Trivia.Small Soldiers: The music from Patton is heard as Chip Hazard gives his speech. Jerry Goldsmith, who worked on this film, had composed the music for that as well.
Series.Mulaney: Macauley Culkin quits the Christmas special of Celebrity You Guessed It at the last minute. Lou: Apparently he doesn't like to play himself on tv.
Literature.Flawed Dogs: While sabotaging a dog show, an illustration reveals one of Sam's pack shaved the image of Bill the Cat on the back of one of the contestants.
ShoutOut.Lego Marvel Super Heroes: The achievement for performing your first sky-dive from the Helicarrier is "Falling. .. with Style!" This one in particular doubles as a Creator In-Joke, as the video game adaptations of the first two Toy Story films were some of the earliest titles by Traveller's Tales.
Recap.Doctor Who S 2 E 2 The Dalek Invasion Of Earth: Several signs read "VETOED" throughout the serial. Supposedly part of the resistance code, this was actually a joke from the production designers, in particular Spencer Chapman. If sets were too ambitious, then the designs would be stamped with the word "VETOED" and handed back to the designers.
Fanfic.Twice Upon An Age: It's mentioned a few times that Hawke's mabari is named Rikki. This is the name Lady Norbert always gives the mabari when playing Dragon Age: Origins or Dragon Age II - it's the name of her parents' dog.
Film.Seed Of Chucky: On the film set, Tiffany's arm comes loose and grabs the floor manager's crotch. In Bride of Chucky, Jennifer Tilly joked on the DVD Commentary that the Chucky puppet kept grabbing her breasts.
Literature.The Book Of Phoenix: Mmuo was part of a student uprising in reaction to mass murder by overzealous spider droids created to guard oil pipelines by the government and the oil companies. The engineer who designed the droids was inspired by a science fiction story (about how the spider droids were a symbol of colonialism and oppression). Okorafor wrote just such a short story, called "Spider the Artist". Then the events of the story itself proceed to happen.
Characters.Metroid Bounty Hunters: Retro Studios based his design off a creature from one of their canceled projects. Nintendo Software Technologies wrote his back story with that in mind.
Series.Providence: When contacted by a man who believes that he's her biological father, the man refers to his Greek heritage while Sydney herself admits to having always been fascinated with Greek culture. Melina Kanakaredes is in fact of Greek descent.
Literature.In Cryptid: "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it", a reference to Superchicken from the George of the Jungle cartoon series and pretty much a Catchphrase for the Price family, also appears in Newsflesh. "Hit until the candy comes out" also appears in Velveteen vs..
Trivia.The Forgotten: The production company's logo appears on graffiti in an alleyway.
Trivia.The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl Who Played With Fire has a scene where EXPO - the magazine Stieg Larsson founded in the 90s - is on display. In the same film, a scene at the police station also has an offscreen voiceover saying "there's a Stieg Larsson here to see you".
Recap.The Sopranos S 6 E 12 Kaisha: In what appears to be a joke towards writer Terence Winter, Christopher mentions that the "50 Cent movie" aka Get Rich or Die Tryin' was being given away free at the car wash. Winter wrote the script for that film and co-wrote this episode.
Fanfic.Soul Chess: The 100th chapter omake has Revy and Rock in the beginning complaining about being forgotten about in homage to a collaboration between the omake writer and the author: Lagoon of the dead.
Creator.Blake Edwards: He cast his doctor Herb Tanney in small roles in a bunch of his films, then credited him with a different first name in each film that always began with an S and usually had some relation to his role. One example is S.O.B., where he played a jogger who suffered a fatal heart attack on the beach, and was credited as Stiffe Tanney.
Recap.Angel S 04 E 19 The Magic Bullet: The first non-English language Jasmine speaks is Chinese. Before Angel, she played a prominent role in Whedon's Firefly, where English and Chinese were (supposedly) equally prominent and the main characters were (supposedly) fluent in both.
Creator.Anthony Trollope: In Barchester Towers, Trollope mentions an author who, "wishing to sustain his interest to the last page, hung his hero at the end of the third volume. The consequence was that no one would read his novel." The author was Trollope himself, and the novel was his debut, The Macdermots of Ballycloran.
