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  • Villager name references:
    • An eagle neighbor whose name is Pierce... and whose Verbal Tic is "hawkeye.".
    • Another eagle is named Apollo. The first lunar module to land on the Moon in the Apollo program was named Eagle.
    • There's a frog named Jeremiah (whose portrait in Wild World states that he is, in fact, a bullfrog, with it pointing out that "blue frog" and "bullfrog" sound similar, due to his blue color).
    • There's a toad named Wart Jr.
    • There's an anteater named Cyrano.
    • There's a horse named Ed.
    • There's a black cat named Kiki who bears a striking resemblance to Jiji.
    • One possible resident is a pink monkey named Nana. Her catchphrase? "Popo!"
    • There's a rabbit named O'Hare.
    • One of the pig villagers is named Kevin.
    • An Ape named Cesar....
    • A blue cat named Tom? Hmm...
    • A rabbit named Snake wears a Ninja costume. Alternatively, he could also be named after a different Snake.
    • A goat with glasses, freckles and reddish-brown hair named Velma.
    • A mouse named Rizzo.
    • Another rabbit has yellow fur and wears a Domino Mask, Zap Suit, and what appears to be high-leg boots, all in red. Her English name is Mira, which is a shortening of her Japanese name, Mirako. Substitute that "r" for an "n", and, combined with her appearance, it becomes more than apparent that she's a shout out to Sailor Venus (with her species being a subtle reference to Usagi Tsukino herself).
    • Camofrog's Japanese name is Full Metal.
    • The rabbits Bunnie and Claude. The reference to the American criminals Bonnie and Clyde is immediately obvious, but given their species and the specific wordplay in their names, it makes one wonder if they once robbed carrot patches.
    • A rabbit named Genji and designed after a Japanese nobleman.
    • An elephant themed around Punk Rock, named Cyd.
    • A hamster designed like a crime boss, named Marlo.
  • One of the tasks Tom Nook may give you while working for him in the GameCube game is to deliver an axe to a villager. He'll tell you to be extra careful with it.
  • Apparently one of the more active Something Awful forum members assisted in the English translation of Wild World. He managed to slip in some subtle references to Internet memes as well.
  • Sow Joan, the seller of Turnips (treasured for their stalks on the market), who's been in the business for as long as Dow Jones has been on the Stock Market. New Horizons introduces Joan's granddaughter Daisy Mae, whose name is a reference to another American financial institution, in this case Fannie Mae.
  • Gulliver the seagull, has a bunch of them:
    Gulliver (unconscious): Am I... in The Overthere?
    Gulliver (after player agrees to help): I haven't met such a noble skipper since old Bobbery of Rogueport!
  • "Go K.K. Rider" is not only a reference to the entire Kamen Rider series, but its basically a chiptune rendition of the theme to Kamen Rider V3.
  • "I caught a popeyed goldfish! Aw, look...He wants his spinach..."
    • The same reference was made in New Leaf: "I caught a popeyed goldfish! It should have eaten its spinach!"
  • "I caught a loach! You don't suppose its Hylian, do you?"
  • Eating a Famous Mushroom (a red mushroom with white spots) causes you to grow big for a second then revert to normal size, appropriated with the sound effects from New Super Mario Bros.
  • Animal Crossing Plaza bears an extreme resemblance to the WaraWara Plaza, and in fact was explicitly described as the Animal Crossing equivalent.
  • Fortune Cookie prizes in New Leaf are all from other Nintendo games or even Nintendo products, but as an extra, when you equip a clothing item or touch some of the furniture, they play the appropriate sound effect.
  • Sometimes when you cut down a tree in New Leaf, a Triforce can be seen on the stump.
  • If you open up another villager's storage unit in the original and Wild World, you'll sometimes get the message "You found 100 Rupees! But you can't use them here." Another message questions "What are Luigi's clothes doing in here?"
  • In every game, after a four-hit streak on the money rock, each further hit plays Super Mario Bros.' 1-Up sound. This seems to be a double reference, both to a large number of coins (usually 100) giving Mario an extra life, as well as the infinite 1-ups trick from some levels of the NES game. Money rocks in particular start giving bell bags at this point, making the aesthetic of it even fit the exploit.
  • The Triforce item in New Leaf plays the harp sound from the opening of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past when touched.
  • A villager named Alfonso always wears the "Big Bro Shirt", and his catch phrase is "it's a me".
  • There's a gorilla named Louie who wears the Little Bro Shirt. He also bears a strong resemblance to Donkey Kong, too.
  • Leif, the sloth in charge of the gardening center, often talks about "happy" trees, bushes, and flowers.
  • In New Leaf, Jingle calls himself "Jingle the Black-Nosed Reindeer".
    • A similar nod is in the alternate customizations for the Illuminated Reindeer in New Horizons, as the white one has a red nose.
  • If you build a Snowboy perfectly in New Leaf, he'll tell you that he thinks everyone is checking him out because "I look soooooo goooood!"
