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| 9 | [[quoteright:350:[[Series/{{Victorious}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mixcollage_05_feb_2024_02_35_pm_9902.jpg]]]] |
| 10 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[Series/{{Victorious}} Hollywood Arts]], get ready to [[Series/MatchGame match the stars!]]]] |
| 11 | This page lists [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] seen in [[{{Series}} Live-Action TV]] shows. |
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| 13 | !!Shows with their own subpages: |
| 14 | [[index]] |
| 15 | * ''ShoutOut/ThirtyRock'' |
| 16 | * ''ShoutOut/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' |
| 17 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Arrow}}'' |
| 18 | * ''ShoutOut/{{APB}}'' |
| 19 | * ''ShoutOut/AshVsEvilDead'' |
| 20 | * ''ShoutOut/AshesToAshes2008'' |
| 21 | * ''ShoutOut/TheATeam'' |
| 22 | * ''ShoutOut/BabylonFive'' |
| 23 | * ''ShoutOut/BarneyMiller'' |
| 24 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' |
| 25 | * ''ShoutOut/BetterCallSaul'' |
| 26 | * ''ShoutOut/TheBigBangTheory'' |
| 27 | * ''ShoutOut/BreakingBad'' |
| 28 | * ''ShoutOut/TheBlacklist'' |
| 29 | ** ''ShoutOut/TheBlacklistRedemption'' |
| 30 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Blindspot}}'' |
| 31 | * ''ShoutOut/BigTimeRush'' |
| 32 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Series/Billions}}'' |
| 33 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Bones}}'' |
| 34 | * ''ShoutOut/BurnNotice'' |
| 35 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Castle|2009}}'' |
| 36 | * ''ShoutOut/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' |
| 37 | * ''ShoutOut/ChoudenshiBioman'' |
| 38 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Chuck}}'' |
| 39 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Continuum}}'' |
| 40 | * ''ShoutOut/CrashAndBernstein'' |
| 41 | * ''ShoutOut/CrazyExGirlfriend'' |
| 42 | * ''ShoutOut/CriminalMinds'' |
| 43 | * ''ShoutOut/DoctorWho'' |
| 44 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Doom Patrol|2019}}'' |
| 45 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Elementary}}'' |
| 46 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Endeavour}}'' |
| 47 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Eureka}}'' |
| 48 | * ''ShoutOut/TheExpanse'' |
| 49 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Fargo}}'' |
| 50 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Firefly}}'' |
| 51 | * ''ShoutOut/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 52 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Fringe}}'' |
| 53 | * ''ShoutOut/FutureMan'' |
| 54 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Galavant}}'' |
| 55 | * ''ShoutOut/GameOfThrones'' |
| 56 | * ''ShoutOut/Girls5eva'' |
| 57 | * ''ShoutOut/GilmoreGirls'' |
| 58 | * ''ShoutOut/GoodEats'' |
| 59 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Good Omens|2019}}'' |
| 60 | * ''ShoutOut/TheGoodPlace'' |
| 61 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Grimm}}'' |
| 62 | * ''ShoutOut/HannahMontana'' |
| 63 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Hannibal}}'' |
| 64 | * ''ShoutOut/HawaiiFive0'' |
| 65 | * ''ShoutOut/HikariSentaiMaskman'' |
| 66 | * ''ShoutOut/HorribleHistories'' |
| 67 | * ''ShoutOut/{{House}}'' |
| 68 | * ''ShoutOut/HowIMetYourMother'' |
| 69 | * ''ShoutOut/HumanTarget'' |
| 70 | * ''ShoutOut/ICarly'' |
| 71 | * ''ShoutOut/InSecurity'' |
| 72 | * ''ShoutOut/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'' |
| 73 | * ''ShoutOut/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' |
| 74 | * ''ShoutOut/IZombie'' |
| 75 | * ''ShoutOut/{{JAG}}'' |
| 76 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Jessie}}'' |
| 77 | * ''ShoutOut/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVSKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'' |
| 78 | * ''ShoutOut/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger'' |
| 79 | * ''ShoutOut/KamenRiderAmazons'' |
| 80 | * ''ShoutOut/KamenRiderBuild'' |
| 81 | * ''ShoutOut/KamenRiderDrive'' |
| 82 | * ''ShoutOut/KamenRiderExAid'' |
| 83 | * ''ShoutOut/KamenRiderGaim'' |
| 84 | * ''ShoutOut/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' |
| 85 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Leverage}}'' |
| 86 | * ''ShoutOut/TheLunchroom'' |
| 87 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Lucifer|2016}}'' |
| 88 | * ''ShoutOut/MacGyver2016'' |
| 89 | * ''ShoutOut/MadMen'' |
| 90 | * ''ShoutOut/TheManInTheHighCastle'' |
| 91 | * ''ShoutOut/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' |
| 92 | ** ''ShoutOut/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 93 | ** ''ShoutOut/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' |
| 94 | ** ''ShoutOut/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' |
| 95 | ** ''ShoutOut/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' |
| 96 | ** ''ShoutOut/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 97 | * ''ShoutOut/MechX4'' |
| 98 | * ''ShoutOut/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' |
| 99 | * ''ShoutOut/MimpiMetropolitan'' |
| 100 | * ''ShoutOut/TheMinistryOfTime'' |
| 101 | * ''ShoutOut/MythBusters'' |
| 102 | * ''ShoutOut/{{NCIS}}'' |
| 103 | ** ''ShoutOut/NCISLosAngeles'' |
| 104 | * ''ShoutOut/OddSquad'' |
| 105 | * ''ShoutOut/TheOfficeUS'' |
| 106 | * ''ShoutOut/OnceUponATime'' |
| 107 | ** ''ShoutOut/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'' |
| 108 | * ''ShoutOut/TheOuterLimits1995'' |
| 109 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Outnumbered}}'' |
| 110 | * ''ShoutOut/PersonOfInterest'' |
| 111 | * ''ShoutOut/ThePlayer'' |
| 112 | * ''ShoutOut/PowerRangersRPM'' |
| 113 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Psych}}'' |
| 114 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Quantico}}'' |
| 115 | * ''ShoutOut/RedDwarf'' |
| 116 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Revolution}}'' |
| 117 | * ''ShoutOut/RizzoliAndIsles'' |
| 118 | * ''ShoutOut/RuPaulsDragRace'' |
| 119 | ** ''ShoutOut/RuPaulsDragRaceUK'' |
| 120 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Scorpion}}'' |
| 121 | * ''ShoutOut/SchittsCreek'' |
| 122 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Scrubs}}'' |
| 123 | * ''ShoutOut/{{A Series of Unfortunate Events|2017}}'' |
| 124 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Sherlock}}'' |
| 125 | * ''ShoutOut/TheSingOff'' |
| 126 | * ''ShoutOut/SonOfZorn'' |
| 127 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Spaced}}'' |
| 128 | * ''ShoutOut/SpittingImage'' |
| 129 | * ''ShoutOut/StargateSG1'' |
| 130 | * ''ShoutOut/StarTrek'' |
| 131 | * ''ShoutOut/StElsewhere'' |
| 132 | * ''ShoutOut/StrangerThings'' |
| 133 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Supernatural}}'' |
| 134 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Survivor}}'' |
| 135 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Taken}}'' |
| 136 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Taskmaster}}'' |
| 137 | * ''ShoutOut/Teachers2016'' |
| 138 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Timeless}}'' |
| 139 | * ''ShoutOut/TinMan'' |
| 140 | * ''ShoutOut/Titans2018'' |
| 141 | * ''ShoutOut/{{The Tomorrow People|2013}}'' |
| 142 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Trace}}'' |
| 143 | * ''ShoutOut/TrueDetective'' |
| 144 | * ''ShoutOut/TheTwilightZone1985'' |
| 145 | * ''ShoutOut/UchuSentaiKyuranger'' |
| 146 | * ''ShoutOut/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'' |
| 147 | * ''ShoutOut/VeronicaMars'' |
| 148 | * ''ShoutOut/VoltesVLegacy'' |
| 149 | * ''ShoutOut/TheWalkingDead2010'' |
| 150 | * ''ShoutOut/TheXFiles'' |
| 151 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Yonderland}}'' |
| 152 | * ''ShoutOut/{{Zoo}}'' |
| 153 | [[/index]] |
| 154 | ---- |
| 155 | !!Individual examples: |
| 156 | * ''Series/TwentyFour'': |
| 157 | ** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' alumni Manny Coto and Brannon Braga have been involved with the show for a while now, and when the president was considering people for the position of chief of staff, [[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Robert_Justman Bob Justman]] and [[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Rick_Berman Rick Berman]] were suggested. There is Jane Espenson from accounting. |
| 158 | ** There seems to have been at least one ''Series/DoctorWho'' fan on the writing staff: Seasons 2 and 3 feature a minor character named Creator/TomBaker, and Season 8 has a villain named Davros. |
| 159 | ** [=McLennen=]-Forster, the weapons manufacturer in season 4, is a shout out to the Australian indie-rock band The Go-Betweens and their principal songwriters Grant [=McLennan=] and Robert Forster. |
| 160 | * ''Series/SixHundredSixtySixParkAvenue'': |
| 161 | ** Many scenes in the pilot seem lifted off from either ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' or ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate''. |
| 162 | ** The birds in 'Murmurations' seem to be a Shout Out to ''Film/TheBirds''. |
| 163 | ** The scene in which Louise is 'attacked' by the elevator brings to mind both the Dutch movie ''De Lift'' and a death scene in ''Film/FinalDestination2''. |
| 164 | * ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': |
| 165 | ** In one episode, Diana makes a reference to 'The Thought Police', a shout out to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. |
| 166 | ** In "As Fate Would Have It," there is one to the final scene of ''Film/TheGodfather''. Liv, a homeless junkie whom Shawn befriended and convinced to join the 4400 Center, sadly watches as his aides close his office door on her shortly after Jordan Collier's assassination. |
| 167 | ** In "Gone, Part II," having been given a mental illness of the Nova Group leader Daniel Armand, Shawn begins tearing his apartment in the 4400 Center to pieces in order to find a bug, just as Harry Caul did in the final scene of “Film/TheConversation''. |
| 168 | ** In "The Starzl Mutation," one of Darren Piersahl's victims is named Holly Martins. This was the name of the protagonist of ''Film/TheThirdMan'', as played by Creator/JosephCotten. |
| 169 | ** In "The Wrath of Graham," after NTAC and the Army lay siege to Adlai Stevenson High School, Graham Holt's followers all claim to be him in order to protect him, referencing the iconic scene in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}''. |
| 170 | ** The final scene of the SeriesFinale "The Great Leap Forward" has "Where Is My Mind" by Music/ThePixies playing. |
| 171 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A113 A113]] appears in many animated productions and refers to a room number used by the animation program at [=CalArts=]. |
| 172 | * ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' has at least one in every episode. One particular gem is referring to the idea of an armor plated dirigible as a [[Music/LedZeppelin lead zeppelin.]] |
| 173 | * ''The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard'': The name of Ros Pritchard's (fictional) hometown is a shoutout to ''Literature/ThePickwickPapers'' by Creator/CharlesDickens. |
| 174 | * ''Series/AndiMack'' has a main character named [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]. She owns it. |
| 175 | * ''Series/{{Andor}}'': The introduction of Niamos imitates the introduction of Miami in ''Series/MiamiVice'', as an image of a sunny resort paradise which instead conceals a cesspool of corruption. |
| 176 | * ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'': Searching his secret weapons locker in one episode, Captain Hunt (played by Kevin Sorbo, who also played Hercules) finds a ''{{Series/Hercules|TheLegendaryJourneys}}'' sword and wig. In the first episode, Hunt is referred to as being "like a Greek god or something." |
| 177 | ** There's also the episode where he goes in search of an old ship avatar, and it turns out to be Michael Hurst, who played Iolaus. A little later they have a "[[IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine you look kind of familiar]]" moment. In the same episode, Hunt has a sense of déjà vu when he is told that he must mount a rescue out of a system named Tartarus. |
| 178 | ** In yet another episode, following a conversation about how powerful the LostTechnology ship makes him, Captain Hunt remarks "...but I'm not a god; I'm just a man." |
| 179 | ** The premiere of the series had a human crewman who was killed in the initial attack named after a noted denizen of rec.arts.sf.written who had died of cancer not long before. |
| 180 | ** Another episode featured a racist militant group called the Knights of Genetic Purity, who were lifted unchanged (name and all) from the role-playing game ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld''. |
| 181 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 182 | ** Meanwhile, it had a shout out to Joss Whedon having written one of the ''Alien'' films, with Fred's father saying he fell asleep during it. Despite it being a Whedon film, it wasn't well received. |
| 183 | ** When Angel examines her driver's license, Anne's address is listed as "Willoughby Ave." Anne Steele and John Willoughby are characters in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''. |
| 184 | ** The Groosalugg or Groo for short. A mighty, good-hearted and rather dumb warrior nicknamed Groo? |
| 185 | ** May possibly be coincidental, but Illyria has some significant visual, backstory and personality similarities to Eldrad from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The Hand of Fear." |
| 186 | * ''Series/AnotherPeriod'' has offered up these shout-outs: |
| 187 | ** In "Senate," Hortense and Chef Chauncey Allistar recreate the blindfold-and-food scene from ''Nine and a Half Weeks.'' |
| 188 | ** In "Pageant," Lillian's win is spoiled when Hortense dumps a bucket of - not blood, but ''feces'' - on her head, a la Literature/{{Carrie}}. |
| 189 | * ''Series/{{Astrid}}'': |
| 190 | ** Astrid herself is sometimes compared to Film/RainMan, usually in the context of ableist harassment and bullying, including a TroubledBackstoryFlashback in "The Haunting". In "Invisible", a coworker knocks a can of toothpicks on the ground to get her to count them. |
| 191 | ** The victims in "Puzzle" are all named for ciphers of ''Film/JurassicPark'' characters: Alain Grant (Alan Grant), Denis Nedry (Dennis Nedry), and Yann Malcolm (Ian Malcolm). Raphaëlle also speaks to a Dr. Thierry Rex by phone. |
| 192 | ** ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': |
| 193 | *** Astrid's comment in "Puzzle" about memory not being infinitely expandable is something Holmes said to Watson in ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''. |
| 194 | *** In episode 7, Astrid quotes Holmes's line, "When you eliminate the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth" from ''Literature/TheSignOfTheFour''. |
| 195 | ** The cattleya flowers left as a CallingCard by the killer in the pilot is a reference to a Creator/MarcelProust novel, ''Un amour de Swann'', where the main character uses the expression "to do cattleya" as a euphemism for sex. |
| 196 | ** "The Haunting" has a bunch of ''Franchise/StarWars'' references. Laure Gana and Wilfred Tarquin reference Leia Organa and Wilhuff Tarkin from ''Film/ANewHope''; there's also a mention of a Max Rebo (the Ortolan keyboardist in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''), while a past victim is a man named Jabbah, born in Tataouine, Tunisia (the country where most of the Tatooine sequences in the series were shot). |
| 197 | ** "The Man Who Never Was": |
| 198 | *** The episode is titled after ''Film/TheManWhoNeverWas''. It involves a BodyOfTheWeek that uses several false identities, where the film was about a corpse with a manufactured background that was used to deliver disinformation to the Axis before the invasion of Italy. |
| 199 | *** The BodyOfTheWeek's aliases are all aliases used by Literature/ArseneLupin in various novels: Louis Valméras in ''The Hollow Needle'', Maxime Bermond in ''Arsène Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes'', and Victor Hautin from ''Victor of the Wordly Brigade''. |
| 200 | * ''Series/TheATeam'' gave ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' a shout-out. A first season ep had the boys meeting someone in Ride/UniversalStudios' tour area. A BSG Cylon walked by Face, played by Creator/DirkBenedict, Starbuck on the original BSG, who had had more than a little contact with toasters. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM Face did a]] DoubleTake, of the "wait, do I know you from somewhere?" variety. (at about 0:45 into that clip) A clip from the scene was used in the intro in later seasons. |
| 201 | * ''{{Series/Atlantis}}'': In an early episode, Hercules berates Jason for falling in love with the princess Ariadne (a very dangerous thing for a commoner to do with her parents around), asking if he couldn't have chosen someone more at his level, like "the blacksmith's daughter." Central to the plot of ''{{Series/Merlin|2008}}'' is an analogous, though reversed, situation, in which Prince Arthur and Gwen, the blacksmith's daughter, fall in love, with similar problems. (Two of Atlantis' three producers previously produced Merlin, and in general Atlantis is considered a spiritual successor to Merlin). |
| 202 | * ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': A Christmas episode shows Steed getting Christmas cards from lady friends. He reads one from Cathy Gale and muses "Whatever could she be doing [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} in Fort Knox?]]" |
| 203 | * ''Series/BabylonBerlin'': [[spoiler:The assassination of Gustav Stresemann and Aristide Briand]] is supposed to happen at a performance of ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera''. The famous ''Moritat'' also serves as the episode's {{Leitmotif}}. Possibly in itself a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'', which features a mission where [[spoiler:Agent 47 can hide in an opera chandelier during a rehearsal of {{Theatre/Tosca}} and use the gunfire on the stage to mask the sound of him assassinating an American diplomat in one of the loges]]. |
| 204 | * ''Series/BarnabyJones'': |
| 205 | ** A few callbacks to Buddy Ebsen's ''even more'' successful series, ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'': |
| 206 | *** Lieutenant Biddle's name is a callback to birdwatcher Professor Biddle, a recurring character on the Beverly Hillbillies. |
| 207 | *** In "The Secret of the Dunes", Barnaby uses a bloodhound known as "Count" to find a body. Compare to Jed Clampett and his bloodhound Duke. |
| 208 | *** J.R.'s first name is ''Jedidiah'', Jed Clampett's full name. |
| 209 | *** J.R.'s also the son of Barnaby's first cousin. J.R's the same relation to Barnaby as Jethro is to Jed Clampett. Fortunately, he's ''a lot'' smarter than Jethro. |
| 210 | ** The episode "Fatal Witness" features Larry Hagman in a guest starring role. Randomly, we also see a [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie]] girl in a harem outfit teaching belly dancing at a spa! |
| 211 | * ''Series/Batman1966'': |
| 212 | ** In "The Cat and the Fiddle" Catwoman's thugs are crawling around the outside of the Gotham State Building. Commissioner Gordon says "Are they birds?" and Chief O'Hara says "Are they planes?", a reference to the signature line from ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'', "Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's Superman!" |
