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** In "Amarillo", when doing a preview run of his D&M commercial to Kim, Jimmy sets up the scenario by saying they're watching ''Series/MurderSheWrote''. That show has seen guest stars like Creator/BryanCranston (Walter White), Creator/MichaelMcKean (Chuck [=McGill=]), Creator/PatrickFabian (Howard Hamlin), Creator/RaymondCruz (Tuco Salamanca), Creator/DennisBoutsikaris (Rick Schweikert), and Miriam Colon (Tuco's abuelita).

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Jed Walker was estabished to be a fan of DC Comics -- the company that published [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 the original series]] and said comic series was set in Franchise/TheDCU, even featuring characters from it in guest spots. Even putting that aside, there's the fact that [[Creator/KirbyHowellBaptiste Death]] and [[Creator/DavidThewlis John Dee]] (the ''Justice League'' villain Dr. Destiny) sound (and in Dee's case, looks) like ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' villains [[WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted the Cheetah]] and [[Film/WonderWoman2017 Ares]] respectively, and [[Creator/MarkHamill Merv Pumpkinhead]] sounds like (among others) [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Joker]], [[Franchise/TheFlash the Trickster]], [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Solomon Grundy, Ferris Boyle, Jordan Pryce]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Tony Zucco]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Spectre]], and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Swamp Thing]].

** In season 2, when Harry posits that murder victim Tony Allen might've been a cleaner who disposed of the body of a murdered FBI agent, Eleanor likens him to Mr. Wolf from ''Film/PulpFiction'', [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure and is surprised when Harry doesn't get the reference]]. Creator/PaulCalderon, who appears in seasons 3-5 and 7 as Santiago Robertson, had a minor role in that film.

** Liz is a big ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan and references the films frequently. So it's a little odd that when Carrie Fisher appears as a guest star in the episode "Rosemary's Baby," Liz doesn't recognise her as Princess Leia. (The episode did include the requisite movie reference: "Help me, Liz Lemon, you're my only hope!")

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Gina goes to see ''Hamilton'' and no one notices that the [[Creator/LinManuelMiranda lead actor]] looks a lot like Amy's brother David.

** "After Hours" has an offhanded reference made to Gordon Gekko, Creator/MichaelDouglas' character in ''Film/WallStreet''. Tom Selleck appeared as a surgery patient in a 1978 movie called ''Film/{{Coma}}'', which also starred Michael Douglas.

** “Innocence” includes a scene in which a young doctor at a crime scene approaches JJ and Alvez and says he’s honored to work with them, and that he grew up watching and being inspired by “all the ''CSI''s”. Creator/AdamRodriguez, who plays Alvez, was a main character throughout the entire run of ''Series/{{CSIMiami}}''.

** Speaking of ''Star Trek'', the penultimate episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' has Richard Woolsey mention that Franchise/StarTrek: The Experience in Las Vegas had closed. One wonders if ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' got made in the Stargate verse, and if so, whether anyone's ever told Richard Woolsey that he looks just like the Doctor, who appeared in said ride.

** In "Bug", Jesse at one point refers to Gus walking unflinchingly into a line of sniper fire as "Terminator shit". Creator/DeanNorris (Hank) made a brief appearance in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' as the leader of the LAPD SWAT team that raids Cyberdyne headquarters and guns down Miles Dyson.

* Like its parent show before it, ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is frequently referenced and featured. One must wonder if Sheldon ever noticed that Dr. Sturgis sounds eerily similar to [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Grand Nagus Zek]].

** In "Fair Weather Fran", Niles mentions that Brighton Sheffield is going to a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' convention. Niles' actor, Creator/DanielDavis, guest starred in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episodes "Elementary, Dear Data" and "Ship In A Bottle" as the holographic Professor Moriarty (interestingly, the latter episode aired 10 months before ''The Nanny'' premiered).

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Q-Pid", Picard is writing his speech in his ready room, where his volume of ''Annotated Shakespeare'' is [[http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x20/qpid-hd-015.jpg opened at a page]] showing [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/shakespeare/anno-354-355.jpg a photo from a production]] of ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' in which Creator/PatrickStewart (Picard) played Touchstone.

