History Sandbox / CreatorInJokeWickCheck

# WarriorCats.Tropes0ToG: Kate's son once joked that instead of Warriors, the series should be called Worriers since that's all they seem to do. Kate included a reference to this in one of the books, having a character say "We're warriors, not worriers."
# Recap.KingOfTheHillS2E21LifeInTheFastLaneAKABobbysSaga: One of the cars in the NASCAR race is sponsored by Film Roman.
# Trivia.{{Firebringer}}: There's a Running Gag on social media (and on the Firebringer DVD extras) about how fellow Chicago-area comedian Dan Strauss was originally cast as Jemilla but never showed up to a single rehearsal, forcing them to cast Meredith Stepien to replace him at the last minute.

# JustForFun.TropeEpitaphCutTropes: Here lies The 47 Society — Had a Teleporter Accident.note Enterprise chairs, or a specific case of CreatorInJoke/Shout-Out to Star Trek.
# Fanfic.FairyWithoutWings: The Drunken Spartan in chapter 1. On Platform/DeviantArt the author belongs to a group called the Drunken Spartans.
# Characters.WarrensOfOricTheAwesome: He originally appeared in the authors earlier forum game Luigi's Quest
# Film.MyFavoriteBrunette: During Crosby's cameo, Lamour gives her love interest from the Road to ... films a "who is that?" stare before finally having her attention dragged back to Hope.
# AudioPlay.TheNistverse: A common joke made about MuseScript's OC is calling her a "Musetree" due to her green and brown color scheme. A lot of times when trees show up in The Color Goddess, the artist will sometimes include a note somewhere referring to them as Musetrees. This may have also influenced Nistee's "In a Nutshell" name, "Nistree." Additionally, the "In a Nutshell" video for The Color Goddess represents the part with Rainbow Dash lifting a tree to test out her powers by having her instead lift Muse's OC, who shouts "Hey, put me down, I am not a tree!"
# Frasier.TropesAToG: In "Out With Dad", they talk about a great opera singer named "Matilda de Cagny". She is actually Eddie's trainer. Frasier's former school bully John Rajeski in Season 4's "Liar! Liar!" is named after one of the crew members of the show.
# DragonAgeInquisition.TropesFToK: FoulMedicine: If the player takes the time to enjoy the scene with the Iron Bull and his Chargers. The group's medic, Stitches, makes something which can help with most any injury, but as Bull says, it tastes absolutely terrible. Stitches then points out that "It's a poultice, ser, you're not supposed to drink it." (It's a CreatorInJoke about the fact that in Dragon Age: Origins, all medical items were consumed by the characters even if they were identified as poultices.)

# Horrible.{{Musicians}}: As "869", he was active from the late 90s to the start of the '00s. His songs were hosted on a website linked to Prophilax's, and they were horrible beyond belief. He sang over MIDI files of random songs (including cartoon theme songs) in a horrid off-key and off-tempo voice, sometimes with random pitch-shifting that makes lyrics hard to understand. The songs were overfilled with gratuitous blasphemies, cursing, vulgar sex slang, and very obscure and unexplained references, and shamelessly plagiarized lyrics from Prophilax. With their total lack of direction, (sometimes a song would stop dead in its tracks to spout out Paolo's unfunny sex jokes... or even more blasphemy) they fail to go over with even non-Italian speakers.
# Music.CamperVanBeethoven: A few inside jokes have made their way into their lyrics and David Lowery has explained some on his blog. For instance, "Long Plastic Hallway" mentions Box O' Laffs opening up for Talking Heads aboard a flying saucer. Box O' Laffs was a band Lowery was in before Camper. Once Box O' Laffs' guitarist phoned the rest of the band to let them know that he'd just secured them a gig opening up for Talking Heads in Los Angeles that night, then hung up without giving any more detail - after much ado, it turned out the guitarist was stoned out of his mind and claimed the concert was going to be held on a UFO flying above L.A.
# VideoGame.PaxBritannica: The name for the Strategic Blimp for Imperial Britain is named the Rockerfeller. This also act as a CreatorInJoke since one of the composers of the Pax Britannica soundtrack and the composer of the main menu theme, AJCW has also made the soundtrack for the Monument Mythos.
# WebAnimation.TimberWolf: In "Self Helplessness" when Thomas blows out the first bubble after chewing on a ball of alphabet bubble gum, all the floating letters inside it spell out "C H U C K J O N E S".
# Film.WolfMikeNichols: Elaine May plays the telephone operator. She and Mike Nichols had been part of a stand-up comedy act 'Nichols and May' - and in most of their routines played characters speaking on the phone.

