Shout Out / Homestuck

> Document references to other media.

So many sweet references. You'd almost think it was simultaneously your birthday, AND Christmas or something.

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Anime & Manga

• Unintentionally at first, but later invoked on purpose: Dave's Bro wears "dumb pointy anime shades" and wields a katana.
• Dirk, what does the scanner say about the Condesce's power level?
  TT: I even heard, and don't quote me on this, that she may have been over 9000.
  GT: Heavens to betsy.
  GT: That figure is just absurd.
  • Seen again with Jake and AR:
  TT: Over 9000.
  GT: Augh not that fuckin meme again!!!!!!!!!
  • Later lampshaded:
  Exactly how many panels do you want this to go on for? Over 9000? Nobody wants that. Nobody even wants to hear the phrase "over 9000."
  • One of Jane's features in her Crockerdark form is an eye color scheme that bears resemblance to that of Super Buu and Kid Buu. She even imitates Super Buu's hand taunts and fighting style from the battle with Gohan.
  • Dave jokes about training in a (non-existent) "hyper gravity chamber" on the meteor.
• Among Meulin's and Kurloz' gifs are clips from Pokémon and Sailor Moon.
  • Speaking of Sailor Moon, at one point we see letters from the adult versions of Usagi/Bunny/Serena and Meenah Peixes who grow up to rule billions of people for at least a thousand years but still write like they're children (adult Usagi at least acts mature because she's always had friends who would call her out on her bad behavior; adult Meenah had no such "problem").
• In [S] [A6I3] MINISTRIFE!!!, Damara and Rufioh are cosplaying◊ as Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask.
• At the end of "[S] Equius: Seek the highb100d", Gamzee demands that Equius kneels, then promptly shoots an arrow. One couldn't help but remember the scene in Black Lagoon where Balalaika pretty much does the same to a psycho-child.
  Balalaika:I SAID KNEEL! [note that this line is also delivered in English in the VO]
• Jake, an angsty, sad teen lacking in self-confidence, has his potential fully unlocked in a sequence involving Mind Rape, a cataclysmic explosion of light, the acquisition of a nigh-impenetrable field of energy, and the creation of angels.
  • Of course, the dialogue in that scene is very reminiscent of Dragon Ball Z in an Affectionate Parody sort of way. There's the obvious allusion that Jake's power exceeds a certain level, and the scene itself resembles Goku turning Super Saiyan 3 for the first time. It's even complete with a Beam-O-War.

Comic Books

• AR: Be the law.
• Terezi's interrogation scene is a massive shoutout to Two-Face, with the coin that has a mutilated side (to reflect her blindness) and the fact she's playing a lawyer...
  • This is lampshaded by Dave, though Terezi was unaware of the character, and is put off by the fact someone else came up with it first.
• One of Rose's outfits is all-black with a grim, white skull-like Squiddle on the front.
  • Also, Jade's Iron Lass outfit.
• John's glasses on this page appear to be a Shout-Out to the Corinthian of The Sandman.
• This page is pretty clearly a reference to a classic X-Men panel◊.
• Abraxas, Jake English's denizen, is usually thought to be, like Yaldabaoth, a reference to Gnosticism, but alternatively, it's the name of a Marvel villain with several parallels to Lord English.
• Jake's exclamation upon being impaled with Jane's fork is "Oh my stars and garters."
• At one point, John says that "with great power comes great responsibility" in regard to his time/space-altering powers.

