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* Stereotypical Barbie, Gloria, and Sasha, pass the beach on their return from the real world to see several Kens playing volleyball in an homage to ''Film/TopGun'', complete with Maverick and Goose's high-five, low-five.

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* Stereotypical Barbie, Gloria, and Sasha, pass the beach on their return from the real world to see several Kens playing volleyball in an homage to ''Film/TopGun'', complete with Maverick and Goose's high-five, low-five.low-five.
* When Beach Ken has been defeated and is having an existential crisis, Barbie assures him that [[Film/FightClub he's not his girlfriend, he's not his house, he's not his clothes, and he's not his job (beach)]].
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* After being un-brainwashed, one Barbie states that for some reason, she was "really invested in the [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Zack Snyder cut]] of ''[[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice League]]''."

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* After being un-brainwashed, one Barbie states that for some reason, she was "really invested in the Creator/ZackSnyder [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Zack Snyder cut]] of ''[[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice League]]''."
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** The prologue parodies the Dawn of Man sequence of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', with little girls in the place of the apes, baby dolls in the position of the bones, Barbie herself in the place of the monolith, and, [[StandardSnippet of course]], the "Sunrise" part of ''StandardSnippet/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' as music over it. Natch, the scene ends with a recreation of the ''2001'' sequence's famous MatchCut -- a little girl throws her baby doll into the air, which is tracked by the camera before cutting into the title of the film itself.
** The town's movie theater is showing ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** When Weird Barbie gives Stereotypical Barbie the [[ButThouMust "choice"]] to [[RedPillBluePill venture into the real world or stay in Barbieland]], it's presented as her being offered [[Film/TheMatrix the red pill or the blue pill]], with each choice respectively symbolized by a Birkenstock and a high heel.
** A snippet of the "Greased Lightnin'" number from ''Film/{{Grease}}'' is shown when Ken learns about the patriarchal society of America for the first time.
** The visuals of Mattel's CEO and other top brass congregating around a giant heart-shaped table is a direct homage to the War Room from ''Film/DrStrangelove''.
** Music/MatchboxTwenty. [[spoiler:Part of the Barbies' mission to trick the Kens into giving up the Kendom is enduring hours-long guitar jam sessions to their song "Push".]]
** Barbie finds the girl who she thinks is playing with her sitting with her friends at a school cafeteria table. Said friends consist of an African American girl, a blonde Caucasian girl, and an East Asian girl. Add that the girl Barbie is seeking is a Latina teenager named Sasha, and they're clearly a nod to ''another'' [[Toys/{{Bratz}} extremely popular girls' doll line]].
** The voiceover of the Depression Barbie commercial notes that she's watched the BBC's ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'' seven times.
** According to Allan, all of the members of the band Music/{{NSYNC}} were originally Allan dolls who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M escaped Barbieland and became real men in the real world]].
** The scene where Barbie stumbles upon Ruth Handler's kitchen is reminiscent of when [[https://www.looper.com/1346049/barbie-matrix-nod/ Neo meets the Oracle]] in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''.
** The Kens pretend to ride imaginary horses in a very similar manner to how King Arthur and his knights in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' do the same.
** During the giant Ken battle, several can be seen wearing singlets and carrying pugil sticks, à la ''Series/AmericanGladiators'' (which also had toys from Mattel).
** Ken's outfit [[spoiler:once he establishes the patriarchy in Barbieland]] features black pants with his name styled in the font of Music/{{Metallica}}'s logo. The name also appears like that as a sticker on the acoustic guitar he acquires.
** Both versions of "Pink" start off with the lyric "When I wake up..." being said in the exact same cadence of [[Music/TheProclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"]].
** As part of the plan to un-brainwash the Barbies in the Kendom, President Barbie sits down with a Ken who's watching ''Film/TheGodfather'' and puts on a ditzy act that she's never seen it, to which he jumps at the chance to explain its brilliance in an attempt to impress her; he calls it "a rich blend of [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola Coppola]]'s aesthetic genius and a triumph for Robert Evans and the architecture of the '70s studio system".
** After being un-brainwashed, one Barbie states that for some reason, she was "really invested in the [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Zack Snyder cut]] of ''[[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice League]]''."
