Shout Out / Halloween Unspectacular

• Halloween Unspectacular 1:
  • From the Witch Ember arc:
    • Witch Ember turns Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Timmy into keychains.
    • E350 reveals that he’s looking after an Andalite morphing cube for a friend.
    • Witch Ember pulls a page from the Master's playbook at one point and turns everyone in the city into duplicates of herself.
  • Reapers make appearances in a couple of stories.
  • Bender and a Cyberman pop up in the filler chapter to complain about E350's liberal use of "organics-turning-into-machines" plots.
  • "War Never Changes" tales place in the Highlander universe, though it’s not directly revealed until the end.
• Do the Gasmask Shuffle:
  • After Sam turns into a wax statue at the end of the second story, the author's notes say "NO SAM YOU ARE THE DEMONS".
  • "Murdered By Moonlight" is one to the A Nightmare on Elm Street series, centered around Freddy Krueger going after various cartoon characters.
  • The climatic fight with Dan Phantom and his minions contains references to Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Terror Australis Incognita:
  • "My Brother Will Kill Me" is one long pastiche of the Power Rangers franchise. Calamitous' method of creating a Monster of the Week is also similar to how Vendetta makes her monsters in Making Fiends.
• Mess Effect:
  • Plankton tries to get E350 to reenact the ending of Mass Effect 3 with him, Danny, and Cosmo in the beginning. Said ending gets referenced several more times throughout the fic, even getting a story dedicated to it.
  • Chapter 24 is labeled "Little Shop of Parodies" and features references to TRON, Warhammer, The Slender Man Mythos, and Portal.
• The Final Push:
  • "The Piccadilly Caper" starts off with a parody of Star Wars' famous opening crawl.
  • "The Omega Riff" ends with "AND THEN SQUIDWARD WAS A HALF-GHOST".
  • The closing author's note for "Eureka" simply says "COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE."
  • In "The Muffin Man", when Gaz is suddenly abducted by the Inquisition, Timmy states that he wasn't expecting that.
• Lair of the Hack Writer:
  • The first chapter features a parody of "Make a Man out of You" from Mulan.
  • In "It's Back", Peridot, in her boredom, briefly watches a Jacksepticeye video and the music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up".
    • Also from "It's Back", Amethyst and Peridot briefly travel to "The Universe That Is Currently Being Sued By George Miller".
  • "The Most Patient Man On Radio" is based on the "Most Patient Man On Television" skit from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
  • In "Of Presidents and Purity", the President tells the arguing Vice-President and General Ambercrombie "no fighting in the war room".
• Watchmeh:
  • The first chapter features a parody of "The Candy Man" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
  • "Robot Wars" has references to Kaiju movies, Pacific Rim, and, of all things, Oliver Cromwell.
  • "The Fiftycrumb Tinies" is, obviously, a parody of The Gashleycrumb Tinies.
  • "Angry Fandom Shelter" ends with a COPS reference.
  • Sandy calls the haunting in the eighth chapter "a real Amityville situation".
  • In the author's notes for "Unidentified Problem", the author sings a snippet of "Let's Do the Time Warp Again".
  • The title of chapter 18 parodies the title of the infamous fanfic Dipper Goes to Taco Bell.
  • "A Sunday Drive Down Fury Road" is one to...well, guess. Also, E350 uses "Manners maketh man" as a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner.
  • "Karma Punishment" features an opening narration from Rod Serling.
  • The title of chapter 23, "House of Cards", is an intentional reference to the series of the same name.
  • "The Reference Job" naturally has multiple movies mentioned as part of Allsworthy’s Reference Overdosed tendencies, down to him jumping on the chance to reference Watchmen's famous Wham Line when he realizes that Stan and Ford are too late to stop him.
  • Chapter 29 has two MPs looking for the Diaz family.
• Blue Alert:
  • E350's opening song this year is a parody of "Puttin' on the Ritz".
  • The ending narration of "The Dictator" is very similar to that of the episode "He's Alive" of The Twilight Zone (1959).
  • Among the people trying to get help from Ford in "Before Breakfast" are the Grandmaster (wanting fighters for his arena) and someone who wants to know if he's a bad enough dude to rescue the President.
  • The title of "Another Brick in the Wall" is naturally a reference to the Pink Floyd song of the same name.
• This is fine:
  • The opening musical number this year is a number of Disney song parodies strung together. The songs used include "Arabian Nights", "Under The Sea", "Let It Go", and "Beauty and the Beast".
  • The Bad Guy Bar that the villains frequent is called the Backslide Tavern.
  • This exchange in the "Aliens and Monsters" segment from "The Reject Shop":
    E350: (answering the phone) E350 speaking.
    Timmy: Hey, I need you to come over here.
    E350: I can't, I'm buying clothes.
    Timmy: We're not doing that joke.
• Halloween Unspectacular X:
  • Plankton's attempted takeover of the story involves him showing clips from blatant ripoffs of famous movies now starring him — Plankton Wars, Gone With the Plankton, A Few Good Plankton, Planktanic, and Plankton's List.
  • E350's Heroic BSoD is specifically compared to Thor's in Avengers: Endgame.

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