Creator.Tim Powers: When Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock were in college together, they invented a fake poet named "William Ashbless" to satirize the quality of their college's literary magazine. Nearly every novel Powers and Blaylock have written has had a reference to Ashbless in it somewhere — most famously The Anubis Gates, in which he appears as a major character.
WesternAnimation.The Wrong Trousers: One of the lions from Creature Comforts can be seen in a display case at the museum, if you're quick and perceptive.
VideoGame.The Conduit: In the tie-in comic book "Orange Lights," the mailing address for Conspiracy Theorist Gordon Wells is actually the address of developer High Voltage Software.
DragonAgeInquisition.Tropes F To K: Foul Medicine: If the player takes the time to enjoy the scene with the Iron Bull and his Chargers. The group's medic, Stitches, makes something which can help with most any injury, but as Bull says, it tastes absolutely terrible. Stitches then points out that "It's a poultice, ser, you're not supposed to drink it." (It's a Creator In-Joke about the fact that in Dragon Age: Origins, all medical items were consumed by the characters even if they were identified as poultices.)
Trivia.Office Space: Lumbergh's "Mmmm.... yeah" (i.e., a "yeah" that means "no") was something Mike Judge used to say to musicians asking for help carrying their instruments when he was in a band.
Literature.Hide Me Among The Graves: Powers' running in-joke of mentioning the fictional poet William Ashbless. Trelawney cites him, along with Tennyson, while trying to reassure Swinburne that it's possible to produce worthy poetry without a nephilim muse.
Trivia.Big Black: Santiago Durango was credited in Songs About Fucking as Melvin Belli, who was a high-profile attorney with celebrity clients. He himself was about to go to law school at the time.
Film.Moonwalker: The film contains several references to Frank DiLeo, Jackson's real-life manager at the time.During "Speed Demon," Spike leads his pursuers through a "Frank in the Box" drive-through window. The building's roof is decorated with a giant bust of DiLeo, surrounded by cheeseburgers. The main antagonist of the "Smooth Criminal" segment, "Mr. Big" (played by Joe Pesci), reveals his real name during his character's introduction: Frankie LiDeo. DiLeo himself appears in the background right before "Come Together," as Michael prepares to go onstage.
VideoGame.Double Switch: When Eddie's mother (played by Deborah Harry) meets the talent scout who comes to audition the band: I'm a singer! Torch songs, mostly.
Film.The Shaggy Dog: When jumping off a high place, Tim Allen's character shouts "To infinity... and beyond!"
Music.Michael Jacksons Thriller: Landis usually inserts a reference to a nonexistent film, See You Next Wednesday, into each of his works. Here, the title is spoken during the monster movie as Michael follows his date out of the theater.
Trivia.Putt Putt: Dummied Out: Each game has quite a few, usually accessed by messing around with the INI files in the game. From unused clickpoints and Creator In Jokes to scenes clearly made to blow off steam.Dog on a Stick has an unused kitchen environment taking place in a large sink. Saves the Zoo contains an unused animation where if Putt-Putt eats ten or more servings of cotton candy from Chuck Wagon, he will vomit it out, and then Pep will hop out and lick it up.
Film.Gorilla Interrupted: The scene of Ray falling down the hill through brambles is a reference to another amateur film created by Jay Bauman in which Rich Evans falls down the same hill in a similar manner. The rather pointless scene where an alien pours Crystal Pepsi onto its face seems to be a covert dig at actor Garret Gilchrist. Stoklasa was irritated during filming at Gilchrist's attempts to insert new scenes into the film, including one where his character has soda dumped on his head.
Fanfic.Dein Weg Ist Mein Weg: Literary Allusion Title: The fic's name is an allusion to Maho's character song; Mein Weg und Dein Weg. Chapter 40, Tailed through the Tea Garden, is a reference to the author's other work, Tales from the Tea Garden. Chapter 43, Always Retreating, is an allusion to the fanfic Always Advancing. Chapter 45, Devils in the Dust, alludes to another fanfic; Dust Devils.
Trivia.Hamlet: Stephen Fry receives a 'thanks' credit because Kenneth Branagh wrote the screenplay in his kitchen.
Trivia.The Brave Little Toaster: There are two nods to the character animation department of the California Institute of the Arts, where much of the staff graduated. The Master's address is 2470 McBean Parkway, which is the address of the school in Valencia, California. The Master's apartment is A113, the room where character animation classes were held.
