History ShoutOut / FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends

* 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 "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers It burns us!]]"

* The forest cottage Eduardo gets sent to in "Read 'Em and Weep" resesmbles the one in ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.

** Later on, the show is revealed to have been created by an animated version of [[Creator/CraigMcCracken McCracken]], who is voiced by himself.

* 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 "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings It burns us!]]"

** ''The Buck Swaps Here'' has [[SuperMarioBros two mustached guys wearing red and green]]. The heights are there, and the mustaches are the same styles. It would be crazy to think of it a coincidence.

** ''Destination Imagination'' has a game level suspiciously like in the [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] games. Complete with snails replacing koopas, piranha plants, a growth item that comes out when Mac jumps under a block, and an item that makes Eduardo invincible for a short while (complete with power up music)!

* As a bit of self-referential humor, the episode "One False Movie" references the creators of the show. The titular protagonist of Eduardo's favorite show "Lauren is Explorin" is named after the series's lead writer, Lauren Faust, who is also the wife of the series's creator [[Creator/CraigMcCracken]].

* As a bit of self-referential humor, the episode "One False Movie" references the creators of the show. The titular protagonist of Eduardo's favorite show "Lauren is Explorin" is named after the series's lead writer, Lauren Faust, who is also the wife of the series's creator Craig McCracken.
** Later on, the show is revealed to have been created by an animated version of McCracken, who is voiced by himself.

* Another from ''Destination Imagination'' is the big gem. It's a lot like the old [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic games]], where you feel accomplished winning the emerald and freeing a cute critter.

* {{Peanuts}} references, galore!

** The pilot episode, ''House of Bloo's'' shows a GameBoy Advance in Mac's apartment.

* Mac names one of the [[spoiler:imaginary]] puppies in ''Who Let The Dogs In?'' "Buckaroo." Craig [=McCracken=] has cited ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'' as his favorite movie.

-->'''Wilt:''' Who ya gonna call?\\

* Also in that episode, when looking for the ghost, Wilt says, "That Phantom Menace!", namedropping one of the Star Wars films.

* 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 ''Film/{{Barbarella}}''... a movie, it should be noted, that is [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar very nearly porn]].

* A fair few to ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls,'' both being made by Craig [=McCracken=], as well as to many, many other pop culture phenomena, too many to list.

* There's a resturaunt called "[[GoodBurger Nice Burger]]".

** In ''Emancipation Complication'', Bloo plays game similar to a Game Boy. The title of the game was [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Factory 6]].

** In ''Emancipation Complication'', Bloo plays game similar to a handheld ''Tiger Electronics'' device. The title of the game was [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Factory 5]].

-->'''Bloo:''' [[BluesBrothers It's a hundred and six blocks to Mac, I've got a full bladder, half a mind where I'm going, it's Tuesday and I'm wearing]] [[CoolShades sunglasses.]]\\

* In "Dinner is Swerved", Mac and Bloo are opening doors along a hallway, one of which reveals a steam locomotive speeding right for them. They shut the door just in time, exactly copying a gag from Ringo's house in ''Film/YellowSubmarine''.

** Doubles as a PacMan reference. Bloo looks like Inky, and he turns into a white 'ghost'.

* A videogame called [[MortalKombat "Immortal Wombat"]] in ''Affairweather Friends'' and a movie called [[Film/SpaceJam "Astro Slam"]] (with [[OutOfJimmysHead Golly Gopher]] on the poster) in ''Good Wilt Hunting''.
* In the pilot movie, there's a bit where the now legless Extremasaur is chasing Bloo around the dump. It switches to an overhead view and looks like something out of Pac-Man. Not to mention Bloo's ghost shape. But why is Pac-Man chasing the ghost? Well he's Bloo isn't he?

* In the episode titled [[Film/TheBigLebowski "The Big Lablooski"]] don't these guys look familar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WvebOHjl8&feature=related

* In ''Bloo Tube'', we see Bloppy Pants' band, Pizza Party, attempting to film a music video on treadmills. When Bloo distracts them and they fail, Yogi Boo Boo says, [[Main.OKGo "Okay GO... again."]]

* The sequence of Jackie running through a suburban house trying to fend off his new family's cat in "Read 'Em and Weep" is an extended shout-out to TomAndJerry, with several familiar gags. The lady of the house even resembles Mammy Two-Shoes.
* The episode titled ''Squeakerboxx'' is a pun on the Music/{{Outkast}} album ''Speakerboxx/The Love Below''.

* "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 ''Film/TheShining". This pattern appears again at the hotel in "Pranks for Nothing".

* 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]].

** 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 "unimaginative friends" that kids just copy off of TV.

* Mac names one of the [[spoiler:imaginary]] puppies in ''Who Let The Dogs In?'' "Buckaroo." Craig McCracken has cited ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'' as his favorite movie.

* A tall basket ball player named Wilt? C'mon guys, that's an easy one.
** Quite interestingly, this basketball player also claimed to have sex with over 20,000 women...

* In "Cookie Dough", Frankie, while chowing down on Madame Foster's cookies, is crazily shouting [[Series/SesameStreet "COOKIE! COOKIE! COOKIE! ME LOVE COOKIES!"]]

* The episode titled ''Squeakerboxx'' seems to be a shout out to the Outkast album ''Speakerboxx/The Love Below''.

* The founder of their town is Elwood J. Dowd, who was the one who saw [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Harvey]], an "ImaginaryFriend".

** In ''The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power'', the magic potato (in real life) is... [[spoiler:a {{Nintendo DS}}--with mirrored button controls.]]

* 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 Théoden and Wilt sliding on a shield!