History ShoutOut / TheSims

* One of the vampires in the Bridgeport neighborhood is called [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Belisama]] Hemlock, which sounds similar to the protagonist of a certain teen-novel series.

** Another creates apples. If it fails (or if the witch is evil) the result is a [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs poisonous apple that puts Sims who eat it to sleep]].

* The face in the Magic Mirror looks like the one from WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} (itself a Shout Out to WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs).

* In ''Snowy Living'', one of the pre-made sims living in the Japan-inspired winter resort town of Mt. Komorebi is a teenage girl named Kaori Nishidake, who shares her name, her cheerful personality, and her love of snowboarding with one of the playable characters in the ''VideoGame/{{SSX}}'' series (also made by EA).

* 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]].

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* [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona On nights where the moon is full, everything gets an eerie green aura and supernatural beings suddenly appear.]]

* One default name for a fantasy novel is [[Film/{{MontyPythonandtheHolyGrail “The Sword of Aaagh”}}.

* One default name for a fantasy novel is [[Films/{{MontyPythonandtheHolyGrail “The Sword of Aaagh”}}.

** A high level witch can cast a Restoration Ritual and [[{{Disney/Fantasia}} clean up an entire house quickly]].

* The face in the Magic Mirror looks like the one from WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} (itself a Shout Out to Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs).

* There are mermaids named Triton King and Mia Azul who look like [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid King Triton and Ariel. If a Sim explores a cave, a few messages may tell them that they found a dinglehopper or "How many wonders can one cavern hold?"]] Mia's in-game biography says she ''used to be a good singer''.
** In the same vein, Ariel Walsh looks very similar to [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]]. She is not a mermaid (anymore) and is friends with a male Sim (whose household name is "The Prince"), but [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid he has eyes for another]].

* New books are available from the book store: [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Cosmology: The Universe Is A Really Really Big Place]] by [[UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson Tyson O'Neil]], [[Series/TheVampireDiaries The Vampire Blogs]] by J.L.Conners, [[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies Zombies Ate My Plants]], [[Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids Day of the Plantsims]] by [[Creator/JohnWyndham Lucas Wyndham]], [[Film/SinginInTheRain Training in the Rain]]...

** Another tea-related shout out: Sims can get a flirty moodlet from drinking tea that mentions "[[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} (making) you want to say]] [[HelloNurse 'Hello, Nurse!'"]]

* The "[[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} Brick Roll]]" floor tile from one of the later expansions, and one of the roof tiles promises [[Music/RickAstley "Never to let you down"]].
* The [[Literature/HarryPotter Prisoner of Azkalamp]] is the name of a cheap outdoor light in The Sims 2.

* 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/ACharlieBrownChristmas''.

* Many of the comics are fairly blatant about this: [[{{Franchise/Aquaman}} Fish Master]], [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Archie Archer]] and [[Franchise/TheFlash Quickfoot]] (all by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Weisinger George Mortimer]]); [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Doctor Macabre]], [[ComicBook/XMen Mighty Mutants]], [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk The Inedible Bulk]], [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Freedom Family]], and [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Plasma Bug]] (all by [[Creator/StanLee Stan Powers]]); [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Major Patriot]] and [[ComicBook/SilverSurfer Cyber Skateboarder]] by [[Creator/JackKirby Kirby Simon]]; [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Neo-Knight Noir]] by [[Creator/BillFinger William]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kane Kane]]; [[Franchise/WonderWoman Awesome Woman]] by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Byrne Olive]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston Marston]]; [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Toadsim Ninjas]] by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Eastman Kevin]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Laird Peters]]...

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** [[Literature/ChasingTheRainbow Chasing the]] [[MemeticMutation Quadruple Rainbow]]
** [[Literature/TheLastUnicorn The First Unicorn]] (by [[Creator/PeterSBeagle "Pete Corgi"]])
** [[Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould The Little Train that Couldn't]]
** [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings The Lord of the Swings]]
** [[Literature/AGameOfThrones A Game of Groans]]
*** [[Literature/ASongOFIceAndFire A Game of Musical Chairs: A Song of Hot and Cold]] (bonus points for also being a double shout-out to Music/KatyPerry, whose eponymous song appeared in VideoGame/TheSims2)

** [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey The 50 Shades on My Windows]]
*** Twelve or so Swatches of [[UnusualEuphemism WooHoo]]
** [[Creator/ShelSilverstein Where the Boardwalk Ends]]
** [[Literature/AtlasShrugged Atlas Hugged]]
** [[Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick The Chronicles of Rodiek]]
** [[Literature/TheHungerGames The Glutton Spiel]]
*** The Plunder Games
*** The Bladder Games
** [[Series/TheWalkingDead The Sauntering Dead]]
** [[Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents Lucas Dark and The Increasingly Unlikely Series of Coincidences]]
** [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe The Spy Who Loved Measles]]
** [[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious The Swift and the Angriest]]
** [[Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera Love in the Time of Sandwiches]]
** [[Series/HowIMetYourMother How I Dumped Your Father]]
** The books about baking are written by [[Franchise/TheMuppets Bill Barretta, Frank Oz and The Swedish Chef.]]