Shout Out / The Sims

aka: The Sims 2

Overall / Unclassified

• In The Sims Castaway Stories spinoff, the "Shipwrecked and Single" game features a island idol that the playable Sim names "Spaulding," also in reference to Cast Away^note "Spaulding" is a brand of basketball; "Wilson" in Cast Away was the brand of volleyball.
  • After conveniently finding a machete buried on the beach very early on in the campaign, the Sim player character will jokingly wonder about also finding a hockey mask and abandoned summer camp for young and promiscuous teens.
• Someone on the Sims Social team appears to be a Red Dwarf fan, judging by the "Rimmer Games Table" from winter 2012 (Arnold Rimmer was obsessed with Risk).
• Seeing as it's a Spin-Off of this game, MySims gets a few references here and there. Amongst others, Travis, Liberty, Summer, and Vincent Skullfinder have appeared as characters (although Vincent was already dead).

The Sims

• The See Me Feel Me Pinball Machine is named after a song from The Who's Tommy.
• The cheatcode for more Simoleons was "Rosebud."
• One of the Haute Couture attires for the women in Superstar is really similar to the jacket Cher wears during the party scenes on Clueless.
• There is a jazzman named W.C. Friendly.
• One item in the Makin' Magic expansion pack is the "StinkSmasher 20X6".

The Sims 2

• In the final job in the Law career track your sim becomes the law.
• One of the jobs in the adventurer career track is "Multi-Regional Sim of Some Question."
• The "Brick Roll" floor tile from Mansions and Garden, and one of the roof tiles promises to "Never to let you down".
• The Prisoner of Azkalamp is the name of a cheap outdoor light in The Sims 2.
• The The Prototype X94 "Angsternaut" Robosuit. The description also has shades of Humongous Mecha in general (and possibly Gurenn Lagann in particular).
  • The French version instead gives a shoutout to Star Wars.
  • But wait, there's more! This game also has a trio of outfits that bear an uncanny resemblance to Evangelion plugsuits the main characters wear. That you can wear as well. Clearly Will Wright is a NGE fan.
  • The game files refer to those suits as motor racing suits - with oddly-placed plugs.
  • With this screenshot◊ the Shout-Out may as well be confirmed.
• There's another outfit that is basically Neo's outfit from The Matrix, complete with black trenchcoat.
• For toddlers, there's a Rip Co. Wobbly Wabbit Head toy
• Socially deprived Sims in interact with a large, imaginary, one-eyed rabbit...
  • In a similar vein, Knowlege Sims at the end of their rope will start holding conversations with a volleyball.
  • TV shows on the SBN (Sim Broadcasting Network) include: Not-Oprah, Pseudo-Survivor, Un-ER, and the Pleasant twins in some kind of generic teen drama.
  • The windmills that you can use to reduce your Sims' energy bill have a buy-mode description that suggests that you not try to use them to cool off, as "they do not work that way."
• There is a wallpaper in The Sims 2: Pets called "Jackson Stonewall"
• Also in Pets is "The Tahdis Wardrobe." The description claims it has a "deceptively spacious interior"
• In Apartment Life expansion there's a set of wallpapers whose descriptions are lines from Macbeth. This expansion pack introduced witches so it's fitting. Also doubles as a Genius Bonus.
• One of the paintings that can be purchased features a red-haired woman in a red dress on a blue background. The description states that it "illustrates the eternal struggle between red and blue"
• And of course, there is Thoggus.
• One of the wall hangings is titled "The Fifth Element"
• There's also the "Unlikely Whale Sculpture".
• One of the travel destinations in Bon Voyage features a local dish called Pineapple Surprise.
• A series of tile floors is called "Tiler Durden."
• A set of outfits for teen girl Sims look a lot like Avril Lavigne's early wardrobe style (tanktop, baggy pants, tie, exposed bra and underwear waistband).
• The Grim Reaper biography, which can only be seen using a hack or SimPe, mentions that his favorite band is Styx.
• In the chance card for the first level of the science career (Test Subject), your sim has to choose between taking a blue licorice or a red licorice, another reference to The Matrix.
• The Sports hobby lot in FreeTime is called Dreamy Fields.
• A chance card for the Recruit job in the Military career references a recruit sneaking a donut in his footlocker.