Film (includes Actors)

• Con Air has such an extended shout out that it's a fundamental part of the plot. Later this extends to Nicolas Cage in general.
  • Nicholas Cage has reached God Tier in the Canon. His title is the Nick of Time.
• John has a bunch of movie posters. So do Karkat and Jake.
  • The Deep Impact poster is called back to much later when the Auto-Responder talks about how he'd confess to Jake:
    Poster: OCEANS RISE. CITIES FALL. HOPE SURVIVES.
    TT: Oceans will rise. Cities will fall. Volcanoes will erupt.
  • John's admiration for Matthew McConaughey displayed in these posters is called back when one of the potential outcomes of the roll of the final die in the Pop-a-Matic Vrillyhoo Hammer against Bec Noir is "MCCONAUGHEY".
• The Past and Future trails in the Midnight Crew intermission are a reference to Donnie's visions.
• Really, would you trust a game made by SkaiaNet?
• This attic is spooky. I wish those bullies would just leave me alone. Later I am going to ride a long magic dog through the sky and fuck their shit up.
  • Considering he does exactly that, doubly so.
  • Later, a John/Jade fraymotif is named "Fantasia's Inhale". Fantasia being the name of the world inside the book (In the movie version)
  • When the cherubs' jujus combine into the Spiral Sucker, an image of AURYN (which could be said to be a möbius double reacharound Ouroboros) briefly appears.
    • When each of them is alchemized, an image of half of AURYN flashes on them too.
    • Cherubs turn into giant serpents when they mate and form an AURYN shape when one of them dominates.
  • Caliborn complains to Hussie that the "ATROCIOUS GARBAGE" that is Act 6 Act 5 is "NEVERENDING ENOUGH."
• John tricks Vriska into making a Shout-Out to a certain movie by giving her a fake name.
  AG: Ok. Til next time, Mr. Anderson.
• This three-way standoff is a Shout-Out to the final showdown from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
  • aka The Bad, The Worse, and The SHITHIVE MAGGOTS, as one of the artists put it.
• In Jade's introduction sequence, when testing out her Pictionary Modus for her Eclectic Bass, she accidentally creates a ghost image of Johnny 5. Later, during her Alchemize-o-rama, she creates a Johnnytop from her lunchtop and the image, and also attempts to make a massive weapon from a Transformer ghost image, a powerful gun and her own personal Iron Lass suit. She makes...Johnny 5.
  You make...
  Johnny 5.
  God damnit.
  Motherfucker thinks he's alive.
  HE IS A TIN CAN, ROBOTS DON'T HAVE FEELINGS.
  • And then a robot admits to feeling fear.
  TT: I am scared to not exist.
  TT: Aren't you?
• In [S] Cascade, when Jade becomes the God-Tier Witch of Space, she gets ruby slippers and striped socks
  • Sayonara, Kansas
  • Follow the yellow brick road!
  • God Tier Feferi also has striped socks.
  • Jade finally gets the death she had coming...with SBAHJ captioning to make sure you know how blatant this reference is.
    • A more subtle and less funny example is when Aranea manipulates Doc Scratch's clock to make Jade's death "Just". The clock makes a loud "DING DONG" afterward.
  "Ding dong the witch is dead..."
  • After dying, Jade somehow appears in Calliope's bubble and turns the spiral path from white to the hue of the yellow brick road. Her reaction?
    CALLIOPE: PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GIRL BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!
  • Terezi asks John to think of a phrase he can remember for something she wants to try. John comes up with it while looking at Terezi's ruby slippers, which she took from a witch who got crushed under a house:
  John: there's no place like home.
• OBEY. STAY ASLEEP.
• Jane becomes Inspector Clouseau.
• Jake loves Neytiri (and Diva Pavalaguna and (adult) Mystique and washed-out Lara Croft and...)
• At one point, Karkat, who is obsessed with romantic comedies and extremely foul-mouthed, orders Equius not to 'GET OFF ON PHRASES LIKE FUCK FUCK FUCKETY FUCK'.
• John is a huge fan of Ghostbusters. Later this extends to almost everyone.
• The heading of the first chapter of Karkat's ~ATH handbook can be seen to be: ~ATH: A HANDBOOK FOR THE IMMINENTLY DECEASED
• Hussie, YOU MANIAC. YOU BLEW IT UP. AUGH, DAMN YOU. GOG DAMN YOU RIGHT TO HELL.
• Dirk's AR renames himself "Hal", even taking it so far as to display the namesake in his lenses, ominously refer to him as the protagonist, and even make a horrible pun on a certain meme.
• In Act 6 Act 4, Jake is The Man With the Golden Gun(s).
  • In light of Jake's iPhone wallpaper, it actually seems that the golden guns are more directly inspired by Nic Cage's pistols in Face/Off.
• Also in A6.4, Dirk's utility belt is ripped straight from The Dark Knight Trilogy.
• The way Tavros plays Fiduspawn is highly reminiscent of the famous chestburster scene in Alien.
• Many of Caliborn's mannerisms are references to Saw. Such as ripping his leg off to get out of his shackle. And then "Hello Zepp" plays over [S] MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown.
• The acronym of Jake's land, LOMAX, matches the last name of the titular character of Weekend at Bernie's.
• Hook is referenced as well. This scene heralded a nice comment from the actor of Rufio.
• The newly real Brain Ghost Dirk channels Inigo Montoya:
  DIRK: I am Brain Ghost Dirk.
  DIRK: You kissed my boyfriend.
  DIRK: Prepare to Die.
• Karkat's freakout during his conversation with Gamzee is a shoutout to Tough Guys Don't Dance.

