Above left: Dr. Heywood Floyd 'celebrates' his daughter's birthday by video telephone communication with her, from the space station, on his way to the moon. Above right: Floyd's little girl as she appears to him while he's conversing with her. Left: The opening 'diner scene' from Pulp Fiction. 'Pumpkin' (aka 'Ringo'), seated on the right, and 'Honey Bunny' (aka Yolanda) are getting ready to rob the diner at gunpoint. During their pre-robbery discussion, Ringo describes to Yolanda a bank robbery scenario he previously heard about. This part of their conversation appears below.
Ringo: I heard about this one bloke, he walks into a federal bank with a portable phone, he gives the phone to the teller, the bloke on the other end of the phone says, 'We got this guy's little girl. If you don't give him all your money, we're gonna kill 'er'.
Yolanda: Did it work?
Ringo: Fuckin' A it worked, that's what I'm talkin' about. Knucklehead walks into a bank with a telephone, not a pistol, not a shotgun, but a fuckin' phone, cleans the place out, and they don't even lift a fuckin' finger.
Yolanda: Did they hurt the little girl?
Ringo: I don't know. There probably never was a little girl in the first place. W-well the point of the story isn't the little girl. The point of the story is, they robbed the bank with a telephone!!
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The little girl mentioned in the Pulp Fiction diner conversation is a reference to Heywood Floyd's daughter, and the idea of robbing a bank with a telephone is a hint that A Space Odyssey's Heywood Floyd is involved in some kind of 'robbery'.
