History ShoutOut / FalloutNewVegas

* In the doghouse behind Dr. Borous's house, you can find a miniature Deathclaw named [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Spike]]

* With Wild Wasteland, Dog will [[MemeticMutation OM NOM NOM]] on Ghost People.

* A domesticated mole rat in Sloan is named [[VideoGame/DragonAge Snuffles]].

* Quite a bit of ''Old World Blues'' makes subtle reference to ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', with Dr. 0 being voiced by James Urbaniak (the voice of Rusty Venture) and having his personality and many of his lines lifted directly from the show.

** Alternately, she's an Expy for an Expy, with the {{Bowdlerized}} Latino version of ComicBook/{{Fantomas}}, who's portrayed as a sneaky superhero rather than the [[Literature/{{Fantomas}} original source material]]'s CompleteMonster.

* Kudos if you noticed this one: On every single street lamp in the game, there is a tiny plate with [[VideoGame/TheElderScrolls TES]] [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion 4]].

* [[VideoGame/BioShock There's a ruthless businessman running a city he views as his own personal property and talking to you in a condescending manner over a speaker]].

* One of the One-Star Challenges added is [[VideoGame/BioShock A Slave Obeys]]. For those who never played ''Bioshock'', [[spoiler: you kill Mr. House with a golf club]].

* One of the possible perks to gain is called "Film/TheProfessional," complete with a BadassLongcoat, CoolShades, GunsAkimbo [[CareerKillers Assassin]]... and his [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking plant]].

** Alternately, she's an Expy for an Expy, with the {{Bowdlerized}} Latino version of {{Fantomas}}, who's portrayed as a sneaky superhero rather than the original source material's CompleteMonster.

* The unique variant of the Tesla Cannon known as the "Tesla-[[HarkAVagrant Beaton]] Prototype".

* A unique weapon in the game is "This Machine," named after Woody Guthrie's guitar "This Machine Kills Fascists." In response to that name, the phrase "Well This Machine Kills Commies," is written on the side of the gun.

* The challenge for killing Caesar with a knife is called "Historical Propriety", as it's a repeat of how the original Caesar went down. Bring Arcade Gannon for added bonus, as he has the historical knowledge to appreciate your effort.

* A unique weapon in the game is "This Machine," named after Woody Guthrie's guitar "This Machine Kills Fascists". In response to that name, the phrase "Well This Machine Kills Commies" is written on the side of the gun.

* A pretty darn obscure one is the New Vegas Samurai trophy/achievement. [[Film/SixStringSamurai Look at the Vault Boy picture]].....

* One of the possible perks to gain is called "Film/TheProfessional", complete with a BadassLongcoat, CoolShades, GunsAkimbo [[CareerKillers Assassin]]... and his [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking plant]].

* A unique weapon in the game is "This Machine", named after Woody Guthrie's guitar "This Machine Kills Fascists". In response to that name, the phrase "Well This Machine Kills Commies" is written on the side of the gun.

** On the wall in Cottonwood Cove (a Caesar's Legion outpost) is graffiti reading "[[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Romanes eunt domus]]".

* It was cut from the final game, but the game files show that there was supposed to be a creature that could only be encountered in Wild Wasteland: A unique Fire Gecko that had it's own unique breath weapon, was 3 times larger than normal fire geckos, and could best the Legendary Deathclaw in combat, making it the most powerful creature in the game. When spawned with the console it's just "Gecko," but its name in the editor is [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Gojira Gojira]]. [[note]]Best said [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} in the tone of a terrified Japanese citizen witnessing a giant nuclear lizard]] [[/note]]

* Again with Wild Wasteland, but the first time you kill a ghost person with Dean present, he'll remark: "[[Film/EvilDead He's not dead, it's a trick. Get an axe.]]".

* With Wild Wasteland, one of the tribals is named "Two-Bears-High-Fiving". This is in reference to a rather peculiar ''New Vegas'' mod. The mod's author was apparently very bothered by the fact that there's no dialogue that states one of the Rorschach ink blots Doc Mitchell examines you with looks like two bears high-fiving. [[http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=36850 Said mod is solely dedicated to adding that single dialogue line in.]]
** Also with Wild Wasteland, talking to White Bird the shaman about the Rite of Passage causes him to say "Take drugs, kill a bear", a reference to the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/advice-dog#.TpjMm7K9Zvc Advice Dog]] ImageMacro.

* The Y-17 Trauma Override Harnesses (with Wild Wasteland) will occasionally say [[Series/DoctorWho "Hey, who turned out the lights?"]].
* The Book Chute telling you how to do your own "re-indoctrination" which needs [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour "a cage that fits over your head and a bag full of mole rats"]]. You also find his backup Personality Module in House #101. Plus, he's one big shout out to Fahrenheit 451.

