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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E5ThePointOfNoReturn The Point of No Return]]'', Twilight realizes she hasn't returned a library book, which is one of the books she brushes aside in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon pilot episode]].
** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E25TheEndingOfTheEndPart2 The Ending of the End Part 2]]'', Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow, the main antagonists of the two-parter, are [[spoiler: [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]], which the writers have said is meant as a callback to Discord being turned to stone at the beginning of Season 2.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' likes to do this. When [[ThoseTwoGuys 21 and 24]] are taunting 1 for his MauveShirt status, 21 mentions a character called Speedy. Speedy was a RedShirt from the second episode.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' likes to do this. When [[ThoseTwoGuys 21 and 24]] are taunting 1 for his MauveShirt status, 21 mentions a character called Speedy. Speedy was a RedShirt from the second episode.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': "[[Recap/WorkItOutWombatsS1E30HarvestDayThankfulnessStew The Treeborhood Thankfulness Stew]]" has Louisa recall the events of "[[Recap/WorkItOutWombatsS1E12BakeItTilYouMakeItZoomInZadie Bake It Til You Make It]]" while she and Zeke are making the stew.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheChocolix'': In "The Flowery Fairy", Chocolyne gives a wishing stone she received from Uncle Party to the fairy Flowery, who wishes on it. The fairy shows up again in "An Uncle Who Brings the Party", getting help from Chocolyne, Chocomark, and their Uncle Party to get rid of the nightmares bothering the children; Chocolyne explains the events of the first of the two episodes to Uncle Party.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** In "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS2E13TotallySpacedOut Totally Spaced Out]]", Timmy is still remembered by the Yugopotamians as "the Earth warrior who ate the dreaded chocolate", which he did in "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E3SpacedOut Spaced Out]]".
** When Timmy decides to apologize to Vicky for bullying her in "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS2E14TheSwitchGlitch The Switch Glitch]]", Cosmo tells Timmy to remember all the good times he and Vicky had together. This turns out to be a big mistake, as Timmy ends up remembering bad memories from previous episodes ("[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E10DogsDayAfternoon Dog's Day Afternoon]]", "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E1TheBigProblem The Big Problem!]]", and "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E11DreamGoat Dream Goat]]" in particular), which get him to change his mind.
** In "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS5E15HassleInTheCastle Hassle in the Castle]]", Timmy uses the Shrink Suit from "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E6TinyTimmy Tiny Timmy]]" to enter the castle.
** In "Whittle Me This!", Timmy doesn't want to hang out with Catman because he's "nuts and dangerous!" Then he brings up a screenplay Catman wrote by the same name, saying, "He wants me to play Nuts." The making of this movie, complete with Timmy as Nuts, ends up being the entire plot of an episode later in the season.
** "Cat N' Mouse" has Catman's yarn ball sidekick, Don, who tries to steal his girlfriend from him after being brought to life. Don returns in his non-humanoid form later on in "Knitwits", playing a role in the plot.


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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'':
** In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E17TheDroolingFoolPatricksGotAZooLoose The Drooling Fool]]", Cecil tries to stop Patrick's drooling with one of his underarm corks, which he was shown to have in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E10 Klopnodian Heritage Festival]]".
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E17TheDroolingFoolPatricksGotAZooLoose Patrick's Got a Zoo Loose]]":
*** Bunny freaks out when [[AnimateInanimateObject her toaster]] works ''perfectly'' and doesn't try to fight her back. It was established to do this in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E2StairWarsEnemiesALaMode Enemies a la Mode]]".
*** Squidina fights off the caged aliens with a flyswatter. An earlier episode, "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E10 Klopnodian Heritage Festival]]", had a side plot with Squidina learning how to swat flies.
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E20 The Lil' Patscals]]": [=GrandPat=] having lived during ice cream prohibition was a plot point in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E2StairWarsEnemiesALaMode Enemies a la Mode]]", and it comes up again here. Old Man Jenkins only makes his house look scary so kids and cops won't investigate and find the ice cream he stashed in his basement.
** Cave Patrick going around the house and looking for food in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E20 The Prehistoric Patrick Star Show]]" brings to mind "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E1LateForBreakfastBummerJobs Late for Breakfast]]", the first episode of the series.
** In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E22DadsStacheStashARootGaloot A Root Galoot]]", Cecil swats Patrick with a flyswatter and says "Foinsapp!" This is a reference to "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E10 Klopnodian Heritage Festival]]", where "foinsapp" is the tradition of swatting flies.


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** Throughout "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS13E1APlaceForPetsLockdownForLove Lockdown for Love]]", Plankton is in his Ray-Ray persona from "Grandmum's the Word".
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS13E20FriendiversaryMandatoryMusic Friendiversary]]", several pages in the memory book and the moments that Squidward tries to recreate are references to past episodes. The episode even includes a shot-for-shot remake of the Sushi Maker sequence from "Life Insurance".
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** In ''The Secret Society'', Shade is reluctant to join Gorilla Grodd's titular organization because he was a part of the ''last'' similar group, the Injustice Gang, which failed miserably in part because Ultra-Humanite was bribed by Batman to turn on them. Shade brings this up, that you can't trust people who are only in it for the money, but Grodd counters that this time they're ''not'':
---> '''Shade:''' Imagine what's gonna happen when someone makes them a better offer.
---> '''Grodd:''' Nobody's in this for money. Sinestro swore a blood-oath against all Green Lanterns, Parasite simply hates Superman, Giganta is totally devoted to me, and Killer Frost? She just likes to kill.
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** In "WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfBooKiniBottom", {lankton warns the Flying Dutchman that he's personally seen some frightening things in [=SpongeBob=]'s brain. Plankton's referring to when he entered [=SpongeBob=]'s mind in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' and found the SugarBowl lying inside his brain.

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** In "WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfBooKiniBottom", {lankton Plankton warns the Flying Dutchman that he's personally seen some frightening things in [=SpongeBob=]'s brain. Plankton's referring to when he entered [=SpongeBob=]'s mind in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' and found the SugarBowl lying inside his brain.
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** One episode had Man Ray use role-playing to become good. [=SpongeBob=] first tries to teach him good by giving back someone a wallet they dropped. Man Ray does this to Patrick, but is so dumb he doesn't even think it's his wallet despite his ID being in it. [=SpongeBob=]'s second lesson is for Man Ray to help someone carry a heavy package. Patrick keeps dropping the heavy package on Man Ray's foot. He gets furious and asks what is even in the box to which Patrick replies, "My wallets". That one's more of a BrickJoke, really.
** Another episode had Bikini Bottom terrorized by sea whelks. When everyone is trapped inside, [=SpongeBob=] remembers the time he had the suds in the first season episode "Suds", which he uses to free everyone and return the whelks to normal.

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** One episode had Man Ray use role-playing to become good. [=SpongeBob=] first tries to teach him good by giving back someone a wallet they dropped. Man Ray does this to Patrick, but is so dumb he doesn't even think it's his wallet despite his ID being in it. [=SpongeBob=]'s second lesson is for Man Ray to help someone carry a heavy package. Patrick keeps dropping the heavy package on Man Ray's foot. He gets furious and asks what is even in the box to which Patrick replies, "My wallets". That one's more of a BrickJoke, really.
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episode had Bikini Bottom terrorized by sea whelks. When everyone is trapped inside, [=SpongeBob=] remembers the time he had the suds in the first season episode "Suds", which he uses to free everyone and return the whelks to normal.normal.
** In "WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfBooKiniBottom", {lankton warns the Flying Dutchman that he's personally seen some frightening things in [=SpongeBob=]'s brain. Plankton's referring to when he entered [=SpongeBob=]'s mind in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' and found the SugarBowl lying inside his brain.
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** During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", when the girls tell [[RichBitch Princess Morbucks]] that her Christmas wish of becoming a Powerpuff Girl will never come true and her overall [[SpoiledBrat bratty personality]] and previous criminal deeds earned her a spot on Santa's Naughty List, the referenced crimes in question were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing]] [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving them a bomb for [[BirthdayEpisode their birthday]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), joining forces with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into [[FiveFingerDiscount shoplifting]] so she could arrest her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").

