* Some of his {{Shout Out}}s are particularly subtle; for instance, the PC in ''Red Steel 2'', who wears a bright red cowboy hat and trenchcoat is greeted by "[[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Are you that vampire guy?]]"
* He has referenced ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' several times, usually when talking about TimeTravel.
* Almost all instances mentioning time travel have a picture of the [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]], as well.
* Yahtzee casually quotes Creator/EddieIzzard in a few reviews--he is a self-admitted fan. He's also quoted Creator/{{Seanbaby}} at least twice.
* Any time he says "battle royale," somebody onscreen [[Film/BattleRoyale gets killed by an exploding collar]].
* The first ship seen in the ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' review is the Pyro-GX from ''VideoGame/{{Descent}}''.
* The entirety of his review for ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand'' is filled with subliminal shots with the phrase "[[Series/FatherTed NOT A RACIST.]]"
* One of the lines in his review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' is: "Yahtzee, please take your dick out of my eye socket!", which appears to be a reference to ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' (seeing as the video came out at around approximately the same time the movie did and generated a great deal of controversy).
** In the same review, he complains about Lightning's loud footsteps because "It's like [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail someone's running along just out of shot banging coconuts together]]."
* The ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' review has Yahtzee point out how Kratos was the closest to relatable in the first game, while in the third, he's channeling ComicBook/{{Judge D|redd}}eath.
* One of the dungeons in ''VideoGame/NieR'' takes the form of a text adventure game, illustrated with "This dungeon has been replaced by a series of [[VideoGame/ColossalCave twisty text screens, all alike]]."
* In his review of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', he at one point calls the game "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E21ThePTADisbands Purple Monkey Dishwasher]]".
* Yahtzee, during his review of ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', surmises that perhaps the large amounts of angst in Japanese video games and culture may be due to anime fans "liking their protagonists angsty and ineffectual, and [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion given to wanking off over unconscious women.]]"
** He references it again in his ''Haze'' review, where he has the main protagonist quote Shinji's MadnessMantra.
** Used again as a joke at the start of his ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'' review.
* Yahtzee starts his ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' review with "Once upon a time, there was a game called ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' that coined the phrase [[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 'when there's no more room in hell,]] [[ArtificialStupidity the NPCs will walk into walls a whole bunch.']]"
** The credits close out with a line from Rupert Brooke's [[http://www.englishverse.com/poems/the_soldier "The Soldier"]]: "There shall be / In that rich earth a richer dust concealed."
* He comments that ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsTheForceUnleashed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II]]'' is "the most grossly offensive and mishandled application of intellectual property since the ''Film/SchindlersList'' Easy-Bake Oven!"
* At the end of his ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' review, he suggest for the next game that Nintendo [[VideoGame/{{Okami}} get rid of the princess, change the hero to a dog, change the setting to feudal Japan, and replace the weapons with magic spells cast with a paintbrush]].
* When describing [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes Travis Touchdown]] as a massive nerd, he's shown lusting over Literature/{{Haruhi Suzumiya}}.
* In ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject'', one of the badly done guard sprites goes [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault DRR DRR DRR]].
* In his review for ''VideoGame/{{Thief 2014}}'', Yahtzee says, "The first thing we do... is to isolate everything that gave the original its unique appeal, edge, and soul, put on our big boots and stamp and stamp and stamp..." Cue the guy putting on [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 Mario's Kuribo Shoe]].
** "Then there's the villain, the Thief-Taker General, whose only role in the plot is to occasionally show up and victimize Garrett in an operatically evil manner, like [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Dick Dastardly chasing the pigeon]]..."
** "And no-one says 'taff' anymore; they say 'fuck'. That's not fun; Creator/ErrolFlynn swinging off a rope onto a pirate ship is fun, but if the enemy crew just tells him to fuck off, it'd completely kill the mood!"
* "I've heard people say ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2008'' is too easy, which honestly bewildered me, because I died more often than [[VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment The Nameless One]] [[HealingFactor in a smoothie maker]]".
* The [[OncePerEpisode ending credits comic]] for his ''[[VideoGame/{{Killzone}} Killzone 3]]'' review features one of the Helghast going for a haircut only to have the imp barber [[Theatre/SweeneyTodd slash at his neck with his hair-cutting tools]].