# Roleplay.AGents: "Sex. The answer is always sex." Now in video!
# Trivia.GameOfThronesS1E3LordSnow: Old Nan says that Bran's favorite stories were about Ser Duncan the Tall. This references a series of novellas also written by George RR Martin.
# Film.StarTrekFirstContact: TheCameo: Robert Picardo as the Enterprise-E EMH and Ethan Phillips along with producer Brannon Braga in the holodeck club scene, with Phillips being the one stopping the drones and being disrupted by Borg laser scanners. Dwight Schultz as recurring character Reginald Barclay also appears. The Millennium Falcon can also (just barely) be seen zipping around the battle with the Borg cube as a CreatorInJoke on the part of Industrial Light & Magic.
# Roleplay.AnimeCampaign: Lunt and Mr. Nezzer in Horizontal Pilot Command are gjinkas of VeggieTales characters of the same respective names because of one of these.
# ComicBook.ImmortalXMen: Being a Brit, Kieron Gillen prefers the most common British spelling, "Judgement", rather than "Judgment" and wanted to use the former for the 2022 event Judgment Day (Marvel Comics). Marvel editorial overrode him, and he had Sinister (also a Brit) make a catty remark about it in the first issue.

# Trivia.{{Overwatch}}: In the Numbani airport, the big board by the central exit lists flights to various cities that are either On-Time or Canceled. The very last city is Irvine, which is Delayed. Blizzard is headquartered in Irvine, California. The fact that the flight is delayed is likely a reference to Blizzard's famous reluctance to release a game until they feel it is ready.
# Film.TheGentlemen: When Michael returns to his pub a Gritchie Brewery van can be seen outside. Gritchie Brewing Company is owned by Guy Ritchie.
# Film.{{Hollidaysburg}}: CreatorCameo: Writer/director Anna Martemucci shows up as Tori's future sister-in-law Courtney. (As a bit of a CreatorInJoke, Courtney has a vocal chord injury and doesn't talk much.)
# Literature.TheStressOfHerRegard: Powers' running in-joke of mentioning the fictional poet William Ashbless. Crawford includes him in a list of famous poets at one point, and one of the chapter epigraphs is claimed to have been translated into English by Ashbless.