| 213 | ** "An Egg Grows in Gotham." |
| 214 | *** Chief Screaming Chicken is the sole remaining representative of the Mohican tribe, making him "The Last of the Mohicans" (a reference to the James Fenimore Cooper novel ''Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans''). |
| 215 | *** At one point Chief Screaming Chicken says the phrase "Kemo sabe." When Egghead's goon asks him what it means, he says he doesn't know - he heard it on the radio. This refers to the ''Franchise/TheLoneRanger'' radio show, in which Tonto regularly used that phrase. |
| 216 | *** An unnamed police detective played by Ben Alexander tells a woman to "Give me just the facts", a reference to Sergeant Joe Friday's "Just the facts, ma'am" line from ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' and to Alexander's character on the show, Frank Smith. |
| 217 | ** "Fine Feathered Finks." When the Penguin sees a camera observing him in a prison cell, he says "Goodnight, Big Brother" and pokes it out with his umbrella. This is a reference to Creator/GeorgeOrwell's novel ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', which (among other things) had devices in people's homes that were used to spy on them. The symbol of the government was Big Brother, the Party leader in charge of the country. |
| 218 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'': Also had a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' shout out. A particular sect of Colonials believed in contact between genders only when sanctified by a certain ritual, only carried out "every seven years" (a reference to Vulcan "pon far"). |
| 219 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': [[spoiler:Cylons]] meet in weapons locker 1701D, a shout out to the Enterprise's registration number in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' which Ron Moore also worked on. The new show's pilot miniseries also had Trek shout outs, one being the callsign for a civilian ship being "Gemenon Liner 1701" (again referencing the Enterprise), as well as the very brief appearance of a Constitution class starship in one of the "rag tag fleet" scenes. |
| 220 | ** 1701 people died or went missing on New Caprica, and 1701 people were lost in the Battle of the Ionian Nebula. Ron Moore likes this one. |
| 221 | ** Similarly, a location on Caprica called the Martok Valley is probably a shout-out to General Martok of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' fame. |
| 222 | ** There is also a shout out to ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' in the miniseries, as a Firefly-class transport is seen in the air over Caprica City before the outbreak of the war. The effects team loved doing these. In the finale it is possible to spot ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Tiberian Sun'''s GDI ''Kodiak'' amongst the rag-tag fleet. |
| 223 | ** Possible shout out to ''Series/TheATeam'' in ''Battlestar Galactica: Razor'' with Starbuck's line: "Ain't it grand when a plan comes together?" No doubt since ''Series/TheATeam'' had one Creator/DirkBenedict on the cast, the original Starbuck. |
| 224 | ** There are also two references to the Kennedy Assassination. The first in the Miniseries when Laura is sworn in as President aboard Colonial One is a deliberate parallel to [[http://inaugural.senate.gov/images/photo-11221963-lbjswearingin-m.jpg LBJ's swearing in aboard Air Force One.]] The second is in the episode "Resistance," [[spoiler:when Cally kills Boomer, essentially reenacting Jack Ruby's killing of Oswald.]] |
| 225 | ** In the opening credits of the rebooted BSG, there's a shot of Starbuck in a sleeveless shirt, grinning around a cigarillo while playing cards--duplicating a similar shot of Creator/DirkBenedict's Starbuck in the credits for the original series. |
| 226 | ** The theme music for the original BSG series is used in the rebooted series as the (in-universe) anthem of the Colonial armed forces. |
| 227 | ** Baltar's dream sequence in "Collaborators." Dream Six: "[[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 Don't make me angry, Gaius.]]" Dream Adama: "You won't like her when she's angry." |
| 228 | * ''Series/BeakmansWorld'': Don and Herb Penguin form a ShoutOut to Don Herbert, aka Mr. Wizard. Also, several times the characters mention the shenanigans in Mr. Guenther's science class, referencing Al Guenther, the science consultant for the show. |
| 229 | * ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'': Annie excitedly tells Nina, "Hey, there's a werewolf called Nina in ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}''!" (Which is technically not true; Nina only appeared in SpinOff show ''Series/{{Angel}}''.) |
| 230 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' is lousy with these. |
| 231 | ** [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Bottle city of Kandor]], anyone? |
| 232 | ** A more subtle example: Leonard, Sheldon and Penny watch an anime called "''Oshikuro the Demon Samurai''." That was an allusion to an episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', in which the animated adaptation of "Oshikuro" (which was a comic book then) was being made, and Charlie had to compose the opening song. |
| 233 | ** When Sheldon won a prestigious award and was nervous about giving an acceptance speech. He took a few drinks to calm his nerves, overshot the mark, and one of his hijinx was singing the periodic table of elements to much the same tune as Music/TomLehrer. The melody is from Creator/GilbertAndSullivan’s "A Very Model of a Modern Major-General", making it a double shoutout. |
| 234 | ** Mega nerd Creator/WilWheaton wore a [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Fruit Fucker]] T-shirt when he appeared on this mega nerd show. For those who don't know, Wheaton's a homeboy of the PA crew, to the point of playing in several [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] campaigns with them, and is subsequently ridiculed mercilessly for his choice of character name. |
| 235 | ** When the four come back from their Arctic expedition, Leonard, Howard, and Raj all have grown caveman-like hair and beards, while Sheldon has a perfectly-groomed goatee... just like the one mirror-universe [[Franchise/StarTrek Spock]] had. |
| 236 | ** Sheldon's various superhero T-shirts. |
| 237 | ** Sheldon named their bowling team "The Wesley Crushers" meaning that they would crush Wil Wheaton. Everyone else (including Wheaton) saw it as a Fan Shout Out to the actor. |
| 238 | ** In the episode guest starring Creator/StanLee, the judge who [[spoiler: throws Sheldon in jail]] is named "[[Creator/JackKirby J. Kirby]]." |
| 239 | ** In the fourth season New Year's episode, the gang (plus Penny's current boyfriend, Zach) dressed up as members of the ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} for a party at the comic book store. Others were dressed as [[Series/DoctorWho the Fourth Doctor]], [[Literature/HarryPotter a Hogwarts student]], and ComicBook/TheJoker, among others. |
| 240 | ** Just one more subtle: "The Apology Insufficiency" featured guest star [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Eliza Dushku]]. Towards the end of the episodes Sheldon tries to get Howard to forgive him for a mistake by "reprogramming" him. |
| 241 | ** Sheldon's line [[Film/{{Casablanca}} "Of all the overrated physicists in all the labs in all the world, why does it have to be Leslie Winkle?"]] |
| 242 | ** There are several shout outs to ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. They range from the characters talking about watching the show to Leonard, as Howard puts it, "taking out his aggressions on innocent Cylons" (i.e. he destroys a Cylon action figure with a laser). |
| 243 | *** Don't forget Cylon Toast! Everyone loves Cylon Toast. |
| 244 | ** Many shout outs to ''Franchise/StarTrek'' both old school and new school. Penny gives Star Trek figurines to the guys, Sheldon is at first upset that he missed the Star Trek reboot then upset that he didn't get a Creator/LeonardNimoy Spock standee, a quick [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Lt M'ress]] mention, Sheldon's feud with [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Wil Weaton]], Sheldon compares their friends to a landing party ("Now we have a Dr. [=McCoy=]!"), and of course..."Do you know what this means? I possess the DNA of Creator/LeonardNimoy!!!" |
| 245 | ** There was an ironic shout-out to ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' by Creator/JossWhedon in "[[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS3E22TheStaircaseImplementation The Staircase Implementation]]": |
| 246 | ---> '''Sheldon''': "Roommates agree that Friday nights shall be reserved for watching Joss Whedon's brilliant new series, ''Firefly''." |
| 247 | --->'''Leonard''': "Does that really need to be in the agreement?" |
| 248 | --->'''Sheldon''': "Well we might as well settle it now, it's gonna be on for years." |
| 249 | ** Sheldon's journal in "The Bozeman Reaction" is a shout-out to Rorschach's Journal in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. |
| 250 | ---> '''Sheldon''': Sheldon’s journal. Security system in place. However, sleep continues to elude me. I’ve seen the underbelly of Pasadena, this so-called City of Roses, and it haunts me. Ah, the injustice, I lie here awake, tormented, while out there evil lurks, [[FauxHorrific probably playing ''Donkey Kong'' on my classic Nintendo.]] |
| 251 | ** Strangely enough, there is no mention in that episode that ''Bozeman, Montana'' where Sheldon decides to move to was also the location in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' where humanity made first contact with the Vulcans. You'd think ''Sheldon'' of all people would have brought that up. |
| 252 | ** Doubling as an ActorAllusion, Wil Wheaton's ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' t-shirt when he appears on ''[[ShowWithinAShow Sheldon Cooper's Fun With Flags]]'' |
| 253 | ** Sheldon's frequent quoting from the extremely detailed Housemate Agreement, right down to paragraphs, sections and subsections, evokes Rimmer's obsession with the [[BigBookOfWar Space Corps Directives]] on ''Series/RedDwarf''. As sci-fi nerds, ''of course'' Sheldon and the rest - and certainly the show's creators - would be aware of ''Red Dwarf''. Sheldon as a more pernickity Rimmer makes great sense, too, with the rest of the cast taking it in turns to play the Lister role. |
| 254 | ** In fact, Sheldon owns all sixty-one released episodes of the BBC series "Red Dwarf," as revealed in "the Friendship Contraction." |
| 255 | *** This would include the original eight seasons (52), the three-part "Back To Earth" and the six episodes of Red Dwarf X. Although the creators were sufficiently on the pulse to know that Red Dwarf X was being made, ''The Friendship Contraction'' was broadcast approximately eight months ''before'' the new season of Red Dwarf was initially broadcast in the UK. |
| 256 | ** And... the whole idea of Howard going up into space as the world's least likely and most temperamentally unsuited astronaut. Everybody, including university benefactor Mrs Latham, makes dismissive remarks about his being a "space plumber." Howard soon finds out he's only there to do the equivalent of servicing the chicken-soup dispensers. His quirks make him the butt of the joke from more macho astronauts. While entranced with the view at first, he soon comes to regard it as excruciatingly dull. [[Series/RedDwarf Does This Remind You Of Anything?]] |
| 257 | ** And in the one where Howard gets into an embarrassing situation with a robot arm, he programs the arm to respond to a snarky Sheldon comment, by having it turn to him and jerkily, but very obviously, making a finger-gesture. This is not the American middle finger, but the British V-Sign with two fingers. Compare the skutter (maintenance robot) in ''Series/RedDwarf'' who makes a similar derisive gesture to Arnold Rimmer after being provoked by a similar superior sneer. |
| 258 | ** In "The Holographic Excitation," there is a blatant shout-out to Sir Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books. Specifically, ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series, co-authored with prominent British scientists, in which Pratchett's fantasy world is used to mirror and illustrate developing scientific thought. In the books, the wizards of Unseen University (among them a rather nerdy type with glasses who affects a big baggy parka) accidentally create a bizarre pocket universe centred on a spherical world which orbits its sun. Stuck for what to do with it, it ends up gathering dust inside a protective glass sphere on somebody's desk. Meanwhile a geeky glasses-wearing scientist in a parka fires up holograms of Earth, planets and solar system to please his girlfriend. Leonard speculates that everything might just be one giant information-gathering hologram, being read by intelligences an unguessable distance away... The creation of the pocket universe in the Discworld -- including Planet Earth -- was done with the specific intention of ''averting'' a seriously Big Bang, by diverting a lot of dangerously destructive energy down a harmless path... |
| 259 | * During the episode "Invertebrates" of ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'', the show transforms into a riff-style skit mirroring that of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' three times. Only, instead of two robots sitting next to a person in the theater, there is instead what appears to be a lobster, and a large squid sitting next to a person in the theater. |
| 260 | * ''Series/TheBionicWoman'' episode "Doomsday is Tomorrow". The ArtificialIntelligence supercomputer Alex 7000 acts as an opponent to Jaime Sommers. He has a calm, emotionless voice, tries to convince her to give up her mission to stop him and attempts to kill her when she doesn't. He is based on the very similar computer HAL 9000 in the film ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', who tries to kill all of the astronauts on the spaceship headed to Jupiter. |
| 261 | * ''Series/{{Birds of Prey|2002}}'': During the pilot episode, Huntress mentions that [[Series/{{Smallville}} meteor showers]] are a likely source of metahuman abilities. ''Birds of Prey'' aired on the [[Creator/TheWB same network]] as ''Smallville''. |
| 262 | * ''Series/TheBisexual'': |
| 263 | ** Lesbian media like ''Film/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'' and ''Series/TheLWord'' is discussed by Leila, Gabe and her lesbian friends. |
| 264 | ** In the past, Leila used "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Amanda Hugandkiss]]" as an alias at a lesbian networking event. |
| 265 | * There's one in ''Series/BlackAdder Goes Forth'' where General Melchet (Creator/StephenFry) is talking to [[HypercompetentSidekick Captain Darling]] about [[TheDitz George]] (Creator/HughLaurie) and says this: |
| 266 | --> '''Melchette:''' His uncle [[Series/JeevesAndWooster Bertie]] and I used to break wind for our college. |
| 267 | * ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' had several references to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' in the later seasons, mostly blatantly "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" from "And Then There Was Shawn." |
| 268 | * ''Series/TheBoys2019'': |
| 269 | ** Mother's Milk tells Hughie his cover is a "mild-mannered reporter," which of course how ComicBook/{{Superman}} was described in his secret identity as Clark Kent. |
| 270 | ** Homelander's big revelation that [[spoiler: he conceived a child and was absent for most of his life]] is a nod to a contentious moment in ''Film/SupermanReturns''. |
| 271 | ** Another ''Superman Returns'' shout-out comes in the Flight 37 scene, albeit with a much darker conclusion. [[spoiler:Unlike Superman, Homelander leaves the plane to crash and the passengers to die after botching the rescue operation. Queen Maeve even brings up the possibility of him using his powers to lift the plane to safety, just as Superman did in that film, only for Homelander to point out that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he'd just go straight through the plane's hull and destroy it]].]] |
| 272 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 273 | ** It give a shout out to ''Charmed'' as well: in the series finale, Willow, [[spoiler:after performing the spell that awakens all the Slayers on earth]], exclaims, "Oh my Goddess!" This is the title of the fifth season finale of ''Charmed''. [[http://www.tv.com/charmed/oh-my-goddess-1/episode/236597/trivia.html Apparently]] Creator/JossWhedon saw the title of the episode, thought it was awesome, and threw it into the finale. |
| 274 | ** There's also a potential ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' shout-out in Anya's dismissive reference to the Buffybot: "She's not the descendant of a long line of mystical warriors. She's the descendant of a toaster oven"? |
| 275 | ** Buffy's last name might be a shout out to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Summers Montague Summers]]. Quotith [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]]: "He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the notorious 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum." He also believed in vampires, witches and other things. |
| 276 | *** Actually, Joss has stated that Buffy's last name is a ShoutOut to Cyclops (IE Scott Summers). |
| 277 | ** In Season 8's "Predators and Prey," they have vampire themed reality shows: ''[[Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire Who Wants To Be Sired]],'' ''[[Series/FlavorOfLove Flavor Of Blood]],'' ''[[Series/TopChef Undead Chef]],'' and ''[[Series/ProjectRunway Project Vampire]].'' |
| 278 | ** Douglas Petrie named the villain in the episode "Helpless" after his nephew. One could also argue that his "talking corpses" and "possessed girl" ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episodes were shouts back to his Buffy days. |
| 279 | ** The Master’s sunken lair is reminiscent of the 1987 vampire classic Film/TheLostBoys, one of Whedon’s inspirations for ''Buffy''. |
| 280 | ** Dawn wolfing down two bowls of "Sugar Bombs." |
| 281 | ** On the eve of the final battle, when Xander, Giles, Amanda, and Andrew are playing ''Dungeons & Dragons'', they encounter Trogdor the Burninator. |
| 282 | ** During "No Future For You", Giles mentions the great bearded wizard of Northampton. |
| 283 | ** The one time Giles is skeptical of the supernatural effect of the week, Buffy tells him not to "Scully me." |
| 284 | ** Adam in Season 4, the name of FrankensteinsMonster, according to Mary Shelley. |
| 285 | ** Giles puts on "Danse Macabre" during his silent presentation in the Season 4 episode "Hush." "Danse Macabre" is the theme tune of ''Series/JonathanCreek''. Anthony Stewart Head, who plays Giles, played magician Adam Klaus in the pilot episode of that show. |
| 286 | ** The Jan/Feb 2012 of the Season 9 Buffy comics has the cover in the style of ComicBook/{{Batman}}. For those who saw Faith wearing Batman pajamas in her series they should have seen it coming. |
| 287 | ** In Season 9, Faith updates Angel on the latest inmates from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', while tracking a demon that feeds on trauma. |
