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*** The first season's finale is titled "The Wrath of Guitierrez". One gets the impression that the writers ''really'' liked having Ricardo Montalbán on their side.
* In ''[[Class of 3000]]'' musician Andre "3000" Benjamin provides the voice of Sunny Bridges. In one episode, we learn that Sunny has Andre Benjamin on his cell phone speed dial.
* According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20051114100506/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
* [[The Boondocks]] has quite a few of these.
** There are many allusions to ''[[Friday]]'', both direct and indirect, which starred John Witherspoon, the voice of The Boondocks' Robert "Granddad" Freeman.
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{{quote|'''Graviton''': [[Tempting Fate|I am the strongest one there is!]]<br />
'''Hulk''': [[Big Damn Heroes|*lands next to him*]] [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|You sure about that?]] }}
* Baron von Ghoulish in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' had the titular orange cat voiced by Lorenzo Music, who had previously voiced [[The Voice|Carlton the Doorman]] on the CBS sitcom ''Rhoda''. Naturally, one of the [[Couch Gag|Couch Gags]] featured the line, "This is Garfield, your doorman." (Doubles as a [[Parental Bonus]], given that ''Rhoda'' aired during [[The Seventies]].)
* Whenever the children of ''[[South Park]]'' visited Chef's home, there was a photograph of Isaac Hayes on the wall. Hayes provided the voice of Chef.
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** This was later given a [[Shout-Out]] in the RubySpears series Fangface, where Fangs (and the title character; both voiced by [[Frank Welker]]) did it.
* Near the beginning of ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', Milo complains about why he hated carrots before boarding the submarine. [[Michael J. Fox|His voice actor]] also dislikes carrots.
* Discord, the villain of the season 2 premiere of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is played by John de Lancie, who [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|once again plays]] a [[Reality Warper|reality-warping]], [[Badass Finger-Snap|finger snapping]], [http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/1f8f999ee0a85415c41fc3c41af51c63/59547%20-%20Discord%20Hubble%20comparison%20disQord%20earth_pony%20fluttershy%20human%20q%20star_trek.png teleporting]{{Dead link}} [[Trickster Archetype]] with a cruel sense of humor. This has lead to [[Fan Nickname|fans calling him]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5DE6xrCgLA DisQord] and imagining [http://willdrawforfood1.deviantart.com/art/Discord-and-Picard-258126968 mashups].
** In the episode "Hurricane Fluttershy", Twilight Sparkle has a squirrel trying to tell her something, and on being questioned, replies, "Do I ''look'' like I speak Squirrel?" Twilight is voiced by Tara Strong, who also voiced Bubbles on [[Powerpuff Girls]], who ''did'' in fact speak Squirrel.
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'', Claudus (voiced by Larry Kenney, the [[Thundercats|original]] Lion-O) announces that he'll show his son Lion-O what the Sword of Omens "is capable of in the proper hands." [[Old Retainer]] Jaga makes [[Lampshade Hanging|reference]] to how much like his son Claudus was in youth. Later, he gets to yell out "[[Battle Cry|Thundercats, HO!]]" one last time.
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