Actor Allusion

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"The movie makes a sly reference to a famous earlier role by Irons. When Simba tells him, 'You're so weird,' he replies 'You have no idea,' in exactly the tone he used in Reversal of Fortune."

— Roger Ebert referring to Jeremy Irons' role as Scar in The Lion King (1994)

An Actor Allusion is the deliberate, yet typically rather isolated, throw-away reference to previous works/roles of an actor in a work, say a joke or mannerism. The reference is unlikely to have much plot relevance and is unlikely to be anything but a deliberate nod to the actor's previous work. Also note that it is for allusions to roles, not the actor themselves, with the equivalent being an Actor-Shared Background.

The exact nature of the allusion can vary but tends to be either blink-and-you'll-miss-it or fairly blatant. To illustrate, say Alice played Nurse Beth in B Ward before going on to play Officer Cathy in C Division. A more subtle example of an Actor Allusion might be having "Officer Cathy" mention that she once had to stay in the hospital that "Nurse Beth" worked at in the earlier show; in this case, viewers familiar with the earlier show and Alice's role in it will get the reference, but anyone unfamiliar with it likely won't notice that there's even been a reference at all. A more blatant example, however, might be having "Officer Cathy" have to dress up as a nurse to go undercover, only for her to show up dressed exactly like "Nurse Beth", to the point of even repeating catchphrases and lines of dialogue from the earlier show. In this case, even viewers unfamiliar with the previous show will likely twig that something is being referenced, even if they don't know the full details.

Casting two or more actors who not only appeared together in a previous production but spent a great deal of time onscreen together (especially alone) really reinforces the reference, as the page image demonstrates. For added irony value, it often tends to pan out that two characters who famously played friends or lovers will end up playing exes or enemies.

Related to the Shout-Out, and is sometimes triggered by I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine or a Casting Gag, but while a Casting Gag relies upon casting an actor in a role that inherently has many comparisons to their previous roles or real life, an Actor Allusion uses only small details of only a previous plot or role for the actor. In either case, though, if the role being referenced was on a previous version of the show, it's a Remake Cameo.

Contrast with Celebrity Paradox and Meta Casting where the actor themselves is the subject of reference. This is show business' In-Universe way of acknowledging Role Association.

Try to be sure a reference is blatant, specific, or otherwise confirmed by Word of God before committing yourself. Oftentimes, entries are written that merely involve an actor playing the same profession and/or character archetype, which are less likely to be intentional. If, for example, actress Alice plays a cynical Dr. Beth in Work B, and then goes on to play a cynical Dr. Cathy in Work C, that alone is not necessarily this trope. What would be an example is if Alice, as Dr. Cathy, offhandedly uses Dr. Beth's Character Catchphrase, or strikes an iconic pose that Dr. Beth is known for.

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• Live-Action TV
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• Western Animation

Other examples:

Advertising

• A Toy Story 3 themed ad for US Postal Services flat rate boxes had Hamm the piggy bank informing the group about the service while wearing a postal hat and bag. Hamm is voiced in the films by John Ratzenberger, who's most known for playing a postman on this one TV series...
  • Ratzenberger also was the spokesman for Pitney-Bowes Personal Post Office.
• During the second Old Spice campaign with "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like", Old Spice had him answer random tweets to @OldSpice...and a random tweet from one @IsaiahMustafa. Unfortunately, this does not qualify as Acting for Two.
• With credit to The Other Wiki for pointing out the reference: The original ad campaign for XM Satellite Radio featured famous musicians falling from the sky and crashing into various mundane settings. David Bowie fell into a motel room, looked skyward and murmured, "I'll never get used to that."
• There exists a 5% cash back Discover card commercial that mentions Ned the Head. The narrator of the commercial and the others in its campaign just happens to be the actor who played him.
• A 2008 Superbowl commercial for Diet Pepsi Max was set to Haddaway's "What Is Love." Drinking the Pepsi gives everyone the energy to head bounce to the song. The end of the commercial features Chris Kattan who in response to the head-bopping, yells "STOP IT!"
• An advertisement by Mercedes-Benz has a Deal with the Devil theme to it, where the Prince of Darkness tempts a man with a CLA. The devil is played by Willem Dafoe, who played the title character in The Last Temptation of Christ.
• In the early '90s, Sega pulled this off in a couple of German TV commercials with voice actors as actors: Shortly after the success of Wayne's World, they got Mike Myers' and Dana Carvey's German voice actors, dressed them somewhat recognizably and had them act out their roles once again, only now in front of a camera for a change. That said, these commercials don't really hint at Wayne's World itself, they just play with the invoked similarities.
• A 2021 Superbowl commercial for Tide is set to Joey Scarbury's "Believe it or Not". Jason Alexander parodied the song on an episode of Seinfeld for an answering machine message.

