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6ShoutOut in [[NewspaperComics Comic Strips]].
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8!!Works with their own subpages:
9[[index]]
10* ''ShoutOut/AJAndMagnus''
11* ''ShoutOut/CalvinAndHobbes''
12* ''ShoutOut/FoxTrot''
13* ''ShoutOut/{{Peanuts}}''
14* ''ShoutOut/PugadBaboy''
15* ''ShoutOut/ShermansLagoon''
16[[/index]]
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19* At some point, nearly every comic strip (and webcomic) has had a ShoutOut to ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. See ReferencedBy.{{Peanuts}} for the list. [[http://www.chivian.com/chivian/PeanutsTribute.html Forty comic strips]] did a shout out to ''Peanuts'' in one day.
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22!!Other Works:
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24* ''ComicStrip/{{Elvie}}'':
25** A stick figure has a son named "[=Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--=]", just like in Webcomic/{{XKCD}}.
26** Elvie remakes a Franchise/SuperMarioBros game, replacing Mario with the Linux mascot Tux.
27** Elvie tries to sell a Series/DoctorWho scarf.
28** A recurring setting is the café "Orwell's", established 1984, a reference to Creator/GeorgeOrwell's Literature/NineteenEightyFour.
29* ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' author Bil Keane did a few for Disney, where his son [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Keane Glen]] works as an animator. Current ''Family Circus'' artist Jeff Keane did this [[http://i.imgur.com/FBxhi.gif Halloween 2012]] shout-out, which is probably the first (not to mention oddly specific) mention of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' in newspaper comics.
30* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''
31** ''Film/{{Psycho}}''
32*** One strip has a group of boys waiting for their friend to come join them.
33--->''Every Saturday morning, while his playmates patiently waited, little Normy Bates would always take a few extra minutes to yell at his “dog.”''
34*** One strip has a woman taking a shower. Unlike the film, where a person attacked the woman in the shower, a ''military tank'' breaks through the wall. The caption is ''Psycho III''.
35** Another strip has the police investigating a brutal bar fight. As the witness recalls;
36-->''"...So [[WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} this sailor dude]] whips out a can of spinach, this [[ThemeMusicPowerUp crazy music]] starts playing, and... well, just look at this place!"''
37** One strip has a lobster about to be put in a pot of boiling water saying "Auntie Em, Auntie Em! There's no place like home! There's no place like home.", a reference to two lines in the film version of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
38** One strip has a horse walking out of a theater showing ''Film/TheGodfather'' looking terrified and a person with them saying "Get ahold of yourself! It was only a movie, for crying out loud!" This is a reference to the scene in the film where a horse's head is left on Jack Woltz's bed to scare him.
39** ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''
40*** One strip has an old crocodile calling an old man (with an eyepatch and a hook for a hand) and saying "Tick-tock" over and over again. This is a reference to ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', which has a crocodile that pursues Captain Hook (who has an eyepatch and a hook for a hand). The crocodile has an ticking alarm clock inside of him that always alerts Hook that the crocodile is approaching.
41*** A strip has a woman inside a house saying that she heard a large bird hit the window. Outside, the body of a man wearing a ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''-style costume is lying below the window.
42** One strip has a housewife talking to her scientist husband, who has the head of a fly. This is a reference to the film ''Film/TheFly1958'', in which a scientist gains the head of a fly after an accident with a teleportation machine.
43** One strip had a man talking to a doctor, saying that he's "come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee" (and he does, in fact, have a banjo-shaped protrusion on his knee). This is a reference to the song "Oh Susanna", which has that line in it.
44** A strip has two gorillas in a zoo after a man falls into their enclosure. One gorilla says to the other "Looks like it's time for the old luggage test." This is a reference to a series of 1980s American Tourister commercials which showed a gorilla doing everything it could to damage one of their suitcases and failing.
45** One strip showed a housewife telling her husband (who is carrying a flute and has a group of rats behind him) to take the rats down to a lake. This references the story of Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin, who used his musical abilities to get rid of the rats of Hamelin by taking them to a nearby river and drowning them.
46* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' had a moment coming at the end of a (week's worth) discussion by Roger and Andy about the success of the ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' comic (which might also count as an extended Shout Out). In the end, they conclude that ''Dilbert'' is likely popular simply based on its own merits, meaning that [[FollowTheLeader emulation of a current success]] isn't a particularly good idea. Jason (drawn in a slightly different style) then runs in, telling his parents to [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes check out the cool stuffed tiger he found]].
