History ReferencedBy / Transformers

* The episode of WebVideo/RedLetterMedia's ''WebVideo/ReView'' focusing on ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' brings up the trend of "Blank: TheMovie" that was popular in the 80s and 90s. ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' is featured as one of the examples alongside ''Film/BarneysGreatAdventure'', ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'', and ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''.

** The first episode "Junk in the Trunk" has the now-infamous skit of Optimus Prime getting prostate cancer. With Prime returning later to berate the [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Human Torch]] for not having taken his prostate exam. Soundwave also makes an appearance in the "Where Are They Now?" skit from "Toy Meets Girl", where he's taken up the job of a porta-potty at a local fairway.

* The second issue of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' shows an Optimus Prime plush in the possession of a cave troll.

* A G1 Trypticon toy can be seen in the background of Matthew's room in the second part of the ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' ''[[Recap/GoosebumpsS3E19E20E21Chillogy Chillogy]]'' three-parter.

** ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' has reviewed two video games based on the franchise; ''Transformers'' for the UsefulNotes/Commodore64 and ''VideoGame/TransformersConvoyNoNazo'' for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]]. several episodes, such as the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII'' review also feature a poster for the [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie 1986 movie]] in the background.

** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E14TiegsForTwo Teigs For Two]]": A cutaway shows the aptly named Negatron shooting down one of Megatron's plans before [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere leaving in annoyance]] after getting called out himself.

** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E14TiegsForTwo]]": A cutaway shows the aptly named Negatron shooting down one of Megatron's plans before [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere leaving in annoyance]] after getting called out himself.

** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E4AFistfulOfMeg A Fistfull of Meg]]": We find out that Meg's [[GivenNameReveal real first name]] is Megatron, Peter even sings "Robots in Disguise" as he writes it down.

* The ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Born Again on the Fourth of July" Opens the episode by having Bobby watch a cartoon clearly inspired by ''Transformers'' featuring a jet that looks like Skyfire with the colors of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam White Base]]. A clip from this cartoon can also be glimpsed in "Bill Gathers Moss" as a movie being watched in theaters.

** "[=TransBOREMores=]" takes a potshot at the live-action movie franchise and its regularly rotating {{MacGuffin}}s so that Prime can invite other robots into Sam's house. This would be followed up with "[=TransBOREmores=] 3: Dark of the Blue Moon", in which the Smurfs find their way to Earth, and Sam and Optimus have to get them back to Smurf Village.
** "Transformin' Grill" has Optimus hawk a parody of the George Forman grill.

*** "Panthropologie"'s "World War B" sketch features an appearance from Kre-O Bumblebee as one of the knockoff Lego zombies. Ironically, This was produced around the same time Creator/StoopidBuddyStudios would be hired by Hasbro to animate some official Transformers animation for them, starting with some of the ''WebAnimation/TransformersKreO'' shorts.

*** "Factory Where Nuts Are Handled" has a sketch where ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Scorpinok has to talk Megatron out of killing a panda bear. Said bear ends up being Polar Claw; who escapes before the Predacons, who are too busy burning a real panda alive convinced ''that'' is the Maximal in disguise in lava, notice.

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* ''Series/StrangerThings'' has a cameo from an Ultra Magnus figure in "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E1ChapterOneSuzieDoYouCopy Suzie, Do You Copy?]]" as one of the toys leading Eleven to the living room.

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* ''Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny'' Features Optimus Prime as one of the combatants, only to be dispatched quickly by Godzilla [[OffWithHisHead biting his head off]].

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* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Several Soundwave figures, notably the ''Masterpiece'', ''Titans Return'' and ''Generation One'' figures, adorn Creator/LewisLovhaug's shelves in his videos. The show has also reviewed multiple pieces of comic media, including an entire retrospective on ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' and [[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 its]] [[ComicBook/TheTransformersRegenerationOne followups]].

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** "Starscream vs. Rainbow Dash", ending with Starscream getting defeated at the hands of Rainbow Dash.
** "Optimus Prime vs. RX-78-2 Gundam", which ends with Optimus triumphing over Amuro and the Gundam.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' has a quick joke in "The Big Cufflink Caper!" where a transforming tractor robot is referred to as a "Transfarmer". The episode's writer and series script editor David Wise also wrote for the original ''Transformers'' cartoon and would recycle several plot elements from there into ''Turtles'' scripts.