The Runaway Guys/Shout Out

From Mario Party:
"Chugga: I got something to say, and I'm gonna get real close to the mic to say it. (Beat) Suck it, Slim."
 * Every time the boulder rolls down the path in DK's Jungle Adventure, Jon sings (or rather "duns", or "dunts", according to Chuggaa) the Indiana Jones theme, in reference to the famous scene in Raiders.
 * There are plenty of others, including references to The Protomen, Fallout, Metal Gear Solid, Unbreakable and Meat Loaf. They even mention that they talked with Medibot before recording DK's Jungle Adventure.
 * References are often made towards Slim Kirby, notably his Anti-Peach Song while, naturally, they're playing on Peach's Birthday Cake.
 * The biggest reference, when Chugga won by one coin (In Slim Kirby's Mario Party 5 LP, he lost by one coin):

"Jon, reading what Toad is saying:: But now, there's not a rainbow to be seen. Yes, it is sad. I wonder, can't we go back to the past? Chugga: To play the shitty games that suck ass?"
 * Whenever they play the minigame Crazy Cutter, they read it in the same way the in-game announcer of Crazy Taxi reads its title. (They once did the 'Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah' for the opening music (What I Want by The Offspring).)
 * In Mario's Rainbow Castle, episode 5:

"Chugga: Die princess! You don't belong in this world!"
 * Luigi's Engine Room, episode 3, ~2:12:

"Chugga: Good! Great! Awesome! Outstanding! AMAZING! All I did was press A. Jon: Thank you, Sonic Colors."
 * Yoshi's Tropical Island, episode 1:

"Jon: NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER! Tim: Trust your instincts!"
 * Also in Yoshi's Tropical Island, the game Box Mountain Mayhem is announced with an impression of The Gromble.
 * Jon makes a few jokes about Curleh Mustaches in some boards.
 * "Steeyyympy! I could KEES you!"
 * Jon sings the classic ROLLING STAAAAART in Wario's Battle Canyon. Chugga and NCS didn't know where it came from, to his disappointment.
 * In Eternal Star, the guys team up against the CPU in Tug O' War. Cue Chugga saying "the real superpower of teamwork!!".
 * On the last board, which features teleporters, they reference Electrical Beast shouting "TELEPORT!" in his distinctive accent.
 * And during the end of the preceding board, a reference to the "TOIM GODS."
 * This little token during the very last mini-game they played:

"Jon: Wario is really bad at fighting ghosts, he's been possessed like three times. Chugga: He's definitely no Raymond. Jon: Well, Everybody Loves Raymond."
 * "THE COLOR OF THE MUSHROOM THAT I STAND ON RIGHT NOW IS RRRRRRRRRRRROYAL green..."
 * From the first time they play Running of the Bulb:

"ProtonJon: TV Tropes just kinda had a heart attack."
 * Wario's Battle Canyon episode 2, when Nintendo Capri Sun lands on a Bowser space, Chugga exclaims "Welcome to die!"
 * Shout out to This Very Wiki:

"Jon: Beep beep! Beep beep! BEEP BEEP! Chugga: Honk honk. *high pitched and nasally* Honk honk! Jon: Thank you, Skeeter."
 * When they play Slot Car Derby at the beginning of DK's Jungle Adventure - Episode 3:

"Tim: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42! 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42!"
 * ZOMBIE CANCER!
 * Jon reffered to their "Anti-Peach Allegiance" as the He-man Women Haters Club
 * When Chugga and NCS fall off the track in Bobsled Run, Proton Jon asks if they had a Jamaican bobsled accident then asks if it's Too Soon afterwards.
 * "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?"
 * A couple of references to Legend of Zelda CD-i games from Chugga, including stating that "Bowser and his minions have seized the island of Kordai" in Wario's Battle Canyon.
 * About 2 minutes in to Bowser's Magma Mountain Episode 1, Jon starts talking about Mumbo Jumbo from Banjo-Kazooie's incantations and how Maffew from Botchamania talked to the guy that did the soundtrack and said that everything Mumbo said was a dick joke.
 * After everybody determines their turn order in Mario's Rainbow Castle and shouts what they got, Tim spouts off some numbers of his own.

From New Super Mario Bros Wii:
"Jon: Thanks, Maxwell!"
 * Someone comments that Yellow Toad's red and yellow colors after he gets a fire flower makes him look like Iron Man.
 * Josh: "I am Iron Toad!"
 * Jon reads Bowser Jr.'s letter as Mr. Burns.
 * Meet Josh Jepson!
 * They reference the Freelance Astronauts' own Let's Play of the game, in particular their Running Gag of honking a 'fail horn' every time someone has to use a continue.
 * When everyone but Proton Jon was in a bubble at the end of 2-4, right before the flagpole he put himself in a bubble, mirroring what happened in the Freelance Astronauts' LP at 8-1.

