History ShoutOut / MegasXLR

* In addition to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', the series finale is also a giant ShoutOut to ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', with [[CharClone Evil Coop's]] Mecha #13 bearing a strong resemblance to Sazabi with an army of Zaku lookalikes. For more ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' goodness, Evil Kiva's mecha has back extensions reminiscent of the [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam V2 Gundam's]] Wings of Light emitters.

** Speaking of that, a large amount of the design aesthetic to Evil Coop's army from "Rearview Mirror, Mirror" takes cues from the Zeon empire, from robots that look like they wear gas masks, to his own mech being a red, heavily-modified version of the original blueprint.

* The Creator/BruceCampbell-voiced villain, who's part [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Vince McMahon]], part Creator/MarvelComics villain MODOK, and pilots a mech that is a fusion of [[Film/BubbaHoTep Elvis]] and [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]].

* Megas even throws [[StreetFighter a Hadouken]] at the invincible R.E.G.I.S. mk. V.

* The villain at the beginning of "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Coop" is a dead ringer for Baron Karza, the BigBad of the ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts}}''.

** Jamie dressed as ComicBook/TheJoker with two Harley Quinn assistants in an imagine spot.

* In "Thanksgiving Throwdown" Jamie's suggestion to enter Megas into the parade as a float somehow results in him daydreaming of himself as Joker from Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' in the parade scene from that movie, complete with a pair of groupies dressed like a palette-swapped [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Harley Quinn]].

* In addition to the ''Gatchaman'', ''Voltron'', and sentai homages that fly left and right in "Bad Guy", Jax's unintelligible alien speech noises are possibly a nod to Copper Kid from ''WesternAnimation/SilverHawks''.

* "Thanksgiving Throwdown": '''''"BEST. THANKSGIVING. EVER."'''''
** The marching band plays the "Liberty Bell March", the theme song of ''Series/MonthPythonsFlyingCircus''.

** And Jamie dressed as ComicBook/TheJoker with two Harley Quinn assistants.

* The [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Brothers]] look-a-like parade floats from "Thanksgiving Throwdown".
* And Jamie dressed as ComicBook/TheJoker with two Harley Quinn assistants.
* '''''"BEST. THANKSGIVING. EVER."'''''

* The Glorft send a silver Megas clone to attack the city. It makes a roar like Mecha Godzilla. It's referred to as [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Mecha-Megas]]. Because [[GoodIsDumb Coop is dumb.]] In the end credits, Megas is walking out into the sea. Several ''Godzilla'' movies end with Godzilla doing this.

** S-Force enemy Zarek. Purple outfit? Check. Large stylized cat ears, high collar, badass cape? Check. Big ego? Check. The guy's an expy of Berg Katze of Gatchaman, known as Zoltar in ''Battle Of The Planets'' and Galactor in ''Guardians of Space''.

** They're basically ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' (more specifically, to the ''Gatchaman'' English dub ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', hence why the small pilot speaks in clicks, and named after the re-dubbed ''Anime/GForceGuardiansOfSpace''), with Franchise/SuperSentai combining animal robots.

** S-Force enemy Zarek. Purple outfit? Check. Large stylized cat ears, high collar, badass cape? Check. Big ego? Check. The guy's an expy of Berg Katze of Gatchaman, known as Zoltar in ''Battle Of The Planets'' and Galactor in Guardians of Space.

* Episode 6's main villain is a ''PlanetEater'' that looks quite similar to Manga/HellstarRemina, complete with its similar surface, appendages, and mouth. And as usual, Coop dishes out some NightmareRetardant by blowing it up by feeding it a supercharged torpedo full of poprocks and soda.

* The [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers Mario Brothers]] look-a-like parade floats from "Thanksgiving Throwdown".

* A planet of sentient robots from "Coop d'Etat" feature lookalikes of Anime/MazingerZ and Reideen.

* One episode is basically an episode of ''Series/ThePrisoner'' with the Title directly referencing Film/AClockworkOrange. But with robots. [[YouAreNumberSix Megas is Number 12.]]

* Megas has the ''original'' WaveMotionGun, complete with the ''[[SpaceBattleshipYamato Yamato's]]'' bow in its chest.

** They're basically ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' (more specifically, to the ''Gatchaman'' English dub ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', hence why the small pilot speaks in clicks, and named after the re-dubbed ''Anime/GForceGuardiansOfSpace''), with SuperSentai combining animal robots.

* In "Thanksgiving Throwdown" Jamie's suggestion to enter Megas into the parade as a float somehow results in him daydreaming of himself as Joker from Tim Burton's {{Film/Batman}} in the parade scene from that movie, complete with a pair of groupies dressed like a palette-swapped [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Harley Quinn]].

* It's seen with the [[TransformersGenerationOne Autobot Matrix of Leadership]] in its chest -- which Coop promptly fills with processed cheese. The cheese, incidentally, comes to life.

* One episode is basically an episode of ''Series/ThePrisoner''. But with robots. [[YouAreNumberSix Megas is Number 12.]]

* And Jamie dressed as SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker with two Harley Quinn assistants.

* The [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] and [[SuperMarioBrothers Mario Brothers]] look-a-like parade floats from "Thanksgiving Throwdown".

* "Breakout" showcases [[{{Expy}} expies]] of many video game consoles, including but not limited to: NES, Sega Genesis, Sony Playstation, and Nintendo Gamecube. Also, the ''title of the episode'' is a reference to [[{{Breakout}} an old arcade game of the same name]].

* The first season finale features four separate shout-outs to ''TheBluesBrothers'': the FacingTheBulletsOneLiner; and a car chase through the Glorft mothership set to a blues-rock tune, complete with a dispatcher saying the line "Use of unnecessary force in capturing the Earthers has been approved."; "This place has everything..."; and finally, one Glorft mook declaring his feelings to another as death is inevitable (although hate instead of love).

* Most of Megas' controls are rewired video game controllers, from a Playstation gamepad down to {{Atari}} joysticks. The "manual control" backup is VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution. It also involves a pair of Power Gloves.