Shout Out / Green Eggs and Ham (2019)

• Being based on a Dr. Seuss book, this show makes several references to other Seuss books.
  • When the fish mother is counting if all her children are there after Sam destroys their home, she counts One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
  • Sam accidentally runs onstage at a graduation ceremony, so he begins a speech with "Oh, the places you'll go!" Doubles as Reality Subtext, as that book is a popular graduation gift.
  • The little boy at the farm sees Sam and Guy sneaking around his house, He tries to show his mother, but she just misses them. She teases her son with “Suuure, and last night, you saw a wozzit in your closet."
    • In that same episode, Michael the Fox resembles Fox in Socks while the farmer's wife looks like a female Mr. Knox.
  • A Meepville hat shop's flyer advertises stovepipe hats with red and white stripes.
    • Speaking of that famous hat, the ones Sam and Guy wear in jail are essentially the same hat, but in greyscale.
  • In "Rain", one of the bikers looks like a humanoid, buff version of The Lorax. One of the good characteristics he mentions of the town is "plenty of green areas". Also, one of the buildings in Meepville in "Boat" has the name "Once-ler."
• "Mouse" has several references to adaptations of the works of Victor Hugo.
  • The Mouse's backstory is one long parody of Les Misérables, complete with living in poverty, going to jail for stealing food, being part of a revolution and having a French accent. He even sings it as a pop-opera song.
  • Sam has wood carving of himself, Guy, and Mr. Jenkins above his bed, not unlike a character who's metaphorically imprisoned in the Disney version of Hugo's other most famous story does of his friends.
• During the scene inside the Wheel of Insanity ride, Michelle and E.B. hug one another as they fall towards the camera screaming as a blink-and-you-miss-it reference to the ending of the Bugs Bunny short The Heckling Hare.
• "Mouse" also has several references to The Shawshank Redemption.
  • After Guy and Sam escape jail through the pipes, it starts raining, complete with Sam striking the iconic pose of Andy Dufresne. Thankfully the pipes are full of oat mush and not sewage. And in case you didn't get it, the narrator briefly does a Morgan Freeman impression.
  • They also escape through a hole in the wall of their cell, hidden behind a poster... of the wall.
• The ending of "Goat" is lifted directly from the final scene of The Usual Suspects.
• The Old Goat at times roars like Hanna-Barbera's version of Godzilla.
• As the show's plot is essentially, Planes, Trains and Automobiles AS TOLD BY DR. SEUSS, with Sam acting as Del Griffith to Guy's Neil Page, there are a few direct parallels. (Coincidentally, Michael Douglas' mother Diana Douglas has a small role at the end of Planes as one of Neil's relatives).
  • Guy's tantrum at being left behind at the bus depot in the first episode mirrors Neil's Rage Breaking Point when the bus deserts him in the car rental lot, up to and including ruining his hat!
  • The scene in "Car" where Sam takes the car off-road while Guy is asleep mirrors the scene in the film where Del accidentally changes lanes while Neil takes a nap in the passenger seat.
  • Guy's Bedmate Reveal gag in "Train," though it's with Mr. Jenkins rather than Sam (and we're mercifully spared the mental image Jenkins' wings being "between two pillows").
  • Sam, like Del, is always going on about his great relationship with a woman in his life who turns out to no longer be a part of it, though we don't know if Sam's mother is Dead All Along like Del's wife, just that she abandoned him as a child.
  • The scene in "There" of Guy breaking Sam by telling him that the fact that his mother abandoned him is proof that he doesn't belong anywhere mirrors the scene of Neil almost making Del cry by telling him that his stories are boring.
• This isn't the only Netflix Original Animation to feature a running gag about hatred of a particular type of melon.
• The Glurfsburg Zoo keeps four humanoid turtles that are good at fighting.
• The plotline in the first few episodes where two identical briefcases are swapped, with one of them containing a rare exotic animal, is near-identical to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
• An anthropomorphic, necktie-wearing Vegetarian Carnivore fox going into a savage, feral rage brings Nick Wilde to mind. Except in Michael's case the savagery is genuine.
• The hotel clerk, voiced by Stephen Tobolowsky, is a reference to Tobolowsky's character Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day.
• Every episode title of Season 2 are Pun-Based Title spoofs of well-known spy movie titles.
• When Sam asked Pam when her mission to space was, she replied that it was "a long time ago, somewhere far away."
• Pam's butler in Season 2 is named "Snalfred," which would too vague to be an explicit reference had Rob Brydon not voiced him as an obvious impression of Michael Caine.

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