Media Timeline: Baby Boom

This timeline documents all real world entities attested in the Scream Roleplay Universe, focusing on the Baby Boom Generation, from the end of World War II through the mid-1960s.

By its very definition, this is an index of information you do not really need, but may be fun to know regardless. Like the other timelines in this category, you will find extensive footnotes describing how these people, objects, and creative works factor into the ongoing story.


  1. Vol. I- Chapter 5: Noah tells Audrey that even this obscure Batman villain could figure out something bad has happened to Will. ↩︎
  2. Vol. I- Chapter 9: Eliza tells Piper she dressed up as a Vampire Cher for Halloween when she was 16. ↩︎
  3. Vol. I- Chapter 8: Eliza reminds Brooke that she was in j-school during the Bush years and knows it‘s no use negotiating with terrorists. ↩︎
  4. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 23: Quinn wonders if Clark found Deputy Dwayne in Song of the South. Clark isn’t impressed at the “racialized remark”. ↩︎
  5. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 1: Audrey wears Doc Marten combat boots. ↩︎
  6. Vol. II- Chapter 4: Noah, unable to remember the names of Brooke’s various blonde friends, calls Bridget “Brigadoon”. ↩︎
  7. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 17: An informational poster about Willa Cather hangs over the door of Mr. Branson’s classroom. ↩︎
  8. Vol. II- Chapter 4: Micah named his first cat after Streetcar’s Stella. ↩︎
  9. Vol. II- Chapter 10: Noah describes the maze of identical display houses at Lakewood Estates as “like the Lady from Shanghai but without the artsy nuance”. ↩︎
  10. Vol. III- Chapter 1: Micah tells Terrance that, when he imagines quitting “this dead-end town”, “it involves a Mustang convertible with the top down and a Cat Stevens soundtrack bellowing accompaniment”. ↩︎
  11. Vol. I- Chapter 9: Noah acknowledges “GRRM is no JRRT” when comparing the respective authors’ knack for inventing fantasy languages. ↩︎
  12. Vol. II- Chapter 8: After solving one of Ghostface’s puzzles on the road to rescuing the abducted Jamie, Noah triumphantly declares the killer’s “Riddler ass” is no match for his deductive prowess. ↩︎
  13. Vol. I- Chapter 3: While trysting with Branson, Brooke playfully confuses And Then There Were None with Clue: “I think it was Miss Scarlet, in the library, with the candlestick…” ↩︎
  14. Vol. I- Chapter 4: Noah doesn’t know how his friends can expect him to go back to “movies and quips and TV Tropes and formulas and structure and the goddamn Monomythic Cycle” in the wake of Riley’s death. ↩︎
  15. Vol. I- Chapter 4: Brooke tells Riley that Kieran Wilcox’s name is “right out of a Harlequin novel”, before insisting she doesn’t read that “trash”. Riley is just glad Brooke reads. ↩︎
  16. Vol. I- Chapter 8: Trying to comfort Zach after Will’s death and Jake’s hospitalization, Brooke quips she always thought Jake and Will’s brotherly relationship was “totes gay Harlequin romance”. ↩︎
  17. Vol. I- Chapter 2/Season 1 AU: A terrified Nina wonders how Ghostface knows she was trying to use the landline to call for help. Ghostface quips “Big Brother is always watching.” ↩︎
  18. Vol. I- Chapter 4: Colin calls Richard the “Crypt-Keeper” when he busts him and Derek for weed possession. ↩︎
  19. Vol. II- Chapter 9: Noah’s password for The Morgue is ‘CryptKeeper1666’. ↩︎
  20. Vol. I- Chapter 6: Maggie tells Lorraine she knows she used to get Clark into trouble, prompting Lorraine to snap that she isn’t “Ramona effing Quimby”. ↩︎
  21. Vol. I- Chapter 6: Jake confuses the NSA with NASA. ↩︎
  22. Vol. I- Chapter 7: Eliza assumes Ghostface bought his cheap poncho at a local Dollar Tree. ↩︎
  23. Vol. II- Chapter 5: Micah observes people don’t like to speak ill of the dead, “unless they’re up there with Hitler, Stalin, and Coco Chanel.” ↩︎
  24. Vol. I- Chapter 9: When the Colonnade bathroom begins filling with poison gas, a panicking Eliza rues that she might “perish in some ridiculous James Bond death trap”. ↩︎
  25. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 17: Mr. Branson’s classroom is decorated with Lakeshore posters. ↩︎