"Jon: I think we're about to pull a Freelance Astronauts."
 * In episode 16, Jon immediately recognizes the level as the same one where Ferr sang sea shanties while screwing around with the controllable platform in the Astronauts' LP. After NCS accidentally moves the platform into a lava pillar killing all four of the players, Jon even comments:

"Chugga: And now for something completely different."
 * When Chugga is the only one with a propeller hat, it's agreed that they need him to survive long enough to get the Coin, and thus can't try and kill him. Cue "I'll get you next time, Gadget! NEXT TIME!"
 * Shortly afterwards, while trying to time a tricky propeller hat jump: "Do it now! GET TO THE CHOPPA!"
 * Possibly unintentional: At 24:19 in the fourth episode, Tim says: "Jon's a homicidal maniac".
 * After helping Josh get a Propeller Mushroom, Chuggaa says they'll "show us the real superpower of teamwork!".
 * In the sixth episode, Tim is just getting the hang of the bubble mechanic, and hits the wrong button during their run through the castle. Amid the good-natured ribbing, where the others keep telling him that he came close, but didn't quite manage it, comes the line "Well you see, it disappoints Pokémon if they are photographed from behind..."
 * From the same episode...

"Josh: "Oh, hai, cannon!" Jon: "Oh hai, Mark!""
 * At one point, somebody mentions "Super Bummerman 2"
 * Jon: "Come with me if you want to live!"
 * In Episode 8:

"Jon: "Force to be reckoned with. Force-a-Nature! Oh shit!""
 * The guys bring up Classic Game Room in Episode 9, and mention Mark's love for the Vectrex.
 * Sir Ron Lionheart is mentioned in episode 10.
 * "Rock!" "Lobster!"
 * "Team Rocket's rockin'!"
 * "Secret Passage!"
 * "Can anybody find me somebody to jump on?"
 * From Episode 12 "he looked on the ground and found wepon"
 * Josh: "I can't wait to bomb some dodongos..."
 * "To the left, to the left, to the left, to the left!"
 * Nobody likes toasted mushrooms.
 * Episode 16: "Oh my Goodness Gracious Me." Possibly a reference to the program with the same name.
 * Episode 17, Part 1


 * Later, in the finale, Chuggaa says he's 'value to team'
 * During the final episode, Jon manages to get in one final reference to Steve the Trooper. This prompts Josh to call out: "Eh! Steve!"
 * The best time to wear a striped sweater... is all the time...
 * After the guys actually cooperate to beat a level, Chugga occasionally comments about "the real super power of teamwork!"
 * When someone else gets something wrong, Chugga is fond of shouting "WRONG!" in the same way as Lex Luthor in Superman Returns, and then following it up with "LEX WINS!" as a reference to Proton Jon's LP of Superman64.
 * In the intro to Episode 13, Tim quotes the Gregory Brothers' Charlie Sheen "Winning" song, but says "I was banging seven-pound rocks" rather than "seven-gramme rocks", prompting Jon to point out that that much cocaine would kill a man.
 * In Episode 15, Chugga comments that he bet his soul in a card game...a children's card game.

From Subspace Emissary:
"Tim: "It was because of the MORMONS.""
 * TELEPOR' MAWIO!
 * Again when Bowser appears in a cutscene. "GRA-HA-HA! THIS IS BOWSER 'ERE!"
 * Once the battle with Petey begins, Tim yells, "for BOSS TIME!"
 * Many references to Captain Planet are made during the beginning of the second stage.
 * Jon: Eat the food and be fat, Princess. Fat Princess
 * Near the start of Episode 4, When they point out that the timer skips from Three minutes to one minute, It is Handwaved as being due to Time Dimensions.
 * Tim references pcull44444 Let's Play of Metroid: Zero Mission. Sadly the other guys don't get the reference

"Chugga: Tonight, on Ridley's Believe It or Not!"
 * Jon refrences Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name", and the other two groan like he just made a bad pun.
 * "On the next exciting episode of Dragonball Z."
 * In episode 9, Jon and Chugga reference the Spirit Bomb's long charging time while the former spams Fox's side taunt.
 * In episode six, Chugga says "Open the door to the Hardware Store!" He and Tim immediately break into the Weird Al song.
 * Episode 7 starts off with Tim the Toolman.
 * Much like the Curleh Mustaches, Emile asks where Falco is at.
 * In Episode 9, Proton Jon does Slowbeef's Ridley voice.

