Shout Out / Darths & Droids

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• Alert, but not Alarmed: The Australian Government anti-terrorism campaign is referenced by the title of #1668, "Alarmed, But Not Alert".
• Compare the Meerkat: In #50 of Marmosets & Meerkats, Meerkat 4 (Sally) says "Okay, simples. No need to compare the meerkats."
• Keep Calm and Carry On: "Stay calm, and call the nearest Republic troops." #582.
• Kentucky Fried Chicken: Yoda: "Yes. Obi-Wan's original recipe of eleven secret turds and spiders, it is!" #1025.
• McDonald's: #1025 is titled "Would You Like Flies With That?"
• The Man Your Man Could Smell Like: Anything is possible when your man looks like a cyborg and not a lady. #659.
  • Luke: "I'm on a tauntaun?" #921.
• Old El Paso: #1020 is titled "¡Por qué no las dos?"
  • And in #1224, Ortugg ( a Gammorean) says "¿Pork ay no las dos?"
• Piracy, It's a Crime: R2-D2 tries to download the Peace Moon in #821, which is titled "You Wouldn't Steal a Peace Moon".
• Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: #907 is titled "Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together".
• Smokey Bear: #1580 is titled "Only You Can Prevent Apocalypses".
• Tonka Tough: Bria uses a "techno-tonfa" in #1551, titled "Tonfa Tough".
• Will It Blend?: Referenced in the title of #1293 when R2 reveals he built a "multi-function" laser sword: "But Does it Blend?".

Comic Books

• Asterix:
  • While drunk, Leia uses the same drunk-isms as Obelix in Asterix and the Laurel Wreath #1149.
  • "These Rebels are crazy!" #1585.
• Incredible Hulk: #734 is titled "The Incredible Smoking Hulk".
• Judge Dredd: Anakin: "I am the legend!" #626.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: #301 is titled "Cliegg, the Extraordinary Gentleman".
• Spider-Man: C-3PO: "Remember Artoo, with great power comes great responsibility." #1195
• Tintin:
  • One of Jim's malapropisms for the Lost Orb of Phanastacoria is the "Lost Emerald of Castafiore". #160.
  • "Just my luck! A single bullet, and it has to go and cut the main ignition lead!" #1621.

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Comic Strips

• Calvin and Hobbes: The Sashimi Incident, playing on Calvin's "Noodle Incident", first mentioned in #149.
• Frank and Ernest: Frank and Ernest are the names given to two Peace Moon technicians who variously press the button to destroy Naboo #771, and (later in publication, but earlier in in-game continuity) Jedha #1595. The latter also pulls a Frank/Ernest switch in the title, doubled with a reference to The Importance of Being Earnest.
• Spy vs. Spy: #306 is titled "Spy vs Spire".

Fan Works

• Half-Life: Full Life Consequences: #521.

Films — Animation

• Aladdin: Needing an alias for Han, Jim thinks up the name Iago, and suggest Chewbacca can be Jafar. #1069.
• Beauty and the Beast:
  • #1211 is titled "Beauty is the Feast" and has Jabba paraphrase Gaston's song.
  • Reprised with the following lines of the song in #1240.
  • Chewbacca and the GM channel the conversation as Gaston's cronies incredulously question Maurice about the horrible features of the Beast, in #1252.
• The Emperor's New Groove: The waterfall scene is quoted verbatim in #207, which is titled "The Jedi Master's New Groove".
• Fantasia: #1240 is titled "The Slaughterer's Apprentice".
• Finding Nemo:
  • #1006 is titled "Finding Emo".
  • #1190: Obi-Wan: Luke. Luuuke. Luke... Hey, Luke!
  • #1672 is titled "Finding Mnemo".
• Frozen: Two background Rebel troopers in the snow on Hoth: "Do you want to build a snowman?" "Sure. The cold never bothered me anyway." #963.
  • E-3PO (the silver droid C-3PO speaks to in Cloud City) quotes "Let it go, let it go. You can't hold it back any more." #1074.
  • #1115, in which Han is shown frozen in carbonite, is titled "Let It Go".
  • #1345 is titled "That Perfect Girl is Gone", and has Leia making an extended riff on the lyrics of "Let It Go".
• Happy Feet: #363, which mentions penguins, is titled "Happy Feat".
• Kung Fu Panda: #1322, which features an instance of Magic Feather, is titled "The Dragon Scroll" after the magic feather of this film.
• The Lion King:
  • Darth Vader: "Look, Obi-Wan. Everything your light touches is corrupted forever." #839, which is titled "Remember..." echoing Mufasa's spirit's message to Simba.
  • #1301 is titled "Everything, The Light Touches".
• The Little Mermaid: #22 is titled "It's Better Down Where it's Wetter".
• Pinocchio: Scooter sings a version of "When You Wish Upon a Star" with slightly modified lyrics. #1766
  • And then Mark sings "Give a Little Whistle" verbatim in #1772.
• The Polar Express: The title of #947.
• The Princess and the Frog: #1224 has Jabba the Hutt correct Leia when she calls him a slimeball. "It's actually mucus."
• Shrek: #74 is titled "Jedi Are Like Onions".
  • "Not my gumdrop buttons!" #348.
• Spirited Away: The title of #1487.