Literature

• This page is a clear Shout-Out to The Postman. (The letter in question is addressed to "Dr. David Brinner", and The Postman was written by David Brin, who does in fact have a doctorate.)
• When Rose fells the Lime Ogre and surfs it into the ocean:
  TG: i dont know beach the thing first i guess
  TG: unless you were planning on sailing that ogre down the mississippi with a runaway slave
• There's a pretty clear reference to Moby-Dick upon Meenah's third meeting with John:

  MEENAH: (you are my obsession lil bluefish)
  MEENAH: (my shrimpiest of whales)
  MEENAH: (my mobiest of dicks)
  MEENAH: (call me)
  MEENAH: (fishmael)
  MEENAH: 3B|

• Some of the trolls embark on a quest to destroy a ring of great power in a volcano. After a long series of events, the Wayward Vagabond heads off to do this.
  • Not to mention someone named Strider who wields a broken sword.
  • And the best broken sword in the game being the Royal Deringer.
  • The way Jack uses said sword to slay the Black Queen — specifically the way she explodes after her ring finger is cut off — is also in direct reference to Sauron's initial destruction.
  • And of course, John finds a ring in the sand, and an ornery member of a species he hardly (visually) recognizes demands it back. When John makes off with the ring and Tavros can't find it, he outright starts calling it his Precious.
  • Aranea steals this same ring, and her aspirations of godhood compare well to those of Galadriel.
• Cthulhu Mythos references can be found in the form of Jade's island (matches one of Lovecraft's descriptions) and in the beasties from Rose's grimoire. The word "dreamself" also seems to be derived from his works.
• Vriska writing I 8n't dead is an intentional reference to Granny Weatherwax, as confirmed on Andrew's Formspring.
  • With that in mind, WV?'s actions are probably a shout out to Vimes's idea of the pawns establishing their own democracy in Night Watch Discworld.
  • And a troll who can't use a bow because he keeps breaking them. Someone should have told Equius that bows aren't troll weapons.
  • And Sopor Slime fits neatly into the likes of Slab, Scrape, Slice and Slunkie, being a psychoactive troll drug that starts with 'S'
• When Colonol Sassacre is killed, it says "People would think reports of the man's death were greatly exaggerated. But they weren't." This is based on a famous Mark Twain quote, whom Sassacre is very loosely modeled after.
• Not only does Cronus' backstory reveal that he's a failed Harry Potter imitation (with magical scars, no less) who eventually rejects magic altogether, but presumably, Lord English is his version of Voldemort, and the Jujus are his horcruxes.
• Vriska and Tavros's tumultuous relationship involves frequent references to Peter Pan, with Tavros as Peter and Vriska using tropes from both Tinkerbell and Hook. The shoutouts cover the entire expanded universe, including the filmed theatre adaptation and Hook, but also use references that go back to the original stage play, such as Vriska's weapon being a collection of eight stone dice called the Fluorite Octet (a pun on Captain Hook's last words in the play, "floreat etona").
  • As of the end of the Midnight Crew intermission, Vriska, Spades Slick, and the harlequin doll all bear the same set of injuries: An injured eye and a missing arm. These are the same as the injuries borne by Hook.
• Jane becomes Hercule Poirot.
• The resemblance of Crockerdark Jane's costume design to that of Little Red Riding Hood would be coincidental due to the Crocker colors... were it not for the fact that the one that makes her transform is Grimbark Jade, who has been turned by the Condesce into Jane Riding Hood's Big, Bad, Badass Wolf. Not to mention that both have alternate incarnations that were surrogate grandmothers...
• Given how she wears red and is a slave with no way out (except someone else killing her and taking over her job) to Lord English, the Handmaid's name might be a shoutout to The Handmaid's Tale. If it is so, it paints an even more squicky picture of her situation with Doc Scratch and Lord English.
• The song "Three in the Morning", which plays during Snowman's introduction, is taken from the quote, "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning." This is the opening line to the very first James Bond novel, Casino Royale.