| 288 | ** The last Season 9 issue with Simone and the Bot has someone wearing a skull t shirt. It certainly wasn't ComicBook/ThePunisher, but it likely refers to the last Punisher comic where he dies which was published at around the same time. |
| 289 | ** Willow in Season 9: "Oh the places I'll go," and later "You'd be a fine minion...and your little dogs, too." Also, in the same issue, |
| 290 | --> '''Connor:''' "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. And, uh... heForce will be with you." |
| 291 | ** In ''Death & Consequences'' from Season 9 does the jacket Faith wear look like it belongs to someone else? Commander Shepard perhaps? Looks like our GamerChick had upgraded from the Platform/PlayStation the Mayor gave her to an Platform/XBox. |
| 292 | ** Season 9: "Why isn't the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy-head, fever, so-Xander-can-rest medicine ''working?!''" |
| 293 | ** Season 9: "What would Literature/TheHardyBoys do when they got stuck on a case?" |
| 294 | ** Buffy calling Illyria "Smurfette" in Season 9. |
| 295 | ** Willow nicknames a giant octopus (which has the power to spilt itself into smaller, cuter octopi) Hello Cthulhu in Season 9. |
| 296 | ** Faith says there ain't no saints in this room in Season 9. Funny she should mention that: that's exactly who her actress Creator/ElizaDushku played in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''. |
| 297 | ** And Faith being sick of being responsible for Angel in Season 9, she's "not friggin' ComicBook/SpiderMan." |
| 298 | ** Caleb is a shoutout to Creator/RobertMitchum in ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''. |
| 299 | ** Faith's finally revealed surname of Lehane is probably a Shout Out to crime novelist Creator/DennisLehane. |
| 300 | * ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', appropriately for a show involving an order of nuns, has a number of references to 14th-century English mystic St. Julian of Norwich's ''Revelations of Divine Love.'' |
| 301 | * ''{{Series/Camelot}}'': Ector's death scene (impalement by a spear, then pulling himself down the shaft to stab Lot) echoes that of Arthur versus Mordred in ''{{Film/Excalibur}}''. |
| 302 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': |
| 303 | ** In other possible shout-outs to Website/TelevisionWithoutPity, recapper Demian at least once per recap expressed his dislike of the character Leo, referring to the supposedly omnipotent Elders as "the ever-useless Elders" due to their apparent inability or unwillingness to help the protagonists. In the episode "Lucky Charmed," Piper refers to the "Fricking ever-useless Elders!" In "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father," the demon-of-the-week is determined to kill Leo, and is named "Damien." [[http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/charmed/the-courtship-of-wyatts-father/4/ And oh, didn't he love that.]] |
| 304 | ** ''Charmed'' gave a shout to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' during the episode "The Power of Two." Prue and Phoebe are in a mausoleum and have this conversation: |
| 305 | -->'''Prue:''' Ohh, I hate cemeteries at night. |
| 306 | -->'''Phoebe:''' I hate cemeteries at day. What was that? |
| 307 | -->'''Prue:''' Uh ... huh. Probably a zombie or vampire. |
| 308 | -->'''Phoebe:''' Great. Where's Buffy when you need her? |
| 309 | ** An even better example is when Paige is attacked by a vampire in the fourth season, after ''Buffy'''s ChannelHop from Creator/TheWB to Creator/{{UPN}}. |
| 310 | -->'''Piper:''' Vampires? That'd be different. |
| 311 | -->'''Phoebe:''' No, that's not possible. |
| 312 | -->'''Paige:''' Why not? |
| 313 | -->'''Phoebe:''' Well, because as far as I know, vampires attack in human form and not as a swarm of bats. You know, it's gotta be something else. |
| 314 | -->'''Leo:''' It's true, vampires have been ostracized from the underworld for centuries. As far as I know they're a part of a whole different network now. |
| 315 | ** They also do a shout to ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' when in a season 2 episode Piper is pursued by a serial killer from a movie. |
| 316 | -->'''Piper''': I am being stalked by psycho killers and I hide in the shower?! |
| 317 | ** The girls' one-shot "superhero" costumes in Season 5 are reminiscent of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, with a dose of some more recent ComicBook/XMen outfits for flavor. Piper's in particular seems like an updated version of the original ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} costume. This may or may not be intentional. |
| 318 | ** In the season five finale, Paige gets turned into a goddess of war -- more a genderswapped version of Ares rather than Athena, but with Poseidon's trident. Phoebe asks her whether she was done being a [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Warrior Princess]]. |
| 319 | ** One demon actually says the line [[Franchise/StarWars "I find your lack of faith... disturbing."]] |
| 320 | ** Another shout out happens in several episodes with Leo (Creator/BrianKrause) & Piper (Creator/HollyMarieCombs) about their real life dating when Leo quotes he always fancied a stronger woman like a "Bethany" he referred to his then wife Beth Bruce (who he later divorced) and Piper spat back with 'Well to bad your not a Don or David' which refers to her eventual real life husband David Donoho (also later divorced), who she was just casually seeing at the time. |
| 321 | ** In Season 8, "The Jung and the Restless" there is a shout out to Creator/QuentinTarantino, by Creator/RoseMcGowan who at that time had done the movies ''Film/DeathProof'' and ''Film/PlanetTerror'' with him. |
| 322 | ** In early seasons, Prue works at the Buckland Auction House. The name comes from Raymond Buckland, who introduced the religion of Wicca to the United States. |
| 323 | ** The S:3 E:2 episode "Magic Hour" is almost a carbon copy of the plot from ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' about two lovers who are cursed to become animals at different parts of the day by a jealous ruler. Prue [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it with "I feel like I've seen this in a movie somewhere." |
| 324 | * In ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', the three men who volunteer as the "divers", undertaking a SuicideMission to drain the water beneath the power plant before radioactive molten slag hits it, declare their intentions by standing up and saying their names. This is in part to create a memorable scene so the audience knows the identities of the real men who chose to give up their own lives to save millions, but it's also terribly familiar--and writer Craig Mazin indeed refers to it as "the [[Film/{{Spartacus}} I am Spartacus]] scene" in the companion podcast. (For the record, their names were Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bespalov, and Boris Baranov, and they all survived.) |
| 325 | * ''Series/{{Cleopatra 2525}}'': The appearance of the character [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Creegan_6330.jpg Creegan]] is taken directly from the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Harlequin_8820.jpg cover painting of Harlequin]] in the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' adventure "Harlequin's Back'' (1994). |
| 326 | * ''Series/CobraKai'' loves to give little shout-outs to the popular fan interpretation that [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Daniel-san was the real bully and antagonist]] of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' films, such as by having Miguel hear Johnny's (admittedly somewhat skewed) explanation of his interactions with Daniel and remark "What an asshole" and of course this gem from the Season 3 premiere during a PTA meeting: |
| 327 | --> '''Daniel:''' You don't have to turn this into some kind of karate ''Film/{{Footloose}}''! Karate is not the problem! When I went to school here, I was bullied, and karate saved me! |
| 328 | --> '''Heckler:''' Bullshit! I heard ''you'' were the bully! |
| 329 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': At one point in the episode "The Psychology of Letting Go," Pierce is explaining the tenets of his religion(cult), mentioning that humans have a vapour form. [[GenreSavvy Abed]] asks if there is a liquid form, to which Pierce replies that [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion when Buddha comes all of the humans would turn into a liquid and combine into a single, super intelligent lifeform.]] |
| 330 | * ''Series/TheCrazyOnes'': Simon is teaching his daughter Sydney to drive. He asks her how she learned a particular “cool car move,” she replies “Sunnydale,” the setting of her role in ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}''. |
| 331 | * The title sequence of the 2014 ''Series/{{Cosmos}}'' series ends with an eye opening in a nebula and the title emerging from its pupil. The '''C''' and '''S''' at the beginning and end of "cosmos" are the first letters visible as a tribute to Creator/CarlSagan. (Detailed [[http://i.imgur.com/M0kUoQH.jpg here]].) |
| 332 | * ''CrimeAndPunishmentSeries'': Set in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC they are always alluding to towns that are historical battlefields, allusions that a historian would catch. TruthInTelevision. Parts of the area can almost compare with the lower Rhine for being fought over. |
| 333 | * ''Series/CriminalMindsSuspectBehavior'': ''Possibly'' one episode where a disturbed man seeks bloody revenge on behalf of his sister but [[Manga/RurouniKenshin his mental image of her doesn't want it]]. |
| 334 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': An episode concerning Franchise/StarTrek {{Expy}} "Astro-Quest," a DarkerAndEdgier {{Retool}} series is previewed before an audience to negative reactions, including a cameo from [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Ron Moore]] shouting "You suck!" (with Grace Park and Rekha Sharma looking on). Watching this footage, Greg comments, "Some nerd takes a cheesy 60s sci-fi show and turns it into something a little more realistic..." |
| 335 | * '' Series/{{CSINY}}'': |
| 336 | ** One ep had a killer who was an actor, and Mac caught up with him by pretending he was trying out for the play ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'', a shout out to Creator/GarySinise having directed and starred in a movie version of the work. |
| 337 | ** Another ep had Mac's QuipToBlack line as "Houston, we have a problem," a shout out to Gary's appearance in ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}''. |
| 338 | ** There were a number of shout outs to ''Film/{{Forrest Gump}}'' as well: |
| 339 | *** Mac's last name was selected by [[Creator/GarySinise Lt. Dan Taylor himself]]. |
| 340 | *** "Cuckoo's Nest" had Adam use a variation of "You can tell a lot about a person by their shoes" when he begins explaining the evidence he's found to the team. The title also shouts out ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', obviously, as Danny refers to a mental institution as such during the ep. Sinise had previously played Randle P. [=McMurphy=] on Broadway, and had been personally congratulated backstage on his performance by none other than Creator/KirkDouglas, the first actor to portray the character. |
| 341 | *** Another after Danny had recovered from being shot had him say to Mac, "I got my sea legs." |
| 342 | ** One episode has Mac comment, "Someone's playing ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' with us." Another has him confront a suspect with the fact that he impersonated a doctor and practiced medicine without a license, resulting in the death of his "patient." The suspect replies with something to the effect of [[Film/CatchMeIfYouCan "What next? Did I steal a pilot's uniform and fly a plane?"]] |
| 343 | ** Season 2's "Trapped" finds Danny locked in a panic room without his kit. While Stella walks him through how to process evidence old-school with only what's available to him, he calls her "Miss ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}''" and says he thinks he saw one of her old-school techniques on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''. |
| 344 | ** Several in season 2's [[ComicBook/SuperMan "Super Men"]]. Our first victim is a would-be hero who wears a caped costume. His street clothes and glasses are later found in a phone booth. Adam finds traces of kryptonite on a piece of glass. When Mac & Stella encounter his best friends, the three call themselves The Flash, Aquaman and Thor. Stella asks Mac if he ever wanted to be a super hero. He replies, "''ComicBook/SgtRock''. You couldn't get me out of fatigues when I was a kid." |
| 345 | ** Season 3's "Not What It Looks Like" has jewelry store thieves dressed as ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' Holly Golightly. |
| 346 | ** In the "The Cost of Living" (ep 5.05), the victim of the main case is an archaeologist with a rather iconic-looking hat. |
| 347 | --->'''Stella:''' Looks like James Sutton fancied himself a real [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk "Indiana Jones."]] |
| 348 | --->'''Mac:''' Until someone decided to make this [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade his last crusade.]] |
| 349 | ** In a clear shout out to ''Film/RearWindow'', season 6's "Point of View" finds Mac at home recuperating from injuries and steadily watching his neighbors across the way. A la Creator/JamesStewart's L. B. Jeffies, he witnesses what he believes to be a crime and ends up enlisting the help of a (former) girlfriend to solve the mystery. |
| 350 | ** There are a few to ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'', including this one in "Some Buried Bones" (ep 3.15): |
| 351 | ---> '''Det. Mac Taylor:''' Absinthe spoon, a branding, a brutal beat down. |
| 352 | ---> '''Dr. Sid Hammerback:''' I'll take Cult Rituals for two-hundred. |
| 353 | ---> '''Det. Mac Taylor:''' I don't think so. Kid doesn't look the part. We have reason to believe he went to Chelsea University...What is a fraternity hazing gone bad? |
| 354 | ** Mac is a big fan of UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. He keeps a framed 8x10 of the president prominently displayed in his office, and one of his colleges teases him about "that eight-hour documentary you're always watching." |
| 355 | ** One perp calls Det. Flack "''Film/{{Serpico}}''", and Don says another perp "went ''Film/DogDayAfternoon''." |
| 356 | * ''Series/TheCultureVultures'': |
| 357 | ** The second episode was titled "Rake's Progress", after a series of eight paintings by William Hogarth. |
| 358 | ** "Practical Demonstrations" shows that Dr. Cunningham owns a copy of ''The Human Zoo'' by Desmond Morris. |
| 359 | * ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheColbertReport'': Taken to the extreme with the relationship between these shows. Not only do the two feature clips and images from each other, but it has become a standard procedure for Stewart to end his show by briefly conversing with Colbert as a direct lead in. |
| 360 | ** Based on actual cable news practice, by the way. |
| 361 | ** When Colbert got his honorary doctorate, he added framed photos of various famous TV doctors to the shelves in the back of the Report studio, including Greg House. In the episode "Unfaithful," Series/{{House}} [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/housecolbert.png returned the shout-out.]] |
| 362 | * ''Series/DarkAngel'': The names of the main character and her clone? ComicBook/{{Sam and Max|FreelancePolice}}.... |
| 363 | * ''Series/{{Decoy}}'': After an unsuccessful search for evidence, Casey thinks, "It looked like [[Literature/CaseyAtTheBat Casey had struck out]]." |
| 364 | * ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': The title itself is a reference to ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', suggested by Stephen Stohn (producer and husband of creator Linda Schuyler), a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan. |
| 365 | ** TOS isn't forgotten either: James Tiberius Yorke, anyone? |
| 366 | * ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Many episodes are [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming named after]] songs by Music/StephenSondheim. |
| 367 | * ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': In the first season, in order to get the powerful animal tranquilizer to use on his victims, Dexter uses the alias "Dr. Patrick Bateman." Patrick Bateman was Christian Bale's serial killer protagonist in ''Literature/AmericanPsycho''. |
| 368 | * ''Series/ADiscoveryOfWitches'': The title is related to ''The Discovery of Witches'' by real witch hunter Matthew Hopkins, explaining witches supposed characteristics along with how they could be hunted down. |
| 369 | * ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': In one episode, Victor is sent to the Hyperion Hotel, which was the base of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Investigations for three seasons. |
| 370 | ** Near the end of the second season, Caroline (in a flashback) sees a picture of Bennett, played by Creator/SummerGlau. Caroline tells the picture 'Bet you could kill me with your brain', which Glau as River Tam in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' claimed to be able to do. |
| 371 | ** In the same episode, Topher does an imprint chair override by routing something through an io9, a reference to the scifi news and opinion site io9. Joss Whedon confirmed that it was deliberate, as some of the io9 writers were ''Dollhouse'' supporters. |
| 372 | ** In the final episode of the first season, the characters are trying to get to "Safe Haven". In ''Serenity'', Shepard Book resides in a place with a plaque labeling it 'Safe Haven'. |
| 373 | * ''Series/EerieIndiana'': |
| 374 | ** Several episodes reference movies, music and television shows, including ''Series/TwinPeaks''. |
| 375 | ** In "The Retainer", the orthodontist who fits Steve Konkalewski with the retainer that allows him to hear dogs' thoughts is named Dr. Eukanuba after the dog food brand. |
| 376 | ** In "The Losers", the items in the Bureau of Lost's possession include Charles Foster Kane's sled Rosebud from ''Film/CitizenKane'' and one of the pods from ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1956''. |
| 377 | ** In "Scariest Home Videos", Marshall's pet lizards are named Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and Film/{{Mothra}}. |
| 378 | ** In "Heart on a Chain", there's a moment when the camera pans past [[Film/TheFly1958 a spider's web with a fly caught in it]]. And in the background you can ''just'' make out a tiny voice calling for help... |
| 379 | ** Also in "Heart on a Chain", Marshall shows Melanie a radio that can only pick up broadcasts from the 1930s. This is a reference to ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E20Static Static]]." |
| 380 | ** In "Tornado Days", Simon paints "[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Hasta la vista, Big Bob]]" on Howard Raymer's tornado rider in order to taunt Old Bob. |
| 381 | ** In "Mr. Chaney", Radford, Chaney and Chisel can't wait to get home and catch ''Film/TheHowling'' on cable. ''The Howling'''s director, Creator/JoeDante, served as creative consultant for ''Eerie, Indiana'' and directed five episodes. He also appeared AsHimself in the SeriesFinale "Reality Takes a Holiday". |
