History ShoutOut / RealLife

** There's a dinosaur called ''[[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Gojira]]saurus''.

** The audio-animatronic critters from the old America Sings attraction were mostly moved to Splash Mountain (a lot of them are on the riverboat at the end of the ride, which can also be seen from the train between New Orleans Square Station and Toontown/Fantasyland Station). Two of the ducks from America Sings were plucked turned into the small robots in the Star Tours queue.

** Somewhere in the projector room in the queue for Indiana Jones Adventure, there is an Eeyore sign - that spot used to be the Eeyore section of the old parking lot.

*** Since the GeForce 200 series, [=NVIDIA's=] [[GraphicsProcessingUnit GPUs]] have been named after famous mathematicians and physicists. These have included UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, Enrico Fermi, Johannes Kepler, and, in an upcoming release, James Clerk Maxwell.

** The asteroids ''12796 Kamenrider'' and ''12408 Fujioka'', named for the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise and its original star, HiroshiFujioka.

** A scientist named a rock in the Main Asteroid Belt 18610 [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthurdent]]". Later, another asteroid was dedicated to the author: 25924 Creator/DouglasAdams The naming of 25924 Douglasdams is itself a [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarmer.]] The provisional name for it was 2001DA42. [[note]] '''The year in which Douglas Adams died''', his initials, and the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, in that order.[[/note]] The only comments that could be given were along the lines of "it was sort of made for him, wasn't it?"

** A scientist named a rock in the Main Asteroid Belt 18610 [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthurdent]]". Later, another asteroid was dedicated to the author: 25924 DouglasAdams The naming of 25924 Douglasadams is itself a [[HeartwarmingMoments heartwarmer.]] The provisional name for it was 2001DA42. [[note]] '''The year in which Douglas Adams died''', his initials, and the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, in that order.[[/note]] The only comments that could be given were along the lines of "it was sort of made for him, wasn't it?"

* Canadian ice cream shop COWS is noted for the cow-themed spoofs on its walls (these can also be purchased as shirts & calendars). These include, but are not at all limited to, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phinemoo and Herde]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeCow SquareMoo]], [[Literature/TheHungerGames May The Odds Be Heifer In Your Favor]], [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Mooey Griffin]], [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Finding Nemoo]], [[Series/SesameStreet Oscow the Grouch & Elmoo]], [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates Of The Cowibbean]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans The Backyardicows]], [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues Moo's Clues]], [[Music/TaylorSwift Haylor Swift: Steerless]], [[Music/JustinBieber Justin Beefer]], [[Film/{{Avatar}} Moovatar]], [[Music/LadyGaga Lady Moomoo]], [[HelloKitty Hello Cowy]], [[Music/BritneySpears Britney Steers]], [[MickeyMouse Mickey Moo]], [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightsteer]], WesternAnimation/{{Caill|ou}}moo, [[Series/{{CSI}} Cow Scene Investigation]], {{iC|arly}}owly, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Moorio]], [[TopChef Top Cow]], [[HighSchoolMusical High School Moosical]], [[HortonHearsAWho Morton Hears A Moo]], [[AngryBirds Angry Herds]], [[HannahMontana Hannah Moontana]], [[LizzieMcGuire Lizzie Mooguire]], [[DiaryOfAWimpyKid Diary of a Wimpy Cow]], [[SpiderMan The Amoozing Spider-Cow]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Winnie the Moo]], [[FearFactor Steer Factor]] & WesternAnimation/{{Madagasc|ar}}ow.

* NASA's [[http://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/index.html Commercial Crew and Cargo Program]], [[StarWars C3PO]] for short.

** Likewise, a retinal protein was named [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]rin, due to its relation with electrical signals.
** The POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor was originally named {{Pokemon}}, until Nintendo threatened legal action. Why? It's a master switch for cancer. It's given a generic name of Zbtb7

** ''Strigiphilus garylarsoni'', a kind of chewing louse, after the creator of ''TheFarSide'' and his frequently insect-related humour. And [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer the Thagomizer]]!

** The trapdoor spider ''Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi'', and inevitably, ''Aptostichus [[StephenColbert stephencolberti]]''.