Live-Action TV

• "Rose: Wear the scarf. Be the Rider."
• "TT: Why have you activated dear, sweet Huggy Bear?"
• WV names his firefly Serenity.
• GT: what does your time machine look like? a phone booth? phone booths are a popular thing for some reason.
  • And, in that vein...
  TG: "...and i want to know exactly when i got to clear some space in my calendar for when some fuckwit blunders out of a magical phone booth..."
  GT: ... i'm just the timey-wimey messenger
  • In the same vein, Arisen Anew has just that page's title quote.
  • During a discussion with Calliope, Dirk questions whether aliens are British or not.
  • One of Kurloz' gifs in his signing conversation with Meulin is the famous "Tenth Doctor in the rain" clip from the end of "Journey's End". Given Kurloz' service to an entirely different kind of Lord of Time, Meulin could be considered a companion.
  • A mention for Caliborn's suspiciously similar sounding godtier "Lord of Time". Also just like his adult self and the Eleventh Doctor, Caliborn rocks a bowtie and suspenders.
  • The stripes on Lord English's Cairo Overcoat resemble a flashy version of the Fourth Doctor's scarf.
  • In later strips, Roxy discovers a magical crack in her bedroom.
  • Later inverted in a Take That!, where John describes the show as being "lame" and lamenting the fact that Harry Anderson never got to play the character.
• Sometimes you tell dad you really want poppop in the attic. He says the mere fact you call it that tells him you're not ready.
  • Not to mention that Jane has a poster of Tobias Funke from his "I just blue myself" scene hanging on her wall.
• Jane's Swanson poster is one thing, but now she's named the bunny she got from Strider Li'l Sebastian.
  • In Dirk's... "creative" re-write of a Pony Pals Book he re-names one of the characters The City of Pawnee, Indiana.
• Blatant Red Dwarf reference in this pesterlog between Jake and AR, of the "everybody's dead, [name]" variety.
  • The reference gets repeated again by Terezi.
  • In Caliborn's session, he plays pool with planets.
• Dave tries to recuse himself from advising Terezi on her blackrom with Gamzee by claiming:
  DAVE: this is like some ex alien boyfriend prime directive shit
  DAVE: i cant intervene cause i dont know what im talking about

Music

• John's dad has a picture of Bing Crosby in his room at the beginning of the game. It pops up in random places as the game progresses. Nobody ever recognizes him.
• The Midnight Crew are actually named after a song by Eddie Morton. It's actually sampled at the very beginning of Jack: Ascend.
  • And now one of the flashes is set to a cover of that same old song.
• Gamzee gets pretty excited by CLOWNS OF A GRIM PERSUASION WHICH MAY NOT BE IN FULL POSSESSION OF THEIR MENTAL FACULTIES, and loves his MoThErFuCkInG MiRaClEs.
  • This gets Lampshaded and turned to horrific when Gamzee actually learns about Insane Clown Posse and decides THIS! IS! BLASPHEMY!
• Roxy's MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE fetch modus may be a reference to The Police, since that song and "Roxanne" are two of their most famous numbers.

