• Overall, and as pointed out specifically by many fans, the show is full of references, both intentional and not, to the Let's Play YouTube channel OneyPlays, to the point that the two could almost be considered sister shows, thanks to Zach Hadel injecting his own iconic brand of humor into both.
• The design of the Smiling Friends Headquarters is identical to the appearance of Ted, a recurring character from Michael's cartoons.
• There are multiple allusions that the show is set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the same city where Newgrounds is headquartered in.
• Several characters throughout the series use the word "iconic" to describe things that are otherwise mundane or not something which would typically be described as such. Zach himself has a penchant for using "iconic" regularly in OneyPlays in the same fashion.
• Glep's speech is identical to "Wingon," a language made up as a joke on OneyPlays.
• Word of God from Hadel and Cusack at San Diego Comic Con 2022 stated that Glep's wife is named Marge Simpson, a blatant reference to the famous housewife of The Simpsons fame. So far, this has only been limited to behind the scenes in Smiling Friends' Universe Bible.
• Mr. Boss is based off of John McAfee, according to the same interview.
• The "Smiling Ball Z" promo animation is an homage to Dragon Ball, with it recreating Raditz's death by Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon with Glep as Piccolo, Mr. Boss as Raditz, and Charlie as Goku. The struggle where Goku has to keep Raditz in place is also a parody of the spinning stick mini-game from the first Dragon Ball Z: Budokai game. After Glep kills both Mr. Boss and Charlie with his Special Beam Cannon, Pim pops up dressed as Kid Gohan yelling "I love Dragon Ball Z!"
• The Final Episodes Trailer ends with the narrator saying to "stay gold" as well as the description.

"Desmond's Big Day Out":

• The scene where Mr. Boss breastfeeds the baby is based on a cartoon Zach made to promote the Gremblo art show. Mr. Boss even has the same bruise as the baby in the original video.
• Desmond as a character is heavily based on the character of Mr. Plinkett from Mr. Plinkett Reviews, down to his voice actor being Mike Stoklasa basically just doing Mr. Plinkett's voice.
• Glep watches on his tablet one of Cusack's old YouTube skits as his Straw Atheist character, Lucas the Magnificent.
• In the background of Daveland's arcade, you can see an arcade machine labelled Davebius.
• In the scene where a Bliblie screams at Desmond after stabbing a fellow Bliblie, one of the dead Bliblies in the background is doing the "Family Guy Death Pose".
• The strange, but considerably more benevolent, dancing alien seems like a shout out to JUDY from Twin Peaks.

"Mr. Frog":

• The press photo of two neckbeards at Frog Con 2016 invokes the posing and expressions of the Two Soyjaks Pointing meme.
• Several parodies from movie posters to classical artwork can be seen at Mr. Frog Studios and in Mr. Frog's mansion.
  • Mr. Frog's Diary and Mr. Frog in the hallway outside Rex's office.
  • A Sistine Steal of Michelangelo Buonarroti's The Creation of Adam is painted on one of the walls of Rex's office.
  • Attack of the 50 Foot Mr. Frog, to the right of the picture of Mr. Frog with Bill Clinton.
  • Frogfather and Mr Frog at the entrance to Mr. Frog's in-house theater.
  • A marble statue in a hallway of Mr. Frog's mansion is reminiscent of Michelangelo's David, only its wearing shorts and carrying an animal's pelt.
• A mint condition Mr. Frog Funko Pop! is located on a table in front of the above mentioned Attack of the 50 Foot Mr. Frog poster.
• Glep's spitting on the ground in disgust (and related violent hilarity from the producers) is taken from the AI Dungeon episodes, regarding a reaction that both the boys and the dungeon itself had at several points.
• A worm can be seen in Mr. Frog's beautiful animal sanctuary, a fulfilment of Zach's promise to add one he made in OneyPlays' first video on Worms: Reloaded.
• Mr. Frog's fan meet-up is held at "Globglo's Books", making clear connections to the Globglogabgolab.
• In the montage showing Mr. Frog's success after getting his show back, the last image shows him in a pose similar to Jeb Bush in the "Jeb Wins" meme.

