Shout-Out/Film: Difference between revisions

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'''Henchman''': [[It's Been Done|What about]] [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|that movie Roger Rabbit?]]

'''Fearless Leader''': Shut up! This is totally different! [[[Beat]]] There has never been a way to actually destroy a cartoon character until now. }}

** The scene where Moriarty tricked his henchman Bruno to his death was a reference to Frank Stockton's short story "The Lady or the Tiger?"

** Moriarty's being forced to do something evil every 24 minutes was a tribute to [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[Ruddigore]]'', which had a man cursed to perform an evil act every day or die.

* One of the scenes in ''[[Animal Crackers]]'' includes a spoof of Eugene O'Neill's play ''Strange Interlude'' and its elaborate asides.

* With the mention of ''[[Austin Powers]]'', there's the shout-out that Austin made in ''[[The Spy Who Shagged Me]]'' to the 1960's James Bond knockoff ''[[Our Man Flint|In Like Flint]]''. While he's watching it, Austin even says "It's my favorite movie!"

** The replicants are created by the Tyrell Corporation. This is a reference to the Tyrell Institute, which created the android robot Mr. R.I.N.G. in the ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker]]'' episode "Mr. R.I.N.G.".

* ''[[The Blind Side]]'' was released in theaters on the same week as ''New Moon'', the sequel to ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. Collins is watching ''Twilight'' on television when Leigh Anne brings Michael to the Tuohy's home for the first time.

* When Carrie Fisher's character shoots off a bazooka in ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'', the sound effect is (essentially) the same noise that blaster weapons make in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' films.

* ''[[Brick]]'' has plenty of these, ranging from ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' to ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.

** That's the same trailer with the "Pizza Planet" truck seen in ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' that is also in ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]''.

** The credits also featured an outtake of some of the characters acting as extras in ''[[Toy Story 2]]''.

* [[Pixar]]'s ''[[Cars]]'' has a number of Shout Outs.

** The bullying birds from the Pixar short "For the Birds" appear in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment. Making them possibly the only organic lifeforms in that world!

** The name Lightning McQueen's name is a Shout Out to awesome actor and racing aficionado, the late [[Steve McQueen]].

* Speaking of [[Steve McQueen]], ''[[Film/Cannonball|Cannonball]]'''s showdown is a car chase between the hero in a green Ford Mustang Fastback and the baddie in a black Dodge Charger {{spoiler|which crashes and [[Every Car Is a Pinto|immediately explodes]] in the end}}, spiced up with some nice jump scenes. We've seen almost the exactly same thing before in ''[[Bullitt]]''.

* A hallmark of the ''[[Final Destination]]'' series is its habit of giving characters the surnames of famous horror and thriller directors, including Hitchcock, Carpenter, Lewis, Corman, Romero, and Polanski.

* There's a boat in the Sydney harbor in ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' named "iBoat" in homage to [[Pixar]]/Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and a street named Wallaby Way in honor of ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'s'' West Wallaby Street.

*** Also, the dentist's office is a replica of an office in Emeryville, CA, where Pixar is located.

** The lead shark, Bruce, is probably a Shout Out to the fact that the shark in ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' (though lacking a name in the film) was called Bruce on set. Or a Shout Out to the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch with a half-dozen Aussies, all named "Bruce".

* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', the original costume for Marvin the Paranoid Android from the TV series can be seen in a queue.

** The commentary on the DVD claims that one of the actresses who played Trillian prior to the film appears in place of the usual boozehound during the scene in the Bar and Groom. Whether this is [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|Susan Sheridan]] or [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (TV series)|Sandra Dickinson]] is not made clear.

* ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' does this a couple times. One that really stands out is when the squeaky sidekick picked up a stick of dynamite and read off "[[A Christmas Story|dee-nah-mee-tay? Must be italian.]]"

* ''[[Hook]]''

** Martin and Charlie Sheen word for word recreate their internal monologues from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' and ''[[Platoon]]'' respectively. Then as their boats pass they look at each other and say, "I loved you in ''[[Wall Street]]''!" (Where they played father and son.)

* ''[[How to Marry a Millionaire]]'': Schatze says: "Look at Roosevelt, look at Churchill, look at old fella what's his name in ''[[The African Queen]]''". The 'old guy in the African Queen' was Humphrey Bogart, her husband in real life.

 

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* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', Boromir's comment upon cutting his finger on the shards of Narsil: [[Sharpe|'Still sharp']]

{{quote|Dr. Zachary "Spider" Smith: I'm a doctor, not a space explorer. }}

** Doppler uses a similar line in ''[[Treasure Planet]]''

*** The Martian saucers, the saucers' beam weapon and their attacks on human civilization (particularly the attack on Washington) are an homage to the alien saucers in ''[[Earth vs. the Flying Saucers]]''.