| 382 | ** In "No Brain, No Pain", the leather clad, gun-toting Eunice Danforth says, "I'll be back" after Marshall and Simon stop her from attacking the homeless man Chappie, who turns out to be her husband Charles Furnell. Dash X comments that he didn't know that there was a "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Mrs. Terminator]]" and later refers to her as "[[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Grandma Schwarzenegger]]." |
| 383 | * ''Series/EleventhHour'' has a strong shout out to ''Doctor Who'' with its own Doctor Hood. Hood dresses similar to the 4th Doctor [Tom Baker] including the nappy hair and scarf. The detective tends to just call him "The Doctor" and when he was asked what alias he was using, he said "Smith" before being corrected. (Whenever the Doctor is forced to use a name, he uses John Smith, due to its forgettability). He's also extremely intelligent and always travels with a companion, although that's probably more of a plot/character point than a shout out. Later in the same episode he's seen wearing the 6th(?) Doctor's oversized turtleneck. |
| 384 | * ''Series/EliStone'': In the 12th episode, a scientist predicts that San Francisco will be hit by an earthquake. He starts his introduction with "this is no fantasy, no careless product of wild imagination" — the exact same words used by Jor-El in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''. Since nobody but Eli believes him, that makes him an IgnoredExpert. A few seconds after we've been treated to this scene, we witness Eli visiting the scientist and the scene with the scientist on the ladder tinkering with an electric wire is a visual ShoutOut to the scene with Doc Brown talking to himself in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. Somebody must have been having a great day. |
| 385 | * ''{{Series/Euphoria}}'': |
| 386 | ** Episode 3 shows Kat's fantasy of her Tumblr followers in the form of [[Series/GameOfThrones Dothraki slaying her fellow high school peers and calling her "Khaleesi."]] |
| 387 | ** "The Next Episode" has a Halloween party where Jules is [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Juliet]], Kat is [[Film/MissFortyFive Thana]], Cassie is [[Film/TrueRomance Alabama Whitman]], and Lexi is ''Creator/BobRoss''. The episode also features a ShoutOut to ''Series/TheWire'' when Rue threatens one of the [=McKay=] twins by mentioning many characters from the show (including Omar and Marlo) she will "send his way" if he doesn't stop his advances on her sister. |
| 388 | * ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': |
| 389 | ** In one episode, Taggart tells the [=GlobalDynamics=] [[AIIsACrapshoot computer]] that it's fallen for one of the classic blunders: never go in against an Australian when [[Film/ThePrincessBride '''death''' is on the line]]. |
| 390 | ** Interestingly, Wallace Shawn guest-starred as Warren Hughes, [[spoiler: Carter and Allison's relationship auditor]] on Eureka and shares this piece of dialogue with Sheriff Carter: |
| 391 | --> '''Warren Hughes''': What did you expect? The Spanish Inquisition? |
| 392 | --> '''Sheriff Carter''': Well, [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition no one expects the Spanish inquisition...]] |
| 393 | ** There is also an episode where S.A.R.A.H. the smart house accidentally reverts to the original military programming that her program was built on. |
| 394 | --> '''S.A.R.A.H.''': [[Film/WarGames Would you like to play a game?]] |
| 395 | --> '''Everyone''': NO! |
| 396 | ** Season 4.0 Episode 8 "The Ex Files" has the main characters hallucinating someone from their original time line. When Allison asks Dr. Grant, played by James Callis, who his hallucination is he goes with "[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Tall leggy blonde, slinky red dress.]]" |
| 397 | * ''{{Series/Extant}}'': When Ethan goes to school, one of the concerned parents yells that Ethan isn't a kid, he's "a toaster with hair." In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', people insult Cylons by calling them toasters.: |
| 398 | ** When Molly tries to launch the shuttle, the space station's computer blocks her because of her infection. |
| 399 | -->'''Molly:''' Initiate launch sequence please. |
| 400 | -->'''Ben:''' [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey I'm afraid I can't do that.]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | * ''Series/FairlyLegal'' marks the point where ShoutOut meets TearJerker; the recurring character of Judge Nicastro is named after singer/actress Michelle Nicastro, executive producer Steve Stark's wife - who sadly passed away during production of Stark's previous series ''Series/TheEvent''. |
| 403 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': |
| 404 | ** John Crichton makes a ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' reference: "Get back! Get back, or the white boy gets it!" |
| 405 | ** That's all? At least half of his lines consists of constant shout outs to Earth fiction — starting with naming Scorpius' neural clone Harvey, after the invisible rabbit from a classic movie of the same name. |
| 406 | *** Speaking of Scorpius, in an episode of ''CSI: Miami'', Ben Browder's character is a DJ named Scorpius ("Tinder Box"). And in ''CSI'', Archie flat-out mentions ''Farscape''...this could be due to the fact that Naren Shankar was involved with both series. |
| 407 | ** One notable one is this dialog snippet: |
| 408 | -->'''Chiana:''' I love you. |
| 409 | -->'''Crichton:''' I know. |
| 410 | ::...which happens right before Crichton is [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack frozen in carbonite]]...er, turned into a statue, complete with a Han Solo grimace. Given how much Crichton loves his pop culture references, this may even be intentional InUniverse. |
| 411 | ** The InUniverse reason for that was because the process is excruciatingly painful for humans. That's why [[spoiler: Crichton couldn't do it again after being unfrozen, but he suggested the new queen's true love to take his place.]] |
| 412 | * ''Series/FatherTed'': The title character's habit of Shout Outs was lampshaded in the episode 'Flight into Terror' where Ted, having conquered his fear of flying, says to Dougal 'I feel Fearless, like Jeff Bridges in that film'. Dougal says he hasn't seen that film to which Ted replies "Not many people have, that was probably a bad reference." |
| 413 | * ''Series/FeelGood'': Mae dresses up as Romeo in the ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'' costume to confess her love to George. |
| 414 | * ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': |
| 415 | ** One of Henry's flashbacks in "Hitler on the Half-Shell" takes place in [[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Diogenes Club]]. (It bears little resemblance to the anti-social haven from the Sherlock canon, though.) |
| 416 | ** In "Skinny Dipper", when Henry deduces that the taxi driver was killed with a sword, Lucas makes a crack about putting out an APB for the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}''. Henry, of course, has no idea what he's talking about. |
| 417 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': |
| 418 | ** A subtle one in "Flour Child"--the cab the cabbie gives birth in is number 804, the same number as the one in the ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' titles and that crashes and burns in the first season finale. The creators of ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' also created ''Frasier'' progenitor ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. |
| 419 | ** The sixth series episode ''Taps At the Montana'' is a homage to ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''' "Dead Parrot" sketch. first Niles' pet parrot genuinely dies, then a guest at his dinner party dies too. In fact, the shenannigans about getting the body out un-noticed pays homage to a Series/FawltyTowers episode... |
| 420 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Joey's childhood friend was [[Music/SteveMillerBand a space cowboy named Maurice]]. |
| 421 | * ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'' Also has plenty of refrences, either to real life people, or various films and tv shows. |
| 422 | ** This hilarious example from "Ruff's Big Break" |
| 423 | -->'''Rosario (as puppet Ruff):''' ''[loud, scratchy, melodramatic voice]'' I '''BROKE''' MY '''LEG'''! |
| 424 | -->'''Ruff:''' ''[voice-over]'' Is that Ruff Ruffman or [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]]? |
| 425 | ** Ruff's old obedience school is named "Dogwarts" referencing Hogwarts from [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter]] |
| 426 | *** The online flash game "Dog Pound" has Buzz Lightyear from "''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' has one of the wrong answers. |
| 427 | *** In "Ruff Follows His Dream", when Rubye and Marc learned skydiving signs, Ruff remarked that one of the signs looked like "one of Beyoncé s dance moves." Ruff mentions her again at the very end of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLBvYZ4CXk Just Drive!]] music video. |
| 428 | -->'''Ruff:''' Look out, Beyoncé ! |
| 429 | ** The ending of the "That'll Work!"" music video from "''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman The Ruff Ruffan Show'' has Ruff say 'What am I, [[Music/JustinTimberlake Justin Timberlake]]!? |
| 430 | ** In "Shrimp a la Cart" Ruff gets creeped out by a horshoe crab's apperance when Talia finds one. |
| 431 | -->'''Ruff:''' ''[horrified]'' Looks like [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]'s face with a billion legs coming out of it! |
| 432 | * ''Series/FullHouse'' wasn't immune from this, either. One scene with Jesse and [[DropInCharacter Kimmy]] becoming a couple has Kimmy being a [[Series/MarriedWithChildren Peggy Bundy]] look-alike. At least Jesse [[AllJustADream wakes up soon afterward]], much to his relief. |
| 433 | * ''Series/Gladiators2024'': Bradley Walsh references a couple of British {{Reality Show}}s in the first season's first episode, comparing ''Gladiators'' to ''Series/ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere'' and ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff''. Neither is mentioned by name, but it's clear which shows he's referring to. |
| 434 | -->'''Bradley Walsh:''' This comes from an era when you were judged not on [[Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff how well you could bake]], or how you fared [[Series/ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere eating the private parts of a kangaroo]], but how long you could stand on a podium whilst being battered about the bonce by a bloke called Rhino wielding a fluffy lollipop. Better times, in many ways. |
| 435 | * ''Series/GinnyAndGeorgia'': |
| 436 | ** Georgia outright states that she and her daughter Ginny are like the ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' but with "bigger boobs" or at least how she views them. |
| 437 | ** Austin tells the class his dad's [[Literature/HarryPotter in Azkaban as he's a dark wizard]]. He also wears round spectacles which look like the ones Harry has in the films (empty and just for show). Austin is a fan, as later we see he has ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''. We later learn his mom told him this about his dad, inspiring Austin's Harry Potter fandom. |
| 438 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': |
| 439 | ** In one episode Rose worked on a children's series where the puppet sidekick was named Kolac from Twilar. This is a shout out to ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' "It May Look Like a Walnut" episode, with Danny Thomas as Kolac from Twilo. Explained by the fact that Tony Thomas, one of the Golden Girls producers, is the son of Danny Thomas, who produced ''The Dick Van Dyke Show''. |
| 440 | ** Another episode had the girls planning the funeral of a hated neighbor. When the director suggests that they hold the service on Thursday night, the girls react with outrage. The director apologizes, saying "I forgot. |
| 441 | * ''Series/TheGoodNightShow'': |
| 442 | ** Most of the Sprout Stretches in Season 4 were based on Sprout shows. |
| 443 | ** In one segment, Nina and Star decorate their snack bag crafts with ''WesternAnimation/SproutDiner'' stickers. |
| 444 | * ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': |
| 445 | ** An apartment door in Canada has the number 451. This is a reference to Fahrenheit 451- another dystopian novel. |
| 446 | ** In "[[Recap/TheHandmaidsTaleS3E10BearWitness Bear Witness]]" after Lawrence allows use of his truck for June's extraction scheme she sees the boatload of muffins from Marthas willing to participate. |
| 447 | -->'''June:''' [[GonnaNeedMoreTrope We're going to need]] [[{{Film/Jaws}} a bigger boat]]. |
| 448 | * ''Series/TheHardTimesOfRJBerger'' gives us an episode in which an attractive, middle aged woman lures the teenage protagonist RJ into her bedroom with the intent of seducing him. Her [[MeaningfulName name]]? [[Film/TheGraduate Mrs. Robbins]]. |
| 449 | * In ''Series/{{Helix}}'': |
| 450 | ** In the pilot, Dr. Doreen Boyle dryly notes that, given the shared tensions between divorced fellow CDC members Alan and Julia, and Alan's brother Peter, "this is gonna be the most frakked-up family reunion ever." The show is executive produced by ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'''s Ronald D. Moore. |
| 451 | ** In "Vector" Major Balleseros quotes John [=McClane=] while trailing Peter (infected with TheVirus) through an AirVentPassageway. Alan {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s it when he comments on how Balleseros should be too young to remember ''Film/DieHard''. |
| 452 | * ''Series/GortimerGibbonsLifeOnNormalStreet'': The first episode tells the story of an old lady who made a wish and had it granted by a mysterious young man with [[SupernaturalGoldEyes golden eyes]], who eventually returned to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor extract a price that was rather more than she wanted to pay]]. It bears a number of similarities to ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' character Desire. |
| 453 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': The recappers at Website/TelevisionWithoutPity believe that someone on the writing staff reads their website, because there have been a number of conspicuous Shout Outs to said website within the show. When the Haitian was introduced in a flashback, moments before, a character had said, "Is that a new sensation for you?" The TWOP nickname (as well as Creator/{{Jack Coleman}}'s, who plays Mr Bennet) for the Haitian is "The Haitian Sensation." Repeated moans for Peter to cut his bangs were met with Sylar cutting them off [[ImportantHaircut in a very dramatic scene]]. This might be due to the fact that TWOP read more into scenes than is necessarily meant, but, it's not implausible, since the episodes in question were filmed during the first hiatus, and TWOP recaps for the first few episodes were already online. |
| 454 | ** Hiro is the center of ShoutOut-ness for ''Heroes'', actually. Hiro ''tears up'' an issue of Action Comics #1 to make origami in one of the online comics. Kaito Nakamura's Limo had NCC 1701 as the license plate. That's the registration number of the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Starship Enterprise]]. Kaito is played by Creator/GeorgeTakei, who also played Sulu. Hiro named a few ''ComicBook/XMen'' issues in episode 1... though fans will point out he cited an issue number incorrectly. |
| 455 | *** Later, when he met Charlie, the waitress with eidetic memory, he mentioned that same issue, and she pointed out that he had the wrong issue number. The show's producers shouted out to the fans on that one. |
| 456 | *** The sword repairman he went to late in season 1 is named Mr. Claremont, a ShoutOut to Creator/ChrisClaremont, who put the X-Men on the map for Creator/MarvelComics. |
| 457 | *** When Hiro calls home from Midland, Texas and gets ''himself'' on the phone, he gasps, "Great Scott!" ([[JapaneseRanguage or "Greatu Sukotto!"]]) in a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''. |
| 458 | *** When he first arrives three years back to [[spoiler:save Charlie]], he says, [[Series/QuantumLeap "Oh boy!"]] |
| 459 | *** He calls Charlie, "The [[ComicBook/SpiderMan MJ to his Peter Parker]]" and "The [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Marle to his Crono]]." Appropriate, since that game is about TimeTravel. |
| 460 | *** He later corrects himself; Charlie wasn't his MJ, she was [[ILetGwenStacyDie his Gwen Stacy]]. |
| 461 | *** When facing a group of swordsmen, Hiro shouted "Mudamudamudamuda!" as he used his powers to [[TimeStandsStill stop time]] (and take their weapons). This is a direct reference to Dio Brando from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', who had the same power; the character Hiro is established as a fan of that series. |
| 462 | *** And after losing his memory he ends up in a comic book shop and is shocked at the recent developments in his favorites - all of which were actual Marvel plots at the time (the unmasking of Spider-Man, the death of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and the ComicBook/RedHulk). |
| 463 | ** There are also other references to Creator/MarvelComics creators; "Jessica" shoots FBI agents Quesada and Alonzo (EIC Creator/JoeQuesada and editor Axel Alonzo, respectively). And the time that Hiro's bus driver was played by Creator/StanLee. |
| 464 | ** Also a possible ShoutOut on the part of a ''character'', [[Film/TheInvisibleMan1933 The Invisible Man]] introduces himself as "Creator/ClaudeRains," though it is later established that most people know him as Claude. It is unknown whether this is really his name. It gets better: "Claude" is played by Christopher Eccleston, and in his first episode he sarcastically exclaims, "Fantastic!" -- a ShoutOut to his [[Series/DoctorWho other notable television role]]. |
| 465 | *** Don't you mean [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow "Claude Rains was the Invisible Man!"?]] [[spoiler:Then something went wrong, for Fay Wray and King-Kong...]] |
| 466 | ** The 4th episode of Season 3, "I Am Become Death," there's a subtle shout-out to Season 1: in yet another dystopian future, Sylar is an HRG-like father, and we first see him making waffles (a RunningGag) for his young son, Noah. During this scene, Sylar is wearing a blue apron that says "Hail To The Chef!", a play on words with "Hail To The Chief!", with the Presidential seal on it, and Sylar was the Commander-In-Chief the last time a character visited a bleak, dystopian future. |
| 467 | ** In Season 2, the character Detective Bryan Fuller is named for the [[Creator/BryanFuller writer of the same name]], who had left ''Heroes'' to create ''Series/PushingDaisies''. After ''Series/PushingDaisies'' was cancelled, Fuller returned to ''Heroes''. |
| 468 | ** A season one episode had the Kensei sword being held in vault CRM 114 - a reference to ''Film/DrStrangelove''. |
| 469 | * ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' once had Geraint Wyn Davies as a guest star, during the time Wyn Davies was doing his ''Series/ForeverKnight'' series. His character in the episode had a girlfriend named Jeanette, likely a shout-out to Nick's girlfriend/vampire-sister Janette on FK. |