* A blink and you'll miss it reference to Music/ThePixies is in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} 4'' review, where a car is shown playing "Here Comes Your Man."
* To the Music/KaiserChiefs, his Wet review introduces the heroine Rubi like this: rubirubirubi[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qObzgUfCl28 RUBI!]]
* In his review for ''VideoGame/InFamous2'', Yahtzee says that Cole [=MacGrath=] has to go to New Marais "in order to [[Anime/DragonBallZ build his power level back up to nine thousaaaand]]". ZP Cole even acts like Super Saiyan Goku!
** Yahtzee even refers to Cole's good and evil sides as [[Literature/GoofusAndGallant Cole MacGallant and Cole MacGoofus]].
** From the end credits: "[[Film/CarryOnCleo Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy.]]"
* "[VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'s] even got those cute, '50's public information cartoons that VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}} ripped off from VideoGame/{{Fallout}}. It's like a magnificent [[Film/TheHumanCentipede Human Centipede]] stretching back through gaming history."
** [[invoked]] The plot of ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'' has "more [[PlotHole holes]] than [[Music/TheBeatles Blackburn, Lancashire]]".
* The ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' review (the real one, not the parody one) gives us [[WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad ALBATROSS'D!]]
* In the review for ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'', Yahtzee says that "It's disappointing short and doesn't quite have the wealth of imagination one would expect from its heritage. Ooh, listen to me. I think I'm the ''Antiques Roadshow'' now."
** Speaking of ''Antiques Roadshow'', in one review of ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'', he says that ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'' "was as entertaining as pushing a television aerial into your nasal cavity and tuning it to the ''Antiques Roadshow''." Cue the announcer's voice saying, "[[DoubleEntendre What a sterling set of milk jugs you have.]]"
* In his review of ''VideoGame/RedFactionArmageddon'', he says that the title "was the first [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe telltale heart murmur]]."
* In one of his Extra Punctuation articles he offhandedly refers to a generic supervillain minion as "[[VideoGame/DeadToRights Longsho]][[LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} reman X]]".
* The very first video for The Escapist refers to the fact that Creator/HalfbrickStudios, like Yahtzee, happens to be based in Brisbane.
* In the ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'' review, one of the monsters "borrowed from European folklore" is [[Literature/TheMoomins a Moomin]].
* Says ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'''s Calypso could only more obviously be Satan "if he had horns and [[Literature/TheDivineComedy was idly chewing on Judas Iscariot]]."
* In his ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' review, Yahtzee makes a reference to [[Series/RedDwarf a man sending gazpacho soup back to be warmed up]].
* In the ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution'' review, mocking the [[ScoringPoints point system]]: "[[Literature/HarryPotter 100 points from Gryffindor!]]"
* In his ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'' review, he comments on the game not seeming like a true Paper Mario title, despite having the look and "skin" of one:
-->"[[BreadEggsMilkSquick I'm not a fat woman,]] [[Literature/SilenceOfTheLambs even though I...]] [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope I've just been advised not to finish this sentence.]]"
* Mention of the {{Alternate Universe}}s in ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' is illustrated by a chart with the home timeline in the centre and two other branches labelled "616 Universe" (the Franchise/MarvelUniverse) and "Alternative 1986" (from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'').
* In his review for ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons'', Yahtzee says that the game is not like ''VideoGame/ZorkNemesis'' when it comes to puzzles, although they are reminiscent of the ''VideoGame/{{Gobliiins}}'' franchise.
* In his review for ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', Yahtzee described one sex scene as "a brief blank-eyed, [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} Thunderbirds-are-go]] hump with a random trollop before being dropped right back into the mission as if nothing happened."
* In Yahtzee's review of ''VideoGame/{{Dark}}'', he mockingly compares the protagonist's name "Eric Bane" to the [[{{Ghostwriter}} pseudonym]] under which "a struggling author writes erotic ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' knock-offs". For bonus points, Yahtzee's fake paranormal romance novel cover is highly Lovecraftian in design as a nod to the ''Literature/ViridianSaga''.
