History ShoutOut / TheLastOfUs

* According to his trophy, the archer in Seattle’s name was Boris Legasov. The two main characters in ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' are Boris (Shcherbina) and (Valery) Legasov. Even better when you remember that the creator of Chernobyl would later work with Neil Druckman on The Last Of Us tv series.

* According to his trophy, the archer in Seattle’s name was Boris Legasov. The two main characters in ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' are Boris (Shcherbina) and (Valery) Legasov.

* In the scene in Eugene's basement, Ellie and Dina can find his tapes of porn movies inclding [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Smash Brandi's Cooch]].

* During the winter chapter, Ellie can sneak through an old arcade featuring {{expy}} versions of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', ''VideoGame/AfterBurner'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'', ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'', and ''VideoGame/PacMan''. These machines all reappear in Left Behind, along with a ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' pastiche that Ellie gets to play (or rather, imagine playing, since the cabinet is broken), and a machine of ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing''.

* [[spoiler:The scene where Joel and Ellie realize Tess is infected, along with her sacrifice by deliberately drawing fire from government forces long enough for two people to get away and to avoid becoming one of the infected,]] is a nod to the remake of ''Film/TheCrazies''.

* During the winter chapter, Ellie can sneak through an old arcade featuring {{expy}} versions of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', ''VideoGame/AfterBurner'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'', ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'', and ''VideoGame/PacMan''.

* The robot that Henry refuses Sam to take is a Franchise/{{Transformers}} robot.
* In the toy store, there are a couple of VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} board games.

* [[spoiler: The ChasingYourTail BossFight against David is very similar to the boss battle against [[{{VideoGame/Manhunt}} Piggsy]], right down to the usually OneHitKill BackStab requiring [[RuleOfThree three stabs]] to take the boss down.]]
* [[spoiler: When you first play as Ellie, you're in a forest map, [[{{VideoGame/TombRaider2013}} playing as a brown-ponytailed young]] woman [[Film/TheHungerGames with a bow chasing]] down a [[{{Film/Hanna}} deer for food]].]]
** [[spoiler: Joel's wound is quite similar to Lara's at the beginning of the game. It isn't as easily shrugged off though.]]

* As heard on Two Best Friends, Sarah's clothing seem to be a reference to Kristen Stewart's clothing in ''Panic Room''.

* Also in the toy store are a couple of VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} board games.

* The scene of finding Ish's beached boat is similar to the beached boat scene in ''Literature/TheRoad''.

* Henry's little brother Sam's name could be seen as a nod to ''Film/IAmLegend'', a zombie-like apocalyptic comic and where a man named Neville lives alone in an abandoned city with his dog, Sam, as his only company, whom he basically treats like family or best friend. [[spoiler:Eventually, Neville suffers an ambush of infected/mutant canine creatures who winds up biting Sam, later forcing the man to strangle her to death while crying when realizing she's turning.]]

* The poster for [[ShowWithinAShow Dawn of the Wolf]] seems very reminiscent to one of the ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' movie posters. It's quite ultimately a TakeThat as Joel refers to it as "a dumb Teen movie".

* Tess's [[spoiler:LastStand]] is ''very'' similar to [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption John Marston's]], sending the people she cares about away before drawing her breath and slowly turn around to face the enemy, a gun at hand to take as many down with her as she can.]]

* When Abby wakes up from her nightmare, she's holding onto a copy of ''Literature/CityOfThieves'', which was one of the first game's story inspirations.

* One of the collectible notes that Ellie can pick up is found in the children’s section of a bookstore. It’s a conversation between a mother and a child, scrawled on the back of a page torn from ''Literature/TheVelveteenRabbit''.