References/parodies in the Nick cartoon
 

This show is full of references and parodies. So why not make a thread about it, listing them?
I'll start with Mr. Yuck, if that counts.
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The Mr. Yuk has a moustache lol.
Ummm Pizza Face...too many to list.

I'm a big Masters of the Universe fan so I liked last week when they referenced it during the Crognard bit. There have been tons of references over the course of this show. Probably more than we could even list here because we've forgotten about them.

There are just way too many that we'd need an episode guide like the one I helped create for the OT. Just hunt down the various episode discussions. Numerous old video games, comic books, cartoons, earlier TMNT franchises just to name a few. If anything I think this show has more references than any other series ever provided.

Just to share a few:

*Mousers Attack: The A-Team, Irma (before she was introduced as a human)
*It Came From The Depths: Twilight Zone (blinking eye in tunnel), Star Trek Trouble with Tribbles
*Mazes and Mutants: LOTR, The Hobbit, Pee Wee Herman, Mikey's ring resembling Princess Celesta.

In Battle for New York, Slash shouts, "Mutanimals, hooo!" an obvious reference to Thundercats.

He-Man reference in Crognard when Crognard cries out, "I have the energy!"

A lot of people think the blinking eye is a nod to Kubrick's 2001. When I first saw it I actually thought it was a nod to the original Technodrome.

I found a lot of the parts in Mazes and Mutants to be more of a nod to the old video game Dragon's Lair.

All their belts are nods to the old 90's movie adaptations, but that's pretty well known.

Still related to TMNT, but a weird nod I picked up was when playing Out of the Shadows, Donatello randomly remarks he had a weird dream and Donatello's voice was coming out of Raph's mouth, which is a joke since the voice actor from the nick series originally voiced Raph in the original cartoon.

I always catch weird things like that and the more obvious ones elude me sometimes.

Eastman on Casey's hockey stick is a pretty blatant nod too... I also love that he voices Ice Cream Kitty ^_^

In the episode Of Rat and Men, there's a shot of people running out of the theater. The movie title was Food of the Vermin. There's a movie call Food of the Gods about giant mutant rats.

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This entire season has been pretty much wall to wall horror movie references.

Do you intentionally un-spoiler every single pic you quote? Stop doing that.

Yeah the first couple of episodes upstate were really loaded with horror homages.

Oh, and the way the owl/bird guy from Maze and Mutants is a tribute to David Bowie's character in Labyrinth. It's the way he plays with the crystal ball in his hand.

I liked the subtle Warriors reference from the Bebop and Rocksteady episode when they're on Coney Island. ("Turtles! Come out to plaaaaay!")
That was just one recent one I giggled at.

I knew that was from something! It was driving me nuts! Thank you!

Yeah, I liked that Warriors reference too, though the only reason I know of it is because of the Warriors video game they made.

Does the water tower count as a nod to Animaniacs? ^^

Nah, those are NY staples. There's definitely room for a nod like that though, now that you mention it. But given that series is ahead of the crew's time, I doubt they'd do something like that.

It doesn't need to be ahead of the crew's time if one of the VAs was part of that show, that was what made it funny to me.

Rob Paulsen kept leading them back to the water tower.

What's next, Donnie's so smart, he can name all the Nations of the World. :D

That's how I was viewing it. Rob. lol

There are two moments I can think of off the top of my head where they parody the old Kool-Aid commercials, where the Kool-Aid Man bursts through a wall and goes "OH YEAH!" Both Baxter Stockman (when he's wearing the tPod-enhanced battle armor in "I Think His Name Is Baxter Stockman") and Dogpound (I can't remember which episode) bust through a wall and go "OH YEAH!" It immediately brought the Kool Aid commercials to my mind and I had a good laugh.