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* In his ''Your Love is my Drug'' review, a snippet of ''[[Tom Waits|The Piano Has been Drinking]]'' plays after he drunkenly passes out.
* He references [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] several times:
** He calls "Bedrock" the first pop music reference to ''[[The Flintstones]]'' since "Bedrock Anthem".
** "Eat It" and other food-related songs come to his mind while trying to figure out why "Carry Out" was ever written.
** In his review of "Telephone", he considers the reason for the recent trend of making references to cell phones in pop music. "RINGTONE!"
** When he considers that Katy Perry's "Firework" would work better as something more permanent and useful, like firewood, he immediately sets the concept to music. "Watch out, Weird Al!"
** He uses "Good Enough For Now" as the intro music for his Top Ten Songs About Mediocre Romance, and gives bonus points to anyone who actually knows it.
* He uses clips from ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' quite a lot.
* After failing to play the ''Hannah Montana Pop Tour Guitar Video Game'' successfully due to its completely strumless controller.
{{quote|'''Todd:''' [[Robin Hood: Men in Tights|... I lost. I lost? Wait a minute, I'm not supposed to lose!]] *pulls out script*}}
* The image of [[Satan]] seen in the "Like a G6" review is from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Satan Pit". (Although, in the commentary, he admitted that he had no idea of the source and had just Google image searched for Satan pictures.)
** In the comment for "Like A G6", he says that "Swear upon the good book" cutting to [[Johnny Cash]]'s autobiography was a reference to ''[[High Fidelity]]''.
* His speech after joining - and subsequently quitting - TGWTG.com is a paraphrased version of Conan O'Brien's final ''[[Tonight Show]]'' "farewell speech". There is a chance that this, however, is a [[Take That]] - it all really depends on whether or not Todd is a fan of Conan O'Brien.
* He's used the same clip of [[Metalocalypse|Nathan Explosion]] twice.
* He makes a quick reference to ''[[Teen Girl Squad]]'' in his "Deuces" review, after they mention "Valentimes", and there's a clip of [[Homestar Runner|Homsar]] in the "We Are The World 2010" review.
* ''Very'' subtle one in his review of "Club Can't Handle Me". When he is talking about the "lyrics" in the verses, he says "blah blah blah, Leonard Bernstein", which is a reference to [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein|a verse in the similarly incoherent]] "It's The End Of The World As We Know It", by [[REM]].
* He believes Akon's personality to be "[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|soul-full-of-gunk, termites-in-his-smile]] kind of awful."
* He explains that he thinks [[Lady Gaga]] is not ''evolving'' as an artist, she's ''mutating'' as an artist, and in a few years she'll be "an enormous blob of protoplasm crushing the world." Cue clip of ''[[Akira]]''.
* When Todd attempts to guess what rhymes with Lehman in the Imma Be review, his first two guesses are [[Half Life|Freeman and G-Man.]]
* Early on in the Worst Hit Songs Of 1987 list, he asks [[The KLF|"1987, what the fuck is going on?"]]
* In his review of Ke$ha's "Blah Blah Blah", his montage of [[Blah Blah Blah]] clips from the song includes similar clips from Biz Markie's "Just A Friend", Bob Loblaw from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]''.
* He once compared Lady Gaga's desperation to look unconventionally attractive to Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters, in which the main character is a model missing the lower half of her jaw.
* Crossover example: in a [[Let's Play]] collaboration with [[Pushing Up Roses]] (''Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise''), Todd reacts to [[It Came From the Fridge|a living dish on the fridge]] with "[[Garfield and Friends|a creature living in the refrigerator, behind the mayonnaise, next to the ketchup, and to the left of the cole slaw]]".
** He later referenced this game by having a wallpaper with Fatty Bear inside a "no" sign.
* His trucker lingo gibberish in "The Top 10 Worst Songs of 1976" eventually turns into the song-within-a-song from "The Devil Went Down to Georgia."
* His avatar on most sites is [[Peanuts|Schroeder at the piano]] or an altered version thereof.
* In his 'Top 6 Worst Songs of 2010', he explains that he contracted MRSA. Cue [[House (TV series)|Massive Attack's 'Teardrop']].
* In a three-part [[Let's Play]] of Putt Putt Goes To The Moon, he describes a lever that is not supposed to be pulled as "[[The Ren and Stimpy Show|The shining, CANDY-like lever.]]" Later in the same review: "[[Futurama|We're whalers on the moon...]]"
* In the review of Katy Perry's "E.T.", he remarks "[[A Fish Called Wanda|It's K-k-katy c-c-come to k-k-kiss me.]]"
** From Kanye's rap section:
{{quote|'''Kanye:''' I know a bar out in Mars where they drivin' spaceships instead of cars.
'''Todd:''' Well, that's good, because I'm pretty sure [[Blondie (band)|the man from Mars eats cars and bars]]. }}
* In his review of "Party Rock Anthem", he says "[[And Then John Was a Zombie|and then John was a douchebag!]]"
* Early in his review of "Give Me Everything", he makes a list of words to rhyme with "Kodak" aside from [[Rhyming with Itself|itself]]. He ends the list with "[[Gorillaz|lay these ponies at the track, this is my chocolate attack]]".
* His praise for "In Too Deep" by Phil Collins is a word-for-word quote from ''[[American Psycho]]'', with a clip from the scene in question fading into view.
* It got to the point where he unsuccesfully tried to [[Exploited Trope|exploit]] [[Shout-Out]] in his review of Dirty Bit, in order to get a better song playing.
* He quotes [[Edgar Allan Poe|The Telltale Heart]] in his top ten worst songs of 2011 while discussing a song whose beat he find both repetitive and aggravating.
* In his review of Bedrock, he used a clip from [[Flight of the Conchords]].

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