Fan Works

• Sognic: Mall-tiverse of Madness: In the first episode, Sognic is described as saying "Did I do that?" in the voice of Jaleel White. White voiced Sonic in the DiC Entertainment Sonic cartoons.
• Symposium Of Supremacy: Carly Nagisa calls Sylvio's father "eggman" in her blog. Dr. Eggman and Sylvio's father are voiced by Mike Pollock.

Music Videos

• The Reba McEntire music video "Every Other Weekend" features a divorced couple played by JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Steve Howey, who played Reba's daughter Cheyenne and her husband Van on her sitcom.
• David Bowie's Hard Rock group Tin Machine made a video for "You Belong in Rock and Roll" in which, among other things, Bowie poses in front of a mirror. At one point, he brings a pair of tweezers up to his eye, as if he were about to pluck something from it. This references an important scene in The Man Who Fell to Earth, in which it turned out that his character was removing something — namely, the contact lenses that disguised his alien eyes.
• The Great Luke Ski spends an entire verse of One Night In Quarks Bar making one reference to Principle Snyder, Armin Shimmerman's character in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• The video for "Lift Me Up" wasn't the first time Geri Halliwell bonded with a group of aliens who were fans of her.
• The video for Avril Lavigne's "Rock N Roll" features (then 38 years old) Danica McKellar as a character called "Winnie Cooperre". She shares a lesbian kiss with Avril, and then Avril does a voiceover saying "It was the first kiss for both of us. We never really talked about it afterward. But I think about the events of that day again and again, and somehow I know Winnie does too". This is a direct quote from the pilot episode of "The Wonder Years".
• The video for Weezer's cover of "Lost in the Woods" from Frozen II has a cameo by Princess Anna's voice actress, Kristen Bell.
• Demi Lovato's "La La Land" video not only features their Sonny with a Chance co-stars as themselves collectively at a red carpet awards show photo shoot, but in various other roles throughout the video.

Pinballs

• Godzilla (Sega)'s backglass art has some graffiti reading "Save Ferris" – referencing Matthew Broderick, who played the title character of Ferris Bueller's Day Off before starring in the 1998 Godzilla film that inspired the game. (That said, he had no involvement with the game's production.)

Podcasts

• Random Assault: In the Halloween Episode, after Slabflapper talks for the first time, the other hosts tell Mitch to shut up, then he defends himself, having not actually said anything. Slabflapper in reality is voiced by Mitch.

