Episode Parodies

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Has anyone mentioned "Leela's Teenage Mutant Hurdles" as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"?  Pretty obvious, I think.

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Where No Fan Has Gone Before - too many ST references/parodies to list here. Plus the title is a reference to the famous saying "Where no man has gone before"

Jurassic Bark - Jurassic Park

The Route of All Evil - Paper boy (computer game)

Futurestock - Wall Street?

Cop Department - Cops (tv show)

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Space Pilot 3000 and The Series Has Landed as well (I think) - Parodied Thunderbird 2 taking off.

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I dunno.. I think pointing out parodies in this show is like trying to point out all the parodies in an issue of Mad Magazine... like yeah, there's a bunch.

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I, Meatbag is a parody of I, Robot.

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i don't think there was one called i, meatbag. i roomate was what you were refering to, i think.

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Bender's part of AOI 2 was called "I, Meatbag"

I guess both names is a reference to "I, Robot".

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i noticed last night on "where the buggalow roam", when zapp threw the can on the ground and the native martian started crying, it was making fun of that commercial that used to come on a while back, where all that trash was on the beach and the indian stared crying.

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They did that a lot on The Simpsons, too.

Peace Officers: PC version of Police Officers.

"Raiders of the Lost Arcade" from AOI II - Famous Indiana Jones film

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The stock exchnage station in "Futurestock" is an exact copy of Space Station One in 2001, complete with the correct soundtrack.

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There are too many Trek parodies to mention. Anything to do with Brannigan/Kirk and of course the "noises" lifted from Trek, everything from the Alarm going off to the Tricorder noises to the doors opening and closing etc it's just too funny. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's" space station was blown up by the Professor at the beginning of "Leela's Teenage Mutant Hurdles" I noticed recently.

"Why must I be a Crustacean in Love" is one big parody of the Trek episode "Amok Time" where Kirk has to fight Spock for the right to his woman. They even lifted the same music straight out of the ep.

"Futurestock" is surely a parody of "Futureshock" which if I remember rightly was an old sci-fi weekly story magazine.

"Love and Rocket" is one huge parody of "2001: A Space Odyssey". It's parodied again in "The Sting" (Fry's coffin looks like the Monolith, and Leela looking into it and seeing the Stargate - "Oh my god, it's full of stars!" - Dave Bowman. They even played the same music.) Love & Rocket's "cyber" sequence reminds me of the 80's sci-fi flick "Tron". Fry's funeral with it's ejection of his coffin into space and the bagpipes playing is a parody of the Star Trek movie "The Wrath of Khan."

Too many Star Wars parodies to mention, I saw one the other day I can't remember the ep, but it's from "The Empire Strikes Back" where they've been hiding in an asteroid which is in fact the gullet of a creature, anyhow the Millenium Falcon flies out and the creature lunges out and almost takes a bite out of them. I'm sure that one of the  vehicles you see in Space Pilot 3000 is the Landspeeder from the 1st Star Wars movie. Hermes says: "Sweet 3 toed sloth of ice planet Hoth!" in one ep (From "The Empire Strikes Back." ) The Professor's walking machine in "Spanish Fry" is a parody of the Imperial Walker from "Empire Strikes Back", again.

The Eagle, a craft from the 70's TV series "Space: 1999" appears briefly on one ep.

The title "Obseletely Fabulous" is a parody of the British TV sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous", one of the few that isn't sci-fi related.
 
"The Luck of the Fryish" is a rather obvious parody of "The Luck of the Irish."

"Harold Zoid" is a parody of the silent movie actor "Harold Lloyd."

Someone mentioned that "Less than a Hero" is a wonderful parody of the old 60's TV series "Batman" together with the on-screen "Kerblam!" etc action word bubbles complete with all the camp goofy cornyness of that show which had me in hysterics but I don't think anyone has mentioned that "Cloberella" is a parody of the 60's sci-fi flick "Barberella" which starred Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim.