"Chugga: Oh my God, it's my evil twin brother who got the good genes!"
 * Same episode, about the giant Diddy Kong:


 * In the level where Snake is introduced, Tim quips "The Twin Snakes!" in reference to there being two of Snake onscreen.
 * "Tongue..."
 * During that, Tim references the Tums commercial.

From Smash Bros Brawl Tournament:
"Donna: My Little Yoshi! Chugga: He's not so happy Jon: All the bronies are going to be super angry at me now."
 * From Jon's fight with Donna, after taking out Donna's first life they manage to fit two shout-outs in:

"SyKhotic: Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!"
 * After Jon beats SyKhotic by smashing him up into the sky:

From Mario Party 2:
"Chugga: It's time to de-de-de-de-de, dedededede-DUEL!"
 * Near the end of the Deep Sea Salvage in the Pirate Land map, Jon starts quoting the 3rd strongest mole bosses from Earthbound.
 * While explaining the Dueling Mini-Games.

"Chugga: We play for mad cash!"
 * Before a duel mini-game on Western Land:

"Jon: You wa shock!"
 * Jon sings Will Smith's Wild Wild West rap when introducing the Western Land board.
 * Both DragonForce and Foo Fighters get mentioned in Western Land, namely "Through the Fire and Flames" and "Monkey Wrench".
 * In the Western Land map, Tim can be heard quietly singing Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive to himself.
 * Kingdom Hearts got brought up during Western Land, which prompted Jon and Emile to discuss various aspects of the game. Specifically the Gummi technology.
 * Jon says "You made me bleed my own blood!"
 * Chugga, in Space Land, quotes Sonic Adventure 2: "And we all did it together!"
 * "Z...Z..." "Top."
 * At the closing of Mystery Land:

"Chugga: Does Dizzy Dancing have a son that's a whole band?"
 * More of an internal shout out, but during Horror Land, Chugga pokes fun at Jon's 'Mario's Wacky World' LP. Specifically, Death Water (and Death Water's son, Led Zeppelin).

"Jon: I knew I should have gone to the left, damn it! Tim: Should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque."
 * Chugga takes a Warp Pipe on the left side of the Bowser Land board and ends up on the right path in front of the Star, prompting:

"Jon: What is Peach doing?! Chuggaa: I love you, floor! Make me a sandwich!"
 * During a Crane Game minigame in Bowser Land, Peach seems to be wriggling face-down on the floor.

"Tim: I stole from black culture; why are you offended?"
 * During Mini Game Coaster, Tim quotes one of the Epic Rap Battles of History.


 * In the first Minigame Coaster video, the "Megaman! Megaman!" quote referenced comes from Egoraptor's "Sequelitis" video about Megaman X.
 * "I took a carpet to the knee."

From the Mario Power Tennis Tournament
""That's a nice power shot you have there." "It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.""
 * WALUIGI TIME from Brawl in the Family is mentioned when they cut off the game's intro.
 * After Lucah scores a Power Shot win on Josh, the following is said:

From Kirby's Return to Dream Land

 * The notion of Josh eating grandpas is a reference to Super Mario Sunshine Versus, where Josh accidentally claimed to be eating old men.
 * After picking up Water for the first time, Jon starts trying to figure out which powers map to the rings from Captain Planet.
 * During World 2-2 Chugga says a line from the Unawakening Float song from Sonic and The Secret Rings
 * Also during World 2-2, Jon is looking underwater for things and finds a pineapple. Cue Emile with "He lives in a pineapple under the sea!"
 * At the beginning of Episode 3, Jon says they're having a pool party in Raisin Ruins. Jon then attempts to kick Chugga out, saying that "Only Aquabats are allowed at this pool party!"
 * In episode 3, the guys start discussing what Meta Knight might actually look like under his mask. Jon says he likes the Brawl in the Family interpretation of Meta Knight being.
 * When Chugga!Kirby gets Snow Bowl for the first time, Jon deadpans "I don't wanna play Katamari with you anymore."
 * When Meta Knight!Jon fails to avoid Yet Another Stupid Death, the Super Mario Bros 3 death theme is hummed. And Jon calls them on it.
 * Similarly, just before starting the Ninja Dojo, a theme from Banjo-Kazooie gets sung, and Jon again points it out incredously.
 * Their reaction to the final target. "It's !"