Shout Out / Good Omens (2019)

• The first episode has a lot of nods to The Omen and Damien: Omen II. For example, the Antichrist is intended to be swapped in for the newborn son of an American diplomat based in Britain, and his mother is encouraged to name him Damien.
• Crowley name-drops The Sound of Music; apparently God Herself is a big fan of it. This becomes a Brick Joke as some of the angels riff on the lyrics to "Climb Every Mountain" and later on, "My Favorite Things".
• Crowley dressing up as Goth Mary Poppins, complete with bird-headed umbrella and carpet bag.
  Crowley: I understand you need a nanny.
• The series opens with an explanatory animated sequence with deadpan narration.
• The scene which introduces Newton Pulsifer parodies Alfonso Cuarón's signature camera trick: the camera flies around outside Newt's room, but instead of "phasing" through the glass like Cuaron likes to, it bumps into the glass with an audible "thump".
• In Newton Pulsifer's introductory scene, he wears a tie that is actually a small version of the Fourth Doctor’s scarf, which establishes the character as a Doctor Who fan who only owns one tie.
• During Newton's brief tenure at his new job, the camera work changes to a mockumentary-style handheld camera, quite like The Office.
• A soldier outside the base is reading American Gods, another book written by Neil Gaiman.
• In Adam’s restored world, there are a few small extra touches he put in - notably, in Aziraphale’s bookshop, a set of first editions of Richmal Crompton’s Just William books, which provides the template for Adam and the Them.
• The demise of Crowley's car when its purpose is served is very reminiscent of the similar scene in The Blues Brothers.
• The music video for "Brand New Baby Smell", according to the video description, is "instilled with as much pop culture references as possible. Those who find them all will be damned for all eternity. Awomen." Among them: a shoutout to "Bohemian Rhapsody" and a recreation of the poster for Rosemary's Baby.
• Two of the demons' names, Hastur and Dagon, are from Cthulhu Mythos.
• The license plate of the Youngs' car is SID RAT - TARDIS spelled backwards.
• When Adam and his friends are discussing aliens, one of them says that he expects aliens to say "Exterminate!"
• When Crowley is going through the pages of an astronomy book, trying to find a new home after Armageddon, one of the pages shows Gallifrey, even listing it by name.
  • Crowley's ability to stop time doesn't appear in the novel. One wonders if he'd have it if David Tennant's most famous role weren't a person with a time machine.
• Combined with Author Appeal for Neil Gaiman, Pepper quotes Tori Amos before killing War: "I believe in peace, bitch!"
• Crowley's look in 1967 plays up David Tennant's rather scary resemblance to John Lennon.
• In Episode 5, among the stuffed animals seen on Madame Tracy's bed is a plush E.T. toy. This references the scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial when E.T. hides from Elliot's mother by pretending to be one of Gertie's stuffed dolls.
• “The Black Knight” from the soundtrack resembles Ramin Djawadi’s score for Game of Thrones - another show that deals with supernatural forces that threaten to end the world.
• The theme to the series itself pays serious homage to the Queen track "Millionaire Waltz".
• In episode 4, Crowley threatens Hastur with a plant sprayer that he claims is filled with holy water. When Hastur accuses him of bluffing, Crowley responds, "Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. Ask yourself: do you feel lucky?"
• When God is musing on the adage about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, She notes that Aziraphale learned how to dance the gavotte in the late 1800s... just before it went out of fashion. The soundtrack for this scene is "I am a courtier grave and serious" from The Gondoliers, the music for which is a gavotte, and the second verse of which involves the title characters of the operetta getting a quick lesson in how to dance to it.
• The Nazis are still after the Holy Grail in 1940. Having failed to get it the first time.
• "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" plays when Aziraphale attempts to contact God, similarly to its use as a motif in It's a Wonderful Life.
• John Finnemore being on the creative team led to Cabin Pressure shoutouts. Aziraphale turns Crowley's Bentley into a yellow car, and Talisker whiskey makes an appearance.
• In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it(-if-you-don't-have-a-pause-button) moment, Discworld fans can see that the Laudanum that Crowley ends up getting drunk on is made by a very respectable businessman, Mr. C.M.O.T. Dibbler.
  • A second Discworld nod appears at the merchants' association dance when the snappish lady who's concerned about the morale of her 'girls' gives her profession as "seamstress" — the euphemism for "prostitute" used in Ankh-Morpork.
• In another blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment towards the end of Season 2, Episode 2, Gabriel is organizing the books and happens upon this opening line: It was a nice day.
  • As well, the book Gabriel shows the angels when they arrive to question Aziraphale is The Colour of Magic.

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