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* In an episode of ''[[Regular Show]]'', an anthropomorphic hot dog is voiced by Tim Curry, known for his role as Dr. Frank-n-furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
* In one episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', Leela (played by Katey Sagal) meets and falls in love with a fellow cyclops called Alkazar... who insists she calls him Al... who then turns out to be a shiftless slob... and eventually the show has temporarily [[Homage|turned into an episode of]] ''[[Married... with Children]]'', in which Sagal played Peggy Bundy, right down to the hooting FOX audience.
** In ''Bender's Big Score'', in the battle against the scammers, the Chanukah Zombie, voiced by [[Mark Hamill]], flies a stereotypically Chanukah themed [[Star Wars|TIE Fighter]].
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** In the Latin American version of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Homer wants to prove that he forgot the name of Lisa's secret boyfriend, he incorrectly gives his name as "Beto V?z". [[Humberto Velez]] voices Homer. In another episode, when calling a photographer for an erotic photo shoot, he gives his name as "Humberto Simpson".
** In the episode "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife", Homer meets [[Dan Castellaneta]] (who's Homer's voice actor).
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'''Homer''' (leaning out of the tour guide tram): Hey, funny man! Say something funny!
'''Dan Castellaneta''': Please don't lean out of the tram, sir. You might get hurt.
'''Homer''' (childishly imitating Castelleneta): "Oh, don't lean out of the tram!" * Homer hits his head on a statue of Mischa Barton* }}
** In the episode "Apocalypse Cow", there's a CD called ''Anguished Animals III'', recorded by [[Tress MacNeille]]. [[Tress MacNeille]] voices many female supporting characters on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
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*** Though there was the ''Super Griffins'' short where he mentioned having past experiences fighting super-powered beings.
**** Also in ''[[Family Guy]]'', in the episode [[The Greatest American Hero|"Believe It Or Not, Joe's Walking On Air"]], Peter notes the similarity between the voices of Dr. Hartman and Carter Pewtersmidt - both played by [[Seth MacFarlane]] - who do indeed sound nearly identical. Hartman and Carter then converse about this, with Carter noting it as being a bit lazy, whereas Hartman figures that there are only so many voices out there, with some bound to sound similar.
** One should not forget West's role as Catman on ''[[The Fairly
* Also in ''[[The Fairly
** There's also Dr. Rip Studwell, voiced by series creator Butch Hartman himself. His over the top, soap opera style is a reference to Hartman's acting roles on soap operas before he made it big in animation.
*** His design is also based on Hartman himself, originally done as a joke.
* In ''[[Megas XLR]]'', recurring villain Magnanimous was voiced by [[Bruce Campbell]]. In one episode, Magnanimus gets a mech of his own... [[Evil Dead|with a shotgun in one hand and a chainsaw in the other. ]]
** Magnanimous as a whole was [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|a parody of Bruce Campbell]] [[Adam Westing|who just happens to actually be voiced by Bruce Campbell]].
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*** [[Bubba Ho-Tep|Plus, he looks like Elvis in one episode.]]
* From the cartoon series ''[[The Critic]]'', there's this memorable exchange between title character Jay Sherman and his son Marty, the humor hinging on the fact that Jay is voiced by actor Jon Lovitz (and drawn to look more than a little bit like him, too):
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'''Marty Sherman:''' I thought that he was handsome.
'''Jay Sherman:''' You're thinking of Jon Lovitz. With his good looks, he takes the cake. }}
* There was a fairly subtle one on the first episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' [[
** There's an even more obvious reference to ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' in "Road to the Multiverse:"
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'''Chris:''' <nowiki>* bleep!* </nowiki> YOU!! }}
** In the second ''Star Wars'' spoof, Peter short-circuits the argument by bringing up ''Without a Paddle'', which causes Chris to scream and run out of the room angrily. ''Without a Paddle'' was a horrible box office flop that starred Seth Green.
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* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', during his first scene with Buddy (voiced by Jason Lee), Mr. Incredible forgets the boy's name. Incredible's first guess is Brodie, a reference to Lee's character Brodie Bruce from ''[[Mallrats]]''.
** Later in that same movie, Frozone ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]) tries to get a drink of water while a nervous cop holds him at gunpoint. It is nearly a shot-for-shot homage to a scene in ''[[Die Hard]] With a Vengeance''
* In ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Tim Allen, accidentally drops a Binford toolbox on Woody's head. Binford was the sponsor of "Tool Time", Tim Allen's [[Show Within a Show]] on ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''.
** Earlier in the movie, Mr. Potato Head says "What are you looking at, you hockey puck?" causing a puck toy to shrug. "Hockey puck" is a famous insult Don Rickles uses in his stand up.
** In the second movie, after hugging Woody, Jessie yells "Sweet mother of [[Abraham Lincoln]]!". [[Tom Hanks]], the voice of Woody, is a distant relative of Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks.
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** A similar reference appears in the spin-off comic book ''Harley and Ivy'' which stars the Joker's henchgirl Harley Quinn and the villain Poison Ivy; the two are on a movie set beating up what look like Batman and the Joker, but turn out to be actors. Harley laments about some actor trying to impersonate the Joker and takes off his fake nose while the actor mumbles something about "Yoda" and the "Dagobah System". It is safe to say that this is a reference to Hamill again, probably suggesting that the actor is supposed to be him.
