It is quite literally easier to list pages that don't have shoutouts to something or other. This is actually rather important to the plot - Parson, being from Earth, gets all of these, and is in the process of learning the Signamancy behind them.
- Parson once said that when it comes to helping his own cause, Stanley is "somewhere between Gilligan and Starscream."
- Some of them are pretty obscure, like the words in Wanda's spell here
; one could almost say this thing is inundated with shout outs. - During a Text update in Book Two, it is revealed that "Spacerock the City" (sic), Jetstone's capital, was originally the capital of Spacerock the Side, ruled by Spacerock the King, who was finally defeated in Spacerock the Battle.
- One notable example shouts out to Rob Balder's other webcomic, Partially Clips.
- Entire characters show up as one-time references, like "Captain Archer."
- The Lock-and-Load Montage is full of shoutouts to The Legend of Zelda — a bomb, a Piece of Heart, a Power Bracelet, Hylian Shield, the Master Sword, and what may be the Ice Wand and Boomerang are all scattered around the armory. Also, Shredder's armor can be seen (with Parson taking the right armpiece), and the staff he ends up carrying is Skeletor's. Note that this is the same staff Wanda used towards the end of Book One. The sword he takes is actually either Aragorn or Gandalf's from LOTR.
- "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances."
- On page 53 of the first book, one of the Crap Golems in the first panel looks surprisingly like a certain amorph mercenary.
- And during a counter attack in Gobwin Knob tunnels, one crap golem looks like Hedorah - a toxic monster from an old Godzilla movie
- On page 59, one of the Crap Golems looks like Sergeant Schlock and another looks like A Dalek.
- A caster from the magic kingdom talking about fate to Parson is a shoutout to George Harrison on the Beatles Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band album cover.note He's also named Jojo Jeftichew, and is a rather hairy Carnymancer
- A multi-layered one when Jillian arrives in Aqua Velva and guts one of the governor's pet fish for food. Turns out it was his favorite and named Wanda, the parallels to the actual movie, the titular fish, and the love triangle involving the duplicitous "Wanda" characters are numerous.
- In the background of page 66, one of the Thinkamancers with Mister Rogers is Apostle Sanaki.
- Anima, the Spy, the Spanish Inquisition, Mary Poppins and Jade can be found in the background on page 67. Hermione Granger is on page 60 with Cinderella's Fairy Godmother. The group of thinkamancers also includes Vaarsuvius.
- [1] The Jetstone hat magician pulls Bun-bun out of a hat.
- While Ansom parleys with Ossomer and Tramennis, Jack disguises himself as a Dragoon.
- Wanda experiments with dance-fighting:Wanda: If you're croaked, and that is no joke, you pass the yoke of Chief to a bloke named Fritz...
Un-Tommy: Pooda onga riiish! - Psycho Mantis, Zelda, and several others appear in one of the text updates for Book 2.
- A very easy-to-miss shoutout, Book 2's 15th text update has Duke Antium's full name as Adam Antium.
- Archer, is that you?
- Brother Orwell, the Lookamancer.
- Lady Sylvia, in the Atrium, with the dwagons.
- Zhopa pushes a hobgoblin out of the way and the soundeffect is "Heisman" as in the trophy awarded to the person deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. Which makes sense since he was carrying Stanley like a football and used a legal block on the hobgoblin.
- Git 'r done! and Griefer in this strip. The caster in question is most likely named Joe.
- Thinkamancer and Headmaster Roger Vector Clarence is an obvious reference to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and named for a scene in the movie Airplane!:Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over. - Thinkamancer A.V Club is named after a newspaper and bears a striking resemblance to Alyx.
- Thinkamancer Pamelor is named after an anti-depressant and looks like a character from Baywatch.
- Prince Sammy is from the kingdom of Hagger. Sammy is a rocker. Sammy Hagger is the lead vocalist of HSAS, a hard rock band. The stroke to kill him is represented by the Unsound Effect, "HSAS," solidifying the Shout-Out.
- The Avedon Unsound Effect is to the unusual work of Richard Avedon, the photographer.
- When Ossomer is croaked again, the Unsound Effect is "GNSP" or "good night sweet prince" which can be a Shout-Out from anything from Hamlet to 4chan.
