History ShoutOut / TheSims

* Some of the NPCs in the University World are Shout Outs: [[Creator/{{HarrisonFord}} Harrison Fort]] who looks, dresses and share traits of [[Franchise/{{IndianaJones}} Indiana Jones]]; [[Series/{{TheBigBangTheory}} Leonard Shelly]], among others.

* Sims who reach level 2 in the rebel social group receive a "Banky's Street Art Kit". The name alludes to the famous [[Main/Banksy {{Banksy}}]].

* Some NPCs in the University World are Shout Outs, these include [[Creator/{{HarrisonFord}} Harrison Fort]] who looks, dresses and share traits of [[Franchise/{{IndianaJones}} Indiana Jones]];[[Series/{{TheBigBangTheory}} Leonard Shelly]], among others.

* While exploring a hole, a [[DragonAge Warden]] sometimes helps your Sim not die from a monster.

* There's also the "[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Unlikely Whale Sculpture]]".

!!Overall / Unclassified

!!The Sims

!!The Sims 2

!!The Sims 3
* To literary classics. Old (and often valuable) books such as ''The White Flag of Courage'' can be found while searching catacombs.
* The "Night Owl" trait in ''The Sims 3: Supernatural'' is described thusly:
-->"Some Sims [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_the_Nightlife love the night life and occasionally feel the need to boogie]]..."
* The Time Machine has a few. One that stand out is that, when traveling to the future, you can get a message about your sim arriving amidst a big crowd, but that nobody noticed your sim because everybody was cheering about a [[MassEffect shepherd that saved the galaxy from an ancient god-machine]].
** Also from the Time Machine, if you travel to the past, it may tell you about not catching dysentheria on ''VideoGame/OregonTrail''.
** Claire Ursine. Remember Claire Bear from [=TS1=] ''Unleashed''?
** Also, likely to the joy of many a Troper - There is a [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Never Nude]] trait, as well as a Funke family.
*** Gobias Koffi, as well, is practically a walking shout out to [[AmbiguouslyGay Tobias]].
** And the Bethany Miranda painting, which shows a little girl hugging Death, which will surely delight Literature/{{Discworld}} fans.
** One of the Large Paintings you can make is undoubtedly an alien done in the style of {{Spore}}.
** Also in the painting section you can find a movie poster featuring a clear TheBreakfastClub {{Expy}}.
** In the ''World Adventures'' expansion pack, you can find a peculiar stone in Egypt: [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Tiberium]]]]. [[CrackFic Let that sink in for a bit]]. (EA Games owns both franchises.) Get it Spire Cut for a mere §6,500, leave it out for a bit, and it will grow into a large crystal worth §30,000+ .
*** Also, leave any form of it in a Sim's inventory for a significant time and they get a moodlet ([[spoiler:Visceroidal Nausea]]) with special flavor text that furthers the shout out.
*** One opportunity has you deliver a sample to the science lab, and when you do a message comes saying you met a representative called [[spoiler: Mr. Kane]].
** On one of the standing mirrors (The Reflectinator), the description states that it has [[Film/BackToTheFuture 1.21 gigajoules of power.]] Just a coincidence?
** Similarly, in the ''Late Night'' expansion pack the description for the 'Kickin' Strobe Light' states that you can "torture your Sim with [[Film/BackToTheFuture 1.21 gigawatts]] of pure pulsing power".
** One of the vampires introduced with ''Late Night'' is called [[{{Twilight}} Belisama]] Hemlock, which sounds similar to the protagonist of a certain teen-novel series.
*** In the ''Ambitions'' expansion pack, if you use the Time Machine to travel to the future you can end up in the middle of a huge celebration, apparently a [[MassEffect Shepherd had just saved the universe from a evil race of machine-gods.]]
*** While exploring a hole, a [[DragonAge Warden]] sometimes helps your Sim not die from a monster.
** The icons for the Workaholic-only Likes Work/Missing Work moodlets are a [[TheRedStapler red stapler.]]
** One of the new books you can buy is [[DrSeuss Oh, the Destinations You'll Briefly Visit]].

