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* Hardison's "[[The A-Team|I love it when a plan comes together]]."

* The team's aliases have a tendency to reference ''[[Doctor Who]]''; given that Hardison presumably arranges all their fake IDs and is canonically a fan, this is almost certainly no coincidence even in-universe.

** The security chief in "The Inside Job," portrayed as a ruthless killer, is named [[Friday the 13th (film)|Mr. Voorhees.]]

** Archie Leach is also [[John Cleese]]'s character in ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]''.

* In "The Gone Fishin' Job" Hardison and Eliot use the aliases [[Jaws (film)|Brody and Quint.]]

* In "The Boost Job" Hardison readies an EMP device that makes the same noise as a [[Ghostbusters|proton pack]]. He then lampshades it by adding "this chick is toast", which is [[Bill Murray]]'s line when the team confronts Gozer. Later in the episode, when Hardison and Parker enter a chop shop and find that it's a much bigger operation than they expected, he remarks "We're [[Jaws (film)|gonna need a bigger boat]]".

* In "The Rashomon Job", Hardison says "absatively, posilutely", dating back at least as far as ''[[The Grinch]] Grinches the Cat in the Hat'' (1982) but more likely a reference to ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' (1988).

* In "The Morning After Job," during the briefing Nate asks "who" [[The Mark]] "is gonna call" when he gets into trouble - Parker immediately comes back with "[[Ghostbusters]]!"

** In the same episode, Eliot receives a "[[Kill Bill|Hanzo sword]]" as a Christmas present.

* Eliot's setpiece in "The Big Bang Job" contains shoutouts to many things, but especially [[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot Em Up]] - [[Improbable Aiming Skills|shooting Mooks]] [[Bullet Dodge|while dodging bullets]] while sliding on his knees across the floor on an oil slick. [[The Matrix|In]] [[Bullet Time]]. Also perhaps shades of Equilibrium and [[Gun Kata]], given his [[Tranquil Fury]].

*** Eliot ''himself'' is practically a shout-out to the [[Spenser]] novels.

** Two of the suspects are dressed as Mannix and [[Bleak House|Inspector Bucket]].

* In "The 15 Minutes Job," Hardison rants about the use of CGI in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels.

** Also in "The 15 Minutes Job," Parker (in character as a [[Honey Trap]] girl) asks if [[The Mark]] is "one of those billionaire internet kids [[The Social Network|like in that movie.]]"

* In the "Maltese Falcon Job", when threatening the mayor, Nate refers to Hardison, who is to be the one putting the hurt on the mayor as Mr. Joshua, Gary Busey's role in the first ''[[Lethal Weapon]]''.

* The jerkass frat boy -- sorry, "Dustman" -- in charge of a CIA torture experiment in "The Experimental Job" is named Zilgram, possibly a portmanteau of [[wikipedia:Stanford prison study|Zimbardo]] and Milgram. Parker later has fun with an "actual" [[Just Following Orders|Milgram experiment]] (girl loves her electricity). Sophie and the lesbian [[Fair Cop]] in the same episode might be a reference to ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]''.

* In "The Radio Job"

** invoked with Elliot's [[Die Hard|John McClane]] impersonation, including "Yippie-ki-yay".

*** Also doubles as an [[Inspector Spacetime]] reference, with Parker asking "Where? Don't you mean ''when''?" prior to the daydream sequence, and Nate's father travelling to 1962 rather than 1963.

{{quote|Parker (pointing to Hardison's neck): "What is that?"

Hardison: "It's a bow tie. [[Bow Ties Are Cool]]." }}

** Foreshadowing shout-out: Parker and Hardison spend a great deal of their time in this episode in a [[Secret Government Warehouse|warehouse]] [[Warehouse 13|full of strange and wonderful inventions]], they later use to stage a major con. Guess who the villain turns out to be? {{spoiler|Victor Dubenich also known as Artie Nielsen from [[Warehouse 13]] }}

* In "The Last Dam Job", the gang's new headquarters is explicitly compared to the [[Batman|Batcave]], and Eliot seems to quite like the idea of having an "[[Bat Signal|Eliot Signal]]".

 

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