There are a large number of rips that go beyond simple melody or soundfont changes just for the heck of it. Sometimes the rip references or homages something else, subtly or otherwise.
- A very special instance: the True Ending of the reboot is entitled "Melody of the Heart", which is not only a translated lyric from Snow Halation, but is also the title of the Love Live! anime episode that features Snow Halation.
- Chad Warden's lines during his Heroic Sacrifice reflect Kittan's from Gurren Lagann.
Chad: So... This is the power of the MF Like Button... Not bad... Not bad at all... PS Vita... I'm coming to see you. - The Think Music
rip from the Family Feud SNES game is a huge one to TASVideos, specifically this video. - The Alpha Mix of the Super Mario Bros. 3 Underground theme plays the Peter Gunn theme and eventually transitions to "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" from The Lion King. This is an obscure reference to a sequence in The Lion King 1½ where the music keeps switching between these two tracks during Timon and Pumbaa's attempts to stop Simba from falling in love with Nala.
- Slot Machine (Beta Mix) is done in the style of SrPelo's X is... videos.
- Likewise, Cossack Sandvich uses his Team Fortress 2 doodles and style.
- Likewise, Cossack Sandvich
- Beware the Forest's Mushrooms (Adventure Mix) from Super Mario RPG is a reference to the song "Crystal Kingdom" from the McElroy Brothers' The Adventure Zone podcast that has a similar melody (as Griffin points out in the podcast clip played at the end of the rip).
- Menu - Garfield and all other Garfield rips are an homage to the Garfielf videos.
- The joke behind Title Theme - Sunman is easy: it's "Superman" by Goldfinger. The reference is harder: Sunman was originally planned to be a Superman game but the license fell through (and so did the game in the end).
- Intro (OST Version) - Mega Man 2 is actually a cover of The Adventures of Duane & BrandO's Mega Man 2 rap, mm2wood style.
- That's Enough from Jet Set Radio is mashed up with the Crazy Bus song from Arthur, and eventually the more well-known Crazy Bus music.
- Gerudo Valley - Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is done in the style of the "How To Play [insert Smash character here] 101" videos, only the character in question is Smol Nozomi.
- Main Theme - Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch is a parody of Know Your Moves pretending that Robbie Rotten is the final DLC character in the game.
- ラスト (Lust) - Miku Flick is (possibly) a spoof of Pooh's Adventures of all freaking things, and to add to the insanity the composer is listed as "PICKLE RICK!!!".
- Dream Land (Beta Mix) - Super Smash Bros. is a Nutshack parody of the "This Video Contains X" videos from the heyday of YouTube Poop, in which some YTP fad was pitch shifted to the tune of Dream Land 64's music.
- In keeping with the Sonic Mania + Totino's Running Gag, Competition Menu - Sonic Mania is a parody of the "Name 10 Things That Aren't X meme, which (like the Totino's song) was sparked by Tim & Eric.
- This rip alludes to how Ravel's "Bolero" was intended to be the title screen music for The Legend of Zelda, but the creators found out that its copyright hadn't expired at the time.
- Investigation ~ Opening 2004 from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations is a Phoenix Wright parody of the infamous "Steamed Hams" scene from The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield".