** The same review also later has a VisualPun where Yahtzee's penis is depicted as the face of Creator/DickVanDyke.
* In his review for ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'': "I'm reminded of that line from Creator/HeathLedger's [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]]: [[Film/TheDarkKnight "I think you and I are destined to do this forever"]]; a line that proved slightly ironic for Heath Ledger..." ''["Well, that was tasteless."]''
** "...but frankly, if I didn't feel the need to collect the unlockable sea shanties so my crew would sing some new ones for a fucking change..." Cue the pirate imps toasting the glasses of beer and singing "[[Music/LadyGaga Poker Face]]".
** "...because I spent the majority of my time sailing rather than running through a city shoulder-clocking motherfuckers like I'm the [[https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74 music video]] for '[[Music/TheVerve Bitter Sweet Symphony]]' on fast-forward."
* In Yahtzee's review of ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'', one of his [[MaliciousMisnaming alternative titles]] for the game is "[[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Despite Ellen Page, I Am Still Just A Rat In A Cage]]".[[note]]It's worth noting that both this game and review came out prior to Creator/ElliotPage coming out of the closet as a transgender man, so Croshaw ''isn't'' deadnaming here[[/note]]
** He also describes ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'''s random shifts in tone and gameplay as "[[JustForFun/XMeetsY Like if someone intercut]] ''VideoGame/DragonsLair'' with [[SelfDeprecation security footage from my living room on the morning of a major deadline]]."
* In the review for ''VideoGame/{{Knack}}'', Yahtzee says, "The onus of the next-gen launch title is partly to sell the graphical capability of the console, standing atop it like Theatre/{{Salome}} doing a little volumetric lighting Dance of the Seven Veils. This is more like Dance of the Seven Smallpox Blankets!"
** In the same review, he says that "Every enemy can slice off your health bar like a fat bridesmaid left alone with the wedding cake"; scene cuts to the fat imp in a bridal gown on the table while [[Music/WhitneyHouston "I Will Al]][[Music/DollyParton ways Love You"]] plays in the background.
* In his review for ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', Yahtzee imagines himself hacking off the limbs of a "dude in armor", then puts on a wallpaper of dudes in armor while the imp hacks off the limbs of another dude in armor in a manner that makes him look like [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Black Knight]].
** "And instead of the game starting with only one path and then opening up when you're going after the four Lord Souls..."
--->Ornstein & Twat\\
Skully Bunch\\
That Tree Thing\\
Naturist Dragon\\
[[Music/TheBeatles John, Paul, George & Ringo]]
* In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'', Yahtzee praises the epic Pilot vs. Titan fights as "[[HumongousMecha mecha]]-WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry."
* His review of ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' makes reference to ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'s'' "[[StartMyOwn I'll make my own [X].]] With Blackjack. And hookers." RunningGag.
* The ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'' review has a Zero Punctuationized Kyle climb into a person shaped hole in a wall, declaring: "[[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault This hole was made for me.]]"
* In the review for ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', Yahtzee pictures the Nazi space wizard as a human in a wizard hat and robe riding on the Hitler version of [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Bowser's Koopa Clown Car]].
** Also, he describes BJ Blaskowicz as "The Beej" and "Franchise/{{Tintin}} on protein shakes".
* Yahtzee says that ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' is "like the fucking ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|AndThePlaneteers}}'' of NES games: 'By your powers combined, I will now bleep like someone doing squeaky farts in a tin elevator!'"
* Yahtzee says the plot of ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' is "like ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', if Calvin was a piece of wood with a frowny face drawn on it, and Hobbes was another piece of wood with a frowny face drawn on it."
** "Not only does this keep you invested in not being killed (blimey, that was a weird sentence) but it creates an environment for organic storytelling." Flower says, "[[Creator/TheBBC Are you sitting comfortably?]]"
** [[Creator/HarryBelafonte "Come, Mister Talion, tally me banana."]]
* In his review for ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'', Yahtzee says that "The gameplay is based around switching between the four marginally different playstyles of [[Music/TheBeatles John, Paul, George, and Ringo]]."
** He calls Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy "[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Parsley, Sage,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad) Rosemary and Thyme]]".
** "[[Film/SunsetBoulevard Getting sniffy about random quips not meeting your comedy standards again, are we, Yahtzee?]]"
** In the credits, he makes a reference to the theme from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD''.
* In the "Top 5 Games of 2014", Yahtzee says "...it’s time to make like ''Series/SesameStreet'' and learn how to count to five!"