47-->'''Roger:''' Maybe we should include the recent past in that statement, too...\
48'''Andy:''' I don't know. There's something to be said for nostalgia.
49** [[SerialEscalation FOUR]] were packed into this strip:
50--->(The characters are sitting at a campfire)\
51'''Paige:''' I miss [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Brandon and Dylan]].\
52'''Peter:''' I miss [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart and Homer]].\
53'''Andy:''' I miss [[Series/GoodMorningAmerica Bryant and Kate]].\
54'''Jason:''' I miss [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf and Data]].\
55'''Roger:''' (eating the marshmallows) Am I, um, missing something?
56** The strip made a double reference to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones'' in [[http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2012/04/01/ the April 1, 2012, strip]].
57* ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy''
58** The [[http://community-2.webtv.net/Taimm/THERESATOWELDNA4FR/ tribute to Douglas Adams' death]] (about two-thirds of the way down the page).
59** Rob's tastes in music, television, sports teams, etc. frequently involve shout outs to same.
60** There is a member of the Cat Mafia named Whitey. Whitey is the nickname of James Bulger, a former Irish mobster who operated out of the Boston area.
61** [[http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2011-05-16/ This strip]] references ''VideoGame/ZeroWing''.
62** In the [[http://assets.amuniversal.com/3f0e8cb0225d013136f7001dd8b71c47 strip for November 9th, 2013]], Bucky is hit on the head by a tomato thrown at him from behind. He says, "It came from...behind," a reference to a line spoken by a Rebel pilot in ''Film/ANewHope'' during the attack on the Death Star. The pilot said, "They came from... behind," in reference to attacks by Darth Vader and his Imperial TIE fighter wingmen.
63* ''ComicStrip/MadamAndEve'':
64** Eve sometimes sleeps on her ironing board, in a tribute to Snoopy from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
65** [[http://www.madamandeve.co.za/cartoons/me006414.jpg One 2017 Sunday strip]] was named [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian "Eskom's Life of Brian Molefe"]], reflecting the then-current corruption scandal with lyrics set to the tune of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".
66** [[http://www.madamandeve.co.za/cartoons/me006462.jpg This strip]] is one to Music/{{Queen}}'s "Bohemian Rhapsody".
67* ''ComicStrip/MotherGooseAndGrimm''
68** To ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
69*** There's one in a strip during a 2004 story arc where Grimm goes to a veterinarian. While the vet was talking to Mother Goose, he briefly morphs into Garfield but still wears the doctor clothes, prompting Grimm to cry out, "NURSE!"
70*** Another version:
71---->'''Grimmy''': What are you watching?\
72'''Mother Goose''': A History Channel show about presidents.\
73'''Grimmy''': [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} When did he grow that ugly beard? Did they serve lasagna at his inauguration? Was Odie his vice president?]]\
74'''Mother Goose''': Grimm, President Garfield and the cat are two different people.
75** In the strip for [[http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2013/MGG-2013-09-06.gif September 6th 2013]], there's a Siamese cat and Grimm is looking for "the other one", a reference to Disney's ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'', which featured a pair of sly and nasty Siamese cats.
76** The strip for [[http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2013/MGG-2013-09-18.gif September 18th, 2013]] parodied a Geico commercial which had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBhP0EQ1lA camel wandering around an office on Wednesday asking people what day it was so they would say "hump day"]].
77* ''ComicStrip/PoochCafe'': In the [[http://assets.amuniversal.com/bc1aa880f729013013b2001dd8b71c47 strip for September 11th, 2013]], a cat is wrapped around a postman's face. Poncho says, "Kitty drool. Great defense mechanism. You don't dare remove it or you get cat saliva all over yourself." This is a reference to the film ''Film/{{Alien}}'', in which Kane had an alien facehugger wrapped around his face. After Ash tried to cut it off with a laser, it dripped powerful acid and Parker said, "It's got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don't dare kill it."
78* ''ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD'':
79** ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'' gets a few, with Sabrina watching an episode while procrastinating her homework. Tabitha also copies her dialogue from Mindy as well.
80** Sabrina's stress paying her tuition at the college bursar mimics Creator/WilliamShatner's over-acting style in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
81** The ''{{ComicStrip/Garfield}}'' coffee mug Sabrina uses.

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