Works with their own subpages:
- At some point, nearly every comic strip (and webcomic) has had a Shout-Out to Peanuts. See ReferencedBy.Peanuts for the list. Forty comic strips
did a shout out to Peanuts in one day.
Other Works:
- Elvie:
- A stick figure has a son named "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--", just like in xkcd.
- Elvie remakes a Super Mario Bros. game, replacing Mario with the Linux mascot Tux.
- Elvie tries to sell a Doctor Who scarf.
- A recurring setting is the café "Orwell's", established 1984, a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- The Family Circus author Bil Keane did a few for Disney, where his son Glen works as an animator. Current Family Circus artist Jeff Keane did this Halloween 2012◊ shout-out, which is probably the first (not to mention oddly specific) mention of Warhammer 40,000 in newspaper comics.
- The Far Side
- Psycho
- One strip has a group of boys waiting for their friend to come join them.
Every Saturday morning, while his playmates patiently waited, little Normy Bates would always take a few extra minutes to yell at his “dog.”- One strip has a woman taking a shower. Unlike the film, where a person attacked the woman in the shower, a military tank breaks through the wall. The caption is Psycho III.
- Another strip has the police investigating a brutal bar fight. As the witness recalls;
"...So this sailor dude whips out a can of spinach, this crazy music starts playing, and... well, just look at this place!"- One strip has a lobster about to be put in a pot of boiling water saying "Auntie Em, Auntie Em! There's no place like home! There's no place like home.", a reference to two lines in the film version of The Wizard of Oz.
- One strip has a horse walking out of a theater showing The Godfather looking terrified and a person with them saying "Get ahold of yourself! It was only a movie, for crying out loud!" This is a reference to the scene in the film where a horse's head is left on Jack Woltz's bed to scare him.
- Peter Pan
- One strip has an old crocodile calling an old man (with an eyepatch and a hook for a hand) and saying "Tick-tock" over and over again. This is a reference to Peter Pan, which has a crocodile that pursues Captain Hook (who has an eyepatch and a hook for a hand). The crocodile has an ticking alarm clock inside of him that always alerts Hook that the crocodile is approaching.
- A strip has a woman inside a house saying that she heard a large bird hit the window. Outside, the body of a man wearing a Peter Pan-style costume is lying below the window.
- One strip has a housewife talking to her scientist husband, who has the head of a fly. This is a reference to the film The Fly (1958), in which a scientist gains the head of a fly after an accident with a teleportation machine.
- One strip had a man talking to a doctor, saying that he's "come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee" (and he does, in fact, have a banjo-shaped protrusion on his knee). This is a reference to the song "Oh Susanna", which has that line in it.
- A strip has two gorillas in a zoo after a man falls into their enclosure. One gorilla says to the other "Looks like it's time for the old luggage test." This is a reference to a series of 1980s American Tourister commercials which showed a gorilla doing everything it could to damage one of their suitcases and failing.
- One strip showed a housewife telling her husband (who is carrying a flute and has a group of rats behind him) to take the rats down to a lake. This references the story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, who used his musical abilities to get rid of the rats of Hamelin by taking them to a nearby river and drowning them.
- Psycho
- FoxTrot had a moment coming at the end of a (week's worth) discussion by Roger and Andy about the success of the Dilbert comic (which might also count as an extended Shout Out). In the end, they conclude that Dilbert is likely popular simply based on its own merits, meaning that emulation of a current success isn't a particularly good idea. Jason (drawn in a slightly different style) then runs in, telling his parents to check out the cool stuffed tiger he found.Roger: Maybe we should include the recent past in that statement, too...
Andy: I don't know. There's something to be said for nostalgia.- FOUR were packed into this strip:(The characters are sitting at a campfire)
Paige: I miss Brandon and Dylan.
Peter: I miss Bart and Homer.
Andy: I miss Bryant and Kate.
Jason: I miss Worf and Data.
Roger: (eating the marshmallows) Am I, um, missing something? - The strip made a double reference to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Game of Thrones in the April 1, 2012, strip.
- FOUR were packed into this strip:
- Get Fuzzy
- The tribute to Douglas Adams' death (about two-thirds of the way down the page).
- Rob's tastes in music, television, sports teams, etc. frequently involve shout outs to same.
- There is a member of the Cat Mafia named Whitey. Whitey is the nickname of James Bulger, a former Irish mobster who operated out of the Boston area.
- This strip references Zero Wing.
- In the strip for November 9th, 2013, Bucky is hit on the head by a tomato thrown at him from behind. He says, "It came from...behind," a reference to a line spoken by a Rebel pilot in A New Hope during the attack on the Death Star. The pilot said, "They came from... behind," in reference to attacks by Darth Vader and his Imperial TIE fighter wingmen.
- The tribute to Douglas Adams' death
- Madam & Eve:
- Eve sometimes sleeps on her ironing board, in a tribute to Snoopy from Peanuts.
- One 2017 Sunday strip◊ was named "Eskom's Life of Brian Molefe", reflecting the then-current corruption scandal with lyrics set to the tune of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".
- This strip◊ is one to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".
- Mother Goose and Grimm
- To Garfield:
- There's one in a strip during a 2004 story arc where Grimm goes to a veterinarian. While the vet was talking to Mother Goose, he briefly morphs into Garfield but still wears the doctor clothes, prompting Grimm to cry out, "NURSE!"
- Another version:Grimmy: What are you watching?
Mother Goose: A History Channel show about presidents.
Grimmy: When did he grow that ugly beard? Did they serve lasagna at his inauguration? Was Odie his vice president?
Mother Goose: Grimm, President Garfield and the cat are two different people.
- In the strip for September 6th 2013◊, there's a Siamese cat and Grimm is looking for "the other one", a reference to Disney's Lady and the Tramp, which featured a pair of sly and nasty Siamese cats.
- The strip for September 18th, 2013◊ parodied a Geico commercial which had a camel wandering around an office on Wednesday asking people what day it was so they would say "hump day".
- To Garfield:
- Pooch Café: In the strip for September 11th, 2013, a cat is wrapped around a postman's face. Poncho says, "Kitty drool. Great defense mechanism. You don't dare remove it or you get cat saliva all over yourself." This is a reference to the film Alien, in which Kane had an alien facehugger wrapped around his face. After Ash tried to cut it off with a laser, it dripped powerful acid and Parker said, "It's got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don't dare kill it."
- Sabrina at See-CAD:
- Animaniacs gets a few, with Sabrina watching an episode while procrastinating her homework. Tabitha also copies her dialogue from Mindy as well.
- Sabrina's stress paying her tuition at the college bursar mimics William Shatner's over-acting style in Star Trek: The Original Series.
- The Garfield coffee mug Sabrina uses.
