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  • Being a Xilam cartoon, it has references to another Xilam cartoon, Space Goofs.
    • The playhouse in "Baby Doll" is the same house the Space Goofs live in.
    • In "So Lonely", Oggy whistles to their theme tune.
    • In another episode, there is a framed picture of Gorgious Klatoo.
    • In "Bitter Chocolate", a group picture of the Space Goofs, including Stereo from season 1, is framed in one of the rooms.
    • In "Night Watchmen", after Oggy and the Cockroaches fell in toxic waste and turned into goo, they crawled inside a washing machine and turned into clothes and then into farm animals and then the Space Goofs themselves.
  • And not only Space Goofs... In "Oggy and the Mermaid", Oggy encounters a mermaid and a shark who resemble Marina and Sharko from Zig & Sharko. The episode's story itself is also quite similar to that show.
    • Funnily enough, the person who wrote the episode is the creator of the latter, Olivier-Jean Marie.

  • There are also other shout-outs as well:

    • In "First Flight", the cockroaches were flipping Oggy side by side on the plane (as he was literally turned into molding clay), Oggy looked like a familiar creature in white and blue.
    • In another episode, Jack built a small canoe and its name was Titanic.
    • In the scuba diving episode, while the cockroaches are swimming, they discover a fish that looks a lot like Marlin.
    • In "Keep Cool", after Jack's car is stranded on an iceberg, a ship named Titanic collides with the iceberg, little like the real Titanic (the real Titanic's side was scraped by the iceberg).
    • The name of the episode "Oggy Van Winkle" seems to be a parody of Rip Van Winkle.
    • The cartoon Oggy watches in "Cartoon Lesson", which happens to be a combination of a Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon (with the personalities of the characters) and a Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon (with the desert environment and the Plummet Perspective gag). The hunter even vaguely resembles Elmer Fudd!
    • The "Duck Soup" episode contains a scene that parodies Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
    • In "Scaredy-Cat", Joey and Dee Dee are attempting to escape the innards of a monster by riding on the back of a dragonfly that the monster had eaten earlier. Joey reads through a book on frog anatomy to navigate and in a quick scene, Kermit can be seen on the bottom left of the left page.
    • "Oggy Manga Star" uses the memetic phrase, "Omae wa mou shindeiru" from Fist of the North Star.
    • "The First Samurai" depicts Jack as a samurai. If that wasn't enough, the episode's description in the YouTube upload outright refers to him as "Samurai Jack".

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