Shout Out / RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse

• When drunk, Trixie starts to quote Londo Mollari from Babylon 5. RainbowDoubleDash is a huge fan of the series.
• Trixie's and Twilight's favorite novel is Don Rocinante of Equestria, an obvious shout-out to Don Quixote. In Longest Night, Longest Day, to keep herself amused, Trixie sings a few lines of "I, Don Quixote," slightly modified to fit into Equestria (i.e., "I am Don Rocinante" rather than "I am I, Don Quixote").
• There's a subtle one in the third chapter of ''Boast Busted;; regarding the lack of personal entries or comments in Twilight Sparkle's journal, "not even so innocuous a comment as 'it was sunny today' or 'I saw a bird; it was pretty.'"
• When Lyra says that Pinkie Pie is going to throw Trixie a party, Trixie's response is "Why are you saying that like it's synonymous with 'she's going to drag me into a basement and torture me'?", a reference to Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles).
• In Carrot Top of the Line: "Help me Rainbow Dash, you're my only hope!" The same reference turns up in Helping... Hands?, only this time Trixie to Lyra.
• "Helping... Hands?":
  • When trying to figure out what Trixie turned Lyra into, the two consult a book about strange and exotic creatures called the Monster Manual.
  • The two guards stationed at the castle gates are named Moonlight Smiles and Frolicsome Meadowlark.
  • Trixie won't be banished. More like chewed out. She has been chewed out before.
• In An Early Reunion, Luna's majordomo notices items in her chambers that sound suspiciously like the One Ring, the Ark of the Covenant, four of the five Sankara Stones and the Holy Grail.
• Secret of Andalantis makes references to a musical called The Legend of Epona. Two of the songs mentioned are the Serenade of Water and the Bolero of Fire.
• Pokey Pierce, at one point, claims that "he won't stop until he's pierced the heavens" with his horn, and he gets to quote Kamina's memetic catchphrase in The Hero of Oaton.
• The name of Puissance's noble House, Optiebeurs-Golo, is the name of the horse that, in 1991, established the world record for the puissance jump.
• The beginning of Luna's castigation of the Night Court is based off of the scene in I, Claudius where Augustus learns of his daughter Julia's whorishness.
• Crisis on Two Equestrias:
  • Each chapter is named after a song with "magic" in its title. This ties in with the plot of the fic being that the Element of Magic is broken and needs to be fixed. Similarly, each chapter of The Return of Tambelon is named after a Babylon 5 episode, though it otherwise doesn't have anything to do with Babylon 5.
  • Mverse Twilight tells Mverse Trixie (who was arrested and had her property destroyed thanks to a misunderstanding thanks to Lverse Trixie) that she can stay with her until she gets back on her hooves.
  • When M!Twilight teleports herself and her companions so that they're falling up, she mentions "thinking with 'porting".
• In The School Talent Show, When Trixie asks if Windowpane is stalking her window he replies that her window is putting his kid through college.
• The Return of Tambelon:
  • The story features multiple nods to Baldur's Gate II, including some of Grogar's lines being verbatim copies of Irenicus' to the Bhaalspawn.
  • When the Element Bearers run into Bray, he pretends to be an innocent victim of Grogar's who managed to escape, a la Hans Gruber in Die Hard.
• In one chapter of Old Friends, Applebloom has this thought process:
  Hey, does this mean I'm helping sell apples and apple acc... access... accessthingies? Yay! I'm helping my sister! And I should check with Miss Cheerilee what that word is again.
• In Chapter 3 of Old Friends, the door-connecting spell that results in a Scooby-Dooby Doors incident appropriately came from a book written by Abracascooby.
• Tales of Ponyville:
  • Raindrops' song in Chapter 1 is a parody of the "Gypsy Bard" song from Friendship is Witchcraft.
  • In Chapter 6, Ditzy comes across Pinkie singing a few lines from "Pinkie's Brew".
• Chapter 1 of Elements of Insanity has Twilight singing a parody of "Pinkie's Brew" while working on her plan, with Shining Armor singing in place of Pinkie's parents.
  • The chapter ends with "Not until Lulamoon learned the meaning of REAL MAGIC."
• In Chapter 4 of "Eye of the Hurricane", Trixie finds out that Lyra ended up buying Iron Will's entire catalog. After spotting a "particularly grayscale book" among the purchases, Trixie asks, "And when are you going to be weaving baskets underwater?"
• An Embarrassment in Three Acts is the Bearers getting the Ember Island Treatment. Trixie even notes the special effects are the only decent part.
• During At the Grand Galloping Gala, Trixie orders the same kind of drink as James Bond in Casino Royale.
• In Ocellus' Ordinary Day, she has a song scene where she sings a version of the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," by Queen, but relating to her (and replacing "Crazy," with "Tasty.")
• When Ocellus starts speaking Protean, the changeling language, it turns out to be Newspeak.
• One of the citizens in Treasure City is a pony named Titan Invincibleus Monarch, but "there are some who call [him]... Tim."
• In For the Mare who has Everything, it's mentioned that Greengrass has gotten onto the Parks and Recreation committee.
• After suffering through a Terrible Interviewees Montage in File Under 'I' for 'Impossible', Trixie paraphrases Dan Backslide by muttering, "Confound those idiots; they drive me to drink!"

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