Even if you don’t know the details of the D.B. Cooper hijacking caper, you might have seen one of a myriad of Cooper references scattered across the pop culture landscape over the years, like so many fluttering dollar bills in the wind.
- In “Loki,” we see the title character on Northwest Orient Airlines 305. He hands the flight attendant a note and says, “I have a bomb.” Later, when Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius is debriefing Tom Hiddleston’s title character, he exclaims, “I can’t believe you were D.B. Cooper!” Loki replies, “I was young, and I lost a bet to Thor.”
- On “Breaking Bad,” when Walter White enters Saul Goodman’s office for the first time, Walter is wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses. Saul cracks, “Ah, look at you. Should I call the FBI and tell them I found D.B. Cooper?”
