Shout Out / Team StarKid

The Very Potter musicals have their own shout out page here.

Me And My Dick

• As with most StarKid plays, there are references to other StarKid plays.
  • The Sword of Godric Gryffindor is in Tiffany's box of sex toys
  • Vanessa tells Flopsy that "every time I see [Rick] I get these pains in my chest." Ron says this to Harry about Hermione.
• High School Musical
  • "Get your head in the game, man."
  • "If we're all in this together, you can bet we're breaking free."
• Heart monologues about While You Were Sleeping.
• Saturday Night Live: In the very first scene there is a reference to "Dick in a Box".
• This being Starkid, there is a nod to Spider-Man.
• Big T's call-and-response portion of "Land of the Dicks" is taken directly from the song "Zoot Suit Riot" by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies.

Starship

• As with most StarKid plays, there are references to other StarKid plays.
  • A Very Potter Musical: "It's time to go back… Back to our Starship."
  • During "Kick it Up a Notch: Reprise," Junior is wearing pink sunglasses.
  • Joey's trademark headband appears, and is even important to the plot.
• Many to Alien
• Up's story about his famous injury is full of Shout Outs.
  • Phazon
  • Gundam Wing Zero
  • Metal Gear
  • Sentinals, or possibly Sentinels.
  • Autobots and Optimus Prime
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank: "Yeah, he used to be all that and a bag of Flavofives!"
• Megagirl's inhibitor chip is similar to Doc Ock's in Spider-Man 2.
• The show is full of expys; Taz is Vasquez, Up is Old Snake, and Megagirl appears to be Lady Gaga.
• The Galactic League of Extraterrestrial Exploration.
• Cinderella: "Put them together and what have you got?"
• The mammal February encounters happily exclaims, "Pika-Pi!"
  • A larger mammal says, "Totoro!"
• Inspector Gadget: Dr. Space Claw
• "All hail Astro Boy!"
• Megamind appears in the opening sequence.
• Harry Potter: "And I admit it's all in my head/ But who says it can't be real?"
• The Neverending Story: One of Taz's stories about how Up is tough is that once, when a group of bullies picked on her because she's small and likes to read, she got on Up's back and they both chased the bullies into a dumpster.
  • Stand and Deliver: And the time he taught her calculus.
• Junior calling Megagirl a toaster is a reference to Battlestar Galactica (2003), where toaster is a racial slur for cylon (android).
• Toy Story: Officer February's quote "There seem to be no signs of intelligent lifeforms anywhere" mirrors Buzz Lightyear's "There seems to be no signs of intelligent life anywhere"
• Officer February uses a Communicator from Star Trek to analyse the air

Holy Musical B@tman!