"Shrimp's Odyssey":

• The episode's title could be a reference to Worm Odyssey, a fake game Zach made up as a joke on OneyPlays. The fact that the episode has a Running Gag about eating worms further hints at this.
• Shrimp's voice is the exact some voice that David Firth, his voice actor uses for the titular character of his Jerry Jackson animation series.
• Shrimp's room is decorated with Fortnite figurines and various Funko Pops (including one of the aforementioned Mr. Frog) It also has a poster of Ash and Pikachu.
• Shrimp's favorite game, Mouse Quest, is a reference to Rat Simulator, which has been featured on OneyPlays.
• When Pim goes to the cafe to find Shrimpina, the customer in front of her asks for the Number 15. The customer's order is a reference to the popular "Number 15: Burger King Foot Lettuce" video/meme. For extra points, the character is voiced by Chills, the original narrator of the video.
• When Shrimp attempts to get a tan and ends up more cooked than anything, an overweight man walks on by and takes a bite out of him. He suspiciously looks and sounds similar to Homer Simpson, right down to using the same hand gesture when scarfing down food. "Mmmm, cooked shrimp."
• During Pim's fantasy sequence an elderly Charlie can be seen in the background dressed like Zach from Hellbenders, a cartoon Zach had previously worked on with Chris O'Neill.

"A Silly Halloween Special":

• The costumes at the Halloween party reference various pop culture.
  • Allan is dressed as Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck from Joker (2019).
  • The Boss is dressed up as Charlie Brown from Peanuts.
  • Glep and his wife, Marge, are dressed as Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy.
  • Duncan is wearing a Superman costume, setting the precedent of him wearing an S on his chest.
• The Forest Demon's demise is similar to an idea for a cartoon Zach pitched on Oney Plays. It involved a mother putting monkey on a table at a children's birthday party and it's eaten in a manner similar to the demon: Getting disemboweled and having its limbs ripped off and eaten like corn on the cob.
  Chris: Zach, I'mma be real with you: I would laugh at it, but I don't think 90% of people would.
• The demon being mistaken for wearing blackface and Charlie's earlier reservations about wearing face paint for similar reasons is an allusion to a story that Jeff Bandelin related during one episode, in which, as a child, his parents dressed him up as a Smurf; however, due to the high contrast of the admittedly old photo and the darkness of the blue facepaint they used, poor young Jeff instead looks like he is wearing blackface, much to the amusement of Chris and the others. At one point earlier in the episode, Charlie mentions the blackface misconception as his reason for not dressing up for Halloween.

"Who Violently Murdered Simon S. Salty?":

• The movies being shown at the cinema alongside Bimblar — Shrimp and Shrew, Spider Adam, and The Carrot Concept — come from drawings Hadel and Cusack drew on The Very Positive Stream.
  • Bimblar, in of himself, shares a similar name to Bimblor, which was Chris' custom name for Cloud Strife on Oney Plays.
• The mascots of Salty's are reminiscent of various characters, especially those of McDonaldland's inhabitants.
  • The Fun Twins appear to be based off McDonald's mascots, the Fry Kids.
  • Grease Puddle's voice is based off that of Chris Chan. Notably, this was actually supposed to be a cameo from Chris herself, but the show's budget meant that Harry Partridge instead voiced the character, doing his own impression of Chris Chan.
• Crazy Cup's phrasing of "doo doo feces" comes from a 2003 interview of Michael Jackson conducted by Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes. This was brought up Chris, Zach, and Tomar's playthrough of Devotion.
  Zach: Guys, please go on YouTube and search "Michael Jackson doo doo feces". That's a real- he really said the word "doo doo feces".
• The animation that plays when the Fun Twins describe where they were at the time of the murder is very similarly composed to Michael Cusack's animation project TedAnimationStudio, as well as some of Chris O'Neill's earliest animations in the "A Random Day" series.

"Enchanted Forest":

• Alan and Glep play a fighting game on a Nintendo 64 lookalike.
• The character of Mip is clearly designed after Bilbo Baggins from the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated film.
  • The song Mip sings of Charlie's exploits is specifically based on "The Greatest Adventure" from the same movie, with Mip's voice taking on an impression of the distinct wavering voice of Glenn Yarbrough, who sang the song in the film.
  • On the topic of The Hobbit, Pim's transformation over the course of the episode is reminiscent of Smeagol's transformation into Gollum.
• The reveal that Mip was stalking the Princess and the gift he asked Charlie to send her was a bomb is a reference to Ricardo Lopez, otherwise known as the "Björk Stalker". Like the show, the real stalker attempted to mail the singer a bomb to kill her, though it was thankfully intercepted, unlike Mip's. This was once brought up on SleepyCast, a podcast that Hadel occasionally participated in during its run.

