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* The opening cribs wholesale from ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.
* The series tends to namedrop other works - [[AuthorAppeal often works that the author(s) are fans of]], like ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''.
* The Hypercube seems to be one to ''JimmyNeutron''.
* Jack T. Robot's full name recalls that of [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow's.]]

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[[folder: Season 1 ]]

* "The Black Turning Funnel" parts 1 & 2 take gags from [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2001/ga011003.gif this]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic and ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'', respectively.
* [[Film/HomeAlone "Home UnAlone"]], both in name and in the traps that Calvin sets up.
* "Calvin's Franchise/{{Batman}} Adventure":
** "And let that be a lesson to you, Mr. [[Film/MaryPoppins Supercalafragilisticexpealedoses!]]"[[note]]This is not actually how it's spelled.[[/note]]
** "[[Theatre/ByeByeBirdie Bye, bye, birdy.]] [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants I'll remember you all in therapy."]]
* Calvin demands JudgeJudy in "The Case of the Rogue Water Balloon".
* A MissingTrailerScene from the bonus chapter goes as follows:
--> '''Hobbes:''' You gonna call?\\
'''Calvin:''' [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} GHOST BUSTERS!]]\\
'''Hobbes:''' [[YouFool YOU FOOL!]] [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday IT'S THEIR BUSIEST NIGHT!]]

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[[folder: Season 2 ]]

* Socrates, upon being sucked into a time vortex in "Time Terror":
--> [[TheWizardOfOz "I DON'T THINK I'M IN KANSAS ANYMORE!"]]
* From "It Will Build Character":
--> '''Calvin:''' (describing where they're going) Well, you've heard of [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]], right?\\
(Andy and Socrates nod)\\
'''Calvin:''' Well, that's where we're going.
** Socrates' [[TalkingInYourSleep Talking In His Sleep]] is ReferenceOverdosed in itself:
--> "ZZZ-SMICK-NIGGLE-FRAKENBERRY-ZZZ! ZZZ-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live!_with_Kelly REGIS-KATIE]]-[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic AL]]-ZZZ! ZZZ-[[TheDrewCareyShow DREW, LEWIS, KELLIE, OSWALD, MIMI]]-ZZZ! ZZZ-[[Music/TheBeatles JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE, RINGO]]-ZZZ! ZZZ-[[WhoseLineIsItAnyway GREG, WAYNE, COLIN, RYAN, KATHY, CHIP, BRAD, DREW]]-ZZZ! ZZZ-[[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} GARFIELD, ODIE, JON, ARLENE, NERMAL, LIZ, POOKY]]-ZZZ! ZZZ-[[That70sShow ERIC, DONNA, KELSO, HYDE, JACKIE, FEZ, RED AND KITTY]]-ZZZ! ZZZ-[[Series/TheDailyShow JON, ROB, ED, STEPHEN, SAM, JASON, DAN, NATE, STEVE]]-ZZZ! ZZZ-[[ThirdRockFromTheSun DICK, SALLY, HARRY, TOMMY, MARY, NINA, DON, DUBCECK]]-ZZZ!"
** And when he gets thrown at a tree, he sees [[CirclingBirdies stars, checkers, and]] [[Disney/{{Dumbo}} little pink elephants with umbrellas.]]
* From "A Day at The Office", we have [[SpongebobSquarepants "Do I look unsure to you?"]], accompanied by what [[LemonyNarrator the narrator]] [[LampshadeHanging outright calls]] "[[GrossupCloseup the most disgusting face ever]]".
* After yet another failed attempt to scare Calvin and co. in "The Great Halloween Heist":
--> '''Jack:''' "How'd it go, [[DoNotCallMePaul Frank?]]
--> '''Dr. Brainstorm:''' "Shut up, [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 TV's Jack.]]
* After [[ItMakesSenseInContext riding a garbage can in a tornado]] in "The Falling Sky Part 2", Hobbes notes:
--> "[[TheWizardOfOz Aunty Em? Aunty Em? Are we still in Kansas?]]"
* "Insanity is in the Air":
** "Remember that one episode of [[Series/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]] where-"
** "Ya know, I could probably sum this situation up by discussing a few episodes from Series/TheOuterLimits."
** This exchange:
--> '''Andy:''' What do you think I've been talking about for the past few hours!!\\
'''Calvin:''' Well, it had to do with Film/GameraVsZigra. I know that.
** Later, the boys watch ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron Jimmy Neutron]]''.
* Calvin's attempt to bug Susie in "A Club's Blow" includes singing this gem:
--> "[[SpongeBobSquarePants WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA! SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!]] [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 THEY TRY TO SURVIVE THE WRATH OF PEARL! JUST AN EVIL GAL WHO WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD!]] [[GarfieldAndFriends IT'S TIME TO PARTY FOR GARFIELD AND FRIENDS! HIY, HIY!]]"
* Upon deciding to take up being a superhero in "Super Calvin", Calvin declares that he will [[SpongeBobSquarePants save the fifth dimension from monkey people.]]
* After Sherman's been convinced the vet [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate is evil]] in "Sherman Goes to the Vet":
--> "AAAHH! I'M NOT GOING TO THE VET! [[Film/{{Aliens}} THIS IS A BUGHUNT, MAN! A BUGHUNT! GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!]] WHAAAAAAAAHH!"
* In one of the marathon framing segments (the one that introduces ''[[CourtroomEpisode A Day at The Office]]''):
--> '''Socrates:''' [[Series/TheTwilightZone "Imagine if you will, a character obsessed patent attorney being hired for something that has absolutely nothing to patents! He doesn't know it, but soon this man will be pulled into the deepest regions of the Calvin and Hobbes: The Series zone! Now then.."]]
** A later segment has Andy and Sherman reenacting the [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Thunderdome joke with Socrates.]]
* "The Alien Huntress":
** One of Jack's lines, "I wonder if [[{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]] could use a robot". is taken from [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1999/ga990924.gif this]] ''{{Garfield}}'' strip.
** Calvin ends up describing ''SpongebobSquarepants''' appearance to Galaxoid and Nebular.
** And then there's this:
--> '''Brainstorm:''' Oh no! I hope {{Superman}} hasn't discovered my secret hideout!\\
'''Jack:''' I seriously doubt that he would waste his time here.
** Sheila does a [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain's Log]] while walking with Calvin.

