List of popular music appearances
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This is a list of popular music appearing or mentioned on Futurama. Almost any mention counts. Here, they are listed in the order they appear first;
Artist | Track | Appearance | |
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Episode(s) | Description of appearance | ||
Traditional | She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain | The Series has Landed | Bender performs this song as the credits comes on, though with different lyrics. |
Bob Dylan | Blowin' in the Wind | The Series has Landed | Bender performs this song as he gets a magnet on his head. |
Bendin' in the Wind | Referenced to by the title of the episode. | ||
Pink Floyd | Dark Side of the Moon | The Series has Landed | Referenced to by Fry with "hey, cool! Dark side of the moon!" |
Theme | The Odd Couple Theme | I, Roommate | Played over the new apartment montage. |
Sir Mix-a-lot | Baby Got Back | A Fishful of Dollars | Fry shows off old classics in his 20th century house. |
Rolls Royes | Car Wash | My Three Suns | Played as Bender goes through the Robot Wash. |
Vera Lynn | We'll Meet Again | A Big Piece of Garbage | Plays over the credits. |
Charlie Daniels Band | The Devil went down to Georgia | Hell is Other Robots | The storyline is a reference to this song. |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II | Oh, What a Beautiful Morning | Hell is Other Robots | Bender sings this song when he walks into the Planet Express Building after he found religion in Robotology. |
Beastie Boys | Intergalatic | Hell is Other Robots | Played at the concert. |
Beastie Boys | Super Disco Breakin' | Hell is Other Robots | Played at the concert in the mushpit. |
Beastie Boys | Sabotage | Hell is Other Robots | Played at the concert. |
Lloyd Williams | Shout | Mars University | Played during the montage at the end. |
Chubby Checker | Let's do the Freddie | When Aliens Attack | Referenced to by Hermes with "ready, Freddie!" |
Maceo Pincard | Sweet Georgia Brown | I Second That Emotion | Bender whistles this while he does fancy basketball tricks with his head. |
Time Keeps on Slippin' | Played as the Globetrotters lands on Earth (a reference to the theme song of actual Harlem Globetrotters). Bender whistles this again at the end, although slowly. | ||
Bender's Big Score | An adaptation of the song is whistled by the Globetrotters while doing fancy tricks with a piece of chalk. | ||
Harry Nilsson | Everybody's Talkin' | Brannigan, Begin Again | Played over the Zapp and Kif has been fired and looking for money montage. |
Jefferson Airplane | White Rabbit | A Head in the Polls | Performed by Richard Nixon during his announcement to run for president. |
Traditional | O Tannenbaum | Xmas Story | An original German Christmas carol, Bender sings it with with alternated lyrics about the X-mas tree. |
J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie | Santa Claus is Coming to Town | Xmas Story | Song at the end of the episodes, though with different lyrics and melody. This parody is titled "Santa Claus is Gunning You Down". |
Traditional | Twelve Days of Christmas | Xmas Story | Song by the robots, with different lyrics, referring to what they stole. |
Frank Sinatra | You're Lonely and I'm Lonely | Xmas Story | Referenced to by Leela with "you're lonely and I'm lonely and together... we are lonely together". |
Frank Sinatra | New York, New York theme | The Lesser of two Evils | Played at the Past-o-Rama concert. |
Richard Strauss | Also Sprach Zarathustra | A Bicyclops Built for Two | Played as the crew enter the Internet in a similar fashion as in 2001. |
Godfellas | Played as Bender floats around in space. | ||
The Sting | Played as Leela opens the coffin in a similar fashion to the monolith from 2001. | ||
Donovan | Atlantis | The Deep South | Song as a tourist information stand, with different lyrics, to be about Atlanta, instead of Atlantis. Also played at the end of the episode. |
Hal David and Burt Bacharach | Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head | Mother's Day | Played during the memory of the relationship between Mom and Farnsworth. |
