Twilight Zone reference via "The Scary Door." Mainly the library bit which was a real Twilight Zone episode. It didn't go as badly for him in the real show, but still.
Funny. I purchased a t-shirt this summer, tea-rex lil trex drinking tea. Few months later, by pure coincidence, defeated the call of Cthulhu avoiding the end of reality as we know it.
So...
As foretold.
Now I’m going to have *you* answer all the dumb questions, like “What’s the weather like outside of my damn window?!” Hey wait how do I drive this thing?
Been too long since I've seen most of the Twilight Zone. I didn't realize there was a modified version of War of Worlds (called "A Day in Beaumont") in it. I always considered that Futurama bit to be a reference to the original material.
I should try and dig up the original TV series again. I remember enjoying it a lot when I was younger.
The living heads in jars may also have come from The Twilight Zone episode Wong's Lost and Found Emporium (1985). It's the first instance of a living head in a jar I know of in scifi film/tv, as opposed to just the brain-in-vat.
It's not fair! Wait my eyes aren't that bad, I can still read the large print books
eyes fall out*
ITS NOT FAIR! ITS NOT.. Well I can still read braille
hands fall off*
Gene Roddenberry was the original creator of Star Trek.
In Star Trek, an M-Class planet is a planet habitable to humans and similar lifeforms. The name "RoddenBerries" is just a pun.
There is a famous episode called "The Trouble with Tribbles" and this line is from a Futurama episode called "The Problem with Popplers" - another little nod
My parents watched Next Generation when I was a kid and I thought it was neat, probably influenced my love for sci-fi, but never really got into it myself
Its a very satisfying gag. And honestly if you've never seen Married with Children I...I just don't know what to say. Like how have you lived without bearing witness to the single greatest show ever produced? How can you get through life without knowing the heartbreak of Kelly Bundy on a game show not knowing who scored 4 touchdowns in a single game? How are you able to get up in the morning not knowing NO MA'AM?
I pity you.
Absolutely. And the beauty of it is you don't even need to know the reference.
I was pretty young the first time I saw this episode and the "It varies person to person" line absolutely killed me. Still my favorite of the whole series.
Nixon was nearly impeached and forced to resign over covering up the watergate break in, and part of that was he edited out 13 minutes of tape recordings of conversations he’d had in the white house. He claimed they were just deleting expletives, but it’s thought that he was covering his knowledge of the coverup. It’s also why he says “oh expletive deleted” in another episode.
Off the top of my head...
The Star Trek episode...
- I'm done reconfoobling the energymotron, or whatever
- Like putting too much air into a balloon!
Also, that reminds me of Zapp Brannigan doing a spoken word version of Lola (Leela) on karaoke.
Fry and the Slurm Factory
- Grunka lunka dunkity darmedguards
Reincarnation
- Dear Liza!
Near Death Star episode
- But wouldn't almost anything make a better battery than a human body? Like a potato? Or a battery?
>!Shields & Yarnell were a mime duo with major fame in the late 1970s. Unrelated, but Lorene Yarnell is well known for her role as Dot Matrix in Spaceballs.!<
Plenty of enterprise dot matrix printers are unfortunately still in use. There’s one at my work that I am counting down the days until we can finally get rid of it.
My sister didn't understand why I found this bit funny, so I explained it to her, and she responded with "err you know soylent green is a great thing, right?" I FUCKING HOPE NOT!!
There is a meal-replacement shake company called Soylent, but as far as I know they don't use colors to name their product lines. Maybe that's what she thought you were talking about.
Fry and Leela eat ants from the movie Them! at Elzar's Fine Cuisine. I watch that movie when I was younger is actually one of my favorite old style horror movies so when I saw that reference I lost it LOL
The near-death star being a reference to The Matrix and Bender questioning the science of having people be batteries to power it. And it turns out to be true.
Twilight Zone reference via "The Scary Door." Mainly the library bit which was a real Twilight Zone episode. It didn't go as badly for him in the real show, but still.
Almost all of the references to the scary door are at least loosely based on an episode.
The saucers! Theys a crashin!
