Other inspirations are more enigmatic: what to make of a chapter recounting the teenage Peter's sojourn in a town called Cornfields, in which he becomes a bystander to the crop duster chase scene from Hitchcock's "North by Northwest"?
These points on the Van Gogh trail include the church, the mairie, the café where Vincent lodged for the last two months of his life, and the cornfield by the cemetery in which he and his brother Theo lie buried side by side.
The pilot introduces Tulip fighting off an assailant in a car as it sails through a cornfield, after which she improvises a bazooka out of coffee cans and corn whiskey.
Adults emerge midsummer, and females lay eggs in the soil of cornfields, after which the eggs overwinter in obligatory diapause.
The series makes this theme explicit in its pilot episode, in which Clark is symbolically 'crucified' in a cornfield.
And a long passage in which Ms. Goodwin describes her father turning his cornfield into a baseball diamond appears similar to a scene from the movie "Field of Dreams".
Bigness is the joke of the famous sequence in which a crop duster chases Grant through a Midwestern cornfield (above).
The resulting video, in which Galifianakis and the indie-folk icon Will Oldham drive a tractor around a cornfield while lip-synching West's hit single "Can't Tell Me Nothing," has been viewed nearly half a million times.
The pilot, written and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, has a great fight scene in which Tulip is beating up two guys while driving her hot rod through a cornfield.
Some paintings have the punch of a good illustration in a dissenting magazine, like "Wild Blue Yonder," in which a bullet trailing double helixes bursts through an ear of corn in an idyllic cornfield.
In the scene in which Lois is kidnapped by Gibson's associates, the two priests chase Peter through a cornfield, flying a crop-duster, parodying the crop-duster scene from the film.