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** During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", when the girls tell [[RichBitch Princess Morbucks]] that her Christmas wish of becoming a Powerpuff Girl will never come true and her overall [[ItsAllAboutMe overall]] [[GreenEyedMonster greedy]] and [[SpoiledBrat bratty bratty]] [[LackOfEmpathy personality]] and previous criminal deeds earned her a spot on Santa's Naughty List, the referenced crimes in question were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing]] [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving them a bomb for [[BirthdayEpisode their birthday]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), joining forces with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into [[FiveFingerDiscount shoplifting]] so she could arrest her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").
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** During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", when the girls tell [[RichBitch Princess Morbucks]] that her Christmas wish of becoming a Powerpuff Girl will never come true and her overall [[SpoiledBrat bratty personality]] and previous criminal deeds earned her a spot on Santa's Naughty List, the referenced crimes in question were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving them a bomb for [[BirthdayEpisode their birthday]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), joining forces with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into [[FiveFingerDiscount shoplifting]] so she could arrest her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").

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** During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", when the girls tell [[RichBitch Princess Morbucks]] that her Christmas wish of becoming a Powerpuff Girl will never come true and her overall [[SpoiledBrat bratty personality]] and previous criminal deeds earned her a spot on Santa's Naughty List, the referenced crimes in question were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing legalizing]] [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving them a bomb for [[BirthdayEpisode their birthday]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), joining forces with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into [[FiveFingerDiscount shoplifting]] so she could arrest her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").
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** During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", the girls reference the following criminal deeds [[SpoiledBrat Princess]] [[RichBitch Morbucks]] committed that landed her on Santa's naughty list when they tell her that her wish of being a Powerpuff Girl will never come true. The following deeds were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving the girls a bomb for their birthday ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), teaming up with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into shoplifting and tattling on her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").

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** During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas Twas 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", when the girls reference the following criminal deeds [[SpoiledBrat Princess]] tell [[RichBitch Princess Morbucks]] committed that landed her on Santa's naughty list when they tell her that her Christmas wish of being becoming a Powerpuff Girl will never come true. The following true and her overall [[SpoiledBrat bratty personality]] and previous criminal deeds earned her a spot on Santa's Naughty List, the referenced crimes in question were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving the girls them a bomb for [[BirthdayEpisode their birthday birthday]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), teaming up joining forces with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into shoplifting and tattling on [[FiveFingerDiscount shoplifting]] so she could arrest her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Reeking Havoc": Buttercup asks Blossom where she got a giant match to battle a giant fart monster.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Reeking Havoc": "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS6EP3ReekingHavocLiveAndLetDynamo Reeking Havoc]]": Buttercup asks Blossom where she got a giant match to battle a giant fart monster.
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* During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", the girls reference the following criminal deeds [[SpoiledBrat Princess]] [[RichBitch Morbucks]] committed that landed her on Santa's naughty list when they tell her that her wish of being a Powerpuff Girl will never come true. The following deeds were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving the girls a bomb for their birthday ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), teaming up with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into shoplifting and tattling on her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").

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* ** During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", the girls reference the following criminal deeds [[SpoiledBrat Princess]] [[RichBitch Morbucks]] committed that landed her on Santa's naughty list when they tell her that her wish of being a Powerpuff Girl will never come true. The following deeds were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving the girls a bomb for their birthday ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), teaming up with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into shoplifting and tattling on her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").

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-->'''Blossom:''' Same place I got the giant jar from, silly. Season 1, Episode 2... remember?
** In "Keen on Keane", the Professor recalls a bad experience with a cat that made him "jump off a building", a nod to the episode "Cat Man Do".
** In "Aspirations," Bubbles mentions Buttercup's crush on Ace of the Gangreen Gang from the episode "Buttercrush."
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-->'''Blossom:''' Same place I got the giant jar from, silly. [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E2InsectInsidePowerpuffBluff Season 1, Episode 2...2]]... remember?
** In "Keen "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS5EP1KeenOnKeaneNotSoAwesomeBlossom Keen on Keane", Keane]]", the Professor recalls a bad experience with a cat that made him "jump off a building", a nod to the episode "Cat "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E10CatManDoImpeachFuzz Cat Man Do".
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** In "Aspirations," "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS6EP8Aspirations Aspirations]]", Bubbles mentions Buttercup's crush on Ace of the Gangreen Gang from the episode "Buttercrush."[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E4ButtercrushFuzzyLogic Buttercrush]]."
---> '''Buttercup:''' Why you gotta bring up old stuff? stuff?
* During the beginning of the ChristmasEpisode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsTwasTheFightBeforeChristmas Twas the Fight Before Christmas]]", the girls reference the following criminal deeds [[SpoiledBrat Princess]] [[RichBitch Morbucks]] committed that landed her on Santa's naughty list when they tell her that her wish of being a Powerpuff Girl will never come true. The following deeds were purchasing the city and [[LegalizedEvil legalizing crime]] ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold Bought and Scold]]"), hiring Mojo Jojo to try to destroy them ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud Mo Job]]"), giving the girls a bomb for their birthday ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff Birthday Bash]]"), teaming up with three felons, consisting of Mojo, HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins, and going on a crime spree ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]") and tricking their new neighbor, Robyn Snyder into shoplifting and tattling on her ("[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 Superfriends]]").
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
** In the very first episode, "A Lying Witch and the Warden", we get this line from the opening ImagineSpot of Luz's "book report".
--->'''Azura:''' Do not underestimate me, Gildersnake, For I am the Good Witch Azura, warrior of peace! [[MoodWhiplash NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!]]
** The call-back comes in the GrandFinale, "Watching and Dreaming", as Luz delivers a very similar one-liner to Belos [[spoiler:while ripping him out of the Titan's heart]].
--->'''Luz:''' Do not underestimate me, Belos, for I am the Good Witch Luz-- child of the human realm, student of the demon realm, and warrior of peace! ''NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!''
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* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In "Finding Clover", when Sofia encounters Madame Ubetcha, the former remarks that they've met before, referencing her last encounter with her at Tangu in "Two to Tangu", when Sofia asked her for her help in getting her and Amber to Tangu Peak.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': At the beginning of "Chipocalypse Now" when Cricket is standing up to Chip vowing he will stop him from ruining the family, he brings up launching a chicken into space, something he did at the very beginning of the series in "Space Chicken". He brings it up again in the climax after Chip is slung out of Big City in his chopper.



* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': At the beginning of "Chipocalypse Now" when Cricket is standing up to Chip vowing he will stop him from ruining the family, he brings up launching a chicken into space, something he did at the very beginning of the series in "Space Chicken". He brings it up again in the climax after Chip is slung out of Big City in his chopper.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': At the beginning of "Chipocalypse Now" when Cricket is standing up to Chip vowing he will stop him from ruining the family, he brings up launching a chicken into space, something he did at the very beginning of the series in "Space Chicken". He brings it up again in the climax after Chip is slung out of Big City in his chopper.
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** The CharlieAndTheChocolateParody episode has Peter find a golden scroll that lets him get a tour of a brewery. He runs home in excitement and trips on the sidewalk, holding his knee in pain for [[OverlyLongGag several seconds]]. Another episode several seasons later plays this scene in nearly the exact same way, except it is Lois running home after hearing she got the job as a news reporter, but when she trips, ''she winds up hurting her breasts'' and holds one while in pain. The original version of "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball Something, Something, Something, Dark Side]]" (''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' parody) had one of the [=AT-ATs=] doing the knee version. Reruns cut that scene.
** The third season episode "Lethal Weapons" has Stewie demonstrating a number of novelty and gag items from Jack's Joke Shop while using the slogan "If it ain't funny, it ain't worth Jack". Years later in season 5's "Road to Rupert" he pulls the same schtick on Brian; Brian's [[DopeSlap reaction is not one of amusement]].


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** In "White Meg Can't Jump," Peter loses his voice while at a basketball game. At the same time, a man selling butt-scratchers walks by. Many seasons ago, Peter had excitedly purchased a butt-scratcher from him, but now he is unable to call out to get his attention.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'':

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** In "My Two Favorite People", Jake looks through his contacts to find people to hang with in a ploy to make Lady and Finn jealous. Pretty much all of his contacts appear later in the show: Gareth and the Flying Lettuce Brothers appear in "One Last Job" and a good majority of the others mentioned appear in "Daddy-Daughter Card Wars" as members of the Card Wars tournament.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Reeking Havoc": Buttercup asks Blossom where she got a giant match to battle a giant fart monster.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "Hus-keys," one of Molly's props in her dog-training video is the book ''Best Beasts Ever! And Where to Find Them''. That was the book that had convinced the Mabrays' guest Travis that mammoths still exist in the episode "Book of Mammoths." Apparently, he left the book with them after they finally convinced him that it was bogus.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is a mostly episodic show, but there are moments that remind you that there ''is'' a story going on.
** During "In Your Footsteps", at the end of the episode, we see [[spoiler: the Snail being possessed by [[KnightOfCerebus The Lich]]]] like in "Mortal Folly", [[spoiler: who planned to steal The Enchiridion for unknown reasons]].
** In "Beyond this Earthly Realm", when Finn is looking for the Ice King, he says "Where'd you go Simon?" This is referring to [[spoiler: the Ice King's [[CerebusRetcon real name]] from [[WasOnceAMan when he was a human]]]], as learned in "Holly Jolly Secrets Part II."
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'':
** The beginning of "Sneeze the Day" is a call back to the scene where Aladdin steals a loaf of bread in the original film. In the episode, Amin Damoola steals a diamond and Aladdin, Genie, and the royal guards try to stop him from escaping. The scene depicts the same dialogue used in the scene of the movie.
** Heads, You Lose: Moments after Aladdin gets his head removed from his body by Caliph Kapok, Aladdin's body spins his head and juggles it, with Genie commenting "Taught him that trick the first time we met."
** Shadow of a Doubt: Aladdin and his friends (save Genie) enter a cave where they have to find a mirror that represents "the truth behind appearances." After Aladdin finds the mirror, Iago attempts to steal a mirror that shows a reflection of himself wearing gold and jewels, causing the cave to collapse. This scene is very similar to the Cave of Wonders scene in the movie. Hell, Iago even mentions the Cave of Wonders incident when he tells Aladdin not to let Abu touch anything.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', of all shows, has a surprising amount of call backs. Unlike other animated comedies, the writers seem to be putting a surprising amount of effort into keeping continuity.
** One episode shows Stan sending a realtor/hand model to Guantanamo Bay. When she borrows another inmate's napkin, they say they will cut off her "beautiful hands". Later episodes show her with a hook for a hand, and at one point was even introduced as a "former hand model".
** Another episode features a subplot involving a cat that constantly attacks Steve. The end of a later episode shows the cat using a gun to kill Steve's clone.
** In Season 1, Stan sends a bitter, wigless woman to the CIA and claims she is the alien they were looking for. Five seasons later, Stan and Roger go to Area 51, where the old woman can be seen in a tube full of green goo in the background.
** An early episode has Francine mentioning George Clooney as her "one free kill". A later episode reveals that she really hates him for stealing her chance at fame, and she spends the entire episode trying to make him suffer by breaking his heart.
** In Season 1, Stan casually mentions having a half-brother. Guess which member of his family we meet much later on?
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'''s main source of humour is the callback, a carryover from Adam Reed's previous project ''Frisky Dingo''.
* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' was actually well known for this. In every single episode, except the first, they make some form of reference to a previous episode, and everything is kept in continuity.



* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', most of the campers show Raj and Samson that they came down with a mystery rash, which, according to Samson, Edward still has in a later episode. In that one, Edward drives his cabin like a car, which becomes a plot point a few episodes later.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' repeatedly references a scene from the first episode where Dante and Randall appear to be climbing a building, only to pull back and reveal that they're simply doing a [[Series/Batman1966 Bat-Climb]].
* There are a few call-backs in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', but one of the most blatant is in "Memory Blank" when Danny lists events that happened in previous episodes to use against Sam during a bitter argument.



** In addition to his GiantRobot, the Giant Dexo-Robo, showing up prominently in several eps, his power frame (first called the "Dextransformer" then later the "Exerjock 4000") from the early first season dodgeball episode reappears in three late season 2 eps, the first one ("Gooey Aliens That Control Your Mind") specifically mentioning the "dodgeball incident" (and including a sweep pan over a room of previous episodes' inventions).

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** In addition to his GiantRobot, the Giant Dexo-Robo, showing up prominently in several eps, episodes, his power frame (first called the "Dextransformer" then later the "Exerjock 4000") from the early first season dodgeball episode reappears in three late season Season 2 eps, episodes, the first one ("Gooey Aliens That Control Your Mind") specifically mentioning the "dodgeball incident" (and including a sweep pan over a room of previous episodes' inventions).



* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** The second season finale of ''Transformers: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is a ''huge'' Call Back to the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' series, the consequences of which could shake the foundations of time itself.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' continued the Call Backs with Vector Sigma, its Key, the Plasma Energy Chamber, and the HatePlague.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" two-parter, Smithers' throwaway comment in part one about never missing the Creator/ComedyCentral show ''Pardon My Zinger'' (which isn't a real Comedy Central show) ended up providing his alibi for not having shot Mr. Burns in part two.
** In "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror XIV"'s first segment "Reaper Madness", Homer becomes the Grim Reaper after accidentally killing the original. In the following segment "Frinkenstein", as Frink Sr. goes on a rampage at an award ceremony, he declares "I wish I was Death again. That was cool."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' is juicy with them.
** When Demona's plan to betray the humans of her castle so that the gargoyles would have it to themselves went wrong and resulted in the deaths of most of her clan and the rest being frozen as stone for good, she says "[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I]]... [[IgnoredEpiphany what have they done?!!]]" At the very end of the show, John, a human hunting gargoyles, accidentally shoots his brother while attempting to shoot Goliath, and says the exact same words.
** "Hunter's Moon" is full of Call Backs to previous episodes, especially in "Awakening" and "City of Stone." For example, in the very beginning of "Awakening", Elisa is investigating the battle on top of the Eyrie Building and comes across a stone with claw marks in it, to which she muses, "What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid stone?" Then, in "Hunter's Moon," Elisa and her partner are investigating a crime scene in which a gargoyle tore a steel door off of its hinges, and Elisa's partner asked "What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid steel?"
** In "The Edge" Owen mentions a meeting with an Emir to Xanatos. Later, in "Grief" the Emir is actually a character.
** Goliath occasionally mentions "needing a detective." In the first episode, "detective" was the first new word that Goliath learned after [[FishOutOfTemporalWater waking up in the 20th century]], and he advised Xanatos to "call a detective" to find his lost disks soon after learning it.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'':
** The beginning of "Sneeze the Day" is a call back to the scene where Aladdin steals a loaf of bread in the original film. In the episode, Amin Damoola steals a diamond and Aladdin, Genie, and the royal guards try to stop him from escaping. The scene depicts the same dialogue used in the scene of the movie.
** Heads, You Lose: Moments after Aladdin gets his head removed from his body by Caliph Kapok, Aladdin's body spins his head and juggles it, with Genie commenting "Taught him that trick the first time we met."
** Shadow of a Doubt: Aladdin and his friends (save Genie) enter a cave where they have to find a mirror that represents "the truth behind appearances." After Aladdin finds the mirror, Iago attempts to steal a mirror that shows a reflection of himself wearing gold and jewels, causing the cave to collapse. This scene is very similar to the Cave of Wonders scene in the movie. Hell, Iago even mentions the Cave of Wonders incident when he tells Aladdin not to let Abu touch anything.
* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' has several call backs to the original film. Some episodes also have call backs to some previous episodes.
** "Kenya Be My Friend?": When Timon and Baampu are stargazing, Baampu asks Timon what the sparkling dots in the sky are, which Timon replies that they are fireflies. After a moment of silence, Timon asks Baampu if he's going to state that he always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away, which the warthog replies that he will not, much to Timon's depression, making him start to miss Pumbaa.
** "Home Is Where the Hog Is": When Pumbaa reunites with his sounder, Timon interrupts Pumbaa and Sharla's moment and says "Let me get this straight. You know her, she knows you, they know you. What's going on here?!"
** "Gabon With The Wind": When Cheetata calls Pumbaa a pig, Pumbaa goes berserk and charges at the cheetahs, with him and Timon using the same dialogue used in the movie when he goes berserk and charges at the hyenas when Banzai calls him a pig.
** "Zazu's Off-By-One Day": When Zazu runs into Rafiki, he asks the baboon if he knows which animal he forgot to count. Rafiki shows Zazu his reflection in the water, though when he tries to do so on the first pool, he ends up showing Zazu a reflection of Simba instead of the hornbill himself.
** All of the Speedy the Snail episodes end with Timon and Pumbaa saying goodbye to Speedy when they take him home, only for Speedy to get caught by a seagull and Timon and Pumbaa having to save their friend once again. In Speedy's final appearance, the seagull turns out to be an aircraft controlled by Chromosome Quint.

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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** The second season finale of ''Transformers: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is a ''huge'' Call Back to the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' series, the consequences of which could shake the foundations of time itself.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' continued the Call Backs with Vector Sigma, its Key, the Plasma Energy Chamber, and the HatePlague.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
**
In the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" two-parter, Smithers' throwaway comment in part one about never missing 2 of the Creator/ComedyCentral show ''Pardon My Zinger'' (which isn't a real Comedy Central show) ended up providing his alibi for not having shot Mr. Burns in part two.
** In "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror XIV"'s
5-part "Super [=DuckTales=]" story on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', when Fenton first segment "Reaper Madness", Homer becomes the Grim Reaper after accidentally killing gets the original. Gizmo Duck suit, he shouts out "I'm being canned like a tuna!" In a much later episode, "A Case of Mistaken Secret Identity," when Launchpad is trapped in the Gizmo Duck suit, he describes himself as "feeling like a canned tuna." Coincidence? I think not!
*
In the following segment "Frinkenstein", ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "No Speak Da Ed", after Rolf kidnaps Ed because he believes him to be in league with the wolf who tormented his livestock as Frink Sr. goes on a rampage child, Eddy is unconvinced that Rolf will do anything serious to the Eds and suggests that he'll stick eels down their pants again like he did at the end of "Dueling Eds".
* In the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'', police officer and future Resistance leader Sean Napier saves Phaeton from
an award ceremony, assassination attempt. Later on, he declares "I wish I refuses to shake Phaeton's hand because "Saving his life was Death again. my job. That was cool."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' is juicy with them.
** When Demona's plan to betray the humans of her castle so that the gargoyles would have it to themselves went wrong and resulted in the deaths of most of her clan and the rest being frozen as stone for good, she says "[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I]]... [[IgnoredEpiphany
doesn't mean I've forgotten what have they done?!!]]" At the you Sapes did fifty years ago." Phaeton doesn't take it very well. In the final episode, Napier, who has become a politician since the end of the show, John, war, is giving a human hunting gargoyles, accidentally shoots his brother while attempting to shoot Goliath, speech about the need for reconciliation and says the exact same words.
** "Hunter's Moon" is full
cooperation to some Neosapien [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POW POW]]s. One of Call Backs to previous episodes, especially in "Awakening" them pulls a gun and "City of Stone." For example, in the very beginning of "Awakening", Elisa tries to kill him, but he is investigating the battle on top of the Eyrie Building and comes across a stone with claw marks in it, saved by General Shiva. When Napier tries to which she muses, "What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid stone?" Then, in "Hunter's Moon," Elisa and her partner are investigating a crime scene in which a gargoyle tore a steel door off of its hinges, and Elisa's partner asked "What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid steel?"
** In "The Edge" Owen mentions a meeting with an Emir to Xanatos. Later, in "Grief" the Emir is actually a character.
** Goliath occasionally mentions "needing a detective." In the first episode, "detective" was the first new word
shake Shiva's hand, he refuses, explaining that Goliath learned after [[FishOutOfTemporalWater waking up in the 20th century]], and he advised Xanatos to "call a detective" to find his lost disks soon after learning it.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'':
** The beginning of "Sneeze the Day" is a call back to the scene where Aladdin steals a loaf of bread in the original film. In the episode, Amin Damoola steals a diamond and Aladdin, Genie, and the royal guards try to stop him from escaping. The scene depicts the same dialogue used in the scene of the movie.
** Heads, You Lose: Moments after Aladdin gets his head removed from his body by Caliph Kapok, Aladdin's body spins his head and juggles it, with Genie commenting "Taught him that trick the first time we met."
** Shadow of a Doubt: Aladdin and his friends (save Genie) enter a cave where they have to find a mirror that represents
"the truth behind appearances." After Aladdin finds the mirror, Iago attempts to steal a mirror that shows a reflection of himself wearing gold and jewels, causing the cave to collapse. This scene is very similar to the Cave of Wonders scene in the movie. Hell, Iago even mentions the Cave of Wonders incident when past cannot be forgotten". But, he tells Aladdin not to let Abu touch anything.
* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' has several call backs to the original film. Some episodes also have call backs to some previous episodes.
** "Kenya Be My Friend?": When Timon and Baampu are stargazing, Baampu asks Timon
adds, if Napier meant what the sparkling dots in the sky are, which Timon replies that they are fireflies. After a moment of silence, Timon asks Baampu if he's going to state that he always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away, which the warthog replies that he said before, "someday, I will not, much to Timon's depression, making him start to miss Pumbaa.
** "Home Is Where the Hog Is": When Pumbaa reunites with his sounder, Timon interrupts Pumbaa and Sharla's moment and says "Let me get this straight. You know her, she knows you, they know you. What's going on here?!"
** "Gabon With The Wind": When Cheetata calls Pumbaa a pig, Pumbaa goes berserk and charges at the cheetahs, with him and Timon using the same dialogue used in the movie when he goes berserk and charges at the hyenas when Banzai calls him a pig.
** "Zazu's Off-By-One Day": When Zazu runs into Rafiki, he asks the baboon if he knows which animal he forgot to count. Rafiki shows Zazu his reflection in the water, though when he tries to do so on the first pool, he ends up showing Zazu a reflection of Simba instead of the hornbill himself.
** All of the Speedy the Snail episodes end with Timon and Pumbaa saying goodbye to Speedy when they take him home, only for Speedy to get caught by a seagull and Timon and Pumbaa having to save their friend once again. In Speedy's final appearance, the seagull turns out to
be an aircraft controlled by Chromosome Quint. glad I saved your life."