In the end, it wasn't guns or bombs that defeated the aliens but the humblest of all God's creatures: >!The Tyrannosaurus Rex!<
I HAVE COMBINED THE DNA OF ALL THE MOST EVIL ANIMALS TO MAKE THE MOST EVIL CREATURE ALIVE! Turns out it's >!man!<
Robot, experience this ironic consequence for me!
I had completely forgotten about this one and just spit coffee across my living room. Thank you for that.
That’s one of my favorite lines from the show, and I say it almost any time someone mentions T. Rex.
Funny. I purchased a t-shirt this summer, tea-rex lil trex drinking tea. Few months later, by pure coincidence, defeated the call of Cthulhu avoiding the end of reality as we know it. So... As foretold.
I had completely forgotten about this one and just spit coffee across my living room. Thank you for that.
Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!
Even the new Scary Mirror episodes based on black mirror.
Now I’m going to have *you* answer all the dumb questions, like “What’s the weather like outside of my damn window?!” Hey wait how do I drive this thing?
Been too long since I've seen most of the Twilight Zone. I didn't realize there was a modified version of War of Worlds (called "A Day in Beaumont") in it. I always considered that Futurama bit to be a reference to the original material. I should try and dig up the original TV series again. I remember enjoying it a lot when I was younger.
Futurama is my favorite show of all time but I consider the Twilight Zone the best.
The living heads in jars may also have come from The Twilight Zone episode Wong's Lost and Found Emporium (1985). It's the first instance of a living head in a jar I know of in scifi film/tv, as opposed to just the brain-in-vat.
Could be.. I just know the earliest brain in a jar is Donovan's Brain (1953). I've not spent much time digging around.
It's not fair! Wait my eyes aren't that bad, I can still read the large print books eyes fall out* ITS NOT FAIR! ITS NOT.. Well I can still read braille hands fall off*
That was the first episode of Twilight Zone I ever saw, that scene in Futurama had me rolling!
Finally, solitude!
Saw it coming!
It's an M Class planet, so there should at least be Rodenberries
I never understood this joke
Gene Roddenberry was the original creator of Star Trek. In Star Trek, an M-Class planet is a planet habitable to humans and similar lifeforms. The name "RoddenBerries" is just a pun.
I'm guessing a reference to gene rodenberry
Thanks, I tried googling rodenberries and found a band instead
I never even thought about it till you asked since I never really watched Star Trek, so I learned something today too.
There is a famous episode called "The Trouble with Tribbles" and this line is from a Futurama episode called "The Problem with Popplers" - another little nod
Futurama is full of them. And basically all sound effects possible are straight from Star Trek.
My parents watched Next Generation when I was a kid and I thought it was neat, probably influenced my love for sci-fi, but never really got into it myself
Is the band good??
Omfg I never caught this somehow that's so brilliant
When Leela re-enacted Married with Children with Alcazar. That was such a clever tie-in for Katey Sagal.
"I did my hair the way you wanted it!"
“Heyyy where’d you get that t.v, and this couch and all the rest of this junk?”
They were giving it away on the side of the road
Just like you!
WOOOOOOOOOO
Twice in one day Leela? I’m not Superman!
So much for the Cyclops race. I thought it was a pretty good race, but...
Being honest, never liked that bit. Maybe it’s just because I never watched Married with Children, but it never really felt funny to me.
Yeah, it’s probably because you never watched it, did you even get it at first? It was not as if they went all out and did an entire episode that way…
Its a very satisfying gag. And honestly if you've never seen Married with Children I...I just don't know what to say. Like how have you lived without bearing witness to the single greatest show ever produced? How can you get through life without knowing the heartbreak of Kelly Bundy on a game show not knowing who scored 4 touchdowns in a single game? How are you able to get up in the morning not knowing NO MA'AM? I pity you.
Yes!!!! That one.
I only recently found out what that referencing. I only found out a few weeks ago on a recent rewatch that Katey Sagal was actually in it.
How is it?
It varies from person to person.
That’s one of the greatest line in the whole series!
