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Line 1: {{IndexTrope}} {{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. Line 16 ⟶ 17: '''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:}} ~~{{examples}}~~ == ~~General~~[[Advertising]] == * 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.▼ ~~== Advertising ==~~ * 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~~[[Professional Wrestling]] ==▼ ~~== Card Games ==~~ * Steve Jackson Game's ''Hacker'' includes a can of [http://www.sjgames.com/hacker/img/deluxe_hacker_lg.jpg Jolt Cola] on the box picture. * The [[Collectible Card Game]] ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' likes to slip Shout Outs and in-jokes into the titles and art of its cards. Probably the most high-profile (that references something outside of ''M:tG'' itself anyway) is Nevinyrral's Disk. "Nevinyrral" is "[[Larry Niven]]" [[Sdrawkcab Name\|spelled backwards]]. Niven wrote a series of stories about magic as an exhaustible resource, the nature of which was proven in the story "The Magic Goes Away" by a wizard who enchanted a spinning disk in such a manner that it used up all the mana in its vicinity, exploding violently in the process.) There's also [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4737 Time Warp]. Flavor text: "[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show\|Let's do (it) again!]]" The flavor text on the original Weatherlight version of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4483 Disrupt] was "[[Pulp Fiction\|Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?]]" ** Innistrad is ''filled'' with these. Sure, we have some that only fall on "classical horror tropes" territory, but we have some ''really'' specific stuff as well, like [[The Fly\|a scientist that transforms on a insectoid monster due to an experiment gone wrong]], [[Jekyll and Hyde\|a researcher that manages to transform his violent side into a brutish, monstruous alter-ego]] and [[Plants vs. Zombies\|a group of Defending garden plants that has protection from Zombies]]. * The [[Star Wars Customizable Card Game]] is made of this trope: Smuggler's Blues obviously, but also Mostly Armless and Bionic Hand "We can make him better, stronger, faster." * The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)\|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card game is absolutely loaded with shout outs to various [[Konami]] games along with other works and series, enough to warrant [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)/Trivia\|its own subpage]]. == [[Fan Works]] ==▼ * The titles of the ''[[Psych]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5713948/1/Lassiter_learns_How_To_Bend Lassiter Learns how to Bend]'' as well as its sequels ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5713983/1/Carltons_Worst_Inhibitions Carlton's Worst Inhibitions]'' and ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6499181/1/The_Case_of_The_Friendly_Indians The Case of the Friendly Indians]'' are all shout outs to the show's theme song, the first two to the lyrics and the last one to the band who sings it. * ''' EVERYTHING''' in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' webcomic ''[[Second Empire]]''. Seriously, ''DO NOT'' play the [[All the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game]] if you plan on including all the [[Shout-Out\|ShoutOuts]] in this thing. It'll be very, ''very'' bad for your health. * How bad is it? The summary (Two Dalek Empires fight for the future of the Dalek race) is a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Doctor Who/Recap/S25/E01 Remembrance of the Daleks\|"Remembrance Of The Daleks"]] and it just goes downhill from there. * In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6152050/1/Whose_Gay_Line_Is_It_Anyways Whose Gay Line Is It Anyways]'', the ''[[Glee]]'' club plays a game of [[Whose Line Is It Anyway?\|Questions Only.]] Slash (and [[Hilarity Ensues\|hilarity]]) ensues. ~~{{quote\|'''Puck:''' Do you come here often?~~ ~~'''Kurt:''' Do you normally cruise an art gallery looking for fashionable and attractive men? }}~~ * In ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]'', when [[Sin City\|Dwight]] first sees [[Batman]], he says, [[All Star Batman and Robin\|"It's the goddamn Batman."]] * In ''[[The Lie I've Lived]]'', a throwaway line has Harry saying, "Yeah, just call me 'Ambassador Potter', expert at foreign diplomacy and purveyor of international goodwill." This refers to one of author's other works, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2889350/1/Bungle_in_the_Jungle_A_Harry_Potter_Adventure Bungle in the Jungle]''. * Lord of the Land of Fire is prone to lacing the plots of his stories with references to things like [[World War Two]] or [[The Bible\|The Book of Revelation]], among other things. * In the ''[[Elemental Chess Trilogy]]'', [[Fullmetal Alchemist\|Ed and Winry Elric]] have a son named Lucas; the author chose the name after Luke from the [[Professor Layton]] games. * ''[https://m.wattpad.com/263701872?m=1 Cruising for a Jobbing]'', upon discovering that Anna happens to the {{spoiler\| [[Reincarnation]] of [[ABBA\| Agnetha Fältskog]]}}, Charlottle screams out [[The Office\| NO GOD! PLEASE NO!!! NOOOOOOOOOO]]. Anna thought about her response, despite of PG Rules regarding language... which didn't stop her just thinking about a famous ''[[Dexter]]'' scene at the shipyard. ~~== Film ==~~ * ''[[Discworld/Hogfather\|Hogfather]]'': The noble music which plays when Bilious is being sobered up is ''Men of Harlech'', but is also known to some university students as ''[[Filk Song\|The Alcoholics' Anthem]]''. * ''[[Mystery Team]]'': [[American Pie\|"I wanted to see if it felt like pussy, like in that movie!]] ~~== Music ==~~ * [[ThouShaltNot]]'s song "If I Only Were A Goth" includes, among call-outs to Goth culture in general, a shout-out to [[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[The Vampire Chronicles\|Vampire Chronicles]]'': ~~{{quote\|''The thing that I'd be best at~~ ~~''Is impersonating Lestat~~ ~~''If I only were a goth''}}~~ ▲== 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]]'' Line 76 ⟶ 35: ** 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]]. ▲== [[~~Fan Works~~Radio]] == ~~== 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. Line 83 ⟶ 41: == ~~Toys~~[[Real Life]] == '''''Every''' Shout-Out is made by somebody in Real Life. These examples need to be sorted and moved to the appropriate subpages.'' * In ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', the redheaded Shana O'Hara was born in the South (specifically, Atlanta, Georgia). She is, indeed, a fierce and attractive Southern belle. Her codename? [[Gone with the Wind\|Scarlett]]. ▲* 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. ~~== Web Original ==~~ ** 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. * ''[[Neopets]]'' often has shout-outs in their item descriptions. For example, the description of a Sand Sled is [[Back to The Future\|"Snow? Where we're going we don't need snow."]] ~~== Real Life ==~~ * 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]]''. Line 98 ⟶ 53: 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 ''[[~~Discworld/Small Gods\|~~Small Gods]]''. 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''. Line 110 ⟶ 65: 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.]] Line 164 ⟶ 120: {{reflist}} [[Category:Abridged Series Tropes]] [[Category:Webcomic Tropes]]▼ [[Category:Tropes of Legend]]▼ [[Category:Creator Speak]] [[Category:In Joke]] [[Category:Shout-Outs Index]] [[Category:Trivia]] ▲[[Category:Tropes of Legend]] ▲[[Category:Webcomic Tropes]]