Shout Out / Animated Films

This page lists shout outs seen in Animated Films. Any movie beginning with "A..." or "The..." has been placed under the letter of the next word in the title. Any sequels are under the title of the original.

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Films with their own subpages:

• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Big Hero 6
• Frozen
• The Incredibles
• The Iron Giant
• Klaus (2019)
• The LEGO Movie
  • The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
• The Magic Roundabout (2005) (and Doogal)
• Monsters vs. Aliens
• Madagascar
  • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
• Pixar
• The Princess and the Frog
• Rango
• Shark Tale
• Shrek
  • Shrek 2
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• The Smurfs
• Tangled
• Wreck-It Ralph
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Zootopia

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Other Films:

A

• Aladdin:
  • An early movie example has a chase scene end with Aladdin's pursuers falling into a pile of manure. Particularly interesting when you consider the initial inspiration for Aladdin's design.
  • The Beast makes an appearance in the Sultan's tower of toy animals.
  • When the Genie is looking for recipes to make a prince, the Alaskan King Crab produces Sebastian. There's even a snatch of "Under the Sea" included in the soundtrack.
  • Damn near everything Genie says or does.^note His transformations/impressions include a nightclub entertainer, a Scotsman, a Scottish terrier, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ed Sullivan, a slot machine, Groucho Marx, a boxing trainer, a firework, a French maître d', a roast turkey, a pink rabbit, a dragon, a certificate, William F. Buckley, a Camp Gay pair of giant lips, a zombie which strongly resembles Peter Lorre, Robert De Niro, a flight attendant, Carol Channing, a sheep, a hammock, a muscle man, Pinocchio, a magician, a Frenchman in a beret and striped shirt, a chef, Gaius Julius Caesar, Arsenio Hall, a tailor, a game-show host (changed to a cricket commentator for release in India), a drum major, Walter Brennan, a little boy, a fat man, TV parade hosts, a tiger, a goat, a harem girl, Ethel Merman, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson, a professor, a talking lampshade, a bee, a submarine, a one-man band, a script prompter, a ventriloquist, a demon resembling Chernabog, Jafar, cheerleaders, a baseball pitcher, a tourist with a Goofy hat, and the moon.
  • During the song "A Whole New World", while Aladdin and Jasmine are flying on the Magic Carpet, they pass by a flock of storks in front of a full moon.
  • The plot elements of an ex-thief, who later becomes a king, saving a princess named Jasmine/Yasmina , from a exceptionally powerful wizard who turns himself into a gigantic snake for the climax, in an "Arabian Nights" Days setting is strikingly similar to the Conan the Barbarian story The People of the Black Circle.
  • Supposedly, Aladdin's line "All this for a loaf of bread?" is a nod to Les Misérables, in which the entire story starts because Valjean stole a loaf of bread.
  • Those elephants during "Friend Like Me" looked an awful lot like heffalumps, and danced an awful lot like those elephants from a drunken dream sequence...
  • The Julius Caesar reference mentioned above.
  • During "Friend Like Me", Genie dancing with the giant hands is a tribute to Mickey Mouse in Thru the Mirror and his dance with a giant pair of gloves.
  • The character of Abu is based on a character of the same name in The Thief of Bagdad (1940). The original was not a monkey but is still fairly blatantly the inspiration for Aladdin's Abu.
  • One to The Black Cauldron, of all things: Aladdin admirably calls Abu "you hairy little thief" when he sees his companion has swiped the lamp from Jafar before they became trapped in the Cave of Wonders. Taran said the same thing, though less kindly, to Gurgi because of his obsession with taking the apple Taran has.
• Aladdin and the King of Thieves had a Running Gag of Genie transforming into several other Disney characters, including the White Rabbit, Pocahontas, Pumbaa, and Mickey Mouse. In addition, while he's helping Jasmine pick a dress, one of the dresses is Snow White's, and several other princesses' and Jessica Rabbit's dresses all appear on cardboard photo-stand style cutouts.
• In All Creatures Big and Small, the griffins build an unstable stone bridge in hopes that Finny and his gang will walk over it and fall, allowing the griffins to catch them for their dinner. When the stone bridge does fall apart, the stones end up falling on one of the griffins in the same style as Tetris blocks. When the stones form a horizontal line, it disappears, just like in Tetris. There's even a knockoff version of the game's iconic theme that plays during this scene!

