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**** Actually, that's a common misapprehension because so many other characters in the series are named after streets in Portland.
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** Gadget is more than obviously based on Jordan from ''RealGenius''.
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** Gadget is more than obviously based on Jordan from ''RealGenius''.''RealGenius'' (though her ''design'' was actually based on an artist at Disney, including the jumpsuit!).
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** "Hercie, [[GaiusJuliusCaesar he comes, he sees, he conquers]]!"
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** Kim even had three of her other show rivals in her sights: one episode has her comment on how if [[TheLibby Bonnie]] tries too hard at cheerleading she'll [[{{Buffy}} spontaneously combust,]] another has her fighting a CaptainEratz version of [[{{Alias}} Sydney Bristow,]] and a third has her [[TombRaider raiding tombs.]]
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* One episode of StormHawks had a two characters who were a ShoutOut to StatlerAndWaldorf. I am dead serious.
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** In a fight, Donatello realizes, "A bo staff? And a bunch of guys who all look the same? Time to try one of my favorite movie stunts!" He spins around his staff à la [[TheMatrix Burly Brawl]], but it doesn't work. Raphael (I think) reminds Donny that "[[ThisIsReality This ain't the movies.]]"
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** In a fight, Donatello realizes, "A bo staff? And a bunch of guys who all look the same? Time to try one of my favorite movie stunts!" He spins around his staff à à la [[TheMatrix Burly Brawl]], but it doesn't work. Raphael (I think) reminds Donny that "[[ThisIsReality This ain't the movies.]]"
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* ''TheCritic'' is chock-full of them. ''(Note: These are originally located on the show's own trope page.)''
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* ''TheCritic'' is chock-full of them. ''(Note: These are originally located on the show's own trope work page.)''
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** Most likely unintentional: In ''The Golden Sprocket of Friendship''. At the beggining, the mayor is standing on the unfinished stage practicing his speech. [[AliceInWonderland He's a walrus, and he's surrounded by carpenters]].
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** Even before ''Bender's Game'', there were numerous shout outs to ''DungeonsAndDragons'' in the series, ranging from the obvious (Gary Gygax showing up in "Anthology of Interest") to the subtle (ranging from a rust monster at a veterinary hospital to a beholder in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back").
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*** They looked like younger versions of few background characters from BatmanBeyond, so it's either a shout out to this show, or both series refferenced DKR.
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*** They looked like younger versions of few background characters from BatmanBeyond, so it's either a shout out to this show, or both series refferenced referenced DKR.
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** Also another 2 episodes had Kitty sleeping, no not like that you perverts, with a stuffed, suposedly purple, dragon, Not ''[[SpyroTheDragon that]]'' Dragon, nut a refference to Lockheed, Kitty's pet dragon from the comics & EnsembleDarkhorse.
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** Also another 2 episodes had Kitty sleeping, no not like that you perverts, with a stuffed, suposedly supposedly purple, dragon, Not ''[[SpyroTheDragon that]]'' Dragon, nut but a refference reference to Lockheed, Kitty's pet dragon from the comics & EnsembleDarkhorse.
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** In the ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Mxyzpxlated", the ''Daily Planet'' comics page has a couple of {{Shout Out}}s. One strip is "Dini the Meany", which sounds similar to DennisTheMenace, but with an art style similar to CalvinAndHobbes. It's attributed to [[BillWatterson "Bill Wemissu"]]. Also on the page is "Gleen", with an art style pretty much directly lifted from {{Peanuts}}.
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** What may have been a very subtle Shout Out was Cheetor's weapon sound effect. It sounded just like MegaMan's from the cartoon. Both were voiced by Ian Corlett.
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** What may have been a very subtle Shout Out was Cheetor's weapon sound effect. It sounded just like MegaMan's Series/MegaMan's from the cartoon. Both were voiced by Ian Corlett.
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** In the season 1 episode "A Little Deb Will Do Ya," Jay is about to do the deed with a woman he met at his sister Margo's debutante ball, but the woman admits to having a [[TheCryingGame "terrible" secret below her waist]]. [[spoiler: She's wearing the bottom half of the Humphrey the Hippo costume, also revealing to be his TV-ratings rival.]]
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** In the season 1 episode "A Little Deb Will Do Ya," Jay is about to do the deed with a woman he met at his sister Margo's debutante ball, but the woman admits to having a [[TheCryingGame a "terrible" secret below her waist]]. [[spoiler: She's wearing the bottom half of the Humphrey the Hippo costume, also revealing to be his TV-ratings rival.]]
