History ShoutOut / HayateTheCombatButler

* Episode two of season one. While Hayate is at the docks with the Very Nice People, he imagines what's going to happen to him. Among those Imagine Spots are : The crew of the ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' showing up and a weird shout out to ''OnePiece''.

* In the panel where Hayate wields six swords at once, his stance is very reminiscent of one of burial priests in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and {{Tsukihime}}.

* Episode 33 of the first season had a massive shout out to {{Nabeshin}} of all people, where he was one of the obligatory {{Battle Butler}}s, though he himself just wanted to draw {{Moe}}.

* This troper's favourite was [[Manga/DeathNote Birth Note]], which showed, of all things, an apple on the poster.

*** [[SwordArtOnline You were expecting maybe a fishing rod and a rapier?]]

* The LuckyStar cast has a cameo as posters at a shrine during a quiz game in Chapter 194.

* And of course, one can't forget the "evil combat butlers" attempting to defeat Hayate throughout the second season, nearly all of whom were blatant [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to popular {{Shonen}} series. "Duel Butler" was a dead ringer for [[Anime/DuelMasters Shoubu Kirifuda]], "Butler B-Da", who looked like the main character from ''[=B-DaMan=]'', "Race Butler", who looked like the main character from ''Crush Gear Turbo'', "Butler [[Anime/ExcelSaga Nabeshin]]", "Puppet Butler", who took over people's minds using his [[CodeGeass Evil Eye]] (and was voiced by Creator/JunFukuyama), and "Cyborg Butler", who looked like a cross between [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Gai Shishiou]] and [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Viral]], was voiced by NobuyukiHiyama, and used nearly all of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'''s SuperRobot attacks under BrandX names.

* Season 1, episode 8: [[Manga/TsukuyomiMoonPhase Cat Ear Mode]] Sends You To Hell. [[TokyoMewMew I'll serve the Earth's future ~nyan.]]

* Not sure if it was there in the original work or just a joke by the translator, but there's [[VideoGame/ZeroWing the quote at the bottom of]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/203-13482-10/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-4.html this page]].

* When two members of the cast go to Las Vegas, there's a [[http://www.mangareader.net/203-31437-8/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-206.html few]][[http://www.mangareader.net/203-31438-17/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-207.html panels]] showing the four guys from the [[http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/Gaijin_4koma Gaijin 4koma]].
** They appear [[http://www.mangareader.net/203-58434-5/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-295.html again]] in chapter 295.

* When Hayate is looking for the legendary persimmon tree in the garden, he mentions how it looks like the background from a Creator/StudioGhibli film (Anime/PrincessMononoke to be exact).

* [[http://www.mangareader.net/203-13560-17/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-82.html Just as]] [[Manga/DeathNote planned]]

* Back at the video shop, Hayate asks Nagi's fiance (forgot the name) about a DVD lying on the table beside him. [[{{Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann}} "Tengen T-"]] "Bamboo~~~Bamboo~~~"
* In [[http://www.mangareader.net/hayate-the-combat-butler/416/5 chapter 416]], Ruka's thoughts are portrayed in a style evocative of ''Manga/{{Kaiji}}'', including the distinctive "[[UnsoundEffect zawa zawa]]" and the over-the-top narration.

* Don't forget the new class register, formatted in the style of [[{{Negima}} some manga or another]] filled with weird students (such as a ghost) and filled with little notes scrawled in the margins. Oh, and apparently some fellow calls himself a 'Mahou Sensei' just to make sure you get it.

* In the new class register, everyone besides Hayate and Nagi is wearing a mask similar to that of [[TwentiethCenturyBoys Friend.]]

* And of course, one can't forget the "evil combat butlers" attempting to defeat Hayate throughout the second season, nearly all of whom were blatant [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to popular {{Shonen}} series. "Duel Butler" was a dead ringer for [[Anime/DuelMasters Shoubu Kirifuda]], "Butler B-Da", who looked like the main character from ''[=B-DaMan=]'', "Race Butler", who looked like the main character from ''Crush Gear Turbo'', "Butler [[Anime/ExcelSaga Nabeshin]]", "Puppet Butler", who took over people's minds using his [[CodeGeass Evil Eye]] (and was voiced by Creator/JunFukuyama), and "Cyborg Butler", who looked like a cross between [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Gai Shishiou]] and [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Viral]], was voiced by NobuyukiHiyama, and used nearly all of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'''s SuperRobot attacks under BrandX names.

* Looks like [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Nia]] was [[HesJustHiding just hiding.]] [[http://images.wikia.com/gurennlagann/images/7/7f/Vlcsnap-2010-04-22-18h19m31s19.png See?]]

* Back at the video shop, Hayate asks Nagi's fiance (forgot the name) about a DVD lying on the table beside him. [[{{TengenToppaGurrenLagann}} "Tengen T-"]] "Bamboo~~~Bamboo~~~"

''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' gleefully makes [[ShoutOut not-so-oblique references]] to other anime[[note]] and other media[=/=]people[=/=]things[[/note]] regularly. If the actual (trademarked) name of the series comes up, they {{Brand X}}-ify it by covering part of it with SoundEffectBleep ("* BLEEP* dam" for Anime/MobileSuitGundam, etc.)

