Blade Runner

 is a 1982 -fiction film based on "" author 's 1968  and starring American , of Star Wars fame, in the lead role, as. It is set in a n Los Angeles, in 2019. A, it was one of the first films to be released on D.V.D..

Futurama has referenced  at least once.

References to in Futurama

 * In "Crimes of the Hot", cries after seeing news footage of an n turtle that is migrating to  due to intense global warming laying on its back and beating its legs and goes there to save one &mdash; likely a reference to Blade Runner's "", which contains a question (heard during the first scene of the film) that says "the tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help". In addition,  who asks the question tells  of the test that tortoises are the "same thing" as turtles.
 * In "Rebirth", says that " was so upset" that  was dead that "she went all Blade Runner and built a duplicate" &mdash; a reference to Blade Runner's "s", described in the film's opening text as "[beings] virtually identical to [ humans]".

Trivia

 * Both "Crimes of the Hot" and "Rebirth" are a broadcast-season premiere.
 * In, Matt Groening says that he and David X. Cohen told Fox that "[they] didn't want the future to be dark and drippy like Blade Runner, but [they] didn't want it to be bland and boring like ".
 * "I Dated a Robot" begins with an episode of The Scary Door, where the first image on the screen is a turtle laying on its back and beating its legs. Later in the actual episode, Harrison Ford's is held er at a  that makes illegal copies of celebrities.
 * In "Lethal Inspection", Scruffy says that "the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long" &mdash; a quote from philosopher 's . This quote is used in Blade Runner, with the word "light" in the place of the word "candle".
 * In "Benderama", Bender compares an alien space giant to " on ". Mexican-American actor Edward James Olmos starred in Blade Runner as police officer, who has the last line in the film.