# Trivia.CrashBandicoot: WorkingTitle: The earliest name of the project was "Sonic's Ass", a CreatorInJoke about what the developers were hoping to accomplish. The game and the main character was originally named Willy the Wombat. It was changed to make the game look less dorky, for lack of a better word.
# Podcast.TheFirstPodcast: While technically full of this, anyone can be in on the joke by listening to the live recordings on Discord; a lot of "throw it in" gags will be very obvious to the listener when they hear the finished product.
# Creator.ElephantGames: In many if not most of their games, you can expect to see an elephant with its trunk raised somewhere at least once. This can take the form of an item in a hidden object scene, an image on the wall, or any number of placements.
# Series.{{Providence}}: When contacted by a man who believes that he's her biological father, the man refers to his Greek heritage while Sydney herself admits to having always been fascinated with Greek culture. Melina Kanakaredes is in fact of Greek descent.
# Trivia.TheBraveLittleToaster: There are two nods to the character animation department of the California Institute of the Arts, where much of the staff graduated. The Master's address is 2470 McBean Parkway, which is the address of the school in Valencia, California. The Master's apartment is A113, the room where character animation classes were held.
# VideoGame.TheWhiteChamber: The characters in the comedy ending are parodies of the creators' personalities. Also, the fridge, which smells so awful it can kill strongly resembles an actual fridge in one of the authors' student lodgings.
# Trivia.OfficeSpace: Lumbergh's "Mmmm.... yeah" (i.e., a "yeah" that means "no") was something Mike Judge used to say to musicians asking for help carrying their instruments when he was in a band.
# WesternAnimation.TheWrongTrousers: One of the lions from Creature Comforts can be seen in a display case at the museum, if you're quick and perceptive.
# Characters.HarleyQuinn2019Others: Lake Bell voices Cheryl with a southern accent and Bell voices Poison Ivy, who originally had a southern accent in the comics.
# WesternAnimation.TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie: Roger Bumpass, like Squidward, rides a recumbent bicycle. The storyboard artists added it as an inside joke.
# Film.DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine: Along with the stuff listed above under Actor Allusion, Bikini Machine reuses the character name "Pevney" from Ski Party.
# YMMV.URealmsLive: And of course, the truly dedicated fan interested in the abundance of Mythology Gags and Shout Outs to Rob's earlier works in URealms Live has some serious research ahead of them, including the Minecraft-based Dwarves vs. Zombies and Lords of Minecraft games, and of course, the original Unforgotten Realms series. This is potentially hundreds of episodes of content, and goes even further if you're exploring the groups' own inside jokes from unrelated Buffalo Wizards content like their long-running Trouble in Terrorist Town series that the group focused on before URealms.
# Literature.TheVillainsSeries: At the Halloween party Sydney tries to go to in the second book, she spots a boy in a red coat making out with a girl in a horned mask, a reference to Kell and Lila
# Trivia.MakeAGoodMegaManLevelContest: One of the tracks in 48 Hour, used when the Box Cartel's eyes light up in the darkness, is titled "Eyeball Awesome Moments". This is a reference to series' creator SnoruntPyro's then-recent affiliation with Faceless Eyes.
# Trivia.MsWiz: In Control Ms Wiz has a few jokes about the newspapers, as a nod to Terence Blacker previously working as a journalist.
# Recap.AngelS02E02AreYouNowOrHaveYouEverBeen: Cordelia and Wesley mention that the hotel bellhop's name was Frank Gilnitz. "Gilnitz" is a name that was often used for incidental or unseen characters on The X-Files, usually with the first name John; it became a running joke on that show. The name was an amalgam of the names of longtime X-Files writers John Shiban, Vince Gilligan, and Frank Spotnitz. Tim Minear was a writer and story editor for the show.
# YMMV.TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals: FanNickname: Robert Manion's One-Scene Wonder "Hot Chocolate Boy", who Nick Lang confirmed is the Hero of Another Story. Eventually revealed to be Peter Spankoffski. Lauren Lopez's unnamed teen girl character in the yellow dress is called "The Hatchetfield Bee", after a CreatorInJoke where Lauren would pretend to sting the other actors while dressed as her. (She has repeatedly denied the Fanon that the Bee is Grace Chastity.) Fans randomly decided Ted's last name was "Porker", a Memetic Mutation from Fan Art of a Crossover between TGWDLM and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse making a Composite Character of Ted and Spider-Ham. Led to a further Memetic Mutation of Nick Lang repeatedly denying that this was his last name, and people repeatedly trying to guess his actual surname, which turned out to be Spankoffski.
# Literature.TheBrokenEarthTrilogy: Like in the author's previous work, once again the snobby imperialists have a history of cannibalism.
# VideoGame.{{Roommates}}: TheGenericGuy: Marvin, even more so than the other secondary characters. Word of God says that he's not an actual character, just a generic filler student. Apparently, there's a CreatorInJoke saying that all the people Max and Anne work with at jobs are his brother.
# RickAndMorty.TropesAToD: When Rick talks about his interest in watching a show about a world of intelligent dogs, it's a reference to Roiland's previous project Dog World that never aired. Earlier in the episode, Rick name-drops a character from the proposed series, Ruffles.
# Trivia.{{Looper}}: AdLib: A very large, meta example with the plot; due to budget constraints around filming in France, the 2074 setting was restricted to either Shanghai or New Orleans as both were cheaper and easier, and China was chosen on the fly. Even notable with Joe learning French for no real reason, before it's lampshaded through a CreatorInJoke where Abe is really insistent Joe go to China instead, resulting in him changing his mind about France.
# VideoGame.ForumFantasy: The Crystal of Porn Radius is based on a joke amongst Camelslayer and his friends in regards to the absolutely massive size of the codpiece of one of the playable characters in Warframe.
# Characters.InfinityTrainBlossomingTrailRedLotusTrio: Author notes reveals that Lexi's first appearance is based on Specter because the author told a friend that Specter has more good qualities than Simon (loyalty being his biggest one).

