Shout Out / Dream On You Crazy Princess

• The story opens with Luna riding the "Whalers on the Moon" ride straight out of Futurama.
• Luna compares Lord Dumplin's voice to Danny Devito's.
• The game show dream... The opening narration is modeled after The Price Is Right, and the title mashes up Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Match Game, Wheel of Fortune, The Weakest Link, and The Hollywood Squares, and The Price is Right again. The trivia portion is modeled after Jeopardy!, while the tank full of slime came from Double Dare (1986). The Wheel of Fish comes from UHF—and Luna gets the option to trade her fish for whatever's behind Door Number 2, reference to Let's Make a Deal. And the fish fight is half American Gladiators, half Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• Trivia categories include "Have You Seen This Chicken?", "Excerpts from John Cage's 4'33"", and “Princesses Whose Names Begin with ‘Twilight’” (a nod to "Movies Whose Names Begin with 'Jaws'" from a Saturday Night Live "Celebrity Jeopardy" sketch).
• References to Homestuck: Aside from the dreambubbles and the Karkat and Vriska cameos, Luna's final score in the game show is 413000 points.
• Lyra's first dream comes straight out of Pacific Rim, even calling the robot a Jaeger and the monsters Kaiju.
• A Titan shows up among the Kaiju in Lyra's first dream.
• As a nod to Strong Bad Email, Chapter 3 is titled "Steve it off, 1, 2, 3 (and now you can count to 3)".
• Chapter 4 is titled "From the Mixed-Up Files of Star Swirl the Bearded".
• The Luke, I Am Your Father moment even borrows some of the dialogue from The Empire Strikes Back:
  "WHAT?" Big Mac let out an uncharacteristic shout. "That's impossible! ... er, I mean Nooope."
  "Search your feelings! You know it to be true."
  "Nooope. Still."
• At one point, Steve is described as having tentacles and singing, a reference to Steve, the Aboleth Bard.
• Luna tells Star Swirl that he needs to consider the morality of his actions according to the cantergorical imperative.
• The Star Swirl from Canterlot High is basically Reg from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
  "If you're asking about the thing with the salt shaker and the pot, I can assure you that there is a perfectly logical explanation."
• Star Swirl defeats the lawyers by activating the Omega 13.
• “Also, it was Cowboy Bebop. Cowboy Bebop was the reference you didn’t get.”
• Retsuko from Aggretsuko is waiting for Luna and Cheerilee to vacate a karaoke booth in one dream bubble.