Shout Out / iToons

Following in the pawprints of Square Root of Minus Garfield, the comic from which it spun off, iToons also has a number of references.

Items are grouped by category and alphabetized within each group except the last.

See also this page for the various Take Thats of iToons.

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• How Do YOU Eat It? changes Konata's choco-cornet into a large Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, and plays on the "There's No Wrong Way to Eat a Reese's" ad campaign.

Anime & Manga

• Eye Phone puts Ui with Jun's eyes on the xkcd Phone 4, and puts them both in a strip about arbitrarily changing User Interfaces.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
  • XKCDIO recreates a scene from Phantom Blood using a similar exchange from xkcd.
    • JoJo's Cancelled Adventure changes the context of a Pearls Before Swine strip to be about Phantom Blood.
  • Sarah's Bizarre Adventure has Sarah think about stopping time to throw knives at Catalina and crush her with a road roller, like DIO in Stardust Crusaders.
  • Dreamons are Unbreakable turns Kris into Killer Queen.
• Ode to Jelly-Filled Donuts has Liko and Roy re-enact the infamous dub edit from "Primeape Goes Bananas".

Art

• The Stair Master has a woman and a man from Moderately Confused climbing stairs in M.C. Escher's Relativity.

Comic Books

• Asok Intern vs. The World has Asok become fat after eating bread for six months, leading Dilbert to reference the "Bread makes you fat?" line from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Film (Animated)

• Arlo and Janis puts the head of Arlo on Arlo's body.
• Grinch vs. Grinch puts the animated Grinch against the live-action Grinch, each from their respective versions of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, in a Spy vs. Spy strip. The animated Grinch wins, as the author considers the live-action film "cruddy".
• Dream Duty changes the skin colors of the Calvins in reference to Inside Out.
• The Poker Never Bothered Me Anyway puts an ice statue of Anna in a Simpsons comic.

Film (Live-Action)

• White Gloves implies that Lucy's grandmother was Margaret Dumont in A Night at the Opera.
• Newer Beethoven Letters replaces Snoopy with Beethoven.
• These aren't the edits you're looking for shows Jeffy trying to use a Jedi Mind Trick on Thelma.

Live Action TV

• Peanuts: The Next Generation turns Charlie Brown and Lucy van Pelt into Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Counselor Deanna Troi for a "psychiatric booth" strip.

Memes

• Beware of Falling Memes has a Doge, Trollface, and "Gotta Go Fast" falling on Wade.

Music

• But you can be happy if you've a mind to has Redeye give Tanglefoot advice from the Roger Miller song "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd".
• "Brown Cantor" has Charlie Brown and Lucy discussing the events of "Cuckoo" by Rob Cantor.
• Paradise City has Sam and Helix sing "Paradise City".
• Sabrina's Lament has Sabrina sing a bit of "What Have I Done to Deserve This?".
• Sam Petty and the Helixbreakers has Sam and Helix sing a Song Parody of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Free Fallin'" as a Stealth Pun on the title of the source comic.
• Smash Mouth: Hit the ground running replaces the dialogue of a Mountain Time strip with the chorus to "All Star".
• Tally Hall: Lucy's Marvelous Mechanical Museum replaces the dialogue in a Peanuts comic with lyrics to "Banana Man". The title is a reference to the album the song is from, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, and the author's note is also a line from the song ("make up your mind and tell me no").
• bill wurtz: [1] references "At the Airport Terminal"

Newspaper Comics

• Pearlsfield is a remake of a Garfield strip in which Jon complains that it's a boring day, and Garfield fetches a sousaphone and prepares to blow it whilst behind Jon; the remake has Rat and Pig in the respective roles.
• Short Pants Don't Touch His Feet Anymore has Calvin and Hobbes' stop in the future land near a depiction of Calvin at 24 in Pearls Before Swine.
• Hagar's Lagoon replaces Helga with Megan.
• The Timid Son, or, Crawford Milquetoast gives Crawford a line by Caspar Milquetoast.

Professional Wrestling

• Tonight on USA Network! puts The Undertaker in a Six Chix comic.

Real Life

• The King and the Giant Head changes an invader of Id into the head of Orlando Bloom, if larger than the real one.
• Sarcasm turns Sally's line in the last panel into it by inserting the pumpkin that won the 2013 World Record for Largest Pumpkin.