* This is included in the first opening where Hayate is protecting Nagi from the silhouettes of three robots, they are from right to left [[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin-28]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam RX-78-2 Gundam]] and [[{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime.]]!

* In [[http://www.goodmanga.net/hayate_the_combat_butler/chapter/125/4 chapter 125]], when asked what she would like to recieve, Nagi tells Hayate that she would like to receive a drill. [[{{TengenToppaGurrenLagann}} The kind of drill that activates robots]].
* In [[http://www.goodmanga.net/hayate_the_combat_butler/chapter/128/6 chapter 128]], the student council trio each speaks to Nagi using a childish nickname, except for Risa, who calls her [[{{MahouSenseiNegima}} Nagi Springfield]].

* Season 1, Episode 33, 06:48 - [[{{YakitateJapan}} Azuma Kazuma and co.]] are selling bread to Hakuou Academy

* Not sure if it was there in the original work or just a joke by the translator, but there's [[ZeroWing the quote at the bottom of]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/203-13482-10/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-4.html this page]].

* In Chapter 192, ''SpiceAndWolf'' is '''combined''' with ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' to produce "Fool and Test and Spice" -- with a wolf-eared girl in a school uniform on the cover. Chiharu is a fan of the heroine's speech pattern, but Nagi thinks the best part is the crossdressing boy.

* Challenged to a kendo duel, Hayate begins to intone, [[RurouniKenshin "Hiten Mitsuru--"]] and is cut off by his opponent shouting, "Stop right there or you'll violate a major copyright!"

* Nagi's grandfather, Mikado Sanzenin, shares a name with an obnoxious HandsomeLech of a combat figure skater in {{Rumiko Takahashi}}'s ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Whether or not this is deliberate is unknown.

* Hinagiku is a [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pink-haired]] swordfighter and the president of an AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil. Already sounds [[RevolutionaryGirlUtena pretty familiar]], even before her costume and intro sequence in the TournamentArc.

* In chapter 119, Nagi squirts Hayate with a water pistol after he says that he went into the hot spring. She is disappointed when he fails to [[{{RanmaOneHalf}} turn into a girl.]] She had really been looking forward to that.

* When Hayate is looking for the legendary persimmon tree in the garden, he mentions how it looks like the background from a StudioGhibli film (PrincessMononoke to be exact).

* Season 1, episode 8: Cat Ear Mode Sends You To Hell. [[TokyoMewMew I'll serve the Earth's future ~nyan.]]

* One of the events in the anime has Hayate using [[Anime/GunBuster Inazuma Kick]] complete with the narrator stating the name of the move. Now, take a look and check the narrator's seiyuu.[[note]]Its NorioWakamoto who voiced Coach.[[/note]]

* In a recent trailer, one can see a character who resembles ''[[GundamF91 Iron Mask Ronah.]]''

* In episode 33 when Nagi imagines Hayate working at a cosplay cafe, she imagines him dressed up as the eponymous sensei from Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei, complete with comedic hanging scene.
* [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann CathedralTerra]] made an appearance in one of the latest episode in season 1

* In Chapter 192, ''SpiceAndWolf'' is '''combined''' with ''LightNovel/BakaToTestToShoukanjuu'' to produce "Fool and Test and Spice" -- with a wolf-eared girl in a school uniform on the cover. Chiharu is a fan of the heroine's speech pattern, but Nagi thinks the best part is the crossdressing boy.

* In Chapter 411, Kayura tells Nagi that when someone is truly cornered, they unleash their latent powers to make it through, which she calls the [[Manga/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan Theory.]]

* In Chapter 391, Fumi notes that one of the employees working at Animate has [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homu-Homu]] as his waifu.

* In episode 9 of Cuties, Nagi very briefly adopts [[Manga/IkaMusume Squid Girl's]] VerbalTic when Chiharu is discussing the idea of holding a get-together.
--> '''Nagi''': "I ink not."

''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' gleefully makes [[ShoutOut not-so-oblique references]] to other anime[[note]] and other media[=/=]people[=/=]things[[/note]] regularly. If the actual (trademarked) name of the series comes up, they {{Brand X}}-ify it by covering part of it with SoundEffectBleep ("* BLEEP* dam" for MobileSuitGundam, etc.)

* The opening has Eight copying the pose from the opening of MobileSuitGundamSEED
* This is included in the first opening where Hayate is protecting Nagi from the silhouettes of three robots, they are from right to left [[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin-28]] [[MobileSuitGundam RX-78-2 Gundam]] and [[{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime.]]!

* During Hinagiku's birthday party, Hinagiku was forced to sing [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion A Cruel Angel's Thesis]] by the Student Council Trio. Hinagiku retaliates by forcing the trio to sing [[Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime Natsuzora]].

* During Hinagiku's birthday party, Hinagiku was forced to sing [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion A Cruel Angel's Thesis]] by the Student Council Trio. Hinagiku retaliates by forcing the trio to sing [[Anime/TheGirlWhoLeptThroughTime Natsuzora]].

* During Hinagiku's birthday party, Hinagiku was forced to sing [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion A Cruel Angel's Thesis]] by the Student Council Trio.