*** The series opens - and the first season closes - with the song "Blue Skies" playing, specifically, the rendition sung by Music/BingCrosby, who was the grandfather of Creator/DeniseCrosby, who starred as Tasha Yar in the first season of TNG.

** Invoked, possibly intentionally: Sawyer calls Karl "Cheech", and then Cheech Marin shows up playing Hurley's father a scant two episodes later.

** ''Film/CapricornOne' was also not mentioned on the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode in which an astronaut (played by James Brolin) listens to Munch's theory on the "faked" moon landing.

** During an interrogation in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' season 12 episode “For Love or Money,” Lenny Briscoe says “It’s ''Series/TheSopranos''. Makes them think they can get away with everything.” Plenty of Sopranos actors guest-starred on Law & Order. One would think Lenny would have at least noticed Camela Soprano’s resemblance to recurring defense attorney Sally Bell.
** A suspect in one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' remarks that Captain Benson has "an ass like Satan and a face like Creator/JayneMansfield."

** Amanda Bentley has a Contest Winner Cameo on ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'' and both her colleagues at the hospital and the crew of ''[=YatR=]'' comment on her resemblance to Victoria Rowell, who actually was a regular cast member of that series.

** During an interrogation in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' season 12 episode “For Love or Money,” Lenny Briscoe says “It’s ''Series/TheSopranos''. Makes them think they can get away with everything.” Plenty of Soprano’s actors guest-starred on Law & Order. One would think Lenny would have at least noticed Camela Soprano’s resemblance to recurring defense attorney Sally Bell.

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Jed Walker was estabished to be a fan of DC Comics -- the company that published [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 the original series]] and said comic series was set in Franchise/TheDCU ad even featured characters from it. Even putting that aside, there's the fact that [[Creator/KirbyHowellBaptiste Death]] and [[Creator/DavidThewlis John Dee]] (the ''Justice League'' villain Dr. Destiny) sound (and in Dee's case, looks) like ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' villains [[WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted the Cheetah]] and [[Film/WonderWoman2017 Ares]] respectively, and [[Creator/MarkHamill Merv Pumpkinhead]] sounds like, many others, [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Joker]], [[Franchise/TheFlash the Trickster]], [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Solomon Grundy, Ferris Boyle, Jordan Pryce]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Tony Zucco]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Spectre]], and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Swamp Thing]].

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Jed Walker was estabished to be a fan of DC Comics -- the company that published [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 the original series]] and said comic series was set in Franchise/TheDCU ad even featured characters from it. Even putting that aside, there's the fact that [[Creator/KirbyHowellBaptiste Death]] and [[Creator/DavidThewlis John Dee]] (the ''Justice League'' villain Dr. Destiny) sound (and in Dee's case, looks) like ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' villains [[WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted the Cheetah]] and [[Film/WonderWoman2017 Ares]] respectively, and [[Creator/MarkHamill Merv Pumpkinhead]] sounds like [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Joker]], [[Franchise/TheFlash the Trickster]], [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Solomon Grundy]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Tony Zucco]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Spectre]], and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Swamp Thing]].

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Jed Walker was estabished to be a fan of DC Comics -- the company that published [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 the original series]] and said comic series was set in Franchise/TheDCU ad even featured characters from it. Even putting that aside, there's the fact that [[Creator/KirbyHowellBaptiste Death]] and [[Creator/DavidThewlis John Dee]] (the ''Justice League'' villain Dr. Destiny) sounds (and in Dee's case, looks) like ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' villains [[WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted the Cheetah]] and [[Film/WonderWoman2017 Ares]] respectively, and [[Creator/MarkHamill Merv Pumpkinhead]] sounds like [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Joker]], [[Franchise/TheFlash the Trickster]], [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Solomon Grundy]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Tony Zucco]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Spectre]], and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Swamp Thing]].

