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* The ending song jokingly and mockingly references [[Half-Life (series)|Black Mesa]]. Songwriter [[Jonathan Coulton]] also namedrops another of his popular songs, "I Feel Fantastic".
* Doug Rattmann's den in the Companion Cube level also contains a rather well-hidden shout out to [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story "Escape". His dens all have some poems altered to include cubes and the like. [http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Doug_Rattmann#Graffiti_list Here] is a full list of the graffiti drawings.
* You can find a drydock, with a life preserver titled "Borealis" next to it. The ''Borealis'' is where [[Half-Life (series)|Gordon Freeman]] will likely go next in the series.
* Cave Johnson implies that Black Mesa has stolen more than one of his inventions.
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* The Bots trailer features Atlas [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_gxLKSsSIE holding a frying pan with a pancake]. A bit of a [[Take That]] with Atlas [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZMSAzZ76EU just not doing it right].
* One of the Fact Core's facts is [[SCTV|"In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning."]]
* In the comic, Chell's file states her test subject number as 1498, [[
* Caroline's line "Goodbye, Caroline!", to [[Laugh In]], which always ended with "Say good night, Dick!" "Good night, Dick!". Ironically, it was likely intended as a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Burns And Allen]] Show instead, since legend has them ending the show with "Say good night, Gracie!" "Good night, Gracie!". However, Burns and Allen [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|never actually used that line]]. Burns and Allen would have been on the air when Cave and Caroline made their recording, and [[Laugh In]] did not start until 1968, so it's more probable that the writers meant it to be a [[Burns And Allen]] reference.
* One of the co-op achievements is called [[MC Hammer|"Can't Touch This"]]
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* One of P-Body's dances makes her do a spinning dance, before stopping and shooting a Portal straight forwards. This is a reference to the dance the Wizzrobe from [[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|LoZ: Majora's Mask]] preforms before attacking Link.
* In the [[YouTube]] promo, Cave Johnson starts off talking about his father, "a Professor of Farming at the local Farm College." Cave Johnson's voice actor, [[J. K. Simmons|JK Simmons]], appears in a series of commercials for Farmers Insurance as a professor at the fictitious "University of Farmers".
* One of the [[The Multiverse|parallel Caves]] mentions [[Soylent Green]].
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* And then of course, there is ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' Cave, who has you test on your own while he goes to Texarcana and back in 28 hours.
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