Films — Live-Action

• 2001: A Space Odyssey: Han (after bumping his head): "My god, it's full of stars." #995.
  • Luke: "My god... it's full of midi-chlorians." #1035.
  • In #1078, Nute Gunray echoes HAL's dying words: "Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do!" And the strip is titled "Hallo, Goodbye".
  • "I'm sorry Galen, I'm afraid I can't do that." #1689.
• 300: #672 is titled "This is Madness!"
• Airplane!: The medical droid says "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit XL oil." #639.
  • #915 hints that Jim ran a campaign based around the film. And the strip is titled "We Were All Counting on You".
  • And all is revealed in #917, titled "But That's Not Important Right Now".
• Alice in Wonderland (2010): #1413, titled "Much Hair" has Palpatine say he's gone mad, but "all the best people are" and he's "lost his muchness".
• Alien: #15 is titled "In Space, No One Can Hear You Shout".
  • #732 is titled "In Space, No One Can Hear Your Scene".
• Aliens:
  • Padmé: "That sounds good too. We can nuke him from orbit." #493.
  • #695 gives us:
  GM: "Your dreadnought's homer is about nine meters away. Seven, six..."
  R2-D2: "That can't be. That's inside the room!"
  • #899 is titled "What Are We Supposed to Use? Harsh Language?".
  • Luke: "Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this?" #981.
• Apocalypse Now: #151 is titled "I Love the Smell of Plasma in the Morning".
  • Followed later by #472, titled "Smells Like... Victory".
• Army of One: The title of #280.
• Avatar: Luke (to Yoda, discussing the possibility of Darth Vader attacking Dagobah): "I hate to break it to you, but if you're counting on the trees and rocks for help, you're gonna be a pile of radioactive disappointment." #1065.
• Back to the Future: Wuher (Mos Eisley cantina bartender): "Nivver heared o' sooch a ridiculous thing. In here, we puir whisky." #749.
  • #919 is titled "1.21 Jigga-XP".
  • Bodhi and an Imperial trooper play out the scene where a police officer questions Doc Brown about his lightning experiment, in #1691.
• Barbarella: When Qui-Gon is appointed queen by Amidala in a non-canon intermission strip, he immediately begins quoting The Tyrant (a.k.a. the Black Queen of SoGo): "Guards! To the Mathmos with this winged fruitcake!" #1523
• Barton Fink: Darth Vader yells, "I'll show you the power of the mind!", in #1138, titled "You Dirty Fink". Vader's Charlie Meadows-esque rant continues into the next strip.
• Batman (1989): Darth Vader channels Jack Nicholson's Joker and his "I'm glad you're dead," speech in #1132.
• A Beautiful Mind: #1176 is titled "A Nuteiful Bind".
• Bend It Like Beckham: #910 is titled "Bend it Like Starkiller".
• Blade Runner: Anakin applies the Voight-Kampff test to C-3PO in #299.
  • General Grievous recites Roy Batty's dying monologue, slightly modified, as he dies. #548.
  • Chewbacca tries to entertain Jabba with a tale which mashes up elements of Blade Runner and Silence of the Lambs, in #1258.
• Braveheart: #160 is titled "They May Take Our Advice", and the next strip is title "... But They'll Never Take Our Giant Dinosaur Ponies!!"
  • Captain Antilles (as Vader chokes him to death): "<gasp> You may take my lives... <choke> but you'll never... <ckckth> stop me rerolling!!" #680
  • C-3PO: "You may take our valuable parts, but you'll never take our freedom!" #1208
  • Chirrut tells his Rouge One troops to "Hold... Hooold..." before engaging. #1670
• A Bridge Too Far: The title of #11.
  • Varied to "Abridged Too Far" in #367.
  • And to "A Bridge Not Far Away Enough" in #1493.
• Bring It On: Alluded to in Fozzie's instructions to Luke to dance in #1770: "Bring it on!"
• Casablanca: #484. Pete in the 4th panel.
  • #599 is titled "Shocked. Shocked, I Say".
  • Leia: "Look, the problems of two people and two droids don't amount to a hill of space pears in this crazy galaxy." #677.
  • #840 is titled "Of All the Space Stations in All the Galaxy..."
• Cast Away: The title of #574, which is about Yoda tossing Chewbacca aside as a character.
• Chariots of Fire: #358 is titled "Chariot of Choir".
• Center Stage: Alluded to in Fozzie's instructions to Luke to dance in #1770: "Take centre stage!"
• Citizen Kane: General Grievous's last word is "Rosebud". #548.
• Clear and Present Danger: One half of the double-barrelled title of #1656 is "Clear and Present Anger".
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind: #68 is titled "Random Encounters of the Absurd Kind".
• Cool Hand Luke: Jawa (punishing R2-D2 for trying to escape): "What we've got here is... failure to communicate." #700.
  • #1186, in which Luke gets his prosthetic hand, is titled "Cool Hand, Luke".
• Dances with Wolves: #300 is titled "Dances with Droids".
• The Dark Crystal: Breaking encryption on some data crystals occurs in a strip titled "The Crystals, Cracked". (#1571)
• The Dark Knight Trilogy: The intermediate campaign which Ben ran between Episode IV and Episode V began with Ben intending it to be a light comedic spoof of the superhero genre, a la Batman (1966), but the players turned it into this Darker and Edgier version.
  • When fighting the Rancor, Luke channels The Joker in #1235: "How about a magic trick? I'm gonna make that gate disappear." (And of course Mark Hamill played The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series.)
• Das Boot: R2 falls in the swamp and uses his periscope in #1004, titled "Das < boop >".
• Death Becomes Her: The title of #646.
• Driving Miss Daisy: #999 is titled "Driving Miss Crazy".
• Dude, Where's My Car?: #154, in which kaadus first appear, is titled "Du, Where's My Kaa?".
  • C-3PO: "And then?" (after Luke's torpedoes go into the Peace moon vent) #910.
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: #1327 is titled "Eternal Moonshine of the Blank Mind".
• Face/Off: #1137 is titled "Blast/Off".
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: #1542 is titled "Fantastic Contacts and Where to Find Them", and features a very Hagrid-like contact.
• Fargo: Sergeant Major Trey Callum displays Dakotan mannerisms in the snow on Hoth. #963 and following strips.
• The Farmer's Wife: Galen Erso's mother's maiden name is Araminta Dench, the name of the titular farmer's wife from this early Alfred Hitchchock film. (Galen is from Grange, an agricultural planet, so presumably his father was a farmer.) #1688.
• The Fast and the Furious: Luke and Leia engage in some pre-race banter on the Endor hoverbikes, including Dom's line "We talkin' or we racin'?" from Fast Five in strip #1340, which is titled "Farced and Spurious".
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Corey fakes being sick to get a day off school just to play the game, in #1123. The strip is titled "Corey's Day Off".
• A Few Good Men: "You want my statement? You can't handle my statement!" #356.
• A Fish Called Wanda: #955 is titled "Don't Call Me Stupid".
• Flashdance: The title of #286.
• Footloose: Title of #746, which is primarily the cantina band music.
  • Alluded to in Fozzie's instructions to Luke to dance in #1770: "Loosen those feet!"
• Freaks: Jim, when Annie makes a corny pun: "One of us! One of us!" #368.
• Forrest Gump: "The way I see it... a character sheet is like a box of chocolates..." #143.
  • #954 is titled "Stupid is as Stupid Does".
• Girl, Interrupted: #170 is titled "Maul, Interrupted".
• Gladiator: Chirrut tells his Rouge One troops to "Unleash hell!!" #1670
• The Godfather: "Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in." #386.
• Gone with the Wind: "...Clone with the Wind?" is the attempt of a clone trooper to answer a knock-knock joke by C-3PO. #820.
  • #942 is titled "Clankily my Dear, I Don't Give a Can".
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: #1157 is titled "The Good, The Bad, and The Chewie".
• Goodfellas: When Luke spots Boba Fett taking the frozen Han away on Cloud City, Boba yells "You think this is funny? I amuse you?" before shooting at him. #1117.
• The Good Son: Bria needs to decide whether to drop the Imperial data crystal or her blaster, echoing the climax of the film, in #1704, which is titled "The Good Gun".
• Gorillas in the Mist: #6 is titled "Jedi in the Mist".
  • #668 is titled "Fishes of the Mist".
  • During a simian-themed Hurricane of Puns, Corey notes that he "gorillas in the missed it." #1323
  • #1661 is titled "Guerillas in their Midst".
• Grease: #84, in which they work on hotting up Anakin's racing pod, is titled "Greased Lightning".
  • #131 is titled "Sour Relations, or 'Tell Me More, Tell Me More'". Followed immediately by #132, titled "Dour Narrations, or 'Like, Did He Have a Pod?'".
  • #1043 is titled "Tell Me Maw, Tell Me Maw".
  • #1484 is titled "Geased Lightning".
• Groundhog Day: #227 is titled "Watch That First Step, It's a Doozy".
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: The title of #1085 is the movie title verbatim.
• Home Alone: #419 is titled "Clone Alone".
  • Followed later by #1760, "Clone Alone 2: Lost in Kamino".
• The Hunger Games: #1428 has an Ewoc blow the "Horn of Plenty". The strip title is "The Brave Shall Heed the Call", a line from James Newton Howard's soundtrack song, "Horn of Plenty".
• The Hunt for Red October: #463 is titled "The Hunt for Infrared October".
• Independence Day: Cassian suggests introducing a virus could cripple the Scarif data facility, in #1690.
• Indiana Jones:
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark:
    • The title of #28 is "Finders of the Lost Plot".
    • R2-D2: "Sand. Why did it have to be... sand?" #688.
    • The title of #787 is "Raiders of the Lost Orb".
    • The title of #817 is "Giant Earthworms. Why'd it have to be Giant Earthworms?"
    • Luke: "I dunno! I'm making it up as I go along!" #968.
    • Leia disguised as Boussh in Jabba's palace is also making it up as she goes along. #1215.
    • Leia warns Han that "his face will melt off" if he fails his system shock roll for carbonite defrosting. #1218.
    • Han: (played by Harrison Ford, of course) "Apprentices... why did it have to be apprentices?" #1240.
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom:
    • The Ewocs reveal their Lord resides in the "Temple of Dome". #1370
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
    • The title of #971 is "Only the Penitent Camel Shall Pass..."
    • In the same strip, it's revealed that Sally named Chewbacca after her dog...
    • Wedge gives Henry Jones's "I've lost him" speech when he thinks Luke was blown up in the Peace Moon in #1505.
• James Bond:
  • #205 is titled "James Bond will Return in: The Silence of the Clones", echoing the closing credits line of many early Bond films.
  • Leia: "He was shaken, but he's not stirred." #1114
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service: #185 is titled "On His Excellency's Secret Service".
  • Live and Let Die: The exact title of #630, although here the "die" is a pun on the small polyhedral randomising device.
  • GoldenEye:
    • #822 is titled "I Am Inwincible!".
    • Rebel pilot Keir Santage's last words are "Xenia, I can't breathe!" This is an Actor Allusion, as Santage is played by Billy J. Mitchell, the same actor who played Admiral Chuck Farrell in GoldenEye - the one who Xenia Onatopp killed by squeezing him between her legs so he couldn't breathe. Sally also gets in a James Bond reference, saying "Oh, oh. 7." when she rolls a 7 for Keir Santage's Dodge roll (low enough that it leads to his last words). #1491, which uses a double-barrelled James Bond title pun: "GoldenDie, or: Die Another Way".
    • Chirrut's rhetorical statement "Who's invincible!?", just before he dies. #1708
    • Echoed a bit later by Krennic: "I'm invincible!", just before he dies. Under a giant radio dish, no less. #1739
  • Tomorrow Never Dies: The title of #652.
    • Bria Tharen (played by Jim) decides that to assassinate Galen in a stealthy manner, she will shoot him and make it look like suicide. The GM objects: "It won't look like a suicide if you shoot him from over there." #1615
  • Die Another Day:
    • #91 is titled "Dice Another Day".
    • #1491 provides a double-barrelled James Bond title pun, titled "GoldenDie, or: Die Another Way".
• Jaws: #786 is titled "They're Gonna Need a Bigger Ship".
  • Chewbacca: "We're gonna need a bigger table." #1442.
• Jerry Maguire: Leia: "Show me the vectors!" #886.
  • Luke: "You had me at 'You wouldn't like me'." The strip is titled "Show Me the Trash Talk". #1128.
• Jewel of the Nile: #1038 is titled "The Duel of Denial".
• Joe Versus the Volcano: #878 is titled "Jim Versus the Volcano".
• Jurassic Park: Sally invents a dinosaur cloning room on Kamino in #272.
  • #527 is titled "Do You Think He Saurus?".
  • #1148:
  R2-D2: It's a Unix system! I know this!
  • "Veggie-sauruses" are mentioned in #1467, which clinches the fact that Sally based her campaign on Jurassic Park, but with robot dinosaurs.
• King Kong: Referenced in-universe by Pete as a sarcastic comment on Bria's decision to climb to the top of the tower rather than down. #1713.
• Legends of the Fall: The title of #386.
• Lethal Weapon: #1682 is titled "Bequeathal Weapon".
• Lethal Weapon 2: An obvious one in #680:
  Captain Antilles: Diplomatic immunity! (I can't believe I didn't think of that one before.)
  Darth Vader: Revoked. *chokes him*
• Little Shop of Horrors: The Special Edition Sarlacc's similarity to Audrey II is alluded to with the title of strip #1281, "'Feed Me,' say Maw". (This is also an allusion to the stage show version.)
• Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: #429 is titled "Locked Dock and Two Smoking Barrels".
  • #1435 is titled "Lock Block and Two Choking Die Rolls".
• The Lord of the Rings: An intermission strip has Ben recognise the miniature being used to portray Count Dooku as the same one they used in a previous game to represent a wizard who turned evil and worked for the main bad guy - referring to Saruman, played by the same actor as Dooku, Christopher Lee. #412.
  • #975:
  Major Derlin, 2nd Lord Clabburn: Hold your ground, hold your ground!
  Major Derlin, 2nd Lord Clabburn: A day may come when the courage of men and women... and droids... and shapeshifters... and other Rebels fails, when we forsake this land and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
  Major Derlin, 2nd Lord Clabburn: An hour of... giant mechatronic camels and shattered guns, when the age of the Rebellion comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!
  Major Derlin, 2nd Lord Clabburn: By all that you hold dear on this good Hoth, I bid you stand, Rebels of the Clabburn Range!
  • R2-D2 has an internal conflict with the digitised mind of Nute Gunray residing in his circuits in #1146. The scene is presented with a split screen showing a Gollum-like version of R2 and a Smeagol-like version, using mirror images and a shift in colour balance, much like the Gollum/Smeagol dialogue scenes in the films. This continues into the next strip, with R2 finally winning with the line "Leave now, and never come back! Leave! Now! And never come back!".
  • #1190 is an intermission strip built entirely around lines from the films, with Obi-Wan's Force ghost appearing as "Obi-Wan the White" to Luke in the "Lembas snow" on Hoth.
• Mad Max: Name dropped in #50.
• The Maltese Falcon: Han calls the Millennium Falcon the Malteser Falcon in #782, titled "It's What Dreams Are Made of".
• Mamma Mia!: Kermit channels Meryl Streep's inter-song stage banter word-for-word from the movie closing credits sequence, leading up to the opening of the song "Waterloo", the first two words of which ("My, my") are the title of the strip, #1778.
• The Man Who Knew Too Much: The film's signature song "Que Sera, Sera" is used as the title for #482.
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: #575 is titled "The Man Who Shot Valiant Liberty".
• The Matrix: Obi-Wan giving Adam a Red Pill, Blue Pill choice in #726.
  • Yoda offers Luke a choice between red brew and blue milk in #1020.
• Memento: The vault technician on Scarif suffers from "retro-anterograde amnesia", and can't remember anything that happened before K-2SO hits him on the head. #1672
• Midnight Cowboy: Luke channels Dustin Hoffman: "Hey! I'm talkin' here! I'm talkin' here!" In strip #1464, titled "Midnight Madness".
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol: #1533 is titled "Mission Impertinent: Post-Protocol".
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: #391 is titled "See the Violence Inherent in the System".
  • Count Dookû (who in D&D is space-French): "Your mother was a womp rat and your father smells of sweesonberries!" #392.
  • Luke: "Come back, you coward! I'll chop your legs off!" #979.
  • Pete helps Ben build a science experiment involving a wooden duck (referencing the witch-drowning scene), in #1061.
  • Pete doesn't care about Anakin murdering Padme. "Why are we sitting around arguing about who killed who-" (referencing the swamp lord's speech after Lancelot's killing rampage) in #609
  • After establishing the possibility of eclipsing both of Tatooine's twin suns, the GM awards Jim "five stars", to which Jim responds, "No, five is right out." #1581
  • K-2SO: "It's just a flesh wound!" (K-2SO of course doesn't have flesh.) #1693
• Monty Python's Life of Brian: #517 is titled "The Popular People's Liberation Front of Naboo".
  • #644 is titled "He's not the Messiah, He's a Dreadnoughty Boy".
  • The I Am Spartacus moment in #1105 where Han, Chewbacca, and Leia claim to be Obi-Wan, is finished with C-3PO emphatically claiming not to be, similar to Mr Cheeky in Monty Python's Life of Brian.
• Mystery Men: #766:
  Obi-Wan: Do not seek too quickly to master the Force, lest—
  Luke: The Force become my master? Yeah yeah, I get it.
• Network: The Muppet newsreader on Kamino, when attacked by rampaging sheep, yells, "Ah'm mad as 'ell, and Ah'm not going to take zis any more!" #1765
• On Golden Pond: #1335 is titled "On Golden Frond".
• On the Waterfront: Bail Organa: "I coulda been the Chancellor. I coulda been somebody, instead of a Senator, which is what I am, let's face it." #215.
• The Parent Trap: The title of #844.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The sword fight in #393.
• Planet of the Apes (1968):
  • You damn dirty Sith! #397.
  • #1323, full of monkey puns, is titled "Planet of the Japes".
  • In #1356 Ben suggests that Sally engage the services of a "famous ape scientist" to assist in her campaign to free experimental monkeys from her university, and Jim interjects, "Yeah! Like Dr Zaius!" (And in the next strip, which takes place after a game session break, we learn that Ben dressed up as Dr Zaius to assist Sally's cause.)
• The Princess Bride:
  • "Do we have to hear about the kissing part?" R2-D2 in #270.
    • And when Anakin and Padmé kiss near the beginning of Episode III the strip is titled "Can't We Skip This Bit?" #489.
  • Padmé refers to a "Miracle Man" who might be able to bring Shmi back to life, in #316.
  • #393. In Dooku's and Obi-Wan's laser-sword duel, their entire exchange is a play on words referencing the best sword fights from The Princess Bride, The Secret of Monkey Island, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Princess Bride again.
  • Strip #395 flashes out of Star Wars entirely and shows several panels from The Princess Bride, with the kid complaining to the grandfather that it's unfair if Padmé dies in this scene. When Padmé revives it is implied she was hallucinating. The strip is titled "Mostly Dead".
  • In #406 the mysterious "fantasy campaign" they played in between Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones is revealed to have been based on The Princess Bride, with the give-away line being R2-D2 yelling, "There is no such thing as immunity to iocane powder!"
  • Soon after, Anakin and Padmé get married in a strip titled "Mawwiage". #409.
  • And the game is given away completely in #410, which shows the GM's campaign notes for The Princess Bride campaign. The strip is titled "Let Me Explain... No, There is Too Much. Let Me Sum Up".
  • When introduced to Tarkin for the first time, Vader says, "I'll kill him tomorrow." But he never does. #652.
  • #706 is titled "Inconceivable".
  • In #729: "My name is Luke Amidala? You killed my father?" Followed immediately by "I was prepared to die..."
  • Jim describes the inter-film campaign he ran using the same words the Grandfather uses to describe the story he's about to read to the Kid: "Fencing, fighting, revenge, escapes, true love, miracles!" (Though the following lines make it clear that this does not imply he ran The Princess Bride.) #775.
  • #876:
  Luke: Okay, you've proven useful for another day.
  C-3PO: Have fun storming the Peace Moon!
  Luke: Good bye, 3PO. Good work. Translate well. I'll most likely melt you down in the morning.
  • Boba Fett: "His name is Obi-Wan Kenobi. When I meet him, I shall say to him: Hello. My name is Boba Fett. You killed my father. Prepare to die." #1042.
  • #1127:
  Lando: Look who... <choke> knows so much... <gasp>... about dead.
  • During the Sarlacc pit battle, Han is dangling from the skiff and Lando is trying to climb up the Sarlacc pit, somewhat like the Man in Black trying to climb the Cliffs of Insanity while Inigo waits on top. Han aims a blaster in Lando's general direction, and Lando echoes the Man in Black with: "That does put a damper on our relationship." #1285
  • The line "Have fun storming the castle" is alluded to by Luke in #1324: "Storming a fully armed battle station to confront your evil psycho mother isn't exactly what I'd call fun."
  • #1538:
  Bria: Your name is Montoja Intigua! You helped my father! Prepare to die!
• Primal Fear: "You are making a mockery of my courtroom and I'm not going to allow it." #357.
• Psycho: The title of #783.
  • #1324, which mentions an "evil psycho mother" in the dialogue, is titled "Stormin' Norman", referencing Norman Bates.
• Pulp Fiction: Mace Windu decided to "walk the Galaxy", "You know, walk the Galaxy, meet aliens", followed by "From here on in you can consider Mace retired.", in strip #380. The strip title is also a pun on the film title: "Sulk Addiction".
  • #1763 is titled "Pulp Interdiction".
  • Luke to Fozzie: "Ask me to dance again. Ask me to dance, I dare you! I double dare you! Ask me to dance one more goddamn time!" #1773
• Rambo: Cassian asks "who's this Rambo McBeefcake?" when Baze Malbus appears.
• Rashomon: #200 is titled "Rush 'Em On", and is a recounting of a very different version of events occurring to Queen Amidala, through Jim's point of view, in true "Rashomon"-Style.
• Rebel Without a Cause: Bail Organa is introduced as a very James Dean-esque character, quoting some of Jim Stark's lines in #215, titled "Rebel Without a Cause, Yet".
  • Bail Organa again: "Please, lock me up. I'm gonna hit somebody and I don't want to." In #500, titled "A Stark Decision".
  • Finally, Bail declares, "Our Rebellion has a cause." #645.
  • Bail returns in Rogue One, his first line quoting Jim Stark again: "I've got the bullets!" #1636.
  • #1684 is titled "Rebel Without an Effect".
• Rocky III: #1055 is titled "I, Piett the Fool" after Mr. T's trademark quote.
• A Room with a View: #1245 is titled "A Room With a Gnu".
  • #1490 is titled "Boom With a View".
• Scent of a Woman: #1610 is titled "Ascent of a Woman".
• Serenity: "Screw that. I'm going to live." #477
  • Also, "gorram" pops up as a swear word used by the players out of character. Though one wonders, if the ''Star Wars'' films were never made, would ''Firefly'', which owes a fair bit to them, (as does much of the science fiction since) still exist?
• Sharknado: #1592 is titled "Snarknado".
• The Shawshank Redemption: Red (droid in Jawa captivity): "Freedom at last? Ha. They sent me here for life, and that's exactly what they took." #699.
• The Shining: Luke goes a bit crazy in the snow in #936.
  • Luke: "I'd sell my soul for a glass of mulled wine." #939, titled "Pre-medicated Red Rum".
• A Shot in the Dark: The title of #1737.
• The Silence of the Lambs: Luke: "Umm... If it's okay with you, I don't think I'll go back to your hut made of human skin." #1011, titled "The Verbosity of the Alien of Unspecified Species".
  • E-3PO (the silver droid C-3PO speaks to in Cloud City) says "It puts the oil on its body or it gets the hose again." #1074.
  • The Rancor expresses a desire to eat Luke "with some jawa beans and a nice Chandrilan Blue '439" in #1232. The strip title is a double pun on Silence of the Lambs and Soylent Green: "Soylents of the Gammorean". The Rancor continues in #1234 with "Silence, little lambs. You're putting me off my lunch.".
  • Chewbacca tries to entertain Jabba with a tale which mashes up elements of Blade Runner and Silence of the Lambs, in #1258.
• Singin' in the Rain: #288 is titled "Stringin' in the Rain".
• The Sixth Sense: #550 is titled "The Sith Sense".
• Slumdog Millionaire: #1214 is titled "Slug Dog Millionaire" (referring to Jabba).
• Snakes on a Plane: #689 is titled "Bakes on a Plain".
• Sneakers: #501 is titled "Too Many Secrets".
• Soylent Green: #156, in which Jar Jar negotiates with Boss Nass to sell the humans of Naboo for food, is titled "Soylent Auction".
  • R2-D2: "Mos Eisley is made of dreadnought!" #742. And the strip title is "Painting the Town Green".
  • #1232, in which the Rancor eats a Gammorean, is titled "Soylents of the Gammorean".
• Spaceballs: #521.
  • It is also part of the pattern for the "Turtles all the way down" style alternate reality rabbit hole started in strip #50. The original rant that sets the pattern states that in a universe without Star Wars, "Spaceballs is a serious documentary about the practical applications of Buckminsterfullerene," and the snowclones follow the formula of "_X_balls" being a film about _Y_.
  • Captain Oquoné orders his ship to ram a star destroyer at "Ludicrous speed!" #1717
  • Followed up by Admiral Raddus telling Oquoné "It's a good thing you were wearing those helmets." #1723
• Spartacus: The I Am Spartacus scene is echoed when Boba Fett is desperate to know where Obi-Wan is, so he can kill him, Han claims to be Obi-Wan, then Chewbacca claims to be Obi-Wan, then Leia claims to be Obi-Wan. #1105.
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: #1041:
  Boba Fett: He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!
  • #1078 is titled "The Needs of the Many", and features Obi-Wan's ghost holding his hands up in a pose reminiscent of Spock in the fateful scene near the end.
  • Boba Fett again channels Khan in #1088: "I mean to avenge myself upon him. I shall deprive him of power, and then, I mean to deprive him of his life."
  • Boba Fett does the complete "To the last, I will grapple with thee" speech in the non-canon bonus strip #1528, followed by C-3PO re-interpreting Khan's "I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you." lines, topped off by Boba screaming "Obi-WAAAAAN!!".
  • Galen's video introduction to his presentation of the Peace Moon plans begins with, "Project Stardust. A proposal to the Empire", echoing Carol Marcus's video introduction to Project Genesis. #1578. It ends two strips later, again echoing Carol Marcus's Genesis presentation, followed by Chirrut Îmwe twisting Spock's comment "It literally is Genesis" into "This literally is a revelation".
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: #994:
  Captain of Other Star Destroyer: Why don't ya watch where you're going, ya dumbass!
  Captain Needa: Well, uh, double dumbass on you!
• Strictly Ballroom: #176, in which Qui-Gon performs dance-like moves in combat with Darth Maul, is titled "Strictly Maul-room".
• Superman II: "Kneel before Valorum!" Spoken by the same actor who played General Zod. #139.
  • The name "Zod" is shown as the GM's original idea for Valorum's name in the GM's notes revealed in #206.
• Taxi Driver: "You talkin' to me? What am I, your taxi driver?" #623.
  • Ponda Baba: "You talkin' to me? ... I don't see no one else here, you must be talkin' to me." #750.
• The Terminator: "Come with us if you want to live!" #1585.
• This Is Spın̈al Tap: #364 is titled "This Is A Spinal Trap".
  • #752 is titled "None More Loud".
• THX1138: Officer Party 1138. #806.
• Titanic (1997): #809 is titled "Draw Me Like One of Your Space French Girls".
• Top Gun: "Oh yeah. I got a need for speed." #79.
  • #749, titled "The Need for Theed".
• Total Recall (1990): The title of #1272.
• Triumph of the Will: Title of #271.
• Twilight: #572, complete with Take That!. And the strip title is "Total Eclipse of the Heart", referencing "Total Eclipse".
• The Untouchables: #1653 is titled "Don't Bring a K to a Star Destroyer Fight".
• V for Vendetta: In #1501, Vader's mask is removed to reveal Padme's scarred face underneath, complete with bald head. The strip title is "V for Vadetta", making a feminised "Vader" pun, and referencing the movie, in which Natalie Portman appears bald.
• Van Helsing: #552, also complete with Take That!.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: R2 plays on Roger Rabbit's line about escaping the handcuffs in #1173:
  Leia: The power was literally inside you the whole time?
  R2-D2: Uh-huh.
  Leia: You could have used it at any time?
  R2-D2: No! Only when it was maximally [...] awesome.
• The Wild One: Bail Organa continues channelling James Dean in #500:
  Padmé: Oh. So... what do we rebel against?
  Bail Organa: What do you got?
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: #923 is titled "Wampa-Lampa Doobity-Doo".
• The Wizard of Oz: #250 is titled "And Your Little Droid Too".
  • #374 is titled "Jedi and Monsters and Droids, Oh My".
  • Yoda: "Fly, my pretties!" #382, titled "The Wonderful Jedi of Oz".
  • #469 is titled "If I Only Had Your Brain".
  • Obi-Wan refers to General Grievous, Nute Gunray, and the Separatists leaders as, "Not only the Tin Man, but the Cowardly Lion and his Munchkins too." Then Grievous uses the words, "Ding dong, Gunray!" #528.
  • #560 is titled "And Their Little Padawans Too".
  • Luke: "R2, I've a feeling we're not on Tatooine any more." #1003
  • Another "Fly, my pretties!" this time by C-3PO (also played by Sally, like Yoda was), in #1433, which is titled "The Wicket's Witch of the Western Front".
  • An Ewoc life lesson for C-3PO in #1512 is that "Nute was truly inside you the whole time," echoing the Wizard's conclusion that the Tin Man had a heart all along. The strip title is "If I Only Had a Heart Made of Gold".
  • C-3PO again, this time saying, "If I only had a heart..." in response to Bria saying that she and Cassian will live forever in her heart. #1738
  • #1755 is titled "Wicket's Pitch of the Quest".

