History ShoutOut / ToddInTheShadows

-->'''Todd:''' Well, that's good, because I'm pretty sure [[Music/{{Blondie}} the man from Mars eats cars and bars]].

* His speech after joining - and subsequently quitting - TGWTG.com is a paraphrased version of Conan O'Brien's final ''TonightShow'' "farewell speech". There is a chance that this, however, is a TakeThat - it all really depends on whether or not Todd is a fan of Conan O'Brien.

* The cartoon clip he uses in the [[Music/MileyCyrus Wrecking Ball]] episode is from Animation/NuPogodi

* In his 2011 best list, while talking about how everyone loved Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You", he says this:

* In his "Your Love is my Drug" review, a snippet of [[Music/TomWaits "The Piano Has Been Drinking"]] plays after he drunkenly passes out.

** He calls "Bedrock" the first pop music reference to ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' since "Bedrock Anthem".
** "Eat It" and other food-related songs come to his mind while trying to figure out why "Carry Out" was ever written.
** At the beginning of Usher's "OMG" video, he's wondering if he's watching Weird Al's "UHF" video because they both start by zooming in on an old-fashioned TV.
** In his review of "Telephone", he considers the reason for the recent trend of making references to cell phones in pop music. "RINGTONE!"

** He uses "Good Enough For Now" as the intro music for his Top Ten Songs About Mediocre Romance, and gives bonus points to anyone who actually knows it.
** During his review of "Gangnam Style", he mentions him to explain how parodying an intentionally funny song doesn't work. And then cites "The White Stuff" as an example of how parodying an unlistenable song results in another unlistenable song.

** It's no surprise that three of his One Hit Wonderland topics (500 Miles by the Proclaimers, Groove is in the Heart by Deee-Light, and Informer by Snow) were all featured on How I Met Your Mother prior to his reviews of them (though he never seems to reference this)

* The image of {{Satan}} seen in the "Like a G6" review is from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Satan Pit". (Although, in the commentary, he admitted that he had no idea of the source and had just Google image searched for Satan pictures.)

* At the beginning of the One Hit Wonderland episode for "Cotton Eye Joe", Todd says "If you're a bunch of Europeans from a wealthy socialist country pretending to be white trash from the Deep South... [[Creator/JeffFoxworthy you might be]] Music/{{Rednex}}.

* From the "Dark Horse" review "Music/KatyPerry sucks and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment I suck for liking her]]"

* The endless sacrifice song in "A Certain Sacrifice" gets turned into Todd's own version of the [[Music/FleetwoodMac "Tusk"]] mash-up song in the ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'' episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.

* His praise for [[Music/InvisibleTouch "In Too Deep"]] by Music/{{Genesis}} is a word-for-word quote from ''Film/AmericanPsycho'', with a clip from the scene in question fading into view.

* His praise for "In Too Deep" by Music/PhilCollins is a word-for-word quote from ''Film/AmericanPsycho'', with a clip from the scene in question fading into view.

* When Todd tries to rewrite the lyrics to "Fire in the Hole" by Music/VanHalen from his Trainwreckords review of Van Halen III:
-->'''Todd:''' [[Music/{{TheyMightBeGiants}} Triangle Man hates Particle Man! They have a fight, Triangle wins!]]

-->'''Todd:''' [[Music/{{TheyMightBeGiants}} Triangle Man hates Particle Man! They havea fight, Triangle wins!]]

** The description for the “Someone You Liked” review bluntly reads “NOT GOOD”, a rating that Fantano usually gives to his most hated albums.