# Funny.BT: According to Mike Doughty, BT received a phone call from DJ Rap during the sessions- having a crush, Mike half-jokingly suggested BT give him her number. Through this conversation, Mike also learned DJ Rap's given name was Charissa , which he worked into his lyrics.
# Film.{{Moonwalker}}: The film contains several references to Frank DiLeo, Jackson's real-life manager at the time.During "Speed Demon," Spike leads his pursuers through a "Frank in the Box" drive-through window. The building's roof is decorated with a giant bust of DiLeo, surrounded by cheeseburgers. The main antagonist of the "Smooth Criminal" segment, "Mr. Big" (played by Joe Pesci), reveals his real name during his character's introduction: Frankie LiDeo. DiLeo himself appears in the background right before "Come Together," as Michael prepares to go onstage.
# Film.TheVillain: Needham includes a couple of Smokey and the Bandit references.
# Music.WildWillyBarrett: A Shot of Redeye. Red Eye Records. Hmm...
# ShoutOut.{{Cinderjuice}}: All of the specified locations in New Orleans, like Audubon Park and the named cemeteries, are actual places in the city.This includes the Laura Plantation, which is mentioned in the guidebook Lydia reads on the bus. This is a shout-out to the actual guidebook the author used as a reference, and is also a CreatorInJoke as noted on the Trivia page.
# VisualNovel.{{Snatcher}}: Elijah Modnar refers to Lucifer-Alpha as "a type-RA011 virus." RA-011 was the catalog number assigned to SD Snatcher by Konami.
# WebAnimation.Metropolis2023: When Cranberry asks where Tie got their gift from, he replies "Girl World" and dismisses it as city talk. The reply isn't a reference to anything but something one of the group's members Max made up and was kept in since the group thought it's "funny for absolutely no reason"
# Characters.HatchetfieldOtherResidents: The "Man In A Hurry" character was supposed to blow off Greenpeace Girl's pitch in TGWDLM by saying "I'm in a hurry", but Jeff made a Running Gag out of getting in too much of a hurry to say the entire line as rehearsals went on, so that by the time the show was actually performed, he says nothing at all, just brushing right past her. He was brought back for Black Friday to supposedly "do his character justice" by letting him say actually say it this time. As of Nightmare Time, the character is now a Running Gag.
# VideoGame.SigmaStarSaga: Commander Tierney is named after WayForward director Adam Tierney, while "Tyrannical Overlord" is the staff nickname for WayForward's founder.
# WesternAnimation.TheRealGhostbusters: In "Knock, Knock", in what doubles as a bit of a CreatorInJoke, Japanese animation company Ajia-Do's name can be seen on a manhole cover during the initial rampage of the subway graffiti.
# Recap.AngelS04E03TheHouseAlwaysWins: One of the scrolling banners in the soul-trading room reads DEAL WITH DISNEY TO RUN NEW ABC SERIES, referring to co-creator David Greenwalt, who left Angel earlier that year to produce Miracles.
# Series.ItsALiving: {{Expy}}: Cassie was basically Flo Castleberry meets Jennifer Marlowe. Sonny was Bill Murray's Nick the lounge singer meets Larry Dallas. Which led to a bit of a CreatorInJoke when Richard Kline (who played Larry) ended up playing Jan's beau Richie in the later seasons.
# Creator.MF217: The number "1169" appears every once in a while in MF217's works, as a nod to the author's original home phone number before it was removed from the household.

