Call Back / Web Original

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged

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• The Angry Video Game Nerd
  • Used in his review of Winter Games for the NES. When complaining about the unresponsiveness of the controls during the figure skating segment, he states "I wonder who programmed this...maybe it was Fred Fuchs...". Fuchs is the name of one of the producers of the film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and whom the Nerd referenced in a review of that game after seeing his name in the credits.
  • In his review of Dark Castle for the Sega Genesis and Philips CD-i, he ends by saying that the game "fucks you harder than life itself", recalling a quote (in German) of a fan summary of Deadly Towers.
• Board James: Episode 27: the "Dream Phone" theme plays at the end of the credits, calling back to the Episode 19 review of Dream Phone. Episode 19 has a Mr. Bucket appearance, calling back to the Mr. Bucket review from Episode 8.
• Cheap Arse Film Review has one in the Christmas Special:
  Ghost: Who makes important life decisions while wearing an animal costume?
  Cheapus: [looks uncomfortable] ...
• Destroy the Godmodder has lots. Many things are called back on at some point, such as the Black Monolith, the Glitch, and the Homestuck Invasion. Even used as an attack by Doc Scratch to counter someone's godmod of an attack.
• One infamous scene in Dino Attack RPG was intended to be a Call Back to an earlier, rather strange moment from the LEGO Island arc. The incident in question involved Zenna and an unnamed doctor attempting surgery on Kate (who had taken a bullet through the neck). For the Call Back, this was handled more realistically, when a stressed Pierce attempted to perform CPR on Amanda's corpse only for Shaw to point she was already dead. Unfortunately, this scene had to be retconned into Canon Discontinuity because for whatever reason Atton Rand failed to realize she wasn't in a position for her body to be recovered at the time.
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, specifically episode 6:
  • All of the protagonists are now their favorite color as stated in the first Episode, after Red Guy unplugged the machine.
  • During the medley near the end of the video, Yellow Guy's "An old man died." in Tony the Clock's song is replaced with "You made me die!", in reference to the events of Episode 2
  • The song Red Guy sings in the karaoke bar is also Sketchbook's song on creativity from the first episode of Don't Hug Me Im Scared.
• DSBT InsaniT: Koden's party is referenced a few times, much to his dismay.
  • In 'Untamed and Uncut', Tide refers to Frog as "That guy who wiped out on a rock.", which happened in 'Beach Brawl'.
    • When Robo tells Kayla that he is waterproof, she reminds him of when Cell shorted him out. Robo just dismisses that scene as a gag.
    • Killdra offhandedly mentions how Killer Monster was Koden's pet when talking to ???.
  • In 'Store Story', after Stephanie says We Will Meet Again, Alex brings up how Killer Monster said the same thing in 'The Camping Webisode'.
  • In 'VRcade', when Kayla notes Lisa's Clothing Switch, Lisa references the fact that she was at the mall as 'Killdra's co-singer' in 'Store Story'.
    • The fact that Killdra sung with both Lisa and Stephanie in 'Store Story' is referenced.
    • The encounter with ??? in 'Untamed and Uncut' is discussed by Amber and Killer, and Koden and Weird Girl.
• Lots in Echo Chamber, the TV Tropes original webshow.
  • In Episode 4, Tom tells Dana that all he has to offer her to eat is rice, but she can "add salt" if she's "feeling adventurous". Then, in Episode 6, Tom is depicted making rice. Dana has a plate in front of her, but she conspicuously does not help herself to any.
  • The eighth episode's Girl of the Week, Porn Girl, first appeared briefly in Terrible Interviewees Montage, an episode which also set up the character of Shannon, who had her day in the limelight in Episode 6.
  • A literal Call-Back in Episode 5, which features a Moment Killer phone call. Episode 6 implies that this phone call was from Shannon.
• Gameboys:
  • Cairo & Gavreel's relationship starts with the latter asking "Pass or Play" ? Reversed in Episode 10, which was supposed to be the end of an already extended run.
  • The polo Cairo is wearing in Episode 10 is the same one he wore the first time they were supposed to meet in Episode 3&4.
  • Pearl waking up Gavreel to meet Cairo at the airport before he leaves in the finale parallels her waking Cairo to get ready to meet Gav in Episode 3, right down to almost walking out the door with no shirt.
  • Likewise, Pearl reassuring a discouraged Gavreel to meet Cairo, only for Cairo to appear right behind him parallels practically the same event happening earlier in Episode 10, but with roles reversed..
