Fall Movie/TV Quotes
In this 1997 blockbuster, the lead yells "I'm the king of the world!" on the prow of this ill-fated ship.
Titanic
Introduced in the early 2000s, this revolutionary device promised "1,000 songs in your pocket" and fundamentally changed the way the world consumed music.
Apple iPod
This North American phenomenon sees millions of birds follow specific routes from north to south.
migration
In The Shining, the Overlook Hotel's isolation is sealed by a massive one of these, a classic fall-into-winter weather event.
blizzard
Marnie Piper learns a family secret when her grandma says, "Being normal is vastly overrated."
Halloweentown
This popular cereal has a cinnamon flavor and contains none from any actual fruit.
Apple Jacks
This 1966 classic TV special, featuring Linus waiting in a pumpkin patch, is a perennial Halloween favorite.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
This 1996 disaster film, starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, follows storm chasers studying violent wind events in Oklahoma.
Twister
In her graduation speech, one of the titular girls in this series says, “I live in two worlds. One is a world of books."
Gilmore Girls
This singer-songwriter, known for intense piano-driven alt-rock, broke out with the 1996 album "Tidal."
Fiona Apple
In Melbourne and Buenos Aires, fall happens on this day–the first of Spring in the US.
Spring Equinox
During a total eclipse of the sun, Seymour found this strange and unusual plant specimen with a hunger–for blood.
Audrey II (Little Shop of Horrors)
In Beetlejuice, this Jamaican folk song is performed by singer Harry Belafonte–and a half-dozen dinner guests.
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
Anywhere else in the world, you're getting the "hard" version of this drink created through fermentation, not just crushed apples like in the USA.
apple cider
This astronomical event marks the point when the sun crosses the celestial equator and day and night are of nearly equal length.
Autumnal Equinox
This type of powerful, large-scale coastal storm brings heavy rain and winds to the Northeastern U.S.
Nor'easter
The skeletal lead character of this movie sees winter weather for the first time and sings, "What's this?"
Nightmare Before Christmas
This crisp, sweet apple, a cross between a Macoun and a Honeygold, only came to markets in the 90s and have boomed in popularity.
Honeycrisp apple
Taylor Swift's hit "All Too Well", famously rereleased in 2021, vividly recalls a lost romance that began with this autumn accessory left at a sister's house.
scarf
In Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, fall marks the end of these large-scale seasonal wind and rain shifts caused by the differential heating of land and water.
hurricane/monsoon/cyclones