** From level five and up of the music skill, there's a chance that your musically gifted Sim will play the [[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Tristram theme.]]
** The whole Ghost Hunter career contains a mix of Film/{{Ghostbusters}} and LuigisMansion shoutouts.
** Look at the description of the Festus 44 stove in Buy Mode. It ends with: [[Film/DirtyHarry "You've got one question to ask yourself; 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?"]]
** An NPC named [[OneHundredYearsOfSolitude Pilar Ternera]] may show up in your neighborhood.
** This may be accidental, but a pop song on the radio has an extremely {{Tsundere}} female singer, with so much switching between a nice voice and a rip-your-head-off-with-my-[[BearsAreBadNews bear]]-hands that you may have a severe case of MoodWhiplash. Being translated into gibberish, all of it is mainly inaudible, except for the main verse, which is a simple [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion 'Asuka!']]
** One of the houses in Bridgeport from the ''Late Night'' expansion is named [[Film/BackToTheFuture Back to the Fuscia]].
** One of the pizza delivery boys is named [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate Torgo]] [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Pendragon]].
** Another book your Sims can purchase is [[ASongOfIceAndFire A Game of Thorns]].
*** The Pets expansion includes a small wooden horse called 'Arya's Pony' whose description features the phrase "Winter is coming.".
** There is a seven book children's series, [[HarryPotter Jimmy Sprocket]], which includes [[HarryPotterandthePhilosophersStone Jimmy Sprocket and the Squishy Stone]] and [[HarryPotterandtheGobletofFire Jimmy Sprocket and the Chalice of Lichens]].
** One of the books your Sims can read is called ''[[ToKillAMockingbird To Mock A Killing Bird]]''.

** When writing a novel, two of the default Sci-Fi titles are [[EndersGame "Blender's Fame"]] and [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour "1948".]]
** One of the lights in the Future Shock furniture set is the [[Videogame/{{Portal}} Comrade Cube]].
** One of the moodlets for pets is "[[LOLCats I Can Haz?]]"
** Possibly coincidential, but Agnes Crumplebottom bears a strong resemblence to actress Barbara Stanwyck, particularly Stanwyck in ''DoubleIndemnity''.
** One of the [=NPCs=] is named Justine Keaton, which is possibly a portmanteau of Justine Bateman and her ''FamilyTies'' character Mallory Keaton.
** If your sim is new to the medical career, he/she can be pushed into a garbage bin by the evil [[Series/{{Scrubs}} janitor]].
** In Sunset Valley, there is a family of powerful crime lords and their goody-good daughter. Their last name? [[TheSopranos "Alto"]]
** The first in a series of tasks the science facility sends to an inventor is to help them develop a [[IronMan self-sustaining and compact energy source, by finding a piece of palladium for them]].
** Sims 3 {{Series/Supernatural}}:
*** The zombies have an odd habit of [[PlantsVsZombies destroying your garden]] and [[{{Thriller}} dancing like it's 1982]].
*** There are several methods for making vampires immune to sunlight: A lifetime reward, a potion from the alchemy skill and [[{{TrueBlood}} fairy plasma]]. Side effects? [[{{Literature/Twilight}} Sparkling]]. Also, vampires can confess to their romantic interests that [[StalkingIsLove they watch them in their sleep]].
*** Among the Achievements there's Swan Dive, which requires a non-supernatural female sim to make out with a vampire, break up with him, make out with a werewolf, break up with ''him'' and then marry a vampire.
*** The new neighbourhood is called {{Moonlight}} Falls, which sounds a lot like [[{{TheVampireDiaries}} Mystic Falls]]
*** Among the new households there are [[{{Charmed}} three witch-sisters]],
*** [[{{Expy}} Chester]] [[{{Literature/Twilight}} Swain]] and his supernatural-curious daughter [[{{CaptainObvious}} Bailey]],
*** Moonlight Falls features a beach titled [[{{Literature/Twilight}} La Shove]]
*** [[{{AlliterativeName}} Marigold Maldano]], [[{{TrueBlood}} an orphan who lives in her deceased grandmother's house and recently discovered her fairy ancestry]],
*** The [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Durwood]] family, involving [[Series/{{Bewitched}} a pair of parents, the mother of which is a witch, their two children, and the mother's mother, who does not like her son-in-law]],
*** and Chauncey {{Grimm}}, who slowly blunders into his ancestors' fairy tales.
*** One of the "Roomies" households consists of [[BeingHuman a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire.]]
*** Sims can now travel with portals disguised as English [[{{DoctorWho}} phone booths]].
*** One spell turns wardrobes into [[{{Narnia}} portals]].
*** The buy mode contains a bust of a certain Marianne Hatsfordshire, who became known for [[{{Hipster}} encouraging people who decidedly don't own TVs to go out and flaunt that to everybody as often as possible]].
*** Sims can now read [[{{TheSilenceOfTheLambs}} The Silence Of The Llamas]]. They can also read [[{{TheDunwichHorror}} The Sandwich Horror]]. And [[{{PlanNineFromOuterSpace}} Plan 8 from Lunar Lakes]].
*** The face in the Magic Mirror looks like the one from {{Shrek}} (itself a Shout Out to Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs).
*** One of the moodlets for the Werewolf is [[{{DuranDuran}} Hungry Like the Wolf.]]
** In ''Seasons'', one of the Haloween costumes is a [[{{Franchise/FridayThe13th}} hockey mask]].
*** And there is a Film/RomanHoliday firework cannon.
*** On the side of the face painting booth is a poster showcasing the various designs your Sims can have painted on them, as well as a man who looks remarkably similar to [[TheJoyOfPainting Bob Ross]].
** The Sims 3 University Life:
*** The launch trailer has a ''ridiculous'' number of shout outs to internet memes, including Lazy College Senior, Ehrmagerd, Overly Attached Girlfriend, and College Freshman.
*** Several pop culture phenomenons have been added, including duckfacing, Gangnam style, and others.