Harry Belafonte | The Banana Boat Song (Day-o) | Mother's Day | Referenced to by Farnsworth with "one foot tall, eight feet, fifteen feet." |
The Cyber House Rules | Referenced to by Hermes with "daylight come," and "tally me day banana." | ||
Traditional | The Sailor's Hornpipe | The Problem with Popplers | Song as the theme song for Popplers by Fry and Bender, with different lyrics. |
Hanson | MMMBop | Anthology of Interest I | Played while Fry and giant Bender plays in the park, the song ends promptly as the concert is destroyed. |
Black Sabbath | Iron Man | Anthology of Interest I | Played as the giant Bender flies toward Earth. |
Theme | The M*A*S*H Theme | War Is the H-Word | Played as we see the tents. |
The Animals | We've gotta get out of this place | War Is the H-Word | Referenced to by Nixon with "we gotta get out of this planet." |
Katrina & The Waves | Walking on Sunshine | War Is the H-Word | Fry sings it while scrubbing Kif's back during his shower. |
30% Iron Chef | Fry sings it in the shower while Dr. Zoidberg exchanges his t-shirt. | ||
Jurassic Bark | Fry sings it while riding his bike with Seymour. | ||
The Sting | It is played on bagpipes by Scruffy at his funeral, to which Amy comments, "he is walking on sunshine now". | ||
The Kinks | Lola | Amazon Women in the Mood | Performed by Zapp at the karaoke, though with the character Lola is replaced by Leela |
Lipps Inc. | Funkytown | Amazon Women in the Mood | Performed by Morbo at the karaoke. |
Bonnie Tyler | Total Eclipse of the Heart | Amazon Women in the Mood | Performed by Kif at the karaoke. |
C.W. McCall | Convoy | Parasites Lost | Played as the episode starts, and they enter a truck stop. |
Wang Chung | Everybody Have Fun Tonight | The Tale of Two Santas | References to by Leela with "this wangs chung!" |
Simple Minds | Don't You (Forget About Me) | Luck of the Fryrish | Played at the end of the episode. |
Righteous Brothers | Unchained Melody | Bendless Love | Played instrumentally while Bender helps Anglelyne shape a girder into a heart, which is a parody of the pottery scene from Ghost, where this song is a theme. |
American Breed | Bend Me Shape Me | Bendless Love | Played during the love montage. |
Roy Orbison | Oh, Pretty Woman | The Cyber House Rules | Played as Leela gets a second eye montage. |
Brewster Higley and Daniel Kelley | Home on the Range (Kansas State Anthem) | Where the Buggalo Roams | Referenced to by the title of the episode. |
Jay Livingston | Ponderosa/Bonanza theme | Where the Buggalo Roams | Song by Bender during the cattle ride. |
The Miracles | Love Machine | I Dated a Robot | Song played during montage of Fry's dates with Lucy Liu-bot. |
Cypress Hill | Insane in the Brain | Insane in the Mainframe | Referenced to by the title of the episode. |
The Why of the Fry | Referenced to by one of the brains with "are you insane in the membrane?" | ||
Traditional | Frog Went a-Courtin' | Bendin' in the Wind | Bender sings his own version because he doesn't remember the words. |
Traditional | The Blue-Tailed Fly | Bendin' in the Wind | Bender sings both the original version and his own version of the refrain. |
Simon & Garfunkel | Scarborough Fair | Bendin' in the Wind | This is performed at Bend-Aid by robot Cylon and Art Garfunkel's descendant. |
Beck | Sexx Laws | Bendin' in the Wind | Performed by Beck and Bender. |
Beck | Where It's At | Bendin' in the Wind | Performed by Beck and Bender. |
Beck | Devil's Haircut | Bendin' in the Wind | Mentioned by Beck. |
The Coasters | Along Came Jones | I Dated a Robot | Referenced to by Bender with "and along came Bender." |
Frederick Weatherly | Danny Boy | A Pharaoh to Remember | Performed by Dr. Zoidberg at the surprise funeral of Bender. |
Bangles | Walk Like an Egyptian | A Pharaoh to Remember | Played as Bender enter as the new Pharaoh. |
Semisonic | Closing Time | A Pharaoh to Remember | Referenced to by the Pharaoh's advisor with "you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." |
Gloria Estefan/Miami Sound Machine | Conga | Anthology of Interest II | Played twice during the Bender becomes a human story. |