Gamebooks

• Choose Your Own Adventure: The title of #711.
• Fighting Fantasy, Appointment with F.E.A.R.: #503 is titled "Appointment with J.E.D.I.".

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Literature

• The Aeneid: #1215 is titled "Beware Ubese Bearing Gifts".
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: #95 is titled "Just What I Choose it to Mean".
  • When Jim first gets the idea to take over playing Queen Amidala, his first reaction is to quote the Queen of Hearts: "Off with their heads!" #198.
  • #1412 is titled "The Mad Hooder" and has Palpatine quoting the White Queen ("six impossible things before breakfast") and the Cheshire Cat ("We're all mad here").
  • And then #1413, titled "Much Hair" has him add "It's no use going back to yesterday, I was a different person then", as well as quoting the Tim Burton film (see under Film).
• All Quiet on the Western Front: When Wicket leads the rebels to the back door of the Imperial base on Endor, by convincing Han that it's the front door (since Han wants to do a frontal assault), the strip title is "All Quite on the Western Back". #1403
  • #1433 is titled "The Wicket's Witch of the Western Front".
• —All You Zombies—: The unexpected Vader/Luke twist in the non-canon intermission episode #1191.
• Anarchist Cookbook: #1305 is titled "The Anakin's Cookbook".
• Animal Farm: C-3PO channel's Old Major's "Is it not crystal clear, comrades," speech to the animals in #1075, directing it to the oppressed droids of Cloud City.
  • In a strip full of pigs (and pig puns), the title of #1784 is "Some NP Cs Are More Equal Than Others".
• Arabian Nights: #1001 (a significant strip number) is titled "Tales of Raving Spites".
  • #1210 is the 1001st night of Oola's "interpretive dance epic". The strip title "Charade is Hard" is a pun on "Scheherazade".
• Baba Yaga: Qui-Gon thinks the Hutts are big scary cottages "with giant chicken feet". #51.
• The Bible: #78 is titled "The Wagers of Jinn" (Romans 6:23).
  • #111, in which the ridiculously wasteful Qui-Gon Jinn returns to the spaceship on Tatooine, is titled "The Prodigal Master" (Luke 15:11-32).
    • Later, Pete returns to the game in a strip titled "The Prodigal Robot". #376
  • #189 is titled "The Root of All Chaotic Neutral" (1 Timothy 6:10).
  • #555 is titled "No Arrest For the Wicked" (Isaiah 48:22).
  • #571 is titled "Massacre of Innocence", referring to the Massacre of the Innocents (Matthew 2:16-18).
  • #582 is titled "One of Thy Members Should Perish" (Matthew 5:29).
  • #690 is titled "Walking Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death" (Psalm 23:4).
  • #728 is titled "Visited Upon the Son", and the next strip is titled "The Sins of the Father". (Exodus 20:5).
  • #881, in which Luke suspects Leia of being a traitor, is titled "Kiss of Jedis" (Matthew 26:47–50).
  • #952 is titled "Lamb to the Slaughter" (Isaiah 53:7).
  • #1042 is titled "The Trail is Hot, But the Vengeance is Cold" (alluding to "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak") (Matthew 26:41).
  • Twisting the Fourth/Fifth Commandment^note Fourth in the Catholic list, fifth in the Protestant/Jewish list., #1271 is titled "Thou Shalt Honour Thy Father, Thy Mother, and Thy Other Father" (Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16).
  • #1382, titled "Words from the Bibble", has Sally riffing on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Revelation 6:1-8).
  • In the same strip, Sally continues narrating: "And in Death I found new [l]ife", echoing Christian resurrection (Romans 6:4).
  • And then more about the Horsemen's armies coming to wage war (Revelation 19:19).
  • #1420 is titled "In a Scanner, Darkly", echoing "in a mirror, darkly" (Corinthians 13:12).
  • In strips #1578 to #1580, Galen Erso's presentation about the Peace Moon echoes lines from Carol Marcus's presentation on Project Genesis from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In that film, Spock comments at the end of the presentation, "It literally is Genesis," while in the comic Chirrut Îmwe comments, "This literally is a revelation," referring to the book at the opposite end of the Bible. This is reinforced by Cassian talking about the Peace Moon bringing about "an Apocalypse".
  • #1686 is titled "Tower of Babble" (Genesis 11:1-9).
• The Book of Common Prayer: #608 is titled "Ashes to Ashes, Trust to Trust".
• Bunduki: #1033 is titled "Fearless Master of the Jedi", after the title of J.T. Edson's fourth Bunduki book: Fearless Master of the Jungle.
• Callahan's Crosstime Saloon: When Pete makes a dreadful pun (on lambda calculus), the other long-term players throws peanuts at him, and Annie presumes it must be a tradition. #475.
• The Canterbury Tales: #299 is titled "The Replicanterbury Tales: The Protocol Droid's Tale".
• Cat’s Cradle: Jim gets excited about a planet made of water, going through the physical properties of various phases of ice that would form, all the way up to ice X, but studiously ignoring ice-nine (but it's mentioned in The Rant). #1641
• The Catcher in the Rye: #1008 is titled "The Catcher on the Sly".
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Stealth Pun is used in #1453 when the GM describes the Ewoc named Wunka as being "wiry".
• Children of the Corn: #578 is titled "Children of the Scorn".
• A Christmas Carol: The GM tries to teach the players a lesson about min-maxing their character builds by having them observe a group of NPCs playing a roleplaying game. One of the NPC gamers says he put every character point into Speed, but then when running away from a fight fails to spot a rock, trips over, and dies. He says his previous character "had every point in Strength and got swallowed by a tortapo". And now his future character will have every point in Wisdom, to avoid getting into fights in the first place. Pete totally misses the point, exclaiming, "What the dickens?? This guy has no idea how to make a well-rounded min-maxed character." For good measure, the strip is titled "A Min-Max Carol".
• Cthulhu Mythos:
  • #1425 has Palpatine quoting Lovecraft's "Dagon" and "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn". The title is "The Terrible Old Man", one of Lovecraft's early stories.
  • And again in #1439, where Palpatine quotes "The Other Gods", "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", and "The Hound". The title is "What the Moon Brings".
  • And he's still at in in #1452, where he quotes "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Thing on the Doorstep", and "The Shunned House".
  • In #1465 he quotes from "Herbert West: Re-Animator".
  • In #1468 he quotes from "Nemesis".
  • In #1478 he quotes from "The Tomb".
  • In #1483 he quotes from "The Tomb" again (twice), "The Crawling Chaos", "Hypnos" (twice), and "The Call of Cthulhu" again.
  • In #1761 Waldorf quotes a line from Lovecraft's poem "Ex Oblivione".
• Destination Unknown: The title of #1657.
• Dick and Jane: #1545 is titled "See, Spot, Run", referencing sentences used to refer to Dick and Jane's dog.
• Discworld: A strip featuring Cockney-esque salesmen droids insistently selling services the players neither want nor need is titled "Cuttin' Me Own Throat". #425
  • #832 is titled "Divors Alarums".
  • #1382: The Rant talks about how a good entrepreneur can profit from anything, including by running a sausage-inna-bun cart.
  • #1768 is titled "Inside Every Young Person is an Old Person Wondering What Happened", a reversal of a quote from Moving Pictures.
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: #229 is called "Do Hovercars Dream of Electric Eels?".
  • #1380 drops hints about Sally's campaign being something to do with robots and humans in conflict, and is titled "I Have an (Electric) Dream".
• Doctor Dolittle: Mentioned explicitly by Pete in #637.
• The Domesday Book: #871 is titled "The Dome's Day Hook".
• Dr. Seuss: #397 is titled "One Sword, Two Sword, Red Sword, Blue Sword".
  • #773 is titled "Green Lasers and Ham".
  • #905 is titled "Do, Sir, You, Sir, Choose to Choose, Sir?" (from "Fox in Socks").
  • #1371 is titled "Owe the Places You'll Go".
  • #1723 is titled "One Ship, Two Ship, Sped Ship, Through Ship".
  • #1774 is titled "Luke's Lookalike Likes Larks Luke Likes" (from "Fox in Socks").
• Dune: GM: "Giant worms in a desert is just silly." in #394, titled "Duned to Failure".
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The title of #1748: "Leaves, Stalks, and Shoots".
• Ender's Game: Punned in the title of #1309: "Endor's Name".
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: #120 is titled "Fear and Loathing in Mos Espa".
• For Dummies: #1204 is titled "Base Invasion for Dummies".
  • #1615 is titled "Assassination for Dummies".
• For Whom the Bell Tolls: #813 is titled "For Whom the Smell Roils".
  • #1457 is titled "For Whom the Fun Rolls".
• Literature/Foundation: Cassian and K-2S0 talk about avoiding a pebble in the sky in #1592.
• Gone Girl: The title of #1609, verbatim.
• Great Expectations: #1568 is titled "Great Expectorations".
• Guns, Germs, and Steel (the book and the Mini Series): #1100 is titled "Guns, Jerks, and Steal".
• Harry Potter:
  • #513 is titled "Mace Windu and the Chamber of Secrets".
  • When Corey is asked to choose a new surname as cover, he picks "Potter", and Sally enthusiastically agrees. #741.
  • #818 is titled "Dianoga Alley".
  • The #918 intermission strip re-imagines Obi-Wan's meeting with Luke using the dialogue of Hagrid's first meeting with Harry Potter.
  • Yoda says that Luke has to learn to keep Vader from entering his mind, and offers to teach him the "Jedi skill" of Occlumency. #1063. Then in #1077, Yoda channels Dumbledore: "Open your mind to Vader, you must not."
  • Cassian talks with a very Hagrid-like minor character in #1542, who quotes lines such as "I shouldn' have told yeh that".
  • A trooper tells Cassian and Bria about the "Chamber of Secrets" in Scarif Tower, "Down that corridor, through the bathroom, third door on the left." #1665. And the strip title, "Stealth Level: 9.75", is a stealth reference to Platform 9 3/4.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  • "Here I am, brain the size of a planet(...)" #72.
  • In the non-canon extra strip where Qui-Gon actually does Summon a Bigger Fish (and crushes Padmé with it), a bowl of petunias lands a moment after the fish. #208.
  • #320, about overcoming translation difficulties, is titled "You'll Need to Have this Bigger Fish in Your Ear".
  • "How depressingly stupid." #422.
  • #568 is titled "So Long and Thanks for All the Bigger Fish".
  • "My name... is not important." #721.
  • #746:
    Luke: Wow, I've never seen so many people, and... things.
    C-3PO: The things are also people.
  • Darth Vader: "Looks like a moon, moves like a moon, steers like a cow." #868.
  • When Boba Fett says "To my destiny", Admiral Piett repeats the line and then explains "I'm sorry. I thought you were proposing a toast." This is the same reaction Ford Prefect has to the line "To business" during the discussion with the mice. #1042.
  • #983 is titled "Paranoid Droid".
  • #994 is titled "Space is Small. Really Small".
  • #1142, in which Lando calls for "last drinks" like the doomed barman just before the Earth is destroyed by the Vogon fleet, is titled "There Was a Terrible Ghastly Silence".
  • #1753 is titled "Pan-Galactic Goggle Master".
• The Hobbit: Bilbo should have listened to The Rant for #763 before hosting a dinner party.
  • R2-D2 implies he had a riddle contest with the dragonsnake in the Dagobah swamp. #1050, titled "If It Loses, We Eats It".
• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The title of #549 is "I Have No Moth, Yet Ice Cream".
• Illuminatus!: Bria Tharen attempts to pull off a Bavarian fire drill to trick the Toprawa gate guards into letting Rebel ships through the planetary shield in #1681, titled "Briatharian Fire Drill".
• I, Robot: #1287, where Salacious Crumb picks out C-3PO's eye, is titled "Eye, Robot".
• Jack Ryan: Padmé: "We're a clear and present danger!" #589, the title of which is "Patriot Fears", a blend of "Patriot Games" and "The Sum of All Fears".
• James and the Giant Peach: The title of #1596 is "Flames and the Giant Peace".
• Journey to the West: The title of strip #1563, in which the rag-tag party, including Chirrut (a monk), are literally taken on a westward journey from Jedha City.
• A Kiss Before Dying: #986 is titled "A Kiss Before Die-ing".
• Lensman: Allotropic Iron torpedoes #415.
• The Little Engine That Could: #1054 is titled "The Little Jedi that Could".
• The Little Prince: After Pete gave her a copy of The Prince earlier, Sally reciprocates by giving Pete a copy of this. #634.
• The Lord of the Rings: Name dropped as a story Jim is confusing with a previous game they actually played, in #260.
  • The Council of Elrond is referenced in #308, titled "The Council of El Ronco".
  • #383, titled "Fly, You Fools".
  • And then later, #440 is titled "Fry, You Fools".
  • Anakin channels Galadriel on Naboo: "I will rule with my Queen of Light. She shall be loved by all as I love her." #600
  • #763, titled "One Does Not Simply Walk Through Mos Eisley":
    Obi-Wan: Always remember, Luke, the Orb is trying to evade its quester. It wants to be lost.
    R2-D2: [quietly] My precious...
  • #781 is titled "Helm's Deep".
  • #842 is titled "The One Thing" and is about R2-D2 wanting to retrieve the Lost Orb, which had previously been alluded to as an analogue of the One Ring.
  • #992 is titled "Speak, < doip >, and Enter".
  • Pete has dice with the numerals written in Quenya. #1019.
  • Obi-Wan says "Fool of a Luke!" when Luke opens his psychic connection to Vader to find out where he is, echoing Gandalf's "Fool of a Took!"
  • Actually from The Peoples of Middle-earth, but close enough: R2-D2 uses a tongue twister as a shibboleth to prove he is not being controlled by the digitised mind of Nute Gunray in strip #1147, in a scene visually referencing the split personality between Gollum and Smeagol in the film of The Lord of the Rings. The strip title is "You Say Serindë, I Say Þerindë, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", referring to "The Shibboleth of Fëanor"from Tolkien's The Peoples of Middle-earth.
  • The GM's original adventure plan for Episode V (#1189) involved the PCs recruiting the Force ghosts of many deceased Jedi to help them win an epic battle against the Empire, just like the Battle of Pelennor Fields.
  • The concept of Force ghosts helping the PCs is alluded to again when the ascended midi-chlorians of past Jedi decide to accompany Luke from their home on Dagobah, in #1312. The strip is titled "It Worked for Aragorn".
  • Pete comments that "skipping third dessert" is restraint for a Hobbit, in #1497.
  • Jim (as Kyle Katarn) echoes Théoden's speech at the start of the Battle of Pelennor Fields, only twisting it around to urge his followers to fight a sandstorm, in #1591.
• A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates: Explicitly mentioned by Pete in #1473.
• Moby-Dick: By way of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Boba Fett quotes Khan's "He tasks me" monologue. #1041.
  • And in the non-canon bonus strip #1528, Boba Fett does the full on "To the last, I will grapple with thee" speech. The strip is titled "Mopey-Shtick; or, The Wail".
• A Modest Proposal: #1578 is titled "An Immodest Proposal".
• The Most Dangerous Game: General Grievous, being chased and hunted by Obi-Wan: "The most dangerous game! Exhilarating, is it not?" #544.
• "Nightfall (1941)": Evoked in a discussion of the possibility of eclipsing both of Tatooine's suns. Jim comes up with a plausible explanation (he works in astro-geophysics), but when the GM awards him "five stars", Jim says that five is right out, implying that producing a nightfall-inducing eclipse in a system with as many as five suns is implausible ("Nightfall" has six suns, making it even less plausible). #1581
• Nursery Rhyme:
  • #1427 is titled "Little Po Beep".
• The Old Man and the Sea: #647 is titled "The Young Man and the Lava".
• Pride and Prejudice: In #1350 Luke takes the step of "pride" on the Path to the Light Side. The strip is titled "Without Prejudice".
  • Luke talks about Pride being the opposite of Humility, in #1389, titled "Hue and Humility".
• The Prince: Pete gives Sally a copy of this book in #583. Mentioned again in #619.
• The Princess and the Pea: #677 is titled "The Princess and the Pete".
  • #798 is titled "The Princess and the Orb".
  • #1116 is titled "The Princess and the Wookiee".
• Sense and Sensibility: #230 is titled "Sense and Sensitivity".
  • And later, in the courtroom scene: "Sentence and Insensibility". #357.
  • Later again: "Scale and Scalability". #1713.
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: #812 is called "A Series of Unfortunate Vents".
• The Sheep Look Up: #1765 is titled "The Sheep! Look Out!"
• Sherlock Holmes: "Alimentary." Obi-Wan twists Holmes's catch-phrase in #258.
  • #411 is titled "Elementary, My Dear Obi-Wan".
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: #50 is titled "The 23% Solution".
  • "Minions, the game is afoot!". #470.
  • #1097 is titled "Eliminate the Impossible", alluding to the quote "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth".
  • "The game is afoot!" again when R2 works out the "real mission" buried in the GM's ad-libbed scrambling, in #1756.
• Snow Crash: The scene where Luke's speeder crashes into the snow on Hoth is titled "Downfall of the Protagonist Hero". #976.
• A Song of Ice and Fire:
  • In a non-canon intermission strip, Qui-Gon is appointed Queen by Amidala, and immediately spouts a quote from Cersei Lannister: "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." #1523
  • Pete calls Corey "my sweet summer child" in #1530.
  • See also Game of Thrones in the Live Action TV section below.
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold: #1328 is titled "The Guy Who Got in With the Code".
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: #434 is titled "Heckle and Hide".
• A Tale of Two Cities: GM: It was the best of times for Jabba, it was the worst of times for our intrepid band of Rebels. #1217
• Tales of Troy and Greece: When Bodhi joins the Rebellion in #1627 he quotes "your foes are my foes" from Medea's promise to Theseus in Andrew Lang's retelling of the myth: "I swear by the Water of Styx that your friends are my friends, and your foes are my foes, always, to the end."
• Through the Looking Glass: #1540 riffs on the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter, with the title "The Time Has Come, the Players Said, to Talk of Many Things".
• To Kill a Mockingbird: "To begin with, this case should never have come to trial." #356.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Referring to the Sarlacc, #1252 is titled "Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sand".
• Twilight: Nien Nunb reveals a pathetic sounding infatuation with Mon Mothma in #1402, which is titled "Still a Better Love Story than Twilight".
• Valley of the Dolls: #715 is titled "Valley of the Rolls".
• War and Peace: #407 is titled "Peace and War".
• War of the Worlds: Sally riffs on "regarded this Earth with envious eyes" in her last sentence in #1381. Chirpa calls it a "War of the Stars".
  • Followed up by "the Forces of Darkness and Regulation, which swarm and multiply like creatures in a drop of water." #1383, titled "The Ides of Mars".
• Wuthering Heights: #614 is titled "Mothering Fights".
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: #52 is titled "Zen and the Art of Spaceship Maintenance".
  • Annie, out of character, referring to her father: "He taught me the Zen of car maintenance." #884.

