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Due to this game's episodic nature, all spoilers for previous chapters are unmarked. You Have Been Warned! But only those that relate to Glitch in the System. For all outside media, spoiler it.

Once again, much like its predecessor there are several.

  • There are multiple callbacks to The BOSS throughout the game.
  • There are also multiple references to Undertale, although only Burgerpants and Sans have appeared thus far as actual characters. The rest, including main Undertale characters from the previous game, are just cameos.
  • Due to being set in 2020, there are multiple references to the COVID-19 Pandemic as well.
  • If you name yourself "Erin", there is a nod to DolphinTreasureArt.
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    CHAPTER ONE: DEJA VU 
  • Checking the TV before entering Wireland has Jack joke that he watched Channel 19 for hours the previous night. note 
  • Checking the phone before entering Wireland has Jack joke that it would be fun to call Felix, unless he was playing Player Unknowns Battlegrounds on stream again. Then he jokes that it'd be nice to say hi to his viewers again, though.
  • Checking the bathroom's couch before entering Wireland has Jack exclaim "No bathroom is complete without a couch!" before realizing that it sounds like a running gag in another game.
  • Checking the toilet before entering Wireland will have Jack joke that Totally Accurate Toilet Simulator was 2013 not 2020.
  • Jack's trumpet appears.
  • On Jack's computer screen there are a myriad of games, but here are the ones that have not appeared outside of this yet:
  • Once Jack re-enters Wireland, if you check the magazines again, one of the covers has been replaced with a picture of Death, to which he draws the line.
  • Presentable Liberty's cell makes a brief appearance as Billy gets himself trapped there at the start of the game.
  • Kuromori makes a cameo, sleeping on the train.
  • There are multiple callbacks to Evie.
  • On the train itself, there are a few cameos.
    • Cooldog Teaches Typing: Cooldog appears.
    • SIMULACRA: Gregg appears, complete with "FUUUUUUUCK IT SO MUUUUUUCH".
    • Once Upon A Coma: The main character from this game appears.
    • Little Nightmares: A Nome appears.
    • Snow Cone Adventure: The couple from this game appear.
    • To the Moon: Watts and Eva appear, albeit in their Finding Paradise iterations.
  • In the Slime Rancher section, checking the Puddle Slimes after freeing Jenny results in a passing nod to Happy Wheels
  • Once again, in the Turmoil section, whilst on the topic of robbing the bank, Jack brings up that he still hasn't played Ace Attorney on the channel. Billy begins to retort, but Jenny counters by saying that Billy's lucky he's never played Danganronpa on the channel either. Billy, seemingly knowing how bad the trials, and thereafter punishments, are in that series, relents, terrified.
  • When you first encounter Cliff in this game he's wearing Markiplier merch.
  • When Cliff jumps off of Turmoil's oil machine, the Wilhelm Scream is heard.
  • When Cliff asks what kind of party animal Billy takes him for, Billy retorts with "Party animal? You? More like Garfield." Unfortunately, this mockery doesn't work on Cliff as he loves comics.
  • When entering the hospital for the first time (which is confirmed by the credits to be based off of both Bio Inc and Two Point Hospital, although the patient records list it as Bio Inc Hospital. Fitting, considering connection between this game and Schneep.), Billy mistakes it for Surgeon Simulator 2013, leaving him petrified, as the person in charge of the hospital is, rather worringly, Dr Schneeplestein.
  • When first meeting Schneep, there's a nod to the Fuddruckers restaurant.
  • Jack compares the showers being bigger on the inside to British sci-fi technology.
  • When Jack was worried that Jenny was being abducted in the shower, he compares it to Psycho, much to Jenny's disdain.
  • Cliff compares his shower's gadget to Baymax.
  • When checking the vines in Jack's shower, Cliff brings up the fact of Vine's untimely demise.
  • When checking the rock in Jack's shower, Jack excalimed that the pioneers used them for delivering pizzas.
  • When checking the palm trees in Jenny's shower, Cliff mentions that palm trees and coastal areas go together like crabs and water or crabs and raves.
  • When in Schneep's shower, the music that plays is from Jack's Reading Your Comments series.
  • Much like in the last game, the hospital announcements reference Jack's old Plague Inc. diseases.
  • Some of Schneep's heart monitors are playing Minesweeper.
  • Jack compares the hospital's menu to the old TABS layout.
  • If you check the lockers in the hospital, the party starts to hear some Rick Astley.
  • There is a line that states that most of Schneep's patients died of Cow Plants, as well as starvation.
