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* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' to several series under the [[Humongous Mecha]] genre such as ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', ''[[Gundam]]'', and ''[[GaoGaiGar|Gao Gai Gar]]'', as well as a few others outside of that genre such as ''[[Ace Combat]]'' and ''[[Kamen Rider]]''.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''

* ''[[Princess Resurrection]]''

* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''

* ''[[FLCL|FoolyCooly]]''

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* The author of ''[[Bloom County]]'' wrote that:

{{quote|"Bloom County was awash with pop culture references and celebrity mockery...largely because those beguiling assets were virtually absent from the comedic media at the time. But just look at us now. No, it's not my &@%# fault.}}

== Fan Fiction ==

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== Literature ==

* ''[[Ready Player One]]'' has this as part of its plot, but narrows it to 1980s video games and pop culture in an effort to solve the puzzle left behind by a rich eccentric as part of his will.

* ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' features thousands of references to everything imaginable.

* ''[[A Night in the Lonesome October]]'' abounds with references, being a wide-ranging gothic horror pastiche with references to other genres. It contains many [[Homage|Homages]] and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] beyond its crossover characters.

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* The [[Ciaphas Cain]] books are absolutely ''loaded'' with references to both science fiction and turn-of-the-century juvenile adventures.

* The author of the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] novels collectively known as "The Vampire Wars" acknowledges his books contain at least a hundred references to classic vampire stories like [[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]. One of his fans sent him a list of references in his novels, but the author didn't have the heart to say he'd missed about another fifty.

* The first page of ''[[Where's Wally|Where's Waldo?]]'' The Wonder Book. It puts all the other examples to shame.

* The first page of ''[[Where's Wally?|Where's Waldo?]]'' The Wonder Book. It puts all the other examples to shame.

* [[Bret Easton Ellis]] likes to do this with his characters to highlight how shallow they are. Many pages in [[Glamorama]] are just long lists of Victor and his friends name dropping celebrities, and in [[American Psycho]], Patrick has to describe in excruciating detail what ''everyone'' is wearing.

* [[T. S. Eliot]]'s works, especially ''[[The Waste Land]]''. The poem is full of classical literature and religious references, and quotes them in their native language.

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* ''[[NCIS]]'': Tony is a movie buff, and McGee is a gamer, among other justifications for this.

* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' is famous for its abundance of references. Each DVD even has a little booklet explaining the more obscure ones.

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': many encyclopedic references to historical and cultural figures, exotic animals and places. Most of these jokes could make sense to intellectuals, but then there are also many references to British culture, especially politicians, TV hosts and programs that were famous during the late 1960s and early 1970s. They are usually completely incomprehensible and obscure to international audiences and even to the English, especially while [[Time Marches On]].

* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', particularly when it comes to music.

* ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' is this towards the ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Good Lord. Its almost fifty years old, so its accumulated a lot over that time. Some of the older episodes reference things like Beatles lyrics, while New-Who has referenced things like ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', ''Teletubbies'', and way, ''way'' more.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' often makes reference to films such as ''[[Casablanca]]'', ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', and ''[[Blade Runner]]''. For instance, the episode Back To Earth is considered by most to only be enjoyable if you know the ''Blade Runner'' references, to most other fans it is a horrible episode.

* ''[[Leverage]]'' is so reference overdosed that its [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] had to be moved to [[Leverage/Shout Out|their own page]].

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* The [[Wu-Tang Clan]]: cursory examination of the first two tracks on ''Enter the Wu-Tang/36 Chambers'' turns up, in addition to the samples and references to [[Wuxia|old Kung-fu movies]] for which they're famous, overt references to [[Steven Seagal]] and his film ''[[Out for Justice]]'', ''[[Voltron]]'', and ''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]''.

** Also, [[Ghostface Killah]] had a song from the 1996 album ''Iron Man'' (which was when he started using the alias Tony Stark) entitled "[[NASCAR|Daytona 500]]" (named mostly for its fast pace) which used clips from the original ''[[Speed Racer]]'' to make one of the first Anime Music Videos which is still considered a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|favorite by many]].

*** The song itself contained samples from Bob James' "Nautilus" and "Crab Apple" by Idris Muhammad whle the chorus from "Turn The Beat Around" by Vicki Sue Robinson sped up and reworded for the hook. And even featured two samples from previous Wu singles, "Mystery of Chessboxin" and Raekwon's "Incarcerated [[Scarface|Scarfaces]]" which also had an obvious [[Shout-Out]] in title as well as the lyrics.

** The mileage varies, but this [[Follow the Leader|opened the AMV flood gates]], being one of the first AMV's showed on TV and predating [[YouTube]] and self-made AMV's.

* Half Man Half Biscuit. Their website has a section dedicated to explaining some of the references.

* No More Kings. When describing them most places refer to them and funk/pop mixed with 80s references. Though there are more references, the 80s are just the most prominent.

* Destroyer. [[The New Pornographers|Dan Bejar]]'s main band has its own [http://www.deftone.com/destroyer/ wiki] and [http://www.zoilus.com/documents/in_depth/2005/000639.php drinking game.]