Radio

• In an episode of The BBC radio comedy series Revolting People, set during The American Revolution, Samuel, the main character, has a dream that he's gone to hell for refusing to pick a side. Satan turns out to resemble redcoat Sergeant McGurk, played by co-writer Andy Hamilton. Hamilton also writes and stars in the radio comedy series Old Harry's Game, as Satan.
• In The BBC's adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Reigate Squires", Holmes says to Inspector Forrester "You sound dangerously like a certain doctor I know". Forrester is played by Peter Davison.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) :
  • In the Quandary Phase, there's a cameo by David Dixon, the actor who played Ford Prefect in the TV version of the franchise; Arthur Dent drives Dixon's clerk character to distraction claiming they've met somewhere.
  • Similarly, Rob McKenna, the lorry driver who picks up Arthur is played by Bill Paterson, who appeared in the second radio series as second in command of an Acturian Megafreighter which picked up Zaphod. Word of God is that this was an intentional allusion, from Space Trucker to Earth trucker.
  • The Quintessential Phase adds another TV actor with Sandra Dickinson, who played Trillian in the TV version, and plays the alternate Tricia MacMillan who never left Earth. It's specifically stated that Alt-Tricia has blonde hair, as she did in the series. In the Hexagonal Phase, Dickinson takes over as regular Trillian due to the loss of Susan Sheridan, explained as the two timelines merging.
• In the Hamish and Dougal Hogmanay Special Dougal (played by Graeme Garden) is confused as to who special guest Tim Brooke-Taylor (playing himself) is.
  Hamish: Oh, you must remember! The Goodies! He was in that!
  Dougal: Was he?
  Hamish: Oh aye, there was him, Bill Oddie and er...
  Dougal: The other one.
  Hamish: Don't remember him.
• The News Quiz,
  • In an episode hosted by Sandi Toksvig, a musical clue for a question about children's television naturally went for the theme of No. 73, a 1980s Saturday Morning Kids’ Show hosted by Sandi Toksvig.
    Carrie Quinlan: Oh, I used to love that! What was the name of the really old woman who was on it? Tiny, she was!
    Andy Hamilton: Nah, it was a puppet!
    • Sandi then got a round of applause from the audience for still remembering the intro for the daring, dazzling, devastatingly dangerous, death-defyingly dull Sandwich Quiz.
  • In Series 28, Episode 3, hosted by Nish Kumar, Andrew Maxwell was doing a bit about how great it was that the Tories were going back to the 19th century and said "A simpler age, when the Englishman invented tea. Remember that, Kumar!" Earlier that week, a Horrible Histories clip in which Nish Kumar sang about things that people thought were British, but weren't, had gone viral, and been criticised by some people.
  • In a 2015 episode, Andy Hamilton was asked a question about Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots and, after answering it, said that the real story was the inexplicable absence of Dr Elephant the dentist from Peppa's big screen debut. Guess who voices Dr Elephant?
• In an episode of The Gobetweenies, Joe, played by David Tennant, reads his son's essay about sharing two houses "I mean it's not that freaky. Not compared to my adventures in the space-time continuum, but that's another story".
• Cabin Pressure:
  • Martin Crieff names The Hound of the Baskervilles as a book that sounds more interesting with the final letter of its title knocked off.
  • "Paris" contains several, as it is a mystery with Martin trying to figure out what happened to a bottle of whiskey. He tries for a Sherlock Holmes line and bungles it: "We’ve taken away all the things that can possibly have happened, so I suppose the only thing that’s left, even though it seems really weird, must be the thing that did happen, in fact." When he states his theory about what happened, he slips into Sherlock's style of delivery from the famous deduction scenes (although sticking with the voice that Cumberbatch uses to play Martin). Arthur later compares him to... Miss Marple.
• An example that overlaps with Self-Deprecation in The Alan Davies Show, written by and starring stand-up-comedian-turned-actor Alan Davies: in the episode "Mr Strawberry", Davies' character (also called Alan) dismisses one of the cast members of The Gay Miner as "Not a real actor, just a stand-up comedian who's suddenly decided he can act."
• In AudioGO's Doctor Who: Fourth Doctor Adventures audio series, "Tsar Wars" features the Fourth Doctor meeting his Identical Stranger, a Recycled In Space version of Rasputin. Tom Baker had played the 'mad monk' in Nicholas And Alexandria (in what was his signature role before getting cast as the Doctor). In the same audio, Michael Jayston (known in the Whoniverse for playing the Valeyard) plays the Tsar, also a pseudo-reprisal of his role in Nicholas and Alexandria.
• At the end of Mitch Benn Has Left The Building, the final of Mitch Benn's series of musical comedy lectures about music legends, he explains that Elvis Presley the person may have died, but ELVIS the cultural phenomenon never will, briefly alluding to his own role as Radio 2's "Ask Elvis" in the process.
• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue:
  • In an episode guesting Richard Osman, his Sound Charades subject was Pointless Celebrities (which Sandi Toksvig claimed to be completely unaware of) and Pointless sound effects were used for his moves (and only his moves) in Mornington Crescent.
  • For Richard Coles' first appearance on the show, both musical rounds involved songs by The Communards, although they were both given to Tony Hawks since Richard Coles didn't actually sing in the Communards. There was also one for Andy Hamilton, who was given Drop the Dead Donkey for Sound Charades.
    Andy: Actually, the correct answer is "Drop the Dead Donkey, touring from next January".
    Jack: Well, thanks for the warning.
• The Radio 4 quotations Panel Game Quote, Unquote has a newsreader reading the quotes, usually Charlotte Green. It also has a round where panellists are given a quote from their own career. So when impressionist Jan Raven was on, we got the real Charlotte Green reading one of the "I'm Charlotte Green..." Waxing Lyrical gags from Dead Ringers.

