History MythologyGag / WesternAnimation

* ''MythologyGag/YoungJustice''

* ''MythologyGag/TheLionKing2019''

* ''MythologyGag/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}''

* ''MythologyGag/LegionOfSuperHeroes''

*** This episode also contains a character called C.J. (no, [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas not that one]]), which is an obvious cartoon of Creator/ChuckJones, who directed ''Duck Amuck''.

*** This episode also contains a character called CJ (no, not [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas that one]]), which is an obvious cartoon of Creator/ChuckJones, who directed ''Duck Amuck''.

** One episode features one huge mythology gag. It's a bunch of kids telling their RashomonStyle stories about the Batman, one being 60's campy, one being Miller's Dark Knight, and at the crowning moment of funny they stumble upon a very feminine boy stroking a feather boa saying, "I love Batman, that rubber costume, the car that can drive up walls," and another kid remarks something along the lines of, "oh please give me a break Joel," an [[TakeThat/WesternAnimation obvious reference]] to Creator/JoelSchumacher and his Batman movies.

** "[[Recap/SouthParkS22E5TheScoots The Scoots]]" features several outfits from the ''South Park'' video games. Timmy wears his Mecha Timmy outfit from ''VideoGame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer'', The Goth Kids, Annie, and Bebe also wears their outfits from ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'' and several background characters wear costumes from ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole.''

** "Jesus vs. Santa", is the one the boys are working on in "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E17AVeryCrappyChristmas A Very Crappy Christmas]]".
** In the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E3ThePassionOfTheJew The Passion of the Jew]]", when Stan asks for a refund over the phone, he says that he'll get his money back like he did for ''Film/BASEketball'', a movie that Matt Stone and Trey Parker both starred in.
*** Also counts as SelfDeprecation, as almost immediately afterwards, he and Kenny both agree that is was a terrible movie.

** In the episode "A Bully for Bugs", the scene where Bugs and Daffy start arguing over whether Elmer should (respectively) eat Bugs' marshmallow rabbit or Daffy's chocolate duck is a reference to the DuckSeasonRabbitSeason scene from classic short ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'', and ends up (as you can imagine) with Daffy losing, later of that, Daffy says: "[[{{Retcon}} I will remember that just in case we ever try that again someday]]".
*** Also, the title of the episode is a reference to another classic short ''WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs''[[note]][[InNameOnly although there is nothing related to said short in the actual episode apart from the main character]][[/note]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', the Toon Plane is the same airplane from ''WesternAnimation/PlaneCrazy''.

** The song "Born to Sing" contains a reenactment of the short ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc'', with Elmer reprinsing his role as Siegfried, but the role of "[[BrawnHilda Bwunhilde]]" is taken by Lola rather than Bugs.

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** In the HalloweenEpisode "A Mid-Autumn Night's Scream", Baby Bugs' Halloween costume is adult Yosemite Sam (since he has a baby counterpart in this show), Baby Daffy's Halloween costume is WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers, and Granny's Halloween costume is Witch Hazel.
** In the song "Baby Elmer Had a Friend", Baby Elmer pulls the hunter hat from his adult counterpart out of Baby Bugs' hole.

** In the episode "A Bully for Bugs", the scene where Bugs and Daffy start arguing over whether Elmer should (respectively) eat Bugs' marshmallow rabbit or Daffy's chocolate duck is a reference to the "Duck season!", "Wabbit season!" scene from classic short ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'', and ends up (as you can imagine) with Daffy losing, later of that, Daffy says: "[[{{Retcon}} I will remember that just in case we ever try that again someday]]".

*** Also, the title of the episode is a reference to another classic short ''WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs'' ([[InNameOnly although there is nothing related to said short in the actual episode apart from the main character]]).

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** The season one finale gives the Joker some very similar lines to those in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''.

** In "Pokey Mom", Homer, after taunting a bull at a rodeo by drawing attention to Lisa and her red dress, turns to Bart for "some calming blue", then exclaiming "where's your blue shirt?", to which Bart responds, "I don't have a blue shirt" - referencing the blue shirt Bart tends to wear in [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct knockoff merchandise]].

** In the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E4EatPrayQueef Eat, Pray, Queef]]", the ShowWithinAShow ''The Queef Sisters'' aired instead of the anticipated conclusion to the ''Terrance and Phillip'' two-parter as an April Fools joke, mirroring that of the season 2 premiere "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E1TerranceAndPhillipInNotWithoutMyAnus Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus]]" airing instead of [[Recap/SouthParkS2E2CartmansMomIsStillADirtySlut the conclusion]] to the first season finale of ''South Park'', "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E13CartmansMomIsADirtySlut Cartman’s Mom is a Dirty Slut]]", which also aired on April Fools Day and caused a similar backlash.

** A season four episode features anthropomorphic rhino [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo Gennosuke]], exploring NYC when he becomes taken with a muscular punk's outfit. One "shopping" trip later, he is seen wearing the outfit: a tight yellow wifebeater, cargo pants, and an ammo belt strapped across his gut--the outfit anthropomorphic rhino Rocksteady wore in the original TMNT series. To complete the look, Casey Jones slaps a helmet on him as he leads the rhino away.

** When a never-revealed mystery person [[TheRealRemingtonSteele takes up Robin's old Red X costume]], Beast Boy speculates on who it could be--his board-o'-theories includes Jason Todd, an ex-[[LegacyCharacter Robin]] who'd similarly appropriated the identity Red Hood in the comics.