  • One of Schneep's plants are called Lawnmower Larry, while another is called Jebediah. There's a third one nicknamed "Towers". Checking it will have Jack say to "Drop Tilted, cowards!"
  • Doctor Schneeplestein's book is titled Diagnoses for Dumbasses.
  • All of Schneep's patients are cameos, with the exception of one:
    • Undertale: Burgerpants (see above)
    • Life Is Strange 2: Sean, Daniel and Mushroom, the dog. The dog itself is the patient.
    • Shark Dating Simulator XL: Shark-Chan is a patient.
    • The Walking Dead (Telltale): Lee is a patient, and is also worried about Clementine. Both take their designs from the first season, although as each season is technically a different game, there may be several Clementines running around Wireland. No other Lee's however, seeing as he dies at the end of Season 1.
    • Little Inferno: Sugarplumps is a patient.
    • Markiplier Major Characters: Warfstache is a patient.
  • If you check on the fish when Billy is back in your party, the dish is revealed to be a Billy Bass Fish. Its song? "DIIIIICKS!"
  • If you use the phone in the initial area of Byte'on, Billy mentions that he needed a Danganronpa developer to tell him the theory of trapping people inside the harddrive.
  • One of Byte'on's buildings is relegated to Happy Wheels, Guts and Glory, Undyne, Papyrus, and Night in the Woods. Unsurprisingly, given the events in Jack's kitchen during the last game, the building is demolished to the point that they hit the maximum amounts of renovations they're allowed in a year in January. In fact, play the game in January, and the dialogue changes to mention they hit the amount "today."
  • In Byte'on, there are a multitude of cameos:
    • Phil and Smiley from Riddle School return from the last game.
    • Niko from OneShot makes a cameo, but since Jack never played Oneshot or Oneshot: World Machine Edition on his channel, they're from the Warf. AKA, they're Markiplier's version of the character. In a nod to one of Oneshot's major selling points, Niko even mentions the name you inputted at the start of the game, as if she were talking to you in their game.
    • Similarly, Tuump (canonically named "Blue") from Hearts and Heroes makes an appearance. Again, they're Mark's version of the character.
    • Jorji from Papers, Please returns as the issuer of legal ID, surprisingly.
    • Susie from Deltarune makes an appearance as a museum bouncer. Lancer also appears as an elevator guard.
    • Flowey from Undertale appears within Billy's apartment building. Talking to him even has Cliff mention the Floweypot AU.
    • Calculester from Monster Prom runs Bosco's.
    • Bing from Septiscape makes an appearance as Mack's assistant.
  • Characters from Five Nights at Freddy's live below Billy in his apartment building, in order to be able to see what they're reading. According to Billy, Freddy likes Charles Dickens, Bonnie likes William Shakespeare, Chica likes J. R. R. Tolkien, and Foxy likes Dr. Seuss.
  • The high-rise apartments next to Billy's are currently inhabited by Minecraft. No doubt because they can pay the rent with all the precious items you can get in that game through mining and/or trading.
    • During October, a pumpkin will appear next to these apartments. Interacting with it brings up a conversation about the Goose.
  • A Cyberlife appears in Byte'on, and is stated to be where robotic characters go to get repaired.
  • The theater next to it is a sad one. When chapter one first came out the logo was for Jacksepticeye the Musical, a Man on the Internet style musical based on the events of The BOSS. Unfortunately, between the releases of Chapters 1 and 2, Jacksepticeye the Musical was cancelled, and the logo was swapped out for the previous game's instead.
    • Although, the cast nets a few more references.
      • Asriel from Undertale plays Billy.
      • NPC's from The Sims 4 were picked to play Jenny and Cliff.
      • The fangame Jack's rotate playing themselves.
  • Next to the theater is a restaurant building filled to the brim with multiple cooking games. Unfortunately, this does include Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, but on the bright side...
    • Billy: Trust me when I say people avoid her floor like the plague.
  • Byte'on's movie posters reference a few more games:
    • Spider-Man (PS4)
    • Little Nightmares
    • Cuphead
    • Subnautica
    • Fran Bow. Whilst on the topic of Fran Bow, the Fran/Billy ship gets a few nods as well. It's exceptionally gut-wrenching when Mack reveals that Fran herself is one of the missing people, which probably sums up Billy's urgency to bring Seán back to Wireland.
  • MTT resort, as well as Sans' shack from Undertale makes an appearance in the north of Byte'on.