Roleplay

• Dino Attack RPG: More of an Author Allusion, but Sam Throramebi drew comparisons between Evil Ogel and Makuta Teridax, two of Greg Farshtey's favorite villains to write.
  • Kurt MacReady was the one sent to catch Snake, and the two of them subsequently got into a brawl. They were inspired by R.J. MacReady and Snake Plissken, respectively, both of whom were played by Kurt Russel, and served as the lead to John Carpenter movies released a year apart from each other.
  • Hauk and Angel Eyes, both of whom are inspired by characters portrayed by Lee Van Cleef, are revealed to be cousins.
  • In celebration of LEGO Island' 15th Anniversary, the Brickster referred to himself as "Thumper" and quoted a number of lines from Smartass, the lead weasel of Who Framed Roger Rabbit's Toon Patrol. David L. Lander, the original voice actor of the Brickster in LEGO Island, also voiced Thumper in A Bug's Life and Smartass in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Theatre

• In Mozart's Don Giovanni, there is a scene where the Don's musicians are playing music from real, then-contemporary composers while he eats dinner. Among them is a tune from Mozart's previous opera, The Marriage of Figaro; "Non piu andrai". Giovanni's servant, Leporello, remarks "I know this one all too well." He ought to have; the actor playing him was the original Figaro.
• The 2010 production of Dick Lee's Fried Rice Paradise stars Taufik Batisah, whose character Johan is a struggling singer. Someone suggests that he join a talent search competition, to which Johan replies "you know these singing contests, never can win!" Taufik Batisah was the winner of the first season of Singapore Idol.
• During a run on Broadway of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Whoopi Goldberg adlibed a line when her character was presented with a choice of slaves as part of the plot. Rejecting an elderly slave for purchase, she stated. What am I going to do with that old white man? I got one at home. Goldberg was known for dating Frank Langella at the time.
• In the 2015 5th Avenue Theatre production of Grease, Rydell High School, which shares its initals with Seattle's Roosevelt High School, had green and gold as its team colors, and Sandy D. was played by RHS alumna Solea Pfeiffer.
• A form of Creator Allusion in Hamilton: the song "Right Hand Man" begins with the phrase "32,000 troops in New York Harbor" repeated three times. In Lin-Manuel Miranda's previous show, In the Heights, the lottery winning of $96,000 is split up into three sums of $32,000.
• Older Than Steam: In Hamlet, Polonius mentions having played the role of Julius Caesar as a youth, and being killed by Brutus; it is believed that the same actor in Shakespeare's company (probably John Heminges) played both Polonius and Caesar. It's also believed that the original actor of Hamlet, Richard Burbage, also played Brutus in Julius Caesar, thus stabbing the same actor in two different plays.
  • In fact, most of Shakespeare's plays had some level of Actor Allusion, as he worked with a set company whose members took on the same sort of roles in most of their productions, and whose parts were often tailored to their specific style or talent.
  • Will Kemp, Shakespeare's resident clown, played the original Bottom in Midsummer, and later played Dogberry in Much Ado. This happens in the latter:
    Borachio: (To Dogberry) YOU ARE AN ASS!!!
  • John Sincklo, a supporting player, is referenced in The Taming of the Shrew as looking like a jailor (the Beadle in Henry IV, Part 2) or supplier of poisons (the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet).
  • Robert Armin, who replaced Will Kemp as regular comedian in Shakespeare's company, leading to Shakespeare's comic rules becoming Deadpan Snarkers instead of loud buffoons, trained as a goldsmith before becoming an actor. Touchstone in As You Like It (probably the first major role to be written for him) is named after a tool used by jewellers to assess the quality of metals.
• In Legally Blonde The Musical, during the song "Chip on Your Shoulder", Christian Borle's character Emmett suggests that Elle sell some of her excess junk on eBay. Before appearing as Emmett, Borle was in this commercial.
• According to Open A New Window by Ethan Mordden, Lucille Ball's starring role in the 1960 musical Wildcat had her saying to a sheriff, "D'you ever know a guy named Fred Mertz?"
• In Peter and the Starcatchers, Christian Borle's character gets hurt and shouts Oh My God for awhile.
• In the musical Pippin, the Show Stopper "No Time At All" was sung by Irene Ryan, who had just spent nine years playing Granny on the hit sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. The song included these lyrics:
  Now, I could waylay some aging roué
  And persuade him to play in some cranny,
  But it's hard to believe I'm being led astray
  By a man who calls me Granny!
• The 1983 Broadway revival of Private Lives had Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor as the leads ... which, as Burton noted during rehearsals, meant that some of the dialogue would come across as far more humorous than Coward could have intended.
• Starship singer Mickey Thomas played Dennis in the 2019 5th Avenue Theatre production of Rock of Ages, which features the band's Signature Song "We Built This City".
• In the final second stage Sera Myu musical, Sailor Lead Crow posed as the choreographer of an all-female dance team. This was a nod to the fact that Ado Endou, the actress who portrayed Crow, was also the show's choreographer.
• In a London production of the pantomime Aladdin Sir Ian McKellen, playing Widow Twankey (so in drag) said "oh no, not again" when he learned that there was a magic ring involved.
• In a touring roduction of "The Sunshine Boys", Dick Van Dyke walks into the living room, almost bumps into an ottoman gives it a long stare, and then does a take to the audience. Brought the house down without saying a word.
• In Cirque du Soleil's Volta which opens with a Show Within a Show talent competition, the protagonist Waz, whose specialty is dancing, was originally played by So You Think You Can Dance Canada finalist Joey Arrigo.

