References Towards Other Animated Programs In Animation

That's what I loved about Dexter's Lab and PPG - they made so many neat references to Hanna-Barbera toons long since gone. F'r instance:

"Dexter's Lab: A Story" - Dexter pulls out a box of Scooby Snacks with SD himself on the box.

"Ice Sore" - Bubbles asks Blossom to make the floor icy "like in Tom and Jerry", a nice nod towards "Mice Follies".

"Major Competition" - amongst the Townsville crowd, there's a character that resembles George Jetson.

"I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" - this PPG cartoon is entirely based and inspired from Rocky and Bullwinkle. They even have June Foray playing the psychic in a Natasha Fatale voice!

"Seed No Evil" - Miss Keane mentiones several Flintstone references to how cavemen used to live.

"Aku's Fairy Tales" - only seen clips of this Samaurai Jack cartoon but the wolf is very close to Hokey Wolf in design and voice.


Also, in the Futurama episode, "I Second that Emotion", when Leela lifts off the sewer drain cover, it has "The PJs" logo on it.
 
In the episode of Billy & Mandy go to Mars they go into a building with a hologram and Billy says, "Hey! This isn't Kids Next Door!" Also in the movie Numbuh 3 becomes the new Grim Reaper.
 
I don't remember it THAT well, but I remember an episode of Garfield & Friends where a group of mutant fish that appeared in an earlier episode showed up in a Quickie episode of US Acres...and after chasing off Orson in the gang, they start speaking to each other about any other shows they can appear on & and they suggest that maybe the Muppet Babies have an opening.

Muppet Babies and Garfield & Friend both aired on CBS Saturdays for a few good years.
 
That's nothing. In the episode where Garfield goes to a Haunted House, he opens a door and finds Nancy and Sluggo.

And I'm told the new Garfield movie has some comic strip character appearances.
 
Just thought of another one from Kappa Mikey:

"Saving Face": Socky the rapper's backup singers resemble Kagome (from InuYasha), Bulma (from Dragon Ball/Z) and Shampoo (from Ranma 1/2), respectively.
 
There's one Inuyasha episode where Kagome's school is having a festival and several cosplayers can be seen. Cameos include Ran & Shinichi from Detective Conan, Shampoo from Ranma 1/2, Luffy from One Piece, and Doremi from Magical Doremi.

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When did that happen? I don't remember that. :confused:

-Anyways, one episode of Johnny Bravo showed JB watching a cartoon called 'Clam League 9000', a hybrid of Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon, in which a Goku/Ash amalgam and a Vegeta lookalike battle with monsters which they summon by tossing clams out into the battlefield.

In the Kappa Mikey episode "Script Assassin", one of the Script Assassin's previous victims resembles a white-haired Vegeta.
 
One episode of Lloyd in Space mentioned and briefly featured a show called "The Daisy Droid Girls", an obvious parody of the Powerpuff Girls in appearance and concept.
 
Here are a few more references towards other animated shows, they are:

Justice Leagues episode, 'Brave and the Bold' in the chase scene where the Flash (with a garden rake) is matching the speed of the car driven by Solovar, he asks the Gorilla 'Having fun Mojo?' which is a direct reference to Mojo-Jojo of 'PowerPuff Girls' fame (imo, of course):)

In the Powerpuff Girls episode: 'Birthday Bash,' the girls easily handled the giant robot sent as a birthday gift courtesy of Mojo-Jojo, Bubbles then finished it off with one kick, which is a reference to 'Project A-ko' where A-ko kicked down the Max-5000 mecha. (In that same episode, George Jetson is seen among the guests at the birthday party cheering on the girls)
 
Yeah I read about that on some site years ago when that episode first aired on Toonami. Kind of disappointed that it didn't cross over to the dub, but not many people outside of the anime community would've gotten the reference. Both shows aired on TV Asahi and Shin-chan must've been pretty popular with the same demographic.
 
In the Pinky and the Brain episode, Pinky and the Brain...and Larry, the mouse Larry looked, sounded, and acted a lot like Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy.
 
Actually, Larry was a caricature of Larry Fine of the Three Stooges. Billy West (who voiced Larry in the short-although Rob Paulsen voiced Larry in that episodes opening titles) also patterned Stimpy's voice after Larry Fine's.

The Three Stooges homage was driven home during the painting scene, where Brain gets hit on the head with a mop, giving him a Moe Howard hairstyle, and then begins slapping Pinky and Larry around in a fit of anger, causing Pinky to whine like Curly.
 
And then there's what I like to Call a "Double Whammy" in Kim Possible's Dimension Twist. At the beginning of the show Ron and Rufus are watching "The Adventures of "Scamper and Bitey" (and this is a blatant Reference to The Simpson's "Itchy and Scratchy"
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And the thing is that the characters on the Scamper and Bitey Show were in fact a rather animated version of Tom and Jerry..
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So there's a Two for one shot here..

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Itchy and Sracthy (destipe popular belief), is actually a reference to the little-known Herman and Katnip cartoons, which was basically a clone of Tom and Jerry.
 
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