Shout Out / Saturday Morning RPG

• For starters, the protagonist's name is Marty. He's got brown hair similar to that of his namesake. More obviously, he also has a pink hoverboard.
• Commander Hood and his entire organization are Captain Ersatzes of Commander Cobra and... COBRA.
  • Guess what that means for the heroic group opposing them... Sgt. Johnson.
• Likewise, the Botchangers are Transformers. The Botformer doll even uses a knockoff of the famous transformation sound effect when Marty transforms.
• One recurring character is a yellow-jumpsuited reporter named May.
• The Wizard is heavily inspired by The Wizard - he wields a Power Glove like Lucas, and eventually quotes the infamous "It's so bad" line. In addition, once you first use your magic binder, he quotes a Nintendo slogan from the era by declaring "Now you're playing with power!"
• The glove is a massive reference to Michael Jackson; using it causes Marty to moonwalk to the enemy, then hit them while shouting like Michael.
• Marty's school has two transfer students that are essentially Care Bears with the proportions of actual bears. In addition, a pseudo-Care Bear plush is an item; it lets Marty perform a Care-Bear Stare.
• In the bathrooms at the school, there are posters featuring Woodsy Owl, with a peculiar variant of his slogan:
  "Give a hoot - flush your toots!"
• Using the Floppy Disk to finish off an enemy prompts their sprite to turn into a BSOD, with a fanfare that deliberately resembles one from 90's versions of Microsoft Windows.
• The game opens with a predetermined boss fight with the Big Bad which preceded by the line "enough talk, have at you!" a reference to the memetic opening of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
• Benjamin and Nimajneb, the bosses of episode 2, have fighting stances clearly based off of Ryu/Ken. Compounding this, losing to them changes the usual text to "You were K.O.ed". Their names are also a reference to Tomax and Xamot from G.I. Joe.
• Episode 3 starts off with a knockoff of McGruff the Crime Dog named LaBeouf. His slogan is "Just say nononononono to drugs!", referencing the actor's tendency to drop Rapid-Fire Nos.
• A man in a trash can in episode 3 declares "It's a secret to everybody!"
• In episode 2, one of the kinds of posters on the walls is that of a rainbow with "Friendship Is Magic" under it.
• A couple of businesses in chapter 3 have names like "Tom's Cruises" (they even have a slogan saying "The Top Guns of travel"), "Kenny Log-Ins Cyber Cafe", "Read Richard's Books", and "John's Candy". There's also an S-Mart.
• The local McDonald's Expy is called RcAstley's. Their slogan is "Never Gonna Give Us Up".
• Names of the achievements include...
  • "1.21 Gigawatts"
  • "16 Flames"
  • "Albert"
  • "Ben's Only Hope"
  • "Better Off Dead"
  • "Break On Through"
  • "Chester Copperpot"
  • "Everybody Hates Chris"
  • "I'd Buy That For A Dollar"
  • "It's A Trap!"
  • "Jump Street"
  • "Lundgren"
  • "Macchio"
  • "Norris"
  • "Number Five Is Alive"
  • "Rise From Your Grave"
  • "Stallone"
  • "The Only Way To Win"
  • "Thunderdome"
  • "Total Protonic Reversal"
  • "Tyson"
  • "Van Damme"
  • "Why'd It Have To Be Snakes?"
  • "Wild Stallions"
  • "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out"
• In chapter 3, you find a Snoozer who complains about both the BadBots, and HOOD soldiers invading the dam. Then he asks "What next, evil sentient tomatoes?".
• Powertron cubes bare a striking resemblance to the cubes that Aperture Science tends to use in their test chambers.
• One car you see in town bears a strong resemblence to a DeLorean. It also has "88" on the front hood.
• In episode 5, Labeouf The Crime Dog says that an air traffic controller told him he picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
• In the Jean Claude Van Dam is T-Shirts with "Save The Clock Tower" written on them.

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