Live-Action TV

• 30 Rock: K-2SO tries to bluff some Imperial troopers that he is on their side, with "How do you do, fellow Imperials?". #1692
• The A-Team: #847 reveals that Han loves it when a plan comes together. And again in #1261.
  • #880 is titled "The B Team".
• The Adventures of Superman: Chewbacca questions the value of fighting "for truth, justice, and the Jedi way", in #1081.
• All in the Family: #826 is titled "Pall in the Family".
• Arrested Development: The strip title "And That's Why You Always Shoot First" of #1082 uses the tagline format "And that's why you..." used in the TV show whenever someone learns a valuable lesson.
  • #1395 is titled "Arrest and Bedevilment"
• Battlestar Galactica (1978): Mace Windu uses the expression "mother-frakking". #484.
  • Being the Bad Motherfrakker that he is, he first said that as far back as #204.
• Babylon 5: #633 is titled "How Will This End?"
• Batman (1966): The intermediate campaign which Ben ran between Episode IV and Episode V began with Ben intending it to be a light comedic spoof of the superhero genre, but the players turned it into the Darker and Edgier The Dark Knight Trilogy.
• The Big Bang Theory: The big bang of Naboo blowing up in #774 is titled "Unravelling the Mysteries", from the show's theme tune.
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol: "...wouldn't recognise a coherent plot if it painted itself purple and tapdanced on top of a harpsichord singing 'Coherent Plots Are Here Again'". #72.
• Blake's 7: #1260 is called "I am Not Expendable, I'm Not Stupid and I'm Not Going (To Catch That Laser Sword)"
• The Bold and the Beautiful: #1051 is titled "The Boulder and the Beautifuller".
• Breaking Bad: #943 is titled "Brocken Badass".
• Cheers: #1059 is titled "Where Everyone Knows Your Name", and is about tracking down Han's bar-crawler friend, Lando, in order to find the "Dagger Bar".
• Dallas: The FAQ for Arks and Archeologists says of 'their idea" of Temple Of Doom:
  We're planning to do that whole movie as a giant dream sequence that ends with Indy stepping out of the shower in the opening scene of the next film.
• Days of Our Lives: #398 is titled "Like Hands Through the Hourglass".
  • #1616 is titled "Like Plans Through the Hourglass".
• Discovery Channel: #658 is titled "Shaak Weak".
• Doctor Who: #1073 is titled "Rise of the Cyber-Man", echoing the Tenth Doctor episode "Rise of the Cybermen".
  • #1539 is titled "Doctor Who-Are-You-Lookin'-At?".
• Family Feud: #1274 is titled "Family Skewed".
• Fawlty Towers: #789 is titled "I Mentioned It Once, But I Think I Got Away With It".
  • General Rieekan: "Hey, droid! Where's my waldorf salad?!" And the strip title "Odd Radish Strand" is an anagram of "Darths and Droids" This is also a Casting Gag as actor Bruce Boa, who plays Rieekan, played Mr. Hamilton in said episode. #924
• Firefly: #768 is titled "Fire and Fly".
  • #1070:
  Lando: He blew up my ship last time I saw him.
  Han: Hey, that was a perfectly legitimate conflict of interest.
• Game of Thrones: Luke channels Oberyn Martell's battle with Gregor Clegane, demanding Vader admit to his crimes, in strip #1145.
  • See also A Song of Ice and Fire in the Literature section above.
• Get Smart: #355 is titled "Missed It by That Much".
  • #807 is titled "Control and Chaos".
  • #1208 is titled "Tone of Violence", a pun on "cone of silence", which is also explicitly referred to in the strip. Also, two droids are named in the transcript as EV-9D9 (a canonically correct name from Star Wars, reminiscent of "ninety-nine") and MX-8D6 (a named invented for the comic, reminiscent of "Max-eighty-six").
  • Wedge (disguised as Bib Fortuna) and Lando exchange secret code phrases taken directly from Get Smart in #1230. The strip title is also reminiscent of a Maxwell Smartism: "The Old Trap Door in the Floor Trap".
• Good Times: Han: "C. For C4! T, N, and T, baby! Dyn-O-mite!!" #1490.
• Happy Days: Sally says Dex's diner is just like Arnold's. #252.
  • #274 is titled "Jumping the Shaak".
  • Han does percussive maintenance on the Falcon in a manner reminiscent of Fonzie, in a strip titled "Thumps Up", a pun opn Fonzie's "thumbs up" gesture. #984.
  • #1776, which actually features a shark, is titled "Jumping the Snark".
• I Dream of Jeannie: #1687 is titled "I Dream of Genealogy".
• I Love Lucy: Lando: "Luke, you got some 'splainin' to do." #1166.
• The Incredible Hulk: Darth Vader: "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." #1128.
• Kung Fu: Yoda calls Luke "Young fieldhopper", referencing Caine calling his students "grasshopper". #1009.
• Lassie: "What's that R2? Timmy's trapped down a gravity well?" #171.
  • #667 is titled "Jar Jar Come Home", after the film "Lassie Come Home".
• The Lone Ranger: The title of #975.
• Look Around You: The title of #1292 is the series catchphrase: "We Just Don't Know".
• Lost: The title of #1294 is the series catchphrase "Previously on Lost".
• Lost in Space: The title of #448.
• The Love Boat: #695 is titled "Promises Something for Everyone".
  • The next strip is titled "Come Aboard, We're Expecting You".
• MacGyver: #159 features a ridiculously convoluted plan to engineer geysers to erupt to short circuit enemy tanks, and is titled "MacGeyser".
• Mad About You: The title of #852.
• Mission: Impossible: The title of #1188 is "Mission: Invulnerable".
• Mister Ed: #142 is titled "The Source of the Force, Of Course, Of Course".
• Monty Python's Flying Circus: #277 is titled "I've Got a Luverly Bunch of Space Pears".
  • R2-D2 translating droid beeps hesitantly improvised by the GM: "What? Your hovercraft is full of eels?" #279.
  • #577 is titled "Is This the Right Room for an Argument?"
  • #745 is titled "He's a Freighter Pilot and He's Okay".
  • #756 is titled "It Was Also Full of Space Eels".
  • #815 is titled "Spang, Corroded Beams, Spang, Spang, Metal Shards, Spang, Rusty Springs, and Spang".
• The Muppet Show: San Hill speaks just like the Swedish Chef. #308.
  • Palpatine calls Yoda "quite the violent little muppet" in #613.
  • #643 is titled "Hermit Agog", a pun on "Kermit the frog", and again alluding to the fact that Yoda is a Muppet.
  • And Leia refers to Yoda as a "muppet" in #854.
  • Chewbacca: "It's the Millennium Falcon! With our very special guest star, a non-functional hyperdrive! Yaaaaayyyy!!" #958, titled "Now Let's Get Things Started".
  • When Han speaks Pig Latin (in space), the strip is titled "In Spatium Porcos" ("Pigs in Space" in Latin). #1070.
  • #1759 is titled "It's Time to Break the Third Wall".
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: When Krennic gives the order to fire the Peace Moon weapon in Jedha, a technician laments the fact that "Frank is off sick today. He's been looking forward to pressing this button for 12 years." #1595.
• MythBusters: #551 is titled "SithBusters".
  • When Ben asks Pete's help in creating a science demo, the result sounds incredibly dangerous, in strip #1061, titled "Well, There's Your Problem", one of the MythBusters' catch-phrases.
• Party of Five: The title of #1150.
• Raising Hope: The title of #656.
• Saturday Night Live: #362 is titled "Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Dice".
• Seinfeld: Mon Mothma describes the mysterious field surrounding the new Peace Moon with "Well, it's yellow." in #1313, evoking the cinema ticket sales woman in the Seinfeld episode "The Movie" who, when asked by Elaine if the "butter flavouring" on the popcorn is real butter, answers "It's yellow!"
• Sesame Street: #509 is titled "W is for Wookiee, That's Good Enough for Me".
  • When Peace Moon technician Frank is still off sick, his partner Ernest is joined by Bert instead, making the pair Bert and Ernie. #1739
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: The title of strip #1300.
• Star Trek: The Original Series:
  • R2-D2: "She's dead, Jim." #316.
  • Obi-Wan: "Captain's log, 3634 ATC." #521, which is titled "The Enemy Within".
  • #857 is titled "Set Phasers to Phun".
  • When Leia asks R2 to decrypt the coordinates of the secret Rebel rendezvous point, she gives "Authorisation code 1-1-A", using the same code sequence Kirk uses to initiate the Enterprises self-destruct sequence in "Star Trek S3 E15 "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"". #863.
  • #1032 is titled "To Boldly Go". And Chewbacca mentions a "brave new frontier" in the strip.
  • #1039 is titled "Face the Final Frontier".
  • Chewbacca: "So, what are you going to do, you tin-pot dictator with delusions of godhood?", taken from a Klingon's insulting of Kirk in "The Trouble with Tribbles". #1176.
  • #1222 is titled "Set Faces to Kiss", punning on "set phasers to kill".
  • C-3PO channels McCoy: I'm a translator droid, not a pitcher! #1251.
  • #1593 is titled "The Rubble With Ripples", a pun reference to "The Trouble with Tribbles".
  • #1623 is titled "He's Dead, Jyn".
  • K-2S0 channels McCoy: Dammit, Bria! I'm a combat droid! Not a hacking droid! #1676.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation:
  • Head Jawa: But... he passed a full diagnostic this morning! #701.
  • Darth Vader: Make it so. #771.
  • #1172 is titled "The Inner Light", the famous episode in which Picard lives a full life inside an induced dream.
• The Twilight Zone: Title of #319.
  • R2-D2: "I'm the best at dodging in this Galaxy. I control the horizontal! I control the vertical!" #904, titled "In the Zone".
• Walker, Texas Ranger: #1456 is titled "Walker, Flexes Danger".
• The Weakest Link: The title of #985, in which C-3PO calls for a vote to see who they kick off the Falcon.
  • The title of #1783 is "The Oinkest Link".
• Wheel of Fortune: #747 is titled "I'd Like to Buy a Vowel".
  • Combining puns with Les Misérables, #1396 is titled "I'd Like to Cry a Valjean".
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?: #1458 is titled "Whose Weapon is it Anyway?"
  • #1758 is titled "Whose Biome is it Anyway?"
• Yes, Minister: Among a list of synonyms for "I", the title of strip #1638 contains "the Perpendicular Pronoun", first defined by Sir Humphrey Appleby.
• Yo Gabba Gabba!: Bib Fortuna addresses Jabba with "Yo Jabba Jabba" in #1201.