* In his review of ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'', Yahtzee (as "Space Commander Yahtzee: Hero of Space") sees a report on "[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Zarniwoop]]."
** "Maybe they're constantly gathering data on who's the best pilot so they can pass the details on to those aliens from ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''."
* Yahtzee calls ''VideoGame/TheOrder1886'' "another fucking cover-based shooter spiritually akin to ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'', except at least the aliens got faster in ''Space Invaders'' as you thinned their ranks."
* In the review for ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': "Gerald is one secret makeout with Franchise/HarryPotter away from being a self-insert fan fiction character."
-->'''Fanfic Writer:''' And that's when the Music/BackstreetBoys came out of the sauna!
** "If a boss was proving hard, I'd just cast the [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi mind-trick]] stun thing for a free hit..."
** "''The Witcher 3'' example is all about showing over telling, which is probably for the best, because whenever anyone tells us anything it's usually in an exaggerated regional British accent that turns even the most dramatic scene into ''Creator/MontyPython Does [[Series/GameOfThrones Westeros]]''."
--->IT IS A DEAD KING\\
IT HAS CEASED TO BE
** "...there was something endearingly blue collar about calling on villagers like a traveling chimney sweep and tracking down the beast with a bit of ''Series/{{CSI}}: [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]]''."
* In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Hatred}}'', Yahtzee says of "Jeffrey Cuddletrousers": "But I don't see how anyone can take him seriously long enough to be disturbed, with his [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] voice and his 'Cousin Itt from Series/TheAddamsFamily' hair."
** "...interpreting the [monochrome] visuals can sometimes be like trying to read a ''ComicBook/SinCity'' comic that's been photocopied twelve times."
* In his review for ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}'', Yahtzee mentions the game "where you can't fight and spend half your time crouched in shadows avoiding looking at monsters". One of them is a giant imp wearing the mask of the Scarecrow from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** Also, he makes a few mentions of Creator/AntoineDeSaintExupery and Rene Descartes, along with WebVideo/{{Markiplier}}'s quote "Ah! It's so existential!"
* In the review for ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark: Illumination'', Yahtzee describes the "monsters being vulnerable in light" plot as complicated: "But the enemies constantly respawn and you're not going to be completing the current arbitrary fetch quest standing under a streetlight like a mournful hooker in a gritty musical." Cue Yahtzee dressed as Fantine from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', standing under a streetlight singing "I Dreamed a Dream".
* While reviewing ''VideoGame/TemboTheBadassElephant'' he comes up with the term [[{{Portmanteau}} "presiphant"]], eventually leading to the final CreditsGag "VisualNovel/{{My girlfriend is the presi|dent}}phant."
* The end credits for the ''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'' review state, "Still, check out the game if you're wondering what that bloke from ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'' is doing with his time these days."
** He also describes the experience of the game as "''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Archers The Archers]]'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit Quartermass and the Pit]]''," and then lampshades [[LampshadedTheObscureReference what an obscure reference he's making]].
* The end credits for the ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' review have the lines "[[Creator/HarryBelafonte Come, Mister Tally Man, tally me Cortana]]."
* In ''VideoGame/JustCause3'' he uses: "Wait! This doesn't look like a trigger bomb, (the character has a grenade while clinging to a propane tank) but that looks like (the tank has exploded, sending the character flying) [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy my left leg drifting off into the sunset!]]"
* The end credits of the "Top 5 of 2015" video have the first part that says "[[Music/PaulMcCartney Bland on the Run]]".
* In the review for ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'', Yahtzee says that the Mire of Stench was "not so much" of a good name because "it's kind of redundant and immediately reminds me of that Music/DavidBowie [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} film]]."
* In the review of ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare'', Yahtzee says that the ''Call of Duty'' series "decided to start doing games about modern warfare for a while, but for now the series is like [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} the brooms from]] ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'' that kept doing that because no one told them to stop, and things have reached the inevitable conclusion with [''Infinite Warfare''] suddenly being '''[[RecycledINSPACE IN SPAAAAACE!]]''' like it's a fucking Saturday morning cartoon adaptation" (referring, of course, to ''[[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan's Planet]]'').