"Frowning Friends":

• The lyrics to the song DJ Spit shows Charlie and Pim are "Wehehe" repeated over and over. This comes from a poorly made South Park parody called Loud Junk that Zach occasionally mentions on, you guessed it, OneyPlays.
• Mr. Boss arguing with a darker version of himself in the mirror could be a slight nod to Norman Osborn's similar scene in the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man 1 film.
• The dances that the Grim, Gnarly, and Mr. Boss do at the end of the episode before the former two get killed by the Renaissance Men are similar to the dances we see in the iconic dancing scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas.

"Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back":

• Both Charlie and Satan are seen playing Rust on their computers.
  • The desktop icon for Worms Armageddon can be seen on Satan's PC.
• The demon Jeremy's schtick of getting up in people spaces (and Charlie's retaliation to it) started as a hypothetical of a green alien he pitched to Chris and Tomar while they were hunting witches to varying responses.
  Zach: Would you like punch him, or would you...?
  Chris: (Beat) I'd punch him.
  Zach: (incredulous) Would you really punch an alien?
  Chris: If he was doing that...
  Tomar: If all he was doing was that, I'd just- I'd be- I- I'd try to act calm and let him know I'm not a threat.
  Zach: You're submitting to this aggressive alien.
  • Jeremy's guttural reaction to getting punched follows the description of a bizarre desire Hadel once expressed during a let's play.
    Zach: I'd love to see a fist fight, a YouTube grainy fistfight, 2007, between Jimmy Neutron's dad and an ex-marine. [...] (imitating labored gasps of pain) Like Jimmy Neutron's dad snorting because he's been hit so many times in the lungs.
• The man who delivers Satan's food is nearly identical to the petrol station employee from Bushworld Adventures, one of Cusack's previous Adult Swim projects.

"Gwimbly: Definitive Remastered Enhanced Extended Edition DX 4K (Anniversary Director's Cut)":

• Gwimbly himself is a general pastiche of PlayStation/Nintendo 64 era mascot platformers, but the gameplay we briefly see when he visits the game studio shows him fighting in an arena very similar to the final boss of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, with the boss's health meter almost identical to the original Crash Bandicoot trilogy and music that sounds a lot like Banjo-Kazooie.
• "Insane Groundbreaking Games" itself sounds like a nod to Epic Games' old 90s name of "Epic Mega-Games", and the CEO talks about "sitting on" IPs and doing nothing with them— an accusation leveled at Tim Sweeney and Epic in regard to the Unreal series that had been delisted from all digital storefronts for...no particular reason. The CEO also talks about potentially bringing back Gwimbly as merely a skin in Troglor's game, playing on the omnipresence of crossover skins in Fortnite.
• Gwimbly's "iconic victory dance" is a more underwhelming version of the Crash Dance. His design in general seems to be mostly a parody of Crash, but in an art style more similar to that of Spyro.
• Gwimbly's pink tail (or whatever it is) brings to mind prolapses being a Running Gag on OneyPlays, specifically how in their Wild Woody playthrough, the titular anthropomorphic pencil's eraser was jokingly mistaken for one.
• Troglor, the character Insane Groundbreaking Games wants to replace Gwimbly with, is a pastiche of protagonists of modern FPS games in which A Space Marine Is You, particularly Doom Slayer. His name is also one letter off from Trogdor.
• Charlie struggling in servitude to James while wearing a French Maid Outfit is ostensibly an homage to SpongeBob in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Can You Spare a Dime?".
• In the end, Gwimbly and Troglor join a Super Smash Bros.-esque Platform Fighter. The player controlling Gwimbly is dash dancing.

