“Heeeeeere’s Johnny!” in The Shining
Stephen King has authored some of the strangest and creepiest horror books of all time. Many of his works have been made into films, one of the most infamous being The Shining. In Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the horror book, there’s an iconic moment where crazed caretaker Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) bursts through a door with an ax while playfully screaming, “Heeere’s Johnny!”
Stanley had a difficult time deciding whether to keep the improvised “Here’s Johnny” line in the movie or not. Jack was clearly paying homage to how Johnny Carson was introduced every night on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Obviously, they left the quote in the film, and the rest is history.