- Frequently to Calvin and Hobbes, and many more to video games, namely Final Fantasy. A couple even named their two younger children Cloud and Yuna after the game.
- Coon Tools (The Far Side).
- Several characters have been seen watching Wallace & Gromit and WALL•E.
- When Sandra and Cloud find her old kid-sized piano, he plays it just like in a certain other comic strip (though the music is from Final Fantasy).
- Many of the posters and filer strips give to an artist, movie, television series or other comics.
- This strip is a nod to this famous Penny Arcade strip.
- A raccoon named Sly and a veeery familiar looking cane.
- I am better Than both The Bologna and the Salami combined is one to the Rocko's Modern Life episode, "Wacky Delly."
- A green, bubbling liquid you call "The Dip" and which can kill imaginary characters. Now, where could one have seen that before...
- Several My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic toys have appeared in the background... and foreground. Sandra has a Fluttershy doll, and at one point Cloud and his mom play with other toys of the Mane Six. David and Ye Thuza create a crossover of MLP and The Matrix. Ye Thuza also blackmails a cop by threatening to out him as a brony cosplayer.
- In one strip, Sandra becomes a strange mixture of Beatrix Kiddo and Alma Wade on Cloud, who previously had went Joker on her.
- Larisa's family name is Korolev. The most famous Real Life person with the same family name was Sergei Korolev, the number-one designer of Soviet rockets and space craft. Many consider him having practically invented "practical astronautics".
- #82: Can't trap them, Racoon will shoot me. Can't trap them, Racoon will shoot me.
- Woo and the Road Runner having a meal.
- Sandra's having The Scream (Munch), after she remembers making a mistake in a maths exam.
- A spoof of Obi Wan's words about the destruction of Alderaan: "as if one voice was suddenly silenced, and millions suddenly cried out in joy."
- Woo donning a hat and holding a whip when informed about Sandra and Larisa's treasure hunt is supposed to evoke an Indiana Jones-vibe.
- Sandra's "Doubleplus ungood!" after Larisa's latest case of Skewed Priorities
- "Go for the eyes, Qoo, go for the eyes!" in this comic. A while earlier, Sandra's dad was mentioned to be playing it, and it was described as "great".
- Suddenly, an axe crashes through the door and a madman's face appears in the gap* "Here's Tommy!"
- Here. "Game over, Tommy! Game over!"
- Not one, but four shout-out strips in a row to Zootopia.
- Yuna accidentally reversing enthropy.
- Strips #858, #860, and #861 reference Steins;Gate. There have also been a large amount of references to it since, to the point where listing them all would take a while.
- Strip #901 references the "best girl" debate in anime fandom, and namedrops Steins;Gate character Kurisu Makise and KonoSuba character Megumin.
- Larissa's fake ID in #834 says "Larisa Kropotkin.
- A Disgust centered Core Memory.
- The last panel of the 1000th strip is a deliberate homage to the last panel of just about every Asterix book in existence.
- As is the final panel of #290 (though it doesn't have a banquet).
- Woo meets Tweety Bird.
- Sandra watches Invader Zim.
- This comic is a reference to "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches.
- The tags on this strip imply the two rats are Pinky and the Brain. The title is Professor Farnsworth's catchphrase.
- Another Pinky and the Brain reference in this strip:Sid: Hey, what are you two doing?Woo: The same thing we do every night, Sid – try to save the world!
- Woo gives an extended shout-out to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
- This strip has three puns: Horton Hears a Woo, Doctor Woo, and "Woo Watches the Watchmen".
- Cloud's cousin in Myanmar likes Twilight and Cloud starts translating the dialogue for them.
- Cloud not only watches Kick-Ass, his mom trains him to recreate the stunts from it.
- Officer O'Sullivan's daughter wants to go to NYC Comic Con as Toph Beifong and "create a chasm that swallows Mr. Shamalamadingdong whole."
- The slogan Freedom, Love and Cookies! is a reference to Terry Pratchett's novel of revolutionary Ankh-Morpork, Night Watch, where the battlecry is Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg!
- This one is a reference to Piet Mondrian.
- A visual pun on Fox News.
- Cloud, Sandra, and Larisa channel The Three Musketeers.
- In The Kiss, we get "I love you." "I know." and Larisa is tied up like Cacofonix.
- First it was the worst of times, but then it was the best of times.
- Sandra's toys include Angry Birds, Fluttershy, and one of the aliens from Toy Story.
- A meta-example here where the Hand of God wakes up in its bed with a threatening object.
- Echo's speech to Sid channels John F. Kennedy.
- Shadow's line "the worst thing about hell is that you can see heaven" is a quote from Ozy and Millie.
- Larisa responds to Sandra asking if she likes Mark Rothko with By Toutatis, no!!"
- Zoey has a vision of Luke Skywalker screaming "Noooooo!" when Larisa tries to insist she's One of Us.
- Ye attempts the BLJ.
- The depiction of Seeoahtlahmakaskay strongly resembles a raccoon version of Amaterasu in Ōkami.
- The animal gods assembled on Seeoahtlahmakaskay's couch include Coyote (drawn similarly to his appearance in Gunnerkrigg Court, Reynard the Fox, and El-Ahrairah.
- "Gain" parodies the infamous "Loss" comic from Ctrl+Alt+Del.
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