"Mr. President":

• Mr. Frog's campaign ad features him throwing a grenade that disintegrates everyone around it into skeletal remains, à la the infamous pumpkin grenades the Green Goblin used in Spider-Man 1.
• After President Jimble destroys the economy, Charlie tells Pim to "check the news, it doesn't matter what channel," referencing Zach's "THEY HIT THE PENTAGON!!" moment from OneyPlays.
• WNW anchorworm William Worm's request for the audience at the presidential debate to be quiet during the event is a near-exact quote of CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper and the request he made during the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in St. Louis on October 9th, 2016.
  "We want to remind the audience to please not, uh, talk out loud... [please do/to] not applaud... you're just wasting time."

"A Allan Adventure":

• Allan's landlord tries to get Allan to play Burnout Revenge (for the PlayStation 2) with him.
• The sea serpent that swallows the pirate ship resembles a Gyarados.
• The katanas on the landlord's walls seem to be based on Roronoa Zoro's swords.
• The claymation skeleton pirates could potentially be a reference to Captain Bones from Crashbox, or the skeleton pirates depicted in the movie adaptation of James and the Giant Peach.

"Erm, the Boss Finds Love?":

• A Critter in the background is based on Brown from Purple and Brown. His appearance would be a Call-Back to a moment on OneyPlays's Sonic the Hedgehog 1 playthrough where Josh Tomar gets mad about a GIF of Brown chewing gum.
• Brittney's face strongly resembles that of the Violin Girl from Courage the Cowardly Dog, down to revealing it via a Jump Scare too. Her overall design is also remarkably reminiscent of the entity from Smile (2022).
• Charlie's uncle has an animatronic that is extremely similar to Tara the Android from "I Feel Fantastic".
• Daniel the Demon Slayer is a parody of The Nostalgia Critic, played by Doug Walker himself.
  • Daniel's gives a word to his sponsor, Dollar Shave Club, a company known for sponsoring with YouTubers.
• Charlie himself states to own a replica of Andúril, Aragorn II's sword from the The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
• The song Mr. Boss sings at the end of the episode parodies a bizarre gaff from Carly Fiorina made on April 27, 2016 when Texan senator Ted Cruz announced considering her as his vice during his candidacy for the 2016 United States presidential election. If the Indiana primaries proved anything, Fiornina's half-hearted singing about Cruz's daughters unsettled voters as much as the Boss' singing unsettled his four employees.
  Carly Fiorina: I know two girls that I just adore
  I'm so happy I can see them more
  Because we travel on the bus all day
  We get to play! We get to play!
  I won't bore you with any more of the song!
  Crowd: (cheers)

"Brother's Egg":

• The whole plot point of Professor Psychotic trying to create a homunculus by injecting his DNA into a chicken's egg is an homage to the infamous Russian homunculus project, down to a failed worm-like specimen being Squashed Flat with a book.
  • This time around, the book isn't a Russian-Chinese dictionary, but a copy of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion.
• A poster featuring Bill Nye the Science Guy can be seen in Professor Psychotic's lab. Ends up being an Early-Bird Cameo for his appearance in the season finale.
• Allan asks for a program to be turned off, only to be told that the remote is broken. He then asks that they at least turn it down, but this request is also denied because the volume control is broken too. This may be a reference to the Wizards with Guns sketch "The Grinch Song Uncensored, which features Joel Haver, a guest star in this episode.

"Charlie, Pim, and Bill vs. The Alien":

• For some inexplicable reason, the synopsis to the episode does not describe literally anything that happens, instead saying the plot to Mars Needs Moms with Pim as the main character.
• Upon revealing that the torture device isn't real, the orange alien explains "That's like Black Mirror shit, dude!", further stating to have purchased the LED from Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba.
• The previous guest the aliens claim they put into the torture device didn't want to put a CD holder up their ass, is a reference to a story Cory told on Oneyplays about how he experimented with his sexuality when he was a kid.

"The Magical Red Jewel (aka Tyler Gets Fired)":

• The background of the bar in The Stinger contains a whole cavalcade of Homestuck references: Rose and John's symbols, a crocodile consort, caricatures of Dave and Dirk, Yaldabaoth, Becquerel, a bunny, and the face of Death from Problem Sleuth.
• The Spamtopian getting lifted away by another creature referenced a scene from Zach Hadel’s previous work Hellbenders where Zach is grabbed by Jesus and lifted away in an attempt to send him to heaven.
• Mr. Boss's nose is revealed to be a prosthetic, much like that of Judge Alvin "J.P." Valkenheiser in Nothing but Trouble, a movie Zach Hadel has admitted to having an obsession over, as well as a desire to use one of the nose gags from it with the Boss.

