Line #70 ShoutOut/CookieClicker


1	In short, [[ReferenceOverdosed almost everything]].
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3	[[foldercontrol]]
4	[[folder:Upgrades]]
5	* The "Ultimadrill" upgrade's accompanying quote is a reference to ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
6	-->"Pierce the heavens, etc."
7	** As is the Salmon Roe egg.
8	-->"Do the impossible, see the invisible. Roe roe, fight the power?"
9	* The FlavorText for the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Quintillion Fingers]] upgrade is a direct quote from [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Boomhauer]]. It gets pretty hilarious if you remember the context of the original quote; you probably know why the hands are so effective now.
10	-->''Yeah man, I tell ya what, man, that dang ol' internet, man, you just go in on there and point and click, talk about w-w-dot-w-com, mean [[TheInternetIsForPorn you got nekkid chicks on there]], '''man, just go click, click, click, click, click, its real easy, man.'''''
11	* The Kitten Workers upgrade has the FlavorText "meow meow meow meow," a probable reference to the four-descending-notes jingle of "Meow Mix" cat food.
12	* The "Flux Capacitors" Time Machine upgrade is a pretty obvious reference to ''[[{{Pun}} Bake To The Future]]''... Er, ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.
13	* One upgrade for the portals is called "[[Music/MenWithoutHats Sanity dance]]":
14	-->'We can change if we want to. we can leave our brains behind.'
15	* One Time Machine upgrade is called "Time Paradox Resolver" and the description states: "[[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} No more fooling around]] [[MyOwnGrandpa with your own grandmother!]]".
16	* Several from the Halloween cookies:
17	** Bat Cookie: [[Film/TheDarkKnight "The cookies this town deserves."]]
18	** Eyeball Cookie: [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche "When you stare into the cookie, the cookie stares back at you."]]
19	** Spider Cookie: "You found the recipe on the web. [[ComicBook/SpiderMan They do whatever a cookie can.]]"
20	* The 'Chocolate Monolith' upgrade for interplanetary shipping: "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey My god, it's full of chocolate bars]]!"
21	* The final Santa upgrade: "[[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair My name is Claus, king of kings; look on my toys, ye Mighty, and despair!]]"
22	* From the Christmas Cookies:
23	** Christmas Tree Biscuits: "[[Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Whose pine is it anyway?]]"
24	** Present Biscuits are stated to be the prequel to Future Biscuits, referencing the ghosts of Christmas from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''
25	* The Festive Hat upgrade: "[[Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse]]."
26	* The last line of the Heavenly Chip Secret flavor text is "It's a secret to everyone", a reference to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI''
27	* The Jaffa Cake cookie upgrade makes reference to the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} Tekkit series, ''WebVideo/JaffaFactory''.
28	-->''"If you want to bake a cookie from scratch, you must first build a factory."''
29	** Also a reference to Creator/CarlSagan's quote:
30	--->''"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."''
31	* The FlavorText for the first Prism upgrade, "Gem Polish," concludes with "[[{{WesternAnimation/Jem}} Truly, truly outrageous]]."
32	* The eclipse cookie's flavor text "look to the cookie" comes from ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', where Jerry appeals to Elaine to see a half-black, half-white cookie as a metaphor for racial harmony.
33	* The madeleine cookie's flavour text, "Unforgettable", references [[Creator/MarcelProust Proust's]] ''À la recherche du temps perdu''.
34	* The Duck Egg upgrade of the Easter season has the flavour text ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q Then he waddled away.]]"
35	* The Bunny Biscuit upgrade has a reference to ''Literature/WatershipDown''. The icon also looks like The Black Rabbit of the film version, although obviously much more cheery.
36	-->"All the world will be your enemy, and when they catch you they will kill you... But first they must catch you."
37	* The [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Improbability drive]] is an upgrade for the Chancemaker buildings, which is fittingly described as "recommended by the Grandmother's Guide to the Bakery."
38	** In addition, one of the Shipment building upgrades is called "Restaurants at the End of the Universe".