  26. Vol. II- Chapter 1/Season 2 AU: Brooke hopes Kieran respects Emma’s boundaries once she returns to Lakewood, observing she’d hate to have to “play Oprah” between them. ↩︎
  27. Vol. II- Chapter 8: Richard interviews Tina following her dramatic escape from the Lipinski farm. He asks if she was “Kidnapped? By Roger Lipinski”, and Tina quips the fragmented sentences sound like a pick from Oprah’s Book Club. ↩︎
  28. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 25: Charlie refers to Audrey as “Vampira”. ↩︎
  29. Vol. II- Chapter 8: Ryan tells Zach “I coulda been a contender”. Zach blanks on the reference, not even knowing who Marlon Brando is. ↩︎
  30. Vol. I- Chapter 9: Noah observes that Audrey’s coded message incorporates some of Tolkien’s Elvish where she couldn’t find words in George R.R. Martin’s High Valyrian. ↩︎
  31. Vol. II- Chapter 6: Noah solemnly swears not to let Jamie hang for Haley’s murder. Audrey jokingly wonders if he’d like a King James Bible to swear on, but Noah would prefer Tolkien’s Legendarium. ↩︎
  32. Vol. III- Chapter 3: Noah fears the group is running out of time to save Zach, having done nothing but “play Lord of the Flies with each other”. ↩︎
  33. Vol. I- Chapter 7: Eliza wonders why Brooke isn’t at school, prompting Brooke to take a dig at the allegedly intrepid journalist by reminding her: “It’s Sunday, Gayle.” ↩︎
  34. Vol. I- Chapter 7: While running from Ghostface at GASLIGHT, Noah dismisses Emma’s suggestion she shoot Ghostface, quoting Ralph: “Bam! Right in the kisser!” ↩︎
  35. Vol. II- Chapter 7: Emma tells Audrey and Noah that Kieran has been acting “like a completely different person”. Noah suggests this may actually be so and asks if they’ve seen this movie. ↩︎
  36. Vol. II- Chapter 4: To keep Noah from casually talking to Zach about the day his mother was killed, Brooke suggests other topics: “lipsticks, nylons, and invitations”, the alleged worldly pleasures that kept Susan Pevensie from returning to Narnia with her siblings. ↩︎
  37. Vol. II- Chapter 8: Exploring the St. Mary’s catacombs, Zach and Ryan hear Bridget’s organ playing “farther up and further in”. ↩︎
  38. Vol. II- Chapter 3: Stavo performs some sleight of hand with Micah’s lighter. Micah, attempting to conceal his fascination, dryly notes Copperfield would be impressed. ↩︎
  39. Vol. I- Chapter 9: Noah uses comic history metaphors to describe his friendship with Audrey, citing their earlier friendship, when they were the good guys pitted against undeveloped bullies as “classic Silver Age stuff”. ↩︎
  40. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 20: Kieran tells Emma he and his father never played Risk when he was a kid. The board game is his idea of what “normal” fathers and sons do together. ↩︎
  41. Vol. II- Chapter 9: Brooke comes to release the inmates of the sheriff’s cell block, announcing “Jailhouse won’t be rockin’ much longer”. ↩︎
  42. Vol. II- Chapter 4: Seth tells Brooke he has a long way “to where he’s going”. This isn’t news to Brooke, who reminds him she’s read the CliffsNotes for Dante’s Inferno. ↩︎
  43. Vol. II- Chapter 8: Deanna taunts Harold, who is praying to Mesopotamian gods, by repeating the gibberish chorus of this song. ↩︎
  44. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Prologue: Ghostface claims to be connected to Stacy in a roundabout way, like “six degrees of Kevin Bacon”. Stacy knows Bacon as “the guy from X-Men“. ↩︎
  45. Vol. I- Chapter 6: Jake confuses the NSA for NASA. ↩︎
  46. Vol. I- Chapter 9: Brooke dresses as Madonna…specifically, Madonna in the “Like a Prayer” music video…for Halloween. Her guests, with the exception of Micah, don’t get the reference. ↩︎
  47. Vol. II- Chapter 1/Season 2 AU: Micah comments his thrifted jeans are “old as Madonna and more patched up”. ↩︎
  48. Vol. II- Chapter 4: The Lapis Lounge’s Chartreuse Chanteuse sings this standard during Tina and Seth’s chance encounter. ↩︎
  49. Vol. I- Chapter 9: Brooke calls the suave Kieran “Fabio”, not particularly complimentary. ↩︎
  50. Vol. II- Chapter 2: Stavo steals Deb Klein’s handbag…a Michael Kors…and presents it as a gift to Micah. ↩︎
