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{{cleanup|All of the examples need to be moved to relevant pages - they should not be listed in the category itself.}}
[[File:shoutoutbetter 5843.jpg|link=JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|frame|By the way, the name of the power that brought them to life is called [[Queen|Bohemian Rhapsody]]]]
A [[Shout-Out]] is something subtle (a name, line of dialogue, or prop) in a show that refers to fans or family members of the cast or crew, or to another source of inspiration. By nature, these can be obscure for casual fans. In English class, it is known by the more proper-sounding name, an '''[[allusion]]'''.
However, remember that many [[trope]]s, symbols, and such are older than they look and can, often, arise in parallel. So despite (or because of) the ubiquitous nature of some creative properties that doesn't mean that anything that seems somewhat similar is referencing said work.
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'''Remember, a Shout-Out is intentional.'''<ref>So quoting or citing [[Word of God]], [[Word of Saint Paul]] is appreciated</ref> If a character just happened to use a similar turn of phrase to another work, that's just a coincidence.
{{examples|Shout-Outs that still need to be moved off of this page:}}
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* Be it novel, video game, comic or TV show, anything related to ''[[Star Wars]]'' will do this without shame. We can only assume the makers of Pepto-Bismol must be filthy rich in this universe, what with everyone having a bad feeling about this and that...▼
* When one registers for online content on the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' website, one of the password recovery questions asks for the airspeed of an unladen swallow.▼
* A Filipino snack ad best described, as one comment put it, as "SACRILEGE TO [[Lucky Star]]." In terms of character designs, ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' wasn't spared either.
* In the New York area,{{context}}<!-- Upstate or City? --> there's a store called B&H, whose advertisements involve [[2001: A Space Odyssey|a guy named Dave and a robot named Hal]].
* Trojan Condoms: In ''[[The Iliad]]'' the Greek army gets into a giant horse, which gets through the enemy's defenses. Men inside a horse, inside the enemy's walls. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]? [[Analogy Backfire|And then, after penetrating the enemy fortress, the horse bursts open and all the soldiers inside start rampaging everywhere.]]
* There's a Honda advertisement that uses the opening to the Waldstein Sonata by Beethoven.
▲== Pro Wrestling ==
* Pro wrestler and Ring of Honor regular Jimmy Jacobs officially dubbed his [[Finishing Move]] the [[Classic Cheat Code|"Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start"]]. The commentators, more often than not, just call it the "Contra Code".
* For the last several years, [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] has appeared at ''[[Wrestlemania]]'' wearing a costume clearly inspired by a fictional character. This used to be just superheroes, but last year, he was dressed as The Joker... and then this year, he was one of the Na'vi from ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''
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** During the Battle Royal in 2011, pay attention to AJ as she really gets into [https://youtu.be/88opYNwGCgU?t=5m21s character] with a [[Mortal Kombat| familiar involving fans by her character]].
== [[Radio]] ==
* Garrison Keilor and Ira Glass have a fake feud going on, whereby they slip little insults to one another into their respective radio shows or public appearances. In Keilor's case, these often take the shape of mentions of Glass in his ''[[A Prairie Home Companion|Prairie Home Companion]]'' sketches, impressions of Glass done by his actors, or pastiches of Glass' broadcasting style.
** The ersatz Keilor/Glass feud is itself a shout-out to [[Jack Benny]] and [[Fred Allen]], two giants of the Golden Age of Radio, who first hit upon this idea as a running (and recognised) prank on the audience.
* Keilor also mercilessly lampoons other NPR figures in sketches, most notably news correspondents, who show up as voice impressions in ''PHC'' news sketches. Sometimes these pseudo-cameos are identified by name; often they are either un-named or given a ficitonal name, making the shout-out an inside joke among NPR staff and habitual listeners.
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'''''Every''' Shout-Out is made by somebody in Real Life. These examples need to be sorted and moved to the appropriate subpages.''
▲* Be it novel, video game, comic or TV show, anything related to ''[[Star Wars]]'' will do this without shame. We can only assume the makers of Pepto-Bismol must be filthy rich in this universe, what with everyone having a bad feeling about this and that...
▲* When one registers for online content on the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' website, one of the password recovery questions asks for the airspeed of an unladen swallow.
