History Main / ProductionThrowback

*** "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.

** Some sound equipment in the opening scene of ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

** ''Music/{{Green}}:

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', the call-sign of Helen's plane is "India Golf Niner-Niner", or "IG-99", in reference to writer/director Creator/BradBird's previous film ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' (I.G.), which was released in 1999 (99).

** In some parts of the music video for [[Music/BlackstarAlbum "Lazarus"]], Bowie wears a striped jumpsuit identical to the one he was pictured in on the back cover of the Creator/{{Rykodisc}} CD reissue of ''Music/StationToStation''.

* ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' has jokes from earlier adventures in the same series as well as [[MythologyGag unrelated old webcomics by the same author]]. Thus, in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', you have allusions to pumpkins disappearing and retrieval of arms from the author's first experiments with the format. Much later on, a plot development where one character is thrown in jail is clearly imitating the style of ''Jailbreak'', the first comic on the MSPA website.

* The ''Literature/EromangaSensei'' anime features multiple cameos from ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'', since they both share the same authors. Episode 8 features Kuroneko and her sister as passerbys interviewed on TV, and another episode haves Kyosuke, Kirino, Kuroneko and Saori appear in the background.

The reuse of characters or items from a previous work in EasterEgg {{cameo}}s in a newer one (similar to a fictional ProductionPosse or metafictional ContinuityCameo). In some cases, this lays down the basis of a [[TheVerse Verse]].

* The arcade version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' features the red sports car from Data East's FMV game ''Road Blaster'' (a.k.a. ''Road Avenger'') inside Billy and Jimmy's garage, as well as a billboard advertising ''[[VideoGame/KunioKun Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun]]'' (the Japanese version of ''Renegade'') just before the first boss battle. Both were games previously directed by Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the director of ''Double Dragon''. In the arcade version of ''Double Dragon II'', the helicopter from ''Cobra Command'' (Kishimoto's other FMV game he did for Data East) appears in the garage at the beginning as well.

* The ''LightNovel/EromangaSensei'' anime features multiple cameos from ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'', since they both share the same authors. Episode 8 features Kuroneko and her sister as passerbys interviewed on TV, and another episode haves Kyosuke, Kirino, Kuroneko and Saori appear in the background.

* Music/KingCrimson: Several tracks on ''Music/InTheWakeOfPoseidon'' are written as direct counterparts to pieces from ''Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing'' the previous year. "Pictures of a City" recalls "21st Century Schizoid Man", "Cadence and Cascade" nods back to "I Talk to the Wind", the TitleTrack homages "Epitaph", and "The Devil's Triangle" reprises the formatting of "Moonchild".

** Right before the above-mentioned BilingualBonus of "Not Now John", Waters chants, "One, Two, Free, Four!", as a reference to the band's earlier single "Free Four" (from ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'').

If it's something the actor did rather than the production team, it's an ActorAllusion. If the work in question is an unreleased earlier version of the same work, it's a DevelopmentGag.

* Music/DavidBowie: ''Music/TheNextDay'' features copious amounts of it, partly because it was Bowie's first album since ''Music/{{Reality}}'' ten years prior, partly to tie in with the thematic ruminations on his advancing age (being 66 when the album released).
** "Love is Lost" re-used puppets that had planned to be used for the filmed-but-unreleased ConceptVideo for [[Music/HoursDavidBowieAlbum "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell"]]. The remix of the same song also samples the piano lick from [[Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps "Ashes to Ashes"]].
** The percussion on "Love is Lost" recreates the hollow drum sound that served as a crucial part of ''Music/{{Low|DavidBowieAlbum}}''[='s=] sonic aesthetic.
** The lead single, "Where Are We Now?", references several UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} landmarks (Potsdamer Platz, Nürnberger Straße, [=KaDeWe,=] etc.), nodding back to the trilogy of albums that Bowie recorded while residing in Berlin during the late '70s.
** In the video for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)", one of the new neighbors looks and sometimes dresses like [[Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth Thomas Jerome Newton]]/[[Music/StationToStation the Thin White Duke]] and the cover of one of the tabloid magazines uses Newton's alien form as [[http://cyoulateralligator.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/03-bowie-stars-are-out-tonight.jpg an image]] with the caption "Woman Goes To Oscars Without Makeup On".
** The penultimate track, "You Feel So Lonely You Could Die", ends with the opening drums from [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars "Five Years"]].
** The director of the videos for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" and "The Next Day" is Floria Sigismondi, who also did two of his ''Music/{{Earthling}}''-era videos: "Little Wonder" and "Dead Man Walking".
** The cover is a modified version of the cover of ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]'', which has that album's title removed and a large portion of the picture of Bowie covered by a blank white square with this album's title on it.

* Music/TobyFox has included remixes of his song "Megalovania" in various projects of his, most notably video games. First appearing as the final boss theme for ''VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack'', it later appeared in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' (which he contributed music to), and its latest appearance being ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', where it plays during the boss fight with [[spoiler: Sans, during the Genocide route.]] ''Undertale'', particularly the endings and final bosses of its multiple routes, contains plenty of references to ''The Halloween Hack'', including [[spoiler:the Game Over screen during the Flowey boss fight being similar to Dr. Andonuts's, Sans claiming he's simply leaving when you mortally wound him being exactly what Andonuts did, and the final set of minibosses being called Amalgamates]].