  51. Vol. I- Chapter 4: Zach uses a hypothetical game between the Chiefs and the New England Patriots as a potential “B-story” to a game between the New Orleans Saints and the St. Louis Rams, when explaining the concept of the “A-story” and “B-story” in Branson’s class. ↩︎
  52. Vol. II- Chapter 10: Brooke regards her father’s corpse literally falling from above before her as the universe mocking her attempt to make “some sense of the Twilight Zone her life had become”. ↩︎
  53. Vol. I- Chapter 4: Zach uses a hypothetical game between the Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs as a potential “B-story” to a game between the New Orleans Saints and the St. Louis Rams, when explaining the concept of the “A-story” and “B-story” in Branson’s class. ↩︎
  54. Vol. II- Chapter 6: Fitz makes Micah sing “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” to prove he’s truly of the theater. Fitz is so moved by the performance that he spontaneously begins duetting with him. ↩︎
  55. Vol. II- Chapter 6: Terrance claims he caught his father weeping along to this song shortly after Micah’s visit. ↩︎
  56. Vol. I- Chapter 8: Brooke, mourning the decimation of her friend group, observes “In two weeks, we went from the Beatles to Simon and Garfunkel.” ↩︎
  57. Vol. II- Chapter 5: Sam is appalled at Brooke’s habit of talking back to her elders. Brooke cattily declares she must’ve forgotten “my Emily Post”. ↩︎
  58. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 27: Kieran tells Clark he’s been looking after himself for 17 years. Clark dryly wonders how many of those were spent in Pampers. ↩︎
  59. Legendarium- So This is Christmas: Brooke warns Jake she’ll have to take off soon, as her father’s “chestnuts” aren’t going to stay warm all night. ↩︎
  60. Vol. I – Chapter 10: A frustrated Zach tries to explain his Teen Wolf costume isn’t from the MTV series, but the one “with the dude from Back to the Future”. ↩︎
  61. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 17: An informational poster about Hemingway hangs over the door of Mr. Branson’s classroom. ↩︎
  62. Vol. I- Chapter 8: Zach mistakes Noah’s invocation of the “Despair Event Horizon” trope for the film Event Horizon, which he calls “the movie with that guy from The Matrix”. ↩︎
  63. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 28: Kieran assures Clark he’ll be getting a job ASAP, as he doesn’t want Clark to pull funds from his “Cabela haul” to look after him and Dee. ↩︎
  64. Vol. I- Chapter 4: Brooke decides that, between Gemma and Nina, it’s a miracle Tyler didn’t go “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” sooner. ↩︎
  65. Vol. II- Chapter 5: Noah wonders if Maggie is attending the Lancers baseball game as a campaign stunt, reminding her that “Nixon used to scream at the Mets”. ↩︎
  66. Vol. II- Chapter 5 and Vol. II- Chapter 6: Tina asks Eli for an opinion on her little black dress. Eli notes she looks “like she spent five minutes in a Dress Barn and gave up”. The dress is later confirmed as a “Dress Barn original”. ↩︎
  67. Vol. II- Chapter 4: Noah owns a footstool modeled after the Hulk’s fist. ↩︎
  68. Vol. I- Chapter 8: Lorraine accuses Clark of keeping “a complete arsenal in a safe I could pick up at Walmart”. ↩︎
  69. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Prologue: Stacy recalls she has picking privileges for her movie night with Brock. Brock reminds her that “with great power comes great responsibility”. ↩︎
  70. Vol. II- Chapter 10: Noah tells Jamie he has his own Spidey Sense, which he dubs “Virgin Vibes”. ↩︎
  71. Vol. II- Chapter 9: Noah frustratedly wonders if nobody has seen this film. Stavo describes it as “the movie with Sinatra and the Murder She Wrote lady”. ↩︎
  72. Vol. II- Chapter 7: Seth is appalled Tina has never seen what he considers one of the greatest films of all time ↩︎
  73. Vol. I- Chapter 8: Branson’s class moves onto The Bell Jar after finishing And Then There Were None. Audrey gives a scathing review of the novel, diminishing Plath (who died by suicide a month after the novel was published) as derivative and self-absorbed. ↩︎