Theme Parks

• At Disney World, The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under new Management has William call Morris a "hockey puck", a famous insult of his voice actor Don Rickles.
• At the Raiders of the Lost Jedi Temple of Doom show, Boba Fett mistakes Indiana Jones for Han Solo.

Web Animation

• Kajetokun is the author, actor, and editor of several famous YouTube Poops. A Day in Dracula's Life has the lord of evil panicking over the arrival of longtime rival. He accidentally calls Belmont "Ballmont". Kajetokun is also the author of the "Over Nine Thousand" meme.
• Red vs. Blue: Shannon McCormick, the portrayer of Agent Washington, wrote two episodes where voiced Agent Iowa, his home state (who is friends with Ohio and Idaho, the two states it is often confused with), and once Idaho complains about Wash, Iowa replies "Well, I still think that guy's pretty cool".
• RWBY:
  • During a Traintop Battle, Dr. Oobleck yells out to decouple the caboose since it could kill them all. Joel Heyman also Caboose in Red vs. Blue, where there was a Running Gag about the amount of teammate kills he was responsible for.
  • Scarlet David is on the receiving end of a Groin Attack like his voice actor Gavin Free frequently is in other Rooster Teeth productions.
  • At the end of Volume 4, Qrow refers to Oscar as a "pipsqueak". This is a deliberate reference to Fullmetal Alchemist, where Vic Mignogna (Qrow) and Aaron Dismuke (Oscar) voiced Edward and Alphonse Elric, respectively.
• RWBY Chibi: In "Road Trip", Jaune sings the theme for Camp Camp, which was written and performed by his voice actor Miles Luna.
• In The Super Pony Power Hour, Pinkie Pie makes the face of Andrea Libman, triggering the Inception sound.
• In episode 19 of Inanimate Insanity Invitational, Zoetrope claims that MePhone attempted to cancel him online after he appeared on the show, with the video of MePhone attempting to cancel him being shown resembling those done by Saberspark (specifically from his What RUINED...? series), who is the voice of Zoetrope.

Web Original

• Nightmare Time: In the episode "Honey Queen," Linda hires a professional choreographer to help her win a pageant. The choreographer is played by James Tolbert, who has choreographed several musicals, including the musical that Linda first appeared in, Black Friday.
• The TFWiki.net has made references to the actors who been involved in the entire franchise.
• Zerochan.net (a fan art compilation site dedicated to Anime and Manga) has a search tag called Voice Actor Connection.