"Pim Finally Turns Green":

• The episode is a Whole-Plot Reference to Frosty the Snowman.
• Charlie excuses himself from hanging out with Rotten by saying he wants to celebrate "Winter-een-mas", a fictional holiday originating in the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del (better known these days for the infamously memetic strip "Loss").
• During the montage of Pim showing Rotten life, a parody of "Last Christmas" plays in the background.
• Bill Nye appears to explain death (and then immediately dies), with Charlie mourning him by mentioning how much he loves his show and reciting the theme song's lyrics.
• When Rotten becomes an ocean wave, his face turns into three live-action rubber bands (two small ones for his eyes and a big one for his mouth), causing him to resemble the "Count to Ten With Nobody" sketch from Sesame Street.

"Silly Samuel":

• Silly Samuel in general seems to be a wholesale reference to Zooble from The Amazing Digital Circus, with both of them being irritable 3D characters with mixed-up parts and a crab claw arm.
• Silly Samuel is unable to wear clothes because he breathes through his skin.
• When Mr. Boss is rapidly doing the knife game at the beginning of the episode, he screams and an aura forms around him, similar to what it looks like when you go Super Saiyan in Dragon Ball.
• The scene where Mr. Boss pulls Allan aside to tell him the consequences of failing the Inspector’s inspection with his iconic drawl it almost a word-for-word copy of the infamous Chris-Chan video of Bob Chandler demanding he get the videos of his house off the internet.
• The dead squatter's computer is playing the 3D Maze screensaver from Windows 95/98.
• Among the background characters gathered to see the Three Weird Willies is a depiction of Talking Ben.

"Le Voyage Incroyable de Monsieur Grenouille":

• Charlie and Pim's client at the beginning of the episode, after smiling, dons a top hat and cane and sings while dancing around a lamppost in a very similar fashion to Singin' in the Rain.
• Mr. Frog singing "Dust in the Wind" at karaoke could potentially be a reference to Final Destination 5, due to the song being used as Death's theme in the movie and a scene involving a cocktail bar being crushed by a piece of Flight 180.
• During the rapid-fire montage at the end of the episode, various pictures appear representing notable moments in Mr. Frog's life. Among the images include:
  • Him watching Space Shuttle Challenger launch on the STS-51-L mission on television, and the subsequent disaster.
  • Him talking with Joe Rogan as a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience.
  • Him angrily yelling on the Laugh Factory standup stage in a clear parody of Michael Richards' infamous 2006 racist tirade.
  • Him walking alongside a Kim Kardashian lookalike in an extremely similar pose to a famous paparazzi image of Kanye West.
  • Him playing Counter-Strike 2, specifically on the map de_inferno.
  • Him riding an atomic bomb in a similar fashion to the iconic scene in Dr. Strangelove.
  • Him posing in front of a pile of burning money with clown makeup on in a similar fashion to the Joker in The Dark Knight.
  • Him hosting Saturday Night Live.
  • Him doing the "Jeb Wins" pose again.
  • Finally, him posing similarly to the infamous Goatse shock image.

"Mole Man":

• The opening news report interviewing Jesse Ventura over a conspiracy theory about the assassination of President Shrimp is a reference to the various conspiracy theories regarding John F. Kennedy.
• During the first minute of the episode Glep can be seen painting a Space Marine miniature until the transition to underground.
• Two of Maureen's children appear to be modeled after Tommy Pickles and Bart Simpson.
• A poster on Moleman's wall depicts an anime girl very similar in appearance to Madoka Kaname.

"Curse of the Green Halloween Witch":

• Charlie yells "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!'' when trying to exorcise Glep.
• The bathroom Charlie runs into before seeing himself beginning to melt is very similar to the one in Saw.
  • Charlie's face melting itself is likely a reference to the infamous scene from Poltergeist (1982).
• At one point, Pim runs into Pyramid Head in a hallway.
• Mr. Boss opens a closet and there's a thing floating in a jar that looks very similar to the embryonic ADAM from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• Pim kills Glep by breaking his jaw in a way similar to how King Kong kills the T. rex.
• Mr. Boss chases an imagined family figure (his mother in this case) through the dark industrial halls of the Smiling Friends building, and is later seen with red, bloody, empty eye sockets, both of which recall scenes from Event Horizon.