Music

• ABBA: #1346 titled "Super Dooper Trooper Blooper".
  • #1646 titled "Mamma Mia!"
• AC/DC: #1702 titled "It's a Long Way That You'll Drop, If You Gonna Fail Your Roll".
• Aerosmith: #1264 titled "Annie's Got a Pun".
  • #1549 titled "Walk This Way".
• Alanis Morissette: Cassian and Bodhi riff on "Ironic" in #1606, titled "Jagged Little Hill".
• "Always on My Mind": #1063 titled "You Were Always in My Mind".
• America: #967 titled "On a Camel With No Name".
• The Angels (USA band): #486 is titled "Hey La, My Boyfriend's Back".
• The Angels (Australian band): #1111 is titled "Am I Ever Gonna Trust Your Face Again?"
• Arrow: #1460 is titled "Feeling Shot, Shot, Shot".
• Australian Crawl: Cassian doesn't like K-2SO's kind of behaviour and metaphorically asks her to throw down her guns in #1460, titled "Don't Be So Reckless".
• "Baa Baa Black Sheep": #949 is titled "Bar, Bar, Brown Wookiee".
• Backstreet Boys: #1470 is titled "Backstory Boys".
• Baha Men: The title of #257 is "Who Let the Dogs Out?".
  • And #1087, which contains a flashback to #257, is "Who Let the Dogs In".
• Band Aid: The "charity performance" of the water ballet Anakain and Palpatine attend includes the lyrics "Do they know it's Life Day time at all?" #513.
• The Beatles: #172 titled "Maxwell's Force Field", is about the force field figuratively coming down upon their heads.
  • #245 titled "Sergeant Yoda's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
  • #479 titled "Twist and Shout".
  • Padmé: "There's a shadow hanging over you." #605, titled "I Believe in Yesterday".
  • Echoing the lyric from "Yesterday", #648 titled "Half the Man He Used to Be".
  • #977 titled "Get Dak!"
  • #1078 titled "Hallo, Goodbye"
• Billy Idol:
  • #927 titled "Rebel's Yell".
  • And just two strips later: "An Ice Day for a White Welding".
  • #1582 titled "Hot in the City".
• Billy Joel: #1096 titled "Just the Way You Are".
  • #1478 titled "You May Be Right, I May Be Crazy".
• Bing Crosby: #1772 is titled "A Couple of Song and Dance Men".
• Bob Dylan: #1302 titled "How Many Paths Must a Man Walk Down?", tweaking a line from "Blowin' in the Wind".
• Bobby Fuller Four: #1093 titled "I Thought the Law, that the... Law Won".
• Bobby McFerrin: #993 titled "Don't Worry, Beep Happy".
• Bobby Pickett: #534 titled "Monster Mash".
• "Boney Was a Warrior": #845 titled "Obi-Was a Warrior".
• Bon Jovi: #552 titled "Staked Through the Heart, And You're to Blame".
  • A trio of references in the titles of successive strips: #1710 ("Baze of Glory"), #1711 ("Shot to the Eye, to Artoo's Shame"), #1712 ("It Doesn't Make a Difference if He Makes It or Not").
• Bonnie Tyler: #572 titled "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
• The Buggles: #1374 titled "Han Solo Killed the Radio *"
• C+C Music Factory: #1505 titled "Things That Make You Go Boom"
• Céline Dion: #1430 titled "Near, Far, Wherever You Are", referencing lyrics from her song from Titanic (1997).
• Charlie Daniels: #194 titled "The Devil Went Down the Gorge, Eh?"
• The Clash: #963 titled "Should He Stay or Should He Go?"
• Coldplay: #1313 titled "It Was All Yellow"
• Culture Club: #615 titled "Calmer Chameleon".
• Daisy Bell:
  • In #1078, the downloaded brain emulation of Nute Gunray sings: "Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do!"
  • #1347 titled "A Bicycle Tilt for Two".
• David Bowie:
  • #1277 titled "Rebel, Revel".
  • Stage 50 of Moonshots & Mishaps is titled "And There's Nothing I Can Do".
• Dean Martin: "When a Beast in the Sand Takes a Slice Off Your Hand, That's a Maw, Eh?" #1280.
• Dem Bones: Chewbacca trying to reassemble C-3PO: "Let's see... the head circuit's connected to the... neck circuit." #1090.
• Devo: #1489 titled "Snippet Good".
• Divinyls: #684 titled "There's a Fine Line Between Pleasure and Paint".
• The Doors: Anakin to Padmé, both about to be executed: "This is the end, beautiful friend. The end." #358.
• Dmitri Shostakovich: #79 is titled "Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 in D minor, First Movement".
• "Dream a Little Dream of Me": #494 is titled "Dream a Little Dream of You".
• Dream Theater: #1500 is titled "Illumination Theory".
• Duran Duran: #180 is titled "Minus Seven and the Ragged Tiger".
• The Edsels: The clone sheep sing a pastiche of "Rama Lama Ding Dong". #1761.
• Enigma: #457 is titled "Le Sith est Mort, Vive le Sith".
  • #1015 is titled "The Principles of Rust".
• Europe: #1473 is titled "... The Binomial Countdown".
• The Firm: #811 is titled "We Come in Peace; Shoot to Kill".
• For He's a Jolly Good Fellow: The strip titles for strips #1102 to #1105 are: "Force, a Fully Crude Hello", "For Here's Some Hollywood Yellow", "Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow", "And So Say All of Us".
• Fred Astaire: #1772 is titled "A Couple of Song and Dance Men".
• Genesis: #1424 is titled "Gotta Get In to Get Out", referencing lines from "The Carpet Crawlers".
• George Gershwin: #297 is titled "You Say Topology, I Say Topography", referencing lines from "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off".
  • #1147 is titled "You Say Serindë, I Say Þerindë, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (also referencing Tolkien; see The Lord of the Rings under Literature, above).
• George Thorogood: #795 is titled "Clad to the Clone".
• Giorgio Moroder: #1515 is titled "Together in Orectic Dreams".
• "The Girl From Ipanema": The title of #217, in which Obi-Wan and Anakin ride in an elevator, referencing The Elevator from Ipanema.
• Guns N' Roses: #1608 is titled "Sweet Child of Thine".
• "Heart and Soul": #764 is titled "Hutt and Soul-o".
• The Hollies: #316, in which Anakin is carrying Shmi's body, is titled "She Ain't Heavy", implying the follow-up "she's my mother."
• "Home on the Range": The title of #216 is "Home on Lagrange".
• Hot Chocolate: #295 is titled "Everyone's a Whiner, Baby".
• Hunters and Collectors: #1561 is titled "Do You See What I See?"
• If You're Happy and You Know It: The title of #1310 renders the opening line of this song in C-like computer syntax, with a modification to check if you have hands before clapping them (in case you're a droid like R2).
• INXS: #842 is titled "The One Thing".
  • #1238 is titled "Execution of Bitterness", a line from the song "Don't Change". The strip is about Han trying to prove he's not a shapeshifter by not changing shape.
• Jerry Lee Lewis: When Jedha blows up the GM describes it as "a massive conflagrating rosette" (i.e. a great ball of fire). Jim: "Goodness gracious". #1582
  • #1667 is titled "Great Balls of Fire".
• Jimi Hendrix: #950 is titled "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" (a common Mondegreen for a lyric from "Purple Haze").
  • #1212 titled "'Scuse Me, Why Like this Disguise?"
• Jive Bunny: Welcoming Crew BT-445 Member: "C-c-c'mon everybody!" #793.
• Joe Cocker: #1735 titled "Love Lift Us Down Where We Belong"
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Kermit introduces a musical number with "where sheep may safely graze let us go", dropping the title of a Bach aria. #1761
• John Cage: Jango Fett: "In 4 minutes and 33 seconds." #282, which also has a blank title, referencing Cage's work 4'33".
• John Farnham: #1465 is titled "There's a Voice, Try and Understand It", which is very nearly the chorus of "You're the Voice".
• John Williams: #90 is titled "Die Roll of the Fates", punning on his theme "Duel of the Fates".
  • And #1086 is titled "Jewel of the Fetts".
• Music/JOHNNYCASH: Scooter sings a song to the tune of "I Walk The Line" in #1779, which is titled "A Boy Named Scooter", playing on "A Boy Named Sue".
• Johnny Lee: #1560 is titled "Looking for Fights in All the Wrong Places", referencing the song "Lookin' For Love".
• Josh Pyke: The last intermission strip after the end of Return of the Jedi is titled "The Beginning And The End Of Everything", the title of a Josh Pyke song. The strip features General Madine, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the singer. #1522
• Kay Kyser: A group of fish sing "Three Little Fishies", in #1776.
• Kiss: #834 is titled "I was Made for Lugging You, Baby".
• Koreana: #1393 is titled "Hand in Hand We Can Start to Understand", lyrics from the official theme song of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
• L7: #1576 is titled "Pretend That We're Dead".
• Kate Bush: #1620 is titled "How Could You Leave Me When I Needed to Possess You?", a line from her song Wuthering Heights.
• Kylie Minogue: #1544 is titled "Put Your Hand on Your Hutt and Tell Me".
• Lynyrd Skynyrd: Fozzie calls for an encore of Mark's song and dance performance, adding "Do Free Bird!" in #1773, which is titled "A Lynyrd Cannot Change its Skynyrd".
• Madonna: #639 is titled "Like a Surgeon".
• Martha and the Muffins: Han calls Echo Base, "Far Away in Rime". #937.
• Marvin Gaye: #1454 is titled "I Heard it Through the Snake Vine".
• Mastodon: #1041, which is replete with Moby-Dick references, is titled "Blood and Thunder", after a track from Mastodon's concept album Leviathan, which is based on Moby-Dick.
• Meat Loaf: #697 is titled "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad".
  • Upping the ante, #1736 is titled "Four Out of Five Ain't Bad".
• Michael Jackson: #912 is titled "Blame it on the Boogie".
• Mike Oldfield: #1733 is titled "Moonlight Shadow".
• Nancy Sinatra: #460 is titled "These Walls Aren't Made For Walkin'".
  • When Fozzie tells Luke to dance, Luke replies, "Uh... these feet were made for walking." #1770
• Nat King Cole: "Clones Get Their Kicks" in strip #566.
• Neil Sedaka: #315 is titled "Breaking Up is R2-D2".
• Nirvana: #1602 is titled "Eau d'Eadu: Smells Like Team Spirit".
• Noiseworks: #414 is titled "Reach Out and Touch Somebody".
• Moving Pictures: #290 is titled "What About Shmi?", referencing "What About Me?"
• The Offspring: #642 is titled "Gotta Keep 'Em Separated".
• Olivia Newton-John: #1046 is titled "Let's Get Psychical".
• Pat Benatar: #604 is titled "Love is a Battlefield".
• Peter Gabriel: Jim is reciting "Don't Give Up", with some alterations, in #358.
• Pink Floyd: #1205 is titled "Just Another Shtick in the Wall".
  • Bib Fortuna and Boba Fett quotes lines from "In The Flesh", in #1209.
  • #1418 is titled "The Light on the Dark Side of the Moon".
  • #1440 is titled "The Dark Side of the Peace Moon", and has a juxtaposition of frames showing the Peace Moon laser firing, which makes it look a bit like the beam is refracting, similar to the album cover.
  • Galen presents PowerPoint slides on the superweapon built into the Peace Moon in #1579, which is titled "Dark Slide of the Moon".
• The Platters: #298 is titled "Smoke Gets in Your Ions", referencing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes".
• Pretenders: #1558 is titled "Back on the Chain Gun".
• Prince: General Grievous: "Would doves cry?" In a pun bonus, the strip is titled "Curious Posers". #506.
  • #1483 is titled "Purple Reign".
• Queen: #702 is titled "He's Just a Farm Boy, From a Farm Family".
  • #1000 is titled "All We Hear is Radio Silence".
  • #1037 is titled "No Escape From Reality".
  • #1109 is titled "Stone Cold Crazy".
  • #1299 is titled "Radio Ga Ga".
  • #1405 is titled "I Want to Ride My Hovercycle".
  • #1468, about the crazy little things Padmé does for love, is titled "He Leaves Me in a Cool, Cool Sweat".
  • #1640 is titled "All We Hear is Radio Jar Jar".
  • Cassian: But... I just killed a man. [...] Pulled my trigger, now he's dead... #1706
• R.E.M.: #1379 is titled "The Village Shiny Happy People, Holding Hands", mashing the name of an R.E.M. song with Village People.
• Rick Astley: #1045 is titled "Needa Gonna Give You Up, Nemet Gonna Let You Down".
• Right Said Fred: #823 is titled "And He Does His Little Turn on the Catwalk". And the next strip is titled "A Roll Model, You Know What I Mean".
  • #1724 is titled "I Do My Little Burn on the Catwalk".
• The Righteous Brothers: #359 is titled "Unchained Felony".
• Robbie Williams: #1258 is titled "Let Me Entertain You".
• Roberta Flack: #607 is titled "Killing Me Softly".
• Seal: The strip in which Leia and Han first kiss is titled "The Light on the Dark Side of Me". #1014.
  • #1418 is titled "The Light on the Dark Side of the Moon".
• Simon & Garfunkel: #417 is titled "The Silence of Sounds".
• Soft Cell: The title of #705.
• Spice Girls: #603 is titled "If You Wanna Be My Lava".
  • #744 is titled "I'll Tell You What You Want, What You Really Really Want".
• Talking Heads: #739 is titled "Burning Down the House".
  • #841 is titled "Star Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?"
• Tears for Fears: #553 is titled "High Time We Made a Stand", a lyric from "Sowing the Seeds of Love". And in the strip Anakin talks with Padme about "sowing the seeds" of his plan to take control of the Galaxy.
• Thelma Houston: #1339 is titled "Don't Treet Me This Way".
• "There's a Hole in My Bucket": When Jim comes up with one of his usual ridiculous plans, this time involving raiding Toprawa to get the intel they need to find Toprawa, Pete comments, "I think there's a hole in your bucket, Jim.". #1643
• They Might Be Giants: #581 is titled "I'm Not a Real Doctor, But I Am an Obi-Wan".
• Tom Petty: #1364 is titled "Free... Free Fallin'".
• Twelve Bar Blues: #1021 is titled "The Milk Bar Blues".
• "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star": #1534 is titled "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Destroyer".
• U2: #1492 is titled "With or Without You".
• USA For Africa: The "charity performance" of the water ballet Anakain and Palpatine attend includes the lyrics "We are the Galaxy, We are the Gungans!" and "We're saving our own lives". #513.
• Village People: #1379 is titled "The Village Shiny Happy People, Holding Hands", mashing the name of the band with a song by R.E.M.
• The Wall: #1205 is titled "Just Another Shtick in the Wall".
  • #1209 makes references to the remastered "Jedi Rocks" sequence in Jabba's palace being "a surrogate band", and Boba Fett comments "Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?".
• "We Wish You a Merry Christmas": #531 is titled "We Issue a Metal Chrysalis".
• The Weathergirls: The title of #283 is "It's Raining, Ben".
• "Weird Al" Yankovic: The very first strip, #1 is titled "The Saga Begins".
  • #61 is titled "My, My, This Here Anakin Guy".
  • Inverting a line from the song "Yoda", #498 is titled "Well I am the Kind That Would Argue With Ben".
  • #639 is titled "Like a Surgeon".
• The Who: #751 is titled "Talkin' 'Bout my Regeneration".
• The Wiggles: #701 is titled "Bloop Bloop, Doodle Doodle, Big Red Droid".
• Wings: #838 is titled "Planned on the Run".
• Wilson Pickett: #510 is titled "All You Wanna Do is Fly Around, Sally".
• "Yakety Sax": The title of #234.
• Yes: #1503 is titled "All Good People", referencing the song "I've Seen All Good People".

