Shout Out / Goat Simulator

• The Official Launch Trailer uses a reverse slow motion effect similar to the famous Dead Island trailer.
  • The announcement trailer for the sequel, "Goat Simulator 3," is a full-fledged pastiche of the 2014 trailer for the long-unreleased Dead Island 2.
• Blowing up a gas station unlocks the "Michael Bay" achievement. While this is renamed in the console versions to "Bayhem" presumably for copyright reasons, the reference is preserved.
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater's influence is evident in the goat tricks and scoring system, as well as the wheelie system.
• Completing the Ritual achievement will cause the caption "Blood For The Blood Goat" to appear.
  • Becoming "Queen Of The Goats" will cause the caption "Goats For The Goat Throne" to appear.
• Entering Coffee Stain Studios will allow you to play Flappy Goat.
• Deadmau5 appears DJing a party on top of a hotel. You can steal his mask to become "Deadgoa7".
• When you butt a basketball into a goal net in front of the anti-gravity facility, you gain the "Like Zlatan" Achievement, a shout-out to Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović; this is considering, of course, that the developers are Swedish too.
• Jumping over a gate into the Anti-Gravity Facility gets you rewarded with a bonus called FUCK THE POLICE!
• The goat transformations are full of these.
  • Italian Dinosaur Goat lets you eat things and lay explosive eggs like Yoshi, and was in fact named Yoshi Goat in an earlier build.
  • Blue Streak is essentially Sonic Goat, letting you spin in a circle to charge up a super-fast ram.
  • Goatborn lets you push stuff around by speaking the Dragon language.
• Sanctum has a slew of references:
  • Two Walker statues and the G-2 Companion can be found in the Goatville. The latter tries to punch you.
  • The player can become Sanctum Goat, gaining red hair and an occasional flaming head, by sacrificing all three of the above.
  • Space Goat lets you turn into a Bobble Head, which also shows up as a separate goat on the beach map. Slendergoat is created by combining Space Goat and Ripped Goat.
  • Robot Goat lets you turn into the G-2.
• Goat City Bay has Minecraft blocks which turn you into a Minecraft goat. Collecting all three lets you place wood, grass, and stone.
• Slendergoat can be found in Goat City Bay.
• Dive into the sewer on the beach map. Inside you can find Michael Bay Ninja Turtles... that look like Shrek for some reason.
• Near the dam in Goat City Bay is a crashed spaceship. On the hotel balcony is a towel with the number "42" printed on it. Combine the latter with the former and you become Hitchhiker Goat, which has the power to summon whales from the sky.
• The beach map has a hat store. You can steal money from around the map and trade it for hats.
• One of the villages in Goat MMO Simulator is a reference to Tristram from Diablo.
  • The "Not So Secret Cow Farm" is a reference to the Secret Cow Level in the first two Diablo games.
• You can find a dwarf named Bilbo in the mines. Dumping him into the lava in Old Goat mountain will net you the achievement An Unnecessary Journey.
• You can find Dallas, Chains, Wolf and Hoxton in the Payday map. A prank involves sending one of them to prison.
• The "Buck to School" map in the mobile version of the game has a blue-haired female NPC named Cloé who stands by a wall with a blue butterfly painted on it.
• The expansion GoatZ is named after not only DayZ but also an infamous Shock Site that we'd rather not go into more detail about.
• Waste of Space has a slew of them just in the trailer. "Crowdkicker" as a parody of Kickstarter, a fellow walking in igniting six lightsaber-like blades as like Kylo Ren's trailer, "romancing" like Mass Effect, a redshirt with the name Spocky on his back while a goldshirt gets swarmed by facehuggers and it ends with the Luke, I Am Your Father scene.
• Goat MMO Simulator' has Red Dwarf-esque 'fish-with-legs' mermaids. One's even named Miranda.
• The goat's canonical name is Pilgor, after Kenny Hotz's goat in the Kenny vs. Spenny episode "Who Can Stay Tied To A Goat the Longest". Hotz himself also appears as an NPC, and is thanked in the credits for giving his permission.
• The intro to Goat Simulator 3 is a direct nod to the infamous cart ride Intro from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The farmer even says to get off of his "Skyrim cart" at the end.

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