*** ''[[StarWars Han solo]]'' -- it's a [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures trilobite]]. It has a double meaning, actually, as ''Han'' refers to the Han People of China, and ''solo'' is a reference to this being the sole species of the ''Han'' genus, but the author who named it also wanted to make a ''Star Wars'' shout-out.

** A giant prehistoric killer whale has the [[AwesomeMcCoolName awesome name]] ''[[Literature/TheBible Leviathan]] [[MobyDick melvillei]]''.

** [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] has two species named after him, a spider ''Pimoa cthulhu'' and microbe ''Cthulhu macrofasciculumque'' (whose flagella give it a vague resemblance to the tentacled god.)

** The asteroids ''12796 Kamenrider'' and ''12408 Fujioka'', named for the ''KamenRider'' franchise and its original star, HiroshiFujioka.

** Asteroid [[Series/StargateSG1 99942 Apophis]]. Even funnier, there is a small chance that the asteroid may hit Earth in 2036, so Apophis is our real-life enemy. (The name Apophis comes from EgyptianMythology, but the asteroid's discoverers are said to be fans of ''Stargate SG-1''.)

** The dwarf planet now known as "Eris" was nicknamed "{{Xena}}" for 2 years while a final name and designation were decided. Its moon was officially named "Dysnomia" (Lawlessness) as a shoutout to actress Lucy Lawless.

** The asteroid ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4942_Munroe 4942 Munroe]], named after [[{{Xkcd}} a certain Randall Munroe]].

** Originally Colbert was competing for the naming of a space capsule, the name in second place [[{{Firefly}} was]] Film/{{Serenity}}.

** AMD's first in-house designed x86 compatible processor was called K5. Their next generation, K6, was when they said the K meant [[SuperMan Kryptonite]].
** Upcoming iterations of Nvidia's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra_2 Tegra]] system-on-a-chip series are codenamed [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Wayne]], [[{{Wolverine}} Logan]], and [[ComicBook/IronMan Stark]].

** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi Raspberry Pi]] (an educational- / hobbyist-market computing device with an ARM CPU, capable of running [[UsefulNotes/AcornArchimedes Acorn RISC OS]]) is available in "Model A" and "Model B" versions; this will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro. (It's no coincidence that this device was co-developed by David Braben, of ''{{Elite}}'' fame.)

** Or it could more likely be a reference to the statement by [[strike:SarahPalin]] TinaFey that you could see Russia from Alaska, and that in itself gave her international relation experience.

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** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi Raspberry Pi]] (an educational- / hobbyist-market computing device with an ARM CPU, capable of running [[AcornArchimedes Acorn RISC OS]]) is available in "Model A" and "Model B" versions; this will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro. (It's no coincidence that this device was co-developed by David Braben, of ''{{Elite}}'' fame.)

** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi Raspberry Pi]] (an educational- / hobbyist-market computing device with an ARM CPU, capable of running [[AcornArchimedes Acorn RISC OS]]) is available in "Model A" and "Model B" versions; this will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the BBCMicro. (It's no coincidence that this device was co-developed by David Braben, of ''{{Elite}}'' fame.)

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* The newly named [[{{TheBigBangTheory}}Bazinga Bee]]. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/01/03/big-bang-bee-name-sheldon.html
* Canadian ice cream shop COWS is noted for the cow-themed spoofs on its walls (these can also be purchased as shirts & calendars). These include, but are not at all limited to, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phinemoo and Herde]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeCow SquareMoo]], [[Literature/TheHungerGames May The Odds Be Heifer In Your Favor]], [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Mooey Griffin]], [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Finding Nemoo]], [[Series/SesameStreet Oscow the Grouch & Elmoo]], [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates Of The Cowibbean]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans The Backyardicows]], [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues Moo's Clues]], [[Music/TaylorSwift Haylor Swift: Steerless]], [[Music/JustinBieber Justin Beefer]], [[Film/{{Avatar}} Moovatar]], [[Music/LadyGaga Lady Moomoo]], [[HelloKitty Hello Cowy]], [[Music/BritneySpears Britney Steers]], [[MickeyMouse Mickey Moo]], [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightsteer]], {{Caill|ou}}moo, [[Series/{{CSI}} Cow Scene Investigation]], {{iC|arly}}owly, [[SuperMario Super Moorio]], [[TopChef Top Cow]], [[HighSchoolMusical High School Moosical]], [[HortonHearsAWho Morton Hears A Moo]], [[AngryBirds Angry Herds]], [[HannahMontana Hannah Moontana]], [[LizzieMcGuire Lizzie Mooguire]], [[DiaryOfAWimpyKid Diary of a Wimpy Cow]], [[SpiderMan The Amoozing Spider-Cow]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Winnie the Moo]], [[FearFactor Steer Factor]] & WesternAnimation/{{Madagasc|ar}}ow.