The Sims 3

Base Game/Unclassified

• Overall, it is quite obvious which works the creators of the game were especially fond of; the references to Back to the Future, Discworld, A Song of Ice and Fire and Arrested Development, for example, are numerous throughout the game and its expansion packs.
• To literary classics. Old (and often valuable) books such as The White Flag of Courage can be found while searching catacombs or bought.
• Claire Ursine. Remember Claire Bear from TS1 Unleashed?
• Also, likely to the joy of many a Troper - There is a Never Nude trait, as well as a Funke family.
  • Gobias Koffi, as well, is practically a walking shout out to Tobias.
• And the "Bethany and Miranda" painting, which shows a little girl hugging Death, which will surely delight Discworld fans.
• One of the Large Paintings you can make is undoubtedly an alien done in the style of Spore.
• Also in the painting section, you can find a movie poster featuring a clear The Breakfast Club Expy.
• On one of the standing mirrors (The Reflectinator), the description states that it has 1.21 gigajoules of power. Just a coincidence?
• The icons for the Workaholic-only Likes Work/Missing Work moodlets are a red stapler.
• One of the new books you can buy is Oh, the Destinations You'll Briefly Visit.
  • Toddlers can also read Bluish Eggs with a Side of Pastrami and Frank I'm Not.
• From level five and up of the music skill, there's a chance that your musically gifted Sim will play the Tristram theme.
• Look at the description of the Festus 44 stove in Buy Mode. It ends with: "You've got one question to ask yourself; 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?"
• An NPC named Pilar Ternera may show up in your neighborhood.
• This may be accidental, but a pop song on the radio has an extremely Tsundere female singer, with so much switching between a nice voice and a rip-your-head-off-with-my-bear-hands that you may have a severe case of Mood Whiplash. Being translated into gibberish, all of it is mainly inaudible, except for one word in the chorus, which sounds very similar to 'Asuka!'
  • Another pop song sounds very similar to Maroon Five's "This Love", and to drive the point home, the track is even titled "Ramooned".
• One of the pizza delivery boys is named Torgo Pendragon.
• Other books your Sims can purchase are A Game of Thorns, The Warlock of Palladia and Where's Bella?.
• There is a seven book children's series, Jimmy Sprocket, which includes Jimmy Sprocket and the Squishy Stone and Jimmy Sprocket and the Chalice of Lichens.
• One of the books your Sims can read is called To Mock A Killing Bird.
• When writing a novel, two of the default Sci-Fi titles are Blender's Fame and 1948.
• Another default title when writing a novel is "2000 Glorious Moons," a reference to Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns.
• If your Sim is new to the Medical career, he/she can be pushed into a garbage bin by the evil janitor.
• In Sunset Valley, there is a family of powerful crime lords and their goody-good daughter. Their last name? "Alto".
• An opportunity for writers is to write a science-fiction book, the title of the opportunity is "To Boldly Go".
• If a house has a chessboard, a sim can play chess with the Grim Reaper in order to save the life of another sim.

World Adventures

• You can find a peculiar stone in Egypt: Tiberium. Let that sink in for a bit. (EA Games owns both franchises.) Get it Spire Cut for a mere §6,500, leave it out for a bit, and it will grow into a large crystal worth §30,000+ .
  • Also, leave any form of it in a Sim's inventory for a significant time and they get a moodlet (Visceroidal Nausea) with special flavor text that furthers the shout-out.
  • One opportunity has you deliver a sample to the science lab, and when you do a message comes saying you met a representative called Mr. Kane.
• The 'explorer' townies who can spawn in the three travel destinations are all Indiana Jones and Lara Croft expies.
• Each country has a bookstore. All 3 have a Jimmy Sprocket book available to buy. China also has a book titled The Dragon's Age.

Ambitions

• The Time Machine has a few. One that stands out is that, when traveling to the future, you can get a message about your sim arriving amidst a big crowd, but that nobody noticed your sim because everybody was cheering about a shepherd that saved the galaxy from an ancient god-machine.
  • Also from the Time Machine, if you travel to the past, it may tell you about not catching dysentery on The Oregon Trail.
  • Another Time Machine Shout-Out - your Sim spots a white rabbit, but wisely decides to leave it for "some other sucker" to chase.
  • Sims will occasionally return with books. Titles can include Gone with the Solarwind, SimCity 7940 Tips and Tricks and War and More War.
• While exploring a hole, a Warden sometimes helps your Sim not die from a monster.
• The whole Ghost Hunter career contains a mix of Ghostbusters and Luigi's Mansion shoutouts.
• The first in a series of tasks the science facility sends to an inventor is to help them develop a self-sustaining and compact energy source, by finding a piece of palladium for them.

