The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Pretty much anything goes.
Garden State, Office Space, High Fidelity, Serenity, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Princess Bride, Big Lebowski, Rushmore and the like, more as I think of them.
M*A*S*H, MacGyver, Deadwood, MythBusters, Battlestar Galactica, ATHF, Good Eats, Roseanne, The A-Team, MXC, Jeff Corwin, Firefly
Anything by Bill Bryson. 1984. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Reference books of all sorts, dictionaries are particularly good readin'.
Thomas Jefferson, George Hayduke, Floyd Collins, Harold Holt, Danny Wallace and his cult, Professor Julius Sumner Miller. Hrmph, one of those is fictional.