Video Games

• Super Mario Bros.:
  • To Name a Bean replaces Woo with a Woo Bean.
  • That's As Far As You Go has Hobbes draw Birdo in response to being prompted to draw the dinosaur "skeleton" Calvin assembled. The title is a slight misquote of Birdo from the Super Mario Advance Updated Re Release of Super Mario Bros. 2, where she said "This is as far as you go!". Her artwork is also from the same game.
• Blockhead has Lucy call Steve by the titular epithet.
• That's the second biggest elder god I've ever seen goes from a The Misadventures of Hello Cthulhu strip in which Captain Cthulhu is warned about Monkey Head Island to a panel of Monkey Head on Monkey Island.
• Pac-Description changes the pie chart labels from xkcd's "Self-Description" into "Pac-Man" and "Not Pac Man".
  • Pac-Description (in Color) is the same thing, only in color.
• Pokémon:
  • MORGANNO has Morgan go retro by turning into Missingno.
  • Slow Race has Archie and Jughead stage a race between a Slaking and a Regigigas, respectively.
  • Like A Rock changes an xkcd character into Sudowoodo.
  • Pokébert Go has a woman Dilbert is walking with discover a Pidgeotto near the former.
  • Betty Cooper is a Moron has a Zubat fly near Betty.
  • Betty Wins a Competition She Didn't Even Enter adds the "Press A to pound" meme from Pokémon Sun and Moon to a panel. Coincidentally, the strip is numbered 151.
• Defaced has a sign in U.S. Acres depict Flowey... who becomes faceless after Roy removes it.
• Civilization: Pearls Before Civilization has Gandhi hitting Goat on the head with a staff because "he adopted democracy", referencing the infamous "Nuclear Gandhi" quirk prevalent throughout the series.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Inside Ursu-Ursu's Belly replaces the meat cube that Ursula is served with a Red Jelly from Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly.
  • You've been cursed! You can't blow your bubble wand! replaces the regular bubbles with various versions of the enemy called a Bubble from across the Zelda series.
• Gat-Et-o has Tiffany standing very still with red eyes and speech while under the influence of the Red Skull Pin she's wearing.
• Valhägar replaces Lucky Eddie with Eivor.
• Mass Effect: Nancy Effect has Nancy ditch the robotics club using a Renegade interrupt.
• Desperatelysafe turns the "Batman" in the original Buttersafe strip into The Batter, accompanied by his 3 add-ons.^note Though the title and the color scheme reference Zone 2 of the game, where you can only possibly have the first 2 add-ons.

Webcomics

• Barrel (Roll) puts Peppy Hare (of Star Fox fame, though this particular image is from Brawl in the Family) in the xkcd comic "Barrel"; he appears over the horizon and gives a barrel-riding boy his most (in)famous advice.
• Darths & Droids:
  • Behind the Mask takes a FoxTrot/Nancy switcheroo strip and changes the dialogue to a reduced version of a Darths and Droids comic that, in turn, parodies the infamous climax of The Empire Strikes Back.
  • Darths and Foxes makes a reference to the space pear.
• Square Root of Minus Garfield:
  • El Goonish Shive (Almost) in Haiku puts the dialogue from the very first SRoMG into the first El Goonish Shive strip.
  • The next logical step adds elements of several SRoMG memes (blender, Grafield, Linus, ringtone, and pudding pops) to a U.S. Acres comic.
  • Saturday Night Ziggy has the blender strapped to Ziggy's fish, and gives Ziggy Garfield's dialogue.
• Making Peanuts Slightly Worse has Charlie Brown saying "Well, it's better than Vista", making it both a Making Xkcd Slightly Worse reference and an indirect xkcd reference.

Western Animation

• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Edgebotnik has Beatriz's parrot shout out the infamous "PINGAS!"
  • Sleight of Robotnik gives the Ardin family Robotnik merchandise.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: In Ozytar: The Last Airzender, Ozy recites a haiku from Sokka's subplot in "The Tales of Ba Sing Se".
• A Piece in a Jigsaw Puzzle puts (most of) Peter Griffin's words on Citizen Kane in Lucy's mouth.
• King of the Shoe has a police officer name the signer of a confession as "Rusty Shackleford".
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the wake of "Sam Petty and the Helixbreakers", Obligatory Pony Reference has Sam and Helix singing the title line of "Winter Wrap-Up".
  • My Little Peanuts: Ballooning is Exhausting replaces one of the tiny hot-air balloons waiting for Snoopy's breath with Twilight Sparkle and Spike in the Twinkling Balloon.
  • Swept Away replaces one panel of Peanuts with a screenshot of the "Sweep Sweep" scene from "The Saddle Row Review". Word of iToons Strip Author is that the strip isn't titled after any particular "Swept Away".
  • And Now The Punchline Has Been... Spiked! changes a small pet quadrupedal dragon in Hägar the Horrible into Spike.
  • B.ut I Like C.ircle Drawing has Kettle Corn be the one to make a circle from nothing... by drawing it in the sand for Peter. The title is a play on her line "But I like circle painting," and the strip's dialogue has been rewritten to make a haiku.
  • 28 Precocious Later turns Kaitlyn and Quincy into cookie zombies like the ones in the episode "28 Pranks Later".
  • Lilac Unicorn Syndrome has the toy Zoe presents be one of Lilac Links.
• "Brite"-ly Colored has Kisaragi attributing the red of an apple to Red Butler.
• Pip Replica puts a replica Pip into a Nerf NOW!! strip originally containing a Pip-Boy replica.
• Impression of Deaf Emotion remakes the notorious "Loss" strip with a screencap of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Artist Unknown".

