Shout Out / Daily Lives of High School Boys

While there're already quite a few examples of Shout-Out in Daily Lives of High School Boys' original anime, the Cantonese Gag Dub has even more by integrating local references and memes, following their dub for Hayate the Combat Butler. Examples of the two are listed separately.

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Examples from the original anime

• High School Boys and After School: Aside from shouting out and spoofing the cliché of eating a piece of toast while running late for school, the first skit of the show also showcases Zaku painted in Gundam colors destroying everything in the city.
• High School Boys and Skirts: Yoshitake transmutes a pair of panties. He even mentions Equivalent Exchange.
• The Daily Life of a Lady: The titular Lady Yukana looks pretty much like Louise de la Valliere with the lifestyle of Nagi Sanzen'in^note Except she's not voiced by Rie Kugimiya — the voice actress of both girls — but by Madoka Yonezawa, of K-On!'s Ui Hirasawa fame, and is served by three men who look like Chili, Cilan, and Cress.
• Yonpiece appeared to be Tadakuni's favorite manga.
• High School Girls are Funky — Resentment: Yanagin noted that the little band of theirs is not good enough to go to London.
• High School Boys and Indoor Adventure: This is basically a Real Life Dragon Quest Roleplay. One role Hidenori played is Depp.
• High School Boys and Dropkicks: Hidenori gets a drop kick from Emi while screaming Tiro Finale! — a nod to her voice actress's role as Mami Tomoe, who originally uttered the line.
• High School Girls are Funky — Women Who Left a Scar: Karasawa asked Yanagin to allow herself to get a dose of his Kinniku Buster as payback for beating him up back in Resentment.
• The figure Hidenori wanted to get in High School Boys and Store Employees looks suspiciously like Madoka Kaname in her Magical Girl form.
  • The same skit featured Ponyo Ponyo and Kikken playing in the background
• The trailer at the end of episode 12 is a jab at K-On! again, calling back what happened in Resentment.

Examples pertaining to the Cantonese dub

General

• In multiple places people referred to "Makoto, scum of the earth." This is the epithet for School Days' Makoto Itou among anime watchers in Chinese-speaking regions.
• In many places "Has he lost his mind?" was replaced with "Has he got shit in his brains?", which is the local translation of Light's last words and is memetic on its own.

Episode 1

• Yoshitake complained he's not Gundam. This is because the Japanese seiyuu Kenichi Suzumura has played Shin Asuka in multple works of the franchise.
• High School Boys and After School:
  • When Yoshitake started played "the female classmate," Tadakuni shouted, "Case reconstruction? This isn't Police Magazine!^note Police Magazine (Gíngseun) is a HK Police PR show that is aired in airtime the government mandatory purchases from TV stations. The show, among others, shows a lot of dramatized reconstructions of crimes.
  • After the failure of Tadakuni's first attempt, Hidenori commented "the Four Kings of Dynamic Entry are everywhere!"
  • After Tadakuni's second failure, Hidenori commented "now it's messier than Rantaro!" ^note Ran in "Rantaro" means "chatoic."
  • When Tadakuni pulls Yoshitake out of his room, he first said "Do not fear; only believe!" ^note The prevalent Chinese translation CUV has this line closer to "Don't ask, just believe!"
• High School Boys and Skirts
  • Tadakuni's comment about Yoshitake's "Equivalent Exchange": "If you want to so equivalent whatever, practice Book of the Sunflower!"^note The Dangerous Forbidden Technique from The Smiling, Proud Wanderer that requires male castration to learn.
  • Yoshitake's comment on Tadakuni's crossdressing: "Why weren't [you] a woman?"
• High School Boys and Horror Stories
  • Hidenori says the girl ordered "Sanma's taste."
• High School Boys and the Accompanying Girl
  • When Hidenori explained why he wasn't with Tadakuni, he said, "Maybe he went the wrong way and went back to the Three Kingdoms?"^note Back to the Three Kingdoms was a TV series TVB airing at the same time. It is a bit like The Ambition of Oda Nobuna, but without the ecchi bits.
• High School Boys and the Literature Girl
  • When the Literature Girl sits next to Hidenori, Hidenori first thought whether she wants to play Seven Days in Live^{Language note} The Chinese title means Seven Days' Love in Quarantine. And then, in Cantonese, "next to" (gaaklȅi) is completely homophonous to "Quarantine."
  • Origninally, Hidenori commented the present scenario as bring "dreamy." In this dub, he said, "[...] Dreamier than The Girl on the Dreamy Street!" ^note The movie's local Completely Different Name.
  • When he started his one-liners, he said, "Now starts one-lines from 'Freedom' Gin!"

