History ShoutOut / SFDebris

* The TOS cast appears to be in top form for their first movie. Perhaps a little ''too'', actually; Shatner is channeling Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike.

* In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E1TheWayBack The Way Back]]", Blake is found [[Film/TheProducers incredibly guilty]].

* In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E10FairHaven Fair Haven]]", he refers to the Doctor dressed as a Catholic priest as Series/FatherTed.

* In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E8TheVoyagerConspiracy The Voyager Conspiracy]]", he compares Seven's activities to Creator/RussellCrowe [[Film/ABeautifulMind hanging up newspaper clippings in a shed]].

* "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E14Tsunkatse Tsunkatse]]", he notes that Wrestling/TheRock can't fight himself. After all, he isn't Creator/JetLi.

** In Film/TheDarkKnight review, he refers to Batman as Crazy Steve; referencing Linkara's TakeThat at Creator/FrankMiller's ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder''.

* His ''Film/{{Hogfather}}'' review includes several quotes from other Discworld books.
** Occasionally, in Franchise/StarTrek reviews, a given piece of technobabble either works or fails to work "because quantum", the favourite dismissal by the wizards of Unseen University when something magical, technological or [[{{Magitek}} both]] fails to work properly for reasons they don't or haven't even tried to understand.

* At the end of the ''{{Series/Andromeda}}'' episode "Dissonant Interval," which was penned as a possible series finale, Dylan goes to meet his destiny...and meets himself. Chuck wonders if this would make [[Series/ThePrisoner Patrick McGoohan facepalm]].

* In his review of ''The X-Files'' [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01Pilot pilot episode]], when the FBI section chief asks how a case involving the paranormal would be prosecuted, we are pointed to the disastrous case of [[Film/KramerVsKramer Kramer vs. Gelavan-pah-doi!-doi!-bloop-ooh-ueh-fwuh-whoop-whulululululuh]].
* "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E03Squeeze Squeeze]]" and "Tooms", ''The X-Files'': Eugen Victor Tooms's predatory nature is emphasized by "Circle of Life" from ''Disney/TheLionKing''.
* After the Thing is revived, it has to defeat [[Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead the scientist]]'s [[Film/ScottPilgrim Seven Norwegian Boyfriends.]]

** In Film/TheDarkKnight review, he refers to Batman as Crazy Steve; referencing Linkara's TakeThat at Creator/FrankMiller's ''Comcis/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder''.

* In "Astromech Spy", Artoo remarks, [[TheATeam "I love it when a plan comes together."]]

* [[{{Film/Patton}} I want you to remember that no holographic bastard won a war by dyin' for his country!]] (" [[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E8NothingHuman}} Nothing Human]]")

--->'''Chuck'': "Darth Dutchess is ''waiting!''" ([[VaderBreath Wooo-paa! Wooo--paa!]])

* "Tom has [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} just gone plaid]]." ("[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold}} Threshold]]")
** Brannon, [[Film/BillyMadison I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.]] ("Threshold")

* Early in his playthrough of ''SystemShock2'', while roleplaying as Goggles he recalls doing research on a station with a [[HalfLife Dr. Gordon Freeman]] who would [[HeroicMime never shut up]].

* In his review of ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'': Chuck quotes the quit game message of ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'': "[[GuiltBasedGaming Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.]]"

* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E11ShipInABottle}} Ship in a Bottle]]" Chuck refers to Data and Geordi playing the characters Sherlock Holmes and his trusted friend, [[MartinFreeman Art]][[Series/{{Sherlock}} hur]] [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Dent]].

* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E10Shattered}} Shattered]]", Chaotica laughs at Chakotay's claim that they are from the Eighth Dimension, saying there are only five dimensions. Obviously, he's never read the papers of [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension Buckaroo Banzai]].

* [[StarWars May the Force be with you]], Picard. It's as good an excuse as any for the Captain's sudden telepathy across space. (''First Contact'')

* Brannon, [[Film/BillyMadison I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.]] ("Threshold")
* "When did the mare in the moon [[TheLordOfTheRings exchange reason for madness]]?!"

** On that note, Chuck notes the two colliding planets in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E11ShipInABottle}} Ship in a Bottle]]" and muses that Lister's playing pool again.

* Ever since doing a review of the pilot episode he has been making ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' jokes and references.

** From the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' pilot: "By the way, 'Screw you and the horse you rode in on' is only a figure of speech. Don't expect her to literally screw the horse! Though this might have inspired the ''Game Of Thrones''/''My Little Pony'' Slash Fic I'm sure somebody has written somewhere."

** Rassilon briefly channeling Harvey Korman. ("The End of Time")

* Edith Keeler was supposed to die in a traffic accident, but instead would go on to work with FDR to keep America out of the war too long, so that the Axis powers won World War II thanks to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the retrieval of the Ark of the Covenant]].

* [[TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]] might not be the most fun place, but it could be worse. [[Film/YoungFrankenstein Could be raining.]]

* In his review of ''The X-Files'' pilot episode, when the FBI section chief asks how a case involving the paranormal would be prosecuted, we are pointed to the disastrous case of [[Film/KramerVsKramer Kramer vs. Gelavan-pah-doi!-doi!-bloop-ooh-ueh-fwuh-whoop-whulululululuh]].

* Ghost Janeway attending her own funeral in "Coda."

* In the "Bloodlines" episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', Teal'c is trying to summon [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Ob-Nixilis]].

** Imitates a [[Franchise/MassEffect Salarian]] when in ''The Siege of AR-558'', Sisko's team likewise manages to HoldTheLine.
** ''Franchise/MassEffect'' earns another reference in "Terra Nova", with a crack that the asteroid impact on that planet was clearly the fault of the batarians - an asteroid-based attack on a colony named Terra Nova, by batarian terrorists, was the plot of the first game's ''Bring Down the Sky'' DLC, which is integrated into the PC release.

** ''Paradise'' gives a fairly vicious TakeThat to the endings, referring to how frustrating it was. "Why don't you just make the ending red, blue, and green if you were just going to make it fucking infuriating?!?"
* The attack on the Salarian colony in "Ensign Ro" clearly was done by the krogan, though the only people who'd would get that joke [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 are busy today.]][[note]](the episode in question was released the day ''Mass Effect 3'' was released.)[[/note]]

* "Ramsay's people have been hiding out in what I'm guessing is a cave inside the ''[[Franchise/TheElderScrolls Elder Scrolls]]'' universe. That might explain why I have an urge to put a bucket on Tasha's head." ("Angel One")

* Chula was originally called the Chula Saga [[VideoGame/TheBannerSaga before the makers of Candy Crush Saga threatened to sue the Wadi over the name.]] ("Move Along Home").

* In the ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' review, he notes that Saul Karath was so crucial to Republic victories that they had previously [[BreakingBad "Better Call Saul"]] if they hoped to clinch victory.

* Brannon, [[BillyMadison I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.]] ("Threshold")