| 470 | * ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': Jackie brings ''Literature/MobyDick'' to Charmaine in Season 2, comparing the whale with Frankie whom she's desperate to bring down. Charmaine in turn notes that makes her like Ahab, who dies in the end without success in his obsessive hunt. The series is set in New Bedford, the book's setting, and they mention this too. |
| 471 | * ''Series/HIghwayPatrol'' Broderick Crawford, who had just come off the long-running "Highway Patrol" took a role as a detective in a short-lived series called "King of Diamonds." In the earlier series, Crawford's character was known for two things: kicking down a door with one kick and constantly shouting "10-4" into a police radio. The "King of Diamonds" theme song (both shows came from the same studio) was a weekly shout-out to "Highway Patrol" with the lyrics "When Johnny King kicks a door down, he's not saying '10-4' now..." |
| 472 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' used family and crew as murder victims on the white board. |
| 473 | * ''Series/HorribleHistories'', among many others, had a segment on the Battle of Thermopylae which contained a few references to ''Film/ThreeHundred''. |
| 474 | * ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': |
| 475 | ** Viserys I's half-mask (which hides his FacialHorror) is remarkably similar to the full-face mask worn by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (who suffers from debilitating leprosy) in ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven''. |
| 476 | ** The organic tissue sack that Daemon retrieves dragon eggs from was directly inspired by ''Film/{{Alien}}'', as confirmed in the behind the scenes video by the the production team. |
| 477 | * ''Series/{{Identity}}'' had in its first episode a villain known to one of his victims as "Smith," a name he'd chosen for it being utterly generic. Later, the cops get a photo of the antagonist at age 16, and use some software to reconstruct a possible appearance for him at age 24; the picture bears a striking resemblance to Creator/{{Hugo|Weaving}} [[Franchise/TheMatrix Weaving]]... |
| 478 | * Episodes 9 and 10 of ''Series/TheImperfects'' are named ''Film/AllMonstersAttack'' and ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters'' respectively. |
| 479 | * ''Series/Impulse2018'': Townes is a nerd who frequently references popular video games and speculative fiction TV shows during the series (he's an avid gamer). |
| 480 | * ''Series/InFromTheCold'': The title is an obvious reference to the famous espionage thriller ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold''. |
| 481 | * The fourth episode of Series 2 of ''Series/InsideGeorgeWebley'' is titled after the film ''Film/BriefEncounter''. |
| 482 | * ''Series/ItsAwfullyBadForYourEyesDarling'': |
| 483 | ** In "A New Lease", Pudding quotes Ernest Dowson's poem, "Vitae Summa Brevis": |
| 484 | --->'''Pudding''': ''Ah'', the days of wine and roses. They are not long. |
| 485 | --->'''Samantha''': Who said that? |
| 486 | --->'''Pudding''': I did? |
| 487 | ** When Virginia reads an overdue letter from the library in "A New Lease": |
| 488 | --->'''Virginia''': "The librarian wishes to remind you that the following books are now overdue: ''Literature/PortnoysComplaint'', ''Literature/LadyChatterleysLover'', ''The Sensuous Woman'', and the ''Kinsey Report''". |
| 489 | --->'''Pudding''': I remember that last one. It said that married couples do it 2.8 times a week. |
| 490 | --->'''Clover''': I wonder what they do on the .8 occasion... |
| 491 | ** Before the girls' landlord, Horatio, arrives in "A New Lease", Virginia instructs Pudding to stand with both feet wide apart to cover wine stains on the floor, and with her hands over the cigarette burns on the sofa. Samantha watches her do so, and after seeing the bent-over position she's in, compares it to "something out of the ''Karma Sutra''". |
| 492 | ** The fourth episode takes its title from the play ''Theatre/TheManWhoCameToDinner''. |
| 493 | * ''Series/JandaKembang'': |
| 494 | ** Laila's birthday party is ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''-themed. |
| 495 | ** In episode 7, the RT leader claims that he can fix Sri's water pump with minimum tools because he is like MacGyver. |
| 496 | ** When telling Salmah to not carry the rice bag herself, Malik spoofs [{Film/Dilan1990 Dilan]]'s "''rindu itu berat''" (longing is hard) as "''beras itu berat''" (rice is heavy). |
| 497 | ** The soap opera watched by Neneng and Seli in episode 8 is titled ''Layangan Nyungsep'' and also takes its characters' names from ''Series/LayanganPutus''. |
| 498 | ** In episode 14, Seli claims that millions of people doesn't realize they can earn one thousand dollars without leaving their home, quoting nearly word-for-word the infamous "Budi Setiawan" commercial from Binomo. |
| 499 | ** Wulan compares how Sri and Jufri's past relationship started to Cinta and Rangga's from ''Film/AdaApaDenganCinta''. Flashback reveals that Jufri's poem for Sri is directly based on a poem from the film. |
| 500 | * ''Series/JohnAdams'': John and Abigail Adams are anxiously awaiting some news in the final episode. John is pacing. Abigail, seated, remarks, "Oh, for God's sake, John, sit down," taken directly from the Broadway musical ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', where John Adams is the lead character. |
| 501 | * ''Series/JonathanCreek'': |
| 502 | ** David Renwick (revealed in the ''Jonathan Creek'' UniverseCompendium to be a ''ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}'' fan) has a ShoutOut to the comics in the first ChristmasEpisode. Not only was retired magicienne Marella Carney formerly known by the stage name "the ComicBook/BlackCanary," but a statue of the Leaguer by that name appears near the start of the episode. |
| 503 | ** And the 2010 Easter Special ''The Judas Tree'' featured a house called Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s. |
| 504 | * ''Series/JupitersLegacy'': The front page of a newspaper has a picture of Lady Liberty carrying a car the same way ComicBook/{{Superman}} did in his very first appearance. |
| 505 | * ''Series/JustShootMe'': |
| 506 | ** Jack comments on firing his previous limo driver, who kept mumbling "[[Film/TaxiDriver Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.]]" |
| 507 | ** "My Dinner with Woody" has numerous allusions to Creator/WoodyAllen films, particularly ''Film/AnnieHall''. The title references ''Film/MyDinnerWithAndre''. |
| 508 | ** When Elliott catches Finch trying to cop a feel on Carmen Electra, he says [[Advertising/MrWhipple "Mister Finch, please don't squeeze the Carmen."]] |
| 509 | ** In "The Odd Couple, Part 2", Maya and Elliott start arguing about Finch's impending marriage, eventually just [[{{Series/Cheers}} insulting each other until Elliot asks, "Are you as turned on as I am?"]] Maya is not. Later, Adrienne has a similar conversation with her ex-boyfriend right as she's about to get married to Dennis. Considering she knows he had just punched Dennis in the face, the line doesn't work for him either. |
| 510 | ** Finch gets punched in the face and gets a black eye, leaving him calling out for Adrienne, his fiancee and later wife, in an obvious reference to the end of ''Film/{{Rocky}}''. |
| 511 | * ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' regularly uses the names of Dick Wolf's children for characters, which explains the surprising number of women named "Alexandra." |
| 512 | ** He named the two ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' detectives after his children Elliot (Stabler) and Olivia (Benson), which makes any UnresolvedSexualTension between them somewhat... {{squ|ick}}[[BrotherSisterIncest icky]]. |
| 513 | ** Wolf also named Detective Joe Fontana after his old friend Tom Fontana. Fontana previously executive produced ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', which was where ''SVU'' character John Munch first originated. |
| 514 | ** Also, one episode contains a movie shout-out, when Brisco and Green question a man they suspect is the killer of his female neighbor. The man declares that, despite not actually being at the scene of the crime, he saw the murder in his mind due to psychic ability. To this, Brisco responds by saying mockingly to Green, [[Film/TheSixthSense "he sees dead people."]] |
| 515 | ** In the ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' episode Silver Lining, Captain Deakins refers to a thief of antique silver as "our silver surfer," referring to the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/SilverSurfer. L&O:CI writer Gerry Conway was a long-time writer for both Marvel and Creator/DCComics; his notable work at Marvel includes co-creating ComicBook/ThePunisher and ComicBook/ManThing, and a long run as writer of [[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]] beginning when he was only 19. (Conway did not write the episode, however.) |
| 516 | ** And ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' has made several references to its stars past roles--a Tardis on a character's desk (Creator/FreemaAgyeman played Martha Jones on ''Series/DoctorWho''), a murder victim named Archie (the name of the first major role Creator/JamieBamber ever had in the series Literature/HoratioHornblower) |
| 517 | * '' Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': |
| 518 | ** Adar paraphrases [[Film/ApocalypseNow Colonel Kurtz]] whilst talking to Arondir, asking him if he was born near a specific river and saying he once walked down said river when he was young. |
| 519 | ** The construction work of Celebrimbor's new forge tower bears a great resemblance to Pieter Bruegel's famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_of_Babel_(Bruegel)#/media/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Tower_of_Babel_(Vienna)_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited.jpg Tower of Babel-painting]]. |
| 520 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'' |
| 521 | ** The commentary for the Season 1 [=DVDs=] has a number of shoutouts to this wiki. Further, in the first season, the fact that the infiltrator's pseudonym is Ethan is almost certainly a shoutout to one of J.J. Abrams other works, ''Film/MissionImpossible'' (especially since the guy playing Ethan is Creator/TomCruise's cousin). Also, in the episode "Homecoming," during one of Charlie's flashbacks he meets a girl named Lucy, who talks about her father buying a paper company in Slough in a possible reference to ''Series/{{The Office|US}}''. |
| 522 | ** There are also numerous references to ''Franchise/StarWars'', from an episode title ("Some Like It Hoth"), Sawyer using (and criticizing a guard for falling for) 'the Wookie prisoner trick' and nicknaming various people 'Han and Chewie', 'Jabba' and 'Yoda'. |
| 523 | ** The presence of 23 and 42 in the show's {{Arc Number}}s are references to ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' and ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', respectively. |
| 524 | * ''Series/LostInSpace'', episode "The Space Pirate." The title character was a clear reference to Long John Silver in ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', specifically his becoming Will Robinson's friend and the parrot resting on his shoulder. |
| 525 | * ''Series/MayfairWitches'': In the pilot, Rowan tells Maya, "Remember, the slow blade penetrates the shield," which is a reference to ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. |
| 526 | * ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'': |
| 527 | ** The ornamental Celtic mask that is on the cover of the ''[[Literature/TheWarlordChronicles Winter King]]'' can be seen on Arthur's table in the background in the first series finale. |
| 528 | ** Which is in turn oddly similar to the helmet from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo Sutton Hoo]]. |
| 529 | ** Several episodes are named after famous Arthurian texts: "Le Morte d'Arthur" is named after [[Literature/LeMorteDarthur Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of Arthurian tales]], ''The Once and Future Queen'' is a play on T.H. White's ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'', ''The Coming of Arthur'' is the first chapter/poem in Tennyson's ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'' (as well as a chapter title in Roger Lancelyn Green's more contemporary retelling of the legend) and ''The Wicked Day'' is a quote from Malory's above-mentioned books, as well as the title of the fourth book in Mary Stewart's ''Merlin'' series. |
| 530 | ** The goblin giving Arthur donkey ears (and braying) is reminiscent of Puck giving a donkey head to Bottom in ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''. It is also similar to something that happened to King Midas of Myth/ClassicalMythology and in the book ''Pinocchio''. |
| 531 | ** In "His Father's Son," two armies meet on the battlefield and each send out a champion, one of which is much larger than the other. Sounds a lot like the story of [[DavidVersusGoliath David and Goliath]] in Literature/TheBible. |
| 532 | ** Merlin being the one who puts Excalibur into the stone and afterwards orchestrates Arthur's retrieval of it is reminiscent of [[Literature/MenAtArms Discworld]]'s commentary on the SwordInTheStone trope. |
| 533 | ** The show has a scene lifted straight out of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' in which Prince Arthur is facing a warrior in a duel. Said warrior starts off with an elaborate sword-spinning display; Arthur simply punches him in the face. |
| 534 | * ''Series/TheMiddleman'': Every episode features numerous pop-culture Shout Outs related to the specific danger of the week: ghosts, vampires, time travel, etc. |
| 535 | * ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', |
| 536 | ** In one scene in Season 3, the Rangers (in their Ninja Ranger outfits rather than their Ranger suits) decide to go all Franchise/SuperSentai, doing a team roll call (which IIRC they'd never done before - all previous uses of roll call footage had been adapted into either different speeches or Zord calling) followed up with a team pose - specifically, the signature pose of ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive'' (or earlier, ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'')! |
| 537 | ** One episode involved a MonsterOfTheWeek named Shellshock who was a turtle-creature. When he grew to giant size, he exclaimed, "Just wait until those teenage mutants find out what a full-grown turtle can do!" The reference couldn't have been more obvious. |
| 538 | ** In "A Chimp In Charge," as Finster attempts to transform a chimpanzee into the Sinister Simian, he asks "Don't you want to be a big gorilla like [[Film/KingKong King... what's his name]]?" |
| 539 | ** "Rangers in Reverse". The natural rotation of the Earth is stopped and then put in reverse, causing time itself to rewind. [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Where does this sound familiar?]] |
| 540 | ** "May the Power protect you." I know I've heard something like that [[Franchise/StarWars somewhere before]]. |
| 541 | ** "Trick or Treat": Skull (dressed in a prisoner costume) has "[[Literature/LesMiserables 24601]]" written on his chest. |
| 542 | ** As Rita Repulsa is being shrunk down by Zedd in "The Mutiny," she exclaims "I'm shrinking! What a planet!", a reference the Wicked Witch of the West's final words in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. |
| 543 | ** In "The Wedding", Finster is trying to return Rita to normal size with his machine. He eventually says "I've never [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap turned it up to eleven]] before," and this setting restores Rita to her normal size. |
| 544 | ** Both Rita's voice and the voice and dialogue of the third-season monster Witchblade are shout-outs to the film version of the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]]. Witchblade's dying words are "I'm falling, falling - what a world!" |
| 545 | * ''Series/Millennium1996'' had a pretty obvious shout out in giving its lead character the name [[Music/ThePixies Frank Black]]. It's unclear whether this is a shout out or just the obvious result of doing a web search in TheNineties, but in the second episode of the series, Frank searches for the plot relevant term "Gehenna." Up above the plot relevant page? An ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' fan site. |
| 546 | * ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' episode "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E3SecretsAndLies Secrets & Lies]]" has one to ''Film/WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin'', when Shaw jokingly reassures Kentaro that there was no TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior to indicate Hiroshi was a budding monster when Shaw watched him growing up, listing things that the titular child sociopath of the movie did: "He didn't torture small animals, no issues potty training." |
| 547 | * ''Series/MondayMornings'': |
| 548 | ** Franchise/JamesBond and his license to kill got a few mentions. Dr. Martin, who gets sacked in the very first episode, is nicknamed "007." |
| 549 | ** In one episode, the team try very hard to diagnose a patient. Clearly they are missing something. Dr. Ribodaux asks whether they should call Series/{{House}}. |
| 550 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In the first episode, one of the first things Adrian deduces is the brand of cigarettes the killer smoked. Like another detective who wrote a whole paper on distinguishing cigars from their ashes. |
| 551 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': Episode 15, the "Spanish Inquisition" sketch. The part where Cardinal Ximinez repeatedly orders the old lady to "Confess!" is very similar to the scene in ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' episode "Fall Out" where the judge orders Number 48 to confess. They even both wear red robes. |
| 552 | ** And in Episode 8, two shop assistants in the "Buying a Bed" sketch (where a store employee puts a bag over his head when he hears the word 'mattress') are named Mr. Verity and Mr. Lambert, after Verity Lambert, the BBC producer who's best known as the first producer of ''Series/DoctorWho''. |
| 553 | * ''Series/MrShow'': The episode "What to Think" contains a line from Jesus' Finale as a shoutout to ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}''. |
| 554 | * ''MTV Flux'', a short-lived UK Music-and-UGC TV channel, had a games programme on it named after the KonamiCode -- originally used in its entirety, the title was shortened to simply ''Up Up Down Down''. |
| 555 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': When Creator/JohnCleese starred in one episode, one sketch featured him as a pirate with a nagging parrot. Fed up with it, he whips out his gun and asks if it wants to be an "ex-parrot." [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus This one needs no explaining.]] |
| 556 | * ''Series/TheMurders'': In "The Long Black Veil" and "Stereo" [[spoiler:Evan Walker]] ("the audiologist") and his friend reference famous {{murder ballad}}s in committing murders, with the cops looking into many different ones to catch them. |
