The Melody of Oblivion is a series rife with cultural references ranging from Zen archery and Bushido to the Bible's Book of Revelation, stories of Greek Mythology, and images from Borge's "The Garden of Forking Paths" can be seen in the series.

They satirize the promise of progress through dense layering of cultural references ranging from southern church socials and women's magazines to Borges and Baudelaire.

In executing work, he uses a variety of visual references ranging from friends posing for paintings, books, and collections of images from printed colour supplements.

More than 700 quips were shoehorned into each two-hour show, with in-context references ranging from "The Flintstones" and "Gilligan's Island" to Kierkegaard and Lillian Hellman.

There are visual references ranging from Japanese woodblock prints to anime and manga, but there's also quite a bit of surrealism.

The lecture on faith and reason, with references ranging from ancient Jewish and Greek thinking to Protestant theology and modern secularity, focused mainly on Christianity and what Pope Benedict called the tendency to "exclude the question of God" from reason.

Cole's work is generally discussed in the context of postmodern eclecticism, combining references and appropriation ranging from African and African-American imagery, to Dada's readymades and Surrealism's transformed objects, and icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks, into highly original and witty assemblages.

The Notes section contains 172 references ranging from scholarly articles to the poetry of William James and the philosophical writings of Søren Kierkegaard.

The film is packed with the kind of detail that adults will like, too, with visual and verbal jokes that make references ranging from "Modern Times" to "Star Trek."