The first cultural reference for Movieoke came from the 1993 film "Arizona Dream" starring Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis and Vincent Gallo. During a talent show scene one of the characters performs a version of Movieoke (though does not mention the word movieoke). Vincent Gallo's character Paul Leger performs a step by step remake of the famous crop dusting scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" as the film is projected over him on stage. Slightly different from East Village Movieoke in that the sound of the film is still present, Gallo syncs with the actor's dialog on stage.