Shout Out / Something About

In General

• The series itself makes a load of references to SiIvaGunner. In fact, a lot of his songs are in the videos themselves. Sometimes it results in weird stuff like the World of Light getting invaded by Love Live! spirits.

Individual Episodes

• "Something about Monster Hunter World Part 3" has 2 notable references within the first minute: The first is Spongebob's pineapple amongst the growths on the top of the Rotten Vale's entrance, and the second is a corpse of Meat Boy amongst the numerous skeletons.
• "Something About Star Fox 64" has a segment that's a whole homage to Vaporwave, gratuitous Japanese included.
  • In the same episode, on Corneria, one of the screens shows a stylized advertisement for Brawndo.
• In "Something About Kirby's Adventure" Nightmare begging for his life uses the same "I'll give you one of my planets!" line that King Cold said to Trunks in Dragon Ball Z.
  • "Something About Kirby Super Star" has Mace Knight use the same text-to-speech voice as Moonbase Alpha, and references the "John Madden" and "aeiou" memes from motdef's videos. Yoshi also uses the Moonbase Alpha text-to-speech voice in "Something About Yoshi's Island" and "Something About Super Mario World", but references to any motdef memes are absent in those cases.
• When the Green Kir Bro turns Dark Meta Knight into curry, the Monster Hunter "So Tasty!" clip plays. When they each slowly take a bite, it's done in the same way as curry in Pokémon Sword and Shield.
• "Something About Super Mario World":
  • The start uses a clip of pannenkoek2012 saying "to answer that [question], we need to talk about parallel universes."
  • Also early on, Mario uses the Backwards Long Jump to rocket off the beach and into Dinosaur Land, slightly lampshading the insane speeds one can get with it by having a Twinkle in the Sky.
  • When Mario returns to Bowser's Castle, he speedruns through it accompanied by a sample of one of MetalKingBoo's "Mario Screaming" videos.
• Something About Fortnite: Battle Royale references the "Thanos Gun" quote from Dunkey's time with the game.
• In Legendary & Mythical Pokemon Battle Royale ANIMATED, the Simlish Entei speaks in when making volcanos erupt is the first set of lines spoken by The Dog in Ukinojoe's Dog of Wisdom.
• "Something About Super Metroid":
  • When Samus finds out Ridley's attacked the space station and taken the Metroid Hatchling, Jean-Luc Picard's iconic Big "NO!" from Star Trek: First Contact is used.
  • Samus approaches Ridley in a way that mirrors the memetic scene from Jojos Bizarre Adventure where Jotaro approaches Dio. Interestingly, Samus is in the villain's position.
  • Zebes is labeled "PLANET ZEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBE", referencing Deepercutt's Static Shock YouTube Poop "$tatic 5hock the rip-off of electro", specifically the pieces where Mr. Hawkins repeats "BEBEBEBEBE" over and over.
  • In the SAVE ending, the Etecoons and Dachora are revealed to be X Parasites in disguise. Since this doesn't have any basis in the games' canon^note X Parasites are never found on Zebes, and Adam specifically states that he scanned them and verified that they were not infected in Metroid Fusion, this appears to be a reference to the Game Theory video on the same topic.
• In "Something About Sonic the Hedgehog":
  • One of the Ball Hog Badniks is designed similarly to Peppa Pig.
  • When Dr. Eggman's glasses fall off, he's revealed to have the same black and red eyes as the Dr. Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
  • The animals inside the Badniks in Scrap Brain Zone in "Something about Sonic the Hedgehog" partially include Yoshi, Daroach, and a Rabbid.
  • Similarly, the drivers held up in traffic include Klonoa, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, Toe Jam And Earl, Ulala, NiGHTS, Ristar, and a Goomba from the Super Mario Bros. (1993) movie.
  • Sonic dresses up as Beat while defacing a statue of Robotnik to look like Shrek with crapped pants.
• "Something About Zelda Ocarina of Time Part 1":
  • When Link enters the Temple of Time, it still has a dramatic chanting music theme... to the tune of the The Flintstones.
  • The top triangle of the summoned Triforce shifts at the last second so that it's parallel to the bottom-left one. This nods back to a shibboleth on 4chan that attempts to out newbies by seeing if they can successfully create a Triforce with ▲ characters; most failures to do so result in the same configuration seen in the video.
  • Ganondorf reacts to the Triforce with audio from the intro to Mundial Ronaldinho Soccer 64, a bootleg version of International Superstar Soccer 64 themed around real-life Brazilian soccer players.
  • Ganondorf's dancing upon reaching the Triforce is rotoscoped from a viral gif◊ of a skeleton puppet.