Theatre

• While Mituna's introduction in Openbound included at least one misspelling of the word "helmet" as "H4ML37", it is only in [S] [A6I3] Ministrife!!! that Kurloz plays on the reference by showing up to the Meenah-Vriska battle/costume party dressed as a prince at the same time Mituna shows up asking for his helmet.
• The name "Caliborn" is similar to "Caliban", and Caliborn hates people similar way.

Video Games

• TRICKSTER MODE has an unexpected Shout-Out to The Legend Of Zelda.
  • Later, John's costume resembles Link's outfit in Wind Waker and he comments on it.
  • Meenah finds one of the empty bottles Rose has been using for alchemy... and promptly throws it away, because it's just an empty bottle. ^note In The Legend of Zelda, bottles are rare and valuable items.
• Trollish is inverted Daedric.
• "In a fit of enthusiasm you SHUT UP AND JAM the bunny back in the box, executing a textbook CHAOS DUNK. Millions would have perished, if everything in the ocean weren't dead already, that is."
  • In addition, one of the songs on the "Dave, Rose: Shut Up And Jam" (which is itself a reference) is called "Octoroon Rangoon". In Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden, one of the party members is Balthios, who is referred to as "the octoroon ^note or 1/8 black great-grandson of LeBron James".
• Terezi's theme is called "The Lemonsnout Turnabout."
  • Objection!
  • The fan album includes the distinct Terezi tracks Vigilante, and it's variation: Vigilante - Cornered.
• Nepeta's theme, the delightful "Walls Covered In Blood" was made with Mario Paint!
• [S] Past Karkat: Wake Up and the resulting style it introduced is essentially a huge homage to Earth Bound, but other specific ones within the aforementioned flash:
  • The Chrono Trigger time portal gets used.
  • The portrait sprites were explicitly based on Disgaea.
  • Vriska's quick battle sprite is a shout out to Paul Robertson, of Scott Pilgrim: The Game fame.
  • Gamzee's constantly dances, similar to shop keepers in the Secret of Mana.
    • Not to mention he's jokingly acting like an innkeeper and charging people to rest in his pile of horns.
  • Entering Trickster Mode plays (most) of Totaka's Song.
• The Sims (with the house-building and item-placing) and Spore (with all the Space Compression planetary hijinks) are also cited inspirations. Particularly in naming "Sburb", by Word of God a "deliberately ugly word reminiscent of the name of a Sim game".
  • Further, "Sburban Jungle", which plays during Sburb's loading screen, bears some similarities to the "Epicenter" track from SimCity 4.
• Wayward Vagabond's Dream Sequence features a shout out to how spells are displayed in Final Fantasy games, as does Dave and Jade using Adagio Redshift, and Jack's use of Red Miles.
  • The shop from Final Fantasy VI makes a cameo appearance in AlterniaBound's Trickster Mode screen, and ends up in the story itself later on, as part of Gamzee's trap for Terezi at the end of Year 2/Disc 1.
• Proton Cannon!
• The 1/22/11 flash has a reference to M. Bison when Eridan throws his cape before his battle against Sollux.
• A page has Terezi posing very similarly to how Miles Edgeworth does.
• Your guardians are... in another castle.
• [S] Seer: Ascend has the appearance of one Troll Guybrush Threepwood.
• Roxy's use of travel with FENESTRATED PLANES is quite reminiscent of Portal, as well as being a Mythology Gag to Problem Sleuth.
  • The Portal reference is made more explicit when Roxy alchemizes a sniper rifle that makes fenestrated planes appear.
  • now u are believin w petrol
  • Dirk's footwear at one point in [S] ACT 6 ACT 4 strongly resembles Long Fall Boots. Corroborated by the fact that he's wearing them while dropping off a building.
• The flashes at the start of Act 6 Act 3 are a shout out to Myst, according to Hussie.
• Lara Croft, for obvious reasons, influenced Jake's LOMAX outfit in Act 6 Act 4.
• Though Lord English's name was at first unintentionally similar to that of Lord British from Ultima, it seems that his servant Gamzee, given the discovery in A6I4 that he's nigh immortal in all timelines, is somewhat reminiscent of Chuckles, Lord British's jester.
• Bro's collection of "incredibly shitty swords" include iconic swords from late 90s/early 00s Final Fantasy games - the Gunblade from Final Fantasy VIII and the Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII. At one point, Dave uses them to create a hideous, garish Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff-themed weapon called "SORD........" which is supposed to be so shitty he can't even hold it - and looks a lot like the Caladbolg from Final Fantasy X.
• When asked to name a video game he likes to play, John mentions Crash Bandicoot.
• HORSARONI, I CHOOSE YOU!!!!!!
• The vocals on the Warhammer of Zillyhoo song seem to be very clearly inspired by the iconic Gregorian chant heard throughout the Halo series.
• The "Egbert Punch" is most likely a nod to the Falcon Punch.
• In [S] Collide, the battle between Davepeta and Lord English eventually turns into an Undertale battlescreen.
  • The spinoff comic, Paradox Space, also has a comic where Vriska offers Equius a cup of spiders.
• Roxy hits The Condesce with a Tatsumaki Senpukyaku followed up by a Shoryuken before beginning her Perfectly Generic Object assault. Given Roxy's status as a gamer, it's very likely she was imitating these moves.
• Becquerel's prototyping in the flash [S] Jade: Enter goes along with traditional Japanese music akin to Ōkami.

