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7-Second Riddles:
- One riddle featured characters named David, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross, and Joey.
- There was one riddle focusing on a young boy at a magical school. Of course, his name was Harry.
- The choices in one "Who Is Dumber?" riddle involves two blob people, one that ate expired medicine and the other who sold both their kidneys.
- One riddle is about A woman named Scully and a man named Mulder.
- The setting of one riddle is the Star Wars planet Hoth.
In the first episode of Adventures in Jedi School, Jank gives an off-the-cuff reciting of the Jedi-Code that sounds more like a butchered rendition of the Green Lantern Oath.
AFK: Unsurprisingly, as a fantasy series the show has many references to famous work in the genre, such as Brenda retorting "I am no man" when taken for male and then removing a disguise.
The British Railway Stories
- In episode 3, "Hawk Aye!", pannier tank engine Hawksworth (or "Hawk" for short) recalls having a friend on the Great Western Railway named Montague.
- In episode 9, "Birds Of A Feather", when George is getting ready to leave Copley Hill to return to the Midland region of British Rail, he tells Nigel "We'll Always Have Parish", referencing both Casablanca and Ian Parish the cricketer.
Brocéliande features an orc named Ferrigno, in a clear allusion to Lou Ferrigno, famous for playing another muscular green guy.
CGP Grey:
- When explaining the many kinds of Daddy Longlegs, he casually mentions that the Australian version does indeed have venom and fangs and adds that "then again, so does everything else in that bloody country" as the screen changes to images of several animals and a politician, with the distinctive stick figure on the yellow background of Caustic Critic Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw hiding in the corner of the video.
- For "How To Become Pope", two of the questions the Apostolic Nuncio asks potential bishops are "What is your quest?" and "What is your favorite color?"
- In the "American Empire" video, the formation of the United States from the original 13 is depicted as forming Voltron.
- When discussing Svalbard in the "Where is Scandanavia?" video, he mentions that it is guarded by armored bears.
- "Death & Dynasties" has one to Doctor Who, featuring the Tenth Doctor whispering the infamous quote he used to depose Harriet Jones ("Don't you think she looks tired?") to the monarch's aide.
- For the "Who Owns The Statue of Liberty?" video about the surprisingly complicated question of where the border between New York and New Jersey runs (due to the original English charter being both wordy and vague), New York claimed the whole river (including Staten, Ellis, and the future Liberty Island) as theirs — even the Hudson River piers New Jersey built. "All New York. All belong to us." Said while the New York avatar is wearing a blue cape mimicking CATS.
- In "Which Planet is the Closest?", all the planet humanoids are represented by their standard Roman mythological god/goddess appearances. Saturn specifically has blood leaking from his mouth, as a reference to Francisco de Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son.
- "The Trouble with Tumbles" recalls for Star Trek: The Original Series fans the episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", as Grey implicitly compares tumbleweeds with tribbles in terms of how they seem harmless and kind of endearing at first but actually cause major problems due to their absurdly rapid reproduction rate. A graphic within the video about how prairie fires are a threat to agriculture also mimics the user interface of RimWorld.
- "There are three players in this game: content creators who make videos, advertisers who make the ads, and YouTube playing matchmaker, matchmaker, making the match."
- Grey is fond of making references to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  - In "You Are Two", Right Brain picks up a Twilight Sparkle figure, which Left Brain justifies as being "Because she's the best pony."
  - In "Which Planet Is The Closest?", he exclaims "Oh my Celestia!" when holding up the paper with the maths results, and the paper emanates Princess Celestia's mane colors, which wave in a similar way to how it does in the show.
  - In "Ask Grey: Lockdown Edition", while explaining how he believes post-virus life will go back to normal when everyone returns to normal life, he describes it as "everyone says 'Dear Princess Celestia, I didn't learn a thing.'"
- In Q&A with Grey: Ten Years Later on the eras question, a bespectacled Know-Nothing Know-It-All offers a generalized statement on Grey's death-themed videos, only for the listener to pull Grey himself from behind an easel, who tells the generalizer "You know nothing of my work".