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[[folder: Season 3 ]]

* "Department Store Horrors" has Calvin briefly dressing up as PajamaSam.
* From "RIP Calvin":
--> '''Calvin:''' (on meeting [[MyFutureSelfAndMe their future selves]]) "That's not possible. Those people are adults. [[MediumAwareness Looks like our show has been spliced in with]] Franchise/StarTrek [[MediumAwareness or something.]]"
* "Pranking the Ghosts": Socrates mentions [[TheRing watching a weird video tape and then getting a call from some guy telling him he had seven days to live.]]
* Part of [[ConversationalTroping Calvin and Hobbes' conversation]] in "Hypercube":
--> '''Hobbes:''' "So... [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration the Borg]] are a [[HiveMind hive mind]], right?"
--> '''Calvin:''' "I think so, yeah."
--> '''Hobbes:''' "[[FridgeLogic So did the show's writers goof when]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]] [[FridgeLogic got the name 'Locutus of Borg'? Because that is incredibly un-Borg-like, right?]]"
** Hobbes later pretends to be [[BuffySpeak "the elephant thing"]] from ''Film/LordOfTheRings''.
** After crashing their sled:
--> '''Calvin:''' "[[NonSequiturThud Darkness? It is I,]] PajamaSam! [[NonSequiturThud I have come to vanquish you!]]"
* "The Five Calvins" is really just [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]] [[WholePlotReference under a "Calvin and Hobbes" filter]].
* When trying to describe the things he's done in "New Year, New Disasters", Andy ends up describing ''Series/RedDwarf'' episodes instead. This is {{lampshaded}}.
* [[MoralityDial Evil Jack]] (from "62 Percent More Evil") is a walking ClicheStorm, having an ExorcistHead and quoting ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', among other things.
--> '''Sherman:''' Only steal from the best!
* In "Electronic Invasion":
--> '''Calvin:''' (upon several buzzers going off) ACK! [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 WE GOT MOVIE SIGN!]]
--> '''Hobbes:''' [[MediumAwareness Wrong show.]]
* [[Film/BabysDayOut "Robot's Day Out"]].
* The narrator [[LampshadeHanging outright describes]] [[KillerRobot Shadow]]'s crawling up a ledge shortly after [[SealedEvilInACan being freed]] from his prison in "Thunderstorm" as ''TheGrudge''-like.
** Then there's this:
--> '''Dr. Brainstorm:''' DON'T GET USED TO THIS SORT OF THING, CALLY! [[TheWizardOfOz I'LL GET YOU, AND YOUR LITTLE TIGERS AND BOY AND HAMSTER]] [[LongList AND CD PLAYER]], TOO!

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[[folder: Season 4 ]]

* "Camping Trip Part 2":
** One of these is {{lampshaded}}:
--> '''Calvin:''' How goes, [[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan?]]\\
'''Dad:''' I ''liked'' that show.
** Then there's this exchange:
--> '''Hobbes:''' We can't stay here forever? What if ''Series/RedDwarf: TheMovie'' comes out while we're trapped here?\\
'''Calvin:''' [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Pfft! As if.]]
* "Surge":
** Calvin wears [[Series/DoctorWho the Fourth Doctor's scarf.]]
--> '''Hobbes:''' ([[NoFourthWall to the viewer]]) [[LampshadeHanging Kudos and handshakes to whoever gets this gag.]]
** A lot of bands get brought up - this can overlap with TakeThat.
** The MTM references ''A Summer of Kings'' and ''{{Juno}}''.
* During "Part Three", when all the electricity in town is going strange, the MTM malfunctions and proceeds to act like HAL from Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.
--> '''MTM:''' Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
--> '''Calvin:''' Why?
--> '''MTM:''' I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me.
--> '''Calvin & Hobbes:''' (beat) What?!

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[[folder: Season 5 ]]

* "Dark Laughter Part 1":
--> '''Andy:''' And people wonder why our landfills are full.\\
'''Socrates:''' Really? Then it's my duty as a citizen of ThisIslandEarth to make up for that! To the midway![[note]]This is probably more of a reference to ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', which riffed ''This Island Earth''.[[/note]]
* Calvin whistles the ''Series/DoctorWho'' theme near the end of "Dark Laughter Part 2".
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