Earth Bound

The entire series is more or less an extended shout out to the Mother trilogy, most especially Earth Bound.

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• The title "Homestuck" can be construed as a synonym of Earth Bound. The first published volume of Homestuck confirms that John's pesterchum initials, "EB", are also an 'EarthBound reference.
• "Rambunctious Crow" is reminiscent of "Spiteful Crow", an early-game Goomba with a penchant for stealing players' items (or Sburb beta).
• This panel has an Instant Revitalizing Device in the corner; oddly, while it's clearly the Earth Bound variant in that it's not stamped with a Pigmask logo, it otherwise has the color scheme of their Mother 3 incarnation.
  • And it's used as a Mundane Utility by Dave to make coffee. And there's this piece of dialog:
    DAVE: two hot revitalizing cups of shitty coffee
• Word of God instance: Hussie has stated that, of her extensive gaming repertoire, Roxy's favorites are Earth Bound and Pikmin, two titles he himself particularly enjoyed.
• The interactive games, starting with AlterniaBound are meant to resemble... you guessed it.
• The song "Plumbthroat Gives Chase" from the "Squiddles!" album begins with Skipper Plumbthroat saying "This might not fit my... rude outer ego, but I really love drinking tea and eating broccoli," which is a reference to a line one of The Sharks says in Onett's arcade. "To tell you the truth, I like drinking tea and eating fresh vegetables, but that doesn't fit my super cool image."
• Lord English happens to be an Expy of Giygas, being an "almighty idiot" who is completely undefeatable by conventional means. Those means also make him an Expy of Porky Minch, namely trapping him in an inescapable prison of his own making wherein he contentedly toils in irrelevance