People

• Abbott and Costello: A variant of the Who's on First? routine in #1193, ending with a subtle allusion to a "third base".
• Adam Smith: R2-D2 makes the observation that Mos Eisley is a bustling free market economy, thanks to the Invisible Hand. #761.
• Alan Lakein: #1649 is titled "Failure to Act is an Act of Failure", referencing Lakein's business advice: "Failing to plan is planning to fail".
• Archimedes: #400 is titled "A Big Enough Lever".
  • General Grievous: "Give me a blunt enough hammer and I will destroy the universe." #528.
• Arthur C. Clarke: The GM claims that Boba Fett's physics-defying grappling line works by "... technology indistinguishable from magic?" #1268.
• Barack Obama: Nute Gunray uses the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1146, including Obama's 2008 slogan "Change".
  • "Yes we can" is used as a follow-up in #1147.
• Barry Goldwater: Nute Gunray uses the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1146, including Goldwater's 1964 US Presidential campaign slogan "In your heart, you know I'm[he's] right.".
• Bill Clinton: Nute Gunray uses the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1148, including Clinton's 1992 slogan "It's the economy, stupid".
• Buddha: Statler somehow manages to take the Buddha quote "desire is the root of all suffering" and turn it into something with Cthulhu-esque overtones. #1778.
• Carrie Fisher: #73 is titled "Postcards from the Outer Rim Territories", playing on Fisher's autobiographical book "Postcards From the Edge".
  • Intermission strip #1520, which shows various postcards Han and Leia sent from their honeymoon, is titled "Postcards, Not From Wedge".
• Charles Darwin: #436 is titled "The Descent of Man".
  • #587 is titled "Survival of the Fittest".
• Cicero: #1434 has Wicket quoting Cicero's Letters to Atticus.
• Damien Hirst: #365 is titled "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", the title of one of his best known works of art.
• David Farragut: #1343 is titled "Full Speed Ahead, And Damn the Tall-Treedos".
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Nute Gunray uses the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1146, including "I like Nute", playing on Eisenhower's 1952 slogan "I like Ike".
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: #1419 is titled "The Only Thing We Have to Sphere is Sphere Itself".
• Frank Oz: #382, featuring Yoda (played by Oz) saving the day, is titled "The Wonderful Jedi of Oz".
• Julius Caesar: #8 is titled "Alea Jacta Est".
  • #1565 is titled "Vidi, Vidi, Vidi" (a pun relevant to the strip, in which Kyle "The Saw" Katarn explains the origin of his nickname).
• George H. W. Bush: Nute Gunray uses the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1148, and the strip is titled with a punning variant of Bush's signature slogan "A Thousand Points of Light".
• Gough Whitlam: Nute Gunray uses the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1147, including Whitlam's 1972 slogan "It's Time".
• Harrison Ford: #1390, featuring Han describing a ridiculous plan with a Rebel garrison, is titled "Garrison Flawed".
• Herbert Hoover: Nute Gunray uses the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1146, including Hoover's 1932 slogan "We are turning the corner".
  • "A tip-yip in every pot" is used as a follow-up in #1148, playing on Hoover's 1928 slogan "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage".
• Hippocrates: Reversing his famous saying "desperate times call for desperate measures", #1651 is titled "Sensible Times Call for Sensible Measures".
• Isaac Asimov: #53 is titled "Shmecond Law of Shmobotics".
• John Howard: #569 is titled "Non-Core Promise".
• John Magee: General Grievous: "Ah, to take wing! Free of the surly bonds of—" #538.
• Jules de Gaultier: Palpatine quotes: "Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." In #1411.
• Leigh Mercer: #449 is titled "A Man, A Plan, A Canard: Palpatine".
  • #940 is titled "A Man, a Scan, a Plan: Alpanacsanama!".
  • #1099 is titled "A Man, In The Slam, No Plan: Alponmalsehtninama!".
• Lyndon Johnson: Nute Gunray uses the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1146, including "All the way with Nute Gunray", playing on Johnson's 1964 slogan "All the way with LBJ".
• Lindy Chamberlain: #258 is titled "A Dingo Ate My Marbles".
• Marie Antoinette: #201 is titled "Let Them Eat Cake".
• Martin Luther King Jr.: #1380 is titled "I Have an (Electric) Dream".
• Marx Brothers: #1017 is titled "Gruocho Marks". Which is not a typo - see the entry for Macbeth.
• Moon Unit Zappa: #327 and #328 are titled respectively "Moon Unity..." and "... Zapper!"
• Morgan Freeman: #1577 contains a discussion of breaking out of prison (by hiding in a morgue), and is titled "Morgue and Freedom".
• Nero: When Palpatine complains about the Galaxy burning around him, Luke suggests that he should have taken up the fiddle (alluding to the myth about Nero). In #1462, titled "A Violint Confrontation".
• Norman Schwarzkopf: The general's nickname, "Stormin' Norman", is used as the title for #1324.
• P.T. Barnum: #1386 is titled "Every Crowd has a Silver Lining", a direct quote from Barnum, although also played as a Nute Gunrayism on "every cloud".
• Patrick Peyton: #627 is titled "The Family that Slays Together, Stays Together".
• Pauline Hanson: Chewbacca, commenting on Nute Gunray using the Cloud City PA system to broadcast political slogans in #1148, says "I don't like it", which is followed by Leia responding "Please explain?"
• Ralph McQuarrie: The Star Wars concept artist has a bit part as an extra in the Battle of Hoth. His one line in the comic is "Here's a quick sketch I did." And the strip title is "Drawn Out Evacuation". #973.
• Rian Johnson: The director of The Last Jedi has a cameo part in Rogue One, together with producer Ram Bergman, as the Death Star laser operators. In strip #1596 they are given the lines:
  Peace Moon laser operator 1: Producing beam.
  Peace Moon laser operator 2: Directing beam.
  • In #1739 we see them again:
  Peace Moon laser operator 1: Producing beam.
  Peace Moon laser operator 2: Wait... there's something wrong with the direction...
• Richard Marquand: The director of Return of the Jedi has a cameo part in the film, playing the driver of the AT-ST that Chewbacca and the Ewoks commandeer. In strip #1456 he is given the following exchange just before Wunka knocks him unconscious:
  Wunka: Here, driver driver driver.
  Major Marquand: That's not very convincing. Put some more emotion into it!
  [SFX]: Whack!
  Major Marquand: Much bett—
  [SFX]: Whack!
• Richard Nixon: Jim malapropes the name of the nexu beast to "Nixon" in #368, which is titled "I Am Not a Crook!"
• Roy Lichtenstein: Whoosh! The enemy has become a flaming star! #892.
• Russell Crowe: #223 is titled "Two Hundred Odd Feet of Doom", referencing Crowe's band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts.
• Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: #1311 is titled "The Path to Good Intentions", playing on the aphorism "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions".
• Ted Stevens: #623 is titled "A Series of Tubes".
• Theodore Roosevelt: #1555 is titled "Walk Slowly and Carry a Big Stick".
• W.C. Fields: #1547 is titled "Never Work With Children and NPCs".
• Winston Churchill: #322 is titled "History is Written by the Victor".
  • #519 is titled "We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches".
  • #591 is titled "The Finest Hour".
  • #1645 is titled "A Mystery Wrapped in a Mysterious Mystery Wrapped in Miss T's Character Sheet".
• Zeno: #418 is titled "Achilles and the Tortoise".

Poetry

• A. A. Milne: #1781 is titled "We Aren't Really Anywhere, Let's Go Somewhere Else Instead" and has Robin say he was "sitting halfway down the stairs" when he intercepted a radio message. (This is also a reference to Robin singing the poem in a different episode of The Muppet Show.)
• Banjo Paterson: An extended intermission between Episode III and Episode IV is filled with a poem written by Sally for her English class. The poem is "The Ballad of Jar Jar" and tells the heroic story of how Jar Jar saved Naboo from the Trade Federation (which occurred off-screen during Episode III of the comic. The poem conspicuously borrows the rhyme and meter from Paterson's "The Man From Snowy River". #660 to #671.
  • #959 is titled "Movement at the Station", from the opening line of "The Man From Snowy River".
• Dorothea Mackellar: #1590 is titled "I Love Her Close Horizons", inverting the line "I love her far horizons" from the poem "My Country".
• Edgar Allan Poe:
  • The Raven: #1611 is titled "Quoth the Draven: Go to War".
• Lewis Carroll:
  • Jabberwocky: General Grievous: "You do not see their inner light? Snicker-snack!" #547
    • #1265 is titled "Snicker Snack".
    • #1334 is titled "Furious Banning Snatch", punning on "frumious bandersnatch".
• "Ring a Ring o' Roses": The title of #681.
• Robert Burns:
  • #85 is titled "Suspense is Worse than Disappointment".
  • #1207 is titled "Droid's Indroidanity to Droid", referencing Burns's "Man's inhumanity to man".
  • #1434 has Wicket quoting "Scots Wha Hae".
• Robert Frost: #93 is titled "I Took the One Less Travelled By".
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  • General Grievous quotes the entire text of "Psyche" as he attacks Obi-Wan, only substituting the word "Gungans" for "Grecians". #532.
  • Jabba the Hutt takes his leave to return to his "Pleasure Dome" in #1570, titled "Through Caverns Measureless to Man", evoking Kubla Khan.
• "'Twas the Night Before Christmas":
  • A Santa Claus-like NPC, complete with "Ho ho ho!" interjects comments in #1644, titled "'Twas the Fight Before Recess".
  • An Alderaanian deer named Comet was Galen Erso's first pet. #1688.
• William Wordsworth: General Grievous twists a quote from "To a Butterfly": "You've watched me now a full half-hour; self-poised upon this yellow flower." #531.