Late Night

• The description for the 'Kickin' Strobe Light' states that you can "torture your Sim with 1.21 gigawatts of pure pulsing power".
• One of the vampires in the Bridgeport neighborhood is called Belisama Hemlock, which sounds similar to the protagonist of a certain teen-novel series. Her mother Morrigan shares her name, appearance, and personality with a witch from an unrelated video game.
• One of the houses in Bridgeport is named Back to the Fuscia.

Pets

• The Pets expansion includes a small wooden horse called 'Arya's Pony' whose description features the phrase "Winter is coming.".
• One of the moodlets for pets is "I Can Haz?"
• One of the trailers has Grim Reaper riding a white horse.
• One default name for a fantasy novel is “The Sword of Aaagh”.

Supernatural

• The "Night Owl" trait is described thusly:
  "Some Sims love the night life and occasionally feel the need to boogie..."
• The zombies have an odd habit of destroying your garden and dancing like it's 1982. (As with the Tiberium example above, EA owns both The Sims and Plants vs. Zombies.)
• There are several methods for making vampires immune to sunlight: A lifetime reward, a potion from the alchemy skill and fairy plasma. Side effects? Sparkling. Also, vampires can confess to their romantic interests that they watch them in their sleep.
• Among the Achievements there's Swan Dive, which requires a non-supernatural female sim to make out with a vampire, break up with him, make out with a werewolf, break up with him and then marry a vampire.
• The new neighbourhood is called Moonlight Falls, which sounds a lot like Mystic Falls
• Among the new households there are three witch-sisters; Chester Swain and his supernatural-curious daughter Bailey, Marigold Maldano, an orphan who lives in her deceased grandmother's house and recently discovered her fairy ancestry, the Durwood family, involving a pair of parents, the mother of which is a witch, their two children, and the mother's mother, who does not like her son-in-law, and Chauncey Grimm, who slowly blunders into his ancestors' fairy tales. One of the "Roomies" households consists of a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire.
• Moonlight Falls features a beach titled La Shove.
• Sims can now travel with portals disguised as English phone booths.
• One spell turns wardrobes into portals.
  • Another creates apples. If it fails (or if the witch is evil) the result is a poisonous apple that puts Sims who eat it to sleep.
  • A high level witch can cast a Restoration Ritual and clean up an entire house quickly.
• The buy mode contains a bust of a certain Marianne Hatsfordshire, who became known for encouraging people who decidedly don't own TVs to go out and flaunt that to everybody as often as possible.
• The face in the Magic Mirror looks like the one from Shrek (itself a Shout Out to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs).
• One of the moodlets for the Werewolf is Hungry Like the Wolf.
• The jelly beans are likely a reference to Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans. Also, broomriding tricks.
  • The MacDuff family seems to be an expy of the Weasleys (which makes Joe the Percy of the family).
• On nights where the moon is full, everything gets an eerie green aura and supernatural beings suddenly appear.
• The Cowboy Angel painting's description is a reference to the song Ghost Riders in the Sky.
• Some of the new furniture is made by Wickerman's Fine Furniture. Owned by Nicholas Wickerman.
• New books available to purchase include: True Fairy Tales by Chauncey Grimm, Who Do Vampires Suck? by Cole Stoker, The Sandwich Horror by Howard L.Phelps, The Silence of the Llamas by Harrison J.Thomas, Seances and Sixth Sense Abilities by Jane Houston, Plan 8 from Lunar Lakes by Woody Edwards, Spellslinger: Have Wand, Will Travel, Accumulating Orgone With The Wind...

Seasons

• One of the Halloween costumes is a hockey mask.
• And there is a Roman Holiday firework cannon.
• On the side of the face painting booth is a poster showcasing the various designs your Sims can have painted on them, as well as a man who looks remarkably similar to Bob Ross.
• If you use the cheat 'buydebug' you can purchase an alien 'car', the description of which references Star Trek.

