The Sims/Shout-Out

• One of the jobs in the adventurer career track is "Multi-Regional Sim of Some Question."
• In final job in the Law career track your sim becomes the law.
• The Brick Roll floor tile from one of the later expansions.
• The Prisoner of Azkalamp.
• To literary classics. In the Sims 3, old (and often valuable) books such as The White Flag of Courage can be found while searching catacombs.
• The The Prototype X94 "Angsternaut" Robosuit. The description also has shades of Humongous Mecha in general (and possibly Gurenn Lagann in particular).
  • That's nothing. The Sims 2 has a trio of outfits that bear an uncanny resemblance to Evangelion plugsuits the main characters wear. That you can wear as well. Clearly Will Wright is a NGE fan.
    • The game files refer to those suits as motor racing suits - with oddly-placed plugs.
      • With this screenshot the Shout-Out may as well be confirmed.
• There's another outfit from the 2nd game that is basically Neo's outfit from The Matrix, complete with black trenchcoat.
• Surprised this one didn't come up: for toddlers in Sims 2, there's a Rip Co. Wobbly Wabbit Head toy
• Socially deprived Sims in Sims 2 interact with a large, imaginary, one-eyed rabbit...
  • In a similar vein, Knowlege Sims at the end of their rope will start holding conversations with a volleyball.
  • TV shows on the SBN (Sim Broadcasting Network) include: Not-Oprah, Pseudo-Survivor, Un-ER, and the Pleasant twins in some kind of generic teen drama.
  • The windmills that you can use to reduce your Sims' energy bill have a buy-mode description that suggests that you not try to use them to cool off, as "they do not work that way."
• The Time Machine has a few. One that stand out is that, when traveling to the future, you can get a message about your sim arriving amidst a big crowd, but that nobody noticed your sim because everybody was cheering about a shepherd that saved the galaxy from an ancient god-machine.
  • Also from the Time Machine, if you travel to the past, it may tell you about not catching dysentheria on the Oregon Trail.
• There is a wallpaper in The Sims 2: Pets for the Game Cube (and possibly other games) called "Jackson Stonewall"
• One of the paintings that can be purchased features a red-haired woman in a red dress on a blue background. The description states that it "illustrates the eternal struggle between red and blue"
• And of course, there is Thoggus.
• The "Immaculate Marcos" peep-toe high heels available at the Sims Store is a thinly-veiled reference to former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, who gained notoriety for her immense shoe collection.