B

• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm:
  • Bruce taking out a motorcyclist on foot is a direct reference to AKIRA.
  • When Batman is washed down the sewer near the end of the movie, the sequence of shots is the same as Lupin being washed down an aqueduct in The Castle of Cagliostro.
  • Batman's escape from the police through a construction zone is similar to a scene with a condemned building in Batman: Year One. Per Word of God, it was lifted from the similar scene in RoboCop (1987).
  • Joker tries to escape on a jet pack similar to the one James Bond used in the beginning of Thunderball
  • The end scene is almost identical to that of the 1989 Batman: Batman standing on a rooftop, looking at the Bat-signal. It's just that both are never fully in frame at one time.
  • Alfred's line about vengeance is very similar to Friedrich Nietzsche's quote about becoming that which you fight against.
  • The lyrics of the chorus singing the Batman theme are the production crew backward. It's elaborated on in Ominous Latin Chanting.
• Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman:
  • The original Batwoman, Kathy Kane, is referenced by the identity of one of the women potentially behind the mask: Kathy Duquesne.
  • Robin (out of costume) is briefly seen reading a comic book titled "Mutant Meta-Men".
• BIONICLE:
  • BIONICLES 3: Web of Shadows as a whole is a shout-out to the Star Wars films. Vakama's Face–Heel Turn is a reference to Anakin's fall to the Dark Side, complete with him ravaging the heroes' temple, the music playing during his duel with Matau deliberately mimics the score of Luke fighting with Darth Vader from Return of the Jedi, and the following scene, where Matau's forced to hang above a chasm with Vakama standing over him is a clear homage to the similar, iconic scene from The Empire Strikes Back, only here, Vakama actually jumps after Matau to save him.
  • According to the directors' commentary, the choppy CGI animation used for the villains in some scenes of the first movie, Mask of Light, was a deliberate reference to Ray Harryhausen's Stop Motion works.
• Bolt:
  • The New York pigeons bear more than a passing resemblance to the Goodfeathers from Animaniacs (who were in turn a Shout-Out to Goodfellas). Also:
  Hollywood Pigeon: We got a nibble! Now don't freak out, that's how we blew it with Nemo.
  • This connection to Animaniacs reinforces the sense that Mittens and Bolt resemble Rita and Runt.
  • The pound dogs all went "Ball? Ball? Ball?" in a scene similar to another scene in Finding Nemo.
  • Super Rhino (a short on the DVD) has Rhino doing a Hannah Montana concert; let's not forget who voices Penny.
  • Also, Penny's slimy manager looks a lot like Glenn Beck.
  • It's been acknowledged that Penny is named after the Penny from Inspector Gadget.
  • On TV in the background at one point, one can hear, "Big money, no Whammies, no Whammies!"
  • During the scene where Bolt dangles Mittens from the overhead bridge over the highway, there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it glimpse of a bus with the number "2525" on its roof.
• The Book of Life:
  • Several of the songs the mariachi band sings while Manolo is trying to court Maria. Also, at crowd shot of Mexico at the beginning of the movie, you can spot Manny and Frida having fun off to the side.
  • The town is named San Angel. Likely after Televisa San Angel, the largest media company in Mexico.
  • Jorge Sanchez is pretty much a dead ringer for Don Quixote.
  • One of the Sanchez ancestors is named Carmelo. Ironically, Carmelo is about a son who wants to be a bullfighter and a father who warns against him bullfighting.
  • In the climax, the town Priest puts on a luchador mask and delivers wrestling attacks to the bandits. The mask's design and the fact he's a Priest call to mind Fray Tormenta, the legendary wrestling Priest and Folk Hero.
  • Maria's last name is Posada, the same as famous Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada, whose work "La Calavera Catrina" inspired La Muerte's look.
  • A Fastball Special bucket brigade up a tower? Hmm...
  • Especially one made of dead ancestors...
• The Boss Baby:
  • In the second trailer, Boss Baby says that talking candlesticks will be included if the audience wants them.
  • Boss Baby pulls out a Voltron action figure. In fact, Dreamworks now owns the Voltron franchise owner Classic Media and currently produces the critically-acclaimed reboot Voltron: Legendary Defender.
  • Tim's alarm clock resembles Gandalf and even says "...HE SHALL NOT PAAAASS!" and "Fly, you fools!"
  • The scene with Puppy Co.'s "top secret" plans is a riff of the opening scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, while the trap itself is one big replica of the Mouse Trap board game.
  • Upon spotting a crowd of Elvis impersonators at the airport, Tim exclaims "Elvis is everywhere!"
  • The line "Cookies are for closers!" spoofs one of Alec Baldwin's best known lines from Glengarry Glen Ross.
  • At one point, Boss Baby reads a Mr. Magoo comic book, another Classic Media property.
  • Tim's fantasies are done in a style mimicking Maurice Noble's designs for Chuck Jones' Ralph Phillips cartoons (who, like Tim, is a Mr. Imagination). Some scenes, like Tim fighting a shark or being in a prison cell when grounded, are direct homages.
  • Francis' Giant Mook disguises himself as Mary Poppins when masquerading as a nanny. Francis even says he's "practically perfect in every way." The Boss Baby later refers to him as "Scary Poppins."
  • The movie was released in Brazil under the name O Poderoso Chefinho ("The Powerful Little Boss", in Portuguese), a shout-out to The Godfather, which is known there as O Poderoso Chefão ("The Powerful Big Boss").
  • When Tim tells the Boss Baby that he's stolen everything he loves, even the special song, "Blackbird," that his parents wrote for him, Boss baby wisecracks "Your parents are Lennon and McCartney?" Later, when it's revealed that Francis Francis and Super Colossal Big Fat Boss Baby are one and the same, Tim asks "Whoa... he is him? And him is you?" possibly a reference to the opening of "I Am the Walrus" - "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
  • One of the scenes in the Creative Closing Credits sequence is a direct homage to the "to the Batcave" from Batman (1966).
• A Bug's Life:
  • An outtake features the main character Flik shouting "to infinity, and beyond!"
  • That's the same trailer with the "Pizza Planet" truck seen in Monsters, Inc. that is also in A Bug's Life.
  • The credits also featured an outtake of some of the characters acting as extras in Toy Story 2.