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Softwares

• Apple Computer: Palpatine: "Hey Siri; Order 66!" #1486.
• Computer programming: Anakin: "Hello, world." #600.
• Emacs: #765 is titled "Meta Shift Control Escape".
• Microsoft Windows: When the bongo submarine stops working, underwater, Qui-Gon's suggestion is to try opening and closing all the windows. #32.
  • #106 is titled "Drag and Drop".
  • #464 is titled "A Free Cell".
  • "Abort, retry, fail" shows up in #1290, titled "Windows of Opportunity".
  • #1338 is titled "Start Menu".
  • #1370 is titled "Control Nute Delete".
  • Luke's X-wing targeting computer "whines in protest and bluescreens" in non-canon bonus strip #1526.
  • #1664 is titled "Windows' Vista".
• UNIX: Pete totally "chowns" the door to the Cloud City landing platform when R2 hacks it open, #1149. Set up in the previous strip, when he'd stated "It's a Unix system! I know this!"

Sports

• Association Football: Count Dookû: "Ze referee, 'e 'as invoked ze offside rule." #368.
  • Then in #374 Nute Gunray complains a Jedi is offside, while a combat droid complains about a yellow card offence.
  • Darth Vader gives Admiral Ozzel a warning in #957, titled "Yellow Card".
• Cricket: #859 is titled "Farming the Strikes".
  • The series of strips introducing Wicket (a cricket term) to Leia (#1352 - #1355) have an escalating series of cricket puns as titles: "Marketing Pitch", "Field Position", "Cover Dive" ("cover drive"), culminating in "Howzat!?"
  • One Either/Or Title of 1387 is "Wicket Before Leg".
  • And 1388 is "Silly Short Leg".
  • Even 1406, which only features Wicket not speaking in one panel, is titled "Tip and Run".
  • #1434 is "Fall of Wicket".
  • Continued in #1507, "He Bowled a Maiden Over", and #1508, "What a Catch"
  • #1516 is "The Great All-Rounder".
  • #1648 is "Smarmy Army", referencing England's fan club, the Barmy Army.
  • The heroes get a star destroyer's shield strength down to 99.94%, referencing the most famous statistic in cricket, Bradman's batting average. #1749
  • More when Wicket reappears: #1755 is titled "Wicket's Pitch of the Quest".
• Muhammad Ali: #532 is titled "Float Like a Butterfly".
• The Rock: #1052 is about Luke and Yoda (Force arm) wrestling, and drawing special attention to "the rock" that Yoda points at. The strip is titled "You Will Go One on One With the Great One!"
• "Shoeless" Joe Jackson: #945 is titled "Say it Ain't Sooth".
• WWE: #1139 references WWE SmackDown with the title "SnackDown!".

Tabletop Games

• Call of Cthulhu: Name dropped explicitly in #20.
• Camel Up: The title of #1678.
• Card Games: #1676 is titled "Hack of Clubs".
• Chess:
  • Padme and her decoy pull a switcheroo in #155, titled "Queen's Gambit". And the same scene is revisited in a non-canon intermission strip #1523, titled "Queen's Gambit, Declined".
  • A combat stalemate in the arena occurs in a strip titled "Sämisch versus Nimzowitsch", referring to the "Immortal Zugzwang Game". #378.
  • Anakin, intercepting Dooku's kill-strike against Obi-Wan: "I have another French term for you. En passant!". #396.
  • Anakin and Nute Gunray's dialogue in #592 is full of chess metaphors.
  • Greedo mentions "space chess" in #759, which is titled "0-0", the chess notation symbol for castling on the king's side.
  • R2-D2: "Knight to king's bishop 3." One of the "strenuous tactical algorithm simulations" Pete does in an attempt to level up R2-D2's Intelligence in #1035.
  • #1598, is titled "Rook to K-2".
• Clue: Han says he should have killed Vader. "In the dining room! With the blaster!" The strip, #1154, is titled "Clued In", playing both on the American game title "Clue" and the British/Australian title "Cluedo".
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • "Chaotic Neutral", referencing the D&D alignment system, mentioned in the title of #189.
  • Tomb of Horrors is directly named in #5, when gas fills up the room suddenly.
  • #558 is titled "Mace of Disruption" after a magic item in the game.
  • In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords is directly named in #695.
  • The title of #1432 is "Miniature Giant Space Battle", referencing the miniature giant space hamsters from the Forgotten Realms.
  • #1530: Pete states that at least in Tomb of Horrors they lost fewer characters than in the adventure where they stole the Peace Moon plans.
  • In #1540 the GM says he got the idea for Ponda Baba from a deformed walrus miniature in "a cheap imported pack of plastic dinosaurs". This alludes to the fact that Gary Gygax invented the iconic monsters the bulette, rust monster, and owlbear by adapting their appearance from bizarre animals in cheap packs of plastic dinosaurs, as related here.
  • Jabba's guards in the Tatooine fortress outside Jedha are playing a roleplaying game at least partly inspired by D&D, seen especially when a d20 rolls off the table and under another table. #1574 and #1585.
  • The title of #1642 is "Awful Good Alignment".
• FATAL: Referred to obliquely, as a game "which Shall Not Be Named for reasons that will be obvious to anyone familiar with it", as an example of ludicrously mathematically stupid rules in The Rant for #480.
• The Game: #846 is titled "You Just Lost The Game".
• Hearts: #890 is titled "Don't Shoot the Moon".
• Illuminati New World Order: Lando's first line is "Nice ship. It's mine now.", echoing the title of a card in INWO: "Nice Idea. It's Mine Now." #1070.
• Magic: The Gathering: The title of #361 (A Cerodon, a Sliver, and an Atog, plus Arena).
  • Also, the three creatures look very similar to those creature types, in order, hence the title.
  • #720 is titled "Otherworldly Journey", the name of a spell in the game.
  • #867 is titled "Channel, Fireball", after one of the classic broken card combos.
  • #974 is titled "Nameless Inversion", the name of a spell in the game.
  • One of the "strenuous tactical algorithm simulations" Pete does in an attempt to level up R2-D2's Intelligence is to "Twincast Remand, targeting Remand and drawing... Counterbalance." #1035. The strip is titled "Tree of Redemption", the name of a spell in the game.
  • Strip #1138 included as bonus content a puzzle involving guessing the names of a compete set of custom-designed Magic: The Gathering cards based on Darths & Droids. The set is titled Droidikar as a riff on the Magic expansion Zendikar.
  • #1235 is titled "Recast", which is the name of a popular deck archetype, and in the strip Luke refers specifically to a "magic trick".
  • #1497, which includes several flashback frames, is titled "You may cast this scene from your graveyard for its flashback cost", a variant of the reminder text for the Flashback keyword ability.
  • One half of the double-barrelled title of #867 is "Gifts Ungiven".
  • #1703 is titled "Draw and Discard", a common ability of blue cards, known as "looting", which is what Bria and Cassian are doing at the Imperial data archive.
• Monopoly: C-3PO introduces Jabba as "Perennial Runner-Up in the Annual Mos Eisley Corpulence Competition", evoking the "second prize in a beauty competition" Community Chest card, in the strip #1254 is titled "Impunity Jest".
• Munchkin: #748 is titled "Monky Business", the title of the ''Munchkin Fu'' expansion (which one of the authors of the comic invented the name for).
• Paranoia: #186 is titled "The Yellow Planet Black Cloak Blues".
  • Leia refers to R2-D2 as a "trashbot" in #842.
• Pass the Pigs: Luke threatens to turn the Gammorean (pig-men) guards in Jabba's palace into a "double leaning jowler", in #1227, titled "Past the Pigs".
• Pokémon: #556 is titled "Palpatine Uses LIGHTNING! It's Not Very Effective...".
  • #1009 is titled "A Wild Yoda Appears!"
• Poker: #1677 is titled "Aces and Eights" (the Dead Man's Hand).
• Robo Rally: The entire droid army factory sequence on Geonosis is run in a way similar to Robo Rally. Most evident in #339.
  • #1698 is titled "Robo Rally: Crash and Burn", the name of one of the game's expansions (except for the extra space in "Robo Rally").
• Rock–Paper–Scissors: Kermit tells C-3PO that paper has been banned: "Chopped it up with scissors they did, then smashed the scissors with rocks." #1763
• Settlers of Catan: R2-D2: "Trade sheep for wood." One of the "strenuous tactical algorithm simulations" Pete does in an attempt to level up R2-D2's Intelligence in #1035.
  • #1591 is titled "Battlers of Katarn".
• Tactics II: The title of #1034.
• Tarot Cards: The title of #1206 is "The Nave of Tentacles", punning on the knave (or page) of pentacles.
• Through the Desert: The players use pastel coloured camel meeples to represent the snow walker in the Hoth battle. There's a bonus pun in the strip title "On a Camel With No Name", referring to America's song with the lyric "I've been through the desert on a horse with no name". #967.
• Toon: Referred to as an example of a game with a mechanically cool Rule of Fun in The Rant for #480.
• Vampire: The Masquerade: directly named in #319.
• Warhammer 40,000: The sound effect of Baze's machine blaster rifle: Dakka! Dakka! Dakka! #1710

Theater

• Annie: #196 is titled "You're Always a Day Away", a lyric from the song "Tomorrow".
• Annie Get Your Gun: #1264 titled "Annie's Got a Pun".
• The Barber of Seville: #502 is titled "The Butcher of Seville".
• Carmen: Jabba calls Boba Fett's story "Such delicious opera!" in #1273, which is titled "Carmen. Get It?"
• Chicago: Annie, out of character, talking about heading to Los Angeles to try an acting career: "Yeah, I'm gonna give 'em the old razzle dazzle." #884.
• The Crucible: The title of #536, in which Palpatine specifically calls Anakin's obsession with the Jedi Council a witch hunt.
• Doctor Faustus: Commander Igar compares Luke's mother to Helen of Troy: "I bet her face could launch a thousand ships - fleeing in terror!" #1392
  • "And the Empire launched a thousand ships to face them." #1696.
• Fiddler on the Roof: A comic mentioning Jim and Annie's imminent wedding is titled "Sunrise, Sunset", the name of the wedding song in Fiddler on the Roof. #1749
• The Flying Dutchman: The title of #1696.
• Hello, Dolly!: #431 is titled "Holo Dolly".
  • #1761 is titled "Hello, Dolly!"
• The Importance of Being Earnest: In a double reference together with Frank and Ernest, #1595 is titled "The Unimportance of Being Frank".
• La Gazza Ladra: The title of #1239 is an Italian pun: "La Pilota Pazza Ladra". This translates to "The Thieving Mad Pilot", an English pun on the English translation "The Thieving Magpie". And the strip itself is about Han Solo (a pilot) and his insane plan of stealing the identity of a serial identity thief.
• Les Misérables: Annie's dialog occasionally is made up of lines and lyrics from theater productions. She recites part of "At the End of the Day" line for line as part of Anakin's lines. #358.
  • Their lines in the last panel are a mangling of the first two lines of a different song from Les Miserables. "Can you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men." The GM doesn't get the reference.
  • Leia: "But another day, another destiny." In a strip full of musical theatre references: #884.
  • #1068, titled "No More Floors for Them to Sweep":
  Chewbacca: So let me get this straight: Outcrying at all is not allowed?
  C-3PO: Not in this caste-system on a cloud.
  • #1285 paraphrases lines from the hospital confrontation between Valjean (Han) and Javert (Lando), though Lando's line is the opposite of Javert's. "Men like you can always change." The notes below also say that a weapon between friends lets them "see each other plain."
  • #1396 is titled "I'd Like To Cry a Valjean" and has Vader paraphrasing "What Have I Done? (Valjean's Soliloquy)".
  • Pacifist Cassian reflects on accidentally killing an Imperial trooper, saying "Sweet Jatayus, what have I done?" in #1706, which is titled "Fallen So Far".
  • The Muppet newsreader on Kamino makes a public statement including the lines "Eet was ze blood of angry men, in ze dark of ages past..." and "Will you zhoin in mah crusade? Who will be strong and stand wiz moi?" #1765
• A Little Night Music: #381, when the clone army arrives to save the day, is titled "Send in the Clones".
• Little Shop of Horrors: The Special Edition Sarlacc's similarity to Audrey II is alluded to with the title of strip #1281, "'Feed Me,' say Maw". (This is also an allusion to the movie version.)
• My Fair Lady:
  • #866, featuring a Spanish General Willard, with problems clearly enunciating English, is titled "The Brain in Strain".
  • #1325 is titled "The Reign Inthane".
• Oedipus the King: Anakin desperately wants his mother to say that she loves him in #312, titled "Jedipus Complex".
• The Phantom of the Opera: In #884, Annie breaks out into "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again".
  • Clone troopers on the Peace Moon are overheard talking about a mysterious "Moon Ghost" who is haunting the Moon. #828, titled "There, Inside Your Mind".
  • Palpatine has an extended riff on "Point of No Return", "Don Juan", "Music of the Night", "Wandering Child", "Hannibal", and "All That I Ask of You" in #1358, titled "That Voice Which Calls to Me".
• The Pirates of Penzance: #218 references the Major General Song with the title "I'm Very Well Acquainted, Too, with Matters Senatorial".
• Punch and Judy: #267 is titled "Luncheon Judy".
  • #1098 is titled "Punch and Duty".
• The Ring of the Nibelung: #470 is titled "Die Walküre".
• The Sound of Music: #139 is titled "The World Can All Be Mine", a line from "I Have Confidence".
  • #586 is titled "The Von Trap..." and two strips is the title "... Family Zinger".
• Starlight Express: During the water ballet scene, the performers sing the lyric "Only you have the power within you" from the song "I Am the Starlight". Anakin comments incredulously, "Is that alien wearing roller skates? " #512.
  • "Mark" sings lyrics from the title song "Starlight Express" in #1774. It turns out in the next strip, based on Animal's comment, that this is a reference back to the Gungan water ballet in #512.
• Waiting for Godot: Name checked in #104.
• West Side Story: Annie, as Shmi during the parting scene with young Anakin, quotes lyrics from the song "Somewhere" in #118. She switches to playing Anakin in the next strip and quotes further lines from the song as he walks off.
• William Shakespeare:

  • Referenced by name in the title of strip #1326, "Spear Shaking". The strip itself quotes from both Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