"Pim and Charlie Save Mother Nature":

• One of the amenities Mr. Boss lists at his cabin is a Nintendo GameCube with a copy of Super Monkey Ball.
  • Also visible on a nearby shelf is a bongo controller used in Donkey Konga.
• Shplanko!, the Fictional Board Game Mr. Boss and Glep are playing, has an assortment of bits taken from other table games, such as Monopoly money, dice rolling cups from Yahtzee, pawns from Sorry! (as well as what the name is assumed to be based on), and a board setup like Mouse Trap.
  • One of the cards used in Shplanko! is a joker that bears a heavy resemblance to Jimbo.

"Squim Returns":

• The episode opens with The Grimpsons, a clear parody of The Simpsons, complete with Expies of Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa, as well as poking fun at its age on air. This is likely a response to a Take That! The Simpsons aimed toward Smiling Friends in one of their episodes.
  • The general animation style of the Simpsons parody is similar to Xploshi's genre of Stylistic Suck.
  • The characters are also colored a lime green instead of the usual yellow, similarly to how Simpsons characters appear on EmperorLemon videos.
  • When asked by the not-Marge what he's doing on his tablet, the not-Bart "Blart" responds by saying "Hawk Tuah, man!"
  • Upon closer inspection, the lenses of Blart's glasses are pink and yellow, referencing a certain diminutive salesman.
  • In the Brazilian dub of the show, the parodies are even voiced by the actual Simpsons' voice actors: Selma Lopes (Marge), Rodrigo Antas (Bart), and Carlos Alberto (Homer).
• Allan and Glep step away from the episode by going to an anime convention. Allan is dressed up like a Magical Girl borrowing elements from Madoka Kaname, Ichigo Momomiya, and Mirai Asahina, while Glep dons a cosplay that resembles Yami Yugi, Cloud Strife, and Sora put together.
• Squim introduces himself after bursting through the wall by exclaiming "WAZZUP?!" to Pim and Mr. Boss.
  • Squim himself has a design reminiscent of Pac Man from the "Here Comes Pacman" video.
• Grand Strategy IV, the game Charlie is playing hooky to play, is an amalgamation of history-based strategy games like Age of Empires, Civilization, Total War, and Europa Universalis.
• Mr. Boss learns of Charlie's lies by seeing his game activity on Steam.
  • One of Mr. Boss's other Steam friends has the username "ThumbJoey", complete with the PFP being the edited picture of Vargskelethor Joel's head.
  • Another user on Mr. Boss' friends list is LilSkateyBoy. Lil' Skatey is a character from SleepyCast that Cory insisted was his guardian angel. The icon's lumpy design is even taken directly from SuperProWaffles' fan animation of the segment.
• The lock screen of Charlie's phone shows Mr. Frog in the same pose as Donald Trump during his attempted assassination in July 2024.
• Charlie is revealed to be paying down for Destruction from Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire series of paintings.
• During Charlie's kebab-induced psychedelic trip, he sees a barking dog and hallucinates it as a creature similar in appearance to the smile.jpg image from Smile Dog.
• Squim's soul sings a short parody of "Get Down Tonight" by KC and the Sunshine Band after coming out of his body.
• The parasite that is revealed to have been infecting Charlie bares resemblance to a Plaga.
• The Stinger of the episode features Allan and Glep getting harassed by a creep wearing a Sailor Moon-esque costume at the anime convention.
  • The con’s banner features LordMichael, an OC Michael Cusack came up with after director David Hootselle put out a Twitter prompt asking for drawings of characters eating with Pim.
    • LordMichael himself has a design that borrows elements like Cloud Strife's shoulder pauldron and Goku's hair.