* In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Jed Walker was estabished to be a fan of DC Comics -- the company that published [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 the original series]] and said comic series was set in Franchise/TheDCU ad even featured characters from it. Even putting that aside, there's the fact that [[Creator/KirbyHowellBaptiste Death]] and [[Creator/DavidThewlis John Dee]] (the ''Justice League'' villain Dr. Destiny) sounds (and in Dee's case, looks) like ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' villains [[WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted the Cheetah]] and [[Film/WonderWoman2017 Ares]] respectively, and [[Creator/MarkHamill Merv Pumpkinhead]] sounds like [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Joker]], [[Franchise/TheFlash the Trickster]], [[WesternAnimtion/JusticeLeague Solomon Grundy]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Tony Zucco]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Spectre]], and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Swamp Thing]].

** Michael is also seen critiquing the film ''Live Free Or Die Hard''. In Season 7, Michael hires an excellent traveling salesman played by Timothy Olyphant...who was the villain in the aforementioned ''Die Hard'' film.

** Subverted for a gag in the Season 48 Creator/AubreyPlaza episode, where former ''Weekend Update'' anchor Amy Poehler returns to ''Update'', now in character as [[Series/ParksAndRecreation Leslie Knope]] (with Plaza reprising her role as April). She mentions that she used to watch the show back when Creator/SethMeyers did it with ''no one else''.

** In TheMovie, Mulder relieves himself on a poster for ''Film/IndependenceDay'' as a TakeThat, as Creator/ChrisCarter loathed the film. In Independence Day, a character mentions that The X-Files exists as a TV Show.

** Miguel shows up to an eighties-themed costume event dressed in the iconic red leather jacket outfit Johnny Lawrence wore in ''Film/TheKarateKid''. Since Johnny Lawrence is Miguel's karate teacher and the events of the first three "Karate Kid" films were actual events in canon, one has to wonder...
** In season 3, episode 5, Amanda derisively refers to Kreese as ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}''. Martin Kove, who plays Kreese played a supporting characer in ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII''.

** In "Party Time", Amanda refers to Vanessa as "Creator/MarisaTomei Junior", as a nod to Tomei's character [[WrenchWench Lisa]] from ''Film/MyCousinVinny'', in which Creator/RalphMacchio (Daniel [=LaRusso=]) co-starred as Bill.
** In a fourth-season episode, Daniel tried to sell Miguel on the classic songs of Chicago and Peter Cetera, including “Glory of Love” - Cetera’s theme song for ‘’TheKarateKidPartII’’.

** In the novel ''Mr. Monk Is Open for Business'', there's a reference that makes it clear that ''Series/BreakingBad'' exists in the ''Monk'' universe, when Natalie compares hers and Monk's client Henry Pickler to Walter White. There are at least [[http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0903747,tt0312172 seventeen actors]] who appeared in supporting roles on both shows, most notably Jim Beaver, Christopher Cousins, Creator/DannyTrejo, DJQualls, Tom Kiesche, and Michael Shamus Wiles.
** "Mr. Monk Gets Married" guest-stars Nestor Carbonell as an antiques dealer scheming to locate a prospector's long-hidden stash of gold. In the novel ''Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop'', Natalie makes a reference to ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' at one point, a movie which features Nestor Carbonell as Gotham City mayor Anthony Garcia. Likewise, Nicky Katt, who played the SWAT officer riding shotgun with Gordon in the armored truck during the car chase, appeared in "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage" as a crooked cop.

** "Mr. Monk and the Earthquake" references ''Film/SpiderMan1'', which had come out earlier in the year the episode had. Alfred Molina, who played Otto Octavius in ''Film/SpiderMan2'', guest-stars in "Mr. Monk and the Naked Man," Louis Lombardi and Reed Diamond, who both guest-starred in "Mr. Monk is Someone Else," had minor roles in the second film; and Creator/DylanBaker, who played Dr. Curt Connors in ''Film/SpiderMan2'' and ''Film/SpiderMan3'', played the titular critic of "Mr. Monk and the Critic."

** The show is aired on Creator/{{CBS}}, yet on two occasions in the show, we see interviews with CBS anchors like Norah O'Donnell. So there's no explanation for what show replaces ''Blue Bloods'' in the in-universe programming lineup at CBS.

** "After Hours" has an offhanded reference made to Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas' character in ''Film/WallStreet''. Tom Selleck appeared as a surgery patient in a 1978 movie called ''Film/{{Coma}}'', which also starred Michael Douglas.