- Dirty Harry's "Do you feel lucky?" taunt gets a nod here courtesy of Bandit.
- The first panel of this strip has "Ominous Hummmmmmm" from a BH-209 that Doc levels at a cheater.
- This strip and the one that follows are both a Shout-Out to the 1971 movie, The Andromeda Strain.
- In the alternate version of this strip, found here◊, MythBusters gets a nod.
- This page delivers a shout to The Empire Strikes Back.
- This page is a shout to the Siege of Bastogne.
- There's also the "Webcomic of the Week" footnotes beneath the comics, which give shout out's to other webcomics that Doc reads.
- So that's who was willing to field Calvin's calls.
- With followup 13 years later.
- Jinx was introduced as having a more formal name of Jimmy, and in this strip his last name is revealed to be Olsen.
- In this strip there's a sign on the counter saying "Beware of the Leopard". Likely a H2G2 reference.
- This strip has a definite H2G2 reference with Roger yelling, "My towel! Where's my towel! How can I be a hoopy frood if I don't know where my towel is?!?" in the background of the second panel.
- The resolution of the second Fridgemonster arc is not only thematically similar in theme to Cowboy Bebop's "Toys In The Attic" episode, but Doc's homemade flamethrower is the Pyro's. It's even kept in a glass case with the Pyro's class symbol on it. A few strips later as he hunts the monster in the basement, Doc finds boxes of explosives including a case of Acme dynamite.
- I assure you we're open!
- "Not even any immured Italian jesters?"
- Apparently, Pirta and Jake are into Pepé Le Pew roleplay. But she refuses to paint herself black and white again.
- When Pirta mentions that she'd gotten the "PJ" nickname at a slumber party, Swampy asks if it also involved a yo-yo and pineapple.
- The 2004 Halloween story starts out with a pumpkin atop the desk Doc is sitting at. Carved onto the pumpkin are nods to Llewellyn from Ozy and Millie in the first strip, and the frown face symbol for Something*Positive in the next.
- During the 2011 Christmas arc the jackal in black tries playing Borogove with Doc. The titular bird originates from Jabberwocky.
- Courtesy of a snow catapult Doc gets blown off the screen with a big "POW!" and a yellow shirt with a black zigzag stripe across the lower part flying into view from off-panel.
- In reference to a marker that's been destroyed, Doc replies to the owner's question of whether it can be fixed with the "ex-parrot" quote from the parot sketch by Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- One of the earliest strips contains another Monty Python reference: Doc's insult of choice is the famous "Your father smelt of elderberries" line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- Another webcomic shout-out takes place here, when a kid with an apparently overactive imagination provides a pretty good summary of events (involving an uplifted polar bear cop) running at the same time in Schlock Mercenary. The kid himself is named Pete and looks a bit like Petey from Schlock Mercenary.
- Near the end of the "Pirta Plays Paintball" arc, we get a shout to the Star Wars: A New Hope "Storming the detention center" scene here.
- Roger dressed like a certain other BFG-loving raccoon.
- On a rage from not having enough caffeine, Doc throws a desk out the window of a highrise to shatter the glass, then steps up to the window to hose down the area below with a minigun, as done by the titular cyborg in Terminator 2: Judgment Day at the Cyberdyne facility.
- In the background of the third panel of this strip, the calendar on the wall features an image of Florence Ambrose from Freefall done by Mark Stanley, for the webcomic S.S.D.D..*
- The main cast of Freefall appear during the tournament arc as "The Savage Chickens". Followed by the Black Watch of Carry On, Tiger Knights from Nine to Nine, Slack Wyrms of Slack Wyrm, Twin Dragons and Atomic Robots from Twin Dragons and Atomic Robo, and finally the aliens and robots from Vexxarr.
- In this strip, Doc and Roger discuss potential (non-standard) materials to use for building paintball markers while drinking. Swampy, who "can't understand them when they're sober", let alone otherwise, suggests "Very small rocks!" as a shout-out to the "Burn the Witch!" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- The May 3rd, 2017 strip contains nods to a different webcomic in each panel, mentioning characters as people Miki has gone out with on dates:
- The first refers to the occasionally NSFW Furry Webcomic Swords and Sausages, specifically two of the main characters of the strip, Tor and Silver.
- Krosp from Girl Genius comes up as her second date.
- Pip from Sequential Art gets the final mention of the strip.
- The Emperor's New Groove gets a nod here, with Sandy wondering why they even have that button.
- Doc's caffeine addiction has led to a couple shout-outs to DC Comics. One to Shazam! when a cup of coffee brings Doc from "injured to normal", and another to The Flash, when Roger is explaining how Doc's Super-Speed doesn't result in Doc catching fire from air friction or getting more seriously injured.
- Doc builds a sapient and mobile coffee maker that looks a lot like the Daleks. If the fact it goes rogue immediately isn't enough, a "nutball with a scarf" is mentioned.
- The story arc “introducing Cara” starts in a bar which stocks, among other beers, Duff and Newton and Ridley - possibly the only shout-out to Coronation Street in any US webcomic
- Later, a certain bunny cop can be seen "try[ing] one of everything", just like the song says.
- While giving Cara a tour of the lab, they wind up in Sector 7-G, and later Hank Scorpio's Supervillain Lair.
- Miki greets her latest beau by shouting "DOGGY!" and rushing to hug him.
- Given a more explicit nod when "The Savage Chickens" show up for a game of paintball. Sam, naturally, immediately steals the flag and gets a mob chasing him.
- In this comic, Doc and Roger appear to have opened a portal through to Questionable Content if the “dinosaur-shaped espresso maker” is any indication.
- When Doc and Roger play golf here, Doc asks if they get to use gopher-shaped explosives. Roger replies that "The course owner was pretty specifically against that."
- One of the first-place prizes for the 2020-2021 paintball tournament was the Illudium Q-36 paintball gun.
- The crowd during "The Longest Day" arc includes a lot of recognizable characters, mainly from other webcomics:
- Here are:
- Dahnai from Genocide Man.
- Recently introduced Robin "Radar".
- "The Captain" from Kaspall.
- Genesis from Little Tales.
- Peanut from Housepets!.
- Poppy O'Possum.
- Tor from Swords and Sausages.
- Syrus "The Virus", from Exterminatus Now.
- Bug from Bug Martini.
- Lt. Kruger from Carry On.
- Vexxarr.
- Blanche Noir from Skin Deep.
- Sam Starfall from Freefall.
- Krystal from Star Fox games.
- Fox from Curtailed.
- Katt from Plush and Blood.
- Pip from Sequential Art.
- Rajirra from Prequel.
- Nin Wah from Commander Kitty, Autumn Pingo from Precocious, Black hat from xkcd and Humongulus from Girl Genius receive paint in this strip.
- Here are:
- Doc's repair of Cara's coffee machine is strongly reminiscent of Agatha Heterodyne's repair of the coffee engine, starting with a request for a Heppler wrench.
- Doc's "Rocky Road" ice cream has chunks of real flying squirrel in it.
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