!!The Sims: Medieval

** In ''Seasons'', one of the Haloween costumes is a [[{{Franchise/FridayThe13th}} hockey mask]].
*** And there is a Film/RomanHoliday firework cannon.
*** On the side of the face painting booth is a poster showcasing the various designs your Sims can have painted on them, as well as a man who looks remarkably similar to [[TheJoyOfPainting Bob Ross]].

*** The face in the Magic Mirror looks like the one from {{Shrek}}.

** In the ''World Adventures'' expansion pack, you can find a peculiar stone in Egypt: [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Tiberium]]]]. [[CrackFic Let that sink in for a bit]]. (EA Games owns both franchises.) Get it Spire Cut for a mere §6,500, leave it out for a bit, and it will grow into a large crystal worth §30,000+ . Leave it out long enough and it spawns more uncut gems, which, sadly, have to be picked up, sent away to be Spire Cut, and then set on the ground again before they'll repeat the process.

** TV shows on the SBN (Sim Broadcasting Network) include: Not-Oprah, Pseudo-{{Survivor}}, Un-ER, and the Pleasant twins in some kind of [[BeverlyHills90210 generic teen drama.]]

*** Sims can now read [[{{TheSilenceOfTheLambs}} The Silence Of The Lamas]]. They can also read [[{{TheDunwichHorror}} The Sandwich Horror]]. And [[{{PlanNineFromOuterSpace}} Plan 8 from Lunar Lakes]].

* Surprised this one didn't come up: For toddlers, there's a Rip Co. Wobbly [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wabbit]] Head toy

* There is a wallpaper in ''The Sims 2: Pets'' for the GameCube (and possibly other games) called "Jackson Stonewall"

* One of the jobs in the adventurer career track is [[AustinPowers "Multi-Regional Sim of Some Question."]]
* In the final job in the Law career track your sim [[JudgeDredd becomes the law]].
* The Brick Roll floor tile from one of the later expansions.

