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Number 5: Fifty Shades of Grey Matter

The entire 11th episode of the 2nd season was a play on the popular book “Fifty Shades of Grey” written by EL James. Quick spoiler alert, you don’t need to read the book, it’s awful and the smut isn’t even that good. Anyway, Liv eats the brain of a librarian who just wrote a novel about the adventures of a “sexy flight stewardess”. As a result, our heroine is plagued with horny thoughts, provocative images, and the consequences of her actions while under the influence of the deceased’s noggin.

Although I am certainly not a fan of the book this pop culture reference originated from, we do get Liv hilariously flirting and ogling over the hunky men of iZombie and this episode does result in not only the main character sleeping with the hot zombie Drake, but we also got a long awaited smut scene from Blaine and Peyton.

I mean, c’mon

Number 4: Here’s Major!

In season 2’s finale “Salivation Army”, Clive, Liv, and Major have to bust into Max Rager to save all the frozen zombies the energy company kidnapped. It was an action packed episode where iZombie did a sweep and got rid of several season two prominent characters.

In this episode, there’s a scene where antagonist Vaughn Du Clark has retreated into an elevator in hopes to escape all the hungry zombies (including his daughter) who are after him. Major catches up, pries the doors open, and proclaims:

For any of our younger viewers pondering “why did Major just scream his own name? That was creepy”, the line “here’s Major!” is a nod to a famous Jack Nicholson movie in which he yells “here’s Johnny!”. The style of the deliverance of this line was made famous by Nicholson’s character in the movie “The Shining”, which actually was also a mock imitation of TV personality Ed McMahon’s intro for the Tonight Show.

Number 3: Friends!

Hey, 90s kids, remember the popular TV show “Friends?” iZombie totally referenced it in E16S2 “Pour Some Sugar, Zombie” (which, is also a reference to the rock song Pour Some Sugar on Me). In this episode, Peyton has finally moved back in with Liv after the discovery (by Liv) that her roommate Gilda is indeed Rita. While our favorite zombie doesn’t know the full extent to Rita’s evil intentions for living with her, Liv does know that her redhead roomie slept with Major knowing full well the two used to date. So, that bitch had to go.

After moving back, Liv, Peyton, Major, and Ravi have a laugh about the possibility of the boys moving across the hallway so they can be “the friends from Friends”. There’s a small comparison to who Liv and Peyton would be from the show and we as the audience remember a simpler time before iPhones ruled the world.

Number 2: Every Game of Thrones Reference in “Hurt Locker”

Seriously, there are a ton. Who knew Clive was such a fan! In this episode, we find out our favorite detective had a crazy ex-lover who stalked him (and other men). Liv and Ravi have to work on clearing Clive’s name and along the way, find out some personal things about their friend from his current lover Dale Bazzio.

For instance, Clive likes to cook. Cajun, specifically. He’s a beautiful piano player. Oh, and a huge Game of Thrones fan. Which, Ravi does not hesitate to mention whenever he can, because why wouldn’t you want to talk about such an intense show to anyone and everyone?

What made these references so much fun to me, was seeing Clive out of character. We’re used to seeing the detective cool, calm, and collective. But, when it comes to the day to day life of George RR Martin, Clive seems to have strong opinions:

  Number 1: Veronica Mars

This list wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t mention iZombie’s program creator Rob Thomas’ previous cult classic “Veronica Mars”. While there have been little drops here and there, with Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) appearing on a voice recording in “Fifty Shades of Grey Matter”, I wouldn’t be a good Blaine fan if I didn’t give him his own bullet point.

So, in “Method Head” both Major and Blaine are informed that they will soon regress back to zombie form, after Ravi finds the previously cured rat subject has become hungry for brains again. And as a result, we are left with this gem:

  So, now that I have annoyed you all with my liberal use of gif sets, let me leave you with two references of iZombie from other shows! If you like this article, let me know. My Twitter handle is @TC_Stark and always tag our Supreme Overlord iZombieSupportGroup!

iZombie’s Blaine also appears in Once Upon a Time as Dr. Whales. The hair reference is a nod to his iZombie character

This is from CW’s The Flash (where iZombie’s own Drake is in)