  • On Jack's ID card, his address is "SIRI NO"
  • Despite Detroit: Become Human now being on PC, this game's Conor is explicitly from Jack's playthrough, which used the PlayStation 4 version of the game.
  • Checking the boarded-up window while investigating with Conor has Jack bring up that the only characters who could viably get that high up to spy on the people in the room are flying characters and/or Spider-Man.
  • Monika's operating system seems to resemble that of an old Microsoft Windows OS, complete with the classic start-up sound.
  • During the Connor chase scene, there a multitude of cameos:
    • Aoi Asahina from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is visible in the pool, complete with a donut floatie.
    • Daniel, Sean and Mushroom from Life Is Strange 2 return from the hospital.
    • Undyne from Undertale is visible in the pool, with her look from the True Pacifist Credits.
    • Mae and Bea from Night in the Woods appear poolside.
    • Dr Hibbert from Kindergarten 2 appears on the second rooftop.
    • A Cow Plant from The Sims 4 appears behind two unknown characters.
    • Characters from Party Hard and Party Hard 2 appear on the third rooftop.
    • Sentry Turrets, as well as the Companion Cube from the Portal franchise appear on the fourth rooftop with a plethora of sprites from the previous game. This includes callbacks to Hello Neighbor's mannequins, the Adventure Line from The Stanley Parable, and the return of the TARDIS.
    • The fifth rooftop has a bunch of TABS soldiers fighting, as well as a mammoth.
    • Alphys from Undertale appears on the sixth rooftop.
    • Max from Life Is Strange is to the right of her.
    • Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Golden Freddy, and Circus Baby from the Five Nights at Freddy's series appear on the last rooftop.
  • During Markus' interrogation there is a nod to Chara from Undertale.
  • In Billy's Apartment, there is a mural for Jack's How Did We Get Here? tour.
  • While in Billy's apartment, if you check the TV, Billy states that other than Jack himself, he also watches Call Me Kevin, GrayStillPlays, Vixella, and LaurenZside.
  • Checking Billy's windows has Cliff bring up Oz and Narnia.
  • The book Billy's reading is Watership Down.
  • Kara and Luther's book collection includes Harry Potter, Narnia, and How to Train Your Dragon.
  • Alice's toys include some Transformers though some shade is thrown on the movie series.
    • Alice's dollhouse also has a Hulk action figure in it. At the request of Billy.
  • Kara and Luther's closet has a Goat in it.
  • Bosco's Inconvenience Store is confirmed to be run by Bosco from Sam & Max, but, as stated by Cliff, Jack has never played a Sam & Max game on the channel. He apparently moved to Wireland because there is actually a chain of Bosco's Convenience Stores in real-life Ireland.
  • Most of Bosco's items are references:
  • The video on Monika's TV is that of Jack's Subnautica series.
  • The painting on the wall is the same one from The Sims 4 area in the last game.
  • The game in Monika's console is a Super Smash Bros. game.
  • Sayori's bookshelf has Green Eggs and Ham between The Crucible and The Kite Runner.
  • The poetry books have one by Shel Silverstein.
  • Monika's books are all references.
  • The ending of chapter one is directly just Act 3 from Doki Doki Literature Club!.
     CHAPTER TWO: HOW DID WE GET HERE? 
  • When Jack is talking to Sean about holes he tells him "All right, then. Keep your secrets."
  • Both Jack/Sean's route and Jenny/Yuri's route take place in old locations from The BOSS.
  • When entering the kitchen from The BOSS, there is a nod to Toriel from Undertale, while Sean compares the damage to that of a monster straight out of an H. P. Lovecraft book.
  • Checking the fridge has Jack call back to what Nugget from Kindergarten said in the last game, complete with text indicating that Jack did it in the same voice he used for Nugget in his Kindergarten playthroughs.
  • If you use the phone in the recording room from The BOSS, Jack, after being scared that Sean being optimistic would make Jack himself disappear, states that he needs Sean around. After all, without him, Meme Time would be ruined.
  • When you first meet Wheatley in the Portal section, he first makes a bad J. K. Simmons impression in order to fake being Cave Johnson, and then mentions he was stuck in Kerbal Space Program during the events of The BOSS, before admitting to breaking the one rule against archiving Unus Annus videos.
  • While talking to Wheatley after leaving the cell, he mentions that GLaDOS essentially went to war against potatoes, considering you defeated her by redo'ing Portal 2 in the last game. Similarly, for those who played Portal 2 it's not all that surprising why Aperture wouldn't want Wheatley of all people to be in charge of everything after last time.