- In "Why Nevada Owns Less Than 20% of Nevada", about US Federal Land, different plots of land are represented by Magic: The Gathering land cards.
Chris Ray Gun's song "Algorythm" contains the line "Case dismissed, bring in the dancing lobsters."
Cinemasins usually reserves quotes from other movies at the end of his videos for his own humorous stingers. However, when he's counting the sins of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, he comments how during the film's climax, Peter Quill is wearing his space mask, while Rocket Raccoon wears nothing over his face while flying right next to him. This leads him to say "Is there air?! You don't know!!"
CLW Entertainment: "The Truth About Big G" is a reference to the famous "Don't be intimidated" scene from SpongeBob SquarePants, except done with Doraemon characters.
Crossed Lines:
- In Episode 1, a blue pillar box can be seen on a station platform. The pillar box appears again in Episode 6.
- In Episode 2, Atlas, while stuck in a tunnel known as the drains, worries the other engines will say "The green engine stuck in a tunnel. Really, Atlas. How cliche. Life trying to imitate art, or something?".
- Around the end of episode 2, after Atlas makes a pun, Cojack tells him "You're despicable.".
- In Episode 3, when moving some trucks back into the yard, Clay starts talk-singing The Locomotion to himself. He does it again at the end of the episode, this time with music.
- In Episode 8, when Killian Hardgraves hijacks Levi's train and drives him to Ember's location, the act is referred to as a code "Old Iron".
The Cry of Mann: Most of Frank's cryptic questions to the callers are references to various H. P. Lovecraft stories.
D'Angelo Wallace: In his video "The Disappearance Of Blair White", a video where he analyzes White's controversies, especially her recent controversy with a transgender power lifter. Almost all sections of the video make references to horror (or horror-adjacent) movies, including "The Blaire White Project", "The Silence of the Fans", "The Sixth Chance", "Hoaxbusters", "Hocus Wokest", "Night of the Missing Text", "The Whining", and "Parasocial Activity". This is fitting for a Halloween-themed episode.
Daisy Brown has more than a few: Between the mention of "Lynks Disease", Alan's name^note, a blue chair that can be seen in some videos, and the general format, it's safe to assume that the creator is a fan of Alan Resnick.
Doug Funnie in Adult Life:
- The name of the advertising agency is "JJ Advertising", a reference to series creator Jim Jinkins.
- The magazine that Doug reads in the waiting area is called "Rolam as Pedras"^{Rough translation}"Roll the Stones", a reference to The Rolling Stones.
Formula 1:
- In the Weekend Warm-Up! 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix video Will Buxton compares the Ferrari overalls to Iron Man due to their coloration. Then goes and calls Mercedes the Thanos of Formula One, due to them being the ones everyone is desperately trying to catch and utterly failing to in the overall points even with the neither Mercedes driver making it on podium at Monza.
- Alonso's engineer quotes Top Gun in the team radio featured from the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
- Sade - Smooth Operator - Carlos Sainz Jr. developed a habit of singing bits of the song over the team radio when things were going well during the 2019 season.
- Lando Norris has chanted the refrain from FISHER - Stop It ("Moving up and down, side to side, like a rollercoaster") during team radio.
- In the best of team radio from the 2020 Italian Grand Prix Max Verstappen tells his engineer that they're "Captain Slow" (the nickname of James May on Top Gear) on the straight, before he's told to retire the car due to engine trouble.
Hadriex:
- In a reading your comments video, Hadriex literally shouts Jack and shows a picture of him. Fitting both because Jack popularized reading comments videos, and the hate comments he was reading seemed to have a hearing problem.
- In the middle of this review of Genetos one reviewer suggests the possibility of a Roguelike shooter. Cue footage of... Microsoft Word... as a shmups engine... Naturally the player is an @ sign.