* [[Frank Zappa]]: his music was deeply personal and references several aspects of the society of his time, including music, commercials, politics, TV and even inside jokes in his own band and anecdotes from his own life. Zappa once claimed that he doubted if his lyrics could make sense to anyone but himself.

* The entirety of ''[[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (song)|Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]'' is [[Shout-Out]] after [[Shout-Out]] from beginning to end.

* [[Sage Francis]], a rapper from Providence, RI, makes tons of references to "classic" hip hop songs. He'll often re-use classic lines, substituting a word here or there or reversing the word order as a kind of wordplay homage; he'll also re-use the ''cadence'' of certain iconic lines in a subtle nod.

* R.E.M.'s music would frequently make references to ancient mythology in order to conceal the true meanings of the songs (namely Michael Stipe's bisexuality or political events). This had the side effect of making people think he spoke gibberish. To clarify, the first time he admitted to writing a song with straightforward lyrics was in 1992 when the band recorded "Everybody Hurts" - 12 years after they started.

== Radio ==

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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* [[Dungeons: The Dragoning|Dungeons the Dragoning]], which mashes together the rules of several pen-and-paper systems, uses the setting of others, and gives shout-outs to everything else.

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* ''[[Pokémon]]''

* The ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' visual novels are packed to the brim with references- from mystery novels and scientific concepts, to [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to various anime and video games.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' does this to the [[Logical Extreme]]: as a [[Prequel]], almost everything is a direct reference to some other game in the series. You really do have to be a Zelda fan to fully appreciate the game.

* The ''[[Saints Row]]'' games have references and homages coming out of its ass. ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Call of Duty]]'', [[Pretty in Pink|Ducky]], ''[[Evangelion]]'', ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'', ''[[Golgo 13]]'', ''[[Happy Days]]'', ''[[Inuyasha|Inu Yasha]]'', ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''...

* ''[[Abobos Big Adventure|Abobo's Big Adventure]]'' is so jam-packed with references to the NES games, and to various aspects of '80s pop culture, it is impossible to list them all.

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* ''[[Xkcd]]''

* ''[[Cat and Girl]]'' - and many of the references are to philosophical notions unknown to the average reader, in a particular appeal to the [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] crowd.

* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' has plenty of Shout Outs ranging from ''[[Top Gear]]'' to ''[[Monty Python and ~~The~~ Holy Grail]]'', and plenty of [[Product Placement]] to boot.

* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' has plenty of Shout Outs ranging from ''[[Top Gear]]'' to ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', and plenty of [[Product Placement]] to boot.

* ''[[Freefall]]'', given where it stands on [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]] and [[Webcomics Long Runners|how long it's been going]] (March 30, 1998 being the first strip, 1871 strips ago).

** During the robot meeting arc, it had robots from other sources, both pop-culture and real-life, appearing in the background of nearly every strip.

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* ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]''

* The [[Whateley Universe]], especially the story "Tales of the [[MCO]]", where the kids watch a television show and give it the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' treatment.

** Everything about it, since it's a superhero universe which has Marvel and DC as superhero comic publishers within it. People constantly refer to this, talking about a girl who leaps in front of teammates to protect them as having 'superman syndrome' or arguing about what is needed for Marvel to make an Iron Man movie or even talking about why 'real' supers can't swipe copyrighted/trademarked superhero names.

* ''[[Unskippable]]''

* [[Youtube Poop]] is chock full of random references to pop culture.

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* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' has an extremely large amount of references to other shows, and not just of the [[Humongous Mecha]] genre ([[Wave Motion Gun]], anyone?).

* ''[[Transformers Animated]].'' Without interfering with the plot or making it so that you can't follow it if you don't know what's being referenced, it manages to fit in a zillion little easter eggs into every episode. Its "Allspark Almanac" guidebook is this taken to its logical extreme. Every single thing references something, no matter how deeply the reference is buried <ref>Some of the symbols on some pages are actually from the Cybertronian language as seen waaay back in ''[[Beast Wars]]'', and are references to movies, songs, etc. Ironically, the references written in Cybertronix primarily reference everything ''but'' TF itself.</ref> or how obscure the things being referenced are <ref>For example, a minor character from a Japanese radio program, the ''letters page'' of a comic book from 20 years ago, or a not-official TF comic serial printed in a magazine might be name-dropped, and items whose composition isn't mentioned in-show will be given as materials that one side or the other tried to obtain in a G1 episode or comic. Basically, if it's a number or a proper name, it references something. No exceptions. Period.</ref> Oh, and ''a second volume'' is on the way.

* The short-lived ''[[Spaceballs]]'' series was nothing but [[Whole-Plot Reference|Whole Plot References]]. No original storylines or jokes to be found anywhere. Probably explains why it was short-lived. Yes, the whole concept is a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''[[Star Wars]]'', but you'd think the writers could come up with at least a few new plots and gags in the 15+ years it took to get the cartoon made.

* ''[[South Park]]'' series have tons of these in almost every episode.

** The Imaginationland episodes of ''[[South Park]]'', which feature virtually HUNDREDS of fictional characters.