*** The same episode (from season 5) would set one of the longest Call Backs in the series; Peter, talking like a redneck exclaims "Oh, that dog of mine!" In "Brian's a Bad Father" from season 12, Stewie says the same sentence and {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it, followed by a jingle: "''Family Guy'', we've been on for years!"

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*** The same episode (from season Season 5) would set one of the longest Call Backs in the series; Peter, talking like a redneck exclaims "Oh, that dog of mine!" In "Brian's a Bad Father" from season Season 12, Stewie says the same sentence and {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it, followed by a jingle: "''Family Guy'', we've been on for years!"



* There are a few call-backs in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', but one of the most blatant is in "Memory Blank" when Danny lists events that happened in previous episodes to use against Sam during a bitter argument.
* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' was actually well known for this. In every single episode, except the first, they make some form of reference to a previous episode, and everything is kept in continuity.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' likes to do this. When [[ThoseTwoGuys 21 and 24]] are taunting 1 for his MauveShirt status, 21 mentions a character called Speedy. Speedy was a RedShirt from the second episode.
** Another example is in the season one finale The Monarch casually mentions to his henchmen to send Wonderboy's remains back to Captain Sunshine, this becomes a major part of the episode "Handsome Ransome" 3 seasons later.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
** One episode had Man Ray use role-playing to become good. [=SpongeBob=] first tries to teach him good by giving back someone a wallet they dropped. Man Ray does this to Patrick, but is so dumb he doesn't even think it's his wallet despite his ID being in it. [=SpongeBob=]'s second lesson is for Man Ray to help someone carry a heavy package. Patrick keeps dropping the heavy package on Man Ray's foot. He gets furious and asks what is even in the box to which Patrick replies, "My wallets". That one's more of a BrickJoke, really.
** Another episode had Bikini Bottom terrorized by sea whelks. When everyone is trapped inside, [=SpongeBob=] remembers the time he had the suds in the first season episode "Suds", which he uses to free everyone and return the whelks to normal.
* In the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'', police officer and future Resistance leader Sean Napier saves Phaeton from an assassination attempt. Later on, he refuses to shake Phaeton's hand because "Saving his life was my job. That doesn't mean I've forgotten what you Sapes did fifty years ago." Phaeton doesn't take it very well. In the final episode, Napier, who has become a politician since the end of the war, is giving a speech about the need for reconciliation and cooperation to some Neosapien [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POW POW]]s. One of them pulls a gun and tries to kill him, but he is saved by General Shiva. When Napier tries to shake Shiva's hand, he refuses, explaining that "the past cannot be forgotten". But, he adds, if Napier meant what he said before, "someday, I will be glad I saved your life."
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
** That kryptonite Batman carries around? That came into play when fighting Amazo? He got it twenty episodes earlier, in "Injustice for All", when fighting Luthor, who, at the time, was armed with kryptonite. Green Lantern took it from Luthor with his ring, but Batman grabbed it from midair and put it in his utility belt, where it stayed for almost a full season.
** It gets better. Amazo blasts the kryptonite into splinters, leaving only a single useful piece. This piece is the one Bruce gives to Terry [=McGinnis=] in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' two-parter "The Call". Since ''Batman Beyond'' was made before ''Justice League'', in reality, it's a CallForward.

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* There are a few call-backs in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', but one of the most blatant is in "Memory Blank" when Danny lists events that happened in previous episodes to use against Sam during a bitter argument.
* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' was actually well known for this. In every single episode, except the first, they make some form of reference to a previous episode, and everything is kept in continuity.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' likes to do this. When [[ThoseTwoGuys 21 and 24]] are taunting 1 for his MauveShirt status, 21 mentions a character called Speedy. Speedy was a RedShirt from the second episode.
** Another example is in the season one finale The Monarch casually mentions to his henchmen to send Wonderboy's remains back to Captain Sunshine, this becomes a major part of the episode "Handsome Ransome" 3 seasons later.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
** One episode had Man Ray use role-playing to become good. [=SpongeBob=] first tries to teach him good by giving back someone a wallet they dropped. Man Ray does this to Patrick, but is so dumb he doesn't even think it's his wallet despite his ID being in it. [=SpongeBob=]'s second lesson is for Man Ray to help someone carry a heavy package. Patrick keeps dropping the heavy package on Man Ray's foot. He gets furious and asks what is even in the box to which Patrick replies, "My wallets". That one's more of a BrickJoke, really.
** Another episode had Bikini Bottom terrorized by sea whelks. When everyone is trapped inside, [=SpongeBob=] remembers the time he had the suds in the first season episode "Suds", which he uses to free everyone and return the whelks to normal.
* In the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'', police officer and future Resistance leader Sean Napier saves Phaeton from an assassination attempt. Later on, he refuses to shake Phaeton's hand because "Saving his life was my job. That doesn't mean I've forgotten what you Sapes did fifty years ago." Phaeton doesn't take it very well. In the final episode, Napier, who has become a politician since the end of the war, is giving a speech about the need for reconciliation and cooperation to some Neosapien [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POW POW]]s. One of them pulls a gun and tries to kill him, but he is saved by General Shiva. When Napier tries to shake Shiva's hand, he refuses, explaining that "the past cannot be forgotten". But, he adds, if Napier meant what he said before, "someday, I will be glad I saved your life."
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
** That kryptonite Batman carries around? That came into play when fighting Amazo? He got it twenty episodes earlier, in "Injustice for All", when fighting Luthor, who, at the time, was armed
''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'' loves these. It's packed with kryptonite. Green Lantern took it from Luthor with his ring, Call Backs and [[RunningGag recurring jokes]], but Batman grabbed it from midair special mention should go to one involving Creator/StevenSeagal, The Taliban, and put it in his utility belt, where it stayed for almost a full season.
** It gets better. Amazo blasts the kryptonite into splinters, leaving only a single useful piece. This piece is the one Bruce gives to Terry [=McGinnis=] in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' two-parter "The Call". Since ''Batman Beyond'' was made before ''Justice League'', in reality, it's a CallForward.
Penguin.



* ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' repeatedly references a scene from the first episode where Dante and Randall appear to be climbing a building, only to pull back and reveal that they're simply doing a [[Series/Batman1966 Bat-Climb]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' they try to enter a [[AncientConspiracy cabal of World Leaders that secretly rules the world]], so they resume their identities of the President (Brain) and the Minister of Finances (Pinky) of [[{{Egopolis}} Brainania]], a fictional country they created in one of their previous attempts at [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'' loves these. It's packed with Call Backs and [[RunningGag recurring jokes]], but special mention should go to one involving Creator/StevenSeagal, The Taliban, and a Penguin.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is a mostly episodic show, but there are moments that remind you that there ''is'' a story going on.
** During "In Your Footsteps", at the end of the episode, we see [[spoiler: the Snail being possessed by [[KnightOfCerebus The Lich]]]] like in "Mortal Folly", [[spoiler: who planned to steal The Enchiridion for unknown reasons]].
** In "Beyond this Earthly Realm", when Finn is looking for the Ice King, he says "Where'd you go Simon?" This is referring to [[spoiler: the Ice King's [[CerebusRetcon real name]] from [[WasOnceAMan when he was a human]]]], as learned in "Holly Jolly Secrets Part II."
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E19StormOverRyloth , "Storm Over Ryloth"]]: In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E3ShadowOfMalevolence "Shadow of Malevolence"]], Ahsoka was disappointed she didn't get to fly a Y-Wing. In this episode, she finally does and leads a bomber squadron during the successful attack on the blockade.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]''
** In the Yukon episode, Tyler complains about being ignored by everyone, mentioning that Lindsay even called him "Noah" earlier. The next episode opens up with Team CIRRRRH not noticing Noah was missing all night, to which an injured Noah snaps, "Who am I, Tyler?"
** Also in the Yukon, Chris says that he ordered jackets for the contestants to keep them from freezing in the icy climate, but then adds that they wouldn't arrive for a few weeks. Several weeks/episodes later, the contestants arrive in snowy Sweden, and Heather asks Chris if the jackets had arrived yet. [[spoiler:They hadn't]].



