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[[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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{{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.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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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.
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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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[[Category:Abridged Series Tropes]]
[[Category:Webcomic Tropes]]▼
[[Category:Tropes of Legend]]▼
[[Category:Creator Speak]]
[[Category:In Joke]]
[[Category:Shout-Outs Index]]
[[Category:Trivia]]
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▲[[Category:Webcomic Tropes]]
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