| 557 | * ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': The character Harry [=McGraw=] is a hard-boiled PrivateDetective, who was introduced when his partner was killed investigating something for Jessica. In acknowledgement of where that plot point originated, the partner's name was Archie Miles, a reversal of [[FilmNoir Sam Spade's]] equally dead partner Miles Archer. |
| 558 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' regularly did this with character names, including the supporting character, [[Film/MyFairLady Henry Higgins]], and a guest character named Ian Kilmister. (The birth name of Lemmy from Music/{{Motorhead}}.) |
| 559 | * ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': In one episode, a character using the screenname "whojackie" was seen typing (and reading out loud) "No, I don't think shows should do more meta jokes that cater to the online bloggers and I'm sure everyone at Television Without Pity Dot Com agrees with me." To add another layer to the ShoutOut, a staff writer (possibly even Greg Garcia, the show's creator) posted that same message to Website/TelevisionWithoutPity's message board for the show (along with a comment about how he always talks out loud while typing) shortly before the episode aired. To add ''another'' layer, the same person posted previously about his fears that his Murphy bed would close up on him and kill him, which is what happened to the character in the show. To add yet ''another'' layer to it, several posts were made by "whojackie" after the episode aired, in the character of Joy, who had stolen whojackie's computer. Posters to the forum could even email Joy, and she'd respond -- in character! |
| 560 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' has this as a major part of its appeal. For instance, on seeing a rocket carrying white mice: "[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hi. My name is Benji, and I'm a pan-dimensional being.]]" |
| 561 | ** During Season Eleven's title sequence, the screens of Jonah's ship read [[Series/TheOuterLimits1963 "Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission."]] |
| 562 | * ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': |
| 563 | ** Every episode in the series references cartoons and stories by Creator/JamesThurber, many of which serve as basis for the plot or other notable elements. |
| 564 | *** "The Disenchanted," "Seal in the Bedroom," and "The War Between Men and Women" are based on Thurber cartoons in whole or in part. |
| 565 | *** "Man Against the World," "Christabel," "The Night the House Caught Fire," "The Saga of Dimity Ann," "The Shrike and the Chipmunks," "Rally Round the Flag," "Darn That Dream," and "The Human Being and the Dinosaur" are based on Thurber stories in whole or in part. |
| 566 | ** The opening of "Christabel" shows John lying on his back on top of a doghouse, alluding to the same behavior exhibited by Snoopy from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. He even references The Red Baron, who is Snoopy's nemesis when the beagle pretends he's a World War I flying ace. |
| 567 | ** In "The Disenchanted," John draws a cartoon in which he imagines [[TheRunaway his runaway daughter Lydia]] standing in the snow, pleading to have passerby purchase matches she's selling. It's clearly a reference to the Creator/HansChristianAndersen story ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl''. |
| 568 | ** In "A Friend of the Earth," John is irritated that Zeph Leggin is busy regaling his friends with witticisms instead of fixing John's fence. He counters Zeph's observation that it's not good wood-sawing weather with a paraphrased quote from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' about being able to tell "a hawk from a handsaw." |
| 569 | --->'''Zeph''': Mornin', Mr. Monroe. Didn't know you was there listenin'.\ |
| 570 | '''John''': I've been listening all morning, uh, but I haven't heard any sawing.\ |
| 571 | '''Zeph''': 'Twern't sawin' weather.\ |
| 572 | '''John''': 'Twar.\ |
| 573 | '''Zeph''': Oh... you know much about sawin'?\ |
| 574 | '''John''': Enough to make me think you can't tell a hawk from a handsaw. |
| 575 | ** John quotes from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' again in "The Fourth Estate," this time splitting the quote up between two different locales. He first tells Patrick, the school newspaper editor, "To thine own self be true" regarding whether to run John's cartoon or not. When Lydia tells John the next morning that Patrick took his advice and didn't run the cartoon, he says, "And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not be false to any man." |
| 576 | ** In "Native Wit," Phil Jensen refers to John's hayseed joke-telling rival Zeph Leggin as "Aaron Slick from Punkin' Crick." It's a reference to the hillbilly title character from the film of the same name. |
| 577 | ** In "The Shrike and the Chipmunks," George Lockhart is a veritable fountain of quotes, citing lines from ''Literature/TheOldCuriosityShop'' by Creator/CharlesDickens, ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' by Creator/WilliamShakespeare, the poem "Literature/{{Casabianca}}" by Creator/FeliciaDorotheaHemons, and the 1890s song "Elsie from Chelsea." |
| 578 | ** The episode "Rally Round the Flag" sees John snarkily criticizing his milkman, who atypically greets him in cheerful fashion around the holidays. He compares him to the character Uriah Heep from ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'' by Creator/CharlesDickens: |
| 579 | --->'''John''': One of the first signs that Christmas is upon us is when your basic, garden-variety milkman, barely civil for fifty weeks of the year, becomes a fawning hypocrite -- a milk-bearing Uriah Heep. |
| 580 | ** In "Darn That Dream," the household ghost Jeremiah (supposedly conjured up by {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cousin Horace) quotes ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' by Creator/WilliamShakespeare while disparaging John's nutty boyhood family. |
| 581 | --->'''Jeremiah''': A weirder group of ding-a-lings I never hope to see. Gives a fellow pause to think what fools these mortals be. |
| 582 | ** In "Rules for a Happy Marriage," Hamilton Greeley references the farcical play ''Theatre/CharleysAunt'' by Creator/BrandonThomas, comparing his not-so-attractive wife to the play's main character, a man who disguises himself as a woman. |
| 583 | --->'''Hamilton''': You got your nose out of joint because Blanche Sugarman makes you look like Charley's Aunt! |
| 584 | ** Phil Jensen compares one of his wife Ruth's former boyfriends disparagingly to Ichabod Crane from ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'' by Creator/WashingtonIrving. Occurs in "Rules for a Happy Marriage." |
| 585 | --->'''Ruth''': I'll have you know I was a very good bridge player in college -- when I had an intelligent partner.\ |
| 586 | '''Phil''': You mean that puny little Ichabod Crane of a library assistant you had your hooks into at Cornell? |
| 587 | ** In "Monroe the Misogynist," Hamilton Greeley makes back to back references to the 1920s song standard "My Blue Heaven" and the 60s pop hit "Harper Valley PTA" by Jeannie C. Riley. He and John are discussing whether Ellen may be cheating on the latter or not. |
| 588 | --->'''Hamilton''': Something's gone wrong at my blue heaven?\ |
| 589 | '''John''': Of course not!\ |
| 590 | '''Hamilton''': Couldn't be another man, could it?\ |
| 591 | '''John''': Impossible -- not Ellen! Besides, he's a very honest, straightforward neighbor -- a member of the PTA.\ |
| 592 | '''Hamilton''': Remember what happened at Harper Valley?\ |
| 593 | '''John''': Oh, you are a comfort, Hamilton. |
| 594 | * ''Series/TheNanny'': In the pilot episode, Fran says to Brighton, "You're a bitter little person, aren't you?" It's word for word what Diane said to Carla on the pilot of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. |
| 595 | * ''Series/NashBridges'': In one episode guest-starring Jan-Michael Vincent of ''Airwolf'' fame, Don Johnson mentions his yellow convertible belonged to his brother who was MIA in Vietnam. Airwolf was stolen by Jan-Michael Vincent in order to force the government to return his brother, MIA in Vietnam. |
| 596 | * ''Series/NewTricks'': The episode "Parts of a Whole" named various characters after comic book creators: the murder victim was named Simon Bisley and other characters included Dillon (as in Steve), Hitch (as in Bryan) and Rucka (as in Creator/{{Greg|Rucka}}), as well as Jane Ross (a subtle reference to Jane Goldman, married to Jonathan Ross). There was also a character named Fisk, after ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'s nemesis, and a company called Ellis-Finch after Creator/WarrenEllis and David Finch. |
| 597 | * ''Series/NoHeroics'' is laden with shout-outs both subtle and obvious to the entire history of comic books. For example: Timebomb is a parody of the NinetiesAntiHero. Every sign in the show's superteam headquarters is written in the original Captain America font from the 1940s. The alcoholic beverages drunk by the characters include [[ComicBook/SinCity Gin City]], [[Film/LogansRun Logan's Rum]], and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lamp Ale]]. The show's creator, Drew Pearce, is a comic book fan and claims there are hundreds of other shout-outs worked into the program. |
| 598 | * The Creator/{{ABC}} SketchComedy ''Series/NoSoapRadio'' was an attempt to bring the SurrealHumor of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' to American audiences, and threw in a few nods to that series: |
| 599 | ** The skit "Basketball Head" begins with a GiantFootOfStomping falling out of the sky. |
| 600 | ** Remember "The Argument Clinic"? Here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyFn6JItyxA "House of Lies".]] |
| 601 | * ''Series/NUMB3RS'': The Slobbering David Krumholtz Groupies, a fanclub devoted to the star Creator/DavidKrumholtz, received a shoutout in one episode when a company called "SDKG Electronics" was mentioned. |
| 602 | ** At the end of another episode, Creator/JuddHirsch sits down in his chair and turns the television on, apparently (to judge from the theme music that plays) to watch an episode of ''Taxi''. |
| 603 | ** Series/{{Bill Nye|TheScienceGuy}} sometimes appears in ''Series/NUMB3RS'' to give a science demonstration -- just like the ones he used to do on his classic children's educational program -- to help the main characters solve the case. |
| 604 | ** [[TheMenInBlack Agent Floyd]] does the ''Series/CSIMiami'' QuipToBlack (minus the "to black") / GlassesPull gag a couple of times. |
| 605 | * ''Series/OnTheHouse'': |
| 606 | ** After the builders sing "We Shall Not Be Moved" in "Take Me to Your Leader", Old Fred gets sidetracked and starts going on about other songs he likes, namely "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" and "Baby Face". |
| 607 | ** When Dr. Stanley's henchmen arrive on the building site with spray guns full of nerve gas in "Take Me to Your Leader", Harvey remarks "Blimey, it's [[Series/DoctorWho the Daleks]]!". |
| 608 | ** The episode "Will the Real Harvey Micklethwaite Please Stand Up?" gets its title from the phrase "Will the real ____ please stand up?" from the GameShow ''Series/ToTellTheTruth''. |
| 609 | * ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'': Rodney's dream at the beginning of "Heroes and Villains" is in part a send-up of "ColdLazarus", which had aired earlier that year. The endless references made to Film/TheOmen with Damien also qualify. |
| 610 | * In ''Series/OrphanBlack,'' Felix's first encounter with female-to-male transgender clone Tony Sawicki prompts him to mutter "Holy Creator/TildaSwinton..." |
| 611 | * ''Series/PennyDreadfulCityOfAngels'': The kidnapping and murder of a girl mentioned in the series is clearly based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker Marion Parker case]]. |
| 612 | * ''Series/PerryMason2020'': |
| 613 | ** Hazel is a hand model who hand doubles for "Myrna"--that is, Creator/MyrnaLoy. |
| 614 | ** The murder which starts the series echoes both [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping the Lindbergh kidnapping]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker Marion Parker case]]. |
| 615 | * ''Series/PoliticalAnimals'': Adrian Pasdar's President character is a sleazy politician named Garcetti from Baltimore; this is almost definitely meant as a ShoutOut to Tommy ''C''arcetti from ''Series/TheWire'', who goes from Baltimore City Council to Mayor and then finally Maryland Governor by the end of the series, and perhaps is a sort of exploration of what would happen if Carcetti were President. |
| 616 | * ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': |
| 617 | ** A few to ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'', including a holodeck and numerous random lines, such as T.J. saying that they're going down to a planet on the Dagobah system to search for Zordon. |
| 618 | ** The Quantrons are armed with Bat'leths. |
| 619 | ** One early episode had a pair of characters called [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen George and Lennie]]. |
| 620 | * ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': |
| 621 | ** In "Green Courage" Terra Venture was passing a [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/factorialinfinity/prlggallifrey.jpg meteoroid field]] in the coordinates of [[Series/DoctorWho "[ten zero] eleven zero zero by zero two from galactic zero," in the constellation of Kasterborus]]. Now take the knowledge of the new series and read that again. That's right, the Time War occurred in the Power Rangers' universe as well... |
| 622 | ** ...and then consider that the first appearance of the Creator/StevenMoffat-era Dalek breed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXpInWFVVo makes them look like a misfit Rangers team]]. It took until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]] for the shout-out favor to [[http://www.rangercrew.com/forum/showthread.php?19667-Doctor-Who-season-6&p=874484&viewfull=1#post874484 get officially paid back]] (Or if you're willing to consider the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho039BangBangABoom "Bang-Bang-A-Boom!"]]). |
| 623 | ** Psycho Red [[Film/TheExorcist twisting his head around]] seems completely random unless it counts as this. |
| 624 | * ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'': In the Season 1 episode, "[[Recap/PowerRangersOperationOverdriveS1E29WayBackWhen Way Back When]]", Mack says "I feel like the Six-Million Dollar DVD player", a reference to ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', playing on the nickname of the title character. |
| 625 | * ''{{Series/Probe}}'': |
| 626 | ** "[[Recap/ProbeComputerLogic Computer Logic]]": |
| 627 | *** Literature/BookOfGenesis: While enraged over the water bill, Serendip's CEO speculates that Austin is trying to recreate the biblical flooding of the Earth. |
| 628 | *** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': When the Serendip CEO sends Michelle to Austin's home, he calls it the Batcave, referencing the President's choice to hide himself away instead of running his own company. |
| 629 | *** Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart: Austin tells his SmartHouse to play Mozart's symphony #35, in D major while Michelle is introducing herself to him. |
| 630 | ** "[[Recap/ProbeComputerLogicPart2 Computer Logic, Part 2]]": ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'': The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the ArtificialIntelligence with a fire axe while shouting, "Sing 'Daisy'!" |
| 631 | ** "[[Recap/ProbeBlackCatsDontWalkUnderLaddersDoThey Black Cats Don't Walk Under Ladders (Do They?)]]": |
| 632 | *** Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''{{Theatre/Macbeth}}'': Marty Corrigan misquotes one of the lines when Sabrina Stillwater enters his dressing room; "By the pricking of my thumbs, something ''rancid'' this way comes". |
| 633 | *** Music/TheClovers: Marty Corrigan misquotes the title to one of their songs, "Love Potion No. 9", when he mocks Sabrina Stillwater for trying to [[WitchClassic cast a spell on him]], calling it "hate potion number 9". |
| 634 | ** "[[Recap/ProbePlan10FromOuterSpace Plan 10 from Outer Space]]": |
| 635 | *** The title is a reference to the infamous ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'', a movie about an alien invasion. |
| 636 | *** The episode featured an author who had an [[ImaginaryFriend illusionary friend]] named Rexel 14. [[EverybodyLaughsEnding At the end of the episode]], Austin reminds Harvey to watch his head as they leave. Harvey is the name of an [[NotSoImaginaryFriend invisible rabbit]] from ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}'', that many people were convinced showed that Mr Dowd was insane. |
| 637 | * Creator/RussellTDavies, showrunner on ''Series/DoctorWho'', had previously worked references to the classic series into his other contemporary drama series; Vince in ''Series/QueerAsFolkUK'' is a massive fan and gets a genuine K9 for his birthday, and a minor character in ''Mine All Mine'' says that her father named her after the Second Doctor's companion Zoe. |
| 638 | * A number of the posts crawled by Crowley in the opening of the first season finale of ''Series/{{Rabbit Hole|2023}}'' actually originate from material written on the Fandom wiki for ''Series/TwentyFour'', the series for which show star Creator/KieferSutherland is perhaps most famous. Specifically, all of the posts seem to originate from the article [[https://24.fandom.com/wiki/Los_Angeles_nuclear_attack_conspiracy Los Angeles nuclear attack conspiracy]], an event from the second season of ''24''. |
| 639 | * ''Series/RadioEnfer'': |
| 640 | ** Several references to ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' have been made: |
| 641 | *** In one episode, [[BadLiar Laplante]] tells a 'true story' about how [[TheChiefsDaughter the daughter of an Eskimo chief]] was madly in love with him. [[DumbassHasAPoint Jean-Lou then points out]] it's similar to the plot of the then-latest ''Asterix'' movie, which was ''WesternAnimation/AsterixConquersAmerica''. Laplante tries to save face by [[BlatantLies saying that]] Creator/AlbertUderzo [[BlatantLies was inspired by Laplante's story to make that movie]]. |
| 642 | *** After Vincent wrote a children's book, he gets interviewed by Jean-Lou who claims that Vincent, by talking about trees on page 63, plagiarized other works such as ''Asterix'' and ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' simply because those other works also featured trees, much to the young writer's annoyance. |
| 643 | *** Camille becomes obsessed with a pretty boy named Éric during an episode. At the end, she gets over it and apologizes to him for using a perfume he was allergic to while also explaining "When I see a perfume bottle, I'm like Asterix, I have to fall into it." In this case, she made a mistake given that it was Obelix who fell into the magic potion. |
| 644 | *** Another episode focuses on Galgouri thinking he managed to invent a potion that makes anyone invisible. At the end of said episode, Jocelyne sarcastically comments that it's time to [[EveryEpisodeEnding make a big banquet and for everyone to eat boars]]. |
| 645 | ** There are also a few references to ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': |
| 646 | *** Jean-Lou is trying to lose weight, with Maria suggesting him to follow Creator/MichellePfeiffer's personal diet: |