Strip Titles

• The Assassination of President Garfield (by the Coward Chester A. Arthur) is a play on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
• I shot a man in the left ventricle just to watch him die is a play on a line from "Folsom Prison Blues".
• Good Ol' "Before Christ" is a play on "Good Ol' 'Charlie Brown'", which appears in the first panel of Sunday Peanuts strips.
• Tally Hall: I've never thought much of formulaic verse anyway is named after a line from "Haiku".
• Eminem: Guess Who's Back With A Brand New Rap is named after a line from "Just Lose It".
• jxdn: Tell Me About Tomorrow is named after one of his albums.

Strips with Multiple References (in order of appearance)

• I'm a Big Kid Now plays off Yuki seeing tentacles in place of male genitalia with "YOU'RE A KID NOW, YOU'RE A SQUID NOW". The title also references a Pull Ups commercial that was referenced in DaThings's Splatoon YouTube Poop.
• Watchmen Babies Catchphrase takes the Catchphrase response to Velma's "Jinkies!" and reworks it to fit Rorschach and his "Hurm." Meanwhile, the use of "Babies" is more reminiscent of Muppet Babies, the Trope Namer for Spinoff Babies, of which A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is an example.
• He's a Clown, That Charlie Brown's original strip was already a reference to Peanuts; this edit overlaid Charlie Brown on top of it. In addition, the strip title is a line from "Charlie Brown", a song from the late fifties.
• Sabrina and Salem, Witches Irregulars has the title characters wanting to check for the publication of their Square Root of Minus Garfield and iToons strips, respectively.
• In Moves, Trevor suddenly gains a Captain Falcon helmet and is superimposed on a picture of the Blue Falcon. He continues his statement from the second panel with the "Pokemans" meme, resulting in a reference to one of Falcon's ubiquitous taunts in Super Smash Bros..
• Arlo and Janis, in response to Arlo and Janis's author's note, takes an Arlo and Janis strip and puts Arlo Guthrie's head on Arlo's body and Janis Joplin's head on Janis's body.
• Betty Cooper Goes to Open Mic Night has the character in question quote Bugs Bunny, while the author's notes mention Bart Simpson.
• Splinter of the Mind's Eye inserts Rat into Pasquale's imagination, while the title and author's note make reference to Splinter.
• No One Likes Gaston sets captions of several panels of Gaston Lagaffe to the tune of part of the song "Gaston".
• Betty Gets Around has her holding a newspaper which has a picture of her shouting "Ia! Ia! Archie fthagn!" The author's notes put it best: "Clearly, The CW's Riverdale has gotten to Betty."
• The punchline of Terrible Swift Bat involves Bill Nye and Veggietales in the build-up to it.
• The Croquet Game:
  • Charlie Brown saying "There's so much more to it. You have to think." is a line from The only winning move is not to play, a SROMG comic.
  • Linus is seen wearing Nomu Kid's crown from the cover of Good Kid 2.
  • Charlie Brown quotes "if I survive, I'll worship the moon, or something, anything" from Royksopp's song "This Must Be It".
  • "The dog is not perturbed" is from Spy Fox in: A Death In The Family.
  • The fourth panel is a recreation of the Signature Scene from "Lagtrain" by inabakumori.
  • Patty's censored line is from a scene in Jennifer's Body: the censored words are "nutsack" and "balls".

Unsorted

• Linus Garfield Linus replaces Linus with Garfield, much as meme codifier Garfield Linus Garfield did for Square Root of Minus Garfield. (Each one's base strip is the source of the replacing character in the other.)

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