*** Since the GeForce 200 series, [=NVIDIA's=] [[GraphicsProcessingUnit GPUs]] have been named after famous mathematicians and physicists. These have included NikolaTesla, Enrico Fermi, Johannes Kepler, and, in an upcoming release, James Clerk Maxwell.

** Originally Colbert was competing for the naming of a space capsule, the name in second place was Film/{{Serenity}}.

* A group of "hedgehog" genes -- called such because they made fruit flies spiky -- are desert hedgehog, Indian hedgehog, and [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog sonic hedgehog]].
** If your son's sonic gene is defect, [[BodyHorror he is]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopia screwed]] [[NightmareFuel (Click the link with care, folks.)]] For a better reference, this disorder would leave him looking like a [[VideoGame/SilentHill Raw Shock.]]
** In addition, one of the macrocycle inhibitors of the gene sonic hedgehog continues the reference. It is named '''[[BigBad Robotnik]]'''[[BigBad in]].
** Likewise, a retinal protein was named [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]rin, due to its relation with electrical signals.
** The POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor was originally named {{Pokemon}}, until Nintendo threatened legal action. Why? It's a master switch for cancer. It's given a generic name of Zbtb7

* All of the elements after plutonium, once they are actually synthesized, are named either for a famous scientist ([[AlbertEinstein einsteinium]], bohrium, mendelevium, nobelium, rutherfordium) or an important location, usually the element's "place of birth" (berkelium, californium, americium, darmstadtium). An abandoned mine at Ytterby, in the Stockholm archipelago, has four elements named for it: erbium, terbium, ytterbium and yttrium.
* Google's Wave service was named such because that's what communications were called in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. The crash message is even Wash's infamous line "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has provided several. Among them:
** The inventor of the flip-open cell phone design has apparently said he was inspired by the classic Trek communicator.
** The successful campaign to get the first space shuttle named ''Enterprise''.
** When the US Space Command was reorganized a few years ago, they introduced some new insignia. There's a stylized arrowhead in the middle.
* Ladies and gentlemen...The [[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/colberttreadmill.html COLBERT Treadmill.]]
** Originally Colbert was competing for the naming of a space capsule, the name in second place was Film/{{Serenity}}.

