History ShoutOut / NCIS

** There's also an odd moment where Tony [[OutOfCharacterMoment does not know a pop culture reference]] -- he has no idea who or what [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} "Locky"]] the German shepherd is named after ([[TheDogWasTheMastermind the dog wasn't the killer]] nor was the killer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz#Confession delusional and believed the dog told them to kill people]]). Interestingly no one cites [[Film/{{Thor}} the]] [[Film/TheAvengers recent]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld films]] -- [=Mcgee=] cites Myth/NorseMythology while Ellie refers to [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor the comics]]; since we don't meet Loki's owner they're all possible sources.

** There's also an odd moment where Tony [[OutOfCharacterMoment does not know a pop culture reference]] -- he has no idea who or what [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} "Locky"]] the German shepherd is named after ([[TheDogWasTheMastermind the dog wasn't the killer]] nor was the killer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz#Confession delusional and believed the dog told them to kill people]]). Interestingly no one cites [[Film/{{Thor}} the]] [[Film/TheAvengers recent]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld films]] -- [=Mcgee=] cites Myth/NorseMythology while Ellie refers to [[{{Thor}} the comics]]; since we don't meet Loki's owner they're all possible sources.

** There's also an odd moment where Tony [[OutOfCharacterMoment does not know a pop culture reference]] -- he has no idea who or what [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} "Locky"]] the German shepherd is named after ([[TheDogWasTheMastermind the dog wasn't the killer]] nor was the killer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz#Confession delusional and believed the dog told them to kill people]]). Interestingly no one cites [[Film/{{Thor}} the]] [[Film/TheAvengers recent]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld films]] -- [=Mcgee=] cites NorseMythology while Ellie refers to [[{{Thor}} the comics]]; since we don't meet Loki's owner they're all possible sources.

* It could just be my imagination but the background music for "Better Angels" sounds a lot like [[StarWars "The Force]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcZ9kQ1h-ZY Theme"]]. It might have something to do with the good man from [[NaziGermany an evil empire]] who needs to know he's still a good man despite what he did during [[WW2 the war]]. Also based on a true story.

--> '''Gibbs''': ''(beat)'' Illya Kuryakin. (David [=McCallum's=] role from ''[[{{TheManFromUNCLE}} The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'')

** [[TheManFromUNCLE "I rather did like that black turtleneck"]]

** I forgot exactly how it went but he'd rather look like DoctorWho ''[[{{irony}} than]]'' wear [[BowtiesAreCool a bowtie]].

* Elle's obsession with capturing the terrorist Parsa is an obvious shout-out to Agent Maya's obsession with OsamaBinLaden in ''ZeroDarkThirty'', though unlike the film/real life Elle isn't a FieryRedhead, [[spoiler: she's met Parsa in person and has some kind of "personal" relationship with him (one of them even knows what the others favorite health bar is), Parsa is captured alive but gets shot by Elle after he attacks her]].

** There's also an odd moment where Tony [[OutOfCharacterMoment does not know a pop culture reference]] -- he has no idea who or what [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} "Locky"]] the German shepherd is named after ([[TheDogWasTheMastermind the dog wasn't the killer]] nor was the killer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz#Confession delusional and believed the dog could talk]]). Interestingly no one cites [[Film/{{Thor}} the]] [[Film/TheAvengers recent]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld films]] -- [=Mcgee=] cites NorseMythology while Ellie refers to [[{{Thor}} the comics]]; since we don't meet Loki's owner they're all possible sources.

** There's also an odd moment where Tony [[OutOfCharacterMoment does not know a pop culture reference]] -- he has no idea who or what [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} "Locky"]] the German shepherd is named after ([[TheDogWasTheMastermind he wasn't the killer]] nor was the killer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz#Confession delusional]]). Interestingly no one cites [[Film/{{Thor}} the]] [[Film/TheAvengers recent]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld films]] -- [=Mcgee=] cites NorseMythology while Ellie refers to [[{{Thor}} the comics]]; since we don't meet Loki's owner they're all possible sources.

** There's also an odd moment where Tony [[OutOfCharacterMoment does not know a pop culture reference]] -- he has no idea who or what [[TricksterGod "Locky"]] the German shepherd is named after (and no, [[TheDogDidIt the dog didn't do it]]). The others don't quite either as [=Mcgee=] cites NorseMythology while Ellie cites [[{{Thor}} the comics]] rather than [[Film/{{Thor}} the]] [[Film/TheAvengers mov]][[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld ies]].

* The Season 12 episode ''The San Dominick'' has the [[StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan Kobayashi]] [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Maru]] referenced by [=McGee=] as to a training exercise Bishop fails. Falls into BrickJoke territory when it comes up again and Bishop decides to query Gibbs (supposedly the only person to succeed on said exercise) on whether he did it the same way Kirk did. The others remind her that she is essentially going to accuse ''Gibbs'' of cheating on an official exercise...

* Elle's obsession with capturing the terrorist Parsa is an obvious shout-out to Agent Maya's obsession with OsamaBinLaden in ''ZeroDarkThirty'', though unlike the film/real life Elle isn't a FireyRedHead, [[spoiler: she's met Parsa in person and has some kind of "personal" relationship with him (one of them even knows what the others favorite health bar is), Parsa is captured alive but gets shot by Elle after he attacks her]].

* After a tech developer insults [=McGee=] by assuming he's into ''dwebby'' role playing games, [=McGee=]'s responses is: "[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim I used to, but then I took an arrow to the knee.]]" [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure The tech developer apparently doesn't get the joke.]]

* It could just be my imagination but the background music for "Better Angels" sounds a lot like [[StarWars "The Force]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcZ9kQ1h-ZY Theme"]]. It might have something to do with the good man from [[NaziGermany an evil empire]] who needs to know he's still a good man despite what he did during [[WW2 the war]].

-> '''Kate''': Gibbs, what did Ducky look like when he was younger?
-> '''Gibbs''': ''(beat)'' Illya Kuryakin. (David [=McCallum's=] role from ''[[{{TheManFromUNCLE}} The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'')

** In the ninth season episode "Enemy on the Hill", the name "George Kaplan" emerges during a murder case involving money laundering, prompting Tony to comment, "That sounds familiar." Later, when "George Kaplan" turns out to be an alias used by the real killer, Tony says, "I must be slipping" when he remembers the name as the non-existent CIA agent from AlfredHitchcock's ''NorthByNorthwest''.

** In the ninth season episode "Enemy on the Hill", the name "George Kaplin" emerges during a murder case involving money laundering, prompting Tony to comment, "That sounds familiar." Later, when "George Kaplin" turns out to be an alias used by the real killer, Tony says, "I must be slipping" when he remembers the name as the non-existent CIA agent from AlfredHitchcock's ''NorthByNorthwest''.