Episode 2

• High School Boys and the Morning that Begins the Journey
  • The skit opened with a conversation about a huge basement:
  Hidenori: But what's the use in this?
  Yoshitake: The Gunsou's base?
  Hidenori: Even playing LBX as well.
  • When Hidenori enters Jack mode:
  Hidenori/Jack: The young men over there—let us go to the city to the west and start The Fantasy Journey of the Wings!^note Local title.
  • When Motoharu picked up the stick...
  Brown-haired: The person who can pull out Excalibur finally appeared!
• High School Boys and the Power of Friendship
  • Yoshitake wondered whether Tadakuni and Hidenori got shit in their brains. (See under "General," above)
  • On friendship...
  Yoshitake: "[...] just like Leonardo (DiCaprio) said, "You jump, I jump!"
• Daily Lives of a Lady
  • Yukana defending her not going to school: "Not even my father scolded me!"
  • Yukana referred to a certain "teeth-kicking granny" several times; that comes from a "Blind Idiot" Translation of Never Winter Nights that has became memetic.

Episode 3

• In High School Boys and Summer Plans, Hidenori said "Suzumiya Haruhi August is not endless!"
• When Yoshitake answers Hidenori's second question in High School Boys and Radio DJ, he started with "Because there's only one truth".

Episode 5

• High School Boys and Ad-libbing
  • The ad-libbing ends with "The Hero kills the monster and saved the world."
• High School Boys and Seniority
  • When Motoharu was surrounded by Mino's friends for the first time, he was recalling the local lyrics for Melissa.
  • The comedians the girls recalled was changed to the Abhorrent Admirer in God of Cookery, and Motoharu had to act accordingly.
• High School Boys and Old Friends
  • When Kiyotake mentioned her sister lost her contacts, "she's impossible to get to the embassy now." This is a reference to the Chinese civic activist Chen Guangcheng, who famously fled to the US Embassy in 2012.
• High School Boys and the Literature Girl 3
  • Hidenori: "Let me get a 'Freedom' Kyon line!"
  • Hidenori's comment on his first line: "This line is wronger than Wȍng Káichēung (his Cantonese voice actor) and more pathetic than Tomokazu Sugita!"
  • Also Hidenori: "With a bit of creativity scum Makoto (see above) can turn into QB!"

Episode 6

• Opening
  • When Hidenori suspected the "Witches of the Orient" were literal witches, Yoshitake suggested a duel between them and Shaolin Soccer.
• High School Boys and Christmas Night
  • Hidenori suspected Yoshitake's sister wants to turn them into bloody ending.
• High School Boys and the New Term
  • "Glasses" lampshaded oldie games are full of Koumei's traps, and not even he would pass them if he went back to Three Kingdoms and learn from Koumei (Zhege Liang).
• High School Boys and Ringo-chan's Troubles
  • Ringo asked the Student Council, "Am I really Arrietty the dwarf?"
  • The Vice President's replies: "[...] after all, Ro-kyu-bu is liked by many."
• High School Boys and Motoharu's Problems
  • Karasawa wonders the Student Council has became Yorozuya Gin. Motoharu complained Karasawa's making the Council Yuuko's store, people treating him as Doraemon, and should promise to not help others like Kyouko Sakura.
• High School Girls are Funky—the Past
  • Archdemon was described as the Flame-Haired Blazing-Eyed Monster.