The Middleman/Trivia

Trivia about  includes:

"Malfunctioning Ida: She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister. My daughter."
 * Actor Allusion: In "The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse",
 * The Bechdel Test: Lacy and Dub-Dub pass, and it's mentioned by name on one of commentaries.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Doesn't that guy from Varsity Fanclub look familiar? It's Bobby Edner, who played Justin Smith in the second episode of Veronica Mars.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: The aformentioned Little Vladdie was played by Gideon Emery, who is best known for his roles in video games.
 * Idiosyncratic Episode Naming:
 * The first episode is called "The Pilot Episode Sanction," from the first trade paperback titled "The Trade Paperback Imperative."
 * The second is called "The Accidental Occidental Conception".
 * The third? "The Sino-Mexican Revelation," which was an adaptation of the graphic novel "The Second Volume Inevitability."
 * "The Manicoid Teleportation Conundrum"
 * "The Flying Fish Zombification"
 * "The Boy Band Superfan Interrogation"
 * "The Cursed Tuba Contingency"
 * "The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation"
 * "The Obsolescent Cryogenic Meltdown"
 * "The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation"
 * "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol"
 * "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome"
 * And #13 - "The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse".
 * Mentor Ship: Between the Middleman and Wendy according to some parts of the fandom,.
 * Shout-Out: To other TV shows, movies, comic books and pop culture. Dozens in any given episode.
 * Animal House
 * Anime: Wendy explicitly refers to the first weird thing she meets as "a hentai tentacle monster".
 * Astro City
 * The Austin Powers movies.
 * The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
 * The Avengers - Like Wendy's father, Emma Peel's husband disappeared in a mysterious and unexplained DC-10 crash. Also, Wendy's Imagine Spot upon being asked to join the Middleman is a pastiche of the Avengers opening credit sequence.
 * Back to The Future (thankfully all of them annotated here)
 * Batman
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Chinatown

"Wendy:"Yippie Kai Yay -Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep-""
 * Die Hard: Multiple times in multiple episodes.

"Ida: We got a red ball!"
 * Doctor Strange: And the anti-vampire Montesi Formula.
 * Doctor Who: The NASA experts are named after Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sgt. Benton, and Zoe Herriot, as well as a reference to "Zygons," "McCrimmon College" (for Jamie McCrimmon), and "The Treaty of Periperpegilliam" (for Peri, because that was actually her first name).
 * In the unmade thirteenth episode, the Middleman's instructions to Wendy before his  are a direct quote from the speech the First Doctor gives his granddaughter before they part.
 * Dracula
 * Dr. Strangelove
 * Dudley Do-Right
 * Dune: Frank Herbert High School, House Corrino
 * Fake identities: Dr. Kynes and Rabban
 * Escape from New York
 * The Flintstones: MM invokes the name of The Great Gazoo.
 * Flowers for Algernon
 * Galaxy Quest: Possibly, one episode features a stolen beryllium sphere.
 * Gaslight: Mentioned by name as Wendy calls Pip out on trying to run an Insanity Ploy on her.
 * Ghostbusters: On par with the Shout-Out list for Back to The Future Annotated here.
 * Guns Of Navarone
 * "Hentai Tentacle Monster"
 * Howard the Duck: MM tells Cindy she's trapped in a world she never made.
 * Indiana Jones
 * Jake2.0: A show Javier Grillo-Marxuach worked on before The Middleman
 * James Bond
 * Joe 90
 * Kill Bill
 * Lost in Space
 * The Matrix: The Ida-inside-of-Ida is a polite, well-dressed, middle-aged lady.
 * Men in Black
 * Minority Report

"Middleman '69: "Maybe Scotty can beam us down. Sorry. Obscure reference to a canceled TV show. I'm sure you've never heard of it.""
 * Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Brotherhood of the Pointed Stick
 * Monsters, Inc.:
 * My Little Pony
 * Planet of the Apes
 * Spider-Man: Dub-Dub actually quoted the Catch Phrase: "With great power comes great responsibility."
 * SeaQuest DSV
 * Star Trek: Namechecked multiple times.

"altPip: "You mean the sci-fi series [...] starring the great George Takei?" Wendy: "This is an evil universe.""
 * And another time...

"J.R. "Bob" Dobbs International Airport"
 * Star Wars
 * The Story of O
 * Superman
 * Terminator
 * The Church of the SubGenius

"Wendy: "I don't think female problems means what you think it means.""
 * The Princess Bride:


 * 24: Wendy refers to beating a confession out of a robot as "Jack Bauering".
 * Usagi Yojimbo
 * Wild Wild West
 * Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
 * The X-Men ("Old school, not Ultimate.")
 * The titles of each episode/graphic novel are homages to Robert Ludlum.
 * Stock Scream: The "Wilhelm" can be heard Once an Episode. Including the comic version of Episode 13, where it's rendered as "aaaah-aaaaargh!", with a note in the annotation explaining that's the best they could do.