• In The Gamer's Alliance, various story arcs feature quite a few Call Backs to previous storylines. For example, Leon recognizes the lich Drishnek whom he met several years earlier during another plot, and Ax references Refan's attempted rape during their second encounter.
• In the first "The Fesh Pince Of Blair" Will remarks that "Heaven has to be like a cross between a Dikekike video and chicken 'n winnigish". When Phil dies in "The Fesh Pince of Blair 2: Uncle Phil Yiffs in Heaven Again", he gets to Heaven and discovers that's exactly what it is.
  This is incredible!
• lonelygirl15 features multiple Call Backs to earlier points in the series, particularly towards the end of the third season, where details such as a broken clock seen in the background of a season 1 video suddenly became relevant to the plot.
• Mystery Science Theater F1: Matt frequently references things he said in previous episodes.
• Nobody Here:
  • "Trash" has Jogchem decide to explore his trash can after it starts making strange noises. Inside he finds two archeologists analyzing and tagging items from previous stories and animations. This was made as a celebration of the website's 25th anniversary.
  • "Stuff" is a poem about all the things Jogchem owns. Passing through his silhouette are images and gifs from previous stories.
  • "Homophobic" has Jogchem try to figure out which of the people he knows might be gay. His list includes his neighbors from "Raft" and "Listen", the woman in the bus from "Conversation" and the titular characters from "Vagabond" and "Mister".
  • "Dance" has Jogchem dancing along a group of teddy bears, most of which are damaged in the same ways that you could hurt them in "Bear".
• Noob is rife with these. Among the longest ones:
  • Omega Zell trying to figure out how Gaea could be blackmailing Fantöm has him say something along the lines of "I don't know, maybe she took his cat hostage or something". A cat is shown in a Season 3 episode parly set Fantöm's home.
  • A Season 3 episode has Omega Zell use an add-on that shows the stats of a given battle. He mentions using it again in Season 4.
  • After having trouble contacting Tenshirock during Season 5, a desperate Gaea attempts a Call on Me, something she was last seen doing in Season 2.
• The Nostalgia Chick's "NChick Labs" segment is full of these, referencing the Makeover Fairy, the scientists, Lord MacGuffin (and the confusion about MacGuffins) and rapping about rape.
• Random Assault: Boney Jones and Bookfart have made repeat appearances.
• Whenever something is repeated in Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time, the last videos where they appeared are put on top of the current one.
• Slimecicle Cinematic Universe: On Day 99 in "We Spent 100 Days in a Hardcore Minecraft Apocalypse", Schlatt's shop appears one last time, with Schlatt trying to offer Charlie a golden apple, causing him to flash back to the events of "Minecraft, but every 5 minutes there's a natural disaster".
• Tobuscus followed up his immensely popular Literal Trailer of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood with one for Assassin's Creed: Revelations. At the end, he reuses two lines ("Nod at the bird and PEOPLE DIE / Everywhere PEOPLE DIE.") in an Ironic Echo fashion, transitioning from the awesome action scene in the first trailer to Ezio's poignant, apparently hopeless plight in the second. He does it again in his Literal Trailer for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and hangs a lampshade on it this time.
  Nod at the boat and PEOPLE DIE / Everywhere PEOPLE DIE / (It's a call back)
• Tom Fawkes makes two call-backs to previous The Runaway Guys moments during his Custom Smash episode 'Boss Battle'.
  Tom after match 2 ends: Stephen, you had bombs! ^note  The call-back was to The Runaway Guys' LP of Four Swords Adventure, where Stephen first became notorious for wanton use of bombs.
  Tom during match 5: MAAAYYYOOOORRR! ^note  This call-back is to what Jon, one of the three Villagers of this match, called "the best running gag" from the previous The Runaway Guys Colosseum. The comments had a field day with this one, even making references to how Adriana Figueroa reacted whenever Tom yelled this.
• Two Best Friends Play has a couple of Call Backs. Usually they are in the form of Pat making Matt play something because Matt made Pat play something earlier.
• Vaguely Recalling JoJo recalls various moments in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
  • To defeat Nena's Empress Stand, Joseph and Caesar use the plus-minus Ripple trick used on Esidisi!Suzie Q.
  • When the Speedwagon Foundation workers showed up to rescue Kakyoin, they used Speedwagon's favorite catchphrases when arriving and leaving.
  • In the My Little Pony Meets, so far whenever Batman appears there's a call back to his previous encounters with the Ponies.

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