*** The Martian saucer crashing into a river near the end is a reference to the end of ''[[This Island Earth]]'', where a saucer crashes into the ocean.

** The fat clown executed by the Penguin in ''[[Batman Returns]]'' can be seen in stasis inside a Martian ship.

** Also, whenever Lisa Marie's character appears, she's followed by The Bride's theme from ''[[Bride of Frankenstein]]''.

** ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded''. During the freeway chase, just before the Agent jumps down onto the truck carrying Morpheus and the Keymaker the police radio says "One Adam-12 please respond", a reference to the old U.S. ''[[wikipedia:Adam-12|Adam-12]]'' TV show.

** ''[[The Matrix]] Revolutions''. Smith calls the Oracle "The great and powerful oracle", a reference to the line "The great and powerful Oz" in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939).

** Also, there's Captain Mifune. There are two possibilities here.

*** It could have also been a reference to the famous actor [[Toshiro Mifune]].

* In ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]'', Maverick (played by [[Mel Gibson]]) rides a bicycle belonging to his friend Chief Joseph, who explains that he won it in a card game. This is a reference to another Western movie, ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''. In that movie, Butch Cassidy owns (and rides) a bicycle, and is a rotten gambler - so Chief Joseph won his bicycle from Butch!

* ''[[The Muppet Christmas Carol]]'': In the musical number after [[It Was His Sled|Scrooge's change of heart]], the ensemble passes a shop called Micklewhite's. Scrooge is played by [[Michael Caine]], whose real name is Maurice Micklewhite.

** Another storefront bears the names "[[Statler and Waldorf]]," after the two old cranks who routinely heckle the Muppet performances (and who appear in the film as the Marley brothers).

 

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* The ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]] Trilogy'' are laden with shoutouts from a wide range of [[Horror]] movies.

** The murdered school principal in the first ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' is played by [[Henry Winkler]], better known as Fonzie in ''[[Happy Days]]''. As he goes into his office, the Fonz's leather jacket can be seen hanging up on the back of the door.

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* ''[[Tank Girl (film)|Tank Girl]]''. Tank Girl fires her tank's gun and causes a bucket of water (and the bucket itself) to fall on Kesslee's "head" and kill him. A cartoon has Kesslee saying [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|"I'm melting!"]]

** The "Pizza Planet" truck has showed up in almost every [[Pixar]]-created work.

** While trying to escape Sid's house Woody yells "[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|There's no place like home!]]".

** The overall plot and tone of the series (especially the third film) has more than a glancing similarity to ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' -- the first feature-length film Lasseter and Ranft worked on.

** The evil [[Cymbal-Banging Monkey]] ''had'' to have been at least partially inspired by ''[[Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders|Merlins Shop of Mystical Wonders]]''.

** Look quick at the books Andy packs away and you'll spot the title of [[A.I.: Artificial Intelligence|another sad movie about a nonhuman who loves his owner unconditionally and went to great lengths to find her again]].

** In the 2nd movie Mr. Potato Head takes off his hat and throws it at the door of [[Villainous Glutton|Al's]] apartment building to keep it from closing. Oddjob from ''[[Goldfinger]]'' couldn't have done it better.

** Three Star Trek shout-outs in ''Dark of the Moon'';

*** {{spoiler|[[Leonard Nimoy|Sentinel Prime]]}} states [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.]]

*** Bumblebee when talking to Sam {{spoiler|Just before "leaving" the planet}} uses "I am and always shall be your friend" referencing Star Trek III.

* In ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'', one scene has Grimlock asking Kup to "tell Grimlock about petro-rabbits!", a clear reference to the classic ''Of Mice And Men''.

Mac: Hey Farva what's that restaurant you like so much with the mozzarella sticks and the goofy shit on the wall?

Farva: Shenanigans? Shenanigans Right? }}

* A song from the [[Marx Brothers]] ''[[Animal Crackers]]'' accompanies the opening credits of [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Whatever Works]]'' (2009).

* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', Judge Doom yells "I'm melting!" as he dissolves into a pool of Dip just like the Wicked Witch in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.

* ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]''. The dog that looks at General "Bloodbath" McGrath's ear trumpet is a reference to the "His Master's Voice" ad on the [[Quizzical Tilt]] page.

 

 

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** In fact, ''[[Loads and Loads of Characters|all]]'' of those names are from the comics.

** While all of those names were in a single folder, [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Franklin]] [[Reality Warper|Richards]] had a folder all his own.

 

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