Monday, December 1, 2014

Bob's Burgers Season 5 episode 5 Best Burger


Bob is competing in a best burger cooking competition on the wharf.  But he forgot to bring his special ingredient, black garlic.  He tells the kids to go back to the restaurant to go get it.  He tosses his keys to Gene.  His burger keychain can be seen.  It has been shown in several episodes.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

The Andy Griffith Show Season 3 Episode 27 Barney's First Car



Andy's lovable yet gullible sidekick Barney Fife is trying to buy his first car but may in for a different ride than he thought.  The kindly old woman selling the car gives Barney her "husband's" keychain who also just so happened to be named Barney.  It is a white rabbit's foot keychain.  Barney is so nice he tries to refuse the keychain but she won't let him.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Family Guy season 13 episode 4 Brian the Closer


Brian is hiding at a hotel to avoid Quagmire because he tricked Quagmire into buying a crappy condo.  His room key with keychain be clearly seen.  He is staying in room 12.

The Simpsons season 26 episode 6 simpsorama



In this Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode the kids are putting things into a time capsule.  Milhouse puts a rabbit's foot keychain but bart didn't bring anything.  So, he puts his sandwich in there and it just so happens that the time capsule gets buried with toxic waste and the dna from Bart's sandwich combines with Milhouse's keychain to form a rabbit/Bart hybrid monster.  It causes problems in the future which sets in motion the crossover where the Simpsons meet the gang from Futurama.  It all starts with a humble keychain.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 4



The group encounters some walkers in a auto shop and one of the members reaches for whatever is near.  In this instance it is a bathroom key with a screwdriver/icepick (hard to tell exactly) keychain.  Keychains save the day again.

Later Rick is prepping a car for a quick getaway.  They keys are in the ignition and the keychain is some kind of vinyl fob.  It is in the shape of the state of Georgia, which makes a lot of sense since the show takes place in Georgia.

Key & Peele L.A. Vice Sketch





In this parody of Miami Vice, Peele is going to drive the suspect they just apprehended to the police station but Key really does not think that is a good idea... 

Peele's purple rabbit's foot keychain can be seen for extended periods in several overly dramatic shots.



Saturday, October 11, 2014

South Park season 18 episode 3 The Cissy


South Park satirizes some of the issues surrounding transgendered prejudice.  Randy Marsh is secretly the teenage pop artist Lorde so his place of work is unsure of how to handle the situation. Especially when it comes to which bathroom he should use.  They offer him a new private executive bathroom.  The keychain for the bathroom key is a fob with an E on it for executive.

Friday, September 26, 2014

Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 1


In the very first scene of the show Rick and Shane respond to a call of a police pursuit.  Rick's keychain can be scene and it is a plain white circle with some numbers on it.  Probably police issue since it is so plain.

Psych Season 4 Episode 8 "Let's Get Hairy"



A man goes to Psych thinking he is a werewolf and asks the guys to watch him during the night. They fall asleep and it seems the man escapes and jumps through their window leaving a tuft of  hair on the broken glass.  They take the hair to Juliette for her to test.  They keep it in a keychain coin purse.  Juliette says that she had one as a kid. 

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon's love interest Deb makes and sells braided lanyard keychains with other items door to door.  She happens upon Napoleon's house and forgets her case when she runs away.  She also gave Napoleon one of her keychains in another part of the movie.

In the Line of Fire


John Malkovich plays an assassin who wants to kill the president and Clint Eastwood is the only secret service agent who can stop him.  Malkovich's character builds a plastic gun in order to get past any metal detectors. But he still must worry about his metal bullets.  In order to get the bullets past security he uses a hollow rabbit's foot keychain with them hidden inside. 

A Goofy Movie


Goofy's car keys are on a gold keychain with the Disney logo.  An interesting fourth wall break.

Speed Racer

The key and keychain to the Mach 5 race car driven by Speed Racer.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Kirby: Triple Deluxe ( video game for nintendo 3ds)


In many video games there are collectibles to gather while you play the game.  In Kirby Triple Deluxe for the 3DS (released may 2014) the collectibles to get are keychains, 256 of them. Players can obtain key chains of classic Kirby sprites in levels and look at them from the world map.  Treasure chests containing key chains occasionally appear upon returning to the rest room. The game at the end of each level can also award a key chain.

This video shows every keychain in the game.  Thanks goes to the uploader.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

The Real Ghostbusters


The ghostbusters must help the Fates get back their mystical shears which determine the length of mortals' lives.  They go to the netherworld to steal the shears back from demons but first they must get a ride from the ferryman Charon to cross the river Styx.  For the fare, the guys do not have 20 gold pieces, 40 silver pieces, a vase of purest bronze, an etching, or even a captain midnight decoder ring.  So Charon accepts what they do have, a rabbit's foot keychain and a cheese sandwich on white bread.  The ferryman is disappointed and would have preferred pastrami or roast beef.

From Hanging By a Thread Season 2 Episode 36

Saturday, May 10, 2014

South Park: The Stick of Truth





From the video game South Park The Stick of Truth; when the boys help the owner of City Wok by defeating the mongolians (mongrorians) they receive the Mongolian Treasure Key which opens a treasure box.  The keychain which the key is attached has a picture of the Mongolian flag on it.

Other keys do not have keychains attached.  At least none that I can find.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Bob's Burgers


Bob is reluctantly driving Gene to his first date (with a girl he does not even "like like") and he has his car keys out.  Bob has a burger keychain, quite appropriate. 
 From Season 3 episode 8 - The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene


Bob wants teach Tina how to drive and is giving her his keys.  His burger keychain can be clearly seen.
From Season 3 episode 7 - Tina-Rannosaurus Wrecks

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Coneheads


Beldar Conehead, played by Dan Ackroyd, is a taxi driver when the INS lead by Michael McKean's character, comes after him.  They find his keychain which has the symbol for his planet, Remulak on it. 

Monday, April 14, 2014

Family Guy Season 12 Episode 17 "The Most Interesting Man in the World"




Peter is traveling the country to become intelligent and cultured.  He rents a car with the radio stuck on NPR and then returns the keys and keychain, a plain black fob, to the car rental agency. 

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Keychain - Rory Gallagher


The hard rock song Keychain, from Rory Gallagher's eighth album Top Priority released in 1979

Deadbeat




Tyler Labine's character Kevin Pacalioglu is a medium who helps ghosts with their unfinished business.  His friend sets him up in a newstand in order to get more customers with ghost problems.  There are several keychain displays at the newstand that can be seen throughout the series. 

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Killing



An important clue in the murder of the character Rosie is her keychain.  The keychain is a brass colored metal circle with a bird inside. 

Breaking Bad







WARNING SPOILERS



In the final episode of Breaking Bad there are three keychains.

1.  Walt is trying to steal a car to get back home to New Mexico.  He finds the keys in the visor which makes things easy for him.  The keychain is a white teardrop fob.

2.  To kill his final nemeses Walt creates a automatic gun turret which is turned on by a red remote keychain.  He pushes the button and the gun activates thereby saving himself and Jesse.

3.  Jesse unchains himself with Todd's keys which has a clear plastic bottle opener keychain attached.


So, Keychains saved both of the main characters twice in the final episode of the series.  

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Stand Up Guys


Christopher Walken's character Doc writes a note for someone and leaves his keys to his apartment with the note.  His keychain is a plain metal fob.