"Shmaloogles":

• While sending out Charlie and Pim on their mission, Mr. Boss and his son Neil are preparing to marathon the Clerks movies (and presumably the rest of the The View Askewniverse). The Stinger even has Brian O'Halloran join in doing a live commentary.
• The Shmaloogles themselves and the situation they are in is a pastiche of The Smurfs, complete with expies like King Shmaloogle as Papa Smurf, Princess Shmaloogle as Smurfette, and the Wizard as Gargamel.
• Charlie decides to bail out from the job and asks Pim if he'd like to pick something up at Wawa. After the episode's plot wraps up, the entire cast eats outside one.
• When the Wizard talks to Pim about hair loss, the page about the Hamilton–Norwood scale has the same description and reference image as the one on Wikipedia.
• While Charlie and the Shmaloogles are storming the Wizard's castle, one Shmaloogle picks up his blown-off arm as an homage to the Omaha Beach sequence in Saving Private Ryan, where an American soldier does the same thing.
• When the Wizard gets captured by the Shmaloogles, he quotes Mel Gibson as his attempted last words before Pim steps in with a shouted "SMILE AND BLOW ME!", harkening to his infamous call to his ex-girlfriend.
  • Being confronted by Pim to share his Baldness Angst, the Wizard initially responds with "I'D RATHER DIE! KILL ME, KILL ME, KILL ME, KILL ME, KILL ME!", echoing a notorious rant from boogie2988 on the LolcowLive podcast.

"The Glep Ep":

• Among the brainrot Glep is watching when he gets confronted includes a pastiche of Subway Surfers gameplay, as well as a Punch-Out!! clone with Osama bin Laden as the opponent.
• The hole-in-the-wall tavern where Glep tells of his history is visually inspired by Paddy's Bar from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
• The patron who corrects the bartender's assumption resembles James Rolfe in his Angry Video Game Nerd getup.
• The supper room the cast has Christmas dinner in is laid out similarly to Leonardo da Vinci's famed The Last Supper, complete with Mr. Boss sitting in the same spot as Jesus.
• When Zoey informs Charlie about gravy being smeared across his mouth, he drunkenly replies, "Don't touch me. Don't ever touch me."
• The narrator at the end of the episode bears striking resemblance to the one Jimmy Durante plays in the Frosty the Snowman special. He even quotes the "Ha-cha-cha-cha!". Given the series' frequent references to old web animations, he may also reference the parody of Durante's character in Snowy the Frostman, complete with both having a comically strained impression of Durante's voice.
• At the end of The Stinger, the rotoscoped party bro yells out "Bye, Have a great night!" following the group prayer, referencing the Underdog Productions Vanity Plate from American Dad!.

"Friend-Bot (Version 12589218731809213528796879521)":

• Friend-Bot shows he has a "special golden chip" that allows him to compute really fast. This is a Call-Back to a story told on OneyPlays where Zach pretended that he and Tomar were newlyweds headed to their honeymoon in Bangkok to mess with a Best Buy employee. Zach pointed to a camera asking if it's "that camera with the 24-karat gold chip inside", to which the employee just blindly affirmed that to be true.
• A Freeze-Frame Bonus during the Good-Times Montage before it shows Charlie eating hot dogs shows that Friend-Bot is powered by TempleOS.

"Charlie's Uncle Dies and Doesn't Come Back":

• Natasha bares a striking resemblance to Roxanne from A Goofy Movie, albeit in human form. Her hair covering one of her eyes and her voluptuous figure also draws parallels to Jessica Rabbit, while her facial features are modeled after Tex Avery's Red.
• The drug dealer Zit yelling "Fuck you, don't tell me what to do, MOTHERFUCKER!!!" before throwing his own brain into the wall and killing himself might be a reference to a famous lyric from Rage Against the Machine's 1992 song "Killing in the Name".
• Allan and Natasha's dance is ripped straight out of La La Land. The angry little man who suddenly shows up demanding Allan and Natasha stop dancing is based on Doug Levinson, AKA Trumpet Guy, the subject of the viral video trumpet fight, a video frequently referenced by Zach and others on OneyPlays.
• One of the combatants in the 3D character bloodsport is a dead ringer for the titular character in the flash game Interactive Buddy.
• Natasha being unmasked by the Rottweiler to reveal herself to be Mr. Landlord is a reference to Scooby-Doo, with Mr. Landlord even saying a variation of the "You Meddling Kids" phrase. Said phrase being one to the "Damn Dirty Apes" line from Planet of the Apes (1968).
• Mr. Boss in The Stinger suddenly starts to bounce around the break room and laugh like Daffy Duck.