History ShoutOut / JAG

** In "Pilot Error", Harm compares the situation to the movie ''Fate is the Hunter'', explaining to Meg (who hasn't seen it) how they found out the cause of a plane crash by recreating all of the minute details of the flight.
** In "Brig Break" the TimeBomb stops at ''[[Film/{{Goldfinger}} 00:07]]''.
** In "Scimitar" Harm makes a comparison of events to a certain [[TheWestern Western]]:

** In Season 2’s "Washington Holiday" (itself a take on ''Film/RomanHoliday'') when the Romanian Princess has escaped from doing her duties and went to a night club instead: Harm, as her military escort dressed in whites, carries her back to the limousine causing a woman in the background to say: "This is so like ''AnOfficerAndAGentleman''".
** In "The Game of Go", when Harm, Mac & Bud meets Clayton Webb at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota.

** Mac questions an enlisted marine about their captain’s unorthodox training methods in "Force Recon". Considering that the captain has the nickname ''Duke'' like JohnWayne, she comments that there seems to be case for movies.

** Season 3, episode "Father's Day"
*** While walking in a courtroom hallway, a reporter approaces Harm and Mac’s client, who despite their advice begins to answer a barrage of leading questions. Harm tells the reporter to back off.

*** When going to their motel room, Bud and Harm makes two shoutouts.

*** In one transition scene at the convention it can also be heard that ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'' is mentioned.
** "Tiger, Tiger"
*** In the beginning:

*** After anticommunist Cuban terrorists have taken over the frigate and Harm and Josh are in the helicopter hangar:

** Season 4, "The Black Jet". Mac makes the following comment on Clayton Webb:

** "Dungaree Justice". When Mac questions an enlisted sailor what he watched on television on a Sunday evening.

** "The Adversaries"

** In season 5, episode "Rogue" centers on a Navy commando who has recruited Navy SEALS, Delta Force and other assorted BadAss soldiers to infiltrate and attack military installations, including nuclear submarines, to test their security and advise on how to defend against a terrorist attack. Despite claims that it's not based on real life the episode [[RogueWarrior name]] hints at the fictional and real life exploits of one Richard Marcinko.
** "The Colonel's Wife"

*** In this episode we learn that Bud's favorite movie character is HAL from ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]''.

*** Bud's former college roommate Ron Katz asks Harriet:

** In "Boomerang, Part 1", when Bud looks at the beach with topless sunbathers he says to Mic that it's "an R-rated ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' out there".
** In season 7, episode "Answered prayers" at Christmas.

** "In Country"
*** Bud bonds with a suspected terrorist by discussing the merits of the ''[[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]]'', as both are fans of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', using this to obtain useful information. (All this as opposed to an ineffective asshole CIA Officer who’d advocated torture to extract information.)
** "Enemy Below"
*** When in Afghanistan with Harm, Mac starts to talk about that classic western.

*** ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' is even namechecked when Sturgis compares himself and the Russian renegade sub captain being chased to Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery respectively.

** In season 8, Bud watches the 1953 version of ''Film/{{The War Of The Worlds|1953}}'' in "Dangerous Game".
** In "When the Bough Breaks", Bud makes comparisons between [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespearian works]] and [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek episodes]] to Admiral Chegwidden's girlfriend (a Shakespearian scholar); ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' and "Dagger of the Mind"; ''Theatre/TheTempest'' and "Requiem for Methuselah"; ''{{Hamlet}}'' and "Conscience of the King'.
*** Bud also says that he works on a FanFic for a [[{{Trekkie}} Trekker]] webzine: "[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard III]]", based on ''Theatre/RichardIII''.
** When Loren Singer visits the Roberts' house in "The Killer":

** In season 9, When asked by Mac how it feels to have Coates as a tenant and to be Mattie's guardian in "A Girl's Best Friend":

** In Season 2’s "Washington Holiday" (itself a take on ''RomanHoliday'') when the Romanian Princess has escaped from doing her duties and went to a night club instead: Harm, as her military escort dressed in whites, carries her back to the limousine causing a woman in the background to say: "This is so like ''AnOfficerAndAGentleman''".

-->'''Mac''': ''Franchise/Batman and Comicbook/Robin''.

-->'''Mac''': ''BatmanAndRobin''.

-->'''Commander Turner''': ''With your permissions admirals, I'd like to volunteer for TAD aboard the Watertown.''
-->'''Vice Admiral Holt''': ''Commander, as much as I respect your service as a submariner, commander Flagler is perfectly capable.''
-->'''Commander Turner''': ''And I don't mean to imply that he isn't, sir, only that I am AlecBaldwin.

*** While walking in a courtroom hallway, a reporter approaces Harm and Mac’s client, who despite their advice begins to answer a barrage of leading questions. Harm soon thrafter tells the reporter to back off.

-->'''Mac''': AudieMurphy. ToHellAndBack was a movie with-- Forget it, sergeant.

** When Mac questions an enlisted marine about their captain’s unorthodox training methods in "Force Recon" he replies that the captain would take them “to hell and back, he’d take us back Ma’am”. Considering that the captain has the nickname “Duke” (just like JohnWayne) she comments that the captain probably is a movie buff and mentions ''To Hell And Back'' with AudieMurphy.

** Season 3, episode "Tiger, Tiger"

** Bud's former college roommate Ron Katz asks Harriet:

-->'''Bud''' (imitating HAl): ''As a computer, I find you faith in technology amusing''.

-->'''Big Bud:''' "Speaking of Harm, how you're doing PerryMason!"

** Season 4, episode "The Adversaries"

** In season 5's "Boomerang, Part 1", when Bud looks at the beach with topless sunbathers he says to Mic that it's "an R-rated ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' out there".
** ''Rogue'' centers on a Navy commando who has recruited Navy SEALS, Delta Force and other assorted BadAss soldiers to infiltrate and attack military installations, including nuclear submarines, to test their security and advise on how to defend against a terrorist attack. Despite claims that it's not based on real life the episode [[RogueWarrior name]] hints at the fictional and real life exploits of one Richard Marcinko.

-->'''Lieuteant Harmon Rabb''': ''It's just like {{Stagecoach}}!''

** In season 8, Bud watches the 1953 version of ''TheWarOfTheWorlds'' in "Dangerous Game".

*** ''TheHuntForRedOctober'' is even namechecked when Sturgis compares himself and the Russian renegade sub captain being chased to Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery respectively.

-->'''Commander Turner''': ''TheHuntForRedOctober movie, sir. Captain Yerastov is SeanConnery and I am Alec Baldwin, sir. I need to be aboard that boat''.

*** Bud bonds with a suspected terrorist by discussing the merits of the ''[[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]]'', as both are fans of ''StarTrek'', using this to obtain useful information. (All this as opposed to an ineffective asshole CIA Officer who’d advocated torture to extract information.)

-->'''Lieutenant Colonel Sarah Mackenzie''': I wanna die like ButchCassidyAndEheSundanceKid.

** ''TheHuntForRedOctober'' is even namechecked late in "Enemy Below", with Sturgis comparing himself and the Russian sub captain being chased to Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery respectively.

** ''TheHuntForRedOctober'' is even namechecked late in Season 7, with Sturgis comparing himself and the Russian sub captain being chased to Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery respectively.