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"ref": "2002 December 13, Joss Whedon, Firefly, season 1, episode 14, Objects in Space",
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"ref": "2011 April 30, Steven Moffat, Doctor Who, series 6, episode 2, Day of the Moon",
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"ref": "2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, page 131",
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