Creator.Mike Flanagan: The Lasser Glass from Oculus will at times make its appearances in his films with the exception of Absentia.
Characters.Star Trek Online United Federation Of Planets: Kurland is in charge of the station in the Bajoran system and is possibly a member of the Bajoran religion. Jeremy and his co-host Chris Fisher (who also had a one-shot guest spot as a Bajoran) are not fans of the Bajorans.
Anime.Eureka Seven Hi Evolution: Several of the companies involved during the production have their logos scatted in the film, including Bandai Namco (on a billboard outside a building, and later on a truck's trailer), BONES (On the gun box in Eureka's suitcase and later on, a tanker truck that blows up), and CGI studios Studio GOONEYS (on a different truck's trailer during one of the many CGI vehicle sequences) and Directrain (on a bus).
Characters.Infinity Train Blossoming Trail Red Lotus Trio: Author notes reveals that Lexi's first appearance is based on Specter because the author told a friend that Specter has more good qualities than Simon (loyalty being his biggest one).
Music.Superchunk: Their original name, Chunk, originates from a humorous misspelling of Chuck Garrison's name.
DarthWiki.Consequences: You need at least three willing vict- erm, players. The more the merrier. All should sit in a circle, or round a table.
YMMV.The Guy Who Didnt Like Musicals: Fan Nickname: Robert Manion's One-Scene Wonder "Hot Chocolate Boy", who Nick Lang confirmed is the Hero of Another Story. Eventually revealed to be Peter Spankoffski. Lauren Lopez's unnamed teen girl character in the yellow dress is called "The Hatchetfield Bee", after a Creator In-Joke where Lauren would pretend to sting the other actors while dressed as her. (She has repeatedly denied the Fanon that the Bee is Grace Chastity.) Fans randomly decided Ted's last name was "Porker", a Memetic Mutation from Fan Art of a Crossover between TGWDLM and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse making a Composite Character of Ted and Spider-Ham. Led to a further Memetic Mutation of Nick Lang repeatedly denying that this was his last name, and people repeatedly trying to guess his actual surname, which turned out to be Spankoffski.
YMMV.U Realms Live: And of course, the truly dedicated fan interested in the abundance of Mythology Gags and Shout Outs to Rob's earlier works in URealms Live has some serious research ahead of them, including the Minecraft-based Dwarves vs. Zombies and Lords of Minecraft games, and of course, the original Unforgotten Realms series. This is potentially hundreds of episodes of content, and goes even further if you're exploring the groups' own inside jokes from unrelated Buffalo Wizards content like their long-running Trouble in Terrorist Town series that the group focused on before URealms.
YMMV.Forum Fantasy: Hype Backlash: Back when this game was announced and released, it was hyped up by the users of the Chaos Theatre Forums, due to being a game that featured many of the users and featured plenty of references to various media. In hindsight, it's a standard RPG with simplistic dungeons, a high random encounter rate akin to old-school RPGs, and upon closer inspection is actually not very balanced, even if the Updated Re-release mitigated previous balancing issues. Players who have not been on the previously existing forum the game was based on will likely not get the inside jokes and jokes originating from the forum itself.
Film.Passport To Pimlico: The radio announcement at the start mentions Latin music performed by "Les Norman and his Bethnal Green Bambinos". This is an in-joke referring to Ealing producer Leslie Norman. Bethnal Green was an unattractive area in the East End of London.
SuperMarioOdyssey.Tropes A To D: According to the tie-in artbook, one Nintendo employee tasked with designing the Ruined Dragon's appearance and boss fight would often say "ああー疲れた…" ("Ah, I'm so tired..."), due to the difficulty of their task. That quote would become that character's only line of dialogue, worded exactly the same as the designer's phrase — but from an outsider's perspective, you probably wouldn't be able to tell that there was even an In-Joke at all, given that it makes sense when it's said in-context.
Film.Star Trek First Contact: The Cameo: Robert Picardo as the Enterprise-E EMH and Ethan Phillips along with producer Brannon Braga in the holodeck club scene, with Phillips being the one stopping the drones and being disrupted by Borg laser scanners. Dwight Schultz as recurring character Reginald Barclay also appears. The Millennium Falcon can also (just barely) be seen zipping around the battle with the Borg cube as a Creator In-Joke on the part of Industrial Light & Magic.
