History ShoutOut / GoodEats

* Alton often refers to a EurekaMoment as "a [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Monkey-Touch-Monolith]] moment."

''Series/GoodEats'' ''loved'' gratuitous pop culture references.

* Any time someone mentions New York City on the show, expect everyone in the scene to yell [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgrGyR6EYbY "NEW YORK CITY?!"]]

* In "Tamale Never Dies", while talking about the contributions ancient civilizations made to corn, Alton says "Without the Aztecs, we wouldn't have the ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' films, now would we?" It's a reference to the film's ancient Predators using ships that looked like Aztec and Egyptian pyramids to reach Earth.

** In the same episode, Alton protests an outrageous restaraunt price with [[TrueGrit "Fill your hands you son of a"]] [[CurseCutShort "SHHHH!"]]

* Alton reacts with "[[Literature/WinnieThePooh Oh bother]]" as a RunningGag, usually whenever the Food Police show up.

** Well; Sort of: "[[BeamMeUpScotty Luke! I am your Father]]! CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM!"

* [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} "I told you not to cross the streams!"]] (Of glowing, yellow "frosting"/flocking)

* Pantry Raid V contains multiple references to AnimalHouse, as the introduction to ramen takes place in, appropriately enough, a dorm.

* JamesBond actually visits Alton at "Good Eats Bar" in the cocktail episode, and asks for his signature drink: a vodka martini, shaken (not stirred). Alton prepares a classic martini with ''gin'', and stirs it (explaining why this is better), and Mr. Bond thoroughly enjoys it.

* The beginning of "Dill-icious" features Alton re-creating Darth Vader's conversation with dorm at the end of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.

* In the episode on bread pudding, he yells out that [[PinkFloyd "you can't get your pudding if you don't eat your meat!"]]

* Pantry Raid V contains multiple references to [[Film/AnimalHouse]], as the introduction to ramen takes place in, appropriately enough, a dorm.

'''AB''': ''A PLEDGE PIN, ON YOUR UNIFORM?!''

* The beginning of "Dill-icious" features Alton re-creating Darth Vader's conversation with Luke at the end of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.

--> ''points to the Skull-And-Crossbones poison warning on a bottle of lye'') No, this doesn't mean [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Johnny Depp]] gets a percentage off of every bottle.

* The beginning of "Dill-icious" features Alton re-creating Darth Vader's conversation with Luke at the end of TheEmpireStrikesBack.
* The Season 12 episode ''Oh My Meat Pie'' is one long shout out to SweeneyTodd, along with all the unfortunate implications about the [[ImAHumanitarian meat]] used in that episode.

* The entire Season 12 episode "Oh My, Meat Pie" is one huge SweeneyTodd shout out. It also had an ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' ShoutOut when Mr. Todd is chopping up vegetables.

** When Alton says that one of the classic elements of a good punch is spice, his assistant intones "[[Franchise/{{Dune}} He who controls the spice controls the universe!]]"; Alton tells him to lay off the sci-fi, to which he replies "The spice must flow!"

* When presenting different types of cutting boards to have he expresses a particular dislike of glass boards (glass is actually exceptionally hard, making it rough on knives), calling it "[[Franchise/StarWars Dark Lord of the Sith]]" bad.

** When Alton says that one of the classic elements of a good punch is spice, his assistant intones "[[Literature/{{Dune}} He who controls the spice controls the universe!]]"; Alton tells him to lay off the sci-fi, to which he replies "The spice must flow!"

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* Alton would occasionally poke fun at other Creator/FoodNetwork personalities, especially Emeril Lagasse and his "BAM!" shtick. After Emeril left FN, Alton seemed to prefer tweaking Creator/RachaelRay instead. There's also been a few instances of the show [[ContinuityNod referencing]] ''[[ContinuityNod itself]]'', usually by quoting older episodes in the context of whatever the newer episode is doing.
* The entire Season 12 episode "Oh My, Meat Pie" is one huge SweeneyTodd shout out. It also had an ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' ShoutOut when Mr. Todd is chopping up vegetables.
* His character of "The Waffler" in his waffle-making episode was clearly inspired by the same named recruitment-reject character in ''Film/MysteryMen''... except without the burny parts. His outfit seems closer to Crow T. Robot's Willy the Waffle Sprite costume from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. He's even got a W cut out from a waffle on his head. Plus he has a little puppet theater called the Mystery Food Science Theater complete with little opening doors.

