History Main / OpeningShoutOut

* In one episode of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' when Goku is fighting Cell, while powering up he goes on to make the exact same movements he does during the anime's first opening theme song, with the key difference being that here he's in Super Saiyan form.

But there's one lucky hombre who can make the build machines!\\

** A ''ComicBook/BartSimpson'' story has the family cat Snowball II gaining superpowers after [[ILoveNuclearPower swallowing a plutonium rod]]—specifically, the one Homer threw out his car window after finding it caught in his shirt collar.

* In the opening narration of ''Series/RemingtonSteele'', Laura recounts how she "invented a superior... now I do the work and he takes the bows." In one episode, she needs to convince someone that she wants to betray her boss, which she does by complaining "I do the work, he takes the bows. The guy wouldn't even exist without me, I practically ''invented'' him!"

[[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] can reference pretty much anything -- another person, another work of fiction, even [[CallBack another episode of the same show]]. One very popular target is to call back to the show's own opening sequence. Because a show's opening is well-known to the viewers, the joke requires zero setup. It's an instant punchline. For another thing, it [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall nods towards the fact]] that [[FourthWall the show is, in fact, a show]], and that certain things are always the same, without fully [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaking stride]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In the episode "Oops, I Did It Again," after the Professor tiredly accepts his fate as the "accidental professor," the beginning of the subsequent DreamSequence is like the opening of the show, except there's no accidental injection of Chemical X, and the girls turn out to be the "Run of the Mill Girls," who "dedicate their lives to just hanging around and doing nothing extraordinary." Unlike most of the examples here, this one is a more complete replicate of the opening, even including a "Created by the Professor" credit in place of Creator/CraigMcCracken.

** A crossover with the ''ComicBook/Futurama'' comic did one to ''that'' show's intro, in which Lisa remarks on a billboard in New New York and Fry comments that Leela crashes into it "every week."

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** A pivotal plot point in "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" is that Maggie, who in the intro [[BaitAndSwitch briefly appears to be driving Marge's car]], ''actually'' ends up at the wheel.

** In "Fortune Cookie", Filbert, who is cursed with bad luck, decides to go on with playing on the game show he was chosen for. Naturally, when he spins the wheel, it goes off its hinges and starts to go on a rolling rampage of destruction, running over various scenes, including the last part of the opening sequence (where everybody's chasing Rocko), cutting off the theme song as it does so.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLifeStaticCling Static Cling]]'' sees Rocko, Heffer, and Filbert going through an modernized version of the intro during their montage of getting used to the new O-Town.

* In the end of the final episode of ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'', [[TagalongKid Anna]] decides that a song should be written about the main hero. She proceeds to start doing the monkey dance, something she infact does do in the opening. She also starts singing the opening song.

** In another episode, in one of his drunken stupors, Peter makes a nod to the controversy regarding the lyric "laugh and cry" being [[{{Mondegreen}} misheard as]] "f-ing cry".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouseMovie'', Morag quotes the theme song while complaining to Angus about the Louds' presence at the castle.

* In ''Videogame/SonicGenerations'' the opening cutscene to the fight against Shadow is a clear nod to the opening of ''Videogame/SonicAdventure2''.

** The GrandFinale re-enacts the final sequence of the intro, with Elena greeting a crowd of guests in her throne room and lighting up the Scepter of Light while surrounded by her friends and family at the throne.

*** Similarly, in "Grift Of The Magi", [[ItMakesSenseInContext Lisa gets in trouble for studying different subjects in class]], so we cut to her writing the lines "I will not do math in class" in a shot similar to that showing Bart in the opening.

** Done again in "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays", when Ms. Krabappel tries to make Bart go home (It's complicated. Maggie has gotten addicted to an annoying children's show. Okay, maybe not ''[[ItsALongStory that]]'' complicated). Bart is so terrified of it that he begs her to make him write some convoluted standard on the blackboard; she responds with "People got tired of that chalkboard gag ''years'' ago!"

** In "And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids", Mr. Ratburn's class is going to be on TV, and Francine doesn't think Brain will be very entertaining. An ImagineSpot shows Brain in the show's intro. He begins "walking down the street" like the intro usually begins, but he quickly stops to sit down and think, stopping the song.
** Later in the same episode, Buster takes the place of Arthur when he's in the TV and says "Hey! D.W." and she yells "Hey!". Instead of falling backwards, Buster falls forward and out of the TV. [[TheTelevisionTalksBack This prompts D.W. to exclaim that she was right and tiny people do live inside the TV]].

** In "The Making of Arthur", Creator/MattDamon wants to make ''Arthur'' into a real TV show. The first thing he wants to record is Arthur walking down the street with Pal... which describes the theme song.

* One episode of ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' repeats the entire OpeningNarration describing the premise of the show.