History ShoutOut / TheCupheadShow

* In "The Devil's Revenge!", the various tortured souls/ghouls in the underworld bear a striking resemblance to the Goons from ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}.

* In "The Devil's Revenge!" The various tortured souls/ghouls in the underworld bare a striking resemblance to the Goons from ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}.

** The "Diaper Baby" ad, which Elder Kettle is embarrassed by and tries to destroy, is a parody of the Gerber Baby ads with Ann Turner Cook as the titular baby.

* In "A High Seas Adventure", a sea-themed villainess singing a tango-esque VillainSong brings [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ursula and "Poor Unfortunate Souls"]] to mind.
* In "Say Cheese!", when Elder Kettle crashes against the wall he lands in a similar way to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin's]] [[https://wompampsupport.azureedge.net/fetchimage?siteId=7575&v=2&jpgQuality=100&width=700&url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.kym-cdn.com%2Fentries%2Ficons%2Fmobile%2F000%2F040%2F300%2Fdpcover.jpg infamous "Death Pose"]].
** The "Diaper Baby" ad, which Elder Kettle is embarrassed by and tries to destroy, is kind of a parody of the Gerber Baby ads with Ann Turner Cook as the titular baby.

* In "Release the Demons!", the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse petrify anyone who looks at them in fear, which is similar to how Medusa does the same to her victims, and how the Basilisk uses its gaze to kill and petrify its victims when seen in a reflection in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''.
** Also, the fake dead horse head is kind of a callback to the film adaptation of Mario Puzo's ''Film/TheGodfather''.

** The cups' scam business of faking a ghost removal service in the first half of the episode is reminiscent of ''Film/GhostBusters''. The episode's second half, meanwhile, draws more from the ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionSeries'', with the heroes having to avoid being eternally trapped in paintings by malevolent ghosts in a spooky manor.

* In "Say Cheese", when Elder Kettle crashes against the wall he lands in a similar way to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin's]] [[https://wompampsupport.azureedge.net/fetchimage?siteId=7575&v=2&jpgQuality=100&width=700&url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.kym-cdn.com%2Fentries%2Ficons%2Fmobile%2F000%2F040%2F300%2Fdpcover.jpg infamous "Death Pose"]].

** The cups' scam business of faking a ghost removal servce in the first half of the episode is reminiscent of ''Film/GhostBusters''. The episode's second half, meanwhile, draws more from the ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionSeries'', with the heroes having to avoid being eternally trapped in paintings by malevolent ghosts in a spooky manor.

** Similarly, the cups' scam business of faking a ghost removal servce in the first half of the episode is reminiscent of ''Film/GhostBusters''. The episode's second half, meanwhile, draws more from the ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionSeries'', with the heroes having to avoid being eternally trapped in paintings by malevolent ghosts in a spooky manor.

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** At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:the Devil lifts King Dice using his magical force that renders him helpless to the point of choking from a distance, similar to how Darth Vader strangles those who defect him in ''Franchise/StarWars''.]]

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ShoutOut examples from the 2022 {{Creator/Netflix}} original animated series, ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'', based on the 2017 video game [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} of the same name]].

** For that matter, King Dice's walk onto the stage for his studio audience is very evocative of [[Music/CabCalloway Cab Calloway's]] dancing style; Calloway collaborated with Fleischer Studios and "appeared" in several ''Betty Boop'' cartoons via rotoscoping, probably most famously as [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a singing dancing ghost walrus in "Minnie the Moocher"]].

* Right off the bat, the "Netflix Presents" logo for the show has Mugmag flying a plane across Cuphead's floating head in space, [[https://youtu.be/FeCSdzSouUI a reference]] to one of Creator/{{Universal}}'s 1930s {{Vanity Plate}}s.

* Characters have a tendency to do quiet, desperate gasps of terror, complete with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises expressions almost exactly like those in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013''.

* There are multiple nods to classic Fleischer Bros. cartoons throughout, including the slide scene and the fake door gag in "Carn-Evil" (from ''WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation'') as well as some of the ghosts from "Ghosts Ain't Real" (''WesternAnimation/SwingYouSinners''). Bimbo himself (or at least an {{Expy}} of him) appears briefly in the first episode, as one of the carnival attendants.
* "Ghosts Ain't Real" also contains multiple nods to classic Creator/{{Disney}} works:
** The dancing skeletons are an obvious nod to ''WesternAnimation/TheSkeletonDance''. The upbeat Hispanic music that plays while the skeletons dance is a more subtle nod to ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''.

* "Ghosts Ain't Real" could also have a couple of references to the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} franchise. The BigThinShortTrio of ghosts tormenting Cuphead and Mugman remind of the ghost family (short father, lanky tall mother and huge dopey son) from the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', and among the ghosts chasing them there's a convict still strapped to the electric chair that is reminiscent of the Scoleri Brothers from ''Film/GhostbustersII''.