C

• Cats Don't Dance contains numerous references to the films Singin' in the Rain and Sunset Boulevard, including Danny's wardrobe on arrival; Darla's Battle Butler, Max, and the way Darla is foiled.
• Coraline:
  • To The Nightmare Before Christmas: The pumpkins in the other mother's garden look like the Mayor of Halloweentown, and the tallest of the three Ghost Children resembles Shock. The cat is the same sort of black, scrawny specimen seen in Halloweentown. A bowl that Other Mother uses resembles Jack Skellington. Similarly, when Wybie has his facemask/helmet on, he bears a strong resemblance to Barrel. There also might be one to Pixar, as one of the Shakespeare players has a baby in a backpack that looks a lot like Jack-Jack.
  • The ball that the rats were playing with was the one from Luxo Jr.
  • The movers at the beginning were the "Ranft Bros.", caricatured after Jerome Ranft and the late Joe Ranft, who worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas and several Pixar films.
  • Also, at one point the other mother cracks an egg yolk into a bowl that yields The Nightmare Before Christmas lead character Jack Skellington's image.
  • The other father's slippers look an awful lot like Monkeybone.
  • The piano in the other study has the gold word "Tadahiro" on it. Tadahiro Uesugi was a concept artist whom Henry Selick adored.
  • Wybie shares the same last name of a runaway black child named Jessie Lovat in American Gods.
  • When the other world is getting destroyed, it just white with some black outlined objects. It very similar to Super Paper Mario.
  • Much of Other Father's creepy Dialogue when Other Mother isn't around seems similar to Psycho.

E

• Epic (2013) :
  • Professor Bomba's phone uses Skynet.
  • The Taxi Cab at the beginning comes from a Taxi service called Copperbottom.
  • And Ronin's helmet is a replica of Date Masamune's.