• As with most StarKid plays, there are references to other StarKid plays
  • Starship: One of the mob bosses tells his henchman that, "You make me laugh like nobody else," a direct quote of something Buggette said to Bug in the former show.
• Lauren Lopez as Commissioner Gordon looks more like Mark Twain, and at one point he talks about writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• La Cage aux folles
  Penguin: ...more like Le Cage Aux Fools!
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: "See if the snozzberries taste like snozzberries...".
  • "Who can take the sunrise, and sprinkle it with BLOOD?!"
• Batman's open letter to Gotham City concludes with "I am vengeance. I am the night! Stay out of my way!"
• Most of this play's aesthetic and rogues gallery is based off the 60s series, down to the costumes, the red phone in the Batcave, and Batman calling Robin "old chum".
• Superman briefly tries to set Wonder Woman up with Batman, alluding to their comics relationship.
• Sweet Tooth's appearance seems to take some cues from Joker's appearance in The Dark Knight Returns and his mannerisms draw reference to Jack Nicholson and Mark Hamill's portrayal of the Joker.
• When Robin asks Candy if she is hurt after getting hit by Sweet Tooth, she replies that "it felt like a kiss," which is an allusion to a song by The Crystals. It's also something Harley Quinn said about the Joker's abuse of her in the comic "Mad Love".
• "Robin make Batman happy," is a reference to the line "Ursula make George happy" from George of the Jungle.
• Robin calls Sweet Tooth's henchmen "The Lolipop Guild".
• Forrest Gump: Sweet Tooth's Hannibal Lecture includes the line "Momma always said life is like a bunch of chocolates." His entire motive rant is also very similar to Joker's from The Killing Joke.
• To the Ho Yay in Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock:
  Evil!Sherlock: Now I'll never be able to walk Evil!Watson down the aisle!
• The "rabble rabble" gag the citizens do might be a shout out to a minor recurring gag in the earlier seasons of South Park.
• Beauty and the Beast: "I say we kill the Bat!" All of the emphasis and the pattern the words are delivered are a clear shout out to Gaston's "I say we kill the Beast!"
• Frequent mentions of the heroes wanting to play Nintendo with each other.
• During "To Be A Man", Superman says "To be the man you gotta beat the man." He also makes a reference to seeing into Batman's soul, which is actually one of his powers in some continuities.
• The Dark Knight Trilogy
  • Batman's voice is clearly a reference to Christian Bale's infamous "Bat-Growl".
  • The portrayal and characterization of Alfred are based on Michael Caine's, complete with a backstory as a soldier in Burma.
  • "This isn't just your plane, sir. It's your father's plane. And it's all that's left of him. Don't destroy it."
  • The Batcave is mentioned to have been involved in the Underground Railroad as a tunnel for escaped slaves, like in Batman Begins.
  • "I swore I'd protect you, and I haven't."
  • One of the Gotham citizens has an "I believe in Harvey Dent" shirt. Another has a "Why So Serious?" shirt.
  • At one point, Robin encounters Rachel Dawes in the middle of a mugging. She meets the same fate as her film counterpart.
  • A reference is made to Scarecrow's poisoning of the water supply from Batman Begins.
  • Batman calls Superman a "sycophantic suck-up", which is what Bruce called all his party guests in Begins when driving them away from Wayne Manor.
  • Sweet Tooth mentions that, as part of his plan, he has "rogues dressed up as hostages and hostages dressed up as rogues", as well as how little it took to push Gotham into chaos. He also attempts to get Batman to break his one rule by pushing him off a high place.
  • "I won't kill you, that doesn't mean I have to save you."
  • "This city has just shown you that's full of people ready to believe in good."
• Superman alludes to the ending of Superman: The Movie at the beginning which actually comes into play in the climax.
• Sweet Tooth offers a sadistic choice to Gotham, to be decided by Facebook poll: Either he drops a toxic lifesaver into Gotham's water supply, or allows Robin to die. This is a reference to A Death in the Family, where readers were allowed to vote whether or not Robin would be killed off.
• "It puts the warhead on the skin..." "Or else it gets the hose again!"
• Like The Dark Knight Returns, the President sends Superman after Batman to bring him in or kill him.
• Obama asks Superman to show Batman that "our way works".
• Two Gotham citizens make reference to the times The Joker, Scarecrow, and Killer Croc poisoned the water supply.
• Batman screams at the top of his lungs "I'M THE GODDAMN BATMAN!"
• When explaining why Robin should be saved, a citizen of Gotham says "You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us."
• Superman throwing the nuclear warhead into the sun is a reference to Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
• Robin suggests that the Justice League be named "The Superfriends".
• Possibly unintentional, but the main chorus of "Super Friends" bears some resemblance to John Parr's "St. Elmo's Fire".

Twisted

• Naturally, a lot from the Disney canon:
  • All the supposed dirty subliminal messages get referenced at once, centered around "Good teenagers, take off your clothes."
  • So many references to the Disney villains. One memorable instance is toward the end of "Dream A Little Harder."
  Ensemble: He could be skewered by a sailing ship or hanged in tangled jungle vines or eaten by hyenas or he'll plummet to his death from a castle, a clock, or a cliff!
  • Belle from Beauty and the Beast makes an appearance in the beginning when she tells Ja'far to "keep his fat face out of that motherfucking book"
• Death Note: Aladdin quotes Light Yagami: "Could anyone else have come this far?"
• Aladdin's split personality is very similar to a scene from Spider-Man.
• The lyrics to the title song includes the line "'tis nobler in the mind".

Apocalyptour

• Obviously, as this is essentially a show consisting of new arrangements of Starkid's greatest hits, it's chock-full of shout outs to their previous works. However, there are also some new ones in there, such as the Funny Background Event where Brian Holden, launching into "It's Not Over Yet" from A Very Potter Sequel in response to Joe Walker doubting his plans, force-chokes Joe for not believing in him.

The Trail To Oregon!

• Joey Richter's credit for playing "Everyone Else" is a reference to a common way a particular actor is often credited in productions of Little Shop of Horrors.
• The Wiz: In "The Grind" the father declares that "we'll ease on down the road."