| 647 | ---->'''Maria:''' ''That's'' a diet for you.\ |
| 648 | '''Jean-Lou:''' With meat and sauce!?\ |
| 649 | '''Maria:''' No. No, it's a yogurt-based diet, but it works. Because before this diet, it wasn't Catwoman she was supposed to play in "[[Film/BatmanReturns Batman 2]]", it was the Penguin! |
| 650 | *** During a Season 4 episode, Carl is embarrassed when the others see him wearing a pajama with Batman's logo on it that his mother bought for him but that he doesn't like. |
| 651 | *** {{The teaser}}s of Season 6 focus on Jocelyne inside a freezer. In one of them, she says that she is starting to understand [[HumanPopsicle what Mr. Freeze's wife must be feeling]]. |
| 652 | ** In the first episode of Season 3, Maria jokingly comments that, given how often Camille has travelled around the world and if she keeps doing that, there'll eventually be a show called ''[[Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego Where in the World is Camille Sandiego?]]''. |
| 653 | ** When Carl and Léo become popular thanks to their comic published in Vincent's newspaper, they start wearing sunglasses to remain incognito, causing Dominique to call them Film/TheBluesBrothers. |
| 654 | ** While talking to Carl and Camille about a Goth teenager named Cassandre, Jocelyne refers to her look as an "[[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family]]" look. |
| 655 | ** When Laplante claims he had an ancestor who lived in the time period of pharaohs and whose name was Nemesis I, fellow teacher Hervé Duguay asks him from what dynasty said ancestor came from. Laplante, misunderstanding the question, replies that he doesn't know because he doesn't watch [[Series/Dynasty1981 that show]]. |
| 656 | ** After Carl makes a blunder by making fun of a renowned talent agent named Ronnie Angello without knowing who he was beforehand, Maria introduces Carl to Angello by calling the former "ComicBook/GastonLagaffe". |
| 657 | ** When Jocelyne is threatening Laplante over his refusal to help Jean-Lou for an upcoming inventor contest, both Maria and Camille hum the ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' theme in a threatening manner. |
| 658 | ** Vincent teaches Carl how to behave for his upcoming trial and tells him to take some inspiration from "the guy from ''Film/PrimalFear''". Later in that same scene, Vincent tells Carl, regarding his hesitation, to take some inspiration from Creator/PaulNewman in ''Film/TheVerdict''. |
| 659 | ** There are two instances where Vincent compares somebody to [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. |
| 660 | *** The first time is in Season 1, when he learns that Giroux is going to be replaced by a guy named Martial Boulet as the principal. According to Vincent, some people say that Boulet is "like Freddy Krueger but without the human side." |
| 661 | *** The second time is upon seeing Dominique's [[GagHaircut atrocious new haircut]] during a Season 5 episode, where he jokingly wonders if Freddy was the one who cut her hair. |
| 662 | ** After Mr. Giroux started pulling Carl's right ear because the teenager told a lie about the principal on the air, he eventually stops pulling him by the ear about one minute later after Camille says that Carl is going to look like WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} if the principal doesn't stop. |
| 663 | ** After seeing Germain and Jean-David acting like idiots (by {{dope slap}}ing each other and getting into a WimpFight) while trying to build a shelf, Carl refers to them as Creator/LaurelAndHardy. |
| 664 | ** There are also several references to ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'', particularly when making fun of Camille's short stature. |
| 665 | *** Maria drinks some potion invented by Galgouri that is supposed to brighten the complexion. Unfortunately, she ends up getting a blue skin for six hours, causing everyone (herself included) to make Smurfs-related jokes: |
| 666 | ---->'''Maria:''' ''[after screaming in horror upon seeing her blue skin]'' MY LIFE IS OVER! Carl would never wanna date the Smurfette. |
| 667 | ** Carl gets a job as a waiter in a restaurant, where his uniform includes red pants, a red long-sleeved shirt with several yellow buttons on the front, and a rounded red hat. Upon seeing him in that outfit, Camille jokingly asks why he's dressed like ComicBook/{{Spirou|AndFantasio}}, much to Carl's annoyance. |
| 668 | * ''Series/RaisingHope'' has a ShoutOut to executive producer/creator Greg Garcia's previous show, ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', in its pilot episode, with a TV anchor introducing a lighter news story about "A small-time hood who vowed to turn his life around. You'll never guess how it ended." |
| 669 | * Every episode of ''Ray Stevens [=CabaRay=] Nashville'' ends with him playing the WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies closing theme on his piano. |
| 670 | * ''Series/RedDwarf'': The episode "Queeg" has two references to classic mutinies (one fictional, one real but fictionalised). The title and name of the backup computer come from Commander Queeg, the tyrannical commander in ''Literature/TheCaineMutiny'', and when he takes over the ship, Holly says "This is mutiny, Mr Queeg! I'll see you hang from the highest yardarm in Titan Docking Port for this day's work!", which pastiches a line from Captain Bligh in ''Literature/MutinyOnTheBounty''. In addition, when Holly glides up the corridor to challenge Queeg, the background music is "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling" in reference to ''Film/HighNoon'', and when he's "deleted" he sings "I'll Say Goodbye To Love," which gradually gets slower and slower, just like "A Bicycle Built For Two" in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' (speaking of which, it's no coincidence that Holly is often referred to as "Hol"). |
| 671 | * ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': In his first appearance, Graham Greene had a Shout Out to ''Film/DancesWithWolves''. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in that movie. Giving his opinion of the film, Greene's character stated that "the Native guy was okay, should have got the Oscar." |
| 672 | * ''Series/LaReinaDelSur'', a Mexican soap opera about a poor girl who becomes the biggest drug trafficker in Mexico, hides a subtle shout out in the first episode; in the scene where Brenda and El Chino are discussing, a radio is playing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0bJyr_67PA Negro y Azul]], a. k. a. [[Series/BreakingBad Heisenberg's]] villain song. Even better, you can clearly hear the part about "the color is blue and the quality pure." Truly awesome. |
| 673 | * In the "Pilot" of ''Series/ResidentAlien'', Max Hawthorne has a poster for ''Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial'' on the wall of his room and his father is mentioned as having let him watch ''E.T.'' ''E.T.'' was an Creator/AmblinEntertainment production and ''Resident Alien'' is from Creator/AmblinTelevision''. |
| 674 | * ''Series/TheRookie2018'': "In Justice" has an underground meth lab Nolan discovers through Hugo, a construction worker he knows who gets tricked into working there, then enslaved. This bears a strong resemblance to plots from ''Series/BreakingBad'' and also sequel ''Series/BetterCallSaul''. |
| 675 | * The title of ''Series/RoomAtTheBottom1967'' is a play on the 1957 novel ''Room at the Top''. |
| 676 | * ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'': In episode 8, "Edward," the titular Edward has a sheaf of drawings of monsters. The team flip through it, and after three or four generic monsters there's a drawing of an [[Franchise/StargateVerse Unas]], which also appears pinned up on a wall a little later. Amanda Tapping starred in both ''Stargate SG-1'' and ''Atlantis'', and has the lead role in ''Sanctuary''. |
| 677 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': The parody of Music/InsaneClownPosse's ''Miracles'' calls them the Thrilla Killa Klowns, a reference to Industrial Band Thrill Kill Kult. |
| 678 | * ''Series/SavingHope'': The second episode has a small boy by the name of [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Cal]]. That might just be short for Calvin if it weren't for the fact that the lead character is played by a former ComicBook/LoisLane. |
| 679 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' and ''Series/{{Blossom}}'' weirdly both did frequent mutual {{Shout Out}}s to each other. Suddenly that explains a lot about Elaine's wardrobe in the early seasons... |
| 680 | * ''Series/SevenDays'': The episode "Déjà Vu All Over Again" has been inspired by the German movie ''Run Lola Run'': Frank ends up [[GroundhogDayLoop reliving]] several minutes of his life until he does his mission right. And what's the name of the psychologist who visited the facility to study what influence the time travel has on him? Dr. Lola Manson. |
| 681 | * ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'': |
| 682 | ** In "The Mortal Cup" when discussing Jocelyn's overprotectiveness towards Clary, Simon compares the situation to the scene from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' where the alien queen was defending her eggs from Ripley. |
| 683 | ** "The Descent Into Hell Isn't Easy": |
| 684 | *** Simon refers to Jace as a Music/MickJagger-looking guy. |
| 685 | *** Clary calls Jace an emotionless Franchise/GIJoe. |
| 686 | * ''Series/ShineALight'': Lionel from "The Great Relief" is always reading Creator/CharlesDickens' work.. from memory, as it isn't possible to take a lot of luggage to Bachelor Rock. |
| 687 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': |
| 688 | ** Jonathan Kent (played by John Schneider) is heard playing the theme to ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' in his car. In one episode, Tom Wopat (who played the other Duke cousin) shows up as an old friend of Jonathan. Thanks to a stuck door Jack (Wopat) has to get in his car (a [[CoolCar Dodge Charger]]!) through the window. |
| 689 | ** Chloe and Lois get a few per episode. There is also an occasional shout out to Clark's later career and eventual marriage. |
| 690 | ** In an episode where Lana joins a sorority of krypto-made vampires, Clark and Professor Fine (Creator/JamesMarsters) have this exchange: |
| 691 | --->'''Clark:''' This is gonna sound crazy, but she was bitten by.. a vampire.\ |
| 692 | '''Prof. Fine:''' There's no such thing as vampires. |
| 693 | *** The lead vampire in that episode is a blonde valley-girl named [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Saunders]]. |
| 694 | ** The constant usage of PersonAsVerb, usually from Chloe. |
| 695 | ** The origin of Greg Arkin is an intentional dark echo of ComicBook/SpiderMan. |
| 696 | ** In Season 10, to calm people's mistrust of superheroes, [[spoiler:Oliver unmasks himself, [[Film/IronMan1 by calling a press conference, announcing that "I am [hero identity]", as an ex girlfriend who's a reporter watches on, resulting in the crowd of reporters suddenly getting louder and ask a ton of questions.]]]] |
| 697 | ** A subtle cross DC/Marvel example. In a Season 9 episode, when Chloe and Clark are [[spoiler:searching for Ollie after he'd been kidnapped,]] they use a computer generated map of the world that shows where all the [[spoiler:Kandorians]] are and in the process, ending up looking like a suspiciously similar version of [[Franchise/XMen Cerebro]]. |
| 698 | * The opening credits of ''Series/TheSpoilsOfBabylon'' includes David Spade as an actor called "Joseph Soil." In other words, ''Film/JoeDirt'' |
| 699 | * ''Series/SportsNight'' by Creator/AaronSorkin has a fairly subtle one. When the ExecutiveMeddling starts in season two, the execs suggest that Dan and Casey write their show "more like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Olbermann Keith]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Mayne Kenny]]" or "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Kilborn Craig]]". The present tense suggests that in the Sorkin universe, Keith never left ''Series/SportsCenter'' - maybe, if he's hosting with Kenny Mayne, Dan Patrick left instead? |
| 700 | * ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Carson Beckett commented at one point that he felt like "a dog's breakfast," the title of an independent film made by Paul [=MacGillion=] (Beckett) and David Hewlett (Rodney [=McKay=]). |
| 701 | * ''Series/StargateUniverse'': Colonel Young spinning his wedding ring in a dream is a shoutout to ''Film/{{Inception}}''. |
| 702 | * ''Series/StepbyStep'': The series makes numerous references to ''Series/FullHouse'' and other shows but it may be Retcon or just gag jokes because both shows take place in the same universe. |
| 703 | * ''Series/{{Strange}}'': One episode has a pair of animal rights activists named after the ''Series/DoctorWho'' companions Jamie and Zoe. The same episode also has a book whose author's name [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/strange/episodeguide/episodefour/trivia.shtml is very similar to the Brigadier's]]. |
| 704 | * ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': The [[TheDitz ditzy heiress]] is named London Tipton. Take in the fact that the hotel is named the Tipton, and you get three guesses as to [[Creator/ParisHilton who she's named after]]. |
| 705 | ** An ''On Deck'' episode features an IMVU-like game, and in that game is an old-timey video arcade. One of the machines visible in the background of said arcade is running ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', with Quote clearly visible. Evidently, someone on the team was a fan... |
| 706 | ** Later on in ''On Deck'', we get an episode called... [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane Snakes on a Boat]]. And, even though it's partly censored, Moseby quotes [[MemeticMutation THAT line]] WORD FOR WORD, except for, obviously, plane. |
| 707 | * ''Series/TheSunnySideUpShow'': |
| 708 | ** The opening of a video made to promote the block's move to New York was based on the opening of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. |
| 709 | ** One segment has Kaitlin and Chica writing thank you notes to letters of the alphabet in a manner similar to Jimmy Fallon on ''Series/TheTonightShow''. |
| 710 | ** A [[WesternAnimation/MakeWayForNoddy Noddy]] plush toy was seen in the Sunshine Barn. |
| 711 | ** Dennisha and Chica once made a ''Good Night Show''-esque "Sprout-o-scope." |
| 712 | * ''Taiyou ni Hoero'' (''Bark at the Sun'') is a Japanese Seventies CopShow and an extremely popular source of Shout Outs in Japanese TV. It's probably easier to list the drama, comedy and variety series that have ''not'' referred to ''Taiyou''[='s=] characters, clothes, hairstyles, or music. |
| 713 | * ''Series/TeenWolf'': |
| 714 | -->'''Stiles:''' "Why is it starting to feel like you're Batman and I'm Robin? I don't wanna be Robin all the time!"\ |
| 715 | '''Scott:''' "Nobody's Batman and Robin ANY of the time."\ |
| 716 | '''Stiles:''' "Not even some of the time?"" |
| 717 | *** Also in season two episode seven. |
| 718 | -->'''Stiles:''' "You wanna play Catwoman? I'll be your Batman." |
| 719 | *** And then, later: |
| 720 | -->'''Erica:''' "You make a good Batman." |
| 721 | ** Stiles says he would make a better Yoda than Derek. |
| 722 | ** Scott compares himself to ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk. |
| 723 | ** So far, at least one to ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' in the second episode when referring to Wolfsbane. |
| 724 | -->'''Stiles:''' "Haven't you ever seen ''The Wolf Man''?"\ |
| 725 | '''Scott:''' "...No."\ |
| 726 | '''Stiles:''' *sighs* "You're so unprepared for this." |
| 727 | ** There was also a shout-out to the original ''Film/TeenWolf'' in Lunatic, in Scott asking for "the bottle of Jack" back, instead of a kegger. |
| 728 | *** Another shout-out to the original is when the Alpha says that when he was in high school they played basketball. |
| 729 | *** And again in the second season when the lacrosse they're playing against is the Beavers, the name of the team from the original film. |
| 730 | * ''Series/{{Temps de chien|2023}}'': |
| 731 | ** In the second episode, one scene has Jean-Philippe talking to his plane pilot named [[Film/TopGun Maverick]]. |
| 732 | ** After Antoine manages to save Maggie (one of the fishermen's dog), Stéphane tells him "I don't know any veterinarian who would have done what you did today for a dog." before adding "Except Literature/DoctorDolittle. But, for that matter, he doesn't even need an echography. [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Animals talk to him.]]" |
| 733 | ** After realizing that Manon betrayed Antoine just for the sake of a business deal regarding the hospital the two of them own, Jean-Philippe calls her "[[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} Lady Macbeth]]". |
| 734 | * In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', "The Turk" is a chess playing computer, named after "The Turk", an eighteenth century hoax. The original was a box with a mechanical human upper torso that would move chess pieces, within the box a midget would sit and manipulate the arms with levers. |
| 735 | * ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' has a Shout Out to ''Series/TheWestWing'' that acknowledges the two shows' polar opposite depictions of politics: |
| 736 | -->'''Olly:''' (trying to rewrite a speech in an hour) "It's The West Wing!"\ |
| 737 | '''Nicola:''' "You're not Josh, Olly, just write the fucking speech." |
| 738 | ** ...though the best example of this trope is probably among Hugh's nicknames for Malcolm's 8.30am press briefings. "The Lair Of The White Worm" is also the name of a dodgy low-budget horror film Peter Capaldi appeared in long before he played Malcolm Tucker. |
| 739 | * ''Series/TimeAfterTime'': Stevenson refers to his struggle with Wells as a "[[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds war of the worlds]]" in 1918 Paris, because they arrive in many different "worlds" across time. |
| 740 | * ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' has quite a long list of shout outs: |
| 741 | ** Rachel is seen watching ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and ''Series/FullHouse''. |
| 742 | ** Hank and Don made a reference to ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' ("Hakuna Matata"). |
| 743 | ** In a romantic moment, Rose and Jason start to quote a song from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. |
| 744 | ** When Jason is staring off into the distance, Rose calls to Jason “Earth To Major Tom”, a shout-out to [[Music/SpaceOddity Space Oddity]] by [[Music/DavidBowie David Bowie]]. |
| 745 | ** At some point, Garfield could be seen sporting a ''Creator/ToeiAnimation'' shirt, which is a Japanese animation studio that produced an animated Superman series in 1988. |
| 746 | ** Jason seems to be a fan of the film ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' (1981) as he attempts to use the name Robert Plissken as an alias to enter a bar, which was the real name of Kurt Russell's character Snake Plissken. |
| 747 | ** Apparently Jason is also fan of a British folk rock band called ''Music/MumfordAndSons'', as he calls mockingly a guy 'Mumford', before starting a BarBrawl. |