Fanfic.Total Drama Do Over: Inside jokes and self-indulgent memes often appear in the fanfiction, especially in the extra episode where Vanessa, Anne Maria and Mama DJ go to the mall and in the alternate ending for Island, both of which feature references to the author's friends.
Recap.Angel S 04 E 10 Awakening: Angel repeats Joss Whedon's famous saying about giving people what they need, as opposed to what they want.
Pantheon.Speech A To M: Bedman’s High Priest is an Ascended Fanboy who loves gushing about his love for the hitman, even using his appearance to represent himself for the longest time. Bedman let him be High Priest thanks to ego-stroking though is waiting for when Fither gives his opinion on the Pantheon eventually.
Film.Weekend At Bernies: The film's director Ted Kotcheff makes a couple of nods towards his involvement in the Rambo franchise, name-dropping the eponymous hero, and with the guy playing Lomax's gardener, who was also the main villain in the second Rambo film, wearing a very similar outfit.
Film.Being There: When Chance watches The Thomas Crown Affair on TV. That movie was co-edited by the movie's director, Hal Ashby.
WebVideo.Bad Movie Beatdown: Lampshaded in his Evan Almighty review when he sees a marquee reading "The 40-Year-Old Virgin Mary". "I always like to put my in-jokes front and center" *holds up sign that says LordHebe is God*
Trivia.Glass Onion: Looking closely at the casting order for Glass Onion and Knives Out shows some definite connections. In both films, beyond the first billed being Daniel Craig, second billed (Chris Evans/Edward Norton) is the murderer, third billed (Ana de Armas/Janelle Monae) is arguably the true main character and driving force of the whole film, while the final billed actor (Christopher Plummer/Dave Bautista) is the victim.
Creator.Elephant Games: In many if not most of their games, you can expect to see an elephant with its trunk raised somewhere at least once. This can take the form of an item in a hidden object scene, an image on the wall, or any number of placements.
Literature.The Craft Of The Adventure: Warned against in "…At War With a Crossword", which lists "The 'In-Joke' syndrome" as one of the three big pitfalls in making puzzles.
Literature.Newsflesh: A VW Beetle appears in both the October Daye books and Feed. So does the little doggerel poem "Mairzy Doats." A number of the side characters are named after the author's friends—with their consent.Word of God from the author's Twitter account confirms this
Frasier.Tropes A To G: In "Out With Dad", they talk about a great opera singer named "Matilda de Cagny". She is actually Eddie's trainer. Frasier's former school bully John Rajeski in Season 4's "Liar! Liar!" is named after one of the crew members of the show.
Film.Homicide The Movie: Eric Thomas James, the man who shot (and ultimately kills) Giardello, is named after the first names of the three writers of the movie - Eric Overmyer, Tom Fontana, and James Yoshimura.
Literature.The Anubis Gates: When Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock were in college together, they invented a fake poet named "William Ashbless" to satirize the quality of their college's literary magazine. In The Anubis Gates, he appears as a major character and turns out to, himself, be a fake identity adopted by the past-stranded and body-swapped protagonist.
Creator.James P Blaylock: When Powers and Blaylock were in college together, they invented a fake poet named "William Ashbless" to satirize the quality of their college's literary magazine. He ended up appearing as a character in both of their novels, entirely independently, featuring in Blaylock's novel The Digging Leviathan.
Literature.Endling: Applegate also wrote Animorphs and someone who's read both series can pick up on how she writes birds of prey and big cats in rather similar ways. A red-tailed hawk guard appears. Tigers in Endling sing prayers to the moon and stars before going to their deaths, which they prefer to captivity - very like the rituals Andalites perform in similar circumstances.
Film.Matilda: Miss Honey named her doll 'Liccy Doll'. Roald Dahl's widow, who was a producer on the film, is called Liccy.
ShoutOut.Cinderjuice: All of the specified locations in New Orleans, like Audubon Park and the named cemeteries, are actual places in the city.This includes the Laura Plantation, which is mentioned in the guidebook Lydia reads on the bus. This is a shout-out to the actual guidebook the author used as a reference, and is also a Creator In-Joke as noted on the Trivia page.
Fanfic.Beyond Heroes: Coupled Couples: Cullen and Cassandra's background romances are this; their love interests traveled to Haven together to join the Inquisition, and are very close friends. As noted elsewhere, they're something of a Creator In-Joke.