The Globetrotters' spaceship in "Time keep's on Slipping" is a parody of Klaatu's saucer from the classic 50's sci-fi B movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still", which has it's title parodied in the Futurama episode "The Day the Earth stood Stoopid" of course. Gort, the robot policeman from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" appears in an early prototype drawing by Matt Groening of URL, Futurama's robot policeman, in one of the DVD extras.

"Robbie the Robot" from the classic 50's sci-fi flick "Forbidden Planet" appears several times, once I noticed in "Why must I be a Crustacean in Love" (a drawing on a screen) and he appears in person in "Obsoletely Fabulous"

Thats all I can remember for now but I'm sure there are loads more that will come to me.

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I'll have to rent 2001: A Space Odyssey. They talked about it alot in "Love And Rocket". Is it any good, and how long is it?

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Well it's reckoned to be one of the all-time sci-fi classics. And I agree with that. True, people say it's a little slow and dull in places and they have a point, but as a visionary piece it's outstanding. The Stargate is awesome and enigmatic as is the vision of writer Arthur C. Clarke's. The book is better than the film in my opinion it kind of fills in the gaps that the film leaves out.

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Originally posted by Momobeast:
The werecar one, i take it thats a take on "American werewolf in London"

Thats all i can remember!!!!!

How exactly is that? Let me point out all of the events in AWIL.

1. In the beginning, one of them gets killed.
2. At the end, the guy (His name I forget) gets shot.
3. It's only for 2 full moons.
4. The original werewolf & the main character never re-meet.

So please tell me what you mean?

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Well, this isn't a title parody, but "Mars University" was spoofing Animal House, right?

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Yes. And a few other college movies, but mainly Animal House.

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Originally posted by Just Chris:
They did that a lot on The Simpsons, too.

And on the Critic. To paraphrase that show's star, Jay Prescott Sherman, My God, I am such a nerd.

Teral: Lauren Tom had a small role in "Wall Street". I found that out at the IMDB.

Also, David X. Cohen claims they steered away from Animal House refs in Mars U. I don't believe him. Plagarism, plagarism!

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More like sarcasm, John.

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Originally posted by Eyedol7513:
I'll have to rent 2001: A Space Odyssey. They talked about it alot in "Love And Rocket". Is it any good, and how long is it?

It's definately worth seeing. you'll remember all these things from Futurama thjat you didn't even realize were there before. plus, it's just a great classic sci-fi movie.

if you like movies that make complete sense, and don't leave you with unanswered questions at the end, this movie is NOT for you. it makes less sense than how Fry could have killed Enos in Roswell that Ends Well.

i don't remember how long it is, but it's at least a few hours. more than 2, i'm pretty sure. according to IMDB it's about 2:20 or 2:30. the user rating on imdb is 8.3/10.

i know i wuld reccomend it. even if it makes very little sense, you'll realize as your watching it "Hey! I saw a parody of that in _______!"

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But be prepared to snore during the monkey bit in the beginning. Zzz...(No offence to anyone who likes the monkey scene--I said I was sorry, Mum!) >_<

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Originally posted by Zeep:
 It's definately worth seeing. you'll remember all these things from Futurama thjat you didn't even realize were there before. plus, it's just a great classic sci-fi movie.

if you like movies that make complete sense, and don't leave you with unanswered questions at the end, this movie is NOT for you. it makes less sense than how Fry could have killed Enos in Roswell that Ends Well.

i don't remember how long it is, but it's at least a few hours. more than 2, i'm pretty sure. according to IMDB it's about 2:20 or 2:30. the user rating on imdb is 8.3/10.

i know i wuld reccomend it. even if it makes very little sense, you'll realize as your watching it "Hey! I saw a parody of that in _______!"

It makes sense you just have to use some brain.

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Originally posted by edeltraut:
There's also crustacean in love, which I'm pretty sure parodies an episode of star trek.  That's the only one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned yet...

does anyone know the score during the fight between zoidberg and fry?

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I don't know the score, but I know its the same music taken from the Star Trek episode "Amok Time." It's probably an original piece by whoever composed th Trek score.

