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Bee and Puppycat has a dream sequence in which a set of five puppycats are colored in the same color scheme as the first five Sailor Senshi of Sailor Moon.
Broken Saints:
- Each chapter begins and ends with an animation often related to the chapter's theme. Several of these are send-ups of films / TV shows that writer Brooke Burgess likes. Among them: Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, The Matrix, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, and The Wizard of Oz.
- Also, a clip of Christian Slater's "You ever get the feeling..." speech from Pump Up the Volume is played at the beginning of Chapter 19, Act 2 as the club music starts playing.
- Not to mention the graffiti on the alley wall that reads "Who watches".
Damaged has a couple.
- In episode 7, which is a Halloween Episode, Emily attends a costume party in a Lumpy Space Princess costume.
- Also in episode 7, TJ gets bullied by three large red robots who look like the logo for Frederator Studios.
- In episode 9, if you look on the wall at the back early on in the episode, you can see a Cake The Cat wall clock.
- Also in episode 9, then the two mysterious figures pursuing Emily babysit her and TJ in disguise, the tall blue one is seen mixing something in a bowl while wearing a Bee and Puppycat apron.
DarkMatter2525: In "The Meaning of Life", one of God's worshipers looks a lot like Edward Cullen.
The beginning of one Doodle Toons episode showed Jellybean reading a book called "Fifty Shades of Sunglasses".
DSBT InsaniT: There are lots of these. One of the biggest examples is Alex bringing Frets from Simtunes with him in "The Camping Webisode".
Everything Is Broken:
- The series' soundtrack is made out of remixes of already existing music, the full list can be found here.
- When Flippy looks onto his cabinet mirror and LG Creepybloom looks back at him in it he snaps and yells "What do you want from me?" and angrily shakes it in part 3.
- LG Creepybloom makes a trollface and snorts like Spy in part 3.
- Part 5 is an animated recreation of Tobuscus's Let's Play video on Amnesia: The Dark Descent here.
- Flippy's Big "NO!" in part 7 is a borrowed voice clip from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
Flipnote Warrior: Ugo pushes Mome into fighting the The Heartless with an argument that otherwise the animation of PrettyCancel Max Heart will suffer, and she does so, afraid that Nagisa and Honoka expies would look ugly.
FreedomToons: In "The Fable of Jordan Peterson", Peterson sounds like and is drawn to resemble Kermit the Frog. This is referencing a meme about the similarities between the two, which Peterson himself acknowledged when he appeared with a Kermit puppet.
GEOWeasel makes references to other webtoons, including Homestar Runner and Space Tree, and for the latter even got the voice actor to perform.
God's Gang: In "Love is in the Airhole", one of the aliens asks a clownfish, "Isn't your daddy looking for you?"
Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures:
- Kuromi is channeling Scarface (1983) when weilding a bazooka against a group of zombies, "Say 'hello' to my little...friend?"^note
- Badtz-Maru's favorite film franchise, Fly Hard is a two-fer for Top Gun and Die Hard.
- Kuromi paraphrases Dr. Pete Venkman in "Kuromi's Arcade Antics", saying "Let's show this plant how we do things downtown."
- From "Hello-Ween", "No one puts Kuromi in a corner!"
- In "Badtz-Maru's Manga Mania", My Melody is seen piloting a mech similar to D.Va's.
- in "My Melody's Bad Day pt. 3" Badtz-Maru tells My Melody "I'm here to watch videos and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum."
On Homestar Runner, characters will do things like exclaim "What in Pete Sampras is going on?" or dress up as, say M. Bison or Jambi the Genie for Halloween. One character, Coach Z, has the initials of Craig Zobel, who, along with Mike Chapman, wrote the original Homestar Runner children's book.
JAMIEvstheVOID's video "Working at GAME and sexism issues" shows a checklist at one point with the items "Yes", "No", "Maybe", "I don't know" and "Can you repeat the question?", the first lines of the Malcolm in the Middle theme song. Jamie then follows up with "But you're not that great" (if it's any consolation, Jamie later admitted they got the last line wrong).
Klump And Krusha has more than a few. For example, a few Family Guy sound clips have been used.
Kurzgesagt:
- Look for a TARDIS in every video.
- The first episode about the Fermi Paradox features the Sidonia. The two patter also includes Mew, a Namekian, a a dalek, and a Galactus-like duck.
- Pokémon, when discussing databases, banking, and the very nature of life itself.
- Various educational sites and shows on the internet pop up from time to time as well.
- Yoda's Theme is briefly heard in the Space Elevator video.