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' is juicy with them.
** When Demona's plan to betray the humans of her castle so that the gargoyles would have it to themselves went wrong and resulted in the deaths of most of her clan and the rest being frozen as stone for good, she says "[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I]]... [[IgnoredEpiphany what have they done?!!]]" At the very end of the show, John, a human hunting gargoyles, accidentally shoots his brother while attempting to shoot Goliath, and says the exact same words.
** "Hunter's Moon" is full of Call Backs to previous episodes, especially in "Awakening" and "City of Stone." For example, in the very beginning of "Awakening", Elisa is investigating the battle on top of the Eyrie Building and comes across a stone with claw marks in it, to which she muses, "What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid stone?" Then, in "Hunter's Moon," Elisa and her partner are investigating a crime scene in which a gargoyle tore a steel door off of its hinges, and Elisa's partner asked "What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid steel?"
** In "The Edge" Owen mentions a meeting with an Emir to Xanatos. Later, in "Grief" the Emir is actually a character.
** Goliath occasionally mentions "needing a detective." In the first episode, "detective" was the first new word that Goliath learned after [[FishOutOfTemporalWater waking up in the 20th century]], and he advised Xanatos to "call a detective" to find his lost disks soon after learning it.
* A surprising number of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' episodes feature background appearances by characters from previous episodes -- the science fair in "The Shreds Fell like Snowflakes" has blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearances by one of the would-be perps in "A Cold Day At X" and the psychic from "Cry the Beloved Mascot".
* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' "Axed By Addition", Pete says that one time he made PJ pluck dog hair out of the carpet with tweezers. Evidently, it was more than once since the task is referenced as something PJ needs to do in both "Take Me Out of the Ball Game" and "And Baby Makes Three."
* A disturbing one occurs in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. In "Into the Bunker", as the shapeshifting monster is being frozen, he taunts Dipper by morphing into an image of him horrifically screaming, saying it will be "the last form [he'll] ever take". In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", [[spoiler: Dipper is [[{{Transflormation}} turned into a wooden statue]] whilst screaming in a very similar pose (though since he's turned back at the end, the monster's prediction wasn't exactly correct)]].
** There's also a much sweeter one: in the premiere episode "Tourist Trapped," Dipper offers Mabel an "awkward sibling hug" once the two make up after an argument. Then in the penultimate episode "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality," Dipper offers Mabel an "awkward sibling hug" again, after a much more serious fight, only for her to counter with a "''sincere'' sibling hug."
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
** That kryptonite Batman carries around? That came into play when fighting Amazo? He got it twenty episodes earlier, in "Injustice for All", when fighting Luthor, who, at the time, was armed with kryptonite. Green Lantern took it from Luthor with his ring, but Batman grabbed it from midair and put it in his utility belt, where it stayed for almost a full season.
** It gets better. Amazo blasts the kryptonite into splinters, leaving only a single useful piece. This piece is the one Bruce gives to Terry [=McGinnis=] in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' two-parter "The Call". Since ''Batman Beyond'' was made before ''Justice League'', in reality, it's a CallForward.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' has a habit of introducing new plot elements that are intentionally left unresolved so that the story can revisit it at a later time. For example, the Mega Weapon is blasted into space near the end of the episode "Wrong Time, Wrong Place" to prevent Lord Garmadon from altering the present. Fast forward one season later, and the ninja find out in the episode "Codename: Arcturus" that the Mega Weapon landed on a comet and that Pythor intends to retrieve it in order to return the Overlord to power. Cue SpaceEpisode.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' they try to enter a [[AncientConspiracy cabal of World Leaders that secretly rules the world]], so they resume their identities of the President (Brain) and the Minister of Finances (Pinky) of [[{{Egopolis}} Brainania]], a fictional country they created in one of their previous attempts at [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Reeking Havoc": Buttercup asks Blossom where she got a giant match to battle a giant fart monster.
-->'''Blossom:''' Same place I got the giant jar from, silly. Season 1, Episode 2... remember?
** In "Keen on Keane", the Professor recalls a bad experience with a cat that made him "jump off a building", a nod to the episode "Cat Man Do".
** In "Aspirations," Bubbles mentions Buttercup's crush on Ace of the Gangreen Gang from the episode "Buttercrush."
---> '''Buttercup:''' Why you gotta bring up old stuff?



* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', of all shows, has a surprising amount of call backs. Unlike other animated comedies, the writers seem to be putting a surprising amount of effort into keeping continuity.
** One episode shows Stan sending a realtor/hand model to Guantanamo Bay. When she borrows another inmate's napkin, they say they will cut off her "beautiful hands". Later episodes show her with a hook for a hand, and at one point was even introduced as a "former hand model".
** Another episode features a subplot involving a cat that constantly attacks Steve. The end of a later episode shows the cat using a gun to kill Steve's clone.
** In season one, Stan sends a bitter, wigless woman to the CIA and claims she is the alien they were looking for. Five seasons later, Stan and Roger go to Area 51, where the old woman can be seen in a tube full of green goo in the background.
** An early episode has Francine mentioning George Clooney as her "one free kill". A later episode reveals that she really hates him for stealing her chance at fame, and she spends the entire episode trying to make him suffer by breaking his heart.
** In season one, Stan casually mentions having a half-brother. Guess which member of his family we meet much later on?
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' "Aftershock: Part 1", two mentions are made of the "Apprentice" episodes from Season 1 (not surprisingly, given the parallels between the two episodes).
* In an early episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Spidey saves a geeky guy and a hot girl and in his rush webs them up together and hollers "You can thank me later!" to the guy who is now making eyes at the girl. Later in the latter part of the second season, the geeky guy is proposing to her.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'''s main source of humour is the callback, a carryover from Adam Reed's previous project ''Frisky Dingo''.
* In part 2 of the 5-part "Super [=DuckTales=]" story on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', when Fenton first accidentally gets the Gizmo Duck suit, he shouts out "I'm being canned like a tuna!" In a much later episode, "A Case of Mistaken Secret Identity," when Launchpad is trapped in the Gizmo Duck suit, he describes himself as "feeling like a canned tuna." Coincidence? I think not!
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Reeking Havoc": Buttercup asks Blossom where she got a giant match to battle a giant fart monster.
-->'''Blossom:''' Same place I got the giant jar from, silly. Season one, episode two... remember?
** In "Keen on Keane", the Professor recalls a bad experience with a cat that made him "jump off a building", a nod to the episode "Cat Man Do".
** In "Aspirations," Bubbles mentions Buttercup's crush on Ace of the Gangreen Gang from the episode "Buttercrush."
---> '''Buttercup:''' Why you gotta bring up old stuff?

