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* 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]].

* 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]].