** Likely not intentional, but in ''[[The Batman]]'', Boss Zucco, voiced by [[Mark Hamill]], kills John Grayson, who is voiced by [[Kevin Conroy]]. As Hamill voiced the Joker in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' and Conroy voiced Batman, many noticed that, in a way, the Joker finally managed to kill Batman.
* Sentinel from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' physically resembles [[The Tick (animation)]] in both his blue color and huge chin. They have Townsend Coleman as a voice actor. The creators have confirmed that they had this in mind when designing Sentinel once they found out Coleman was cast. It's also been [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] a time or two, like when Sentinel has the line of "Energon-y goodness", referencing the Tick's odd manners of speech.
** When Ratchet says Wreck-Gar wouldn't dare do something really, ''really'' moronic, he replied "I am Wreck-Gar. I ''dare'' to be stupid!", referencing his voice actor Weird Al Yankovic's song "Dare to be Stupid". This also counts as a [[Mythology Gag]] as it was the Junkions' theme (the Junkions being lead by Wreck-Gar) in [[The Movie|the G1 movie]]. Another happens in "Human Error, Part 2", where he briefly tries to fight Soundwave with an accordion, an instrument Weird Al often uses.
** A script-reading for ''Animated'' called "Bee in the City" actually had ''four'':
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** In the final season finale, Optimus dons a new jetpack in order to fly and be able to fight Decepticons more evenly. Upon takeoff he shouts ''Excellent!! YEEEESSSSS!!'', two words frequently pronounced by the Beast Wars Megatron. Both were voiced by David Kaye.
** Two toys based on ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' had [[Gary Chalk|Optimus Prime]] and [[David Kaye|Megatron]] temporarily turn into [[Beast Wars|a gorilla and a Tyrannosaurus rex]] while still on the Jungle Planet according to their toy bios.
* In ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', the title character's butler Professor Jones, voiced by Jonathan Harris, is pretty much a reprisal of Harris' role as Dr. Smith from ''[[Lost in Space]]'' - snotty and coward, with some lines directly lifted from ''LiS''. A [[Running Gag]] involves everyone asking Jones if he was "on a show with a robot". Also, Sgt. Cosgrove and the villain Guitierrez resemble their voice actors, Ed Asner and Ricardo Montalbán, respectively.
** In "The Chip", Guitierrez delivers a speech to Dexter that seems to have been taken from ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]''. Guess what actor portrayed Khan.
*** 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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** The girls lampshade this by saying "This week".
* A rather obscure one: Ben Tennyson from ''[[Ben 10]]'' exclaims in one episode: "How stupid do you think I am?", a line uttered by Terrence of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' no less than 2 years beforehand. Both characters are voiced by [[Tara Strong]].
** Another episode where Ben and Gwen are [[Trapped in TV Land|drawn into a video game]] involves a scene where Grandpa Max notices that their game console has been left on, and drops into a deeper voice to complain, "I thought I told you to ''turn the game console off''!" If you've played ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' to the ending, you will likely ''void your bowels'' at this exact moment - Paul Eiding plays both Grandpa Max and Colonel Campbell, and towards the end of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', the game abruptly shifts into a [[No Fourth Wall]] horror game. At the start of this downwards slide, the Colonel shouts at Raiden to "turn the game console off!"
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', [[Mick Foley]] voices The Boulder, a parody of [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]]. The Rock and Foley's character Mankind formed the popular tag team The Rock and Sock Connection.
** One reason [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Zutara]] was such a popular ship was that we've already heard [[Mae Whitman]] and [[Dante Basco]] hook up before on ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]''.
** You've also got [[Mark Hamill]] voicing the [[Big Bad]], a [[Complete Monster]] and [[Evil Overlord]] [[Star Wars|who can shoot lightning from his hands.]]
* ''[[Rugrats]]'':
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'''Didi''': What is a torque wrench?
'''Host''': You're absolutely right, and Didi, you don't have to answer in a form of a question. }}
* ''[[Pepper Ann]]'': In one episode, Pepper Ann is watching a show suspiciously similar to ''[[The Mighty Ducks (animation)|The Mighty Ducks]]: The Animated Series''; April Winchell, who voiced PA's mother Lydia, also voiced Tanya on MD:TAS.
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* One episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' (specifically "Arlen City Bomber") has Bobby state that his dream is to eat a corn chip right off the production line. Lucky tells him "I'm gonna help you run down that dream." [[Tom Petty|Lucky's portrayer]] had a song titled "Runnin' Down A Dream".
* In the animated short film [[Jonah Hex]], attached to ''[[Batman: Under the Red Hood]]'', Hex is voiced by Thomas Jane. Jane was desperate for the live-action role that eventually went to Josh Brolin, so much so that he hired a makeup artist to create Hex's scars before he went to screentest. Guess he'll have to make do with the voice of Hex.
* ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' managed to combine this with [[Talking to Himself]]. Fred Tasticore plays both the [[
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'''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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