* In the doghosue behind Dr. Borous's house, you can find a miniature Deathclaw named [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Spike]]

** Another assassination-related Challenge is "[[Film/ThreeHundred Even A God-King Can Bleed]]", which you get for nailing Caesar in the head with a throwing spear.

* There's a challenge for killing either NCR or Legion assassination teams with cowboy-style weapons called "[[TheOutlawJoseyWales Dyin' Ain't Much of a Living]]".

* You can find a farm with two damaged farmhouses, a pickup and burnt down house with a dead body. Upon finding all four pages of the body's diary (one on the truck, one in each farmhouse, one in the house) you will learn that his parents were turned into Feral Ghouls, he killed them, and then thought that [[AnimalFarm the animals were plotting to kill him and take over the farm]].
* A criminal with a love for explosives with the last name Cobb, first initial J? [[{{Firefly}} Where have I]] [[Film/{{Serenity}} heard that before?]]

* A drug addict expresses surprise and disbelief at [[AustinPowers seeing corn in his... waste]].
* A domesticated mole rat in Sloan is named [[DragonAge Snuffles]].

* "[[EvilDead Good? Bad? The guy with the gun calls the shots.]]"

** This also doubles as a ShoutOut for the title character of TheBarberOfSeville.
* The Shotgun Surgeon perk likely alludes to the following MexicanStandoff dialogue from ''KillBill'':

** Also he orders unit 4 to back up unit 8, unit 15 to back up unit 16, and [[JJAbrams unit 23 to wait for backup from unit 42]]
* House's obituary contains a small shout out to {{Lolita}}.

* Listen awhile to Jerry The Punk come up with poetry he asks himself [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer "What rhymes with indulgent? ...Effulgent?"]]

-->[[StarWars Everything's fine here, thank you. How are you?]]

* One of the sidequests involves a former Omerta trying to free his "dancer" girlfriend from her life at Gomorrah and running as far away from New Vegas with her as possible. His name? [[CarlitosWay Carlito]].

* The name of one of the casinos, Gomorrah, could possibly be a shout out to a joke from ''SisterAct.''

* [[ReturnOfTheLivingDead Trash wants to be a ghoul.]]

* [[BioShock There's a ruthless businessman running a city he views as his own personal property and talking to you in a condescending manner over a speaker]].

* When speaking to Loyal about his sonic emitter, if your Science skill is too low to help him figure out how to make it work, you can say [[ThisIsSpinalTap "Oh. Does it have a dial or something? Turn it up to 11!"]]

* Kudos if you noticed this one: On every single street lamp in the game, there is a tiny plate with [[VideoGame/TheElderScrolls TES]] [[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion 4]].

* Speaking about weapons, ''That Gun'' got its name because... well, it's ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin That]] [[DiskOneNuke Gun]]'' from Fallout 2.

* In Nipton you find a pair of clothed, charred corpses outside of a house named [[StarWars Owen and Beru]].
* One of the more subtle Wild Wasteland occurrences is when you're exploring a disappearance in the casino of the White Glove Society: you discover the body of a fellow detective, a sunglasses-wearing man by the name of [[CSIMiami Caruso]].
* Also, at the basement of the church in Searchlight, one can acquire [[strike: five]] [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail three Holy Frag Grenades]].

** Even better, you can also hear [[Film/{{Aliens}} "Gmae over, man, game over!"]]
* It was cut from the final game, but the game files show that there was supposed to be a creature that could only be encountered in Wild Wasteland: A unique Fire Gecko that had it's own unique breath weapon, was 3 times larger than normal fire geckos, and could best the Legendary Deathclaw in combat, making it the most powerful creature in the game. When spawned with the console it's just "Gecko", but it's name in the editor is [[{{Godzilla}} Goj]][[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Gojira ira]].

* Again with Wild Wasteland, but the first time you kill a ghost person with Dean present, he'll remark: "[[ArmyOfDarkness He's not dead, it's a trick. Get an axe.]]".

* The entirety of the Sierra Madre itself -an abandoned 'town' surrounded by an ominous fog, populated almost exclusively by unkillable EldritchAbominations, and people who're trapped there without realizing [[spoiler: they're dead]], where radio static warns of imminent danger- will seem [[SilentHill very familiar to certain people]].
* Sinclair's revenge plan for [[spoiler:Dean Domino]] is a reference to EdgarAllanPoe's story The Cask of the Amontialldo. In it, a man entombs a fellow nobleman alive. Sinclair even refers to [[spoiler:Dean]] as Fortunato, the nobleman from the story, in the note he leaves in the vault, which is programmed to slam shut and lock after it is read.

* With Wild Wasteland, Dr Mobius will mention that he has several '[[PlanNineFromOuterSpace Plan 9s in place.]]'

* Quite a bit of ''Old World Blues'' makes subtle reference to TheVentureBros, with Dr. 0 being voiced by James Urbaniak (the voice of Rusty Venture) and having his personality and many of his lines lifted directly from the show.