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* ''TheCritic'' is chock-full of them. ''(Note: These are originally located on the show's own trope page.)''
** Vlada and his son Zoltan are from [[RockyAndBullwinkle Pottsylvania]].
** In the episode "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost," Franklin behaving like [[TheThreeStooges Curly]] after drinking spiked punch (also resulting him as the show's CloudCuckoolander), and has Albert Einstein acting like Larry and Ted Kennedy acting like Moe.
** Prince Charles sounds like [[MontyPython Professor Gumby]].
** Alice's sister Miranda used venetian blinds for her ball gown, a reference to the famous ''GoneWithTheWind'' spoof from ''The Carol Burnett Show''.
** In the season 1 episode "A Little Deb Will Do Ya," Jay is about to do the deed with a woman he met at his sister Margo's debutante ball, but the woman admits to having a [[TheCryingGame "terrible" secret below her waist]]. [[spoiler: She's wearing the bottom half of the Humphrey the Hippo costume, also revealing to be his TV-ratings rival.]]
** A reviewer's face melting off and reducing him to a skeleton (after Roger Ebert shows him a clip of a bad movie) is a reference to ''[[IndianaJones Raiders Of The Lost Ark]]''.
** The episode "Miserable" is a parody of ''{{Misery}}''.
** The episode "Dukerella" is a cross-parody of ''{{Cinderella}}'' and ''AStreetcarNamedDesire''.
** A drunken [[Film/{{Arthur}} Arthur Bach]] (DudleyMoore) is spoofed in several episodes.
** Franklin dressed up as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce_PIZ_8bXg El Kabong]] is a reference to [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Quick-DrawMcGraw Quick-Draw McGraw]].
** Elenor saying "No more wire hangers!" is a direct reference to the film ''Mommie Dearest.''
** Vlada and his son Zoltan are from [[RockyAndBullwinkle Pottsylvania]].
** In the episode "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost," Franklin behaving like [[TheThreeStooges Curly]] after drinking spiked punch (also resulting him as the show's CloudCuckoolander), and has Albert Einstein acting like Larry and Ted Kennedy acting like Moe.
** Prince Charles sounds like [[MontyPython Professor Gumby]].
** Alice's sister Miranda used venetian blinds for her ball gown, a reference to the famous ''GoneWithTheWind'' spoof from ''The Carol Burnett Show''.
** In the season 1 episode "A Little Deb Will Do Ya," Jay is about to do the deed with a woman he met at his sister Margo's debutante ball, but the woman admits to having a [[TheCryingGame "terrible" secret below her waist]]. [[spoiler: She's wearing the bottom half of the Humphrey the Hippo costume, also revealing to be his TV-ratings rival.]]
** A reviewer's face melting off and reducing him to a skeleton (after Roger Ebert shows him a clip of a bad movie) is a reference to ''[[IndianaJones Raiders Of The Lost Ark]]''.
** The episode "Miserable" is a parody of ''{{Misery}}''.
** The episode "Dukerella" is a cross-parody of ''{{Cinderella}}'' and ''AStreetcarNamedDesire''.
** A drunken [[Film/{{Arthur}} Arthur Bach]] (DudleyMoore) is spoofed in several episodes.
** Franklin dressed up as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce_PIZ_8bXg El Kabong]] is a reference to [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Quick-DrawMcGraw Quick-Draw McGraw]].
** Elenor saying "No more wire hangers!" is a direct reference to the film ''Mommie Dearest.''
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** Hit the pause button during the scene in the original movie in which the Sultan is stacking his toys, and you'll find [[BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] among them.
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** Hit the pause button during the scene in the original movie in which the Sultan is stacking his toys, and you'll find [[BeautyAndTheBeast [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] among them.
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** That statue that Drake Mallard pounds on to start his chairs flipping and sending him and his allies to Darkwing Tower? It's Basil from ''TheGreatMouseDetective''. Character designer Toby Shelton helped designed the casts of both.
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** Hit the pause button during the scene in the original movie in which the Sultan is stacking his toys, and you'll find [[BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast]] among them.
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** That statue that Drake Mallard pounds on to start his chairs flipping and sending him and his allies to Darkwing Tower? It's Basil from ''TheGreatMouseDetective''. Character designer Toby Shelton helped designed the casts of both.
