History ShoutOut / GhostStory

* Likewise, Harry thinks Uriel's quoting [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension Buckaroo Banzai]] when he says "no matter where you go, there you are". ''He'' was quoting UsefulNotes/{{Confucius}}.

** Gathering power, young Harry reasons, ought to work like it does for the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, ComicBook/GreenLantern, or Comicbook/IronFist, and not like ComicBook/IronMan (because he doesn't actually have powers).

** Harry also compares his non-ghostly "wizard senses" to "[[Franchise/SpiderMan spider sense]]".

** Surprisingly, mega-nerd Butters doesn't seem to have made the connection: he calls it the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batcave]] instead.

* At one point Harry says that for someone to get away with calling Murphy "Karrie", they'd have to be "a Franchise/{{Terminator}}. From [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Krypton]]."

* Seeing that Mortimer has shaved his head, Harry refers to his new look as "a full-on [[Franchise/XMen Charles Xavier]]".

* In his flashback to the long-jump contest, Harry remembers having felt as if he'd learned to fly like Franchise/{{Superman}}.

* Citing unlikely alliances, Bob mentions [[Literature/TheBible God and Lucifer]] messing with Job, [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Luke and Vader]] killing the Emperor, and [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spidey teaming up with Sandman]].
** Harry wants to dismiss the latter example because Franchise/SpiderMan isn't real. Bob retorts that in another universe, he could be real. A case of FridgeLogic when you realize that in our universe, Harry himself is just as fictional as Spidey...

* Butters asks if Aristedes is fast like Creator/JackieChan, or fast like Franchise/TheFlash.

* The book is rife with ''StarWars'' references, the best of which being when Harry's ghost proved its identity to Molly by quoting ''The Empire Strikes Back''.

* Mort's hybrid car is said to boast a computer that "Looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War." in a shout-out to ''Film/WarGames''.

* In his flashback to the long-jump contest, Harry remembers having felt as if he'd learned to fly like {{Superman}}.

* Speaking of Marci; She is described as a short girl with straight mouse-brown hair bobbed at chin level and over-sized glasses. Anybody else thinking [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma]]?

** When Harry criticizes Mort's car, Morty snarks back that Harry used to drive [[Film/TheLoveBug Herbie's]] trailer-park cousin.

* Stuart tells Harry that, with practice, he might be able to push a penny across a table very slowly. Pushing a penny around is how Sam proves his existence to Molly in ''Film/{{Ghost}}''.

* At one point Harry says to Eternal Silence [[Series/KungFu "Next you'll want me to take a pebble out of your hand."]]

* While talking to Inez, Harry says to himself that he has [[Franchise/StarWars picked up the red lightsaber]] and joined [[ComicBook/XMen The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]].

* Merging with Mort, Harry sees the world hit him [[{{Film}} in full Technicolor]].

* The "southbound train" that seizes Corpsetaker's shade, rears up, and plummets down into the depths is somewhat reminiscent of the "express bus to Hell" from the conclusion of ''Film/TheFrighteners''.

** Gathering power, young Harry reasons, ought to work like it does for the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, ComicBook/GreenLantern, or [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], and not like ComicBook/IronMan (because he doesn't actually have powers).

* Harry asks Molly to explain her "[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Ophelia act]]" in front of Murphy and company.

* A ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' reference crops up when Forthill speaks to Harry.

** Gathering power, young Harry reasons, ought to work like it does for the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, ComicBook/GreenLantern, or [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], and not like IronMan (because he doesn't actually have powers).