** When one registers for an account on the ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' forums, one of the "I'm not a robot" questions asks for the airspeed of an unladen swallow.
* A lot of taxonomic names end up being Shout Outs to things. Often it's to the scientist who discovered it or to the location it was discovered, but there are some more unusual ones:
** A spongelike fungus is named ''spongiforma [[SpongeBob SquarePants|squarepantsii]]''.
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** There are [http://www.wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Sailor_Moon_flowers several flower varieties called Sailor Moon]. Surprisingly, Naoko Takeuchi makes one of them as part of an artbook drawing, since she loves when fans homage her works, and compliments it back as she can.
** ''Strigiphilus garylarsoni'', a kind of chewing louse, after the creator of ''[[The Far Side]]'' and his frequently insect-related humour. And [[wikipedia:Thagomizer|the Thagomizer]]!
** ''Psephophorus [[Terry Pratchett|terrypratchetti]]'', a prehistoric turtle which is ''not'' [[Discworld|large enough to appear on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram]]. Terry keeps a fossil of it on his desk. And ''Gingoites nannyoggiae'', a Mesezoic plant. The "Ogg" multimedia format is ''not'' a reference to Nanny Ogg; however once the coincidence was pointed out, the makers named their audio format after Vorbis from ''[[
** The trapdoor spider ''Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi'', and inevitably, ''Aptostichus [[Stephen Colbert|stephencolberti]]''.
** ''Heteropoda davidbowie'', another spider species. Note that one of [[David Bowie]]'s most famous early albums was ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars''.
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** The pachycephalosaur ''[[Harry Potter|Dracorex hogwartsia]]'' is shouting out loud and clear.
** The lemur ''Avahi cleesei'' is named for lemur-lover John Cleese.
** Two obscure fish found in New Zealand: ''Bidenichthys [[
** The sea slug ''Alderia [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|willowi]]''.
** The scientific name for the dinosaur [[wikipedia:Masiakasaurus|Masiakasaurus]] is ''Masiakasaurus knopfleri'' -- the expedition crews were said to be listening to a lot of [[Dire Straits]] at the time. Mark Knopfler himself once made an amusing self-effacing comment about how appropriate it was to have a dinosaur named after him.
** A giant prehistoric killer whale has the [[Awesome McCoolname|awesome name]] ''[[The Bible|Leviathan]] [[Moby Dick|melvillei]]''.
** A form of mitochondria found in a species of deer tick is officially named ''[[Star Wars|Midichloria mitochondrii]]''.
** The ''Binburrum articuno'', ''Binburrum moltres'', and ''Binburrum zapdos'' were, as you may have guessed, named after the original three legendary birds from the [[Pokémon]] franchise.
* A group of "hedgehog" genes -- whatever that means <ref>called such because they made fruit flies spiky</ref> -- are desert hedgehog, Indian hedgehog, and [[Sonic the Hedgehog|sonic hedgehog]].
** If your son's sonic gene is defect, [[Body Horror|he] is]] [[wikipedia:Cyclopia|screwed]] [[Nightmare Fuel|(Click the link with care, folks.)]] For a better reference, this disorder would leave him looking like a [[Silent Hill|Raw Shock.]]
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** The POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor was originally named [[Pokémon]], until Nintendo threatened legal action. Why? It's a master switch for cancer. It's given a generic name of Zbtb7
* Celestial bodies are also often named for real or fictitious people, in a tradition dating back to antiquity when planets and constellations were named for the gods.
** A scientist named a rock in the Main Asteroid Belt 18610 [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Arthurdent]]". Later, another asteroid was dedicated to the author: 25924 [[Douglas Adams|Douglasadams]]. The naming of 25924 Douglasadams is itself a [[Heartwarming Moments|heartwarmer.]] The provisional name for it was 2001DA42.<ref>'''The year in which Douglas Adams died''', his initials, and the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, in that order.</ref> The only comments that could be given were along the lines of "it was sort of made for him, wasn't it?"
** The asteroids ''12796 Kamenrider'' and ''12408 Fujioka'', named for the ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' franchise and its original star, [[Hiroshi Fujioka]].
** Asteroids [[The Little Prince|46610 Besixdouze and 2578 Saint-Exupéry]]. A fantastic bonus for computer programmers: the number 46610, written in hexadecimal, is [[The Little Prince|B612]].