  • When Wheatley brings how sequels, like Aperture 2 are good, Jack retorts by saying that Star Wars fans would beg to differ, only for Wheatley to retort back at Jack, saying he actually LIKED Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
  • During Sean's part of the Portal section, Sean first asks why the room is so lemony, only for Wheatley to reply "Snicket?"
  • The room where Wheatley dumped everything untested into has a puzzle inside. The puzzle itself is a direct reference to the colored square puzzle in Undertale, and, just like Snowdin's, it's solved just as easily. It also includes a nod to Portals infamous lemons monologue, and the fact that the Cake is a Lie.
  • When you first meet Jack OS in person, he's singing the ever memed You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
  • When you start the battle against Jack OS, Wheatley states happily that this is finally "The Part Where I Help You!"
  • How do you defeat Jack OS? With something even worse. An EVIE core.
  • The Recycle Bin has some cameos throughout the chapter.
    • Dana from VA-11 HALL-A runs the bar.
    • Yarny from Unravel can be seen on one of the couches.
    • Amanda from Dream Daddy can be seen on one of the couches.
    • Chuchel from Chuchel appears on one of the couches. Talking to him has him turn into Akinator.
  • Inside Kid appears in the ruins of the first Wirish The BOSS area.
  • When you first rescue Yuri, she mentions the only book she had to read was a Peanuts anthology.
  • When you meet Leslie, she states that her game of origin is Grand Theft Auto V. note 
  • During The Sims 4 area in Jenny/Yuri's route, checking the oven has a callback to how you freed Jenny in The BOSS.
  • Returning to the Cow Plants after getting the meat has Jenny state that they're giving her Little Shop of Horrors vibes.
  • Checking the giant skeleton in Fran Bow's graveyard has Jack ask where Blathers is when you need him. There's another Animal Crossing reference when you check the sacks in the yellow pill version of the Fran Bow world. The contents of the sack? Bells.
  • Most of Fran Bow's graves are references:
  • Checking the books next to the sacks in Fran Bow reveals them to be religious books, as well as the Percy Jackson series.
  • Fran has a lot of comics in her collection. Calvin and Hobbes, FoxTrot, Dilbert, Peanuts, and Garfield.
  • Checking another one of the bookshelves nets a shout-out to the fic Growing Pains. AKA, Cliff's first appearance.
    • Another has the complete collection of Dr. Seuss.
  • Taking Fran Bow's red pills and checking the crack in the wall has Jenny question that it's kind of a Mad Father death.
  • Just like Cliff in the last game, Jenny makes a nod towards the goblet full of fire being THE Goblet of Fire.
  • When Leslie introduces herself to Robbie, he mistakes the game she's from for being HuniePop.
  • When you return to the place where you crossed the files as Sean, Jack mentions to not get close to the edge since falling would result in them ending up in Aperture 2. While Leslie is well aware of what Aperture is, and vehemently is against going there, Robbie has no idea what it is, leading Jenny to explain it to him, while using the lyrics to Still Alive.
  • In the Five Night's at Freddy's area, Jenny mocks Jack by calling him a "cone-spiracy" theorist. Jack begins to retort by saying he was going to make a MatPat reference, but then admits defeat. Then, he states that the reference would be detained at the border for using a fake passport, before uttering his classic "DETAINED!"
  • While trying to survive in the Security Office, Dee Dee makes a vocal cameo, El Chips' ads make appearances, and Ballora makes an appearance.
    • Unsurprisingly, given the nature of this game, the ads are references as well:
      • One of them is a vacation ad for Jack's Animal Crossing island.
      • Another one is a bell ad that has been infiltrated by the goose from Untitled Goose Game.
      • The third and final is a hat ad. One of the hats is Dipper's from Gravity Falls.
  • When you first bump into Cliff in the Jazzpunk area, Jack mentions he took a lesson in pole dancing before.
  • When you get to Jazzpan, Jack mistakes the word "palpitations" for Palpatines.
  • If you use the phone outside of the sushi restaurant, Cliff mentions the fact that Jack being able to pull out his phone, but not being able to dial due to a lack of fingers must be some kind of VeggieTales logic.
  • Checking the streetlights outside of the sushi restaurant has Jack sing some of the lyrics to Run Away With Me.
  • When you first meet Sayori, she mentions that the 'Jack' Cliff means (AKA you, the player) is "JACK Jack?" Jack himself mistakes this as if she were asking if he were Jack Jack.
  • Checking the sushi restaurant's stock of endives will have Cliff sing "ENDIIIIIIIIIVE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU-"
  • The sushi restaurant's list of banned people include: Corpse Husband, Valkyrae, Sykkuno, LaurenZSide, and Bijuu Mike.