* Music/IronMaiden's drummer Nicko [=McBrain=] owns a restaurant, Rock N' Roll Ribs. [[http://www.rocknrollribs.org/menu.html The menu]] is filled with references to his band (such as "Appetite of THE BEAST", and the temperatures of sauce: Mild, Medium, Hot, Die with your Boots On, or Heaven Can't Wait).
* Lucy, the fossilized ''Australopithecus'' named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
* The newly named [[{{TheBigBangTheory}}Bazinga Bee]]. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/01/03/big-bang-bee-name-sheldon.html
* Disneyland is full of these to former attractions. To whit:
** In The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, just as you leave the Heffalumps and Woozles part, if you look behind you, you can see three trophy heads - Max, Buff, and Melvin, from the attraction that once occupied that spot: Country Bear Jamboree. In Florida, at Walt Disney World, turning around at the right moment you will be able to see a picture of Mr Toad handing over a deed to Owl as an homage to Mr Toad's Wild Ride which used to occupy that space.
** Somewhere in the projector room in the queue for Indiana Jones Adventure, there is an Eeyore sign - that spot used to be the Eeyore section of the old parking lot.
** In Autopia, there's a bronzed Midget Autopia car, referencing the long-gone attraction.
** Swiss Family Treehouse, based off of the movie Swiss Family Robinson, once occupied the spot where Tarzan's Treehouse is now. A gramophone in Tarzan's Treehouse still plays the Swisskapolka
** The Mighty Microscope from ''Adventure Thru Inner Space'' is still there - you can see it across from a mechanical arm that almost hits the Starspeeder 3000 in ''Star Tours'' and the comet scene pays a subtle nod to the snowflakes from ''Adventure''.
*** The new ''Star Tours'' once again features the Mighty Microscope on left hand side of the screen in a lit corridor just before the Starspeeder 1000 leaves the [[ThatsNoMoon unfinished Death Star 1]] through a docking bay.
** An actual engine from the Mine Train thru Nature's Wonderland sits at the edge of the Rivers of America
** Mike Fink Keel Boats transported guests along the Rivers of America until 1997. One boat, the Gullywhumper, is moored as a prop along the rivers.
** There are ''four'' shout-outs to the House of the Future in Innoventions alone.
* Canadian ice cream shop COWS is noted for the cow-themed spoofs on its walls (these can also be purchased as shirts & calendars). These include, but are not at all limited to, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phinemoo and Herde]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeCow SquareMoo]], [[Literature/TheHungerGames May The Odds Be Heifer In Your Favor]], [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Mooey Griffin]], [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Finding Nemoo]], [[Series/SesameStreet Oscow the Grouch & Elmoo]], [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates Of The Cowibbean]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans The Backyardicows]], [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues Moo's Clues]], [[Music/TaylorSwift Haylor Swift: Steerless]], [[Music/JustinBieber Justin Beefer]], [[Film/{{Avatar}} Moovatar]], [[Music/LadyGaga Lady Moomoo]], [[HelloKitty Hello Cowy]], [[Music/BritneySpears Britney Steers]], [[MickeyMouse Mickey Moo]], [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightsteer]], {{Caill|ou}}moo, [[Series/{{CSI}} Cow Scene Investigation]], {{iC|arly}}owly, [[SuperMario Super Moorio]], [[TopChef Top Cow]], [[HighSchoolMusical High School Moosical]], [[HortonHearsAWho Morton Hears A Moo]], [[AngryBirds Angry Herds]], [[HannahMontana Hannah Moontana]], [[LizzieMcGuire Lizzie Mooguire]], [[DiaryOfAWimpyKid Diary of a Wimpy Cow]], [[SpiderMan The Amoozing Spider-Cow]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Winnie the Moo]], [[FearFactor Steer Factor]] & WesternAnimation/{{Madagasc|ar}}ow.
* The MEDLI (MSL Entry, Descent, and Landing Imager) instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory mission may be a reference to the character Medli from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''. It's certainly possible, given the ''Zelda'' series's widespread fanbase and the relative age of most of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory employees.
* NASA's [[http://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/index.html Commercial Crew and Cargo Program]], [[StarWars C3PO]] for short.
* A [[http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/jun/02/pennies-add-up-to-chances-for-online-fraud/ California man]] attempted to siphon $50,000 from several online banking services by creating several thousand fake accounts. The fake names used for the accounts included [[Comicbook/GhostRider Johnny Blaze]] and [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]].
* At one time there used to be an eastern Iowa restaurant named [[Theatre/TheMusicMan Shipoopi's]]. [[note]]The musical takes place in Iowa and the playwright was a native Iowan.[[/note]]

* A group of "hedgehog" genes -- called such because they made fruit flies spiky -- are desert hedgehog, Indian hedgehog, and [[SonicTheHedgehog sonic hedgehog]].
** If your son's sonic gene is defect, [[BodyHorror he] is]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopia screwed]] [[NightmareFuel (Click the link with care, folks.)]] For a better reference, this disorder would leave him looking like a [[SilentHill Raw Shock.]]

** ChristopherHitchens has an asteroid, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57901_Hitchens 57091 Hitchens]], named after him.