The Happy Video Game Nerd:
- Other than his appreciation of AVGN, HVGN also gives shout outs to other YouTube video game reviewers, including Little Miss Gamer and Still Gaming — both of whom would eventually join Channel Awesome.
- In his Clash at Demonhead review, inspired by Scott Pilgrim, he takes time out of his review to praise Edgar Wright for his direction of the film version, saying "You're three for three."
The Hobo Bros often jokingly reference other works:
- In NECROPHOBIA, when they claim a corpse as their Companion Cube, they name it Wilson, after the volleyball in Cast Away.
- "What's the time?" "It's quarter to nine."
- While screwing around in Sonic Heroes, Kevin quotes Homer Simpson's "If there's a better use for the internet..." line, but substituting "GameCube" for "internet".
- Also in Sonic Heroes, while Team Sonic performs a move that involves Knuckles swinging Sonic and Tails around, Luke says "So long, gay Bowser!"
- In Ronald McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure, when Ronald fires his magic projectiles, Kevin shouts "The power of Christ compels you!"
Husbands:
- The characters are talking about impulsive behaviour after Cheeks buys a dog on impulse.
  Cheeks: Well, being impulsive both got us really hot husbands.
  Brady: One time it also got be a tattoo that says "need more cowbell". [slaps his behind]
- Then, when Brady asks if they can get rid of the dog, Cheeks says that they've already imprinted and "done the whole Avatar hair/braid thing."
Jack Vale Films sometimes features pranks involving the Grinch.
One of Mike Mozart’s catchphrases is "What were they thinking?"
Jet Lag: The Game: One of the tasks used to claim a state in season four was to "Drive a Chevy to a levee and eat pie", a nod to American Pie's title track.
KateModern:
- It features several Shout-Outs to lonelygirl15. For example, Danielbeast is one of the webcam users hacked by Project Orwell in "The Leak", and the name "Bree" appears on Gavin's "PEOPLE I HATE" list in "The List".
- Similarly, in "Straight to the Top", Gavin suggests that Lauren could audition for fellow Bebo show Sofias Diary.
One of many running gags in Kentucky Ballistics surrounds host Scott DeShields' treatment of Furbies. He portrays them as terrifying hellspawn which must be destroyed at all costs, specifically ascribing the warnings in the Gremlins franchise to them.^note
Kid Time Storytime has Green Bear mistake the title of the book The Lying King for The Lion King (1994).
LG15: the resistance:
- It mentions The Return of the Jedi and The Return of the King in "Fun Things to Do in Hiding — Volume Three!"
- The first two chapters contain several allusions to The Matrix, both direct and indirect.
- In Chapter 12, Jonas whistles part of the theme from The Great Escape before rescuing Reed.
Maddison Atkins features an episode called "Law & Order: Maddison Atkins". Adam can be seen playing Mario Kart 64 in one episode, and Maddison wears a Princess Peach shirt in another. With the possible exception of HTMLvis, all the pigeons' names (chosen by fans) appear to be shout outs: Trotsky, Mini Moon and Lady Gaga.
mpn1990 (in a bloodcurdling screaming voice): "Damn you, Action 52! God damn you to friggin hell!" (Planet of the Apes (1968)?)
Plainrock124: In the 7th episode of Bored Smashing - GROCERY STORE PHONES!, King intentionally gets himself banned from Club Penguin Island by saying "He fucked me with a toothbrush." This is a reference to a Tana Mongeau video.
Pretty Dudes: In the screen life episode Zario's music library contains tracks by fictional soul divas Drinka Champagne (The Cheetah Girls) and Jackie Washington (Jackie's Back) alongside real artists like Whitney Houston and Patti LaBelle.
Regular Car Reviews: As a series by two self-avowed weirdo nerds with Master's degrees in English, you bet your ass they're flooded in allusions:
- To Marty and Moog from Mighty Car Mods in the Veloster review.
- To Mike Musto of the /Drive Network in the XB review.
- To Wayne's World in the DeLorean review.