University Life

• The launch trailer has a ridiculous number of shout outs to internet memes, including Lazy College Senior, Ehrmagerd, Overly Attached Girlfriend, and College Freshman.
• Several pop culture phenomenons have been added, including duckfacing, Gangnam Style, and others.
• Some of the NPCs in the University World are Shout Outs: Garrison Fort who looks, dresses and share traits of Indiana Jones; Leonard Shelly; Level 5 rebel Che Justice, among others.
• Sims who reach level 2 in the rebel social group receive a "Banky's Street Art Kit". The name alludes to the famous Banksy.
• No reference other than in name, but a death-related moodlet is titled There and Back Again.
• If you take a closer look at the cinema in the university neighbourhood, you will find posters hung on the wall modelled after real-world movies, including:
  • Black Swan (2nd from left)
  • Iron Man (4th from left)
  • District 9 (6th from left)
• One of the new outfits is the Eleventh Doctor's iconic suit and bowtie.
• New books are available from the book store: Cosmology: The Universe Is A Really Really Big Place by Tyson O'Neil, The Vampire Blogs by J.L.Conners, Zombies Ate My Plants, Day of the Plantsims by Lucas Wyndham, Training in the Rain...
• Many of the comics are fairly blatant about this: Fish Master, Archie Archer and Quickfoot (all by George Mortimer); Doctor Macabre, Mighty Mutants, The Inedible Bulk, Freedom Family, and Plasma Bug (all by Stan Powers); Major Patriot and Cyber Skateboarder by Kirby Simon; Neo-Knight Noir by William Kane; Awesome Woman by Olive Marston; Toadsim Ninjas by Kevin Peters...

Generations

• The Simlife goggles have several shout outs to different franchises.
  • The Sci Fi adventure comes up with a popup saying 'Blasters on stun'. An obvious shout out to Star Trek as they often said 'Phasers on stun' before beaming down into a dangerous situation.
• If a female Sim is elected Prom Queen the description in her moodlet will read "My classmates like me! They really like me!"

Island Paradise

• One of the items is called the Flameo Firepit. In the description itself, it even reads "Flameo, by Hotman."
• There are mermaids named Triton King and Mia Azul who look like King Triton and Ariel. If a Sim explores a cave, a few messages may tell them that they found a dinglehopper or "How many wonders can one cavern hold?" Mia's in-game biography says she used to be a good singer.
  • In the same vein, Ariel Walsh looks very similar to Ariel. She is not a mermaid (anymore) and is friends with a male Sim (whose household name is "The Prince"), but he has eyes for another.

Into the Future

• One of the families in Oasis Landing, the "Formerly the Plains Express Household", bears a resemblance to Futurama characters. The household is made up of Fryderik Rama, Lilah Turni, and Bend0 the Plumbot.
• The Time Traveler, Emit Relevart, and one of the sims in Oasis Landing - Martin McFleet, who can occasionally be seen playing his guitar, - are a clear reference to Back to the Future. Also, Windcarvers=hoverboards.
  • One of the new hovercars is a "DeLorraine". Its description states that it must not go above 87 MPH.
• Oasis Landing is chock full of references, really. There's a Bannister family, two unrelated families that contain little Leina and Loki (and there's also Bennet Obi, who lives alone), the Castle family, a female homeless sim named Samantha Loo...
  • Some of the future fashions and designs are also very reminiscent of The Fifth Element
  • Same goes for The Hunger Games. Utopia kinda looks like the Capitol (but is obviously much nicer, considering that the world of Sims is not a Crapsack one). There's also a new beard that looks like Crane's signature one from the film.
• Tribble nanites and the three-level holochess set.
• Several of the Future Tech appliances are labeled as being from Tardisian Industries. Including the Sonic Shower.
• When randomizing a new Plumbot's name, suggestions include, among others, Data, Loar, Optimus Even, X-1338, 2B-OrNot-2B, Ausem-O, Johnathan 5, Kryten, I, PLumbot, Marvin P.A., J.A.R.V.I.X., P.A.L. 9000, The Manwitch, B3ND4R, P-3C0 and 4 8 15 16 23.
• Two new objects in Buy Mode: the Tannhauser Gate Floor Lamp and the Tears in Rain Ceiling Lights.
• One of the new hovercars is called Liara.
• The Llamas in Legion poster bears a striking resemblance to Power Rangers-style transformations.
• A SimCity (2013) poster is available in Buy mode.
• Futuristic furniture includes the Soylash Grinder Food Processor, the Gojira Picnic Table, the Vulcan's Cauldron Fire Pit and the BactaBath Bathtub.