- During "How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY", a lunar ship resembling the USCSS Nostromo appears. Even sporting the Weyland-Yutani logo.
- The opening for "Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World" features cameos from several Bob's Burgers characters, specifically Gene Belcher, Louise Belcher, Calvin Fischoeder, Teddy, and Bob Belcher (well, Bob Belcher's arm).
- Rick and Morty appear in "Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever", as do Blofeld and a SPECTRE facility.
- The snail from Adventure Time makes a brief cameo in "Aliens under the Ice".
- BMO appears several times in "Do Robots Deserve Rights". Bender also made a cameo.
- The Sorting Hat appears in their video on CRISPR, discussing how some might worry about future people rejecting imperfect humans.
- In their video on neutron stars, the increasingly fast rotation of the neutron star is demonstrated with Sailor Moon doing a pirouette.
- "This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does)" has a cameo from Starlow.
- A scene describes the huge distances between Earth and anything beyond the local group. There's a ship, "Earth" in a side and "a galaxy far, far away" in the other.
- "What if the Moon Crashed Into Earth?" has references to The Legend of Zelda such as the Moon resembling the one from Majora's Mask and the frames having ocarina notes at the bottom.
- "Let’s Travel to The Most Extreme Place in The Universe" has the main characters pressing the "M" button on their suits to shrink, and then flipping it to "W" to grow back to normal size.
- In "What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?", Gollum is shown falling into a volcano with the One Ring while The Little Prince is seen standing near another.
- In "Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?", Godzilla rises from the ocean during the radioactive "meteor shower".
- "The Most Brutal Ant: The Slaver Ant Polyergus" begins with, "Everything changed when the Slaver Nation attacked."
- In Three Ways to Destroy The Universe, the Death Star can be seen after the creature throws the ball into space.
- In Unlimited Resources From Space — Asteroid Mining, A TIE Fighter flies by the probe after it's launched. Pit droids can also be seen on an asteroid later in the video.
- At one point in What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale, human and alien radio dishes can be seen. The humans are transmitting in Morse code, while the aliens in Aurebesh.
- "Lofty cloud cities" is mentioned at the beginning of "How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)", as the screen shows a top-down view of Cloud City architecture and zooming cloud cars.
- In "Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us", the Earth's timeline of the formation of life is compared to that of LV-426 and Gallifrey.
- In the short "Why is the Ocean Salty and Rivers are Not?", Wingulls can be seen relaxing at the beach.
Lalaloopsy Daycare: The sign at the pumpkin patch says "Harvest Moon".
Love of the S*n: Love of the S*n is named after the first line in Tally Hall's song "&".
Minecraft Endventures: One of the enderman triplets is named Slendy.
The Misadventures of R2 and Miku:
- Two episodes involve recreations of scenes from The Simpsons that had become memes - "Steamed Hams but it's R2-D2 and Hatsune Miku", and "Miku Hits R2 with a Chair".
- Another instead recreates the equally-famous treehouse scene from Drake & Josh. Said episode also involves a time card ripped straight from SpongeBob SquarePants.
- Throughout the series, various characters' voices are represented by the Peanuts trombone noise.
- "MVP: Myers Vs Predator" unsurprisingly references Halloween and Predator heavily (with the title specifically alluding to Alien vs. Predator). It also ends by playing "Bad Cops".
- "Clones" has two in the same scene - R2 manages to convince one Miku to leave the truck she's in by tossing a plumbus, leading her to hop out with a sound effect from Super Mario Bros..
- A Xenomorph cameos in the first few seconds of "Appendix".
- Miku's room, as seen in "The Chimp", has both a Gamesphere and a closet with "DON'T OPEN DEAD INSIDE" written on it. Later in the episode, Bob Belcher cameos inside the bank. What's more, the punchline to the episode is Miku announcing that she needs a medic bag (with that game's audio clips, no less).
- Miku's bathroom has a sign with text reading "RESERVED FOR BILLY MAYS' AUTOGRAPH".
Napster Bad depicts James Hetfield as a hulking giant who tends to say "[something] BAD!" or "[something] GOOD!", in a reference to the "FIRE BAD!" line from Frankenstein (one of the shorts has James actually say "FIRE BAD!".)
Nazo Unleashed, a Sonic the Hedgehog fanimation, takes lots of cues from Dragon Ball Z in its fight scenes, especially with the frequent Super Mode use and the heavy use of Flash Step, teleportation, and the Meteor Move. Chakra-X, the creator, justified this by saying that Sonic's creators admitted to taking several cues from Dragon Ball Z themselves, such as the aforementioned super modes.