- To, of all things, Undertale, in the Jeep TJ review, with Mr. Regular going so far as to call it "The Toriel of Cars".
  - Undertale pops up a few more times, including in the Barracuda review, a darker reference in the Corolla review, and a recent commissioned skit featuring Undyne commenting on a Hemi Cuda.
- In one Video, Mr. Regular describes himself as the American Ashens because like Ashens, the viewer did not see his face at the time.
- The second Honda S2000 review to Final Fantasy VI, as The Roman sings to the melody of Terra's Theme and Mr. Regular refers to the car as the "Final Fantasy VI of cars, it's the car you're supposed to like".
- The Roman's credits song for the Volvo C303 review is a parody of "Born Depressed", the main theme of the Jimquisition.
- The credit song for the Callaway Corvette C7 AeroWagon parodies "Rap is a Man's Soul" from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- During the Dodge Viper review, as Mr. Regular is winding up for an Author Filibuster about car manufacturers tendency to market their sports models in manual transmission only, he talks about how the companies want to naturally appeal to the MANUAL MASTER RACE.
- From the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon review:
  "I'm a Dodge Demon, I ruin marriages faster than Overwatch, Fortnite and Splatoon squid porn put together."
- The series makes repeated reference to the Rules of Acquisition, appearing in several car reviews and a few RCR Stories as well (at least four show up in the Chrysler-Mercedes Merger Story).
- At least part of at least three episodes are done with Mr. Regular talking In the Style of Hunter S. Thompson.
- The "will" in the 2005 Chrysler Sebring review includes a line in which the "guy who writes his will in Comic Sans" leaves his wife Anne his "second-best bed" (a joke only literature and history nerds recognize as a reference to William Shakespeare's will).
Thomas Sanders invokes this with his "Shout Out Sunday" series, where he sings a short song using the name of one of his friends or followers and dedicated to everyone with the name.
In "I REFUSE TO DIE-Respawn Man (Part 1/4)" by Santoro Gaming, Matt notes that there are many dead bodies of his character in Respawn Man, the video game that he’s playing, and compares it to the music video for "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, which also has many dead bodies.
Search for Sandvich:
- The Giggling Secretary from Twin Peaks makes a cameo while the mercs are in Twin Peaks.
- In "Out to Sea!", while the Spy is on the boat, he stands at the bow and puts his arms out like the famous scene from Titanic.
Slimecicle Cinematic Universe: On Day 18 of "We Spent 100 Days in a Hardcore Minecraft Apocalypse", Charlie sings the line "In the eye of the hurricane, there are gators".
Solid jj:
- The beginning of "Doctor Strange Multiverse of Stooges" has Strange and Wong having exited a universe that, according to Strange, has Tony Stark wearing blackface.
- The title "Just a Burning Pokémon" is one to the song "It's just a burning memory" by The Caretaker, alluding to Professor Oak going senile as depicted in the short.
- One of the aquatic life asking for Aquaman's help in "Classic Aquaman" is a clownfish whose son is kidnapped by humans. Aquaman immidiately gets the Finding Nemo reference and tells the fish to go to Australia and get some help from a brain-damaged fish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres like Marlin did in the film.
StacheBros:
- In "Episode 1-6 - Voyage to Yoshi's Island" of "Mario & Luigi! Stache Bros", when Mario and Donkey Kong are interrogating Wario for a vehicle to get to Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong gets him to cooperate by offering him a Scooby Snack.
- In "Toadsworth's House of Horrors", Bowser references Burger King and its slogan before going inside Toadsworth's mansion.
- In "The Year Luigi Stopped Believing In Santa Claus!", Luigi receives on Christmas Day a special bell that only believers in Santa can hear. Although Toadsworth says that Luigi continued to hear the bell as he got older because he never stopped believing, Luigi is actually disappointed that this is his only Christmas present.
- In "Koopa The Quick Saves The Day?", Bowser threatens to make turtle soup out of Koopa if he loses the race. This makes Koopa feel hungry, to which Bowser tells him "No soup for you!", a reference Koopa understands.
