History ShoutOut / RealLife

* 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[[note]]At the very top, in the back of the room; best spotted if you turn around just before you leave the room and look back and up[[/note]] - 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
*** Similarly, one of the first rooms of Big Thunder Mountain is a cavern with pools of multicolored water utilizing forced perspective. This is a reference to the Rainbow Caverns section of Nature's Wonderland which partly occupied the area of Big Thunder Mountain.
** 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.
** 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 stripped of their outer coverings and turned into the small robots in the Star Tours queue.
* [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Orlando Resort]]'s new water park, Volcano Bay, includes a subtle Shout Out to the resort's previous water park, Wet 'n Wild[[note]]which was not originally a Universal park, but was acquired by the corporation in 1998[[/note]]. The new park features a pair of water slides named Maku and Puihi. Maku means "Wet" and "Puihi" means "Wild" in the Maori language.
* 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!"

** Reimu Hakurei of ''{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' has [[https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2018/04/22/reimu-flower_a_23417229/ a flower with frilly red-and-white petals]] named after her. Whether they'll name one after the flower youkai Yuuka remains to be seen.

*** Since the GeForce 200 series, [=NVIDIA's=] [[UsefulNotes/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 fossil bird ''Qiliania [[Music/BadReligion graffini]].

** The lemur ''Avahi cleesei'' is named for lemur-lover John Cleese.

** 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 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?"

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

* The newly named [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Bazinga Bee]]. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/01/03/big-bang-bee-name-sheldon.html

** There's even [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7796_J%C3%A1racimrman one]] named after the [[spoiler:fictitious]] Czech genius [[Creator/JaraCimrman Jára Cimrman]]. Let's just say that the name of every other asteroid is a reference to something-or-other (since it's the discoverer who proposes the name, and there are few restrictions on the name choice.)

** There's even one named after the [[spoiler:fictitious]] Czech genius [[Creator/JaraCimrman Jára Cimrman]]. Let's just say that the name of every other asteroid is a reference to something-or-other (since it's the discoverer who proposes the name, and there are few restrictions on the name choice.)

** There's even one named after the [[spoiler:fictitious]] Czech genius [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7796_Jaracimrman Jára Cimrman]]. Let's just say that the name of every other asteroid is a reference to something-or-other (since it's the discoverer who proposes the name, and there are few restrictions on the name choice.)

** 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 ''VideoGame/{{Elite}}'' fame.) Also, the Raspberry Pi version of the OS is called "Wheezy" -- after the asthmatic penguin from ''Film/ToyStory2''.

** Neither Sarah nor Tina was wearing [[UnfortunateImplications skimpy native-wear]] at the time ([[FetishFuel although...]])

** 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 ''VideoGame/{{Elite}}'' fame.)

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

** Franchise/{{Cthulhu|Mythos}} 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.)

** As an EasterEgg for Excel 2000, Microsoft put in a clone of SpyHunter.

* A group of "hedgehog" genes -- called such because they made fruit flies spiky -- are desert hedgehog, Indian hedgehog, and [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog sonic hedgehog]].

** The POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor was originally named Franchise/{{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.

** The scientific name for the dinosaur [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masiakasaurus Masiakasaurus]] is ''Masiakasaurus knopfleri'' -- the expedition crews were said to be listening to a lot of DireStraits at the time. Mark Knopfler himself once made an amusing self-effacing comment about how appropriate it was to have a dinosaur named after him.

* {{Cricket}}: In Australia's Big Bash League, the Perth Scorchers' mascot suspiciously resembles [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Charizard]].
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** ''Heteropoda davidbowie'', another spider species. Note that one of DavidBowie's most famous early albums was ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars''.

* The 2015 San Francisco Giants' parody of the ''Series/FullHouse'' opening, aptly named ''Full Clubhouse''. Brandon Crawford rocking his long hair and strumming a guitar like Uncle Jesse, Hunter Pence [[MythologyGag polishing his]] [[CompanionCube scooter]], and Jeremy Affeldt's shit-eating grin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAgJwlY4pVg must be seen to be believed]].
* {{Cricket}}: In Australia's Big Bash League, the Perth Scorchers' mascot suspiciously resembles [[{{Pokemon}} Charizard]].

** 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.]]

* 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]], Franchise/{{Pirates Of The C|aribbean}}owibbean, [[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]], [[Franchise/HelloKitty Hello Cowy]], [[Music/BritneySpears Britney Steers]], [[MickeyMouse Mickey Moo]], [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightsteer]], WesternAnimation/{{Caill|ou}}moo, [[Series/{{CSI}} Cow Scene Investigation]], Series/{{iC|arly}}owly, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Moorio]], [[Series/TopChef Top Cow]], [[Film/HighSchoolMusical High School Moosical]], [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho Morton Hears A Moo]], [[VideoGame/AngryBirds Angry Herds]], [[Series/HannahMontana Hannah Moontana]], [[Series/LizzieMcGuire Lizzie Mooguire]], [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Diary of a Wimpy Cow]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan The Amoozing Spider-Cow]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Winnie the Moo]], [[Series/FearFactor Steer Factor]] & WesternAnimation/{{Madagasc|ar}}ow.

* The 2015 San Francisco Giants' parody of the ''FullHouse'' opening, aptly named ''Full Clubhouse''. Brandon Crawford rocking his long hair and strumming a guitar like Uncle Jesse, Hunter Pence [[MythologyGag polishing his]] [[CompanionCube scooter]], and Jeremy Affeldt's shit-eating grin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAgJwlY4pVg must be seen to be believed]].