Parodied Names in the '66 series

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clavierankh
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Don't know if this has been mentioned: In the first Shame arc Grimaldi Smith is a parody of race car driver and Indy 500 winner Parnelli Jones.
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And speaking of Shame, one episode his moll was "Calamity Jan"
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French Freddy Touché (who appeared with both Catwoman and Minerva) was a well-known fence who ran a fencing school.
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Aurora Borealis (can't believe they didn't use this , lol)
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Kathleen Freeman's character in "I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle" is named Rosetta Stone.
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I don't think this one's been mentioned:

The gun shop Shame holds up in "The Great Train Robbery," Peter's Guns & Ammo, is a takeoff on the TV series "Peter Gunn" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gunn).
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One more that we all seem to have missed: Gotham City's district attorney is mentioned in passing in "He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul" and "The Joke's on Catwoman," but his actual name is stated in "The Bird's Last Jest": Jefferson Hamfurter, clearly a spoof of Hamilton Burger from "Perry Mason."
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From the film;

"Holy Captain Nemo! They'll head for sea by way of Short lsland Sound".

Always reminds me of my years living on Long Island. ;)
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