Downloadable Content

• One of the lights in the Futureshock furniture set is the Comrade Cube.
• A road in Lunar Lakes is named Ender's Lane. Another is Hyperion Highway.
• The Fifth Avenue Fashions set (60s inspired clothing) is presented by two female sims bearing a striking resemblance to Joan Holloway and Betty Draper
• The neighborhood Midnight Hollow has the Yates family, consisting of a young man and his elderly mother...
  • Also in Midnight Hollow there's the Flynn family, consisting of three rich orphans and an evil impostor posing as their uncle.
• The "Immaculate Marcos" peep-toe shoes available at the Sims Store is a thinly-veiled reference to former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, who gained notoriety for her immense shoe collection.
• Most of the pre-made Sims in the Roaring Heights neighbourhood are expies or Lawyer-Friendly Cameo parodies of real-world people and fictional characters from the Golden Era, namely Francisco Battista, Frank Astare, Judy Rogers, Michael Dandy, Olivier Harbucks and Shirley Templeton, among others.

The Sims 4

• The Zero-G Training Bag's art depicts the button combination for Ryu's Hadoken.
• You can buy a poster of a book-turned-movie series called Henry Puffer.
• When a Sim is in a 'fine' mood for 48 hours, they get a moodlet saying "What Makes a Sim Turn Neutral?".
• One of the upgrades you can install in a motion gaming mat is an eMotion Engine. Which is kinda ironic since the motion gaming mat was clearly inspired by the Wii.^note Or maybe it's a nod to the Playstation 2 EyeToy, which predates the Wii. EA remembered because several The Sims games for the PS2 actually supported the accessory.
• One of the lines a possessed sim in Strangervile can say is "(The) Mother is love, mother is life".
• Suspiciously titled novels:
  • Chasing the Quadruple Rainbow.
  • The First Unicorn, by "Pete Corgi".
  • The Little Train that Couldn't. The description tells readers that the book will prepare young children for the disappointment and failures of real life.
  • The Lord of the Swings.
  • A Game of Groans, by Greg Q. Q. Vartin. "Characters groan as one by one they perish, and with the plethora of viewpoints, interwoven storylines, and plot twists, you too will groan as you try to keep it all straight."
  • On the same note, A Game of Musical Chairs: A Song of Hot and Cold, by Geoff S. S. Marlin. Bonus points for also being a double shout-out to Katy Perry, whose song "Hot N Cold" appeared in The Sims 2 and who featured prominently in The Sims 3's Showtime expansion and Sweet Treats stuff pack.
  • The Frequently Ending Story
  • The 50 Shades on My Windows.
    • Twelve or so Swatches of WooHoo.
  • Where the Boardwalk Ends, by Shelly Silverman.
  • Atlas Hugged.
  • The Chronicles of Rodiek.
  • Multiple parodies of The Hunger Games.
    • The Glutton Spiel.
    • The Bladder Games.
    • The Plunder Games, by Zane Trollins. At this point, even the game was noticing a trend.
    "It's another death arena in another near-future apocalypse as a young woman must battle to... wait a second, how many parodies of this did we make?"
  • The Sauntering Dead. "The dead have returned, and they are in no particular hurry to eat your brains!"
  • Lucas Dark and The Increasingly Unlikely Series of Coincidences, by Lucas Dark.
  • The Spy Who Loved Measles.
  • The Swift and the Angriest.
  • Love in the Time of Sandwiches
  • How I Dumped Your Father. "Kids, this story involves corgis, a slap bet, and a convincing Bella Goth impersonator. Buckle up!"
  • The books about baking are written by Bill Barretta, Frank Oz, and The Swedish Chef.
  • The first two Gardening Skill books are written by Wacky Daniel, referencing Crazy Dave. The flavor text for both adapt his Catchphrase and his rambling.
• The flavor text for "Write Children's novel" being "You know, for kids!", a shout-out to The Hudsucker Proxy.
• One of the moodlets a sim can get from watching the kids network on TV is Pirates and Pineapples. Hmmm. where have I seen pirates and pineapples come together before?
• The "romance" TV show option is very clearly inspired by Downton Abbey, down to familiar shots of the staff in front of the house as visitors drive by, a Violet Crawley-like old woman in the family, and going so far as to parody Matthew's death by car accident by showing a man drive off only for his car to explode.
• If you make your Sim take medicine when they're healthy, they gain the moodlet whose flavor text reads "This is your Sim. This is your Sim on prescription drugs. Any questions?".
• One of the rarer animals you can catch for your sim's collections is the Hypnofrog.