# WebAnimation.TheLightOfCourage: The creators of the animations released a version of the third short with annotations explaining all of them. The annotations no longer exist after Platform/YouTube removed annotations from all videos on January 15, 2019. However, someone managed to upload a copy of the video with the annotations preserved, and the annotations on the original video can still be viewed with certain extensions. One not seen in the animation itself, but development pictures reveal that the brand of underwear Ganon wears is "Joe Cracker".
# Trivia.BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica: OrphanedPunchline: Ever wonder why the band during the "Love Rollercoaster" scene are pounding out an rippin' Red Hot Chili Peppers song to a bored-looking crowd while dressed in powder-blue suits? That's because Judge originally wanted to do a CreatorInJoke where a then-popular rock band would pretend to be a cheesy lounge act. Of course, when the filmmakers hired the Red Hot Chili Peppers, they got what they paid for and by the time the song was recorded, the scene was already being animated. Judge admitted that he liked this version of the scene better.
# Recap.HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS6E9ClosetCases: At one point, Giardello gets into an argument with Lt. Neal (Joe Grifasi), another shift commander, who accuses one of Giardello's detectives of messing around with the laptop of someone on his squad, which apparently is a reference to the Homicide: Second Shift web series.
# ShoutOut.SpaceDandy: The Gentooan mind swapping ability and its 666 second limit might be a CreatorInJoke by the episode's writer, considering another recent show he worked on.
# Recap.AnimaniacsEpisode26: ShoutOut: The Running Gag of "Could somebody stop this man from saying, 'dragon'?" originates from the stage show and film Hellzapoppin', when a woman keeps roaming through the audience looking for someone named Oscar, and someone on stage would say, "Could somebody stop that woman from saying, 'Oscar'?", followed by a gun shot, and the actor on stage would say, "Thanks." The opening scene of the episode features a CreatorInJoke cameo by the short's animators of Lupin III's Daisuke Jigen in the background on a bison-pulled cart and wearing era-appropriate clothing.
# VideoGame.TheIdolmaster: The logo of animation producer Actas can be seen on the trailer of the truck Haruka, Chiharu and Miki try to hitchhike on.
# Literature.TheOneAndOnlyIvan: Anyone who's read Animorphs, the author's infamous Alien Invasion series, knows that the mouthless alien Andalites smile with their eyes. So, apparently, do elephants. She smiles sadly with her eyes, just a little, the way only elephants can do. When Julia and her father George are unhappy about Ruby's treatment and wish they could do something about it, George wonders aloud "Who would I call? The elephant cops?" In an early Animorphs book, Rachel transforms into an elephant to confront an abusive circus employee, claiming she's from the "elephant police", and flings him into a tent.
# WebVideo.LukeMochrieAndTheInners: James, the Inner Romantic, is happily dating a girl named "Megan". That's the name of Kinley Mochrie's real-life girlfriend.
# Anime.BubblegumCrisis: AIC themselves get visual nods at places, most prominently on Priss's motorcycle helmets during the OVA. Animal Ya, who provided backgrounds to the original OVA, also inserted their own name into one of Episode 1's establishing shots.
# Series.{{Blackadder}}: In "General Hospital", Blackadder says that he tricked Nurse Mary by naming three great universities (Oxford, Cambridge and Hull), when in fact only two of them are great. Melchett responds "Quite — Oxford's a complete dump!" Rowan Atkinson attended Oxfordnote As did Tim McInnerny (Darling) and series writer Richard Curtis, while Stephen Fry attended Cambridge note As did Hugh Laurie (George) and series producer John Lloyd, the two universities having a centuries-long rivalry.
# Music.{{Superchunk}}: Their original name, Chunk, originates from a humorous misspelling of Chuck Garrison's name.
# Fanfic.DeinWegIstMeinWeg: The fic's name is an allusion to Maho's character song; Mein Weg und Dein Weg. Chapter 40, Tailed through the Tea Garden, is a reference to the author's other work, Tales from the Tea Garden. Chapter 43, Always Retreating, is an allusion to the fanfic Always Advancing. Chapter 45, Devils in the Dust, alludes to another fanfic; Dust Devils.
# Film.BeingThere: When Chance watches The Thomas Crown Affair on TV. That movie was co-edited by the movie's director, Hal Ashby.
# Literature.InCryptid: "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it", a reference to Superchicken from the George of the Jungle cartoon series and pretty much a Catchphrase for the Price family, also appears in Newsflesh. "Hit until the candy comes out" also appears in Velveteen vs..
# Recap.AngelS03E13WaitingInTheWings: Mata Hari, the band Gunn originally thinks they're going to see, is a band Joss Whedon's brother is in.
# Literature.KeepTheAspidistraFlying: The "Money-God" poem Gordon spends most of the novel composing (beginning with "Sharply, the menacing wind sweeps over...") is in fact one of Orwell's own poems, St. Andrew's Day, 1935, published in the Adelphi. It's easy to assume that it was written only for the novel.
# Recap.DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii: Latin students everywhere stand a chance of recognising Caecilius, Quintus and Metella. They feature in the Cambridge Latin Course, a widely-used Latin textbook series.
# Recap.BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E1Lessons: In her intervention over Anya's lackluster vengeance, Halfrek praises Anya's previous hard-core performance as a vengeance demon, saying "Do I have to mention Mrs. Czolgosz?" This is exceptionally obscure in-joke directed at Jane Espenson, who wrote a joke in "Superstar" about Anyanka making a male victim fall in love with President McKinley. Leon Czolgosz assassinated President McKinley. The joke was a little too obscure; Espenson didn't catch it.
# Trivia.FlowerDrumSong: In the brief scene where Sammy Fong and Mei Lei sit in a beatnik coffee shop, on stage someone reads the poem "Like A God". This was a planned song between the two that got cut from the original stage version.
# Film.ThePoseidonAdventure: Robin jokes about almost dying in the bathroom, and Susan jokes it would be a silly way to die. In the novel, Robin is last heard of when he's going to the bathroom.
# Trivia.PortalStoriesMel: The guy Cave Johnson fires at the beginning for misspelling "station" as "statoion" is named Chris. This is a reference to how level designer Chris Onorati, better known as TMast98, accidentally made this spelling mistake on a sign, which started a joke of the team "firing" him whenever he made a mistake. This is referenced in the credits, when Chris's drawing has the word "statoion" with the extra "o" crossed out. Also, in Chris's office at the beginning of Chapter 3, the whiteboard says, "Chris if you erase this board again I'll make sure you get FIRED!"This is referenced further during Harry101UK's playthrough of the game, where he tells Chris that he's fired following the gag first being heard.
# Characters.MonsterHunterCivilization: Some of the possible default names for Buddies in Rise are Shout Outs to other Capcom franchises.
# Creator.{{Chriddof}}: Creator In-Joke