  • In a blink-and-you-miss-it background moment, Crono, Lucca and Marle can be seen entering a house in Kokiri Forest.
• In "Something About Yoshi's Story" Cloudjin uses the same Badass Boast as Culex from Super Mario RPG.
• In "Something About Mega Man X", X checks the weapons he's acquired and his default energy pellets are labelled as "lemons" in reference to Egoraptor's Sequelitis video on the game.
• "Something About the Photon Aerospace Control Engineer" contains numerous references to Dead Space, such as the design of the engineer's suit and weapon, the ghosts resembling a mish-mash of corpses like the necromorphs, and the bloody writing saying to cut off their limbs, which is the primary way the necromorphs are killed.
• "Something About The Subspace Emissary":
  • In its Closed Captions, "Million Dollar Baby'd" appears on screen when Tabuu falls sideways and breaks his neck.
  • When Speedrunner Mario accepts Super Chili Dogs (Sonic)'s duel, he quotes Tai Long in Japanese.
    "Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!"
  • The narrator for the Versus Character Splash between Speedrunner Mario and Super Chili Dogs is reminiscent to the Skullgirls narrator.
• "Something About Mega Man X: Storm Eagle's Revenge" features Daft Punk among the citizens.
• "Something About Kirby and the Amazing Mirror": The 3rd thing Wiz pulls from his hat is Space Shuttle Atlantis, a nod to NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
• "Something About Zelda Ocarina of Time PART 2: The FOREST TEMPLE" features Phantom Ganon performing a Cover Version of "Suavemente" by Puerto Rican singer Elvis Crespo, rendered with text-to-speech vocals and MIDI backing.
• "Something About Undertale - Alternate Pacifist Route":
  • Toriel has a framed photo of Quote from Cave Story hanging on her wall.
  • Sans recites a number of catchphrases from real-world sitcoms during his introduction. In order, he prattles off "bazinga," "how you doin'," "did I do that," and "Lucy, you got some explaining to do." The only one that isn't a sitcom catchphrase is the first one, "yeowza."
  • The Lancer vase in Sans' house turns into a Mr. Saturn figurine when Papyrus shows up.
  • Mettaton's Incoming Ham introduction— bursting through a wall and shouting "OH YES!"— nods to the Kool-Aid Man's iconic schtick.
  • Mettaton EX is depicted with Squidward Tentacles' "even more handsome" face from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The Two Faces of Squidward".
• "Something About Pikmin SPEEDRUN": Several characters flash by too fast to see in various scenes, like a Lemming, Om Nom, a Slime, a Minish, or a Teensie.
• "Something About Street Fighter 2":
  • The sound and movement patterns of Vega climbing the fence are a reference to an infamous clip of Charlie Brown climbing a wire fence.
  • Several other Capcom characters board the plane that takes Ryu to fight Guile, like Ryu from Breath of Fire III, Athena Cykes, Air Man, Accel, and Amingo.
• "Something About Kirby 64":
  • Kirbo's flashback to the Egyptian enslavement of the Hebrews is represented with footage from The Prince of Egypt.
  • Kirbo using Spark Cutter to defeat HR-H is practically a Shot-for-Shot Remake of Raiden cutting off Metal Gear RAY's right arm in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The background music even plays Rules of Nature!
  • Endogeny's battle theme from Undertale plays when Adeleine is menaced by a Glom in Shiver Star's mall.
  • When Adeleine encounters the aforementioned Glom, her hair briefly spikes out in a similar fashion to Chihiro's hair when she first encounters the Stink Spirit in Spirited Away.
• "Something About Kirby's Dream Buffet":
  • As Meta Knight's gluttony gets the better of him, his body resembles No-Face's gluttonous form, especially as his mask becomes too small for it to cover his grotesque mouth. In addition, Meta Knight's obsession for chocolate culminates in him shouting "CHOCOLATE!"
• "Something About Pokemon Legends Arceus":
  • The scene where Dawn's Wyrdeer sinks into the mud uses audio from the infamously tragic scene from The Neverending Story. ARTAAAAAX!
• "Something About Buck Bumble":
  • The can of pesticide that Lardna Minch tries to use against Buck goes by the name "Shadow Legends".
• "Something About Helldivers II"
  • When the team are selecting their loadout while heading to Malevelon Creek, J1, K3 and M2 recite the exchange about the the Series 4 De-Atomizer and the Noisy Cricket from Men in Black.
  • In The Stinger, one of the Helldivers happens upon the control room from which Joel, a dog, is controlling the rate of the Automation's Bot Drops. Cue the "Dog Ending" exchange from Silent Hill 2... until Joel calls down a Bot Drop.

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