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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', of all shows, has a surprising amount of call backs. Unlike other animated comedies, the writers seem to be putting a surprising amount of effort into keeping continuity.
** One
The ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode shows Stan sending a realtor/hand model to Guantanamo Bay. When she borrows another inmate's napkin, they say they will cut off her "beautiful hands". Later episodes show her with a hook for a hand, and at one point was even introduced as a "former hand model".
** Another
"The Grandest Canyon" references an earlier episode features where Mindy mishears "perspective" as "''re''spective", only this time Mindy can say it and it's her friend Lillian who has the same trouble with the word. Mindy lampshades the situation.
** In "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E22MarsRockForMomSeanHasACold Mars Rock for Mom]]",
a subplot involving a cat that constantly attacks Steve. The reference to the end of "Try and Try Again" is made, and is a later episode shows crucial plot point. In that episode, the cat using a gun kids want Jet 2 to kill Steve's clone.
** In season one, Stan sends
be their Mars rover, so they give him a bitter, wigless woman new set of wheels and take him to Mars. However, Jet left Jet 2 there. During the time in which he was stranded there, he has adapted to the CIA Mars environment and claims she is the alien they were looking for. Five seasons later, Stan and Roger go to Area 51, where the old woman can be seen in apparently formed a tube full of green goo in the background.
** An early episode has Francine mentioning George Clooney as her "one free kill". A later episode reveals that she really hates him for stealing her chance at fame, and she spends the entire episode trying to make him suffer by breaking his heart.
** In season one, Stan casually mentions having a half-brother. Guess which member of his family we meet much later on?
relationship with Boop.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' "Aftershock: Part 1", two mentions are made of the "Apprentice" episodes from Season 1 (not surprisingly, given the parallels between the two episodes).
* In an early
The second episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Spidey saves ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo'' makes a geeky guy and a hot girl and in his rush webs them up together and hollers "You can thank me later!" call back to the guy who is now making eyes at the girl. Later in the latter part pilot of the second season, [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou original series]] of [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo the geeky guy is proposing to her.
franchise.]]
-->'''Knight:''' Blimey, what a night!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'''s main source of humour is ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In
the callback, a carryover from Adam Reed's previous project ''Frisky Dingo''.
* In
"Who Shot Mr. Burns?" two-parter, Smithers' throwaway comment in part 2 of one about never missing the 5-part "Super [=DuckTales=]" story on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', when Fenton Creator/ComedyCentral show ''Pardon My Zinger'' (which isn't a real Comedy Central show) ended up providing his alibi for not having shot Mr. Burns in part two.
** In "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror XIV"'s
first segment "Reaper Madness", Homer becomes the Grim Reaper after accidentally gets killing the Gizmo Duck suit, he shouts out "I'm being canned like a tuna!" original. In a much later episode, "A Case of Mistaken Secret Identity," when Launchpad is trapped in the Gizmo Duck suit, following segment "Frinkenstein", as Frink Sr. goes on a rampage at an award ceremony, he describes himself as "feeling like a canned tuna." Coincidence? declares "I wish I think not!
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Reeking Havoc": Buttercup asks Blossom where she got a giant match to battle a giant fart monster.
-->'''Blossom:''' Same place I got the giant jar from, silly. Season one, episode two... remember?
** In "Keen on Keane", the Professor recalls a bad experience with a cat that made him "jump off a building", a nod to the episode "Cat Man Do".
** In "Aspirations," Bubbles mentions Buttercup's crush on Ace of the Gangreen Gang from the episode "Buttercrush."
---> '''Buttercup:''' Why you gotta bring up old stuff?
was Death again. That was cool."



** In the season 3 episode "Starvin' Marvin' in Space", Cartman blames Kyle for a turd in the urinal. Season 10 makes an episode note out of finding out who took a crap in the urinal. Cartman blames Kyle, obviously. After a purposefully convoluted plot, it turns out to have been Stan.

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** In the season Season 3 episode "Starvin' Marvin' in Space", Cartman blames Kyle for a turd in the urinal. Season 10 makes an episode note out of finding out who took a crap in the urinal. Cartman blames Kyle, obviously. After a purposefully convoluted plot, it turns out to have been Stan.



* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' "Axed By Addition", Pete says that one time he made PJ pluck dog hair out of the carpet with tweezers. Evidently, it was more than once since the task is referenced as something PJ needs to do in both "Take Me Out of the Ball Game" and "And Baby Makes Three."
* Though ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' is mostly episodic and prone to the reset button, the cliffhanger in season 2's finale ''is'' revisited in the season 3 premiere, after a short time skip. The inmates become aggravated with the current state of the integrated "Ultrajail", and think back to what happened after they were captured by the Mistress.
* A surprising number of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' episodes feature background appearances by characters from previous episodes - the science fair in "The Shreds Fell like Snowflakes" has blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearances by one of the would-be perps in "A Cold Day At X" and the psychic from "Cry the Beloved Mascot".
* A disturbing one occurs in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. In "Into the Bunker", as the shapeshifting monster is being frozen, he taunts Dipper by morphing into an image of him horrifically screaming, saying it will be "the last form [he'll] ever take". In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", [[spoiler: Dipper is [[{{Transflormation}} turned into a wooden statue]] whilst screaming in a very similar pose (though since he's turned back at the end, the monster's prediction wasn't exactly correct)]].
** There's also a much sweeter one: in the premiere episode "Tourist Trapped," Dipper offers Mabel an "awkward sibling hug" once the two make up after an argument. Then in the penultimate episode "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality," Dipper offers Mabel an "awkward sibling hug" again, after a much more serious fight, only for her to counter with a "''sincere'' sibling hug."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' has a habit of introducing new plot elements that are intentionally left unresolved so that the story can revisit it at a later time. For example, the Mega Weapon is blasted into space near the end of the episode "Wrong Time, Wrong Place" to prevent Lord Garmadon from altering the present. Fast forward one season later, and the ninja find out in the episode "Codename: Arcturus" that the Mega Weapon landed on a comet and that Pythor intends to retrieve it in order to return the Overlord to power. Cue SpaceEpisode.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "The Grandest Canyon" references an earlier episode where Mindy mishears "perspective" as "''re''spective", only this time Mindy can say it and it's her friend Lillian who has the same trouble with the word. Mindy lampshades the situation.
** In "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E22MarsRockForMomSeanHasACold Mars Rock for Mom]]", a reference to the end of "Try and Try Again" is made, and is a crucial plot point. In that episode, the kids want Jet 2 to be their Mars rover, so they give him a new set of wheels and take him to Mars. However, Jet left Jet 2 there. During the time in which he was stranded there, he has adapted to the Mars environment and apparently formed a relationship with Boop.

