Shout Out / Biker Mice from Mars

1993 series

• "Rock and Ride"
  • After Charley expresses disbelief at Throttle, Vinnie, and Modo being giant mice, Modo remarks "Were you expecting turtles, maybe?"
  • When Charley realizes Limburger's connection to the Plutarkians, she says "They're here" in the exact same inflection the phrase is said in Poltergeist.
  • The X-Terminator is an obvious reference to the Terminator franchise, complete with having the appearance of a well-built red-haired man and speaking in an Austrian accent as well as his last line in the episode being "I'll be back".
• In "The Masked Motorcyclist", the Biker Mice hear someone holler "Help" while listening to the radio. Vinnie remarks "Didn't know they did a Beatles tune."
• Greasepit at one point refers to Charley as "Little Miss Annette Funicello" in "The Pits", who was one of the most popular Mouseketeers of the original The Mickey Mouse Club.
• The episode "Steelfinger" features a parody of the James Bond franchise called James Bomb, the title itself being a play on Goldfinger.
• "Steal of the Century" at one point has Vinnie exclaim "Takes a knocking and keeps on rocking", a play on the Timex watch's slogan of "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking".
• "Back to Mars"
  • At one point, the Biker Mice make a reference to Superman by quoting the "faster than a speeding bullet" shtick.
  • The Sand Raiders' leader is named Slobber the Mutt, an obvious reference to Jabba the Hutt.
• In "The Tribunal", Vinnie states that what he said as defense always worked on Perry Mouse-on.
• "Motocross Trap" has a scene where a janitor carelessly uses a mop to clean up a spill of Dr. Karbunkle's mobility juice. This causes the mop to come to life, grow arms, and pick up two buckets before walking away while a familiar theme plays.
• Right before Limburger is beamed away by the Plutarkian Council in "The Inquisition", the Biker Mice reference the Wicked Witch of the West cackling "And your little dog, too" and Limburger cries for his "Auntie Em" before clicking his heels while chanting "There's no place like home".
• "I, Greasepit" features a scene where Lawrence Limburger's profile is seen in silhouette while a snippet of "Funeral March of a Marionette" can be heard, a nod to Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
• "So Life Like"
  • Saddle Sore is a blatant parody of Yosemite Sam.
  • Vinnie's evil duplicate at one point remarks "I ain't mean, I'm just drawn that way".
• In "What Smells Worse than a Plutarkian Lawyer?", the manual the Biker Mice read to figure out how to shut down the nuclear reactor is written by a Mongomery Burns and on one page has a picture of Homer Simpson running with donuts in his arms. Vinnie even straight-up rips off Homer's "D'oh!" catchphrase as he sees the picture.
• "Rocketh and Rideth":
  • When Limburger, Karbunkle, and Greasepit end up in the world of The Three Little Pigs at the end of the episode, they are dressed the way the pigs are depicted in the Disney short from 1933 and Greasepit quotes Porky Pig's catchphrase of stuttering "That's all, folks" before Limburger pulls him from behind the curtains.
  • As the episode revolves around William Shakespeare's plays, it's inevitable that a lot of them would be referenced. The plays the Biker Mice end up in include Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth.
• In "Too Many Limburgers Spoil the Cheese", Vinnie quips to Greasepit that he can give his regards to Gilligan and Skipper after he knocks him into the sea.

2006 series

• In "The Adventure Begins", Stoker at one point addresses Cataclysm as "Sylvester" and exclaims "Lucy, I'm home" before entering his hideout.
• In "The British Invasion", Vinnie at one point addresses one of Sir Richard Brand-Something's robot minions as R2.
• "Between Rump and a Hard Race" ends with Ronaldo Rump and Cataclysm walking off into the sunset, with Rump saying "This may be the start of a lousy friendship".
• In "New Cats in Town", Vinnie makes a quip that the Catatonian shape-shifters' defeat is "like cats on a hot tin roof".
• "A Hairy A-Bomb"
  • One of A-Bomb's mispronunciations of "Abominable Snowman" is "A-Whop-Doppa-Loopa-Doppa-Loom-Bam-Boom", a lyric from the Little Richard song "Tutti Frutti".
  • Vinnie says "It's a bird, it's a plane" when he sees Modo flying through the air.
  • Two references are made to King Kong (1933). When Ronaldo Rump gets the idea of exploiting A-Bomb for profit, he has an Imagine Spot of A-Bomb climbing Rump Plaza while holding his secretary. Later, he remarks "Twas the beast that killed my beauty".
• In "Bringing Up Vinnie", Vinnie quips "What's up, Doc" and Dr. Catorkian replies by saying to Vinnie "Oh, I see. You made a funny like a Bugs rabbit, yes".
• "Rumpity-Dumpster":
  • Pierre Fluffbottom at one point exclaims "Stop this crazy thing!"
  • The end of the episode features an homage to The Lone Ranger where Tanesha remarks "Who were those bikers?" and the Biker Mice parody the Lone Ranger's cry of "Hiyo, Silver!" before riding off.
• "Surfer Cats of Saturn":
  • The Catatonian surfers Tane and Po'ele have a speech pattern similar to that of Yoda.
  • When Hairball first sees the Biker Mice after being teleported to Saturn's moon Titan, he calls them "Mousketeerskies" and sings "It's a small world after all".
  • When the villains are attacked by a giant sea creature from Titan at the end of the episode, Dr. Catorkian can be heard screaming "It's alive" twice in succession.
• "Cyber Mice from Mars" references two video games.
  • One of the weapons used by Vinnie in cyberspace is a spherical head that chomps its enemies.
  • When the Biker Mice and Stoker battle Hamster Man, Hamster Man summons reinforcements consisting of three toad-men.
• "Swimming with Sharks":
  • Vinnie's Space Pirate aunt Mago has two pet hammerhead sharks named William and Morris.
  • Throttle at one point calls one of the hammerhead sharks "Jaws".
  • Vinnie at one point jokingly says "sleep with the fishes" using a Marlon Brando impression.
  • Another scene has Vinnie sing "Oh, those sharks, babe, have big teeth, bro", a reference to the song "Mack the Knife".
• "Desperado":
  • The episode's premise is that Throttle suffers a blow to the head that causes him to think that he's George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life.
  • The ending of the episode references The Twilight Zone (1959) by having everything become black-and-white and an ending narration being provided by a Rod Serling lookalike.
• "First Mice on the Moon" features a reference to the Trix Rabbit when Razer says to Hairball "Silly kitty, tricks are for rabbits".

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