  • Cliff compares the trans-formative cookies that Sayori gives him and Jack to the "Eat Me" cookies from Alice in Wonderland. Meanwhile, Jack compares Jazzpunk as a whole to be Wonderland's "drunk uncle". When Sayori mentions the cookies are more filling than they look, Cliff compares them further to Lembas. Then, to end the conversation, The Lord of the Rings gets a direct shout-out.
  • Before starting the first fishing minigame, Chase calls it "Fin-al Fantasy Fish."
    • If you avoid catching Chase's key and instead catch a clownfish, the description states "Welp... you found him."
      • A similar thing happens when fishing in Chase's stomach. If you, again, avoid catching Chase's key, you can catch The Magic School Bus.
  • When you get ambushed by the agents, Jack manages to twist the conversation into an Among Us meeting. The game gets a more direct reference when, after meeting Tomatohead, and exiting the shop, you'll hear a noise. Upon re-entry, Jack's Among Us avatar has killed Tomatohead.
  • One of the people staying in the hotel next to the International Trenchcoat Appreciation Invitational is none other than Darkiplier himself.
  • When reuniting with Sayori, there is another nod to Jack's How Did We Get Here? tour.
  • One of the shops is Dolphin's Treasures.
    • Another is "Hel's Diner", another reference to Jack's Animal Crossing island.
      • A third is "Little Notemares", an obvious reference to Little Nightmares.
  • When talking about sharks in games never being a good sign, Chase brings up Shark Dating Simulator XL. Jack stands by his opinion hard.
  • When entering the Kindergarten area, there is a nod to the Monstermon ending in both Kindergarten games.
  • Billy mentions that resetting wipes the memories of all the native Kindergarten characters, which Jack relates to Groundhog Day. Play the game at different times of the year, and Billy will have different dialogue in response.
  • When talking to Clementine in the first area of Kindergarten, she makes a nod towards AJ, who as of yet has not appeared in this game.
  • When talking to Joey and Jude, Jude gives Jack a mission, should he choose to accept, of course.
  • Nugget has you write a poem using a minigame ripped straight out of Doki Doki Literature Club. Unfortunately for Jack, and, in turn, you, if you fail this poem section you don't just get a hangout with a different girl, you get shot.
    • Nugget asks you to deliver the above letter before his nerves cause him to gnaw off his own arm again.
  • The dollhouse has a Darth Vader action figure in it. The daughter is Moana.
  • One of Ms. Jigglytits' books is Fifty Shades of Grey. Another is Coraline.
  • Ralsei appears as the Hall Monitor.
  • There is a banned book in the bathroom. It's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Look. It's Kindergarten logic. Don't question it.
  • Sans returns in the Kindergarten boy's bathroom, shop 'n all.
  • Jackieboyman's speech makes references to three separate things.
  • During Nugget's murder briefing, Jack describes Penny as "one of those Mean Girls types."
  • Due to the nature of the origins of the Hiveswap section, there are multiple references to the Homestuck series. It's almost fitting, as Sans is in the section before this, and the song Megalovania has appeared in official Homestuck media.
  • Penny's doll is the one from Tattletail, complete with "Mama's coming!"
  • Jack compares Jude and Xefros' hoverboard to the one from Back to the Future.
  • The way you unlock Dammek's toolbox is basically a lockpick minigame ripped straight out of the later The Elder Scrolls series or the Bethesda Fallout games.
  • Just guess where Dammek's screwdriver came from. Oddly enough, it's the Matt Smith/early Peter Capaldi version of the sonic screwdriver. Since Hiveswap is set in 1994, the latest sonic screwdriver that the inhabitants of the game should know of is Paul Mcgann's Eighth Doctor's, since Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor wouldn't air for another 11 years.
  • Once you find the paintbrush, Joey asks to pull a Nancy Drew.
  • How do you save Jude's pigeon? By hiding under a box of course!
  • One of Xefros' DVDs is of Quantum Hop.
  • During the conversation after acquiring the hoverboard, Jack mentions he'd tie Don't Shit Your Pants into Billy and Jude's theory, while Joey states that she wouldn't buy it unless it was a Sesame Street episode.
  • Stanley is in Baldi's closet. Surprise, surprise.
  • Jack states that Baldi's lamp looks like the Pixar lamp, only black.
  • Talking to the DDLC girls at the end of the chapter has them confuse Lord of the Rings with Lord of the Flies.

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