Shout Out / Gex

Gex is one of the most Reference Overdosed works of The '90s.

The original Gex

• You fight killer tomatoes and chainsaw-wielding psychopaths wearing a hockey mask and a red and green-striped sweater in the Cemetery area. And the area's end boss has a striking resemblance to Regan MacNeil.
• The temple levels of the jungle area have you fighting other geckos wearing the trademark outfit of Indiana Jones.
• One of the enemies in Kung Fuville looks remarkably like Raiden, up to and including straw hat and lightning powers
  • Though given the franchise's preference on spoofing films, this is more likely a reference to Big Trouble in Little China.
• The rabbit enemies in New Toonland look like Fall-Apart from Bonkers.

Gex's quotes:

• "Looks like Beetlejuice threw up." (said in any of the Toon worlds)
• "That's for twelve years of Full House."
• "Scotty, shields up."
• "Yeah this place has all the warmth of a Dick Clark special." (Cemetary level)
• "Ah, Detroit. Pearl of the Orient." (said entering the Cemetary level)
• "This will be great for my collection!"
• "I'll take this! And this! And this!"
• "Need it. Need it. Need it!"
• "Soylent Green is good!"
• "This place is weirder than 4th of July at Rick James's place."
• "Geez, Scoob. Let's get back to the Mystery Van." (said in the cemetary level)
• "I. Am. Ironman." (upon collecting a Power-Up)
• "Rocket Man!" (when riding rockets obviously)
• "Welcome to the jungle!" (upon entering the jungle level)
• "Me Gex, you Jane." (upon entering the jungle level)
• "This one's for Keith Moon!"
• "They call him Flipper! Flipper!" (in a water segment)
• "Obi-wan has taught you well." (Kung Fu level)
• "So, this is New Jersey." (Final level)
• "Up, up, and away!"
• "Helium makes my voice do this."
• "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!" (on a Conveyor Belt of Doom)
• "When is Grace Jones gonna retire?" (while fighting Rez)
• "All this because of Rosebud?" (during the final battle)
• "What do you mean Darth Vader's my father?" (during the final battle)
• "Hasta la vista, baby." (after beating the final boss)
• "I wonder what's on HBO." (last line of the game)
• "Ooh, trick or treat." (Cemetery level)
• "Gex, there is no substitute."
• "Kill your TV, man."
• (shooting a tommy gun) "Say good-bye, little cock-a-roach!" (Rezopolis level)
• "C'mon Jake, it's Chinatown!" (Kung Fuville map)

Gex: Enter The Gecko

• Most of the level names are references. See the World of Pun entry on the main page.
• Gex can wear a variety of costumes referencing other works in certain levels:
• In the Toon TV world of Gex: Enter The Gecko, he wears a bunny costume in the same area you fight Elmer Fudd dressed hunters. Marked with a "Rabbit Season Open" sign. In the other Toon TV world, the Duck Season, Rabbit Season gag comes full circle when Gex is put into a black duck costume with the aforementioned sign again, only "rabbit" is crossed out and replaced with "duck".
  • In the "Aztec 2 Step" level in Gex: Enter The Gecko, he dons the trademark outfit of Indiana Jones.
  • He also does an impression of Sean Connery.
  • The Gilligex Isle level has our hero donning Gilligan's attire.
  • The Rocket Channel levels have him wearing a Stormtrooper outfit. There, he fights green Greys wielding Laser Swords and dressed as Red Shirts from Star Trek.
• In the hub world and the spy themed bonus level, he dons a tux. The bonus level also comes equipped with flying robot sharks.
• A segment of the first Scream TV level in Gex: Enter The Gecko contains a Hellevator complete with stretching portraits.
• In the third Scream TV level, you can find a Chucky-esque enemy wielding a kitchen knife.
• In the "space" level. "Has anyone seen Fox Mulder's sister?"

Gex's quotes:

• Some of his lines end with a very Austin Powers-esque "baby!". (Yeah!)
• "Keep your stinking paws off me you damn, dirty ape!"
• "HERE'S GEXY!" (in Scream TV)
• Flame On!
• "WIIIIIILLLLLLLLLMMMMAAAAAAA" (In the Pre-history channel levels)
• Another Planet of the Apes (1968) one appears in the secret scene from the "Lava Dabba Doo" Secret Level: Gex is in his loincloth attire and chained in a cage:
  Gex: "You cut up his brain you bloody baboon!"
• "I knew Roswell would open up a casino." (in the Rocket channel level)
• "What's that mister bug? Timmy's trapped down a well?"
• "Lolly, lolly, lolly. Get your adverbs here!"
• "Captain. They are a bizarre alien race that find Adam Sandler funny." (in the Rocket channel level)
• "In a land before time, when Saturday Night Live was funny." (said in the pre-historic level).
• "Beam Me Up, Scotty!."
• "Note to self. Don't drink the tap water at Jerry Garcia's." (in Toon TV levels)
• "All this technology still can't explain why David Hasselhoff is so popular."
• "All this technology and Shatner still can't get a good hairpiece." (The Circuit Central channel)
• "All this technology so fat guys can hear Rush Limbaugh?"
• "How did I get in Bill Gates's head?" (in the Circuit Central channel levels)
• "I'm trapped in outtakes of The Wiz." (in the Circuit Central channel levels)
• "I ain't afraid of no ghosts."
• "I am most certainly not in the vicinity of Kansas anymore."
• "This place is bigger than Drew Carey's bar tab."
• "That's one small step for Gex." (entering a space level)
• "Aren't you a little short for a storm trooper?" (space)
• "Terminator? Phone call for a Mr. Terminator."
• Upon beating Rez:
  Gex: "Stole the everlasting gobstopper?! Good day sir!"
• "YOU DON'T GET YOUR PUDDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT!!!"
• "Hoo-ha!"
• "And I did it Gex waaaaaay!"