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* In ''Superman: Doomsday'', there's a scene of Superman ([[spoiler: actually his clone]])fighting Toyman's giant mechanical spider. This was a shot at how movie producer Jon Peters wanted a giant spider in ''[[DevelopmentHell Superman Lives]]'', written by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk Kevin Smith]]. Smith even voices a citizen in ''Doomsday'' that remarks, "Like we needed him to take care of a giant spider."
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* The ''JimmyNeutron'' spinoff ''PlanetSheen'' features the planet [[ChurchOfHappyology Zeenu]].
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** The character of Abu is based on a character of the same name in ''TheThiefOfBaghdad''. The original was ''not'' [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys a monkey]] but is still fairly blatantly the inspiration for Aladdin's Abu.
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** Another StarTrek shout-out that has already been used twice is the reference to Christopher Pike, former captain of the Enterprise, and particularly his wheelchair. The chair appears first in the episode "Love's Labours Lost in Space". Pike himself appears in the chair at Professor Farnsworth's 150's birthday in "A Clone of My Own". In both cases either the chair or pike's disfigured visage are subverted.
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** Two shout-outs to ''StarTrek'' in the episode ''Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love'': The [[StarfishAlien Decapodian]] tradition of dueling to the death is named ''Claw-plah'' (after the Klingon word for victory, Qapla'), and their national anthem is the dueling music often featured in similar deathmatches fought in ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the Original Series]]''.
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** The episode ''A Bicyclops Built for Two'' contains several Shout Outs to ''MarriedWithChildren'', the show actress Katey Sagal (who voices Leela) was best known for before her work on ''Futurama''. At one point, Leela does her hair up like Peggy Bundy, dresses like her, walks like her, and exchanges cheap dirty insults with her husband-to-be, an alien named Alkazar.
---> '''''Turanga Leela:''' Aaaaaaaaal!''
---> '''''Turanga Leela:''' Aaaaaaaaal!''
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** Some of the dialogue said during Homer's hot-pepper-induced [[MushroomSamba acid trip]] in "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer" is meant to be nonsensical, but hidden in all the gibberish are references to TheBeatles ("goo goo g'joob?") and TheRamones ("gabba gabba hey!").
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** The ''entire episode'' (or at least Rex's segment) seemed to reference SilentHill, foggy town filled with monsters, a creepy school, and the possibility of Alternate Dimensions being involved, not helped by some of the questions about Breach's psyche.
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* XMenEvolution's camping episode had some bigfoot hunters mistake Beast for Bigfoot, when one is using a 'bigfoot wistle' he gets asked where to find it, his reply? Go to some bigfoot store & 'Ask for Maulder' just as TheXFiles theme plays.
** Also another 2 episodes had Kitty sleeping, no not like that you perverts, with a stuffed, suposedly purple, dragon, Not ''[[SpyroTheDragon that]]'' Dragon, nut a refference to Lockheed, Kitty's pet dragon from the comics & EnsembleDarkhorse.
** Also another 2 episodes had Kitty sleeping, no not like that you perverts, with a stuffed, suposedly purple, dragon, Not ''[[SpyroTheDragon that]]'' Dragon, nut a refference to Lockheed, Kitty's pet dragon from the comics & EnsembleDarkhorse.
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***I read somewhere he was named after a street in Portland (Where Matt Groening grew up) called Terwilliger Boulevard. I'm not positive, though.
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* [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama Action]] is an entire season with challenges based on movies. Yeah, there are quite a few references.
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** Another episode has Billy and Mandy [[DragonballZ competing against each other in a martial arts tournament, where both have glowing yellow hair and raise their power by shouting.]]
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** It's safe to say that one of the writers is VERY OneOfUs.
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** In ''Beast with a Million Backs'', when [[spoiler:Bender assaults Yivo, the scene resembles a certain [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean savvy pirate]] meeting a kraken with his sword]].
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** Bender's guess about the nature of the god-like entity in "Godfellas", "the remains of a space probe that collided with God", is also a fairly accurate description of [[spoiler: V'ger]] in ''StarTrek''.
** Bender's guess about the nature of the god-like entity in "Godfellas", "the remains of a space probe that collided with God", is also a fairly accurate description of [[spoiler: V'ger]] in ''StarTrek''.