• The constructor robot at the lab in the Get To Work expansion pack bears strong resemblance to an Aperture Science personality core. Additionally, it talks like R2D2^note The latter is unsurprising given that EA not only has the video game rights to the franchise, but have also released Star Wars costumes into the game to drum up interest for Episode 7.
• One of the illnesses Sims can contract in Get To Work is Bloaty Head.
• Noxious elderberries. Yes, the shout-out is a rather obvious one given how the word noxious is usually used to indicate foul smell.
• Among the teas you can brew are Pitch Black and Earl Grey, Hot.
  • Another tea-related shout out: Sims can get a flirty moodlet from drinking tea that mentions "(making) you want to say 'Hello, Nurse!'"
• Sims with the Geek trait can debate about which captain is better.
• The Get Together expansion introduces a pair of dueling clubs called the Paragons and the Renegades.
• The workplace in the Business career is called Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.
• With the Movie Stuff pack, Sims can get a "Cinema Sin'' moodlet that makes them Angry, with claims to be able to "list all the movie's mistakes, plot holes, and bad dialog in less than ten minutes".
• The "Vampire Nexus" lot trait introduced with the Vampires game pack states that "a dark void envelops this place in the upside down."
• When describing getting a voodoo doll through high-level Mischief skill on the loading screen: "What power? The power of voodoo. Who do? You do!"
• Vladislaud Straud, a premade vampire from the appropriately named Vampires Game Pack, has "Master Vampire" as his Lifetime Wish, and looks suspiciously like another Master...
  • "Straud" may also be a shoutout to the Dungeons and Dragons module Curse of Strahd.
• In the Jungle Adventure game pack, a can of Dr. Parker's Spider Repellent is all you need to keep those nasty creepy crawlies from waking you up at night.
• If your Sim has a career in business, you may get a notification asking if you want to retaliate when your coworker plays a prank and puts your stapler in jello.
  • Your Sim will also be promoted to Assistant TO the Manager before being promoted to Assistant Manager.
• The caption for the Comedy skill states that "As soon as one realizes that everything is a joke, being a comedian is the only thing that makes sense." Man, that sounds familiar...
• With Seasons, there's the "Real Square Shady" umbrella.
• One of the potential relationship statuses that two Sims can have is "Bad Romance."
• In Get Famous, successfully bribing the bouncer will give you the dialogue "I'm not like a regular bouncer. I'm a fun bouncer."
• Also in Get Famous, if a Sim's an Actor with the A.I. Staffing Agency, they would get a chance to be given a reminder the agency ran 14 million simulations of their next acting gig, with the ones where they practiced their scenes would give them resounding success.
• In Get Famous, the "Celebrity Disguise" consists of a baseball cap and sunglasses, just like the usual disguise Marvel Cinematic Universe characters wear when going undercover, as observed by The "I'm Just A Civilian" Starter Pack◊ meme.
• In "Island Living", mermaids occasionally make a sound similar to fish mouths.
• The trailer for Realm of Magic is jam-packed with Shout Outs to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. It's set to K. Flay's "Blood in the Cut", the song used in the trailer for Sabrina's first season, and the featured Sim, with his blond hair and red jacket, looks uncannily like a male version of Kiernan Shipka.
  • The cut and length of his jacket and his messy hair can also bring to mind Newt Scamander.
• Also in Realm of Magic, a wicked witch named L. Faba is the Sage of Mischief Magic.
• One of the items included in Get to Work is a Cat Loves Food Inc. Warming Rack. This could be a nod to three different things, either the Dragon Ball Z Abridged segment that popularized it, the Dragon Ball Z dub that they were parodying, or the original 1980s commercial it originated in.
• In Discover University, the Secret Society's salute resembles the Diamond salute.
• If you have City Living installed, one of the character creation questions is 'My interest in politics is...', with one of the possible responses being 'measured by medieval serial dramas'.
• In Snowy Escape, one of the pre-made sims living in the Japan-inspired winter resort town of Mt. Komorebi is a teenage girl named Kaori Nishidake, who shares her name, her cheerful personality, and her love of snowboarding with one of the playable characters in the SSX series (also made by EA).