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko

• Gex has a butler named Alfred this time around.
• The Mystery TV "Clueless in Seattle", has Gex donning the robe of Sherlock Holmes. It also has him finding a Frankenstein-like machine which turns him into a vampire.
• The first secret level: Dial A for Arson.
• The second hub area: Lake Flaccid
• The Western Channel level: "The Organ Trail"
• One secret level based of an older Crystal Dynamics game Akuji the Heartless is named "Braveheartless". It even uses the same music as the other game.
• Emperor Caligula's sexual appetite was given a brief reference with a graffiti which reads "Caligula + Anyone <3 <3" in the "Holy Moses!" level.
• Two throw-away signs in the Slappy Valley hub area say "A Bug's Wife" and "Troy Story".
• The Fairytales TV level: "Red Riding in the Hood" also stars Gex in the red riding hood costume. The level contains a huge beanstalk (complete with giant hens and stacks of coins), wolf enemies, candlesticks to jump, and the houses of The Three Little Pigs, along with its residents.
• The second boss battle: The Lizard of Oz.
• The use of special booths designed to give you superpowers may come from Superman's tendency to use phone booths to change his costume.
• One of the enemies in the Superhero Show level wears the same wrestling mask as Bane's incarnation in the Batman & Robin film. He even buffs up before fighting you.
• The Gangster TV level: "My Three Goons"
• The final Spacestation Rez level: "Rez-Raker"
• The wrestler boss battle: "Invasion of the Body Slammers".
• "Cutcheese Island" is a reference to notorious high-profile flop Cutthroat Island.
• In "Holy Moses!" Gex has to find three staves and use the rays of light refracted through them to find the location of a hidden area, just like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• There is one graffiti that says "Fuggeddaboudit".

Gex's quotes:

• In Holiday Broadcasting: "Totally Scrooged":
  • "The ice planet Hoth. The Rebels are there."
    • "Han! My tauntaun fell down!"
  • "We've knocked down the generator Lord Vader, you may start your landing."
  • "Where's that Wonka man?!"
  • "Christmas Town? I'm Jack Gexxington from Halloween Town."
  • "Oh, Hermie, I wanna be a dentist."
  • "This place is colder than Eva Gabor's wig fridge."
  • "Mr. Wonka! Veruca stole a gobstopper!"
  • "My name's Darryl, this is my other brother, Darryl."
  • "Number One, program the holodeck for SOMETHING WARM!"

• In Mystery TV: "Clueless In Seattle":
  • "Granny? Jethro? Uncle Jed?!"
  • "With this raincoat I make a perfect Sherlock Holmes... or a flasher."
  • "For some reason I feel like... COUNT-ING, ha, ha! One... two... three..." (in vampire form)
  • "Kolchak, this man thinks he's a vampire!" (in vampire form)
  • "So, is this the part where I stick an axe in Scatman Crothers?"

• In Tut TV: "Holy Moses!":
  • (imitating C-3PO) "Well, I'm not going that way - it's much too rocky! This way is much easier!"
  • "Here we are. Pismo Beach and all the clams I can eat."
  • (imitating C-3PO) "A transport? I'm saved. OVER HERE!"
  • (imitating Luke Skywalker) Uncle Owen, this R2 has a bad motivator.
  • "Dog-headed gods and the women who love them, on the next Jerry Springer!"
  • "I'll kidnap all the oceans of the world, Underdog!"
  • (imitating Liberace) "I wish my brother Moses was here."
  • "Born in Arizona, got a condo made a' stone-ia!"

• In the Army Channel: "War is Heck":
  • "Hogan! Forty days in the cooler!"
  • "Where are you from, son? TEXAS?! HOLY-"
  • "The first word out of your filthy sewer will be GEX!!"
  • "Good Morning, Vietnam!"

• In the Western Station: "The Organ Trail":
  • "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
  • "Go ahead... make my lunch."
  • "Howdy! There's some doody."
  • "A gecko's gotta know his limitations."
  • "Rollin' rollin' rollin', rawhide!"

• In the Buccaneer Program: "Cutcheese Island":
  • "Crank up the Gilbert and Sullivan, dude!"
  • "Iceberg, dead ahead!"

• In the Mythology Network: "Mythstories":
  • "Wormer? Dead! Niedermayer. Dead!". Gex will also sometimes say "Toga! Toga!"
  • "Move over, Argonauts. Here come the Gexonauts!"
  • "I...am...Gexicus!"

• In the Anime Channel: "When Sushi Goes Bad":
  • "To Infinity and...uh..."
  • "I'm in George Jetson's colon!"
  • "I am Robot, hear me roar."

• In the Superhero Show: "Superzeroes":
  • "The Warriors got Cyrus!"
  • "Warriors, come out to play!"
  • "Eliot Ness tried to grab my untouchables."
  • "I feel like I'm in West Side Story."
  • "Top of the world, ma!"
  • "I'm your friendly neighborhood super-gecko!"

• In Gangster TV: "My Three Goons":
  • "Hey yo, my freaking name is freaking Donnie Brasco!"
  • "Just put your lips together...and blow."