  • All's Well That Ends Well:
    • #1519, the last strip of Return of the Jedi, is also titled "All's Well that Endors Well".
    • #1695 is titled "All's Welsh That Ends Welsh".
  • Hamlet:
    • A clever re-wording of a William Shakespeare line makes the title of strip #523. The previous comic was titled "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream."
    • Qui-Gon's death scene in #197 is titled "The Rest is Silence" (Prince Hamlet's dying words).
    • #221 is also titled "Perchance to Dream".
    • Anakin: "In a nutshell, I could count myself a king of infinite space... were it not that I have bad dreams." #495, titled "Something is Rotten in the Galactic Republic".
    • #511 is titled "The Lady Doth Protest, A Bit".
    • #547 is titled "To Take Up Arms".
    • Darth Vader: "I have discovered Force powers never dreamt of in your philosophy." #843
    • Several quotes in strip #1081: "That it should come to this!" "outrageous fortune", and "Alas, poor 3PO. I knew her hydrogen-oxygen ratio." (HO-ratio.) The strip is titled "Things Rank and Gross in Nature".
    • And in the next strip, Chewbacca begins with, "Oh, what a piece of work has been done on this droid."
    • Leia paraphrases the "To be or not to be" soliloquy when pondering whether or not to attempt to defrost Han from the carbonite in #1219.
    • #1318, about a possible suicide mission and the stolen Imperial shuttle, is titled "Shuttle Off This Mortal Coil".
    • #1509 is titled "To Be Orb Not To Be".
    • Non-canon bonus strip strip #1527 re-imagines the Luke/Vader revelation scene in Shakespearian iambic pentameter, complete with references to Luke being a "noble prince" and under the impression that Vader is his "Uncle Claudius".
  • Henry IV, Part 1:
    • #1248 is titled "The Cheddar Part of Valour".
    • Wicket quotes Hotspur's "We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns" (Act II, scene 3) in #1434.
  • Henry IV, Part 2:
    • #1434 has Wicket quoting Lord Clifford's "O war, thou son of hell" in Act V, Scene 2.
  • Henry V:
    • Sally compares the Wookiees with laser crossbows to the English with longbows at Agincourt, in #570, which is titled "Once More Unto the Breach".
    • And Chewbacca quotes "Once more unto the breach" in #787.
    • Major Derlin gives the "band of brothers" bit of the St Crispin's Day speech in #1410.
    • Kyle Katarn also refers to his followers as his "band of brothers" in #1564.
  • Julius Caesar:
    • C-3PO warns the Ewocs of the coming of the "Frog of War" in #1383, titled "The Ides of Mars".
    • #1594 is titled "Eadu, Brute?".
  • Macbeth:
    • #166 is titled "Bubble's Stubble, Foil is Double; Qui-Gon Learns that Maul is Trouble".
    • Palpatine: "So much conflict; so much blood. No matter how I wash, it won't come off." #1017, titled "Gruocho Marks", a reference to Gruoch, the given name of Lady Macbeth, and the bloodstains (marks) on her hands.
    • Yoda: "Double, double, toil and trouble! Dung of swamp slug! Brain of brain spider!" #1019.
    • Yoda: "By the pricking of my toes, something wicked that way goes." #1036, titled "Who Can Impress the Forest?"
    • Palpatine quotes Macbeth's "Life's but a walking shadow" speech in #1325, punningly titled "The Reign Inthane". He continues in the next strip, in which he has a long conversation with Darth Vader, and all of Palpatine's lines are verbatim quotes from Macbeth, cherry-picked and rearranged to make a vague sort of sense.
  • The Merchant of Venice:
    • #77 is titled "All that Glisters is not Blasters".
    • Boba Fett wants to claim a "pound of flesh" from Han in #1091, which is titled "No Quantity of Mercy", echoing "The quality of mercy is not strained".
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream:
    • #600 is titled "We Shadows Have Offended".
    • Playing off Palpatine's quoting of Macbeth strip #1326, Darth Vader paraphrases the "If we shadows have offended" line and also quotes verbatim Hippolyta's line, "This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard."
  • Othello:
    • Han suggests a good alias for Han Solo would be Iago, and Chewbacca comments it might be better to choose a name not associated with utter villainy. ("Iago" doubles as a reference to Aladdin as well.) #1069.
    • Chewbacca with a hangover from Bespin's alcohol atmosphere quotes Cassio, changing only "mouths" to "blood": "O God, that men should put an enemy in their blood to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!" #1090.
  • Richard II:
    • Wicket quotes Richard's "The purple testament of bleeding war" (Act III, scene 3) in #1434.
  • Romeo and Juliet:
    • #18 is titled "A Rose By Any Other Name".
    • #46 is titled "Wherefore Artoo".
    • #102, about Annie departing from the game, is titled "Sweet Sorrow".
    • #602 is titled "A Robe By Any Other Name".
    • #1636 is titled "A Plagiarism on Both Your Houses".
  • Twelfth Night:
    • #138 is titled "Some Have Knowledge Thrust Upon Them".
  • The Winter's Tale:
    • Playing on Exit, Pursued by a Bear, #1270 is titled "Exit, Stage Left, Pursued by a Flashback".

Video Games

• Asteroids: Chewbacca (in the asteroid field, when a "big one" approaches): "Don't shoot it, it'll just make two medium ones." #996.
• Colossal Cave:
  • "With your bare hands?" "Yes!" #401.
  • Echoed by clone troopers in #791.
  • In #1609, the terrain on Eadu is described as consisting of "twisty little canyons, all alike".
• Dance Dance Revolution: #700 is titled "Dance Dance Electrocution".
  • #1251 is titled "Droid Droid Revolution".
• Dark Forces: Captain Antilles mentions Kyle Katarn and a "mission to Danuta", which first appeared in this game. #679.
• Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight: #524 (shaving with the lightsaber is one of Kyle's idle animations).
  • R2-D2: Anakin was a Jedi! Kyle was no Jedi. He was just a guy with a laser sword and a few questions! #777.
• Diablo III: #1175 is titled "The E-ternal Conflict".
• Dota2: When Luke cuts down multiple enemies on Jabba's sailbarge in #1284, the strip is titled "Luke is Godlike! Somebody Stop Him!"
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • Pete mentions that he could tell stories about the "Rusty Aargonarian Maid", a reference to the Lusty Argonian Maid. [[www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1060.html #1060]]
  • One Either/Or Title of 1387 is "I Used to be an Adventurer Like You, But Then I Took an Ewoc to the Knee".
• Elite: Han: "Match the rotation! Match the rotation!" Followed by an Imperial clone trooper asking another if he would care to waltz, referring to the Strauss music in the game's docking sequence. #788.
• The Force Unleashed: The title of #913.
  • Darth Vader: "The Force must not be leashed." #1018.
• Guitar Hero: Sally mentions she'd prefer playing it to the roleplaying game in #247 and #258.
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: #1308 is titled "Watch and Learn!", the name of a quest in the game (complete with exclamation mark).
• Knights of the Old Republic: #86 is titled "Nights of the Old Republic".
• The good ol' Konami Code in #769.
• The Legend of Zelda: When Luke is introduced to blue milk in #708, the strip is titled "Where Are Your Manas?", referencing the blue mana potions in the games.
  • ...Mana potions are GREEN in The Legend of Zelda. It's actually one of the few series that doesn't use blue for that.
  • #909 is titled "It's Dangerous to Roll Alone. Take This".
• Lunar Lander: The title of #1329.
• Maniac Mansion: The tentacle that grabs C-3PO in #1206 asks him to help him escape. When C-3PO says he'll see what he can do if the tentacle lets him go, the tentacle says, "Tell Dr. Fred!" The strip title, "The Nave of Tentacles" is also an indirect reference to the game's sequel, Day of the Tentacle.
• Mortal Kombat: #284 is titled "Maul-toll Kombat".
• Paradroid: #983 is titled "Paranoid Droid".
• Pitfall: #1262 is titled "Pitfall, Hairy".
• Pokémon GO: The opening shot of Leia in #1397 looks like she's playing Pokémon GO on a phone. The strip is titled "I Caught a Rare Wookieechu".
• Portal: #727 is titled "The Cake is a Lie".
  • #861 is titled "I'm Being so Sincere Right Now".
  • #1127, in which it is revealed Han is still alive, is titled "This Was a Triumph".
  • #1718 has an irising aperture portal, and is titled "Huge Success!", a lyric from the game theme song "Still Alive".
• QWOP: When Chewbacca takes control of an AT-ST chicken walker in #1456, he discovers the only controls are buttons labelled, Q, W, O, and P.
• Ratchet & Clank: #1586 is titled in the style of a Ratchet & Clank game: "Rumble & Clank: The Whole Kit on Danuta".
• Revenge of the Mutant Camels: The strip introducing the snow walkers which inspired this game is titled "Attack of the Mutant Camels". #966.
• Rogue: #601 is titled "Rogue-Like", referencing the common term for games similar to Rogue.
• The Secret of Monkey Island: The sword fight in #393.
• SimCity: When the Peace Moon suddenly appears, Admiral Raddus gives a flurry of orders to his crew, including "Reticulate splines!" #1733
• Spaceteam: #1319 is titled "Space Teams".
• Starcraft: When Wicket informs the PCs that the Ewoc trainers are in their rebel battalion, R2-D2 asks, "Training our d00dz?" The strip is titled "We Must Construct Additional Pile-Ons". #1401.
• Street Fighter: #544 is titled "Dino versus Gyro - Round One: FIGHT!".
  • Darcies & Diaries #50 is titled "Street Fighter IV Love".
• Words With Friends: #1317, about having conversations with invisible friends, is titled "Words with        ." - with an inter-word space followed by seven spaces before the dot.
• World of Warcraft: Lieutenant Renz: "Get that Wookiee-gram's plasma crossbow! I think it's a legendary!" He is then pleased that his DPS went up. #1417
  • Renz is later reported to be "going to the practice dummy to optimise his rotation". #171
  • The monk move Flying Serpent Kick is referenced by the title of #1709, "Flying Monk Bucket Kick".
• X-Wing: Chewbacca mentions that he and Han had previously been on a raid on Orron III. #787.
• Zero Wing: #42 is titled "For Great Justice".
  • #451 is titled "Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb".
  • #987 is titled "All Our Base are Belong to Them".
  • #1147 is titled "Take Off Every Zig".
  • In #1175 Nute Gunray says "You have no chance to survive. Make your time."
• Zork: #164 is titled "Beaten by a Sprue".

Web Animation

• Homestar Runner:
  • #735 is titled "Beru-Owen-inated!"
  • In #777, Sally mentions the Bear Holding a Shark.

Web Comics

• Blue Milk Special: Name dropped when Luke orders a "blue milk special" in the Mos Eisley cantina in #729.
• DM of the Rings:
  • R2-D2: "You idiot! You're mixing it up with Lord of the Rings! That would have been a fun campaign in comparison!" Referencing the fact that in DM of the Rings the players actually had a lousy time. #260.
  • "#628: You're going to let the entire fate of the galaxy rest on a single die roll?"
• The Order of the Stick: "Bluff! Bluff! Bluff the stupid clones!" #803.
  • The Rant for #676, discussing Obviously Evil, mentions Xykon.
  • The title for #1283.
  • #1446 is titled "Disorder of a Stick".

Web Original

• TV Tropes itself: Apparently there's a creature called a Smeerp on Endor.
• eBay: An Imperial agent acquires the Lost Orb in an auction run by Jabba, in a strip titled "Sniped it on jBay". #1298.
• Google: #629 is titled "Goggle+".
• The Internet:
  • #404 is titled "Not Found" (referring to Padmé's failure to find Sio Bibble).
  • #1332 is titled "Cloud Commuting".

Western Animation

• Batman: The Animated Series: In an Actor Allusion, Luke (played by Mark Hamill) channels The Joker (The Dark Knight Trilogy version) in #1235.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: #1518 is titled "By Our Powers Combined".
• The Flintstones: #785 is titled "Rubble Barney".
• Futurama: "Bam!" #611 is titled "Spice Weasel".
• Gargoyles: #592 is titled "The Xanatos Gambit".
• "InvaderZim": #1247 Sally sings the Doom Song.
• Gilligan's Planet: Building a spaceship out of bamboo while stuck on a Pacific desert island is referenced in the annotation to #570.
• Looney Tunes:
  • When General Grievous' mooks attack with quaterstaves, Pete quotes Daffy Duck's "Ho! Ha Ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!" line from "Robin Hood Daffy", calling it specifically one of the best cartoons ever made. In response the GM has General Grievous sing "Kill da Je-di! Kill da Je-di!", referencing "What's Opera, Doc?" #470.
  • In the Rogue One campaign, Pete again quotes "Ho! Ha Ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!", this time as he's attacking in character as Chirrut. #1557
  • #502 follows up with the title "The Butcher of Seville", referencing "The Rabbit of Seville", a similar cartoon based on an opera. In this strip Anakin and Palpatine discuss General Grievous.
  • Palpatine, after suffering the effects of his own Force lightning, quotes Daffy Duck from "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century": "Whoops! Had the silly thing in reverse." #556
  • Yoda: "You realise... this means war." #611
  • #741 is titled "I Knew We Should Have Taken That Left Turn at Mos Albuquerque".
  • #788 is titled "What's Up? Dock!"
  • R2-D2: "Kaboom? There wasn't supposed to be a camel-shattering kaboom!" #972.
  • #1320, about planning to raid the new Peace Moon, is titled "Lunar Tunes". It also features General Madine in his last appearance with his tagline, reminiscent of "That's all, folks!"
  • Playing on Tweety Bird's tag line, #1421 is titled "I Thawed, I Thawed. A Good Attack!"
  • The last intermission strip following the end of Return of the Jedi again features General Madine, saying his tagline, "That is all", this time with the Looney Tunes circle frame around his face. #1522
• My Little Pony: #191 is titled "I <3 My Little Dinosaur Pony".
  • Bria incorrectly guesses Galen's Project Stardust as Project Twilight Sparkle.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: #1692 is titled "Oh, K; or: K, Oh!".
• Rick and Morty: In discussing the evilness of paper with R2-D2, C-3PO says that "Lawful neutral is just evil with extra steps," referencing Morty's observation "that just sounds like slavery with extra steps". #1785.
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: #323 is titled "Mace Windu, Where Are You!", complete with non-question-mark punctuation.
  • #916 is titled "Those Medalling Kids".
  • #1168 is titled "Shaggy Dog Story," complete with a reference to the ghosts actually being one of the locals in disguise.
• The Simpsons: #171 is titled "The Goggles, They Do Nothing".
  • #713 is titled "I For One Welcome Our Giant Shiny Gold Robot Overlords".
  • #1376 is titled "I Heartily Endor Sthis Product End/or Service".
• South Park: Chewbacca successfully uses his innate eloquence to argue his way out of treason charges against the Rebellion in #1296, evoking a literal Chewbacca Defense.
  • Almost name-checked later in #1304.
• Space Ghost: #1076 is titled "Spaaaaace Ghoooost".
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Sally's poem "The Ballad of Jar Jar", which forms an extended intermission between Episode III and Episode IV is made of screencaps from this series. Also, each strip's title is a pun on an episode title from the series. #660 to #671.

Other

• Dolly the sheep: Episode #1761, which features singing cloned sheep, is called "Hello, Dolly!"
• The Hindenburg: When Jabba's sailbarge blows up spectacularly in #1291, the strip title is "Oh, the Humanity!".
• Pulitzer Prize: #1730 is titled "The Bullet Surprise".
• The US Constitution: #594 is titled "The Sith Amendment".

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