History ShoutOut / CowboyBebop

* Vicious bears more than a passing resemblance to Anime/CaptainHarlock, right down to the bird that likes to perch on his shoulder.

* Jet Black mentions a historical "[[Anime/CaptainHarlock Captain H]]'' who became so famous that they made an anime series about his exploits.

* In "The Real Folk Blues" Spike making a FingerGun and pretending to shoot after a shooting rampage is similar to Travis Bickle in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.

* The [[BloodstainedGlassWindows shootout in the church]] in "Ballad of Fallen Angels" is similar to the climactic shootout in ''Film/TheKiller'' and to an extent, the climactic shootout in ''Film/FaceOff''.

** While not related to the ''Batman'' series, the title of said episode, "Pierrot le Fou", is another reference in that it comes from the title of a Creator/JeanLucGodard film from 1965.

** [[Music/ANightAtTheOpera "Bohemian Rhapsody"]] is titled after the Music/{{Queen}} song

* The opening of the movie could be one toward the beginning of ''Film/PulpFiction''. Starts with a TakeThat aimed at Jules ("Another wannabe preacher with a gun."), some CasualDangerDialog, and finishes up with everything (very nearly) going to hell when the one guy they didn't know about comes out of the bathroom with a gun.

** [[Music/LetItBleed "Honky Tonk Women"]], [[Music/BeggarsBanquet "Sympathy for the Devil"]], and [[Music/StickyFingers "Wild Horses"]] are all titled after songs by Music/TheRollingStones

* "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" features Vincent Volaju. A character who has gone insane and repeatedly states he's convinced he's living in a dream he can't wake up from. Vincent also happens to be nigh-unstoppable in hand-to-hand combat and spends the entirety of the movie wearing full black, leather boots, and an ankle-length black trench coat. Complete with a slow-motion scene of him jumping down on top of Spike wire-fu style. His idea of living in a dream is clearly an extreme take on something Spike alludes to figuratively in the series, but all of this together is a clear reference to [[Film / The Matrix]] (which had just come out 2 years earlier).

* "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" features Vincent Volaju. A character who has gone insane and repeatedly states he's convinced he's living in a dream he can't wake up from. Vincent also happens to be nigh-unstoppable in hand-to-hand combat and spends the entirety of the movie wearing full black, leather boots, and an ankle-length black trench coat. Complete with a slow-motion scene of him jumping down on top of Spike wire-fu style. His idea of living in a dream is clearly an extreme take on something Spike alludes to figuratively in the series, but all of this together is a clear reference to [[Film/The Matrix]] (which had just come out 2 years earlier).

* The Cowboy Bebop Movie "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" features Vincent Volaju. A character who has gone insane and repeatedly states he's convinced he's living in a dream he can't wake up from. Vincent also happens to be nigh-unstoppable in hand-to-hand combat and spends the entirety of the movie wearing full black, leather boots, and an ankle-length black trench coat. Complete with a slow-motion scene of him jumping down on top of Spike wire-fu style. His idea of living in a dream is clearly an extreme take on something Spike alludes to figuratively in the series, but all of this together is a clear reference to [Film/The Matrix]] (which had just come out 2 years earlier). Topping it all off is the fact that Daran Norris delivered every one of said lines in an otherworldly deep drone. Morpheus-style.

* "Jamming with Edward" is notable for containing a few {{Shout Out}}s to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey", including a sentient AI that looks and talks like HAL 9000.

** Tongpu seems to take his name from "Tong Poo" by Japanese SynthPop band Music/YellowMagicOrchestra, itself derived from the Chinese term for "Eastern wind."