39	* The flavor text for the "Maddening Chants" Portal upgrade references the infamous ''VideoGame/MoonbaseAlpha'' memes based around the game's text-to-speech feature.
40	* One of the most expensive kitten upgrades is called "Kitten [[Series/TheOfficeUS assistants to the regional manager]]".
41	* The description for the "Wishalloy Mouse" upgrade:
42	-->''"Clicking is fine and dandy, but don't [[{{Pun}} smash your mouse]] over it. [[Music/SmashMouth Get your game on. Go play]]."''
43	* The "Winning Lottery Ticket" upgrade's description is a reference to VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas:
44	-->What lottery? THE lottery, that's what lottery! Only lottery that matters!
45	* The "Kitten Angels" heavenly upgrade's description states that "[[WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven All cats go to heaven]]".
46	* The flavor text for one of the Shipment upgrades reads "To boldly bake" in an obvious reference to the opening speech from Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.
47	** A later upgrade, also for the Shipments, is called "The Final Frontier."
48	* "Box of not cookies" includes [[Franchise/StarWars Wookies]], with flavor text "[[Film/ANewHope These aren't the cookies you're looking for.]]"
49	* From the description of "Putri salju":
50	-->''A beloved Indonesian pastry; its name means "snow princess", for the powdered sugar it's coated with. Had we added these to Cookie Clicker some years ago, this is where we'd make a reference to [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 that one Disney movie]], but it's probably time to let it go.''
51	* The seventh Mine upgrade, Planetsplitter.
52	-->''"These new state-of-the-art excavators have been tested on Merula, Globort, Flwanza VI, [[Franchise/DeadSpace among other distant planets which have been curiously quiet lately]]."''
53	* The first Chancemaker upgrade, Your Lucky Cookie:
54	-->''"[[Franchise/DuckTales This is the first cookie you've ever baked]]. It holds a deep sentimental value and, after all this time, an interesting smell."''
55	* The "Unshackled temples" Heavenly Upgrade has the flavor text "[[WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess You could make a religion out of this]]."
56	* The Glucosmium Portal Upgrade is named [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Portal Guns]].
57	* The cookie upgrade Steamed Cookies references [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/steamed-hams the Steamed Hams meme]] from WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.
58	-->''"Localized entirely within this gaming platform? Yes!"''
59	* The Undecillion Fingers upgrade's flavor text:
60	-->''"[[WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus Whatever you touch turns to dough in your clutch]]."''
61	* The "War of the Gods" upgrade's flavor text states "[[Film/WarGames An interesting game; the only winning move is not to pray.]]"
62	* The chancemakers upgrade "Four-leaf clover field" has the description "[[Film/{{Cloverfield}} No giant monsters here]], just a whole lot of lucky grass."
63	* The "Turbo-charged soil" debug upgrade has the description "[[Film/{{Idiocracy}} It's got electrolytes!]]"
64	* The "Elder Spice" heavenly upgrade has the description "[[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike The cookie your cookie could smell like.]]"
65	* The "[[Music/SurvivorBand Eye of the wrinkler]]" heavenly upgrade fittingly has the description "Just a wrinkler and its will to survive. Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry."
66	* The description for "The stuff rationale" is lifted directly from ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'''s "Fiddelin" informercial: "If not now, when? If not it, what? If not things... stuff?"
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69	[[folder:Achievements]]
70	* One of the achievements is titled "''VideoGame/QuantumConundrum''".
71	* The achievement for building 1 portal is "A whole new world", referencing the song from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
72	* Achievement for building 50 portals is "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Now you're thinking]]."
73	* The achievement for having 100 cursors is "Literature/OfMiceAndMen", a reference to the [[Creator/JohnSteinbeck Steinbeck]] novel of the same name.
74	* The achievement for having 100 alchemy labs is "Gold Member", referencing the third Film/AustinPowers movie.
75	* The quote on the "Nihilism" achievement: "[[WebAnimation/RatboyGenius There are many things that need to be erased.]]"
76	* The description for the "Get Lucky" achievement references ''[[Music/DaftPunk Daft Punk]]'s'' song "Get Lucky":
77	-->"You've been up all night, didn't you?"
