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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.

'''Caroline''': [[Curse Cut Short|Sir? The testing?]] }}

* One of the displays in the old Aperture Science lobby also holds a series of awards. One diploma for the #2 spot on the top 100 list of the applied science companies of 1949, and two trophies (from 1952 and 1954) for the runner up of the "US Dept. of Defense Contractor of the Year". No points for guessing [[Half-Life (series)|who took first place]].

* 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."]]

* 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"]]

* 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]].

* Another parallel's apparently working on [[RoboCop|the world's first half-man, half-machine police officer]], [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|Roboticop.]]

* And in another they successfully create psychics [[Scanners|who blow people's heads up]]. Cave gets back at them by taping their paychecks to the negotiator's head in a psychotic act of [[Crazy Prepared]].

* An...altered version of ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' gets a mention (specifically Heathcliff fending off the titular [[Recycled in Space|moonbase]] from vengeful poltergeists. Virginia Woolf and the Brothers Karamazov get a name-drop too, as part of computer!Cave's [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|boredom-staving exercise]] of adding [[Ghostbusters|Ghostbusting]] to every work of fiction.

* And there there's "Cave Johnson here. Just a reminder that the core goal of Aperture Gas-Finding Science is to find gas, so make sure you let us know if you see any. If we meet our quarterly gas-finding target, I promise you we will don our bondage gear, fuel our death cars, and drive around in circles, whooping it up and shooting arrows at people. Who is ready to rule the wasteland? Alright, start looking". [[Mad Max]] anyone?

* 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.