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* In the an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' "Axed By Addition", Pete says that one ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Spidey saves a geeky guy and a hot girl and in his rush webs them up together and hollers "You can thank me later!" to the guy who is now making eyes at the girl. Later in the latter part of the second season, the geeky guy is proposing to her.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
** One episode had Man Ray use role-playing to become good. [=SpongeBob=] first tries to teach him good by giving back someone a wallet they dropped. Man Ray does this to Patrick, but is so dumb he doesn't even think it's his wallet despite his ID being in it. [=SpongeBob=]'s second lesson is for Man Ray to help someone carry a heavy package. Patrick keeps dropping the heavy package on Man Ray's foot. He gets furious and asks what is even in the box to which Patrick replies, "My wallets". That one's more of a BrickJoke, really.
** Another episode had Bikini Bottom terrorized by sea whelks. When everyone is trapped inside, [=SpongeBob=] remembers the
time he made PJ pluck dog hair out of had the carpet with tweezers. Evidently, it was more than once since suds in the task is referenced as something PJ needs to do in both "Take Me Out of the Ball Game" and "And Baby Makes Three."
* Though ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' is mostly episodic and prone to the reset button, the cliffhanger in
first season 2's finale ''is'' revisited in the season 3 premiere, after a short time skip. The inmates become aggravated with the current state of the integrated "Ultrajail", and think back to what happened after they were captured by the Mistress.
* A surprising number of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' episodes feature background appearances by characters from previous episodes - the science fair in "The Shreds Fell like Snowflakes" has blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearances by one of the would-be perps in "A Cold Day At X" and the psychic from "Cry the Beloved Mascot".
* A disturbing one occurs in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. In "Into the Bunker", as the shapeshifting monster is being frozen, he taunts Dipper by morphing into an image of him horrifically screaming, saying it will be "the last form [he'll] ever take". In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", [[spoiler: Dipper is [[{{Transflormation}} turned into a wooden statue]] whilst screaming in a very similar pose (though since he's turned back at the end, the monster's prediction wasn't exactly correct)]].
** There's also a much sweeter one: in the premiere
episode "Tourist Trapped," Dipper offers Mabel an "awkward sibling hug" once the two make up after an argument. Then in the penultimate episode "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality," Dipper offers Mabel an "awkward sibling hug" again, after a much more serious fight, only for her "Suds", which he uses to counter with a "''sincere'' sibling hug."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' has a habit of introducing new plot elements that are intentionally left unresolved so that the story can revisit it at a later time. For example, the Mega Weapon is blasted into space near the end of the episode "Wrong Time, Wrong Place" to prevent Lord Garmadon from altering the present. Fast forward one season later,
free everyone and the ninja find out in the episode "Codename: Arcturus" that the Mega Weapon landed on a comet and that Pythor intends to retrieve it in order to return the Overlord whelks to power. Cue SpaceEpisode.
normal.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "The Grandest Canyon" references an earlier episode where Mindy mishears "perspective" as "''re''spective", only ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E19StormOverRyloth , "Storm Over Ryloth"]]: In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E3ShadowOfMalevolence "Shadow of Malevolence"]], Ahsoka was disappointed she didn't get to fly a Y-Wing. In this time Mindy can say it and it's her friend Lillian who has the same trouble with the word. Mindy lampshades the situation.
** In "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E22MarsRockForMomSeanHasACold Mars Rock for Mom]]", a reference to the end of "Try and Try Again" is made, and is a crucial plot point. In that
episode, she finally does and leads a bomber squadron during the kids want Jet 2 to be their Mars rover, so they give him a new set of wheels and take him to Mars. However, Jet left Jet 2 there. During successful attack on the time in which he was stranded there, he has adapted to the Mars environment and apparently formed a relationship with Boop.blockade.



** In "Marble Madness", Steven rambles off a brief list of Beach City's citizens when Peridot inquired whether Earth still has humans. This list pulls a ChekhovsBoomerang at the end of season 4, [[spoiler: when Aquamarine reveals the reason she and the Topazes are on Earth kidnapping people is that they're collecting the listed "''types''" of humans.]]
* The second episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo'' makes a call back to the pilot of the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou original series]] of [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo the franchise.]]
-->'''Knight:''' Blimey, what a night!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "No Speak Da Ed", after Rolf kidnaps Ed because he believes him to be in league with the wolf who tormented his livestock as a child, Eddy is unconvinced that Rolf will do anything serious to the Eds and suggests that he'll stick eels down their pants again like he did at the end of "Dueling Eds".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', most of the campers show Raj and Samson that they came down with a mystery rash, which, according to Samson, Edward still has in a later episode. In that one, Edward drives his cabin like a car, which becomes a plot point a few episodes later.

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** In "Marble Madness", Steven rambles off a brief list of Beach City's citizens when Peridot inquired whether Earth still has humans. This list pulls a ChekhovsBoomerang at the end of season Season 4, [[spoiler: when Aquamarine reveals the reason she and the Topazes are on Earth kidnapping people is that they're collecting the listed "''types''" of humans.]]
* Though ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' is mostly episodic and prone to the reset button, the cliffhanger in Season 2's finale ''is'' revisited in the Season 3 premiere, after a short time skip. The inmates become aggravated with the current state of the integrated "Ultrajail", and think back to what happened after they were captured by the Mistress.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' "Aftershock: Part 1", two mentions are made of the "Apprentice" episodes from Season 1 (not surprisingly, given the parallels between the two episodes).
* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' has several call backs to the original film. Some episodes also have call backs to some previous episodes.
** "Kenya Be My Friend?": When Timon and Baampu are stargazing, Baampu asks Timon what the sparkling dots in the sky are, which Timon replies that they are fireflies. After a moment of silence, Timon asks Baampu if he's going to state that he always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away, which the warthog replies that he will not, much to Timon's depression, making him start to miss Pumbaa.
** "Home Is Where the Hog Is": When Pumbaa reunites with his sounder, Timon interrupts Pumbaa and Sharla's moment and says "Let me get this straight. You know her, she knows you, they know you. What's going on here?!"
** "Gabon With The Wind": When Cheetata calls Pumbaa a pig, Pumbaa goes berserk and charges at the cheetahs, with him and Timon using the same dialogue used in the movie when he goes berserk and charges at the hyenas when Banzai calls him a pig.
** "Zazu's Off-By-One Day": When Zazu runs into Rafiki, he asks the baboon if he knows which animal he forgot to count. Rafiki shows Zazu his reflection in the water, though when he tries to do so on the first pool, he ends up showing Zazu a reflection of Simba instead of the hornbill himself.
** All of the Speedy the Snail episodes end with Timon and Pumbaa saying goodbye to Speedy when they take him home, only for Speedy to get caught by a seagull and Timon and Pumbaa having to save their friend once again. In Speedy's final appearance, the seagull turns out to be an aircraft controlled by Chromosome Quint.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]''
** In the Yukon episode, Tyler complains about being ignored by everyone, mentioning that Lindsay even called him "Noah" earlier. The next episode opens up with Team CIRRRRH not noticing Noah was missing all night, to which an injured Noah snaps, "Who am I, Tyler?"
** Also in the Yukon, Chris says that he ordered jackets for the contestants to keep them from freezing in the icy climate, but then adds that they wouldn't arrive for a few weeks. Several weeks/episodes later, the contestants arrive in snowy Sweden, and Heather asks Chris if the jackets had arrived yet. [[spoiler:They hadn't]].
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
**
The second episode season finale of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo'' makes ''Transformers: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is a call back ''huge'' Call Back to the pilot of the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou original series]] of [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' series, the franchise.]]
-->'''Knight:''' Blimey, what a night!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "No Speak Da Ed", after Rolf kidnaps Ed because he believes him to be in league with the wolf who tormented his livestock as a child, Eddy is unconvinced that Rolf will do anything serious to the Eds and suggests that he'll stick eels down their pants again like he did at the end
consequences of "Dueling Eds".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', most of the campers show Raj and Samson that they came down with a mystery rash, which, according to Samson, Edward still has in a later episode. In that one, Edward drives his cabin like a car,
which could shake the foundations of time itself.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' continued the Call Backs with Vector Sigma, its Key, the Plasma Energy Chamber, and the HatePlague.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' likes to do this. When [[ThoseTwoGuys 21 and 24]] are taunting 1 for his MauveShirt status, 21 mentions a character called Speedy. Speedy was a RedShirt from the second episode.
** Another example is in the Season 1 finale The Monarch casually mentions to his henchmen to send Wonderboy's remains back to Captain Sunshine, this
becomes a plot point a few episodes later.major part of the episode "Handsome Ransome" 3 seasons later.

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