History Main / OpeningShoutout

** The GrandFinale has a more serious fun, where Fran tells Gracie she has style and flair. Gracie responds she learned it from the Nanny.
* ''KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', as the 35th anniversary of SuperSentai, does Opening Shout Outs to other series. In episode 6, Luka (transformed into [=VulEagle=]) and the MonsterOfTheWeek quote the opening of ''TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan'', and in episode 8, Captain Marvelous says "Stop the battle!", which is the name of ''DaiSentaiGoggleFive''[='s=] ending theme.

** The aforementioned stock animation piece of Cure Black and White leaping was used in the opening for the first [[BatFamilyCrossover All-Stars movie]]... and during the scene which it happens, the camera pans to all the other Cures (except Passion, since she wasn't there when the movie happened) leaping with them.

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

* After four seasons of ''{{Farscape}}'' had culminated in a TV movie, Crichton spends one of his first scenes in that movie addressing some suspicious aliens by quoting his OpeningNarration: "My name is John Crichton, astronaut..."

* In the last Non-{{DistantFinale}} of ''DawsonsCreek'', Pacey dug up some old tapes that Dawson had made and lo and behold, it was the opening credits of the first season (sans music and credits of course).

* In the finale of ''{{Life On Mars}}'', Sam Tyler repeats the show's opening dialogue almost exactly, but in a completely different context.

* ''KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', as the 35th anniversary of SuperSentai, does Opening Shout Outs to other series. In episode 6, Luka (transformed into [=VulEagle=]) and the MonsterOfTheWeek quote the opening of ''TaiyoSentaiSunVulcan'', and in episode 8, Captain Marvelous says "Stop the battle!", which is the name of ''DaiSentaiGoggleFive''[='s=] ending theme.
* After four seasons of {{Farscape}} had culminated in a TV movie, Crichton spends one of his first scenes in that movie addressing some suspicious aliens by quoting his OpeningNarration: "My name is John Crichton, astronaut..."

* On TheDickVanDykeShow, Laura once tells Rob that she can't even count the amount of times he's tripped over the ottoman while walking in the front door - exactly as he did in the iconic opening credits.

** In "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", Bowling for Soup show up and perform a bit from the extended version of the show's ThemeTune, when a time traveling Phineas and Ferb are explaining to their future nephews what they could be doing during summer.
*** In the recent episode, "Last Train to Bustville", Phineas spots a dodo (created by Doofenshmirtz's newest machine) and produces a list containing everything mentioned in the them song, then checks it off.

* ''TheFairlyOddParents'' movie ''Abra-Catastrophe'' had this when the whole world was wished to be ruled by monkeys, not humans.

* ''PowerpuffGirls'': 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 he 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 Craig McCracken.

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* ''YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' once did a ''flashback'' to the opening.
* From ''TheAngryVideoGameNerd'', of which the theme tune begins with "He's gonna take you back to the past To play the shitty games that suck ass":
--> '''AVGN''': Ghost, why do you come to me?
--> '''Stuttering Craig:''' Why, to take you back to the past!
--> '''AVGN''': To play the shitty games that suck ass? No thanks.
--> '''Stuttering Craig:''' This is ''your'' past, nerd!
** An episode featuring Kyle Justin (who wrote and performs the theme) has him start singing it at the very end, with the nerd commenting "You bet your ass!". The episode also implies that the song was written because Justin was living behind the sofa during the Nerd's BackToTheFuture review, and overheard some of his comments, incorporating them into the lyrics.

* In episode 6 of ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', as Luka was fighting the MOTW as Vul Panther from ''Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan'', the two of them said lines from Sun Vulcan's theme song.

* One of the secret levels of ''SuperMarioWorld'' is modeled after the opening sequence.

* In an episode of ''Planetes'', Hachimaki gets "space sickness" and starts losing his mind. One of his hallucinations is of him riding a bike, as he does in the ending theme.

* In ''MadanSenkiRyukendo'''s TimeTravel-slash-RecapEpisode, Kenji is explaining to Fudou about the exploits that he has yet to do, having somehow traveled into the past. Fudou briefly imagines a title sequence to a show about him, complete with title card. Kenji quickly corrects him, leading into the {{eyecatch}}.

* Upon defeating Galactica Knight and clearing Meta Knightmare Ultra in ''{{Kirby}} Super Star Ultra'', you'll unlock a hidden video, "Fly! Meta Knight". It is, in its entirety, the KSSU opening video - except that, instead of Kirby, Meta Knight flies through Dream Land instead.

* ''{{Weeds}}'': In one episode, when Shane complains about having to go to a new school, Nancy tells him "You're going to go to school and become a doctor or a lawyer or a business executive," a ShoutOut to the school's former RealSongThemeTune Little Boxes.

* One chase scene in ''RockosModernLife'' had the characters run past the giants seen in the opening, while an excerpt of the theme song played.

* Happens in ''TheMyGymPartnersAMonkey'' episode "The Notorious Windsor Gorilla" with the credits re-done as ''My Gym Partner's a Gorilla'' and featuring Windsor instead of Jake.

**There's also this bit from "The Swiss Family Phineas":