- In the 98 strip, the man who yelled, "eat hot cameo" is Chris Miller, aka Firewheels, who was someone who donated a Mac Mini during the Kickstarter which is being used for the motion comic. note
- On page 67, Roger Victor Clarence said the All State slogan, "are you in good hands"?
- According to the wiki, Lord Manpower the Temporary is named after Manpower Inc., a company which specializes in temporary work. His death statement, "I can taste key lime pie," is a proper toast when drinking a shot of key lime KeKe, a liqueur. Furthermore, he becomes a "zombie" which is a term that is also used for a type of cocktail which includes fruit flavors, especially lemon and lime flavors.
- Book 2 Epilogue 19: Dollamancer Bill lowers a bucket into a well filled with animated female Doll parts, saying "It puts the lotion on its skin"...
- Charlie's Thinkagram avatar when conversing with and linked with Vanna is Charlie, Guile's dead mentor in Street Fighter. Vanna's avatar is Cammy from the same franchise.
- Charlie's actual form is a bald man with a single curly lock of hair on his forehead, and, to top it off, a yellow tie with a zig-zag pattern. Two other Peanuts references are made in the first panel his full body appears in.Archon #1: Delta's on switch. She wants to know status.
Archon #2: Tell her he's in Condition Brown. We'll take him topside. Unhooking...
Charlie: Good... grief... - When Parson tries to use Charlie's Carnymancy scroll to send himself home, the random beam that strikes him on the head and stops him does so with the Unsound Effect "MANOS" (just to double down, the word also has little hands sprouting from it). From the same strip, the Healomancer Marie hires to heal Parson is apparently Dr. Beverly Crusher.
- After Charlie's guards are tricked into firing through the portal into the Magic Kingdom, three background casters are killed by the shots being sprayed everywhere. All three look like characters played by Chronically Killed Actor Sean Bean.
- Just in case you missed the reference, a few strips later (after they've been decrypted by Wanda) one of them is killed again in the fight against the Archons with the Unsound Effect "Beaned".
- And one of them (the Rhyme-o-mancer) is named "Shawn Bawn" lampshading how Sean Bean's first and last names are pronounced differently despite having the same vowels.
- Also on that page, one caster looks like Milhouse Van Houten, dressed as he was in one scene of $pringfield, complete with two Snowball 2s perched on his back.
- In the first panel of this page, Stanley (with his black and white outfit and facepaint on) is looking and acting like... oh this is just too easy...
- When Wanda starts up a fighting dance to prepare for the battle against Charlie's incoming Archons, Parson is initially struggling to dance along to the beat until their new Rhyme-o-mancer (one of the aforementioned Sean Bean casters decrypted by Wanda) adds audible music and he recognises the song as 'Dragostea din tei' by O-Zone and starts enthusiastically singing along and waving his arms in the air, reenacting the famous viral Numa Numa video.
- Jillian's outfit at the start of Love is A Battlefield is exactly the same as worn by Columbia during the "Let's Do the Time Warp Again" number of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, making it a reference and a Stealth Pun at the same time.
- When the Great Minds croak the action figure of the Spy and toss it aside, it's show in the last frame as a definite reference to Isaac of the The Binding of Isaac, and from the texture of its skin, possibly a reference to the Stitchpunk Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet.
- When Charlie asks if he can call Parson by his name, Parson says sure... as long as it doesn't give Charlie any power over him. Charlie responds by asking if he can call Parson "Mind-Slave", the term Marik from Yu-Gi-Oh! uses for people he's controlled with his Millennium Rod.
- Charlie's Archon reprensentatives to the court of Jetstone in this strip are Daria and Quinn Morgendorffer.
- A rare example that isn't an example of Erfworld drawing its signamancy from our world is Parson making a Shout-Out to Shakespeare when Caesar asks him what he'd do in his situation and doesn't like Parson's answer.Parson: I'm probably kind of a coward that way. Like, it's the wrong thing to do, but at least I'd be alive to hate myself for it later.
Caesar: That ain't no way to be.
Parson: To be or not to be. That's the, um... question you're really asking here. I like to be.