F

• Frankenweenie:
  • For starters, Victor Frankenstein, which is the name of the scientist who created the infamous monster.
  • Sparky pre-transformation looks very similar to another Burton canine.
  • Elsa is named after Elsa Lanchester, who played the title role in Bride of Frankenstein (that she is basically Lydia Deetz just adds to the fun). Her poodle Persephone gets her very own Bride of Frankenstein beehive hairdo, compliments of a static charge from Sparky.
  • Mayor Burgermeister is named after Burgermeister Meisterburger of Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town fame.
  • Nassor and his mummy hamster are a reference to Boris Karloff's role in The Mummy (1932). Nassor's flat hair is also a reference to Frankenstein's Monster, a role that Karloff famously played. Nassor getting wrapped up in streamers and then falling into a matryoshka-shaped cabinet riffs on Karloff's being mummified alive in the 1932 film.
  • Similarly, Edgar is modeled on Fritz and Ygor, two characters fulfilling the same purpose from the Karloff Frankenstein movies. Though he looks more like the one from Young Frankenstein.
  • The mutated Sea-Monkeys tiny Fish People, probably a reference to Creature from the Black Lagoon, given the movies penchant for Universal monster movies.
  • The goldfish is pretty much a straight-up shout-out to The Invisible Man (1933), right up to it starting to go mad before disappearing altogether.
  • Elsa's last name is "van Helsing".
  • Toshiaki's giant turtle monster looks like a cross between Gamera and Godzilla. Of course, it's also named Shelley.
    • Shelley's death by being electrocuted on an amusement park ride is a reference to the ending of The Beast From 20000 Fathoms
  • And the Mr. Whiskers/bat hybrid monster is notably vampire-like, though its means of creation mirrors The Fly (1958).
  • Edgar's reanimated rat becomes bipedal, sprouts loads of fangs, and attacks in the manner of a movie werewolf.
  • The angry mob and burning windmill are oft (oft) repeated homages to the 1931 Frankenstein.
  • Mr. Rzykruski's look is based on horror veteran Vincent Price.
  • Mr. Whiskers's transformation sequence is right out of An American Werewolf in London.
  • Man hiding in a portable toilet to escape giant reptilian creature. This time thankfully the man doesn't get eaten.
  • Victor's parents hide into a phone booth which is stormed by the sea monkeys. The scene is reminiscent of the bird attacks in The Birds.
  • Bambi Meets Godzilla: the Colossus versus Shelley scene. Later, the movie theater sign shows Bambi and Godzilla films as now playing.
    • Nassor's and Toshiaki's pets battling may also be a reference to Mons battling. Nassor even yells, "Go, Colossus!" before setting him down.
  • Sparky gets run over by a car the first time he dies in the film when he tries to get a baseball and return it to Victor. The same thing happens to Momo in Magical Princess Minky Momo; the only differences were that Sparky was actually at the baseball game instead of being near the game like Momo was, he decided to get the ball by himself instead of being asked to get the ball, and he wasn't distracted by something else before getting run over.

G

• The Great Mouse Detective:
  • The mice come out of part of the floor moulding that looks exactly like the one the Cinderella mice use in the scene where they steal the beads.
  • In the toy shop, there's a clockwork toy elephant that looks like Dumbo.
  • Basil's own name may be a Shout-Out to Basil Rathbone, best known for his many portrayals of Sherlock Holmes.

H

• In Heavy Metal 2000, when the heroine and her sidekick are chasing the Big Bad through a space station, an advertisement can be seen for the autobiography of Julie Strain, the heroine's voice actress.
• Hercules:
  • One of the Muses' sculpture incarnations during "I Won't Say (I'm In Love)" should look very familiar to fans of the Haunted Mansion ride at the Disney Theme Parks.
  • Hades, just before the fight between Hercules and the Hydra: "Let's get ready to RUMBLE!"
  • And Hades again:
    "Zeusy, I'm hoooooome!"
    • Followed by Hades again:
      "You are correct, sir!"
  • The Hydra looks like Mohawk the Gremlin from Gremlins 2: The New Batch. And the way Hercules slides down into a spiral of one of the Hydra's necks is reminiscent of The Jungle Book where Mowgli slides down into a spiral of Kaa's coils.
  • The Muses themselves are very similar to Alan Menken's other famous Greek Chorus.
  • Don't forget the lion skin Hercules wears in one scene- it's Scar! Quite possibly to the specific line Zazu says to Mufasa. "He'd make a very handsome throw rug."
  • And the Mr. Miyagi-esque bit of the training montage.
  • The maiden in the constellation getting her skirt blown upwards.
  • There is a sign that says "Over 5,000,000,000 and 1 served", a nod to the McDonald's Corporation.
  • Herc's origin story bears a striking similarity to the backstory of Superman.
  • The female pegasus that Pain and Panic disguise themselves as to lure Pegasus away resembles a My Little Pony, right down to having a symbol (in this case a heart) on its flank.
• Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen: When Trick and Treat are holding a Battle of the Bands to decide what song is better for Rusty, the songs are judged upon by the turkey, the Easter Bunny and Cupid in the manner of American Idol.
• Home (2015):
  • When the Slushious blasts away from the gas station, it leaves a license plate spinning on its corner a la Back to the Future.
  • The five-note vocalized intro to "Feel The Light" is reminiscent of the five-tone musical phrase used by the UFO in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
  • Doubling as an Actor Allusion, there is a gag with Oh playing around with the seat controls for the car.
• Hoodwinked! does this a couple times. One that really stands out is when Twitchy picks up a stick of dynamite and reads off "dee-nah-mee-tay? Must be Italian."
• Horton Hears a Who! (2008) has numerous references to Dr. Seuss's works.
  • One of the portraits of the previous Whoville mayors is a Who-caricature of Seuss himself.
  • If you look closely, you can see a Who that bears resemblance to The Cat in the Hat, but he is yellow with a blue striped hat. He even lifts his hat up to reveal a smaller cat underneath.
  • Rudy mentions an imaginary friend in his "world" named Thidwick, a nod to Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose.
• Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, while helping to fight off Frollo's soldiers, sends a multitude of pigeons to attack the soldiers in a small hommage to The Birds, all while she says in an evil voice "Fly, my pretties! Fly! Fly! Ah-hahaha!" Bonus points for the small section of Wizard of Oz music stuck into the score.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame also includes some shout-outs to other Disney films, including someone who's costumed as a horse with two rear ends. You can also see Belle and Pumbaa in the streets of Paris in the opening scene, the latter having an unfortunate Death by Cameo as a roasted pig.

