Shout-outs in comic strips.
Works with their own subpages:
- At some point, nearly every comic strip (and webcomic) has had a Shout-Out to Peanuts. See ReferencedBy.Peanuts for the list. Forty comic strips
did a shout out to Peanuts in one day.
Other Works:
- The Family Circus author Bil Keane did a few for Disney, where his son Glen works as an animator. Current Family Circus artist Jeff Keane did this Halloween 2012◊ shout-out, which is probably the first (not to mention oddly specific) mention of Warhammer 40,000 in newspaper comics.
- FoxTrot had a moment coming at the end of a (week's worth) discussion by Roger and Andy about the success of the 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 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 check out the cool stuffed tiger he found.Roger: Maybe we should include the recent past in that statement, too...
Andy: I don't know. There's something to be said for nostalgia.- FOUR were packed into this strip:(The characters are sitting at a campfire)
Paige: I miss Brandon and Dylan.
Peter: I miss Bart and Homer.
Andy: I miss Bryant and Kate.
Jason: I miss Worf and Data.
Roger: (eating the marshmallows) Am I, um, missing something? - The strip made a double reference to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Game of Thrones in the April 1, 2012, strip.
- FOUR were packed into this strip:
- Get Fuzzy
- The tribute to Douglas Adams' death (about two-thirds of the way down the page).
- Rob's tastes in music, television, sports teams, etc. frequently involve shout outs to same.
- 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.
- This strip references Zero Wing.
- In the 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 A New Hope 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.
- The tribute to Douglas Adams' death
- Mother Goose and Grimm
- To Garfield:
- 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!"
- Another version:Grimmy: What are you watching?
Mother Goose: A History Channel show about presidents.
Grimmy: When did he grow that ugly beard? Did they serve lasagna at his inauguration? Was Odie his vice president?
Mother Goose: Grimm, President Garfield and the cat are two different people.
- In the strip for September 6th 2013◊, there's a Siamese cat and Grimm is looking for "the other one", a reference to Disney's Lady and the Tramp, which featured a pair of sly and nasty Siamese cats.
- The strip for September 18th, 2013◊ parodied a Geico commercial which had a camel wandering around an office on Wednesday asking people what day it was so they would say "hump day".
- To Garfield:
- Pooch Café: In the 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 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."
