References to Sega/Film and television

From Sega Retro

To do

  • Homestar Runner: Kick the Ball - When choosing who will go first to select their team-mates a coin toss is held. Homestar (when asked to call it) yells "Sonic! I mean Tails!"[1]
  • HiHi Puffy Ami Yumi: Camping Caper - One of the main characters travels through a Sonic-like loop.[1]
  • Russel Howard's Good News - A bumper featuring a toy drum-playing monkey, whose drum contains a unlicensed picture of Tails.[1]
  • Bernard's Watch - Sonic graffiti on the wall of a video game shop.[2]
  • Weird Dogs - The host mentions strange animals that people keep (a pig, a pony, a donkey etc) but then gets to 'a hedgehog'. They then go on to say that people owning hedgehogs used to be pretty rare, until Sonic came along, and show a picture of Sonic Advance stock art to remind the audience.[2]
  • Arcade Gamer Fubuki - The Preview menu of the DVD release features Sonic Adventure artwork and a Sega logo-themed font.[2]
  • Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Ep. 38 - A Sonic the Hedgehog 2 poster is featured on a character's wall.[2]
  • Bugs Bunny: Double Trouble: Sonic's shoes appear as a power-up. Needs verification but looks legit.[2]
  • Ensure all Daytona-series Sonic cameos are listed.
  • Sports Talk Baseball - Sonic appears on the bigscreen/scoreboard thing.[2]
  • Encyclopedia Horrifica (book) - The book uses a screenshot of Silver the Hedgehog using telekinesis to illustrate the concept of telekinesis.[2]
  • Incredible Inventions (book) - Significantly features Sonic the Hedgehog in its chapter on video game history.[2]
  • Video Games (book) - Features a section on Sonic the Hedgehog.[2]
  • Some Scott Pilgrim movie/game art which parodies the Sonic 1 title screen emblem logo. Also ensure all Scott Pilgrim stuff is listed: "In the manga Scott and Kim's band is called "Sonic and Knuckles" In a chapter Scott asks Stephean stills if he knows any cheats for Sonic 3."[3]
  • Ellen DeGeneres Show - Someone in a Sonic the Hedgehog costume?[3]
  • Awesomeness TV - A kid is shown holding a broken Super Sonic figurine.[3]
  • Apparently two robot characters in Sonic X are reused designs from an old anime? "TMS Hasshin"?[4]
  • "Sonic the Hedgehog and The Beatles: A Comparative Analysis of the Games and the Music" - actually needs an independent page. Also shocked this exists.[4]
  • A Mameshiba comic features Green Hill Zone.[4]
  • Gamera: Guardian of the Universe - Sonic and Tails plushies appear in a meeting scene.[5]
  • Sonic is used to advertise the box of the AMD EyeFinity A-Series chip. Don't know if this should be listed but feels probable, probably aren't too many of these.[5]
  • UK Plumbing Commercial - A Game Gear and related Sonic game are featured at the beginning of the advert.[5]
  • In Dreambound's music video for the song X, the keyboard player has a S&K symbol shirt on.[5]
  • The anime High Score Girl features a Sonic the Fighters cabinet in the background of one scene.[6]
  • An episode of Popee Performer features him playing a Sega UFO Catcher.[6]
  • American Dad, Season 16, Episode 1 "Who Smarted" - The famous Sonic ice cream pop appears in one scene, complete with trademark sagging gumball eyes. I would be really surprised if that popsicle thing didn't already have its own page. If not, make one. This scene is a great example of "the first thing people think of when they think shitty melting ice-cream pops is that Sonic one."[6]
  • Expand Monster Hunter entry with this info.[6]
  • Fall Guys also got a Knuckles outfit.[6]
  • Should Gate to the Mind's Eye be mentioned? Probably maybe but iunno.
  • Expand NiGHTS entry with "Sonic mode" and Eggman boss, if they're not already listed.
  • We don't cover news reports where a Sega-something is in the background right? Make sure we don't, unplanned live TV appearances wouldn't make sense to list.
  • https://productplacementblog.com
  • https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ReferencedBy/SonicTheHedgehog
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamcast/comments/ft5whd/the_dreamcast_in_pop_culture/
  • http://segabits.com/blog/2012/07/12/mordecai-and-rigby-bring-their-master-system-to-comic-con/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/SegaSaturn/comments/izwr3q/saturn_caught_in_movie_richard_jewel_takes_place/
  • https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast
  • https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sega-references-in-pop-culture.22988/
  • https://www.neogaf.com/threads/sega-genesis-megadrive-appreciation-thread-alien-storm-golden-axe.509554/page-131
  • https://www.destructoid.com/--534711.phtml
  • https://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4261
  • This anecdote belongs somewhere. Maybe not here, but somewhere.
  • Ensure all Reference article entries that feature both a Sonic and a non-Sonic reference have all refs listed on both their Sega and Sonic Retro entries.
  • OK KO has a ton more references for the Sonic page.
  • The Drew Carey Show's image needs to be replaced with one showing the Saturn console they had on top of the TV.
  • So the reason Wreck-It Ralph's section doesn't mention the Hang-On inspired full-body taikan stuff is because that's such a popular shape for that type of hardware that it needs mentioning elsewhere. Which brings me to: This article needs brief summaries on "generic references" to very popular Sega things... i.e. the Hang-On style of sit-down motorcycle cabinet was so popular and widespread that pretty much anytime you see a fictional arcade with "sit-down motorcycle games", they're almost always a Hang-On "reference" (at least through inspiration.) The Music references article will need the same thing. So short of listing every piece of media featuring Hang-On-like sit-down motorcycle cabs, we can keep it to a brief section with a few examples and maybe an inline image.

CartridgeCulture (talk) 21:55, 23 March 2022 (EDT)

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CartridgeCulture (talk) 00:09, 1 April 2022 (EDT)

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://www.sonicgear.org/Cameos/CameosSonic.html
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 http://www.sonicgear.org/Cameos/CameosSonic2.html
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 http://www.sonicgear.org/Cameos/CameosSonic3.html
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 http://www.sonicgear.org/Cameos/CameosSonic4.html
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 http://www.sonicgear.org/Cameos/CameosSonic5.html
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 http://www.sonicgear.org/Cameos/CameosSonic6.html
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