** Another Creator/StanleyKubrick shoutout: during an moment of silence between Gloria and Barbie, Sasha asks if her mother and Barbie are "shining", as in the psychic ability from ''Film/TheShining''.
** The RunningGag of "Hi, Barbie!/Hi, Ken!" deliberately mirrors [[Music/{{Aqua}} the intro to a certain Barbie-themed song that absolutely has nothing to do with Barbie]].
** Stereotypical Barbie, Gloria, and Sasha, pass the beach on their return from the real world to see several Kens playing volleyball in an homage to ''Film/TopGun'', complete with Maverick and Goose's high-five, low-five.

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** * The prologue parodies the Dawn of Man sequence of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', with little girls in the place of the apes, baby dolls in the position of the bones, Barbie herself in the place of the monolith, and, [[StandardSnippet of course]], the "Sunrise" part of ''StandardSnippet/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' as music over it. Natch, the scene ends with a recreation of the ''2001'' sequence's famous MatchCut -- a little girl throws her baby doll into the air, which is tracked by the camera before cutting into the title of the film itself.
** * The town's movie theater is showing ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** * When Weird Barbie gives Stereotypical Barbie the [[ButThouMust "choice"]] to [[RedPillBluePill venture into the real world or stay in Barbieland]], it's presented as her being offered [[Film/TheMatrix the red pill or the blue pill]], with each choice respectively symbolized by a Birkenstock and a high heel.
** * A snippet of the "Greased Lightnin'" number from ''Film/{{Grease}}'' is shown when Ken learns about the patriarchal society of America for the first time.
** * The visuals of Mattel's CEO and other top brass congregating around a giant heart-shaped table is a direct homage to the War Room from ''Film/DrStrangelove''.
** Music/MatchboxTwenty. [[spoiler:Part * To Music/MatchboxTwenty: [[spoiler:part of the Barbies' mission to trick the Kens into giving up the Kendom is enduring hours-long guitar jam sessions to their song "Push".]]
** * Barbie finds the girl who she thinks is playing with her sitting with her friends at a school cafeteria table. Said friends consist of an African American girl, a blonde Caucasian girl, and an East Asian girl. Add that the girl Barbie is seeking is a Latina teenager named Sasha, and they're clearly a nod to ''another'' [[Toys/{{Bratz}} extremely popular girls' doll line]].
** * The voiceover of the Depression Barbie commercial notes that she's watched the BBC's ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'' Creator/TheBBC's ''Series/{{Pride and Prejudice|1995}}'' seven times.
** * According to Allan, all of the members of the band Music/{{NSYNC}} were originally Allan dolls who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M escaped Barbieland and became real men in the real world]].
** * The scene where Barbie stumbles upon Ruth Handler's kitchen is reminiscent of when [[https://www.looper.com/1346049/barbie-matrix-nod/ Neo meets the Oracle]] in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''.
** * The Kens pretend to ride imaginary horses in a very similar manner to how King Arthur and his knights in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' do the same.
** * During the giant Ken battle, several can be seen wearing singlets and carrying pugil sticks, à la ''Series/AmericanGladiators'' (which also had toys from Mattel).
** * Ken's outfit [[spoiler:once he establishes the patriarchy in Barbieland]] features black pants with his name styled in the font of Music/{{Metallica}}'s logo. The name also appears like that as a sticker on the acoustic guitar he acquires.
** * Both versions of "Pink" start off with the lyric "When I wake up..." being said in the exact same cadence of [[Music/TheProclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"]].
** * As part of the plan to un-brainwash the Barbies in the Kendom, President Barbie sits down with a Ken who's watching ''Film/TheGodfather'' and puts on a ditzy act that she's never seen it, to which he jumps at the chance to explain its brilliance in an attempt to impress her; he calls it "a rich blend of [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola Coppola]]'s aesthetic genius and a triumph for Robert Evans and the architecture of the '70s studio system".
** * After being un-brainwashed, one Barbie states that for some reason, she was "really invested in the [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Zack Snyder cut]] of ''[[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice League]]''."
** * Another Creator/StanleyKubrick shoutout: during an moment of silence between Gloria and Barbie, Sasha asks if her mother and Barbie are "shining", as in the psychic ability from ''Film/TheShining''.