- In "The Day Super Mario Died", Luigi sprays Bowser's eyes with Oxi-Clean, which makes Bowser realize how much he misses Billy Mays.
  - In the same video, Luigi complains that everything has become too perfect without Mario and says his life has become "Little Miss Sunshine", which Peach thought was a good movie.
- In "Super Donkey Kong Bros", when Mario senses Peach being kidnapped by Bowser, he says "My Mario senses are tingling."
- The joke credits at the end of "Luigi's Mysterious Attic" credit Bob Hoskins as Mario. Bob Hoskins has previously played Mario in the Super Mario Bros. (1993) movie.
Steve 1989 MRE Info: A framed picture of Kyle Reese from The Terminator is prominently visible on the wall behind Steve whenever he cuts away to a shot of himself.
Stopmotion Chess:
- Trigun soundtrack is used.
- White King promises whoever defeats Black King will get to go to Chuck E. Cheese.
- Super Mario Bros. sound effects are used.
- WALL•E shows up to pick up a dead white pawn.
- When Black King gets check he says "You're despicable!" and the White Knight replies with "Oh I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration?"
- South Park and Futurama sound effects are used in the remixed version.
Super Bunnyhop's logo is a modified version of the FOXHOUND logo from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
TierZoo frequently makes references to competitive video games such as Pokémon, Super Smash Bros., Street Fighter, and Overwatch.
- "Are Dolphins OP? The Whale Tier List" opens with an orca emerging from nowhere and giving a Badass Boast in the form of "Omae wa mou shinderu".
- The "Elemental Type Moves" episode has several references to Pokémon, including the names of the elemental moves (Discharge, Water Gun, and Fire Blast).
- The scream VFX from Hollow Knight is used in a few videos, namely the one on antlions.
- Footage from Super Smash Bros. Melee, and the Battlefield theme from Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the music used on the Kirby stage from Super Smash Bros. 64 are used whenever PvP is being discussed. There's also references to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in "Echo Fighters" such as the mouse to the rat.
- One clip involving tigers fighting wolves uses footage from The Jungle Book (2016).
- "Are Insects Getting Banned?" opens with Thanos snapping his fingers, and various insects being turned to dust.
- The lifebars and damage numbers during PVP are from Runescape. In-game chat is also displayed Runescape-style, and much of the more generic background music is from its soundtrack.
- The "rat mains" shown in the "Rodent Tier List" video are actually the main characters of Ratatouille and Stuart Little.
- The Shark Tier List opens with "My Shiny Teeth and Me".
- The series is partly inspired by Animal Planet's The Most Extreme, and sometimes uses its green static transition effect. The theme from Eyewitness is also used.
- The UI from Don't Starve can be momentarily seen in the "Are Insects Getting Banned?" episode.
- The cleaner wrasse in "The Fish Tier List" gets a task list resembling the Among Us task list.
- The intro to "The Primate Tier List" parodies the intro of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- "The Crustacean Tier List":
  - A copepod is seen saying, "Holographic meatloaf again? My favorite!"
  - One video shows a human trying to hit a crab with the stick, with the crab saying, "You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
Unwanted Houseguest: "Carly Beth" is a song about the protagonist of the Goosebumps book/episode "The Haunted Mask."
We The You: I don't know what that means.
Welcome Back, Potter: When Stacey emphasizes not saying Voldemort's name, Jarry sarcastically asks Don to "Beetlejuice me a Bloody Mary, Candyman."
World War II:
- Part 2 of the "Nazis On Crystal Meth" series calls Doctor Fritz Hauschild the Walter White, née Walther Weiss^*Not that one of Nazi Germany.
- Episode 12 - "The Mysterious Threat to the Royal Navy" opens with Indy giving the date, November 17, 1939, in his usual style before a swirling transition cuts to him giving a campy impression of The Riddler directed at the leaders of Britain and France in the style of the Batman (1966) version of the character.

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