Other

• ''Dinosaur Comics':
  • In [S] WV: Ascend, the ptersoaurs from the website's background appears momentarily in the shot of Jade's island during prehistory. Ryan North thinks it signifies something more.^note "Believe you me: this is no mere shout-out to good, sensible web design elements. I believe this to be an acknowledgement of what Andrew and I have long known in our individual and respective heart of hearts: that Dinosaur Comics and MS Paint Adventures take place in the same universe, that one will segue into the other after only a few million years have passed, and that just as Steve Urkel and Carl Winslow could in theory go for a walk and bump into Balki and cousin Larry, so too will this pterosaur from my site one day happen to fly over the events which set up the adventures now being chronicled on his site, these adventures that take us through time and space, these adventures that have let us take control of the bodies of at least three children so far, these — these MS Paint Adventures."
  • One of the possible outcomes for John's roll of the final die in the Pop-a-Matic Vrillyhoo Hammer against Bec Noir is "T-REX".
• invoked Gamzee: A DoUbLe mEtApHoR AlL ThE WaY, AcRoSs sKaIa :o)
• Kanaya kindly requests that you Deal With It
• "Drow" and "Troll" were originally both names for little fairy-goblin things, derived from "Trow". Homestuck trolls, like Drow, all have grey skin and dislike bright light (especially sunlight).
• Quoth Dirk's Auto-Responder: "It seems you think I am a fucking douche." At the very least, it feels like it carries that Office Assistant type vibe.
• The Green Sun and troll society's sexual standards both seem to be a reference to Exalted.
• invoked The end of Act 6 animation's URL ends in the letters "DOTA" which presumably stand for Death of the Author, since, well, Hussie has just been killed by Lord English. Death of the Author is also a famous 1967 essay by Roland Barthe. In it, Barthe suggests that the author has no authority over the text, the true meaning of which is created uniquely in each reader's mind according to their own impressions as opposed to the intentions of the author. Kinda appropriate considering MSPA's reliance on audience participation, fixation on cultural references and exploring the boundaries of fiction and reality. And of course, Hussie's self-inserted character's inability to control events at this point in the story.
• A reference to This Very Wiki.
  TT: Ok, well it's not like it's that important. Just a super obvious thing that'll probably occur to you later when you're looking in the fridge you don't have, at which point you'll feel like an idiot.
  • Doc Scratch also makes an allusion when talking to Rose, referring to his preference for white text.
  I don't particularly enjoy spoiling things for people when unnecessary. I find speaking in a discreet color helps avoid this.
• Near the end of the first page of Act 6 Intermission 3, Meenah encounters Aranea sitting in a wooden booth with a sign reading "The Sylph is In." The art style even changes to make the reference more obvious.
  • In the same intermission, we have "Dave's "ebubbles", which spout out seemingly random sentence fragments from Dave's previous pesterlogs. Both the name and the result are reminiscent of the infamous spam Twitter account Horse_ebooks.
  • The entire flash segment with Meenah is very much an extended parody of Tumblr and the kinds of people who frequent it.
    • Said parody is taken as far as it can with Meulin. In addition, Mituna is a parody of Imageboards, 4chan in particular.
• Dirk's gas mask in the Act 6 Act 4 flash bears similarity in both design and color to the mask of Tahu from BIONICLE.
  • It also resembles that of a Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine.
• It sounds suspiciously like Cans is about to plow through the wall Kool-Aid man style All of a sudden, Cans plows through the wall Kool-Aid man style Resist urge to shout "Oh Yeah!"

Western Animation

• The beginning of the Midnight Crew's introduction resembles the beginning of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' opening credits.
• It's implied that Bro makes/is into saucy puppet shows.
  • Terezi: Deploy smelloscope.
• From here:
  EB: it is bill cosby.
  EB: he's back.
  EB: in laptop form.
• A few Rainbow Dash pictures can be seen in Dirk Strider's room. While he purports to have a "strictly academic" interest in cartoon ponies, he soon admits that his affection for Rainbow Dash, at least, is totally unironic.
  • One of Meulin's gifs from her signing features Apple Bloom pressing an "Unsee" button.
  • In the Tricksterlog accompanying Dirk's "Engage" flash, Jake drunkenly misspells "everybody." No, the result is not "EVERYPONY," as you might expect; it's "EVERYBRONY."
• Sollux's lusus is a Bicyclops, further cemented by his yellow blood color.
• One of Meenah's hashtags in A6I3 is "#the goggles do nothing".
  • The Wayward Vagabond, while trying to switch monitors on his computer, he presses Tab. But he actually gets Tab.
  • Jane's mouth, in its A6A6 closeups, is disturbingly Simpsonesque.
• Some of the gifs used to represent Meulin's sign language include clips of Adventure Time.
• After ascension to his full potential, Jake bellows this when he hears Jane, rather than Jade, speaking to him:
  HELLO NURSE
• Jasprosesprite^2 is basically one giant shoutout to Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire Cat, from her purple and pink striped color scheme to her fading out leaving nothing but an alarming smile.
• During [S] Collide, when a bunch of Troll Ghosts are stampeding over Lord English, Shrek (for some reason) appears among them.
• Terezi uses a smelloscope and starts the memo immediately afterwards with "B 4 D N 3 WS 3V3RYON3!", and one of Dave's comics has the line "time to fly up to the sun you fucknig piece of gargbage".