L

• The Lion King (1994):
  • A Shout-Out to In the Heat of the Night:
    Pumbaa: THEY CALL ME MR. PIG!
  • There's a more subtle one as well: Timon riding Pumbaa out of a desert mirage in a manner very reminiscent of Don Quixote.
  • The method Scar uses to assassinate Mufasa is identical to that which Mowgli used to kill Shere Khan in The Jungle Book.
  • All the visual Shout Outs to Kimba the White Lion, including how Scar, Rafiki and Zazu are Expies of some of Kimba's cast with their own unique attributes. As Disney stubbornly states that they're mere coincidences, there's a very large segment of Kimba fans that scream Lion King ripped off Kimba, despite Kimba being more like a more idealistic Animal Farm in the African jungle and having greedy humans as a main antagonist, while The Lion King is Hamlet with lions and completely lacks any human presence.

M

• Mulan:
  • The families Chi-Fu calls to claim their conscription notices are the names of Disney animators, Mulan's alter-ego is named after Sai Ping Lok, another Disney Studios who did background work and research for the movie.
  • "Who are you?" "Your worst nightmare."
  • The doll the Huns use to find the village, and again when the Imperial Army finds the razed remains of said village, is the same as a doll found in similar circumstances in Nausicaa.
  • This line when Mushu is waking up Mulan:
    Mushu: Now let's see your war face.
  • Two of the ancestors look remarkably like the American Gothic Couple.

N

• In The Nightmare Before Christmas, the parts from Oogie Boogie's Song where he responds to being asked what he's going to do with "I'm going to do the best I can" and when there's a fade to black and scene change by zooming in on the inside of his mouth are lifted almost directly from the Betty Boop short The Old Man of the Mountain.

O

• Onward:
  • Barley's tabletop game is heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons. In fact, a couple of artifacts and creatures from D&D are featured in the film, and Wizards of the Coast receives thanks in the end credits. Twice.
  • The restaurant Ian goes to in the beginning is called Burger Shire, and it's serving second breakfast.
  • Barley keeps a road sign in Guinevere that says "You shall not pass."
  • The stereo in Barley's van is from the brand LOR.
  • The gag with Wilden's fake body above his legs and the overall appearance of it general, along with certain other elements, are an obvious take on the film Weekend at Bernie's. So much so that even a number of reviews of the film made reference to this.

