Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)/Shout-Out

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Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers is chock full of Shout Outs, references, and in-jokes:

Henchman of Rat Capone: Hurry it up, Alvin.
Chip: The name is Chip.
Henchman: Whatever. You chipmunks all sound alike.

  • Parts of "Chipwrecked Shipmunks" are quite reminiscent of Disney's rendition of Treasure Island.
  • "Battle of the Bulge" contains a reference to "the most tip-top Top Cat".

Wart: You're the most tip-top, Fat Cat!

  • Flash the Wonder Dog from the eponymous episode may be a nod to Thunderbolt from One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
  • The episode "Last Train to Cashville" is named after The Monkees' song "Last Train to Clarksville".
  • "Zipper Come Home" is based off of Lassie Come Home. See also Tropey Come Home, their common trope.
  • The Lucitetania in "When You Fish Upon a Star" is a reference to the RMS Lusitania, both of which sunk. Of course, the precious fish Moby Carp is named after Moby Dick.
  • In "They Shoot Dogs, Don't They?", Monterey Jack and Canina La Fur do an obvious Shout-Out to The African Queen on their boat. Canina's rival, Zsa Zsa Labrador, is a nod to Zsa Zsa Gabor.
  • Both Chip and Dale try and fail to kiss Gadget at the end of "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" much like they did at the end of "Two Chips and a Miss" (also known among fans as Episode Zero).
  • Heinrich von Sugarbottom from "Chocolate Chips" is basically Oliver Hardy in lederhosen, a nod to Laurel and Hardy. Another one out of many is Dale's "Hey, what's the big idea?" Yet another one is the deep puddle in "Chipwrecked Shipmunks" into which Jolly Roger sinks much like Oliver Hardy.
  • In the scene in "The Pied Piper Power Play" which infamously depicts Dale way out of character stupidity-wise, he mentions a certain Moonwalk Jackson, a reference to both Michael Jackson, his most famous dance move, the Moonwalk, and possibly also to his movie Moonwalker. Furthermore, Dale says the case would be a thriller, referencing Michael Jackson's best-selling album.
  • Aldrin Klordane, the Big Bad from "To the Rescue", is likely to reference Mr. Jones from Animal Farm.
  • Muscles, Errol's only henchman with a known name in "Love Is a Many Splintered Thing", is a Shout-Out to Rocky Balboa.
  • The tunnel-digging mechanical dragon built by the two pandas in "An Elephant Never Suspects" might count as a (yet another) Shout-Out to Dr. No which features a truck made up to look like a scary, fire-breathing dragon commandeered by a Chinese Big Bad.
  • The ring from "Throw Mummy From the Train" is a reference to The Beatles' Help! movie. The villain in the same episode, Wexler, is modeled after the Rescue Rangers staff member Ed Wexler. See the Norton Nimnul/Bruce Talkington connection above.
  • "When Mice Were Men" references Seven Samurai and may also contain a musical Shout-Out to Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain.
  • "Song of the Night 'n Dale" is a Shout-Out to the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Nightingale; it also seems to reference The Cretan Bull from Agatha Christie's The Labours of Hercules.
  • "Ghost of a Chance" borrows a lot from the 1961 movie The Pit And The Pendulum, based on a work by Edgar Allan Poe, especially the namesake death trap.
  • King Kong is referenced twice: once by giant Zipper climbing up a skyscraper while holding Nimnul in "Fake Me to Your Leader", and probably once more by the aforementioned gorilla Kookoo climbing up another high-rise building in "Gorilla My Dreams".
  • In "The Case of the Cola Cult", the main plot plays out like the plot of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (minus the heart-ripping of course) and the action scenes are similar.
  • In one of the Police Headquarters scenes from "To the Rescue", you hear a police detective describing a burglary case thus "She came in through the bathroom window and cracked the safe with a silver spoon"