Shout Out / Madagascar

• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

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The first film

• Alex talks to a coconut with a muddy pawprint and face scribbled onto it.
• "You maniac! You burned it up! Darn you! Darn you all to heck!"
• "It's a cookbook! IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!''
• Marty graciously reminds zoogoers to "never spay or neuter their pets."
• The official poster is an obvious homage to the cover of the Wings album Band on the Run.
• Gloria asks the penguins where the people on the boat have gone; Skipper tells her "We killed them and ate their livers."

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• The National Geographic Channel theme plays when Alex goes feral and attacks Marty.
• Melman rescues Marty from the fossa while swinging on a vine and screaming like Tarzan.

The second film

• Mort acting like a gremlin on the plane's wing, and being initially identified as one, in a reference to Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.
• Again to Planet of the Apes, when Skipper says he's so happy at the monkey he could kiss him. Monkey: "All right, but you're just so darned ugly." and casually smooches him, to Skipper's surprise.

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