** He also says that the lads of ''Infinite Warfare'' "start getting picked off with the laughable regularity of a game of '[[NurseryRhyme This Little Piggy]]'."
** "[[Music/BlondieBand The Man from Mars Who Eats Guitars.]]"
* During Yahtzee's review of ''VideoGame/{{Superhot}}'', he says, "The aesthetic deliberately goes for the retro computer look, so the menus are all in ASCII and there is added scan lines, bloom and curving at the edges to look like it's on a CRT monitor, a style that is just now veering over into being prevalent enough in indie games to start trying my patience." During the time he says it, an Platform/{{Apple II}}I appears in front of him and the screen becomes distorted a bit.
* Speaking of Apple III, in the review for ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeFederationForce'' an Apple III appears to Yahtzee in the cave and says "Mash your hand on this or something."
** "Why must we play as a midget inside a robot suit, and since the missions are spent more or less entirely inside the robot suits, why even ''establish'' that we are actually tiny Rice Krispie Elves, except to make things all the more humiliating?"
** Yahtzee says he should have called this game ''Tangential Metroid Universe Thing Starring the Cast of Film/{{Willow}}''.
** "Still, [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRun that Mario iOS game]] shows that Nintendo has some perception of what consumers want, or at least what they wanted six or seven years ago."
* In the review of ''VideoGame/{{Doom 2016}}'', Yahtzee says that "most of the NPC dialogue sounds like they are trying to do an impression of Dr. Claw from ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''."
* In the review of the [=PlayStation=] VR, Yahtzee says that the PSVR is "a device for lonesome spods to find more lasting escape from a cruel reality"; cue the lonesome guy in a VR under a streetlight singing "[[Music/EricCarmen All by Myself]]".
** Yahtzee complains in his mini-review of ''Windlands'' that merely turning his head in the game "felt like my brain was attached to my eyeballs with partially melted Slinikes."
* In the review for ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'', Yahtzee called the game ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime The Land Before Plots]]''.
** "I mean, where did the creators of ''Series/BreakingBad'' get off telling me I should watch Season 1 before Season 2?"
** "Oh yeah, you can tame animals, which is sort of the compensation for not having guns, 'cause rather than sniping all the guards from a nearby hill, you just deploy a giant bear and throw bees at the survivors. You don’t fuck around in my [[Literature/WinnieThePooh Hundred Acre Wood]]!"
** "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones We'll Have a Gay Old Time]]"
* Yahtzee calls ''VideoGame/DeadRising4'' "[[Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial The Dead Rising Holiday Special]]".
** "Recurring ''Dead Rising'' hero Frank West recurs once again, now sporting a slightly different face and voice and having apparently devoted his life to becoming a faintly desperate tribute to Creator/BruceCampbell's career-making performance in the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films."
** "But you'd get the same experience from pouring 5000 baby chicks into a meat grinder and putting on ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' in the background."
** Yahtzee's reaction to the ending: "[[spoiler:Frank West]] [[Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd dies at the end]]. Yes, that lovable original ''Dead Rising'' protagonist so popular they had to do a version of ''Dead Rising 2'' with him literally patched in to replace the other dude who was even in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' once, which was a little bit weird but nonetheless fun. This game features [[spoiler:his canon death]]. Great! Might as well have hit him with a bus in the end credit to the next ''[[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]''."
* In the review of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'', Yahtzee points out that the policy "if at first you don't succeed, give up and do something else... worked for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', when Creator/{{Capcom}} said to itself, 'Hey, we're shit at writing story and dialogue that always comes across as laughable and slightly camp. Let's just play that up and make the combat not so much like trying to teach the elderly how to dance to [[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]].'"
** "The game stops being scary when it loses ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' vibe and becomes... well, becomes a ''Resident Evil'' game, I suppose. It's not very long, since it takes place almost entirely on the set of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' and everything..."
** "[The Molded] lurch towards you slowly enough that you've got time to lay a trigger bomb in their path, back off to a safe distance, and read another chapter of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''."
* The ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' review contains a brief reference to Website/ThisVeryWiki (at about 0:55). It is appropriately {{meta}}, with a nerdy figure popping up [[FreezeFrameBonus in the background]] to {{lampshade|Hanging}} that this is, indeed, a ShoutOut.