P

• Penguins of Madagascar:
  • During the climax, the four heroes go into battle stance while the camera pans around each of them, similar to a previous blockbuster. Lampshaded by this exchange:
    Kowalski: Sir, how long do we stand here like this?
    Skipper: Until we reach maximum coolness.
  • The sheep that the North Wind first thought was Dave is from the Dragons franchise.
  • Using knock-out gas on the guards at Fort Knox in the beginning should remind James Bond fans of Goldfinger.
  • In the finale, with the possibility that reversing Dave's ray will kill him, Private's butt hand places its palm on the glass which Skipper returns with his flipper, imitating the death scene from Star Trek's Wrath of Khan/Into Darkness .
  • You maniac! You blew him up!
  • Every time Dave instructs his minions by name, it is a reference to a famous Hollywood actor.
• In Pinocchio, the exterior of the pool hall on Pleasure Island is a giant eight-ball and cue stick, a nod to the Trylon and Perisphere of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
• Planes: To two legendary United States fighter groups.
  • Skipper's squadron, VF-17, aka "The Jolly Wrenches", is directly based on the real VF-17 squadron (Now VFA-103), "The Jolly Rogers".
  • Judge Davis is explicitly mentioned to be a "Red Tail" P-51 Mustang, which makes him a member of the 332nd Fighter Group, better known as the Tuskegee Airmen, one of whom was Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a pilot who ultimately became a United States Air Force General.
  • Another is to Top Gun, when the two Navy jets do a flyby of the Flysenhower, disturbing the Air Boss's coffee. Made more of a shoutout by the identity of the actors voicing the two jets.
  • In Skipper's World War II flashback, his squadron is using the callsign "Jigsaw," a reference to the old John Wayne movie Flying Leathernecks.
• Planet 51 takes place on a distant world, where the equivalent of dogs are animated, short-legged, altogether cuddlier versions of a certain Xenomorph species made popular by the Alien franchise.

S

• Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie: One of the wrecked starships on the island where Sonic and Tails live is the USS Enterprise.
• Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back: Ham does an impression of Steve Irwin when sneaking into Mission Control.
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water:
  • The first poster◊ for the movie is an obvious parody of old adverts for Coppertone sunscreen.
  • The second poster◊ is a parody of The Avengers, using the characters' superhero alter-egos.
  • The apocalyptic Bikini Bottom is an extensive parody of Mad Max. This is fairly timely, considering that Mad Max: Fury Road came out a few months later.
  • One recurring background fish wears a blue shirt with shoulderpads, looking somewhat like Kenshiro.
  • Bubbles the dolphin is a parody of Uatu the Watcher from the Marvel Universe.
  • The firecracker popsicle twins in SpongeBob's dream are clearly a parody of The Shining.
  • Mr. Krabs and Plankton become Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, respectively.
  • Three poster ads are parodies of Jurassic World, Terminator Genisys, and Fifty Shades of Grey.
  • The visuals during SpongeBob and Plankton's time traveling are inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • The ending is set up very much like an Epic Rap Battle of History.
  • Mr. Krabs/Sir Pinch-A-Lot launching one of his mechanical claws at Burger Beard and trapping him is similar to how Long Feng from Avatar: The Last Airbender fights.
  • The scene where Burger Beard looks in his mirror at SpongeBob and his friends charging at him, the mirror reading "OBJECTS APPEARING CLOSER THAN YOU THINK" is similar to the Tyrannosaurus rex chasing a Jurassic Park jeep.

T

• Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats:
  • Amy Vandergelt is believed to be an orphan, and frequently sings short songs about "tomorrow."
  • Top Cat is profiled on Lifestyles of the Rich and Furry with host Lester Pester.
• Toy Story. The shark doll puts on Sheriff Woody's hat and says "Look, I'm Woody! Howdy, howdy, howdy!" This is a reference to an old The Far Side strip (1980-1984) which has a vulture that puts on a cowboy's clothing and says "I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!"
• The Transformers: The Movie: One scene has Grimlock asking Kup to "tell Grimlock about petro-rabbits!", a clear reference to the classic Of Mice and Men.
• Treasure Planet: Doppler makes a reference to an oft used line by Dr. McCoy in Star Trek: The Original Series:
  "Dangit Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean I am a doctor, I have a doctorate, but you can't do anything with a doctorate!"

According to the director's commentary, after Bones collapsed they wanted Doppler to say "He's Dead, Jim". The Powers that be said no.

W

• The War to End All Wars – The Movie: The museum warehouse where King Albert's letter finally ends up is stacked high with boxes in a clear reference to the closing scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • Judge Doom yells "I'm melting!" as he dissolves into a pool of Dip just like the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz.
  • There are dozens of these to Golden Age cartoons, some so brief you need to freeze frame the film to catch them all.
  • One Shout-Out not related to cartoons: Valiant uses The Maltese Falcon as a hatrack.
  • When the cable car pulls up at the studios ten minutes in, the prominent destination at the top reads "SUNSET BLVD", another Film Noir.
  • "Well, say hello... Harvey!"
  • During the car chase between the heroes and the weasels, the weasel driving sneers "I'm gonna ram 'im!"... then, when the attempted target of their vehicular assault dodges, he and his mooks scream as they hurtle towards a crash. Just like the scene with Biff chasing a skateboard-riding Marty in Back to the Future.

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