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* The system Mordecai and Rigby play on some episodes looks uncannily like a [[Sega Master System]], right down to the controllers. It's very obviously just a Master System with the name politely avoided. The episode "Over the Top" even featured ''[[Guitar Hero]]''-like controllers with Master System controllers inserted into them and the use of the [[Konami Code]] to avoid bottles thrown by angry concert attendees.

* The episode "Meat Your Maker" has a [[Stealth Pun]] [[Casting Gag]] version of this with [[Tim Curry]] as a hot dog. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Hot dogs are also known as]] [[Rocky Horror Picture Show|frankenfurters]].

* In "Don", if you take notice of the many pictures hung up in Don's living room, especially the ones around the portrait of Don and Rigby, they are a fairly blatant homage to the work of pop artist Patrick Nagel.

* "Ello Guv'nor" was inspired by the endless number of low budget slasher films where the killer is a possessed object.

* "High Score" features Mordecai and Rigby trying to get a high score on an arcade game, only to be thwarted by a giant bearded face. Isn't there a [[The King of Kong|famous]] [[Donkey Kong]] player with a bearded face?

* Benson's Darthon character is [[The Legend of Zelda|Link!]]

* In "It's Time", Mordecai & Rigby play a game similar to [[Double Dragon]], and it even has the twist ending.

* The game "Broken Bonez" seems to be a reference to ''[[Excite Bike]]''.

* The movie in "Grave Sights" is a huge homage to horror movies. Mordecai tries to rent an Italian film called ''[[Suspiria|Libraria]]'', ''Zombocalpyse'' strongly resembles ''[[Evil Dead|Army of Darkness]]'' complete with [[Bruce Campbell]] lookalike hero, the cover art of ''Zombocalypse'' resembles ''[[Doom]]'', the shot of the zombies reanimating in their graves looks similar to ''[[Return of the Living Dead]]'', and the concept of a movie creating zombies might be a reference to ''[[Demoni]]''.

** And on the video game side, the ultra-strong zombie at the end is similar to the Tank from [[Left 4 Dead]].

** The zombie chick who almost bites the main character before Rigby bumps into the projector might be a nod to the "horror hags" from the original ''[[Evil Dead]]''.

* Fourmageddon and the snake/lizard wrestler seemed to be based off of [[Mortal Kombat|Goro and Reptile.]]

* In "Muscle Woman", Mordecai and Rigby are chased by Muscle Man's ex-girlfriend, [[Jurassic Park|complete with a shot of her in the rear view mirror and Rigby saying "Must go faster!"]].

** Also in that episode, if you look closely enough inside Muscle Man's trailer, he has posters of [[Pink Floyd|"The Dark Side of the Moon" and "Wish You Were Here".]]

* Death says "Your soul is mine!", Shang Tsung's [[Catch Phrase]] from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''.

* Death also bears an uncanny resemblance to Lemmy from the band "Motorhead", right down to his accent and the two moles on his left cheek.

* Two of the main characters of ''[[Problem Solverz]]'' can be seen in the background in 103.

* During the sequence in "Grilled Cheese Deluxe" set to "Lies" by the Thompson Twins, there is one shot that closely resembles that song's music video.

* "More Smarter" has Rigby dream about solving the "Hardest Math Problem in the World." This scene is taken almost directly from ''[[Rushmore]]'' and even has similar music.

* In "Viral Video", you can see Antoine Dodson of [[Memetic Mutation|Bed Intruder]] fame on a screen in the Internet Warden's prison.

** And at the end, when Mordecai and Rigby are gloating over winning their bet, you can see [[Tourettes Guy]] in the crowd of people with them.

** You can also see the Peanut Butter Jelly Time banana when everybody is escaping.

* Skunked is one to the incredible hulk, with a pan to Rigby's eye when he changes and the change to a stronger berserker form triggered by rage, not to mention the regular person being horrified by his actions as his other self.

* "His body has been blown to bits of [[Carl Sagan|star stuff]]."

** The same episode features a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbsSeVr5NSI Shake Weight] commercial.

* In the blonde episode, Mordecai goes to a department store called Mervington's, an obvious shout-out to the defunct Mervyn's department store chain of California.

* In "Stick Hockey", Mordecai and Rigby face Chong, a character who looks virtually identical to the villain Tong Po from the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme movie ''Kickboxer,'' in a Stick Hockey game to the death. This sequence strongly resembles the climactic fight scene of the movie.

* "Skips Strikes" contains several lines from ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'' including "Yeah, that's just your opinion man" and Rigby and the villains proclaiming each other to be out of their element.

* The Halloween Special has at least ''two'' references to J.G. Quintel's old NSFW student film [http://youtu.be/y894QNtX0VA 2 in the AM PM]: The cop and the fart gag. Might be because 2 in the AM PM takes place on Halloween.

* The episode "Bet to be Blonde" opens with Mordecai and Rigby playing a game very similar to ''Elevator Action''.

** [[Phoenix Wright|Objection!]]

* The skate park in "Cool Park" was built in memory of Poseur Pete from "Skate or Die".

** Techmo's car looks a lot like a [[Back to The Future|DeLorean.]]

** Techmo is a ''[[Shadowrun]]'' character, specifically an Ork technomancer, in all but explicit name.

** [[Ghostbusters|There is no more Techmo. There is only Doomageddon.]]

** Skips destroys a computer by swinging a sledgehammer at it, a-la Apple's 1984.

** The kids that Mordecai and Skips compete against are even named Fred (as in [[The Danza|Savage]]) and Jimmy (which was the name of the main character in ''The Wizard'').

* The local Two Peaks Mall is a reference to both ''[[Back to The Future]]'' and ''[[Twin Peaks]]''.

 

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