Rush | Tom Sawyer | Anthology of Interest II | Played during the Space Invaders scene. |
Lonzo & Oscar | I'm my own Grandpa | Roswell that Ends Well | Referenced to by Farnsworth with "Mr I'm-my-own-grandpa". |
Johann Strauss II | An der schönen blauen Donau | Godfellas | Played as Bender floats around in space. |
Chopin | Polonaise C-sharp Minor | Godfellas | The tune Bender attempts to perform on his piano. |
Men Without Hats | The Safety Dance | Future Stock | Performed by That Guy two times during this episode. |
Joe Esposito | You're The Best | 30% Iron Chef | Played over the Bender training to become a chef montage. |
Rigoletto | La donna e mobile | 30% Iron Chef | Performed by the shrimp in Elzar's dish. |
Cream | Sunshine of your Love | 30% Iron Chef | Played as the episode ends. |
Pizzicato Five | Baby Love Child | Leela's Homeworld | Played during montage showing that Leela's parents were actually with her her whole life. |
Harry Dacre | Daisy Bell | Love and Rocket | Performed by Bender to the Planet Express Ship. |
Spin Doctors | Two Princes | Love and Rocket | The song that plays when Bender turn on the radio after Farnsworth have installed the new software. |
Black Flag | TV Party Tonight | Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television | Played during the Bender at All My Curcuits montage, but also performed by the Planet Express Crew including Dwight and Cubert over the credits. |
Van McCoy | The Hustle | Jurassic Bark | Performed as Fry's people's native dance. |
Connie Francis | I Will Wait For You | Jurassic Bark | Played over the montage, where Seymour waits for Fry. |
KC and the Sunshine Band | Get Down Tonight | Crimes of the Hot | Played over the montage where the robots travel to the Galapagos Islands. |
Buster Poindexter and His Banshees of Blue | Hot Hot Hot | Crimes of the Hot | Played at the party at the end of the episode. |
Eminem | The Real Slim Shady | Where No Fan Has Gone Before | Performed by William Shatner, though spoken. |
Bobby McFerrin | Don't Worry, Be Happy | The Sting | Performed by the entire Planet Express Crew, except Leela, Fry and Scruffy. With slightly different lyrics. |
The Marx Brothers | Hail Freedonia! | Bend Her | Bender's national anthem for "Robonia" is similar to the national anthem for the fictional country of Freedonia in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup. |
Tom Jones | She's a Lady | Bend Her | Played when Bender gets together with Calculon montage. |
Kenny Loggins | I'm Alright | Obsoletely Fabulous | Bender brings a lot of CDs to the island, and he plays this song and dances to it. |
Whitney Houston | I Will Always Love You | Spanish Fry | Song by Leela to Lrrr and Ndnd (though originally by Dolly Parton, Leela attempts to sing it like Whitney Houston). |
Beethoven | Für Elise | The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings | Played by one of the children at the holophonor school, played later by Fry as well. |
Maurice Ravel | Boléro | The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings | Played by Fry at one of his concerts. |
Steam | Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye | Bender's Big Score | The nudist alien scammers sing a parody of this song replacing "Goodbye" with "We took your stuff!" while all Earthicans are evacuating Earth -- I mean, New Scamadonia! |
Scott Walker (cover by The Jigsaw Seen) | 30 Century Man | Bender's Big Score | A snippet is played when Fry realizes he is Lars back in 2012. |
Carmen Miranda & Mando Da Lua | I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) | The Beast with a Billion Backs | Played over the montage with Yivo and the universe going out on their date. |
Kool & the Gang | Jungle Boogie | The Beast with a Billion Backs | A snippet is played during the segment of the universal date montage where Yivo and the universe are dancing. |
The Supremes | Stop! In the Name of Love | The Beast with a Billion Backs | Reference (almost song) by Wernstrom as he tries to catch Amy and Leela from escaping the tentacle. |
Robert Crawford | The U.S. Air Force Theme | Into the Wild Green Yonder | Lyric referred to in the title. |