Over The Hills: In episode 5, "Rivalry", Mr. Stovold is confronted by the owners of Smith & Sons Ltd. by his car, who tell him his railway is doomed. When Mr. Stovold sees Michael Smith, the son, blocking his way into his car, he says "Oh, you shouldn't have done that. Now I'm angry. And you won't like me when I'm angry.".
Kidnapper-kun parodies the famous "Meddling Kids" line from Scooby-Doo in Neko Sugar Girls when Koneko and Raku do a Big Damn Heroes moment and rescue Hitoshi.
Robotbox and Cactus:
- In a segment in "The Internet" riffing on Strong Bad Email, Robotbox receives an email accusing the show of lacking originality, which he refutes as false and asks for backup on his statements from Poel and Gil, who look and sound suspiciously similar to Bonus Stage's Joel and Phil^note. And then a Coach Z-esque character with an F medallion enters the shot to scream and his head explodes.
- The convenience store in "Box of Wine" has Bacones (the focus of an episode of Waterman) in stock.
- The Bridgemaster's riddle/trivia question asks who played Hannibal on The A-Team, and the back-and-forth between him and Cactus afterwards namedrops Billy Joel and John Mellencamp, and also references Bruce Springsteen.
- "Oh God, Bees!" from "Classic" parodies My God Robots, whose creator is also associated with the creator of Bonus Stage.
- The episode title "Interrogation, Tire" is another Homestar Runner reference, this time to Strong Badia's citizenry, "population: tire".
Stupid Kids:
- Call of Duty soundtrack is used in Ahol a méreg sem segít (Where even poison does not help) and És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me).
- Dani mistakes rat poison as nutella in Ahol a méreg sem segít (Where even poison does not help).
- Antónia Erős from Club RTL shows up as a coanchor in Nova TV in Ahol a méreg sem segít (Where even poison does not help).
- Bazsi wants to go into the kitchen to get some fanta but Boti builds a border out of playmobil there in Ahol a méreg sem segít (Where even poison does not help).
- Wongie's shirt has a creeper's face.
- There is a photo of Jackie Chan in Wongie's room.
- Bazsi and Wongie talk about Pacman, Sonic, Mortal Kombat (1992), Microsoft Outlock, and Ezio Auditore in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me).
- A newspaper mentions Peter Jackson pooped then admits that was a lie in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me).
- Balázs Hatvani sits in a restaurant in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me).
- Bazsi mentions they plan to have an interview with Weekly Seven in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me).
- After being chased by Nova TV hitmen Bazsi states he understands now how Father Tamás felt back then in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me).
- Boti and Dani use a Minecraft stone and shears in their Rock–Paper–Scissors game in Boldogat és még boldogabbat (Merry and even more).
- Bazsi admits he spent all of their Christmas spared money on Assassins Creed 3 in Boldogat és még boldogabbat (Merry and even more).
- Herby, HollywoodNewsAgency, Covery, and Superqwad11 get mentioned in DaniGamer001.
- Bazsi forces Szefi to advertise Dani's Youtube channel in DaniGamer001.
- Dani has a portal gun in DaniGamer001.
- Dani takes Sirius as hostage in DaniGamer001.
- Boti sings "Con los terroristas" before the ending credits of DaniGamer001.
- Boti watches a show called "Yoshi barát" ("Yoshi friend") where Kirby stars in Hős Lovag Boti (Sir Boti Knight).
- Slenderman is shown behind a tree for a moment in Hős Lovag Boti (Sir Boti Knight).
SuperThings:
- The episode "Zombies Night" features advertisements for Ham-Ilton, Zingked, and an unnamed parody of Tangled.
- Kid Kazoom's comic book collection in the episode "Kid Kazoom's Training" includes Lonchadelo Y Filetón, The Lake Zing, and The Amazing Zing.
Trick Moon: The monster Dr. Bleak sends after the Moonstone is a dragon with crystalline features and a gemstone in its chest, mimicking the Corrupted Gems of Steven Universe. When Pocket removes the gem from its chest, the dragon's body turns to smoke, similar to what happens to Corrupted Gems when they're defeated.
The Vietnamese web animation series Wolfoo has given shout-outs to other franchises such of Marvel and DC.
- One episode is about the main character having an Imagine Spot where he fights against animated food on the moon while wearing a ninja turtle suit.
- In a dream episode, the main character steals a magic chocolate wand and tries to evade police capture while dressed in a suit similar to Magic Kaito.

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