VisualNovel.Snatcher: Elijah Modnar refers to Lucifer-Alpha as "a type-RA011 virus." RA-011 was the catalog number assigned to SD Snatcher by Konami.
Characters.Epithet Erased Supporting Characters: He's based on a Tee K.O. shirt that had a picture of farting cow captioned with the word "Stink" on it. Jello's boyfriend thought the shirt would look perfect for a "crappy background extra kid," to which Jello agreed.
Recap.Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 6 E 16 Hells Bells: Rebecca Rand Kirshner reveals in her DVD commentary of this episode that Anya's reference to herself as a "sex poodle" was a reference to colleague Jane Espenson who had been using the name herself.
Fanfic.Cinderjuice: Since the prince remarks that he's aware of the changes to the situation every time the story updates, and that he gets his information from Tumblr, the implication is that he's one of Lady Norbert's followers. This led to some Recursive Canon as noted below.
Trivia.Everybody Wants Some: The Gilligan's Island theme song is played at a punk concert. This is a nod to Dazed and Confused - which has a memorable scene where the characters discuss the show.
Film.My Favorite Brunette: During Crosby's cameo, Lamour gives her love interest from the Road to ... films a "who is that?" stare before finally having her attention dragged back to Hope.
AudioPlay.The Nistverse: A common joke made about MuseScript's OC is calling her a "Musetree" due to her green and brown color scheme. A lot of times when trees show up in The Color Goddess, the artist will sometimes include a note somewhere referring to them as Musetrees. This may have also influenced Nistee's "In a Nutshell" name, "Nistree." Additionally, the "In a Nutshell" video for The Color Goddess represents the part with Rainbow Dash lifting a tree to test out her powers by having her instead lift Muse's OC, who shouts "Hey, put me down, I am not a tree!"
Trivia.Mulaney: Development Gag: When Macaulay Culkin backs out of the Christmas production in It's a Wonderful Home Alone, John steps up and says he'll do the part, he'll play Culkin in a blonde wig shot only from the back and they'll pretend it's him. This is exactly what appears to have happened in the three or so frames "Culkin" was visible towards the beginning of the episode. This also happens directly after the Creator In-Joke of Culkin backing out of Celebrity You Guessed It.
Creator.Jumondo: Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)note even credited In-Universe for the Zephryion anime
Recap.Film Reroll Memento: "Pontoon" — the somewhat odd alias Alex Demers has Leonard Shelby use — was originally his nickname for Andy Hoover (who did incidentally play the character later, among many others).
Trivia.The Haunting Of Hill House 2018: The Lasser Glass from Oculus can be seen on the wall in Hill House. Mike Flanagan directed both. Theo can be seen reading The Lottery in Episode 2 - another book by Shirley Jackson.
Trivia.La La Land Records: The Wheelo Records logo on the The Naked Gun Trilogy is a reference to the first movie's Falling-in-Love Montage set to Peter Noone doing "I'm Into Something Good." which is listed in the movie as appearing on "the Naked Gun Soundtrack on Wheelo Records". (The song is on the album, by the way.)
Fridge.Five Nights At Freddys Sister Location: The poor condition and age of the animatronics in previous games also suggests that any sort of vocal device they had to speak were either malfunctioning or damaged in some way. For example, Mangle in FNAF 2 has some sort of damaged vocal box that emits random static and radio noises. This hints that he/she/it/yes was able to speak at one point, but was rendered speechless after being damaged by children playing a little too rough. The animatronics in Sister Location appear to be in better condition, meaning their vocal devices are likely intact.
Creator.Humongous Entertainment: Their headquarters was located in Woodinville, Washington, so you're going to expect a lot of jokes referencing said city and Seattle.
Creator.Joe Walker: Gym Bunny: He takes his training regimen seriously enough that he apparently had a minor Freak Out when he asked for a protein bar during a rehearsal and someone tried to substitute a Snickers. (This is the origin of the Creator In-Joke about Tom Riddle's hatred of Snickers in A Very Potter Senior Year.)
VideoGame.Pax Britannica: The name for the Strategic Blimp for Imperial Britain is named the Rockerfeller. This also act as a Creator In-Joke since one of the composers of the Pax Britannica soundtrack and the composer of the main menu theme, AJCW has also made the soundtrack for the Monument Mythos.