78	* The achievement for having 150 Shipments is "Type II civilization," a reference to the Kardashev scale.
79	* As of Version 1.0417, the Mine-related achievement "Never dig down" is a reference to one of the things you shouldn't do in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''.
80	* The achievement for making 1 septillion cookies just from prisms is called "[[VideoGame/DarkSouls Praise the sun]]".
81	* The achievement for having 250 grandmas is "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 The old never bothered me anyway]]".
82	* The achievement ''Videogame/RealmOfTheMadGod'' is a shout out to the videogame of the same name.
83	* The achievement for buying 400 cursors is [[Film/The5000FingersOfDrT "Dr. T."]]
84	* The achievement for buying 500 cursors, "Thumbs, phalanges, metacarpals", has the flavor text, [[VideoGame/SonicAndKnuckles ''& KNUCKLES'']].
85	* The 350 grandma achievement is [[Franchise/StarTrek "To Oldly Go."]]
86	** And the achievement for making 1 octillion cookies from fractal engines is "[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Needs of the Many]]".
87	* Once your grandmas produce 10 quintillion cookies by themselves you unlock the [[http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/14/mountain-dews-dub-the-dew-online-poll-goes-horribly-wrong/ "Gushing Grannies"]] achievement. There's also a grandma named "Gusher".
88	* The 300 temple achievement is "Wololo," from the sound priests would make when trying to convert enemies in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresI''.
89	* The achievement for baking 100 octillion cookies is "[[Film/Dune1984 He who controls the cookies controls the universe]]". ''The milk must flow.''
90	* The achievement for baking 1 quadrillion cookies a second is "[[Creator/{{Dropout}} Turbopuns]]" with the description "Mother Nature will be like slowwwww dowwwwwwn."
91	* The achievement for baking 10 sexdecillion cookies per second is "Everything happens so much", a quote from Blog/HorseEbooks.
92	* The achievement for building 300 time machines references the "Ricky and Morty forever and ever" rant from the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''.
93	* An update for the game's fifth anniversary added, among other things, a series of building achievements that are all references to "All Star" by Music/SmashMouth (All of them fittingly for having 500 of a building, starting with "Sharpest Tool in the Shed" at 500 farms).
94	** There is also the "So much to do so much to see" shadow achievement for having a cookie legacy at least a year old.
95	* The achievement for owning 350 portals is "He Comes", referencing the WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}} mythos. It's even rendered in Zalgo text in-game!
96	* The achievement for making 100 sextillion cookies from clicking is [[Music/FosterThePeople "All the other kids with the pumped up clicks."]]
97	* Achievements for the Wizard Tower included [[VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing A Wizard is You]] (with the flavor text "[[Literature/HarryPotter I'm a what?]]") and "[[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Bibidi-babadi-boo]]."
98	* The achievement for owning 250 chancemakers is called "[[Literature/TheHungerGames Ever in your favor]]."
99	* The achievement for owning 300 chancemakers, "Be a Lady," is taken from "[[Theatre/GuysAndDolls Luck Be a Lady]]."
100	* Reaching one duodecillion cookies per second earns you the "Bake him away, toys" achievement, referring to WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons episode "Cape Feare".
101	* Harvesting a bifurcated sugar lump gives the achievement [[WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow "Sugar sugar"]].
102	* The Achievement for 100 Quindecillion Cookies per second is called [[Franchise/{{Cars}} I am speed]].
103	* The Achievement for 650 Time Machines is called [[{{VideoGame/ChronoTrigger}} But the future refused to change]].
104	* For the "You" building, which are clones of the player:
105	** The "Episode II" achievement for owning 150 You comes from ''[[Film/AttackOfTheClones Star Wars II – Attack of the Clones]]''.
106	** The achievement for having 400 You is called "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbNightOfTheLivingPharmacists Army Of Me]]" after the song from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''.
107	** The "Know thyself" achievement for owning 450 You comes from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''.
108	** The "Despite everything, it's still you" achievement for owining 600 You is a quote from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''.
109	** The achievement for owning 650 You is called ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce''.