• In Get Together, one of the child Sims from a Nordic themed family is named Elsa and even sports the exact same hairstyle as her younger self.
• When 'cook together' was added into the game, not one but multiple positive moodlets associated with it were references to Too Many Cooks.
  Cooking Memories (From Feeling Close with Someone Nearby): [Sim] is remembering it takes a lot to make a stew; a pinch of laughter, a scoop of Sims, and a dash of love to make it nice! Sometimes having too many cooks is just what you need.
  Pinch of Salt and Laughter (From Feeling Close with Someone Nearby): They say too many cooks will spoil the broth, but remembering all those cooking jokes fills [Sim] with laughter.
• A death introduced in Cottage Living is your Sim being attacked by a rabbit after aggravating it for the last time. The animation for this looks very familiar.
  • Also from Cottage Living, do not abuse the chickens.
• One of the names a skeleton temple guardian can spawn with in Jungle Adventure is Sans.
• When exploring space with the rocket ship, a Sim can encounter a small green alien who speaks with odd grammar, just like Yoda.
• The Werewolves expansion slipped in two items that take a nod to Final Fantasy XIV.
  • The "Racked Teak-a Greatshelves" is a reference to the Rak'tika Greatwood, a forest area in the Shadowbringers expansion known for its background music having the memetic "La-HEE!" that begins it. The flavor text also references the expansion's main theme's lyrics.
  • The Seventh Confectioner's Calamity Firewood Rack is named after the Seventh Umbral Calamity, a major event that ended the original Version 1.0 and paved the way for 2.0, A Realm Reborn. The flavor text there, parodies a major (and spoilery!) speech from the Endwalker expansion.
  • The Growing Together expansion adds another reference, although a really dark one. One of the items in the expansion is an art board with various crayon drawings, one of which is a blue bird flying through space. The drawing is a reference to Meteion, the main antagonist of the Endwalker expansion, whose sisters searched the cosmos for intelligent life to ask them what gives life meaning, only to find them dead, dying, or destroyed upon arrival, starting the Final Days that drives the story of the first ten years of the game.
• In High School Years, when your Sim signs up for the Video Game Streamer job, they have the option to become a Virtual Youtuber, including a selection of avatars. One such avatar includes a character with white hair and a blue streak, wearing a green dinosaur outfit, creating a heavy resemblence to Gawr Gura wearing her Halloween outfit.
• In the City Living expansion, if you eat curry and then play basketball, you get a special Energized buff called "Hot Like Curry", a reference to NBA phenom Stephen Curry. In case it wasn't obvious, the icon for the buff is a basketball jersey with the number 30, Curry's number as a player for the Golden State Warriors.
• If you have the Eco Lifestyle pack, you can make a drink called "Beetle Juice". A Sim that drinks this three times in a row will spin around and turn into a ghost.
• In the Growing Together pack, there is a chair named Aldo Caldo's "The Nomad". The Aldecaldos are a nomad family (named after their founder of the same name) in both Cyberpunk 2077 and the tabletop RPG it’s based on.

The Sims: Medieval

• The Made a Few Simoles moodlet text reads "Boy, what a sound! How you love to hear that money clink! That beautiful sound of cold, hard cash!" Almost verbatim Lucy from A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• While patrolling the forest a possible chance card sees you encounter "two peculiarly dressed young men standing next to what appeared to be an upright metal and glass coffin". You have a choice of either pointing them to the castle, or sending them to the Judgement Zone. If you send them to the castle the result card mentions that "Excellent!" suddenly becomes common parlance throughout the kingdom.
• When Peterans pray, they perform the "Wax on, wax off" movements.
• The sword Animuslaver from the quest of the same name is an amalgam of the demonic sword Stormbringer and the One Ring.

The Sims Freeplay

• Achievements:
  • Proclaimer!: Drive a total of 500 miles.^note from The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).
  • Sim Town 90210: Have a town worth 12,000,000 Simoleons.
  • Wax On... and Wax Off: Have a pre-teen Sim get a Blue and Black belt in Karate, respectively.
  • Hello, Newman: Have a Sim with 1 nemesis.
  • Dr. Evil!: Have a town worth 1,000,000 Simoleons.

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