-->'''Yahtzee:''' You know what? Let's forget about examples; [[TakeThat This isn't fucking TV Tropes]]!
* The end credits of the review for ''VideoGame/TheSurge'' say "[[Music/TheProdigy Smack my glitch up.]]"
* Speaking of The Prodigy, in the review of ''Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3'', Yahtzee says "Seems like every single person we shoot is a bald, bearded Russian with angry domestic violence eyes." Said Russian quotes The Prodigy in saying "I'm gonna smack my bitch up."
** "I think his in-game character profile says it best: 'North is a firm believer in America's role as World Police.' ''[file says, "North is a hum de ham de hom de haw"]'' Wait, what?! So our protagonist watched that ''Film/{{Team America|WorldPolice}}'' film, and didn't realize that it was a satire?" ''(TV says, "America, Fuck Yeah")''
* In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', Yahtzee says that "it's deliberately fashioning itself after retro animation, in the style of Max Fleischer or very early Disney, and pulls that off with quite remarkable success!" While he is speaking, the game becomes WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat, with both Fleischer mascot Bimbo and Creator/WaltDisney pop up, and Yahtzee says, "Gawrsh", just like WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}.
* In the review of ''VideoGame/{{Hob}}'' and ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'', the bed that the ZP Hat Kid sleeps in kinda resembles a Franchise/DisneyPrincess bed that has the Anna and Elsa characters from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''.
* Yahtzee says that ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}} 2'' is like ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist: VR Edition''.
** "There are one or two bits where you have to search a cornfield for the exit while being hunted by multiple rednecks that's about as much fun as playing ''VideoGame/PacMan'' blindfolded in a sports bar where the power got cut halfway through the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl."
** "Every time I'm chased into another non-obvious dead end, it's annoying in the same way as losing another round of ''TabletopGame/ConnectFour'' to a hyperactive twelve-year-old with poor sportsmanship."
* Near the end of his review for ''Fortnite: Battle Royale'', Yahtzee justifies reviewing an early access game because "...as a [[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia great YouTube channel]] once said, [[https://youtu.be/H18RUB1cxfI "Fuck you, it's January."]]
* A slide from his ''VideoGame/AgentsOfMayhem'' review included a sign that said, "[[Music/TheKillers I got Seoul, but I'm not a Seouldier.]]"
* In his review of ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', [[spoiler:at the mention of Sayori’s death]] an imp appears, holding a gramophone that plays the song “[[Music/JohnnyCash Hurt]]”. It appears twice with different lyrics.
* In the review of ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'', Yahtzee tells about the combat that is so complicated that "in the end, all you can do is get out the old steak tenderizer and do the Monster Mash."
** He also says that the experience of playing the game is "like having two perfectly good eyeballs and using them to watch ''Destructoid'' videos!"
* In the review for ''[[VideoGame/StarControl Star Control: Origins]]'': "Hesitant as I am to complain in this age of patching it in post, which means it might be fixed after this comes out or the entire game replaced with eighteen hours of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hampsterdance_Song The Hampster]][[WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973 dance]]."
* The final [[TheStinger stinger]] in his review of ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood: Fresh Supply]]'' was [[Music/MyChemicalRomance "Give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough."]]
* In his review for Creator/{{Acclaim}}'s "Hall of Shame", Yahtzee talks about the promotion of ''VideoGame/TurokEvolution'': "Now, one might reasonably say at this point, 'Surely, it wasn't a serious offer to let new parents cash in on their future bullying victims! Surely, these were just shock tactics to grab headlines, the way a graffiti artist just wants attention and doesn't literally want to [[Music/{{NWA}} fuck the police]]! I mean, to be serious, there aren't enough hours in the day.'"
** Acclaim: "[[Music/{{Ludacris}} Scheme, scheme, plot, plot.]]"
** "And you know what? [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Dave Mirra's heart grew three sizes that day.]] ''({{beat}})'' Nah, I'm just kidding; he sued their bollocks off."
* From the end credits for the review of ''VideoGame/RemnantFromTheAshes'':
-->"[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roof_Is_on_Fire The Root, the Root, the Root is on fire!]]"
