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• The Riff Trax for Batman and Robin contains a joke pointing out the resemblance between Dr. Woodrue and a certain character from Rifftrax's spiritual predecessor...

Bill Corbett: (as Woodrue) Yes! Now to achieve my lifelong dream of launching a man into space and forcing him to watch really bad movies!

• • The Rifftrax for the first X-Men movie has a Call Back to a joke from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Mike Nelson: She wandered into Thunderdome! Bill Corbet: Mike... Mike Nelson: (realizing) Oh. Oh no... Bill Corbet: Mike... can't we get beyond Thunderdome?

• • • Even funnier as the exchange being referenced was in one of the last sketches between Mike and Crow as played by Trace Beaulieu, not Bill Corbett.
  • The Rifftrax for Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope has a throwback to a Running Gag on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode Space Mutiny, one of the most popular episodes.

Han Solo: Chewie! Get us outta here!! Bill: Kalgan, take me away!

• • • Not necessarily a throwback, because there is a real product (Calgon) with this slogan.
  • Bill Corbett comments of Anakin and Palpatine in the theater in the Riff Trax for Revenge of the Sith:

"So, they're just gonna sit alone in those theater seats and make wisecracks about the show. What Jerks!"

• • Bill also comments on X-Men's setting of "The Not-Too-Distant Future".

Bill: Huh, that seems familiar...

• • In D-War, a deep voiced villain asks for help. Leading to "Zap Rowsdower, is that you?"
• In the October 2, 2008 HoloNet News broadcast, when discussing the Separatists' new super weapon, there was mention of how big a ship had to be to mount an ion cannon capable of wiping out entire task forces. The minimal values that the commentators suggest were 8, 12, and 17... which happen to be the different lengths Super Star Destroyers have had in various official media.
• In the current version of the webnovel John Dies at the End, the protagonists are heading to a final showdown without really knowing what to expect, and the narrator is armed with a chainsaw. At one point, he wonders whether he could have gotten caught in his situation with a dumber weapon. This is a nod to the earliest version of the story, wherein the narrator is in the same situation but armed with a sword.
• There Will Be Brawl is chock full of Mythology Gags from all over the Nintendo universe.
• In The Brothers Mario by The Game Station, has the eponymous characters knock over an armored truck with a million coins. They mention how it's enough to buy a new life. It's enough to buy 10'000 new lives.