* To literary classics. In the Sims 3, old (and often valuable) books such as ''The White Flag of Courage'' can be found while searching catacombs.

** That's nothing. ''VideoGame/TheSims 2'' has a trio of outfits that bear an uncanny resemblance to [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] plugsuits the main characters wear. ''That you can wear as well.'' Clearly Will Wright is a NGE fan.
*** The game files refer to those suits as motor racing suits - with oddly-placed plugs.
**** [[http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy161/ciervovolante/Sims%202/aipr_2-12.png With this screenshot]] the ShoutOut may as well be confirmed.
* There's another outfit from the 2nd game that is basically Neo's outfit from Film/TheMatrix, complete with black trenchcoat.
* Surprised this one didn't come up: for toddlers in ''Sims 2'', there's a Rip Co. Wobbly [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wabbit]] Head toy
* Socially deprived Sims in ''Sims 2'' interact with a [[DonnieDarko large, imaginary, one-eyed rabbit...]]

* The Time Machine has a few. One that stand out is that, when traveling to the future, you can get a message about your sim arriving amidst a big crowd, but that nobody noticed your sim because everybody was cheering about a [[MassEffect shepherd that saved the galaxy from an ancient god-machine]].
** Also from the Time Machine, if you travel to the past, it may tell you about not catching dysentheria on ''VideoGame/OregonTrail''.

* In The Sims 2 Apartment Life there's a set of wallpapers whose descriptions are lines from Theatre/{{Macbeth}}. This expansion pack introduced witches so it's fitting. Also doubles as a GeniusBonus.

* In The Sims: Medieval, the Made a Few Simoles moodlet text reads "Boy, what a sound! How you love to hear that money clink! That beautiful sound of cold, hard cash!" Almost verbatim Lucy from [[WesternAnimation/A Charlie Brown Christmas]].

* In The Sims: Medieval, the Made a Few Simoles moodlet text reads "Boy, what a sound! How you love to hear that money clink! That beautiful sound of cold, hard cash!" Almost verbatim Lucy from [[Western Animation/A Charlie Brown Christmas]].

-->"Some Sims [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_the_Nightlife love the night life and occasionally feel the need to boogie]]..."

* In The Sims 2 Apartment Life there's a set of wallpapers whose descriptions are lines from Theatre/{{Macbeth}}. This expansion pack introduced witches so it's fitting. Also doubles as a GeniusBonus.

* In final job in the Law career track your sim [[JudgeDredd becomes the law]].

* The [[NeonGenesisEvangelion The Prototype X94 "Angsternaut" Robosuit]]. The description also has shades of HumongousMecha in general (and possibly [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurenn Lagann in particular]]).
** That's nothing. ''TheSims 2'' has a trio of outfits that bear an uncanny resemblance to [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] plugsuits the main characters wear. ''That you can wear as well.'' Clearly Will Wright is a NGE fan.

* There's another outfit from the 2nd game that is basically Neo's outfit from TheMatrix, complete with black trenchcoat.

** The windmills that you can use to reduce your Sims' energy bill have a buy-mode description that suggests that you not try to use them to cool off, as "they [[{{Futurama}} do not]] [[MemeticMutation work that way.]]"

* One of the paintings that can be purchased features a red-haired woman in a red dress on a blue background. The description states that it "[[RedVsBlue illustrates the eternal struggle between red and blue]]"

* Surprised this one didn't come up: for toddlers in ''Sims 2'', there's a Rip Co. Wobbly [[LooneyTunes Wabbit]] Head toy

* In The Sims 2 Apartment Life there's a set of wallpapers whose descriptions are lines from {{Macbeth}}. This expansion pack introduced witches so it's fitting. Also doubles as a GeniusBonus.

* And of course, there is [[CthulhuMythos Thoggus]].

** Also from the Time Machine, if you travel to the past, it may tell you about not catching dysentheria on the OregonTrail.