History Main / ProductionThrowback

* Music/{{Queen|Band}}: Appears frequently throughout ''Music/MadeInHeaven'', tying in with that album's nature as the band's GrandFinale following the death of frontman Music/FreddieMercury four years prior.
** "Mother Love" samples Freddie Mercury's call-and-response chant from the band's 1986 Wembley Stadium concert (as documented in the 1992 LiveAlbum ''Live at Wembley '86''), with the synth string intro to [[Music/AKindOfMagic "One Vision"]] playing in the background.
** "I Was Born to Love You" samples Mercury's ad-libs from the TitleTrack to ''Music/AKindOfMagic''.
** "A Winter's Tale", recorded during the post-''Innuendo'' sessions, has a subtle but charming one: "It's ''Music/{{a kind of magic}}'' in the air".
** The breakdown in "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)" samples the piano riff from the closing track of both ''Music/{{Queen|1973}}'' and ''Music/QueenII'', "Seven Seas of Rhye".
** Mercury's interjection of "yeah!" in both "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)" and the aptly-titled "Yeah" is sampled from [[Music/HotSpace "Action This Day"]]

** "Love is Lost" re-used puppets that had planned to be used for the filmed-but-unreleased ConceptVideo for [[Music/{{Hours}} "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell"]]. The remix of the same song also samples the piano lick from [[Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps "Ashes to Ashes"]].

** Similarly, the Pizza Planet delivery van in every film since ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''.

* ''Fanfic/FragileHandleWithCare'' makes reference to Soti-Kids, a medicine used in the author's previous fanfic, ''Fanfic/MaFille''.

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** Both [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Pumbaa]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] cameo in the background of France during the 'Out There' sequence of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''

* ''Anime/SwordArtOnlineOrdinalScale'' has the group go a [[Manga/{{Working}} Wagnaria]] branch, alluding to Creator/A1Pictures' lastest [[Manga/WWWWorking installment]] of the animated franchise the previous year.

** According to the artbook, Snake's long hair in the briefing sequence in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' is supposed to be the same hairstyle as Jonathan from ''VideoGame/{{Policenauts}}''. His ImportantHaircut is a joke signalling to the player that they should forget about ''Policenauts'', because it's time for ''Metal Gear Solid'' now.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Man, the Walt Donkey studio has been on a roll lately!"]]

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** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', some the pirated movies Duke Weaselton is selling are animal versions of recent Disney animated hits: ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Wrangled]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph Wreck-It Rhino]]'',''[[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Pig Hero 6]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} Meowana]]''. He's also selling other Disney movies that are still in production, like ''[[WesternAnimation/FrozenII Floatzen 2]]'', making it ProductionForeshadowing as well.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is full of {{Shout Out}}s to Creator/KenAkamatsu's previous series, ''Manga/LoveHina''. Outside the numerous {{Expy}}s, Tama the turtle has a cameo, the famous [[MegatonPunch "Naru Punch"]] makes a reappearance, and one of Motoko's sword techniques sees some use in ''Negima''. In addition, several characters from ''Love Hina'' make reappearances in ''Negima''. The creator also [[WordOfGod confirmed]] that the hotel at which the characters stay in (one of) Negima's {{Beach Episode}}s is the same one where Naru and Keitaro stayed.

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** The GameWithinAGame ''Verum Rex'' is a pretty blatant knockoff of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', of which ''Kingdom Hearts'' series director Creator/TetsuyaNomura was working on when it was still known as ''Final Fantasy Versus XIII''. The main character is even named "Yozora", whose meaning is identical to "Noctis", "night sky". [[spoiler:The endings of both the main game and ''Re Mind'' double down on the ''Versus XIII'' references, with the track "Secrets of the Night" having a MusicalNod to "Somnus" and the Limitcut Episode ending being an almost-perfect shot-for-shot recreation of the opening of ''Versus XIII''[='s=] 2011 trailer.]]

* While ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' largely cut back on Square-Enix characters beyond the Moogles, one notable exception was made. As the devs for the Gummi sections were from the team that made ''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'', that game's penultimate boss, Schwartzgeist, makes a return as the Gummi superboss, complete with its ClippedWingAngel form Monitor and a remix of [[BattleThemeMusic Thermosphere]]. As an EasterEgg, [[spoiler:if you find the hidden Endymion blueprint and fight Schwartzgeist with it, the original version of Thermosphere plays instead.]]

* The skull logo seen on Duncan's shirt in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has also appeared in ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' on Corey's hat and Jesse, TheBully from ''WesternAnimation/{{Looped}}''. Creators Mark Thornton and Todd Kauffman were the producers on all three series, with the latter two being their own brainchildren.

* One episode of WesternAnimation/ReBoot has a cameo from the handyman characters from the music video of "Money For Nothing" by Music/DireStraits, a music video the creators of ReBoot had worked on before forming the studio that produced the show.

* When Kaguya's class does a cosplay cafe for the culture festival in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', one of her classmates is dressed up as [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} IA]] (who was designed by series author Aka Akasaka).