** In "Lightspeed", one of these pops up as a FreezeFrameBonus - when Mammoth comes out of a store, the candy bar he's carrying is a Lightspeed Energy Bar, the same brand that Flash shilled for in an episode of ''Justice League''. Fittingly enough, the bar is stolen out of Mammoth's hand by Kid Flash, who's being voiced by the ''DCAU'' Flash's voice actor Michael Rosenbaum.

*** Swindle mentions in passing that he has had dealings with the Vok. The Vok were incredibly powerful aliens that were the secondary antagonists in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. Later, in the season 3 episode "Decepticon Air", he mentions having dealt with the Quintessons, from the original movie and later seasons of the G1 cartoon.

*** The Decepticon team introduced in season 3 is named "Team Chaar", after the planet the Decepticons moved to after finally being expelled from Cybertron after TheMovie in G1. (Aptly enough, the Autobot team that fights Team Chaar is headed by Rodimus Prime, who [[{{Retcon}} didn't exist]] until after the movie.) It's unknown if ''Animated'' has its own planet Chaar, however.

* In the HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'', Baby Daffy's Halloween costume is WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers.

*** During one scene, Zeb [[PaperThinDisguise poses as a "Hairless Wookiee"]] in order to infiltrate an Imperial compound. Zeb's species, the Lasats, are based on early concept art for Wookiees.

** In "Breaking Ranks", Kanan and Hera go after an Imperial kyber shipment, mention of which goes all the way back to a May 1975 synopsis of an early draft of ''Film/ANewHope'' (although its own page]]. Its first actual appearance was as the MacGuffin in ''Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye'' and it's now spelled as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "kyber crystal"]]).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lincoln's plush (Bun-Bun), is a reference to the origins of the show, where everyone was a forest animal.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' episode "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" has a framed picture of {{Popeye}} on a Greenwich Village coffee house wall while "Tell Me What You See" has an appearance by Popeye's adopted ward Swee' Pea. King Features produced the Beatles' cartoon series and owns the Popeye characters.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', "Larfleeze" has a scene that (short of having the main character go ''completely'' over the edge) pays tribute to a famous comic book cover with an "orange lantern" greed-possessed Hal Jordan covering his fingers in power rings with a deranged grin on his face.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Lisa's Sax": "Tracey Ullman was entertaining America with songs, sketches, and crudely drawn filler material." That filler being the early ''Simpsons'' shorts.

** In another episode, the family is watching FOX's latest round of animated programming. Homer comments that animated shows are great for networks "because they don't have to pay the actors squat!" Flanders then walks by the window, stating that "they can replace them and no one can tell the diddly-ifference!" in an obviously-different voice (Karl Weidergott rather than the usual Creator/HarryShearer). At the time, the Simpsons' cast had been engaged in very bitter salary disputes with senior management, which included threats of firing all the active cast and hiring sound-alikes.

** In the Film/{{Transformers}} film series:
*** Bumblebee first appears next to a yellow Volkswagon Beetle, his ''[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1]]'' altmode.
*** Optimus Prime says "One shall stand, one shall fall", lifted from similar circumstances in the 1986 animated movie. In fact, ''several'' of Prime's catch phrases from the G1 series were incorporated, also including "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
*** A soundclip from Creator/OrsonWelles' ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' plays on Bumblebee's radio -- Welles provided the original voice of Unicron.
*** Optimus borrows the main gimmick of ''[[spoiler:Anime/TransformersArmada]]'' for his battle against The Fallen.
*** Jetfire as an ex-Decepticon recalls his G1 incarnations as well, particularly the cartoon version known as Skyfire, being an ancient Transformer who ultimately rejected the Decepticons' ways.
*** Megatron goes "[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Yessss.]]" twice in ''Revenge of the Fallen''.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and ''Beast Machines'':

** In ''Anime/TransformersEnergon''
*** The mysterious alien Alpha Q is based on the [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1]] Quintessons, although he only has three faces (G1 Quintessons had five). In fact, in the comic, his full name is Alpha Quintesson.
*** Rodimus' "travelling to the future" in his backstory mirrors his departure with Kup and Blurr to find a new homeworld during ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters''.
*** Shockblast dies by being stomped by Unicron, which was implied to happen to his G1 counterpart in the movie, although the scene was cut short.
*** Ironhide's mid-season redeco is based on G1 Hound, and his Japanese name is Roadbuster, after another G1 Autobot with a jeep alt-mode.
*** Bulkhead resembles G1 Springer, albeit without the car altmode, and is named Sprung in the Japanese version.
*** Downshift is designed after G1 Wheeljack, but had to be renamed since that name was already taken by an Autobot-turned-Decepticon in ''Armada''.

** ''Anime/TransformersArmada'':
*** The Mini-Con ship is buried in a mountain like the Ark in G1.
*** Hot Shot initially resembles Bumblebee, but for his MidSeasonUpgrade he gets the paint job of Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime, who appears as a separate character in the aforementioned ''Energon''.
*** Megatron's Mini-Con is named Leader-1, after the leader of the Guardians in Tonka's ''[[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots Go-Bots]]'' rival toyline.
*** Starscream's Powerlinx redeco sports G1 Thundercracker's colors, and he lampshades this with "I look like...Thundercracker!". He also has a toyline-exclusive retool as Skywarp.
*** In the episode "Portent", a dead Autobot resembling G1 Jazz is embedded inside Unicron. Maybe he didn't make it out during [[WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie the movie]] after all.
*** In "Cramp", Starscream is disintegrated by Unicron in a manner similar to his G1 counterpart.