Shout Out / VeggieTales

In addition to almost every non-Bible story a being straight-up parody or pastiche of some book or movie, we have the following:

• At the end of A Snoodle's Tale (which is told in the style of Dr. Seuss), Larry comments that "there was something about that story that made me want to eat green ham. And eggs. Eggs too."
• Also, some of the characters' voices are based on (or similar to) movie characters. For example, Mr. Nezzer's is based on Oogie Boogie (his Dark Reprise of "The Bunny Song" is pretty much a Suspiciously Similar Song of Oogie Boogie's theme) and Mr. Lunt's is based on Greasy, one of the Toon Patrol weasels.
• Pistachio begins with the kitchen getting a re-model from Extreme Re-Do: Crying Edition, right down to the most on-the-nose Ty Pennington parody ever.
• In Pistachio, Khalil, who is playing the Cricket, says "I'm no fool, no-sirree!" a line from the educational films Disney produced in the '60s and '70s starring Jiminy Cricket.
• From The Ballad Of Little Joe, made into a very out-of-place Shout-Out simply because of the accent Larry says it in:
  Larry/Little Joe: "You people tried to steal from me, and we don't take kindly to stealing around these here parts."
• Another "The Ballad of Little Joe'' example:
  Larry/Little Joe: "Desperadoes! You'd better come to your senses!" *is cut off*
  • And of course the the name of the title character is a reference to Bonanza. Madame Blueberry's character, "Miss Kitty" is a reference to Gunsmoke.
• In It's A Meaningful Life, Larry and Petunia's characters are named Stewart and Donna, after the actors who played the characters they're parodying in It's a Wonderful Life.
• Another It's a Wonderful Life reference in "The Star of Christmas": Bob (as Cavis) states "I will teach all of London to love!"
• The French Peas taunting Josh from atop the walls of Jericho? The only way it'd have been more obvious was if one of them called Josh's mother a hamster and said his father smelt of elderberries.
• The shorter of the two stories in King George and the Ducky is called "The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill and Came Down With All the Bananas".
• "Sumo of the Opera" has numerous ones to Rocky and The Mikado, such as the main character being named "the Italian Scallion" and his attempt to at least tie with the current heavy-weight champion to the former, plus the play format from — and all but one song using the melodies of — the latter.
  • The episode was even called by the directors a mix between Rocky and The Mikado, with a hint of The Karate Kid.
• In Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed, when the townsfolk have bought into the fake rumor that Alfred is a dangerous robot who wants to take over the world and has laser-beam eyes, a carrot mentions how he heard that "there are teenagers inside him that know karate."
  • Phil Vischer mentioned in the commentary that it was in fact a Power Rangers reference, but not a lot of people could properly hear what he said due to his voice actor (who was also their editor at the time), John Wahba, being Egyptian and speaking with a thick accent.
  • Speaking of Larry-Boy... his theme song ends with a Larry dressed like Jimmy Walker's character J.J. from Good Times saying "Dyn-O-Mite!", Walker's signature catchphrase.
• LarryBoy and the Bad Apple has a scene parodying Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: When Bad Apple introduces LarryBoy to his Lotus-Eater Machine (a museum of chocolate), she wears a purple hat like Wonka's, and does a crazy rant like Wonka does during the boat's Disney Acid Sequence.
• During the Silly Song "Schoolhouse Polka" (which is itself a reference), when asked to sing about pronouns, Larry sings:
  Larry: I'm a pronoun, they're a pronoun, he's a pronoun, she's a pronoun, wouldn't you like to be a pronoun too?
• The climax of The Toy that Saved Christmas is an extended shout-out to the end of Batman Forever.
• Moe and the Big Exit has this song from Boyz In The Sink, "A Mess Down in Egypt".
  • As if the song itself wasn't enough, it was originally going to be called "Fresh Prince of Egypt", if the DVD/Blu-ray Scene Selection menu is of any indication.
• In one of the early episode, the title is "The Gourds Must Be Crazy" and features Junior Asparagus being brought to a ship called the ''USS Applepies''.
  • "In Veggies in Space: The Fennel Frontier, the USS Applepies returns, (from Space Fleet) and this time is run by Captain Cuke and Mr. Spork, the opening is run across the screen like in Star Wars, and asparagus in a blue police box calls himself Doctor Who and says he has to be off to the nineteenth century.
    • References quite a bit more (With the listed examples not even making half of the references)^note May be an Exact Words situation here, with callbacks to earlier episodes counting as well. The entire episode is, to put it bluntly, Reference Overdosed.
• Upon hearing the title "Madame Blueberry", Larry comments:
  "I think I've seen that one. Doesn't it have Jerry Lewis in it?"
• Minnesota Cuke And The Search For Samson's Hairbrush (and its sequel, "Noah's Umbrella") are one big homage to the Indiana Jones series, the latter even taking it upon itself to go as far as to poke fun at the conventions of the films.
• In The Penniless Princess, whenever Miss Minchin's name is mentioned, a horse can be heard whinnying in the background, much like whenever Frau Blucher is mentioned in Young Frankenstein.
• The line "Tune in next time to hear [character] say..." in the Silly Songs with Larry segments is a reference to the line "Tune in next time to hear Doctor Bob say..." at the end of the Veterinarian's Hospital segments on The Muppet Show.
• The exterior shots of the diner in Silly Sing-Along 2: The End of Silliness? is based on Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks.
• Phil and Mike said that when writing "His Cheeseburger", they said they wanted it to have the feel of a Meat Loaf or Air Supply ballad and listened to a bunch of their music for inspiration.
• The first sing-along video had a segment where Larry mistakenly believes that they're making a "home improvement video" and starts demonstrating how to replace the sink's faucet, and the music that bookends the segment (and plays during the title cards for the next few songs) is an obvious riff on the Home Improvement theme.
• Lord of the Beans manages to hit several high points of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as give shoutouts to Elvis Presley (Elvis being close to Elves) and the Keebler Elves.