* Canadian ice cream shop COWS is noted for the cow-themed spoofs on its walls (these can also be purchased as shirts & calendars). These include, but are not at all limited to, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phinemoo and Herde]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeCow SquareMoo]], [[Literature/TheHungerGames May The Odds Be Heifer In Your Favor]], [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Mooey Griffin]], [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Finding Nemoo]], [[Series/SesameStreet Oscow the Grouch & Elmoo]], [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates Of The Cowibbean]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans The Backyardicows]], [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues Moo's Clues]], [[Music/TaylorSwift Haylor Swift: Steerless]], [[Music/JustinBieber Justin Beefer]], [[Film/{{Avatar}} Moovatar]], [[Music/LadyGaga Lady Moomoo]], [[HelloKitty Hello Cowy]], [[Music/BritneySpears Britney Steers]], [[MickeyMouse Mickey Moo]], [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightsteer]], {{Caill|ou}}moo, [[Series/{{CSI}} Cow Scene Investigation]], {{iC|arly}}owly, [[SuperMario Super Moorio]], [[TopChef Top Cow]], [[HighSchoolMusical High School Moosical]], [[HortonHearsAWho Morton Hears A Moo]], [[AngryBirds Angry Herds]], [[HannahMontana Hannah Moontana]], [[LizzieMcGuire Lizzie Mooguire]], [[DiaryOfAWimpyKid Diary of a Wimpy Cow]], [[SpiderMan The Amoozing Spider-Cow]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Winnie the Moo]], [[FearFactor Steer Factor]] & {{Madagasc|ar}}ow.

** The asteroid named after HideakiAnno

* Google's Wave service was named such because that's what communications were called in ''{{Firefly}}''. The crash message is even Wash's infamous line "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

** The pachycephalosaur ''[[HarryPotter Dracorex hogwartsia]]'' is shouting out loud and clear.

* A [[http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/jun/02/pennies-add-up-to-chances-for-online-fraud/ California man]] attempted to siphon $50,000 from several online banking services by creating several thousand fake accounts. The fake names used for the accounts included [[GhostRider Johnny Blaze]] and [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]].

** Upcoming iterations of Nvidia's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra_2 Tegra]] system-on-a-chip series are codenamed [[{{Superman}} Kal-El]], [[{{Batman}} Wayne]], [[{{Wolverine}} Logan]], and [[ComicBook/IronMan Stark]].

** [[Plan9FromOuterSpace Plan 9 From Bell Labs]], the successor to UNIX as Bell Labs' main research OS. Along with Plan 9 From User Space, a port of the main Plan 9 programs to UNIX-like systems. (and yes, userspace actually means something in context)

* Canadian ice cream shop COWS is noted for the cow-themed spoofs on its walls (these can also be purchased as shirts & calendars). These include, but are not at all limited to, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phinemoo and Herde]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeCow SquareMoo]], [[Literature/TheHungerGames May The Odds Be Heifer In Your Favor]], [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Mooey Griffin]], [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Finding Nemoo]], [[Series/SesameStreet Oscow the Grouch & Elmoo]], [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates Of The Cowibbean]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans The Backyardicows]], [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues Moo's Clues]], [[Music/TaylorSwift Haylor Swift: Steerless]], [[Music/JustinBieber Justin Beefer]], [[Film/{{Avatar}} Moovatar]], [[Music/LadyGaga Lady Moomoo]], [[HelloKitty Hello Cowy]], [[Music/BritneySpears Britney Steers]], [[MickeyMouse Mickey Moo]], [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightsteer]], {{Caill|ou}}moo, [[Series/{{CSI}} Cow Scene Investigation]], {{iC|arly}}owly, [[SuperMario Super Moorio]], [[TopChef Top Cow]], [[HighSchoolMusical High School Moosical]], [[HortonHearsAWho Morton Hears A Moo]], [[AngryBirds Angry Herds]], [[HannahMontana Hannah Moontana]], [[LizzieMcGuire Lizzie Mooguire]], [[DiaryOfAWimpyKid Diary of a Wimpy Cow]], [[SpiderMan The Amoozing Spider-Cow]], [[WinnieThePooh Winnie the Moo]], [[FearFactor Steer Factor]] & {{Madagasc|ar}}ow.