* Dr Borous said he created Nightstalkers and Cazadores back before the war, he can't remember exactly when, but [[StreetFighter he remembered]] [[ButForMeItWasTuesday it was Tuesday]].
* In the doghosue behind Dr. Borous's house, you can find a minituare Deathclaw named [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Spike]]

* [[spoiler: Nuking both NCR and the Legion]] at the end of ''Lonesome Road'' with Wild Wasteland on will turn a part of Ulysses' closing narration into an almost word-for-word reference to the infamous ending of [[spoiler: PlanetOfTheApes.]]
* With the Wild Wasteland perk, the Fist of Rawr Deathclaw Gauntlet becomes the [[FistOfTheNorthStar Fist of the North Rawr]].

* FanFilm FalloutNukaBreak gets one in this DLC, before it's even released! A new unique rebar club is added in the game. It's name? The Nuka Breaker.

* One of the One-Star Challenges added is [[{{Bioshock}} A Slave Obeys]]. For those who never played Bioshock, [[spoiler: you kill Mr. House with a golf club]].
** Another assassination-related Challenge is "[[ThreeHundred Even A God-King Can Bleed]]", which you get for nailing Caesar in the head with a throwing spear.
* Two of the other One-Star Challenges added - namely, "The Same Could Be Said of All Religious Weapons" and "You Don't Belong In This World!" - are taken from the [[MemeticMutation (in)famous intro]] of CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight.
* The special move for the Katana is called Unlabored Flawlessness. Unlabored Flawlessness is one of the most powerful weapons from the first game of the Xbox NinjaGaiden series.

* There's a challenge for killing either NCR or Legion assassination teams with a revolver called "[[TheOutlawJoseyWales Dyin' Ain't Much of a Living]]".

* One of the possible perks to gain is called "TheProfessional", complete with a BadassLongcoat, CoolShades, GunsAkimbo [[CareerKillers Assassin]]... and his [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking plant]].

* During the quest "How Little We Know" you meet a man who's indebted to the [[TheMafia Omertas]] because they helped him cover up his accidentally killing a prostitute during a drug-induced blackout. [[Film/TheGodfather Now why does that sound so familiar?]]

* A criminal with a love for explosives with the last name Cobb, first initial J? [[{{Firefly}} Where have I]] [[{{Film/Serenity}} heard that before?]]

* [[MetalGearSolid One of the brains you can heal Rex with comes from a dog named Rey.]]

* You can find a {{BFS}} made of a car bumper that's about seven feet long. What's it called? The [[FinalFantasyVII Bumper Sword]].

* Kudos if you noticed this one: On every single street lamp in the game, there is a tiny plate with [[TheElderScrolls TES]] [[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion 4]].

* Let's just say that [[SomethingAwful Goons]] will be playing in utter glee with an appearance from Johnny Five Aces and company, not to mention the YCS/186 Gauss Rifle. Your Console Sucks is a subforum on SA, and its ID number is 186.

* Sinclair's revenge plan for [[spoiler:Dean Domino]] is a reference to [[EdgarAllanPoe Edgar Allan Poe's]] story The Cask of the Amontialldo. In it, a man entombs a fellow nobleman alive. Sinclair even refers to [[spoiler:Dean]] as Fortunato, the nobleman from the story, in the note he leaves in the vault, which is programmed to slam shut and lock after it is read.

* You can find [[{{Futurama}} Seymour]] with Wild Wasteland.

* One of the challenges is "[[BladeRunner A Benefit or A Hazard]]," for destroying robots with That Gun, which was designed to resemble Deckard's gun from ''BladeRunner.''

This is just a small sampling of {{Shout Out}}s featured in ''FalloutNewVegas'', a game which carries the proud tradition of [[{{Fallout}} its series']] tendency of being heavily ReferenceOverdosed. [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_cultural_references Here is a more complete list]].

* Ralph from Mick and Ralph's says "Like I always say, [[RobertAHeinlein a polite society is an armed society."]]

* The Book Chute telling you how to do your own "re-indoctrination" which needs [[NineteenEightyFour "a cage that fits over your head and a bag full of mole rats"]]. You also find his backup Personality Module in House #101. Plus, he's one big shout out to Fahrenheit 451.

** You can even find miniature versions of the Walking Eye with the Wild Wasteland perk.

* In the doghosue behind Dr. Borous's house, you can find a minituare Deadthclaw named [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Spike]]

* A random NPC will mention a [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus vicious gang of]] [[http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/grannies.htm old ladies]]. You may then get attacked by three of them.
** On the wall in Cottonwood Cove (a Caesar's Legion outpost) is graffiti reading "[[MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Romanes eunt domus]]".

* Also, at the basement of the church in Searchlight, one can acquire [[strike: five]] [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail three Holy Frag Grenades]].