Community:Fallout Easter Eggs

Numerous easter eggs and references to various books, movies and other games are one of the staples of the Fallout series.

Doctor Who
One of the random encounters in the desert involves the player finding a blue telephone box; as the player approaches it, a light on top begins to spin and it dematerializes. This is the TARDIS, a time-traveling ship from the UK TV series Doctor Who. There is an NPC named K-9, after a companion of The Doctor on Fallout 2 and an android named Harkness who can not die, named after a companion Captain Jack Harkness who can never die.

Dune
Mentats are used to raise Perception and Intelligence. In Frank Herbert's Dune, Mentats were considered living computers that used Spice to enhance their consciousness.

Mad Max
Mad Max, "The Road Warrior", was an influence on the entire Fallout series; most obviously his dog and the design for leather armor in Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout 3. Max in turn was influenced by Harlan Ellison, in his post-apocalyptic short stories A boy and his dog and Eggsucker, and his script for the graphic novel Vic and Blood. Ellison in turn was almost certainly not the progenitor, and in no way the only exponent, of a genre that the Fallout series proves is alive and kicking

The Simpsons
The intro movie shows a TV with the brand name Radiation King, which is the name of the TV Homer had as a young boy.

South Park
If Officer Kenny in the Hub dies in battle, a character will exclaim "They killed Kenny! Those Bastards!"