Shout Out / Ennui GO!

Anime and Manga

• Hiro's artist training regimen is taken straight from One-Punch Man.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Sybil's visit to Hashim's restaurant has multiple references, down to a parody of the "To Be Continued" arrow.
  • The first panels of "Titans" and "Kinda" directly evoke the "Oh? You're approaching me?" confrontation between DIO and Jotaro.
  • "Comparisons" has Orion comparing a bunch of stuff he and Max are doing to JoJo to the point that it also doubles as a Shout Out to the "Is that a JoJo reference?" meme.
• One Piece:
  • As a Christmas present, Tanya and Darcy cosplay as Nami and Nico Robin to, as Tanya puts it, "give [Izzy] the gift of kink".
  • The "Always Bet on Red" arc contains multiple references to the series
    • "Overtaken" references the walk to Arlong Park, even sharing a name with the song that played over the scene in question.
    • Vanitas performs a Gomu Gomu not Gatling in "Ripoff"
    • Max's big speech to Calixta and her response are taken straight from Robin's iconic "I Want to Live" moment in Eneis Lobby.
• Dragon Ball:
  • In "Transformation", Noah getting himself fully erect involves a Super Saiyan-style powerup, complete with yelling.
  • "Crisis Averted"'s first panel shows someone being knocked out so hard they ended up in a crater in the ground exactly like Yamcha. This is repeated in "Razzlin" when Vanitas, after looking like he's doing a flying elbow drop onto Max and Cricket, is shown in the next panel lying on the floor in the Yamcha death pose.
• In "Descriptive", the title of Izzy's biography is a direct reference to No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!.
• In "Beans", masks of Kuwabara, Honda, Chad, and Usopp can be seen on sale at a booth at Anime Rumpus.

Comic Books

• In the CheapoMart story arc, Hashim gets "hangry" and screams "Rip and tear!"
• Darcy's behavior and speech patterns take a lot of cues from Darkseid, but this is the ultimate example. Her family are all based on Darkseid's associates, as well. She also takes cues from Thanos, at least in "Infinity", right down to having a gilded strap-on with studs that look like the Infinity Stones.
• When Adelie is trying to explain to Max that Izzy was cloned in "Triplets", Max compares it to The Clone Saga.
  Max: So it was stupid and terrible?
• "The Pit" that is frequently referred to is partially revealed, and seems to be just a normal prison, but per Word of God it's very similar to the prison Bane was held in.

Comic Strips

• Max's interactions with Min often evoke Calvin and Hobbes.

Film

• In "Penalty Game", Noah informs a concerned Izzy that there's no rules in Arcanus: The Widening against applying dangerous penalties to matches. She responds by saying that she didn't know "the Air Bud clause" applied to mutilation.
• The leader of the music club in Max's school is an Expy of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now.
• After being splattered with spaghetti and sauce, Calixta quite resembles Carrie White after the pig's blood is dumped on her.
• Robin mentions having a "Mantis Credit Card" in "Pairings".
• In "In-Ring Debut", Calixta's wrestling persona, Maiden in the Iron Mask, is an obvious reference to The Man in the Iron Mask
• "The Four Hundred and Twentieth Lesson of Len" is just one long reference to Luke and Yoda's talk about the dark side in The Empire Strikes Back.
• "Rave" features a girl in red fishgirl cosplay and wielding a dual sided yaoi-paddle. She's called "a Fangirl Menace". And just to take the reference even further, "Derivative" has Max and Cricket face her with giant blue and green glowsticks.

Literature

• "Medusa" features lines from the Sylvia Plath poem as the jellyfish mermaid makes an appearance.
• "Millennium", the last strip in the "Captain Orca" arc, quotes from Moby-Dick.

Live-Action TV

• In "Butthole Borgs", Max and Min watch a parody of Beetle Borgs.
• "Guilt" ends with Max putting on his shades with both hands and a Quip to Black-style joke ala Horatio Caine.
• "Vani's Angels" is a send-up of the intro to Charlie's Angels, with Vanitas as Charlie and Brittany, Calixta, and Kavya as the Angels.

Music

• "Volume 5: Floridian Feeling A.K.A. Waiting for Aliens" features a number of references to the Mountain Goats. The CD Izzy steals from the record shop in "Freefall" and listens to with Addy in "Only Existing Parachute" is their album Full Force Galesburg. The Volume's title and themes reference the demo song "The Day the Aliens Came (Hawaiian Feeling)" from Come, Come To The Sunset Tree.

Video Games

• The description of Darcy's Maximum Profit Equation explains that it can create a product so popular that it achieves complete market saturation.
• Pro Ass Fishing gets an AR expansion entitled GO Ass Fishing^note also the title of the strip, complete with extremely lifelike fish girls...and third-party external hardware.
• Darcy substituting in Max's home ec class leads to Max coming home looking rather like Sora.
• Max ends up needing to deliver the Zora's Sapphire to the swim club as part of a Chain of Deals.
• Hashim is shown playing "Super Frat Bros".
• The clown courtroom sequence (starting here) is essentially an Ace Attorney game, down to the stylized "Objection!" yell.

Web Original

• In "Frogs", Len paraphrases Alex Jones' infamous "gay frogs" rant when revealing the reason behind the widespread Fanservice Pack.
• When everyone dresses up as wrestlers to compete for a very rare tape of an extreme wrestling event, Noah becomes "Spoony" Noah.

Webcomics

• One of Jerry's tweets mentions the reader's Core.

Western Animation

• "Magic Fuck Truck" starts off with a dark twist on The Magic School Bus.
  Hashim: So Izzy's on a cocaine-fueled bender. The last time I saw her she'd watched five hours of PBS and then ran off screaming.
  Sarah: Is it ever a normal day with her?
  Hashim: With the Izz'? No way!
  *Izzy crashes a bus through the wall*
  Izzy: BEEP BEEP CLASS! TIME TO CLIMB ON THE MAGIC FUCK TRUCK!
• "Cooling Off" starts with Max and his friends at the beach, drinking some soda. It becomes a little more familiar when they go...
  Max: Yyyyep.
  Calixta: Yep.
  Bee: Yep.
  Cricket: Mmm-hmm.

Multiple

• When Darcy's love of cosplay is revealed, she's dressed up as Cure White. She also cosplays as Wonder Woman and Satsuki later on at the same con.
• Arcanus: The Widening is a combined reference to Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh!; it has a lot of mechanics that play like MTG, and when Noah competes in a tournament, players use a phallic take on Yu-Gi-Oh's Duel Disk device.
• Sarah's fellow clowns feature a few. One of the female clowns looks to be a Juggalo, as her face is painted like the guys from Insane Clown Posse, she's wearing the "Hatchet Man" on a necklace, and is giving the horns. Another clown looks like if Ronald McDonald's makeup took cues from The Joker.

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