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* ''Halloween Unspectacular 1'':
** From the Witch Ember arc:
*** Witch Ember [[Anime/DigimonAdventure turns Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Timmy into keychains.]]
*** E350 reveals that he’s looking after an [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Andalite morphing cube]] for a friend.
*** Witch Ember pulls a page from [[Series/DoctorWho the Master's]] playbook at one point and turns everyone in the city into duplicates of herself.
** [[Franchise/MassEffect Reapers]] make appearances in a couple of stories.
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]] and [[Series/DoctorWho a Cyberman]] pop up in the filler chapter to complain about E350's liberal use of "organics-turning-into-machines" plots.
** "War Never Changes" tales place in the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' universe, though it’s not directly revealed until the end.
* ''Do the Gasmask Shuffle'':
** After [[spoiler:Sam turns into a wax statue at the end of the second story]], the author's notes say "[[Fanfic/DOOMRepercussionsOfEvil NO SAM YOU ARE THE DEMONS]]".
** "Murdered By Moonlight" is one to the ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' series, centered around Freddy Krueger going after various cartoon characters.
** The climatic fight with [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]] and his minions contains references to ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', and ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
* ''Terror Australis Incognita'':
** "My Brother Will Kill Me" is one long pastiche of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise. Calamitous' method of creating a MonsterOfTheWeek is also similar to how Vendetta makes her monsters in ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends''.
* ''Mess Effect'':
** Plankton tries to get E350 to reenact the ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' with him, Danny, and Cosmo in the beginning. Said ending gets referenced several more times throughout the fic, even getting a story dedicated to it.
** Chapter 24 is labeled "[[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Little Shop of Parodies]]" and features references to ''Franchise/{{Tron}}'', ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'', Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
* ''The Final Push'':
** "The Piccadilly Caper" starts off with a parody of [[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars']] famous opening crawl.
** "The Omega Riff" ends with [[Fanfic/DOOMRepercussionsOfEvil "AND THEN SQUIDWARD WAS A HALF-GHOST"]].
** The closing author's note for "Eureka" simply says "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.]]"
** In "The Muffin Man", when Gaz is suddenly abducted by the Inquisition, Timmy states that [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus he wasn't expecting that]].
* ''Lair of the Hack Writer'':
** The first chapter features a parody of "Make a Man out of You" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''.
** In "It's Back", Peridot, in her boredom, briefly watches a Jacksepticeye video and the music video for "[[Music/RickAstley Never Gonna Give You Up]]".
*** Also from "It's Back", Amethyst and Peridot briefly travel to "The Universe That Is Currently Being Sued By [[Film/MadMax George Miller]]".
** "The Most Patient Man On Radio" is based on the "Most Patient Man On Television" skit from ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''.
** In "Of Presidents and Purity", the President tells the arguing Vice-President and General Ambercrombie "[[Film/DrStrangelove no fighting in the war room]]".
* ''Watchmeh'':
** The first chapter features a parody of "The Candy Man" from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''.
** "Robot Wars" has references to Kaiju movies, ''Film/PacificRim'', and, of all things, UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.
** "The Fiftycrumb Tinies" is, obviously, a parody of ''[[Creator/EdwardGorey The Gashleycrumb Tinies]]''.
** "Angry Fandom Shelter" ends with a ''Series/{{COPS}}'' reference.
** Sandy calls the haunting in the eighth chapter "a real Franchise/{{Amityville}} situation".
** In the author's notes for "Unidentified Problem", the author sings a snippet of "[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Let's Do the Time Warp Again]]".
** The title of chapter 18 parodies the title of the infamous fanfic ''Dipper Goes to Taco Bell''.
** "A Sunday Drive Down Fury Road" is one to...well, [[Film/MadMax guess]]. Also, E350 uses "[[Film/KingsmanTheSecretService Manners maketh man]]" as a PreAsskickingOneLiner.
** "Karma Punishment" features [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 an opening narration from Rod Serling]].
** The title of chapter 23, "House of Cards", is an intentional reference to [[Series/HouseOfCardsUK the series of]] [[Series/HouseOfCardsUS the same name]].
** "The Reference Job" naturally has multiple movies mentioned as part of Allsworthy’s ReferenceOverdosed tendencies, down to him jumping on the chance to reference ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'s'' famous WhamLine when he realizes that Stan and Ford are too late to stop him.
** Chapter 29 has two [=MPs=] looking for [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil the Diaz family]].
* ''Blue Alert'':
** E350's opening song this year is a parody of "Puttin' on the Ritz".
** The ending narration of "The Dictator" is very similar to that of the episode "He's Alive" of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
** Among the people trying to get help from Ford in "Before Breakfast" are [[Film/ThorRagnarok the Grandmaster (wanting fighters for his arena)]] and someone [[VideoGame/BadDudes who wants to know if he's a bad enough dude to rescue the President.]]
** The title of "Another Brick in the Wall" is naturally a reference to the Music/PinkFloyd song of the same name.
* ''This is fine'':
** The opening musical number this year is a number of Disney song parodies strung together. The songs used include [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} "Arabian Nights"]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 "Under The Sea"]], [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 "Let It Go"]], and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast "Beauty and the Beast"]].
** The BadGuyBar that the villains frequent is called the [[WesternAnimation/TheDoverBoys Backslide Tavern]].
** This exchange in the "Aliens and Monsters" segment from "The Reject Shop":
--->'''E350:''' ''(answering the phone)'' E350 speaking.\\
'''Timmy:''' Hey, I need you to come over here.\\
'''E350:''' [[WebVideo/CodeMENT I can't, I'm buying clothes.]]\\
'''Timmy:''' We're not doing that joke.
* ''Halloween Unspectacular X'':
** Plankton's attempted takeover of the story involves him showing clips from blatant ripoffs of famous movies now starring him -- ''[[Franchise/StarWars Plankton Wars]]'', ''[[Film/GoneWithTheWind Gone With the Plankton]]'', ''[[Film/AFewGoodMen A Few Good Plankton]]'', ''[[Film/Titanic1997 Planktanic]]'', and ''[[Film/SchindlersList Plankton's List]]''.
** E350's HeroicBSOD is specifically compared to Thor's in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
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