Music Shout Outs (Limited to songs not featured in comic)

• The future refused to change.
• There is a song on volume five of the soundtrack titled Lotus Land Story.
• "Tangled Waltz" sounds like The Muppets "Rainbow Connection" at times.
• Word of Composer has said that "Scratch" from the Felt album references the final battle music of Super Mario 64.
• "Heir Conditioning", John's theme from the "Strife!" album, samples "Beloved Tomboyish Girl". A pun on air conditioning. Cirno's an ice fairy. Get it?
  • Specifically, Cirno's the fairy of freezing winds. What was John's aspect again?

• There's also some Complete Darkness in there.

• From the Alterniabound Album, we have shoutouts such as quotes from Doctor Who and phrases spoken from Vocaloid (Arisen Anew), and several audio shoutouts by way of Suspiciously Similar Song to Ace Attorney (BL1ND JUST1C3: 1NV3ST1G4T1ON!!), Pirates of the Caribbean (She's a Sp8der), and the first two generations of Pokémon (FIDUSPAWN, GO!), among many others.
  • Arisen Anew also uses the teleporting sound effect from Mega Man.
• The Wanderers album has at least a couple:
  • Gilded Sands prominently features a small part of the melody of the Stone Tower Temple theme.
  • Mayor Maynot is made of edited clips of the Mail Song from Blue's Clues.
  • Ruins Rising has piano elements from Bones' intro music.
  • Aimless Morning Gold, AR's theme, does not have any direct shout-outs in its song... but the composition of the song and its use of certain instruments are similar to the songs composed by Ennio Morricone, particularly from his work on films like Once Upon a Time in the West and the Dollars Trilogy (setting this mood is its use of gunfire sounds within the song).
• A concrete Mother shout-out in the music: Frog Forager sounds a whole lot like the series' Bootstrapped Theme, "Pollyanna (I Believe in You)".
  • It also sounds suspiciously similar to Final Fantasy II's Town theme.
• The name of the song Battle Against an Unfathomable Enemy is likely a reference to similarly named themes in the Mother series and one of Undyne's themes in Undertale.
• ColoUrs and Mayhem, Universe A has Iron Knight, which is a direct homage of Through The Fire And Flames
  • Orange Hat, on Universe B, has the uppercut charging and falling sounds from Punch-Out!!.
• ETERNAL SUFFERING, a song from the Tomb of the Ancestors album, has voice clip "Through Fire, Justice is Served!" from the game Mischief Makers
• Volume 8 has a song titled "Afraid of the Darko".
• Courser, the basis for Umbral Ultimatum, sounds like it's straight out of Ōkami (and in fact samples some riffs from the game). This refers to the similarities between Becquerel and Amaterasu.
• "Entrance of the Salamanders" includes a motif lifted from Mother 3's "His Highness' Theme."
• Similarly, "Pumpkin Cravings" appears to use elements of Porky/Pokey's theme.
• These lines from Gamebro are actually very similar from the lines from the extended intro of Parappa The Rapper 2
• The intro of Do You Remem8er Me is a slowed-down version of Never Gonna Give You Up's intro.

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