Shout Out / Eureka

Season 1

• In the episode H.O.U.S.E. Rules:

  S.A.R.A.H.: Shall we play a game?
  Everyone: No!

• Two in the same scene in "Purple Haze": Fargo's neighbor is blasting "The Ride of the Valkyries" while crop-dusting with a RC helicopter. When Fargo intervenes, he is chased by the helo in a a Shout-Out to North By Northwest. And of course the title is a reference to Jimi Hendrix.
• Nathan Stark is based on Tony Stark, and in "Once In A Lifetime" he also runs a company by the name of "Stark Industries" after leaving Eureka.

Season 2

• In A Night At Global Dynamics

  Taggart: He's just made one of the classic blunders.
  Larry: What's that?
  Taggart: Never go up against an Australian when death is on the line.

  • The GD security system in "A Night at Global Dynamics".
    GD Computer Mimicking Fargo's Voice: You'll never find your way out. Resistance is futile.
  • Also another one from Taggart, with Matt Frewer using a line from another character of he played:
    Taggart: You want every single second...
• Fargo on a mysterious CIA specialist

  Fargo: I heard he shot a man in Borneo just to watch him die!

• An episode dealing with alchemy had the human transmutation circle on a blackboard in the background.
• "Duck Duck Goose": In the extreme foreground as the Starks are discussing Kevin, the hand from T2 can be seen in the original glass dome.
• The LCL that Carter is dunked in to save his life in season 2 episode "Noche de Suenos".
• Early in the second season, Carter asks Kevin what day of the week was November 3rd, 1957. Although both of them get the day wrong (it was a Sunday), it was the day that Laika the spacedog died.
• Henry is seen watching Dexter's Laboratory in the episode when most of Eureka accidentally becomes stupid.
• Jo's shared dream is inspired by Zorro.

Season 3

• Zoe talking about her aunts baby-daddy.

  Zoe: But he's your wonderful Doctor Who.

  Vincent: I love that show.

  Zoe: WHO as in World Health Organization.

• Sheriff Andy. Carter later references his own "Sheriff Andy Charm."
• "It's Not Easy Being Green": "This...is...EUREKA!!!"
  • In the same episode, characters whose skin turns green have been contaminated with gamma radiation.
  • Two other ones: the blob is first thought to be hurt by cold, and when it retreats into the generator level it is hunted with a motion sensor.
• In "Have an Ice Day!" Taggard's line "There are strange things under the midnight sun" is a shout out to Robert W. Service's poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
• In "Your Face or Mine?":
  Fargo You had me at Halo.
• Fargo gets stuck to the ceiling, his girlfriend deploys a superscience air mattress to catch him, he gets unstuck, and hits the floor instead. His response? "Missed it by that much."
• Vincent likens Cafe Diem to Iron Chef in You Don't Know Jack.
• Zoe refers to a rogue drone as a "Cylon shuttle thing."
• In "What Goes Around, Comes Around", a rogue magnetic force stalls Jo's car at an intersection. Then her keys rattle, and a nearby trio of mail boxes and the stop sign start rattling and swaying ominously.
• Jack says that a red-haired scientist looks like Opie

Season 4

• Several in Reprise:

  Fargo: So, does our Cylon spy have a name?

  Zane: I didn't know you were building a TARDIS house.

  Jo: A what?

  Zane: Big on the inside but tiny on the, uh... nevermind.

  Holly: Have you ever played Warhammer?

  Sherrif Carter looks confused.

  Holly: Nevermind.

• Fargo's time travel arrival in Founder's Day is a Shout-Out to the Terminator series, complete with music.
  • In "Momstrosity" he says, "Come with me if you want to live!" In "Crossing Over", Claudia calls him Fargonator.
  • In the crossover episode where Claudia comes to Global Dynamics, Dr. Grant says "Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop smoking."
• In the episode "Momstrosity", Allison uses the phrase "Get away from him, you bitch!"
• Zane offers to look up TARDIS blueprints while he's poking around Dr. Grant's DOD file.
• In "The Ex-Files", Dr. Grant claims his hallucination is of a "leggy blond in a slinky red dress".
• "Glimpse" starts with one to the 50's propaganda films.
  Fargo: Global Dynamics wants you!
  • Also in "Glimpse", is The Cameo for Stan Lee, who provides a Shout-Out to The Hulk. He appears as Dr. Lee, specializing in the effects of gamma radiation, you can call him Generalissimo, and "Don't make me angry, you won't like me when I'm angry."
  • Also, Bear McCreary decided to play a tribute with "The Lonely Man Theme" from the Hulk TV Series playing in the background during that scene. Which was slightly adapted to resemble the "McCreary Eureka Theme" (the one in the credits and in the background from season 2 onward).
  • Finally in Glimpse, Zane is demonstrating his PALs, Predictive Algorithm Lenses, basically contact lenses that can predict disasters before they occur.
  Fargo: It's like having your own personal Professor Xavier.
  Jack: Who's Professor Xavier?
  Zane: Okay, I'm going to pretend you didn't just say that.
• "This one time at space camp..."
  • In this episode Fargo talks about building a rocket engine at Space Camp, while his team was called the Radical Raccoons. Rockets, made by Raccoons...
• This exchange:
  "That's it?"
  "What were you expecting, the Spanish Inquisition?"
  "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."
• In the 2011 Christmas special, Fargo calls a Big Red Button "My precious."
  • And the staff he uses to fight the snow monster resembles common depictions of the Monkey King's staff in Journey to the West.
  • The Art Shifts also include shout outs to South Park and Peanuts.
  • When the Super Photon Generator is turned on to fix the town, the "Mobile Suit Detected" sound from Mobile Suit Gundam can be heard.
• In Liftoff, Fargo is in the not-quite-ready-yet launch capsule replaying the Death Star attack from A New Hope
• Then there's this:
  Holly: We've tried everything. We've tried yoga, meditation...
  Fargo: Well, there is one thing we haven't tried...
  Holly: You mean... Oh...
  The scene cuts to the two of them playing Dungeons & Dragons.
• When Andy is instructing people on evacuation, Jo adds "You heard Mr. Data, keep it movin'..."
• Fargo's password is "Dougie the Vampire Slayer".

Season 5

• Several characters are kidnapped and put into a computer simulation of Eureka. Not only do the characters instantly equate this to The Matrix when they learn, they never refer to it by any other name from that point on.
• In "Smarter Carter" Zane Donovan says of building a replacement body for Holly Martin: "We can build it. We have the technology."
• One for Quantum Leap in "Jack of All Trades." Carter has begun swapping bodies with various persons who were on the Atraeus. Shortly after "leaping" into Zane, he says "Oh, boy!"
• A hilarious one to Blazing Saddles in "Worst Case Scenario" as Deputy Andy uses a built-in cable to save Carter.
  Deputy Andy: Excuse me while I whip this out.
• The famous shot of the hobbits hiding from a ring wraith in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is recreated when Fargo hides from Carter's Evil Doppelgänger in "Double Take".