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Apparently multiple authors independently noticed the same detail and decided to reference it in their own story. The fact that so many authors possess such a thorough knowledge of the original story goes to show just how influential the subject of the Shout Out is.

Stock Shout Outs differ from Stock Parodies in two ways: They aren't played for laughs (beyond the inherent in-joke-esque nature of the common reference point) and they're usually blink-and-you'll-miss-it short.

Some are so famous that they've become tropes themselves.

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Examples

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Anime and Manga

The giant sloped freight elevator from AKIRA
Mazinger Z gave us the Super Alloy Z and the Rocket Punch. They pop up frequently, especially the second, which has quickly became THE most famous and most ubiquitous Super Robot weapon, showing up in all kind of works. Whenever a character screams "Roketto Panchi!" it is directly referencing the Trope Namer.
- Since Spaniards Love Mazinger-Z, the Spanish Dub Name Change variant ("�Pu�os Fuera!", meaning "Fists Out!") has become so omnipresent that it has been used in movie titles. And when a foreign work features a Rocket Punch, whatever attack name that the character screams is automatically replaced by "�Pu�os Fuera!" more often than not.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Amuro's sentence "You slapped me! Not even my father slaps me!" pops up in all kind of places, including videogames (the Super Robot Wars franchise) or completely unrelated shows like Kotetsu Jeeg.

Comicbooks

"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." from the Hulk.
"It's a bird! It's a plane!" from Superman. Also, "This looks like a job for..."
- Various Superman pastiches; changing costumes in a phone booth, working as a reporter, disguising yourself with only glasses...
For Batman, the Bat-Signal, Batcave, and the addition of the "Bat-" prefix are all referenced and parodied constantly.
Spider-Man's "My Spider-Senses are tingling" line, sometimes with the "Spider-" part replaced with a more appropriate prefix, sometimes not.
- "With great power comes great responsibility."

Film

The entire "Luke, I Am Your Father" scene in Star Wars. Ironically, most shout outs to this will get the line wrong
"Wax on, wax off", from The Karate Kid, although it's sometimes parodied with the trainer simply needing those things done.
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning" and "The horror... the horror..." from Apocalypse Now. The latter line originates in the book, Heart of Darkness.
"Oh Captain, My Captain!", along with standing on a desk — from Dead Poets Society, and therefore often used with Save Our Students plots.
- Itself a reference to the Walt Whitman poem of the same name, which is itself a quotation from Moby-Dick.
The "One of Us" chant from Freaks
"Preciousssssss" or "my Precioussssss". Lord of the Rings
"That's the second-[adjective]-est [noun] I've ever seen!" from Get Smart
Planet of the Apes:
- The Statue of Liberty half-buried or submerged
- The line "You maniacs! You blew it up!"
- Also the "damn dirty ape" line should be expected any time there's an antagonism with a primate.
"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" from Taxi Driver
The "King of the World" stance from Titanic.
The Silence of the Lambs: "Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?"
1138: George Lucas' student film, later made a full motion picture, THX 1138.
- Even referenced in the Disney Theme Parks in Star Tours
2001: A Space Odyssey
- The monolith, and the use of "Also Sprach Zarathustra".
- "Open the pod-bay doors, HAL." Often paired with:
- "I'm afraid I can't do that." or the misquote, "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that" or "I'm afraid I can't let you do that" (both are used).
- Any use of "The Blue Danube" to images in space.
"STELLLLLLLLLLLAAAA!!!!!!" from A Streetcar Named Desire
"I'll get you, my pretty! And Your Little Dog Too!", from The Wizard of Oz
"I'll be back." From the films of Arnold Schwarzenegger, including, but not limited to, the Terminator series.
"That'll do, X*
usually, this is "pig"
. That'll do," from Babe.
"I'm walkin' here!", from Midnight Cowboy
The Babel Building, from Metropolis
"Klaatu Barada Nikto!" From The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951.
"See you next Wednesday": to director John Landis' Creator Thumbprint.
- This one was actually inverted once. See here. JMS, creator of Babylon 5, used the phrase in reference to the series being aired on Wednesdays and would have changed it if he knew it could be seen as a John Landis reference.
"Tannh�user Gate", usually as a space battle in Science Fiction. From Blade Runner. Spelling may vary. Or the whole speech may be used:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannh�user Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [pause] Time to die.
"Feed Me!" Or "Feed me, Seymour!", delivered in a Large Ham fashion, usually in a voice as deep as the speaker can manage; from Little Shop Of Horrors
Crocodile Dundee's infamous "That's not a knife" exchange.
"Be afraid. Be very afraid." From the 1986 remake of The Fly.
- While we're on the subject of David Cronenberg movies, the infamous exploding head scene from Scanners.
The iconic shot of Cesare carrying a sleeping Jane over the rooftops in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Orlok's shadow ascending a staircase in Nosferatu. To the point where, when they made a movie that fictionalized the filming of Nosferatu, they literally called it Shadow of the Vampire.

Music

The phrase "Welcome to the Jungle" pops out everywhere.
The first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
- Ode to Joy, from the Ninth Symphony.
Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse".

Literature

Catch Twenty Two, from the novel of the same name.
"He who controls the Spice controls the universe!" from Dune
"Yer a wizard, Harry", from Harry Potter.
Forty Two: Most famous as the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though it occurs over and over again in Lewis Carroll's works.
"Nevermore." Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Expect it wherever or whenever anything corvid-related appears.
Room 101 from 1984
Sherlock Holmes in general, but in particular lines like "elementary, my dear Watson", "the game's afoot", and "when you've ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, [however improbable,] must be the truth".

Live-Action TV

23: Used in a similar way, often in reference to its appearance in conspiracy theories (There even was a whole movie about that.)
4 8 15 16 23 42: The LOST numbers, which notably include two numbers listed separately above.
"Beam me up, Scotty", of course, is a misquote, but it serves as one of these nonetheless. The actual beaming up sequence is also an example, as are phasers with the settings "stun" and "kill".
The entire opening conversation to The Prisoner.
- The piped jacket worn by the title character.
- The monstrous weather balloon Rover.
- The phrase "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for the self."
- "Be seeing you."
Twin Peaks
- "Who killed Laura Palmer?"
- The iconic 'waiting room dream' that Agent Cooper has
- "Damn good coffee!"
- "The owls are not what they seem."

Theatre

The Major General Song, from The Pirates Of Penzance; also a favorite stock parody
Pirate Jenny, from the song by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
Also see Shout Out to Shakespeare

Video Games

"I used to be a ____ like you, then I took an arrow in the knee," from The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim. As of 2012 it's received nods from NCIS and Borderlands 2, among others. It's become a Discredited Meme quite quickly.
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike", from Colossal Cave.
Super Mario Bros brought us the denial of victory in "Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" Usually only the second sentence gets used, and often as "Your Princess Is in Another Castle."
At least in Mass Effect Fan Fiction, having one of Miranda Lawson's aliases be named Sarah Walker. This is because Miranda's character is heavily based off of hers and she's voiced by Sarah's actor Yvonne Strahovski.
Zero Wing references invariably use CATS' opening spiel: "All your ____ are belong to us," et cetera.

Western Animation

The children dancing during A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Many from Scooby-Doo, but the one that stands out is "I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids." Beat. "And your dog, too." "Dog" is replaced with the appropriate qualifier.
- Or "And that stupid dog."

Uncategorized

A113: A reference to the California Institute for the Arts, specifically the classroom for first-year graphic design. This one is common in Pixar films (witness "special order A113" in WALL-E), but Cal Arts grad and Pixar stalwart Brad Bird also included references in Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol.

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