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anyone noticed the zoidberg Fiddler on the Roof moments in "three hundred big boys"?

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Where the Buggalo Roam is a parody of the James Dean / Rock Hudson movie Giant.
The Wong's house is the same house from that movie.
Fry's blue jeans, white tee shirt, and red jacket are what James Dean wore in Rebel Without a Cause
I've upheld the James Dean tradition with my Pyrate Fry fan art piece.

There is an Odd Couple parody within I Roomate

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Originally posted by Zeep:
if you like movies that make complete sense, and don't leave you with unanswered questions at the end, this movie is NOT for you. it makes less sense than how Fry could have killed Enos in Roswell that Ends Well.

Ever wonder why I have such respect for Totalnerduk?

There's a more recent thread (read: nobody bump this one) where he summarizes his argument and acts less like an asshole, but his posts there are more about TWOF.

And if you want to make sense of 2001, try reading the novel version by Arthur C. Clarke. Just as good, and with better explanations.

Also, Mars U has a fair number of Good Will Hunting references, particularly the "How do you like them bananas?" scene.

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Somehow nobody has said anything about A Bicyclops Built for two having a bunch of Married With Children parodies in it. Hell, I've never even seen that show, and I know about that. Leela's hairdo and outfit, "Al", the Fox audience (Whoooooo!), I'm sure there's more.

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The devils hands are idle playthings. the saying Idle hands are the devils plaything/playpen.

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Has anyone noticed any Transformer parodies in any of the episodes?

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No.

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wasn't that worm in the route of all evil from some movie? and what about Al Gore's "I have ridden the mighty moon worm" line? can someone enlighten me?

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Route of All Evil worm: the giant space worm thingy from The Empire Strikes Back that almost eats the Millenium Falcon. Nurdbot will probably wander by and tell you the proper name for it.

"I have ridden the mighty moon worm!" - reference to Dune, by Frank Herbert, in which the main character (long story made very short) proves himself to the natives of a desert planet by riding one of the nasty-huge sandworms that roam the desert.

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doop is clearly ment to be a parody of the UN. someones probably said already though

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See Wikipedia for a fairly complete list of parodies / references -- at least for episode titles, anyway.  Also, add any that are missing!

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Parasites Lost reminds me a little of the story "Flowers for Algernon" It's not an exact paraody, but both the main characters (Charlie and Fry) become more intelligent in some unusal way, plus become smarter then the girl they love (deleted scene in PL) then lose it. Of course, in Flowers, he loses it gradually, and Fry loses it instantly, but I never said it was a parody. just pointing out the similarities.

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Originally posted by Nerd-o-Rama:
Ever wonder why I have such respect for Totalnerduk?

There's a more recent thread (read: nobody bump this one) where he summarizes his argument and acts less like an asshole, but his posts there are more about TWOF.

Is that facetious, or am I to understand Tnerd still lurks here, hitting random postersby with a helping of startling pride and vitriol interspaced with strange rationalities, and he's considered a good poster?

What's the link for that second thread?  I don't want to rebump the old one.  Dredging up an argument we had from two years ago might be just a little too juvenille, even for me.

(edited for typo)

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Some parts of "My Three Suns" appear to parody parts of "Pitch Black".  Although it could be coincidence, the rising of the 3rd sun immediately reminded me of it.

- nickersonm

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Welcome to PEEL nickersonm  Stay awhile, there is bound to be something in here that might interest you. Have a great stay in Nerd World.

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Originally posted by Chalic
Is that facetious, or am I to understand Tnerd still lurks here, hitting random postersby with a helping of startling pride and vitriol interspaced with strange rationalities, and he's considered a good poster?

This was one of the first threasds I found while lurking here, and I was positively ecstatic at reading such well-thought out BS.  In other words, TNUK is a bastard who earned his current banned status (which happened around a month ago, after he had been reinstated in July or August,) but for someone with a secondary school education, he's a freakin' genius.

Here's the newer thread.

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Um, can we get back on topic here? There was a matrix thng in "love and rocket" Also, the trip though Fry's body is like "the Fantastic voage."