| 748 | ** In 2x02, after the training session, Gar and Rachel share some intimate moments and make fun of Dick being obsessed with training as if he was [[Film/TheKarateKid Mr Miyagi]] himself. |
| 749 | ** In 2x12, Kory and Rachel have heated quarrel, in which Rachel calls Kory 'Truth-Claw', which is a reference to 4th book "In Truth and Claw", of the urban fantasy detective series ''Literature/MickOberon''. |
| 750 | ** When Kori tells Dick that she is working for the FBI in his hallucinations, she mentions avoiding [[Series/TheXFiles "the guys in the basement".]] |
| 751 | * ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': |
| 752 | ** In the episode "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," Creator/JamesMarsters, Spike of ''{{Series/Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'' fame, shows up as Captain John Hart, Captain Jack Harkness's EvilCounterpart, and essentially plays Spike to Jack's Angel. When Jack introduces him to the Torchwood 3 team, he asks if they have a team name, and then after Jack says, "Torchwood!", he says, "What, not Excalibur? Alright, Torchwood." This is a ShoutOut to a fifth season episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' where Spike asks Angel if he and his gang have a name. |
| 753 | ** He also thinks there should be a blonde. |
| 754 | ** Also, a few minutes after that scene, back in the Torchwood hub, Gwen asks if she should call him "John" or "Captain," and Captain John smoothly replies, "Love, with eyes like yours, you can [[ICallItVera call me Vera]];" a ShoutOut to another [[Series/{{Firefly}} cult hit]] created by Creator/JossWhedon. |
| 755 | ** Also a shout-out to ''Torchwood'' itself, as 'Excalibur' was the original name under which Creator/RussellTDavies developed the series idea. |
| 756 | ** And when Captain John appears in a hologram on Jack's wrist-strap, he says: "[[Franchise/StarWars Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.]]" |
| 757 | ** Also in Captain John's appearance, after clearing out a bar through weapons intimidation and drinking his way through the alcohol lineup, he says, "Bored now." ''a la'' Dark Willow from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. |
| 758 | ** In the later episode "Dead Man Walking," an alien being seeking [[spoiler:to enter the world through Owen's animated corpse]] speaks a phrase in an alien language, over and over. This phrase is eventually translated as "[[spoiler:I shall walk the Earth and my hunger shall know no bounds]]." However, the actual words are "Melenkurion abatha, duroc minas mill khabaal"--the seven words of Earthpower used in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant''. |
| 759 | ** The Torchwood novel ''Bay of the Dead'' contains a ShoutOut to ''Shaun of the Dead'': |
| 760 | -->'''Ianto:''' It's crazy, Jack. It's horror-movie hokum. You know it is. |
| 761 | -->'''Jack:''' And ''you'' know what we're up against here, don't you? |
| 762 | -->'''Ianto:''' No, I don't. Don't say it, Jack. Don't use the- |
| 763 | -->'''Jack:''' Zombies! |
| 764 | -->'''Ianto:''' -zed word. |
| 765 | ** There are shout outs to other series and mediums, such as in the Torchwood Online Mission game... |
| 766 | -->'''Gwen''': Oh my god. Ianto, do you realise everything just got broadcast right across Cardiff? |
| 767 | -->'''Ianto''': Meh. No one will believe it's real. In 1938 the government convinced the entire world that an [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds alien attack on New Jersey was just a radio play]]. Relax. |
| 768 | ** John Hart playing "Starship Trooper" when Jack comes to confront him at the end of series two. The same song was used for a funeral in ''Series/QueerAsFolkUK'', Creator/RussellTDavies' breakout series |
| 769 | ** The notorious "Cyberwoman" costume was a blatant Shout Out to the work of the Japanese cyberfetish and BDSM erotic artist Hajime Sorayama. |
| 770 | ** Gwen's old partner, Andy, has a habit of calling Jack [[Series/TheXFiles "Mulder"]] |
| 771 | * ''Series/Tracker2001'': Had a shout out to Creator/AdrianPaul's ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' role when Cole used a katana to escape from a museum vault. |
| 772 | * ''Series/TrueBlood'': |
| 773 | ** One episode in the first season had Sam sitting on the stairs to his trailer, lamenting Bill's existence, saying "Where's Buffy when you need her?" |
| 774 | ** In one episode, Eric mistakenly called Sookie [[Series/JerseyShore Snooki]]. |
| 775 | ** Also, in the same episode, Sookie is seen reading a Charlaine Harris book... |
| 776 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': |
| 777 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E36CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]", the title character, like Clarence Oddbody in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', is assigned to help someone so that he can earn his angel wings. |
| 778 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E1InHisImage In His Image]]", Alan Talbot is named after Lawrence Talbot, the title character of ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', who also discovered that he wasn't human and had intense homicidal urges. |
| 779 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E4HesAlive He's Alive]]", the idea of Neo-Nazism requiring a martyr just as the original movement did is a pretty obvious reference to Horst Wessel, a Nazi SA member who was shot in the head by Communists and died later of his wounds. The Nazis used his death to help themselves, not only lionizing Wessel personally, but naming a song after him, the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" (it was made into the co-national anthem after they took power). Of course, here it's his comrades who killed him, and it doesn't work how they wanted this to, but the goal was the same. |
| 780 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E18TheBard The Bard]]", Julius Moomer describes Jeremy, the protagonist of the rewritten version of ''The Tragic Cycle'', as "kind of a ''Series/DrKildare'', ''[[Series/BenCasey Dr. Casey]]'' type." He tells Creator/WilliamShakespeare that [[MedicalDrama doctor shows]] are very big this season. |
| 781 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E11AShortDrinkFromACertainFountain A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain]]", Flora Gordon refers to her brother-in-law Raymond, whom she hates and vice versa, as "the poor man's ''[[Series/DrKildare Kildare]]''" and later says "I ask for Vince Edwards and look what they send me." |
| 782 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E13RingADingGirl Ring-A-Ding Girl]]", when Bunny Blake sees her teenage nephew Bud Powell for the first time in several years, she asks if this is [[Creator/RockHudson Rock]] or [[Creator/CaryGrant Cary]]. |
| 783 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E18BlackLeatherJackets Black Leather Jackets]]", Stuart and Martha Tillman are watching the game show ''Series/ToTellTheTruth'' when the signal cuts out due to the aliens' transmissions next door. |
| 784 | ** In the opening narration of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E24WhatsInTheBox What's in the Box]]", Rod Serling says that Joe Britt is in for a really big show, pronouncing "show" as "shew". This is a reference to Ed Sullivan's catchphrase and his distinctive pronunciation of "show" on his [[Series/TheEdSullivanShow long-running variety show]]. Like ''The Twilight Zone'', ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' aired on Creator/{{CBS}}. The phrase "really big shew" is also used by Caesar in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E28CaesarAndMe Caesar and Me]]". |
| 785 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E28CaesarAndMe Caesar and Me]]", Caesar's name is a reference to Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello, the gangster titular character of ''Film/LittleCaesar''. He also has a prominent scar on the right side of his face, as is the case with the ''Film/Scarface1932'' title character Antonio "Tony" Camonte. |
| 786 | * ''Series/TwinPeaks'' was filled with {{Shout Out}}s to numerous sources, some trivial, some inextricably bound to the plot ([[MindScrew such as it was]]) of the series. In no particular order: |
| 787 | ** The name of FBI Agent Dale Bartholomew Cooper (Kyle [=MacLachlan=]) references the infamous DB Cooper who disappeared after parachuting from the plane he hijacked in 1971. |
| 788 | ** Sheriff Harry S Truman rather obviously references the [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates United States President]] [[UsefulNotes/HarryTruman of the same name]], complete with a stuffed deer head in his office labelled "The Buck Stopped Here" in reference to the famous sign on President Truman's desk. He also allegedly references Harry R. Truman, an 83-year-old resident of the slopes of Mount St. Helens who refused to evacuate and was killed when that volcano erupted in 1980. |
| 789 | ** Dr. Jacoby is based on late ethnobotanist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna Terrence McKenna]]; the two have a striking similarity in appearance and style of dress, and share a connection to Hawaii. Jacoby's mushroom-shaped lamp references [=McKenna's=] theories on the role psychedelic mushrooms played in the evolution of man and culture. |
| 790 | ** Madeleine Ferguson (Sheryl Lee) is named for two characters from the Creator/AlfredHitchcock film ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' -- Kim Novak's Madeleine Elster and Jimmy Stewart's John Ferguson. Furthermore, Kim Novak plays two roles in this film, a blonde and a brunette, just as Sheryl Lee does in ''Twin Peaks'' (Laura Palmer and Madeleine). |
| 791 | ** David Lynch has acknowledged that the 1950 film ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' is a major influence on his work. In the case of ''Twin Peaks'', the name of Lynch's own character, FBI supervisor Gordon Cole, came from a minor character in that film. |
| 792 | ** The insurance agent who comes to see Catherine is named Walter Neff, after the crooked insurance agent played by Creator/FredMacMurray in 1944's ''Film/DoubleIndemnity''. |
| 793 | ** Hank Jennings' prisoner number was 24601 — the same number worn by Jean Valjean in Creator/VictorHugo's ''Literature/LesMiserables.'' |
| 794 | ** The pattern of tiling on the floor of the Black Lodge is the same as the lobby of Henry's house in Lynch's 1977 film ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}.'' |
| 795 | * ''Series/TwoSentenceHorrorSTories'': In "[[Recap/TwoSentenceHorrorStoriesS1E4Hide Hide]]" the killers turn out to be teenage girls, with similar disguises as those in ''Film/TragedyGirls''. It could double as a TakeThat given how easily they're taken down, unlike in the film. |
| 796 | * ''Series/VeronicaMars'': The writers and stars were fans of Television Without Pity and in one episode the set dressing department included a [=TWoP=] shout-out in the form of an activity flyer on a student bulletin board advertising a meeting of the Teenage Women of Propriety. ([=TWoP=] later returned the shout-out, making a Teenage Women of Propriety T-shirt available from their line of TV shout-out merchandise.) |
| 797 | * ''Series/{{Vintergatan}} 5A'' (''Milky Way 5A''), a Swedish children's series, ends with [[spoiler:Alien revealing that he has been possessing Mira's fish Zoogin for the entire journey. He then leaves, still in the fish, [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy "So long... and thanks for all the fish]]" being his last words]]. |
| 798 | * ''Series/TheWayansBros'' does this several times: |
| 799 | ** Pops comes out of the bathroom at his diner and tells the boys to not use it for at least 35 to 45 minutes. This is a line from the movie Friday, which John Witherspoon (Pops) says the same thing to Ice Cube. |
| 800 | ** Dee gets mixed up with some unscrupulous guy and Pops and the Brothers rescue her. At the end of the episode, she says that she will be more careful next time, and they respond with a loud "Amen." This is in reference to the 80's sitcom of the same name that she starred in. |
| 801 | ** The best example is the episode "Unspoken Token" where Shawn dreams that he is on an episode of ''Series/GoodTimes''. He plays JJ, Marlon is Michael, Pops is James, and Dee is Florida. Willona, Thelma, and Bookman appear and they reprise their characters. They add elements from the show (James throwing the chair, Florida saying [[MemeticMutation Damn, Damn, Damn]], Michael being a revolutionary, Thelma's non-cooking skills, etc) while parodying the same episode were JJ is invited to attend a prestigious art school because they needed to enroll a black person in order to keep their government funding. |
| 802 | * ''Series/WhiteCollar'': In the episode "Brass Tacks," one plotline involves Jones and Mozzie going to see a man called "The Keymaster." Jones makes a reference to the Keymaker from ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' series. On top of that, when the Keymaster appears, he's played by Creator/PeterScolari who is known for being TheOtherDarrin to Creator/RickMoranis who played the Keymaster in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''. |
| 803 | * ''Series/WhoWantsToBeASuperhero'': The Defuser, one of the contestants in the second season, is also an avid ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' player. At his request, one episode depicted him flying through a giant donut on top of a donut shop, in a reference to a similar structure in the New Overbrook (aka Faultline) zone [[spoiler:which is the site of an exploration badge that can only be gotten by going through the hole]]. |
| 804 | * ''Series/WildPalms'': As a Shout Out to ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'', the song "Hello, I Must Be Going" became a theme in Oliver Stone's miniseries. It was also the title of the final episode, and sung by villain Senator Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) as he died. |
| 805 | * ''Series/{{Wings}}'': Many of the episode [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wings_episodes titles]] are paraphrases of film titles, common sayings, or song lyrics. Also, the opening and endings of "Joe Blows" are similar to ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''. |
| 806 | * ''Series/TheWire'' similarly features characters from ''Homicide'' and the book from which it is based. |
| 807 | * ''Series/WithoutATrace'': In one episode, there's a mention of Hudson University--the campus where students are regularly murdered on ''Law & Order''. Hudson University predates ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' — it was the college attended by Dick Grayson. |
| 808 | * ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': |
| 809 | ** The address for the Wizarding World's city hall is [[Series/TheMunsters 1313 Mockingbird Lane]]. |
| 810 | ** [[Franchise/{{Frankenstein}} Franken-Girl]] is powered up with [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture 1.21 gigawatts]] of electricity. |
| 811 | ** The school principal is named [[Series/{{Bewitched}} Mr. Larritate]], while Alex's art teacher is [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie Ms. Majorhealey]]. |
| 812 | ** To Bono and Harry Potter. |
| 813 | ** Alex's boyfriend's name is Dean Moriarty. |
| 814 | ** The vampire father in the special is named Alucard. [[SdrawkcabName Alucard]] has been used as an alias/CaptainErsatz for {{Dracula}} many times, a shout out to the Count himself. |
| 815 | ** Also from the vampire special, could they get any less subtle than naming the girl Juliet? |
| 816 | ** To Music/MichaelJackson in "Wizards and Vampires vs. Zombies": |
| 817 | --> '''Female zombie:''' "[[TheDeadCanDance One music video and we're expected to dance battle everywhere.]]" |
| 818 | ** Leave it Justin to nerd up a ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'' reference: |
| 819 | --> '''Justin:''' *bad fake Cuban accent* "Say hello to my little surge protector!" |
| 820 | ** From the taxi episode: the cab company is called the Sunshine Cab Company. |
| 821 | ** Jerry talks about his childhood, hanging out with John Bender and Ponyboy. Ponyboy gets mentioned again in a later episode, along another friend, Ben Kenobi. |
| 822 | ** Notice how the portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Russo is moving in the theme song. |
| 823 | ** This little gem. |
| 824 | -->'''Justin:''' "We have to be ready for the robot uprising, They'll rebel, they'll evolve, and They'll have a plan!" |
| 825 | ** To ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' in "Saving [[WizardingSchool WizTech]]." |
| 826 | ** To ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' in "Wizards vs. Vampires" and "Wizards vs. Werewolves." |
| 827 | ** Mason shares the same last name as another British werewolf, Fenrir Greyback. |
| 828 | ** The spell to create an outlaw in the Old West dream Alex created is "Bad bad Leroy Brown, run Laritate out of town," a reference to an old Music/JimCroce song. |
| 829 | ** The name of the BaseballEpisode: The Supernatural. |
| 830 | ** The name Harper Finkle could be a ShoutOut to Harvey Kinkle. |
| 831 | ** More Sabrina Shout-Outs: Plastic being the weakness of magic and a SecretChaser named Brad who suffers from ChuckCunninghamSyndrome. |
| 832 | ** The spell to have a picture frame show you what's happening in other places is a reference to Music/DuranDuran. |
| 833 | ** In "Hugh's Not Normous," Alex and Justin mimic an exchange from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': |
| 834 | -->'''Justin:''' "What was that ruckus?"\ |
| 835 | '''Alex:''' "What ruckus?"\ |
| 836 | '''Justin:''' "I heard a ruckus."\ |
| 837 | '''Alex:''' "Can you describe the ruckus?" |
| 838 | * An episode of ''The Woodwright's Shop'' from 1987 has Roy Underhill mention Bob Vila and Norm Abram from ''This Old House'' when it gets a bit noisy while he's trying to talk about an important component of outhouses. |
| 839 | * ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' actually had quite a few of these. |
| 840 | ** "For Him the Bell Tolls" when Aphrodite enchants [[TheScrappy Joxer]] to become a debonair swordsman at the ring of a bell, frequently, because the episode had many bells. Shout out to ''Film/TheCourtJester'', in which the same happens to Hawkins, except with the snap of a finger. |
| 841 | ** "In Sickness and in Hell" when fungus-ridden Gabrielle tries to catch a rabbit for dinner. [[KillerRabbit The rabbit]] then attacks her neck, and an epic battle ensues. [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail You should be able to figure this reference out for yourself]]. |
| 842 | ** In the episode "The Play's the Thing" a play is going disastrously and someone walks out declaring they've heard the play next door is much better. The play is called 'Buffus the Bacchae Slayer'. Possibly an acknowledgment of Buffy's shout out in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween Halloween]]" where Willow wails about Buffy "What? She couldn't have [[BecomingTheCostume dressed up as]] {{Series/Xena|WarriorPrincess}}?" |
| 843 | * ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'': Many elements of the storyline leading up to Victoria Newman and Billy Abbott's September 2010 wedding were {{shout out}}s to ''Series/FatherKnowsBest'', culminating in the casting of Elinor Donahue as the presiding judge. |
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