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| {{e|The Sting}} || The scene where Leela looks into Fry's coffin in space and sees a colourful tunnel of light (to the music [[wikipedia:Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)|''Also sprach Zarathustra'']]) is a parody of the scene in [[wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']], where [[wikipedia:David Bowman (fictional character)|David Bowman]] encounters the [[wikipedia:Monolith (Space Odyssey)|Monolith]] and it opens into the same Stargate sequence as in the end of 2001. | | {{e|The Sting}} || The scene where Leela looks into Fry's coffin in space and sees a colourful tunnel of light (to the music [[wikipedia:Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)|''Also sprach Zarathustra'']]) is a parody of the scene in [[wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']], where [[wikipedia:David Bowman (fictional character)|David Bowman]] encounters the [[wikipedia:Monolith (Space Odyssey)|Monolith]] and it opens into the same Stargate sequence as in the end of 2001. | ||
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Popular culture references
This article lists pop culture references in the show Futurama, that means references inside of the show to the other shows, in alphabetic order by name of the popular culture referring to it.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"A Bicyclops Built for Two" (2ACV09) | The playing of "Also sprach Zarathustra" when the Planet Express crew logs on to the Internet, and Fry's line "My God, it's full of ads!" are references to 2001: A Space Odyssey | (N/A) |
"Roswell that Ends Well" (3ACV19) | The Professor's eyes reflecting the passing colours in the vortex is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. | |
"Love and Rocket" (4ACV03) | Dewey, the autopilot of the Planet Express Ship, is a clear reference to HAL 9000. | |
"The Sting" (4ACV12) | The scene where Leela looks into Fry's coffin in space and sees a colourful tunnel of light (to the music Also sprach Zarathustra) is a parody of the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, where David Bowman encounters the Monolith and it opens into the same Stargate sequence as in the end of 2001. | [[File:Fryvortex.jpg|200px] |
Family Guy
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"Fear of a Bot Planet" (1ACV05) | The mirroring of Fry in Leela's helmet looks a lot like the characters on Family Guy and his comment "we look stupid" was a clear mocking of Family Guy. This picture looks similar to Lois Griffin. |
"Got Milk?"
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01) | In Space Pilot 3000, when Fry walks out of the lab, an ad on a taxi behind him reads "Got Protoplasm?", a reference to the series of "Got Milk?" advertising slogans. | (N/A) |
"Fear of a Bot Planet" (1ACV05) | In Fear of a Bot Planet, a sign on Chapek 9 reads: got milk? then you're a human and must be killed. |
Life in Hell
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01) | Fry passes a sign on the street that says "AKBAR." This is likely to be a reference to Akbar, a character in Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" comic strip, and it is the name of the Simpsons font. | |
"Xmas Story" (2ACV04) | Fry looks at for an animal at the pet store, and one of the pets is Bongo. | |
Bender's Big Score | The Neptunian Elves make Bongo dolls for the Battle for Earth, 3007. |
Married with Children
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"A Bicyclops Built for Two" (2ACV09) | The scene with Alcazar and Leela at the couch, and Leela's new outfit and hairstyle, and Alcazar wanting Leela to call him Al, and Alcazar's couch, is a reference to one of Katey Sagal's older series Married with Children. |
Red Dwarf
- See Red Dwarf.
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01) | The cryogenic chamber may be a reference to Red Dwarf, how Lister, the main character, is punished by being put in a cryogenic chamber for 15 years, except something goes wrong and everyone dies on the ship due to a fatal radiation leak. Lister is left for 3 million years until the ships computer decides that the radiation level is safe enough for him to be released. | (N/A) |
"Hell Is Other Robots" (1ACV09) | The robots (or mechanoids) are programmed to believe in silicon heaven because if it didn't exist "where would all the little calculators go?", an homage of Red Dwarf. | (N/A) |
The Simpsons
- See The Simpsons.
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01) | Blinky, the Three-Eyed Fish, from The Simpsons makes a brief appearance in an underwater section of tube-way Fry travels through. | |
The chef on the Panucci's Pizza box is very similar to the chef Luigi in The Simpsons. | ||
In The Simpsons two part episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (2F16 & 2F20), Smithers dreamt that Mr. Burns was in a race on the TV. The intro to the race was an information text saying "In Color". The same font and color like in "Space Pilot 3000". "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" aired approximately four years before "Space Pilot 3000" did. | ||
In an early storyboard of this episode, Fry is watching The Simpsons on TV. This does not appear in the final episode. |
The PJs
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"I Second that Emotion" (2ACV01) and "The Luck of the Fryrish" (3ACV04) |
As an act of reciprocation for Fry being on a milk carton, The PJ's manhole cover, like the one in The PJ's opening scene. |
The Twilight Zone
The in-show show The Scary Door is a parody of The Twilight Zone. Two of the episodes of The Scary Door are parodies of The Twilight Zone, like:
Episode | Reference | Image |
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The Last Man on Earth | This episode has a man being the last man on Earth, and slowly regrets it. In Time Enough at Last, the episode follows Bemis, the main character, through the end of the world, touching on social issues. | |
Episode 2 | This episode doesn't all parody a Twilight Zone episode, but when the man is on a plane and a gremlin on the wing, tearing out the wiring, and no one beieves him, just like in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet |
Star Trek
- See Star Trek.
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"The Series Has Landed" (1ACV02) | We see that Cap'n Crunch is promoted to Admiral. In Star Trek (most noticably TNG) whenever we take a look into the "future", the Captains are always Admirals. | |
"Love's Labours Lost in Space" (1ACV04) | M5438 is based off various Non-corporeal species in Star Trek. | |
"A Flight to Remember" (1ACV10) | Leela's bathing suit looks very like the one worn by Jadzia Dax in the Let He Who Is Without Sin... (DS9) | |
"Fry and the Slurm Factory" (1ACV13) | A variant of Three-dimensional chess, Three-dimensional Scrabble, is played by Leela and Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. |
Star Wars
- See Star Wars.
Episode | Reference | Image |
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"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01) | Fry passes a sign on the street that says "AKBAR." Admiral Akbar is a character in Star Wars. | |
"Raging Bender" (2ACV08) | Galaxy Wars is an obvious parody of Star Wars, most likely Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. | |
"That's Lobstertainment!" (3ACV08) | Some of the main characters are riding a tour bus in Hollywood with the name Star Tours (a travel agency in Star Wars). Under the bus logo, a disclaimer reads "Note: Bus Does Not Leave Earth." | |
"The Why of Fry" (4ACV10) | The Infosphere resembles the Death Star from Star Wars. | |
Bender's Game | The fight between The Great Wizard Greyfarn and Ignus is a reversed parody of the duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back |