants a cherry or Coke Slurpee, and she asks for a cherry. We see this mirrored when Alexei, the scientist, also asks for a cherry-flavored Slurpee.