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!!''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego''
ShoutOut in this series.
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* During Carmen's flashback to her childhood, her geography lesson has her identifying [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants "Istanbul, not Constantinople"]].
* V.I.L.E. only graduates forty students a year. Naturally, Carmen once refers to them as [[Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves the Forty Thieves]].
* When brainstorming codenames, Gray first thinks of [[ComicBook/SpiderMan "Shocker"]] before it gets shot down.
* More than once, Gray puns on Carmen's V.I.L.E. codename with an old nursery rhyme and quips, "Bye-bye, Black Sheep".
* Tigress dismissively called Carmen "Fe[[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer dora the Explorer]]."
* "The Duke of Vermeer Caper" is all about the career of Creator/JohannesVermeer, and how his incredible attention to light and shadow and surprisingly small body of work (only 34 known paintings) make his work highly desirable.
* "The Opera in The Outback Caper" is set during a performance of ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' (fittingly enough). The similarities of the characters is referenced often.
* In the scene where Paper Star is introduced, Professor Maelstrom asks her to "[[Film/BringMeTheHeadOfAlfredoGarcia bring him the hat of Carmen Sandiego]]".
* Le Chèvre calls Paper Star "[[Literature/PippiLongstocking Pippi Punkstocking]]"
* The car chase on the streets from San Francisco (from "The Lucky Cat Caper") is very reminiscent of the iconic car chase from ''Film/{{Bullitt}}''.
* Professor Maelstrom's outfit (tan slacks, dark turtleneck, black jacket with white piping) is an exact replica of the one Patrick [=McGoohan=] wore in ''[[Series/ThePrisoner1967 The Prisoner]]''.
* In "The Daīsho Caper", Boston natives Zach and Ivy sing "More than a Feeling" at karaoke, a song by the rock band Music/{{Boston}}.
* In "The Fashionista Caper", Agent Argent is practicing what she'll say to Carmen when she eventually catches her. At one point, she attempts to do a [[Series/CSIMiami Horatio Caine]]-esque one-liner, complete with putting her glasses on and a song similar to [[Music/TheWho "Won't Get Fooled Again"]] playing.
* As of "The Need For Speed Caper", we can add Franchise/CarmenSandiego to the list of franchises that have paid homage to the famous ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' bike slide.
* For that matter, the name of that episode is a shout-out to ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed''.
* Also the episode where Paper Star attempts to steal the Magna Carta is "The Chasing Paper Caper", a shout-out to Music/ThePaperChase.
* As for Carmen Sandiego herself, the ability for her coat to transform into a hang glider is reminiscent to that of [[Manga/MagicKaito Kaito Kuroba]]. Bonus points that they are both thieves who use an alias to steal valuable items in order from them getting in the wrong hands.
* According to "The French Connection Caper" A.C.M.E. agents drive Blanton-Webster automobiles, which in addition to being a BlandNameProduct version of Aston Martin, is also a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blanton%E2%80%93Webster_Band The Blanton-Webster Band]].
* In "The Big Bad Ivy Caper", Doctor Bellum says that the failures of various V.I.L.E. operatives [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey "can only be attributed to human error"]].

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