** * The RunningGag of "Hi, Barbie!/Hi, Ken!" deliberately mirrors [[Music/{{Aqua}} the intro to a certain Barbie-themed song that absolutely has nothing to do with Barbie]].
** * Stereotypical Barbie, Gloria, and Sasha, pass the beach on their return from the real world to see several Kens playing volleyball in an homage to ''Film/TopGun'', complete with Maverick and Goose's high-five, low-five.
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** The prologue parodies the Dawn of Man sequence of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', with little girls in the place of the apes, baby dolls in the position of the bones, Barbie herself in the place of the monolith, and, [[StandardSnippet of course]], the "Sunrise" part of ''StandardSnippet/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' as music over it. Natch, the scene ends with a recreation of the ''2001'' sequence's famous MatchCut -- a little girl throws her baby doll into the air, which is tracked by the camera before cutting into the title of the film itself.
** The town's movie theater is showing ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** When Weird Barbie gives Stereotypical Barbie the [[ButThouMust "choice"]] to [[RedPillBluePill venture into the real world or stay in Barbieland]], it's presented as her being offered [[Film/TheMatrix the red pill or the blue pill]], with each choice respectively symbolized by a Birkenstock and a high heel.
** A snippet of the "Greased Lightnin'" number from ''Film/{{Grease}}'' is shown when Ken learns about the patriarchal society of America for the first time.
** The visuals of Mattel's CEO and other top brass congregating around a giant heart-shaped table is a direct homage to the War Room from ''Film/DrStrangelove''.
** Music/MatchboxTwenty. [[spoiler:Part of the Barbies' mission to trick the Kens into giving up the Kendom is enduring hours-long guitar jam sessions to their song "Push".]]
** Barbie finds the girl who she thinks is playing with her sitting with her friends at a school cafeteria table. Said friends consist of an African American girl, a blonde Caucasian girl, and an East Asian girl. Add that the girl Barbie is seeking is a Latina teenager named Sasha, and they're clearly a nod to ''another'' [[Toys/{{Bratz}} extremely popular girls' doll line]].
** The voiceover of the Depression Barbie commercial notes that she's watched the BBC's ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'' seven times.
** According to Allan, all of the members of the band Music/{{NSYNC}} were originally Allan dolls who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M escaped Barbieland and became real men in the real world]].
** The scene where Barbie stumbles upon Ruth Handler's kitchen is reminiscent of when [[https://www.looper.com/1346049/barbie-matrix-nod/ Neo meets the Oracle]] in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''.
** The Kens pretend to ride imaginary horses in a very similar manner to how King Arthur and his knights in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' do the same.
** During the giant Ken battle, several can be seen wearing singlets and carrying pugil sticks, à la ''Series/AmericanGladiators'' (which also had toys from Mattel).
** Ken's outfit [[spoiler:once he establishes the patriarchy in Barbieland]] features black pants with his name styled in the font of Music/{{Metallica}}'s logo. The name also appears like that as a sticker on the acoustic guitar he acquires.
** Both versions of "Pink" start off with the lyric "When I wake up..." being said in the exact same cadence of [[Music/TheProclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"]].
** As part of the plan to un-brainwash the Barbies in the Kendom, President Barbie sits down with a Ken who's watching ''Film/TheGodfather'' and puts on a ditzy act that she's never seen it, to which he jumps at the chance to explain its brilliance in an attempt to impress her; he calls it "a rich blend of [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola Coppola]]'s aesthetic genius and a triumph for Robert Evans and the architecture of the '70s studio system".
** After being un-brainwashed, one Barbie states that for some reason, she was "really invested in the [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Zack Snyder cut]] of ''[[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice League]]''."
** Another Creator/StanleyKubrick shoutout: during an moment of silence between Gloria and Barbie, Sasha asks if her mother and Barbie are "shining", as in the psychic ability from ''Film/TheShining''.
** The RunningGag of "Hi, Barbie!/Hi, Ken!" deliberately mirrors [[Music/{{Aqua}} the intro to a certain Barbie-themed song that absolutely has nothing to do with Barbie]].
** Stereotypical Barbie, Gloria, and Sasha, pass the beach on their return from the real world to see several Kens playing volleyball in an homage to ''Film/TopGun'', complete with Maverick and Goose's high-five, low-five.

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