History ShoutOut / FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends

* At the end of "Bloo Superdude & the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome" a hallucinating Frankie imagines herself in a science fiction scene very reminiscent of ''{{Barbarella}}... a movie, it should be noted, that is [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar very nearly porn]].

* "Destination Imagination". [[FridgeBrilliance The first clue]] thats something is wrong when the gang wakes up in the house, the carpet is the same as the one in ''TheShining". This pattern appears again at the hotel in "Pranks for Nothing".

* One episode features an imaginary creature similar to [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]], complete with lightning powers.

* "Challenge of the Superfriends" contained some pretty blatant references to [[StarWars Revenge of the Sith]]. Bloo is clearly meant to be an expy of Darth Vader in this, with Nemesis an expy of Darth Sidious.

* In the pilot movie, three characters appear based on [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ed, Edd, and Eddy.]]
* In "Duchess of Wails", the battle at the end is an obvious rip off of the Battle of Helm's Deep in Literature/TheLordOfTheRings. Complete with Madame Foster as an {{Expy}} of Théoden and Wilt sliding on a shield!

* One episode features an imaginary creature similar to [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]], complete with lightning powers.

* In one episode, Frankie is basically saying that Mac needs to calm down. Bloo then adds, "Yeah, Mac. [[Music/{{FrankieGoestoHollywood}} "Frankie says relax."]]

** In the pilot movie, whle Wilt, Coco and Eduardo are taking Mac and Bloo showing them allmthe imaginary friends, Mojo Jojo appears while Wilt is talking about "unimaginarive friends" that kids just copy off of TV.

* In "Duchess of Wails", the battle at the end is an obvious rip off of the Battle of Helm's Deep in TheLordOfTheRings. Complete with Madame Foster as an {{Expy}} of Théoden and Wilt sliding on a shield!

* When Mac has finally been tracked down after running naked through the town on a sugar high, he winces at the spotlights on him, rasping out "[[LordOfTheRings It burns us!]]"

* In "Duchess of Wails", the battle at the end is an obvious rip off of the Battle of Helm's Deep in TheLordOfTheRings. Complete with Madame Foster as an {{Expy}} of Theoden and Wilt sliding on a shield!

* In "Mac Daddy", when Bloo is trying to get rid of Cheese, he says to him, in a very sinister tone: [[Film/{{Saw}} "Wanna play a game?"]]

* There's a [[PunnyName telegraph friend]] called [[{{Morrissey}} Morsey]] who talks in either Morse code, or lyrics from TheSmiths songs.

* In the pilot movie, three characters appear based on [[EdEddNEddy Ed, Edd, and Eddy.]]

* Plenty of shout-outs to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' as well, though. For instance, the villain from the video game Bloo plays is called "Lord Beeblebrox" and the two nerdy scientists who study Coco are called Douglas and Adam, respectively. Adam wears a blue t-shirt with the number 42 on it.

* Plenty of shout-outs to ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' as well, though. For instance, the villain from the video game Bloo plays is called "Lord Beeblebrox" and the two nerdy scientists who study Coco are called Douglas and Adam, respectively. Adam wears a blue t-shirt with the number 42 on it.

* There's a [[PunnyName telegraph friend]] called [[{{Morrissey}} Morsie]] who talks in either Morse code, or lyrics from TheSmiths songs.

* There's a [[PunnyName telegraph friend]] called [[{{Morrissey}} Morsey]] who talks in either Morse code, or lyrics from TheSmiths songs.

* Frankie's T-shirt (that she wears 99% of the time) has a Stylized image of the PowerPuffGirls.

** Another shout out to ''SuperMarioBros'' occurs during a chase scene, where a SheetOfGlass is being carried by two guys who are ''clearly'' Mario and Luigi.

** Another shout out to ''SuperMarioBros'' occurs during a chase scene, where a SheetOfGlass is being carried by two guys who are ''clearly'' Mario and Luigi.
* In a halloween episode, Bloo turns white (he's sick) and everyone believes that he's a ghost. Coco picks up a phone.
--->'''Wilt:''' Who you gonna call?
--->'''Coco:''' [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} Co-coco!]]
--->'''Wilt:''' Nah, they've been out of business for years.

* 2 of the biggest Shout Outs to VideoGames in Western Animation history: A chase scene in the pilot episode resembles the game ''{{Pac-Man}}'' to high degrees (which was easy, since Bloo looks just like one of the ghosts from this game). Later, in ''Destination Imagination'', there's a longer scene that looks exactly like an NES ''SuperMarioBros'' game, complete with Mac growing upon eating a... not mushroom, but pumpkin. The only real differences are said pumpkin and the appearances of some enemies. Oh, and there also was a game called ''[[MortalKombat Immortal Wombat]]'' in another episode.

* In the GrandFinale, one of the names signed on Coco's card for Mac is [[WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}} Big Fat Baby]].
* [[DouglasAdams Douglas and Adam]], the guys who studied Coco. Adam even had a '42' sweater! And in another episode, Bloo played a video game featuring a character called [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy "Lord Beeblebrox"]].
* There's a scene in "Bus the Two of Us" which has a hitchhiker wearing a bathrobe holding a sign that says "Magrathea." In the same episode, there is a Star Wars shout out when Mac throws money for a toll out the window and misses to which Bloo responds "Negative. It only impacted on the surface."

* "Bloo's Brothers" had lots of children imagine clones of Bloo, although each one looked/sounded/acted slightly different than him. In a rapid montage of the clones, [[http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/8/87/Bloostar.PNG one appeared]] that was very similar to WebAnimation/HomestarRunner

* In "Duchess of Wails", the battle at the end is an obvious rip off of the Battle of Helm's Deep in TheLordOfTheRings. Complete with Madame Foster as an {{Expy}} of Theoden and Wilt sliding on a shield!