Web Videos

• 80's Dan:
  • For Halloween, Dan dressed up as another Brad Jones character, The Cinema Snob.
  • And the next year, he dressed up as "A Kid from the Nineties".
• Atop the Fourth Wall:
  • When Linkara reviewed Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines for, he calls Smiling Jack Bender.
  • His review of Nightmares on Elm Street issues 5-6 had referred to Robert Englund's role as Willie.
  • During Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie, Allen is shown looking at the Team Four Star website. He also mentions that he's a fan of Dragon Ball Z and says "god damn it" upon seeing a box labeled "Nappa".
  • Upon the opening narration for the final issue of All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder calling Gotham a cloud city, Linkara says he buys it as Billy Dee Williams was once Harvey Dent.
  • His "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards Mentor Jii for the History of Power Rangers video detailing Power Rangers Samurai ended with him calling Jii "a sack of Grumm."
  • When his review of issue 3 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation showed footage of Ken Jenkins's guest spot, he makes the expected joke.
  • The review of the comic adaptation of Batman & Robin, when talking about Poison Ivy's introduction and Mr. Freeze's origin, he makes references to both Kill Bill and Predator respectively.
  • In his review of Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War, when reboot!McCoy get an Indigo Tribe ring, he makes a joke about McCoy trying to get Dredd 2 made.
  • For the comic adaptation of Star Trek (2009), Linkara!George Kirk proclaims that Nero never fought him, then retorts that Nero never fought him twice when the claim is rebuked.
• When Andrew W.K. guest starred in the Animated Adaptation of The Bedfellows, a punch in the face resulted in his nose gushing blood a la his "I Get Wet" album cover.
• Brocéliande:
  • Seb's druid character is called "Maître Bien-Assez". This is a nod to his frequent role as "David Goodenough" on Joueur du Grenier.
  • At one point, Master Briat tells Pace the elf "Mais ça dépasse l'entendement !" ("It's beyond comprehension!") This is the catchphrase of a character created by Benzaie (who plays Pace) for his channel.
• A mockumentary D.C. Douglas posted about his and Steve Blum's fake feud at one point depicted Blum with Wolverine Claws, a reference to Blum being Marvel's go-to voice actor for most projects involving Wolverine since 2004. The same video also features the two holding a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic toy made to look like a zombie with the Umbrella Corporation logo for a cutie mark, referencing Doulgas's role as Albert Wesker.
• Between the three of them, Felicia Day, Neil Patrick Harris, and Nathan Fillion have done this on multiple occasions.
  • In Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Penny says to Capitain Hammer "I wonder what you're captain of?" during the song A Man's Gotta Do. This is a reference to his role as Captain Mal.
  • Also in Dr. Horrible, Neil Patrick Harris 's line "to make the whole world kneel" invokes the homonym with his name (kneel/Neil).
  • In the musical episode of The Legend of Neil, a Zelda parody, she plays the Fairy, stating rather casually that she's "not really into online musicals", referencing her role in Dr. Horrible. She, of course, makes this statement just before bursting into song.
  • In Neil's Puppet Dreams, Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris have the following exchange:
    Nathan: I heard your last doctor was horrible. I hope you find my offices more to your liking.
    Neil: Are you kidding? This place is a Castle. It gives me a real sense of Serenity. But to be honest I've been so worried about my condition, I haven't been able to come up with any more references to your career.
• A bit of an internet trend is replacing the audio of various clips with sound clips from Ed, Edd n Eddy. Whenever a Dragon Ball video clip is used, no matter which character gets used for the rest, one of the most constant parts of these videos is that Goku gets Rolf's clips. The reason being that Rolf's actor actually played Goku at one time (on top of both of them being super strong country bumpkins that don't have much knowledge of city life, and who eat a lot of meat).
• In JesuOtaku's review of Princess Tutu, he says, "I see a host club in someone's future..." on a clip of Femio.
• France Five: Combined with Prop Recycling in episode 6; the BFG that vaporizes Succulard is identical to Caleb's Nuclear Gun from Flander's Company. Ruddy Pomarede plays both Caleb and Succulard.
• One KateModern video posted by Gavin is entitled "Half the Week Away", a reference to Oasis' "Half the World Away", the Theme Song to The Royle Family. Gavin is played by Ralf Little, who played Antony in The Royle Family.
• Episode 3 of Anime Olympics has Steve being beat up by his costar at any negative comments on Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Of course, said costar just happens to be Nanoha's VA Cristina Valenzuela.
• One scene in PONIES The Anthology III shows Applejack singing "Maps" by Hey Ocean! (the band Ashleigh Ball is the lead singer of)
• In one Two Best Friends Play video, when Matt and Pat are playing Captain America: Super Soldier they come across a picture of pre-Red Skull Hugo Weaving. They take turns wondering why Elrond, Agent Smith, Megatron, and V would have portraits in a German castle before running out of Hugo Weaving movies they can remember.
• In the Codenames episode of Table Top, Travis Willingham makes a comment about his vast knowledge of shapes and colors, a boast which is associated with his character in Critical Role, Grog Strongjaw.
• This video features the Bee-Bee Gun from BioShock being used against a Big Daddy while the infamous "no not the bees" line from The Wicker Man with Nicolas Cage is played. Now, Mr. Cage has played a Big Daddy before...
• This entry borders between this and a bout of comedic prophesy: in LittleKuriboh's flagship work Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, an episode shows Tristan coming up on a motorcycle, and when he's asked about it, he replies: 'In the Future, card games will be played on motorbikes.' Fast Forward to the Dub release of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, and we see Frank Frankson, Tristan's voice actor cast as the lead character of said show, Yusei Fudo.

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