110	* For owning one cortex baker, the achievement "[[WebVideo/{{Markiplier}} It's Big Brain Time]]" is awarded.
111	* For owning 250 cortex bakers, the achievement "A trademarked portmanteau of 'imagination' and 'engineering'" references Creator/{{Disney}}'s "imagineering" branding.
112	* The achievement for owning 450 mines is named after indie game VideoGame/CaveStory.
113	* Upgrading temples to level 10 yields the achievement "[[Franchise/IndianaJones It Belongs in a Bakery]]."
114	* The achievement for making 100 septillion cookies from cursors is "[[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken Finger clickin' good]]."
115	* The achievement for owning 700 alchemy labs is called "Sugar, spice, and everything nice", with the description "[[Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect cookies.]]"
116	* Owning a combined total of 777 grandams and cursors gives the achievement "Franchise/{{The elder scrolls}}", with the description "[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Let me guess. Someone stole your cookie.]]"
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119
120	[[folder:News Ticker]]
121	* One cookie milestone in particular is a reference to the Milkshake song by Kelis:
122	-->''"Your cookies brings all the boys to the yard."''
123	* [[Film/TheGraduate I'll say one word, just one: "cookies".]]
124	* The following news message is a reference to a [[http://imgur.com/dIrST memetic edit of a hentai doujinshi]] made on 4chan:
125	-->News: elves sabotage radioactive frosting factory, turn hundreds blind in vicinity - "Who in their right mind would do such a thing?" laments outraged mayor.
126	* One of the news ticker headlines is a shout-out to the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg Spiders Georg]] meme, specifically referencing the infamous [[https://reallyreallyreallytrying.tumblr.com/post/40033025233/average-person-eats-3-spiders-a-year-factoid "average person eats 3 spiders a year" post]].
127	-->''"News: 'average person bakes [cookies baked/7.3 billion] cookies a year' factoid actually just statistical error; [[[HelloInsertNameHere Bakery]]], who has produced [cookies baked] cookies in their lifetime, is an outlier and should not have been counted."''
128	[[/folder]]
129
130	[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
131	* The [[https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/v10466/img/grandmaIcon.png Grandma icon]] and another status update quote is referencing an [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lna1yzB9Jg1qlktl7o1_400.jpg image macro meme]] based on the movie ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'':
132	-->''"Moist cookies."''
133	--->-Grandma
134	* The icon for the "Meme" building during [[AprilFoolsDay Business Day]] (actually the Wizard Tower) is a cookie-themed take on two different memes depending on the version: In the browser version, it's Pepe the Frog, while on the Steam version it's the Nyan Cat (albeit with a cookie in place of a Pop-Tart).
135	* The Easter grandma skin is a grandma [[Film/DonnieDarko wearing a stupid bunny suit.]]
136	* Many of the grandma names are this, which is a given since they're suggested by Patreon supporters. These include:
137	** [[VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies Zan Tart-izanne]].
138	** dQw4w9WgXcQ. [[spoiler: Pasting it into a Website/YouTube URL sends you to a JustForFun/{{Rickroll}}.]]
139	** [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Mrs PoopyButthole]].
140	** [[WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog Muriel]].
141	** [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Steve...?]]
142	** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface Grandma McGrandmaface]].
143	** [[Series/GameOfThrones Khookiesi, Grandmother of Dragonflights]].
144	** "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hey-guys-its-nicole Hey guys, it's Nicole]]".
145	** VideoGame/IttleDew.
146	** [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Ruby Rose]].
147	** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Erina Pendleton-Joestar]].
148	** [[Music/{{Queen}} Don't Stop Me Now]].
149	** [[WebVideo/ScottTheWoz ScartTheWaz]].
150	** [[Series/GameOfThrones Tell Cersei, it was me.]]
151	** [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachi]].
152	** [[Film/TheSandlot You're Killing Me Smols]].
153	** [[VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin Granny Grearest]].
154	* The icon for the "Mokalsium" spirit (itself a play on words) is based off of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laughing_Cow The Laughing Cow]] brand of dairy products.
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