# Creator.MikeFlanagan: The Lasser Glass from Oculus will at times make its appearances in his films with the exception of Absentia.
# Film.TheSatanicRitesOfDracula: As an in-joke, Dracula's lair was named Pelham House, a reference to retiring James Carreras's house at Pelham Place in London.
# Literature.Saving80000GoldInAnotherWorldForMyRetirement: In Episode 6 of the anime, when Beatrice is asking Mitsuha if she goes out with boys, a book in her Imagine Spot is another Light Novel by FUNA (I Shall Survive Using Potions!).
# Creator.AnthonyTrollope: In Barchester Towers, Trollope mentions an author who, "wishing to sustain his interest to the last page, hung his hero at the end of the third volume. The consequence was that no one would read his novel." The author was Trollope himself, and the novel was his debut, The Macdermots of Ballycloran.
# Film.TrueStories: CallBack: Louis telling the narrator "Like the song says, it's a scientific lifestyle" could be him mangling a line from "Wild Wild Life" ("things fall apart, it's scientific"), which had been performed earlier in the film. Which would make David Byrne's response ("Hmmm, I don't know that one") a CreatorInJoke.
# Recap.LupinIIIS2E31: Oh! Production inserts their name a few times in the episode, particularly on the license plate of Anita's car and the cameras Lupin and Shirage use.

# Fanfic.FairyWithoutWings: The Drunken Spartan in chapter 1. On DeviantArt the author belongs to a group called the Drunken Spartans.

# WebAnimation.TheLightOfCourage: The creators of the animations released a version of the third short with annotations explaining all of them. The annotations no longer exist after YouTube removed annotations from all videos on January 15, 2019. However, someone managed to upload a copy of the video with the annotations preserved, and the annotations on the original video can still be viewed with certain extensions. One not seen in the animation itself, but development pictures reveal that the brand of underwear Ganon wears is "Joe Cracker".