* In his "Top 5 of 2019", we get this when Yahtzee's complaining about ''VideoGame/WolfensteinYoungblood'':
-->"It's true what they say, isn't it? [[Film/TheDarkKnight You either die]] ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' [[Film/TheDarkKnight or you live long enough to see yourself become the]] ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''."
* In the ''Dreams'' review:
** At one point, ''Dreams'' takes flight and drags Yahztee along with it a la ''Franchise/PeterPan''.
** Yahtzee also claims that "the invention of creativity occurred in 1988 when Creator/RobertZemeckis directed ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''".
** Yahtzee's "swear matrix" has "Calculus" ranked as one of the most generally offensive swear words possible, likely as an allusion to how the American editions of ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' claimed "Belgium" was one of the most offensive swears in the Universe.
** The sarcastic remark about how ''Dreams'' is an "UsefulNotes/{{Objectivis|m}}t utopia" has ''Dreams'' suddenly sprout [[VideoGame/BioShock1 the head of Andrew Ryan]].
** According to Yahtzee, he hasn't logged into ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' "since [[https://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/second-life-millionaire-plagued-with-peckers/ the last time flying penises swarmed over it]] [[Literature/BookOfExodus like a lesser known plague of Egypt]]."
** He then ends the review commenting on how disappointing it can be "...when someone makes twice as much money as you just from drawing nipples on [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Princess]] [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Sally Acorn]]."
* [[invoked]] ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' is depicted as a serious-faced [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]] with a bike horn in his hands, commenting [[MemeticMutation "I am the one who honks."]]
* When he comments on how he views the Hunters from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' as TheScrappy, he depicts them as [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo]].
* Yahtzee starts out the review of ''VideoGame/{{Maneater}}'' half-heartedly singing [[Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates "Uh oh, here she comes. Watch out boys, she'll chew you up!"]]
* The jarring MoodWhiplash of [[VideoGame/SeriousSam "Serious" Sam Stone]] showing sadness over the death of an ally in ''Serious Sam 4'' is compared to "watching [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]] trying to play ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''."
* When describing how VideoGame/{{Hades}} is a [[HandsOffParenting hands-off parent]], Yahtzee remarks that Hades spends most of the game "sitting in his armchair watching ''Series/InspectorMorse''".
* Apparently, ''Remothered: Tormented Fathers'' has the "most awkward fucking title outside of Japanese games and Creator/PhilipKDick novels." He also comments that the protagonist of ''Remothered: Broken Porcelain'' looks like Creator/JodieFoster.
* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' is called both "''Yakuza: [[Music/BobDylan Like a Rolling Stone]]'' and ''Yakuza: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_G6 Like a G6]]''."
* Yahtzee calls ''Immortals: Fenix Rising'' "the faintly sinister cheaply-made knockoff of [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} a Disney film]] hoping to sucker in a few elderly relatives in time for Christmas."
** "...every now and again, [the [=NPCs=] will] comment on your actions like JustForFun/{{Statler and|Waldorf}} [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[Series/TheMuppetShow Waldorf]], and it's like they're auditioning for ''Series/HowIMetYourMother: Classical Antiquity Edition''."
** One critic calls Yahtzee "[[Film/TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert Priscilla, Queen of the Snooty Internet Piss-Grumps]]".
** "...the parry window is roughly the length of an episode of ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff''."
** And at the end of the review, Yahtzee tells Ubisoft, "Do you have anyone left there who knows anything about human emotion?"
--->'''Ubisoft:''' Sure we do! Um... it was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Second_That_Emotion a song by]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Robinson Smokey Robinson]], wasn't it?
* The description of ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls''' HubLevel-based design is compared to "''[[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Mario 64]]'' if Princess Peach [[EyeScream had had her eyes waxed shut]]."
* "''VideoGame/{{Returnal}}'' is a nice chunk of good old hard sci fi that plays like a [[{{Roguelike}} Rogue-lite]] version of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' by way of the movie ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''."
* "...speaking of things that never get old, ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' is about children getting murdered by pizza restaurant animatronics that go mad when night falls. [[MissingStepsPlan Step 2: question mark.]] [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Step 3: profit.]]"
* TheStinger of the ''VideoGame/Hitman3'' review is [[Music/JohnnyCash "Shot a man in Reno just to get the achievement"]].
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