- The whole opening credits dance number.
- Ted winning his personhood at the end.
- The first movie has John and Ted fighting over inside a hotel room. How do they surpass that fight? A Mêlée à Trois at the New York Comic Con.
- John giving Donnie a well deserved punch to the face and Donnie getting arrested after trying to kill Ted and seriously injuring John.
- John saying last names of famous film characters quickly in a deleted scene is a way of The Cast Show Off.
"Skywalker, Solo, Vader, Kenobi, Palpatine, Calrissian, Balboa, Rambo, Griswold, Stepford, Bickle, Gump, Corleone, Wonka, Lebowski, Venkman, Spengler, Stantz, Rizzo, Zuko, Golightly, Higgins, Dolittle, Poppins, Bond, Blofeld, Blutarsky, Soze, O'Hara, Butler, McFly, Plissken, Ventura, Burgundy, Scissorhands, Drebin, Bueller, Lecter, Dumbledore, Sparrow, Doubtfire, Bourne, Von Trapp, Zoolander, Kirk, Spock, McCoy..."