* *Alton holds up a pizza peel* "This is my favorite peel, [[Series/TheAvengers Emma]]."

* A chicken (actually a plushie) comes in after knocking on his door, and thus so he goes to "[[Literature/TheRaven Fry Some More]]".
* Alton has a tendency to channel [[Radio/TheJackBennyProgram Jack Benny]] with his AsideGlance.
* On several occasions, AB has asked people to name things that float, and once he did the list himself. [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Ducks", "small rocks", and one time, "witches".]] In his book ''Good Eats: The Early Years'', Alton openly admits that the opening of "What's Up Duck?" is a nod to ''Holy Grail''.
* Likewise, ''The Egg Files 2'' had this little segment involving quiche made with spam.
-->'''Alton:''' *rattling off ingredients, ending with spam*
-->'''Male Chorus:''' "Spamspamspamspamspamspamspam..."
-->'''Alton:''' ''Silence!''
* Speaking of ''Creator/MontyPython'', the animations featured in later-season episodes are done in a pastiche of Creator/TerryGilliam's style. They even used the Liberty Bell march as BGM on more than one occasion.[[note]]In "Raising the Bar", the classic cocktails episode, and in the one-hour Thanksgiving special "Romancing the Bird", wherein Brown makes cornbread pudding while blindfolded.[[/note]]

* In the Season 13 episode "Feeling Punchy":
** When Alton says that one of the classic elements of a good punch is spice, his assistant intones "[[Literature/{{Dune}} He who controls the spice controls the universe!]]"; Alton tells him to lay off the sci-fi, to which he replies "The spice must flow!"
** In the same segment, he plays the commanding officer of a EITC ship who dunks a Dutchman in icy waters to get ice for his punch recipe. Alton apologizes to him, saying "Sorry about your ship, [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean just business, nothing personal]], you know."
* "Tamale Never Dies" is a play at Literature/JamesBond, and during the episode Alton's fridge has Alton himself drawn as Bond, complete with stylized title. The episode, however, contains a parody of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. "Raising the Bar" featured an appearance by James Bond in "person", where Alton took his signature drink order ("Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred") then proceeded to make the drink with gin and stirred it (with reasons for both steps). "Bond" loved the drink.

* From the episode about pomegranates--in the segment about grenadine syrup's use in cocktails, Alton demonstrates by making a Tequila Sunrise. When he's done, he proudly presents it with the comment "There you are--[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_Sunrise_(song) an Eagles concert in a glass!"]]
* Any time someone mentions New York City on the show, expect everyone in the scene to yell [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgrGyR6EYbY "NEW YORK CITY?!"]]
** This reference is turned on its head in "The Big Chili", where "Grumpy Gus" (Alton Brown dressed up as a cowboy) mentions buying a salsa "made in New York City, so you know it's good".
* Thing is said to be a relative of Thing from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.
* In the pomegranate episode they bring the fake doctor bit back and Alton cheerfully describes a jell-o dish he made as, "A dessert that even [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest Nurse Ratched]] could love!"
* The dark chocolate special is named "[[Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark Turn On the Dark]]", and in order to illustrate the old adage "Good things come in small packages", Alton pulls out the actual Noisy Cricket prop from ''Film/MenInBlack''. Later in that same episode, Thing holds up a seltzer sprayer, causing Alton to respond "[[Film/{{Tombstone}} Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smokewagon and see what happens...]]"

* Many if not most episode titles are [[PunBasedTitle puns based on a reference to something or other]], but "[[Music/SteelyDan Pretzel Logic]]" didn't even need that.
** And speaking of Pretzel Logic, a pair of movie shoutouts occured when explaining the pH scale.
---> Alton: (points to the Skull-And-Crossbones poison warning on a bottle of lye) "No, this doesn't mean [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Johnny Depp]] gets a percentage off of every bottle."
---> Later: As any fan of FightClub would know, lye is one of the key ingredients in making soap. Oops. [[MemeticMutation I broke the first rule, didn't I?]]

* When presenting different types of cutting boards to have he expresses a particular dislike of glass boards (glass is actually exceptionally hard, making it rough on knives), calling it "[[Franchise/StarWars Dark Lord of the Sith]]" bad.

* A chicken (a plushie) comes in after knocking on his door, and thus so he goes to "[[Literature/TheRaven Fry Some More]]".