  74. Vol. I- Chapter 10: Brooke wonders how Branson was able to break into her house without any of her fleeing party guests noticing. Branson says teenagers are too self-absorbed to see past their own reflections. Brooke compares this to a ‘bell jar’ and Branson exasperatedly wonders if she ever read anything he assigned. ↩︎
  75. Vol. I- Chapter 8: English class’s discussion of The Bell Jar is derailed by confusion and debate over Plath’s manner of suicide. ↩︎
  76. Vol. I- Chapter 5: Noah plays Skyrim with a mod that replaces the playable Dragonborn with Iron Man. ↩︎
  77. Vol. II- Chapter 2: Lorraine is informed that Aaron has become the second Lakewood teen in 24 hours to lapse into a coma. She frustratedly references GH, implying she’s watched the soap at some point in her life. ↩︎
  78. Vol. II- Chapter 9: Noah quotes this song’s chorus to Stavo: “It’s my party, I can cry if I want to.” ↩︎
  79. Vol. II- Chapter 5: Lipinski invokes this song during a pep talk to Ted, reminding him how Hank Aaron would use nothing but dirt on his hands to help his grip during games. ↩︎
  80. Vol. I- Chapter 8: Brooke, mourning the decimation of her friend group, observes “In two weeks, we went from the Beatles to Simon and Garfunkel.” ↩︎
  81. Vol. I- Chapter 7: Assessing the rescue party for Will, Noah observes that “the Avengers have assembled” and “all we need is Kang.” ↩︎
  82. Vol. II- Chapter 1/Season 2 AU: In the wake of Paula Henderson’s murder, Noah suggests to Brooke and Jake that the Lakewood 6 convene for an emergency meeting. Brooke quips “Avengers Assemble”. ↩︎
  83. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 24: Noah is the writer of an English paper called Dark Phoenixes: Hester Prynne, Jean Grey and the Cult of the Other in American Life. ↩︎
  84. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 25: The GW High football field is comprised of Astroturf. ↩︎
  85. Vol. II- Chapter 5: Brooke points out the Lakewood Estates are an ideal place to bury Seth, since the makeshift grave will be covered with “concrete and AstroTurf in a year”. ↩︎
  86. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 26: Teague tries to show Theodora the kissing video on YouTube, but she has to sit through a Doritos ad first. ↩︎
  87. Vol. I- Chapter 9: Noah snacks on Doritos as he hacks into the Maddox’s security system. ↩︎
  88. Vol. I- Chapter 7: Jake wears a pair of Nike sneakers to GASLIGHT. ↩︎
  89. Vol. II- Chapter 3: Fitz wonders if “Nike’s fruits have ever smelled so sweet”. Quinn misses the reference and notes he thought Adidas was sponsoring the debate. ↩︎
  90. Vol. II- Chapter 7: Lipinski plays this song ahead of his press conference. ↩︎
  91. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 15: Jake’s prized “Behemoth” is a 2015 Ford Mustang. ↩︎
  92. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 17: Noah invokes the Genovese case, and the “bystander effect” phenomenon when Riley remarks how sad it was that nobody intervened in time to save Stacy Winters. ↩︎
  93. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 26: Theodora hosted Jeopardy! style study sessions during her teaching days. ↩︎
  94. Vol. I- Chapter 10: Richard proves uncannily able to hear distant noises from the mayoral mansion, prompting Noah to wonder if his missing eye gave him heightened senses, “Because I always thought Daredevil was just bullshitting that…” ↩︎
  95. Vol. II- Chapter 4: Micah tells a roughed-up Stavo he’d been led to expect another portrait sitting. Stavo: “That was yesterday”. Micah: “And yesterday’s gone.” ↩︎
  96. Vol. II- Chapter 3: Kevin treats Emma to dinner at Arby’s, which he’s quite self-conscious about. ↩︎
  97. Vol. II- Chapter 9: Tina tells Eli “We need a shit-ton of cash like Sonny needs Cher”. ↩︎
  98. Vol. I- Chapter 7: Assessing the rescue party for Will, Noah observes that “the Avengers have assembled” and “all we need is Kang.” When the others express confusion, Noah describes Kang as “the most badass Avengers villain ever” but claims he’ll never appear in the movies because time travel is too complicated for mainstream audiences. ↩︎
  99. Vol. I- Chapter 9: Noah haplessly guesses Brooke’s Halloween costume (Madonna) is Morticia Addams. ↩︎
  100. Vol. II- Chapter 4: The Chartreuse Chanteuse sings this song during Branson and Quinn’s clandestine rendezvous at the Lapis Lounge. ↩︎