  • Uchi villagers, when they have a shovel equipped, may say "Digging holes is a lot of fun! Once, I even saw a dwarf!"
  • In City Folk, Kapp'n's trophy from Super Smash Bros. Brawl can be seen near Kapp'n himself while riding on the bus.
  • Goldie's picture quote in Wild World onwards is "I'm really into that Lab on the cover of Nintendogs. He's pretty dreamy." To be specific, she's referring to the Labrador retriever on the box art of Nintendogs: Labrador & Friends.
  • The Creepy Clock furniture item is almost identical to the "13-hour clock" from The Haunted Mansion.
  • In the days leading up to Groundhog Day, some characters will say that someone should make a movie about Groundhog Day. Repeatedly.
  • All items in the Mario Theme sell for 256 bells, a reference to the Nintendo Entertainment System's 256 bytes of OAM, as well as the maximum number of possible values for an 8-bit binary variable (the NES' 6502 processor is 8-bit).
  • On La-Di-Da day in Wild World, villagers will sometimes change the Town Tune to a theme from games such as Super Mario Bros., Big Brain Academy, or Yoshi's Story.
  • The way cockroaches die is very similar to the way Pikmin die in that their spirits float up into the sky.
  • "Rockin' K.K." is incredibly similar to the "New Age Retro Hippie" music from EarthBound, especially the intro (which in turn was based on the opening of "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry).
  • The "NTDO Shirt" is a shirt with the text "NTDO 1889", 1889 being the year Nintendo was founded. Yes, really.
  • K.K. Slider is intended to be a reference to sound designer Kazumi Totaka, hence his proper name being "Totakeke", although his singing name is likely a reference to "C.C. Rider" by Chuck Willis, and could be a reference to K. K. Downing, a real-life guitarist.
  • Phil is an ostrich, but looks more like Falco Lombardi than any real-life ostrich. Likewise, Louie looks like Donkey Kong, though his name and clothes are a reference to Luigi.
  • Frank the eagle (who was introduced in Animal Forest e+, but absent in the games released between then and New Leaf) is called Hulk in the Japanese version of the game, is green, and his initial phrase is "crushy."
  • Octavian's design request in Happy Home Academy is a "squid showdown citadel." This request unlocks, among other things, a paint-splatter pattern for house exteriors, squid and octopus-themed chairs, and a samurai helmet (referencing the first game's final boss).
    • Another Splatoon reference appears in New Horizons, where one of the responses to catching a squid while fishing is: "I caught a squid! I had an inkling that I might!" It can also respond with, "It's off the hook!" referring to Splatoon 2's band/newscasters. Alternatively, your character can also ask if they actually bloop.
    • Again in New Horizons. When Blathers tells the player more about the eusthenopteron fossil, he'll wonder if people would solve their differences via "some sort of ink-squirting contest of champions" if they lived in an aquatic world, referencing the Turf Wars central to the games' multiplayer.
  • A more or less Dub-Induced Plot Hole avoids showing that the villager a bear called Klaus in the English versions looks sorta like Julius Caesar; this is shown even better in Happy Home Designer where he wants a Roman bath.
  • If you have donated a scorpion and a tarantula to the Museum in New Leaf, they will constantly circle and charge as if they were fighting each other. Since this is Animal Crossing, all they really do is bump against each other and repeat ad infinitum.
  • The Welcome amiibo update for New Leaf introduces, among other clothing items, a wig and dress based on Lip from Panel de Pon. The same update introduced Animal Crossing Puzzle League, which is accessed via the New Nintendo 3DS item and is a straight-up clone of Panel de Pon itself.
  • An initiative the player can receive with the Welcome amiibo update tells the player that the night is dark and full of scorpions.
  • In Pocket Camp, Rowan the tiger's request item is a set of golf clubs.
  • In the GameCube game, Lazy villagers will sometimes yell "Great galloping Goombas!" if you speak to them late at night.
  • During Bunny Day in New Horizons, a Peppy Villager might mention finding a colorful bottle near the shore, and that it inspired some song lyrics for her:
    "Message in a bottle, ooooohhhh; Makes me hungry for a waffle, ooooohhhh"
  • In New Horizons, when you catch a great white shark, you say "Watch out for its jaws!"
  • The fake Academic Painting in New Horizons has a key taped to the backside.
  • One variation of the gaming computer in New Horizons shows a screen on the left monitor that looks exactly like the interface for Discord. Discord themselves even tweeted about this.
  • One clothing item in New Horizons, the Cyber Suit, is straight out of TRON.
  • The red versions of the Power Suit, Power Helmet, and Power Boots make your villager resemble certain versions of Iron Man when worn together.
  • When you catch a Great Purple Emperor Butterfly in New Horizons, the narration will declare that “It’s purple reign is over now”
  • When a Bagworm is caught in the first game, the corresponding quote states that "this kind of worm's not my bag, baby!".
  • You can see a Triforce pattern in Katrina's tent.

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