** Asteroid [[Stargate SG-1|99942 Apophis]]. Even funnier, there is a small chance that the asteroid may hit Earth in 2036, so Apophis is our real-life enemy. (The name Apophis comes from [[Egyptian Mythology]], but the asteroid's discoverers are said to be fans of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''.)
** The asteroid named after [[Hideaki Anno]].
** There's even one named after the {{spoiler|fictitious}} Czech genius [[wikipedia:7796 Jaracimrman|Jára Cimrman]]. Let's just say that the name of every other asteroid is a reference to something-or-other (since it's the discoverer who proposes the name, and there are few restrictions on the name choice.)
** White dwarf BPM 37093 in the sky with a crystallized carbon core (read: diamond). Informally named: [[The Beatles (band)|Lucy]].
** The dwarf planet now known as "Eris" was nicknamed "[[Xena]]" for 2 years while a final name and designation were decided. Its moon was officially named "Dysnomia" (Lawlessness) as a
** [[Christopher Hitchens]] has an asteroid, [[wikipedia:57901 Hitchens|57091 Hitchens]], named after him.
** Tanz Metal band [[Rammstein]] had a minor planet named after them.
* All of the elements after plutonium, once they are actually synthesized, are named either for a famous scientist ([[Albert Einstein|einsteinium]], bohrium, mendelevium, nobelium, rutherfordium) or an important location, usually the element's "place of birth" (berkelium, californium, americium, darmstadtium). An abandoned mine at Ytterby, in the Stockholm archipelago, has four elements named for it: erbium, terbium, ytterbium and yttrium.
* Google's Wave service was named such because that's what communications were called in ''[[Firefly]]''. The crash message is even Wash's infamous line "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
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** [[Soylent Green|Soylent]], a project to merge all contact info (e-mail addresses, IM screennames, etc.) for a person into a single account in GNOME (Linux-and-its-ilk desktop).
** [[Plan 9 from Outer Space|Plan 9 From Bell Labs]], the successor to UNIX as Bell Labs' main research OS. Along with Plan 9 From User Space, a port of the main Plan 9 programs to UNIX-like systems. (and yes, userspace actually means something in context)
** The TIFF standard specifies "An arbitrary but carefully chosen number ([[
** The ADA programming language, named after Ada Lovelace, who's often credited
** The Python programming language was named after ''[[Monty Python]]''.
** The term "Spam" for junk e-mail was named after the ''Monty Python'' sketch of the same name. Other people backronymed it to Stupid Pointless and Annoying Message.
** As an [[Easter Egg]] for Excel 2000, Microsoft put in a clone of ''[[Spy Hunter]]''.
** While not a shout out to pop culture most of the time the codenames for AMD, Intel, and Microsoft products tend to be named after places they either do development in, take vacations to, or just because.
** AMD's first in-house designed x86 compatible processor was called K5. Their next generation, K6, was when they said the K meant [[Superman|Kryptonite]].
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** The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi Raspberry Pi] (an educational- / hobbyist-market computing device with an ARM CPU, capable of running [[Acorn Archimedes|Acorn RISC OS]]) is available in "Model A" and "Model B" versions; this will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the [[BBC Micro]]. (It's no coincidence that this device was co-developed by David Braben, of ''[[Elite]]'' fame.)
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has provided several. Among them:
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* We ''swear'' someone shouted out [[Avatar (film)|"I see you,]] [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Russian-ice-dance-tribute-to-Aborigines-offensiv?urn=oly,215206 Russia!"] before that pair's free skate...
** Or it could more likely be a reference to the statement by <s>[[Sarah Palin]]</s> [[Tina Fey]] that you could see Russia from Alaska, and that in itself gave her international relation experience.
** Neither Sarah nor Tina was wearing [[Unfortunate Implications|skimpy native-wear]] at the time ([[Fetish Fuel|
* [[Iron Maiden]]'s drummer Nicko McBrain owns a restaurant, Rock N' Roll Ribs. [http://www.rocknrollribs.org/menu.html The menu] is filled with references to his band (such as "Appetite of THE BEAST", and the temperatures of sauce: Mild, Medium, Hot, Die with your Boots On, or Heaven Can't Wait).
* Lucy, the fossilized ''Australopithecus'' named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
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