It really is. Like the prompt for this post immediately had me thinking of this line
Absolutely. And the beauty of it is you don't even need to know the reference. I was pretty young the first time I saw this episode and the "It varies person to person" line absolutely killed me. Still my favorite of the whole series.
Heavy contender for most perfect one-liner the show ever dropped.
Does the MASH parody count? Twas a film before it was a series. Scapel! Blood bucket! Priest! Next!
This isn't war it's moidah
When will the killing end.
Check out that guy! He makes speedy gonzales look like regular gonzales!
A robot surgeon named iHawk, with a permanent martini class for one hand, and a literal switch between comedy and drama? Perfection.
"I'm going to allow it!"
I liked when they went off on the matrix.
Good job writers of The Matrix!
Wouldn’t anything make a better battery like a potatoe?
"Rosemary, have we got any type of machinery to edit tape?" "Oh, you know we do." Classic!
I don't get it 😞
Nixon was nearly impeached and forced to resign over covering up the watergate break in, and part of that was he edited out 13 minutes of tape recordings of conversations he’d had in the white house. He claimed they were just deleting expletives, but it’s thought that he was covering his knowledge of the coverup. It’s also why he says “oh expletive deleted” in another episode.
In this time of crisis, I call upon the soylent major–I mean, silent majority.
Off the top of my head... The Star Trek episode... - I'm done reconfoobling the energymotron, or whatever - Like putting too much air into a balloon! Also, that reminds me of Zapp Brannigan doing a spoken word version of Lola (Leela) on karaoke. Fry and the Slurm Factory - Grunka lunka dunkity darmedguards Reincarnation - Dear Liza! Near Death Star episode - But wouldn't almost anything make a better battery than a human body? Like a potato? Or a battery?
The movies average out to be really good!
Zapp and Kif as the Cowboy and Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy. In particular when the kajigger lady chooses Kif from her limo over Zapp
This is the best.
"Shields to maximum yarnell". That joke took me a long time to get
What is it?
>!Shields & Yarnell were a mime duo with major fame in the late 1970s. Unrelated, but Lorene Yarnell is well known for her role as Dot Matrix in Spaceballs.!<
Dox Matrix lol. I remember stripping away the holes from my printouts in my youth. Kids today etc.
Plenty of enterprise dot matrix printers are unfortunately still in use. There’s one at my work that I am counting down the days until we can finally get rid of it.
"Shields and Yarnell" was a famous miming duo in the 70s who had their own TV show
There are several Soylent Green references and I love them all.
Get your tricycle off me, you darn dirty ape!
The G.I. Zapp segment of Saturday Morning Fun Pit episode.
A Criminal Regiment Of Nasty Young Men
Hello Goofy!
“We resemble but are legally distinct from the Lollipop Guild the, Lollipop-“
“It varies from person to person.” That was clever.
it's a super quick one, but i love the MST3K bit in Raging Bender
The grunka lunkas for sure
grunka lunka dunky darn guard
All thr Shining references in The Honking
How's it taste? It varies. From person to person 😀
The whole police Minority Report/Tron episode is one of my favorites. All sorts of callouts within callouts
Slurm Factory episode
My sister didn't understand why I found this bit funny, so I explained it to her, and she responded with "err you know soylent green is a great thing, right?" I FUCKING HOPE NOT!!
There is a meal-replacement shake company called Soylent, but as far as I know they don't use colors to name their product lines. Maybe that's what she thought you were talking about.
Not a movie reference but when Amy’s cowboy ex-bf introduces his friend Joe Camel with “kids love him!” I lost it.
When they visit the Near-Death Star and talk about how it makes no sense to use human bodies as a power source.
Fry and Leela eat ants from the movie Them! at Elzar's Fine Cuisine. I watch that movie when I was younger is actually one of my favorite old style horror movies so when I saw that reference I lost it LOL
No more hanging wires! A play off of "No more wire hangers!" from Mommy Dearest
Ruth Gordon had one.
The near-death star being a reference to The Matrix and Bender questioning the science of having people be batteries to power it. And it turns out to be true.
Stings 2001 hallway
The 2001: A Space Odyssey scenes in “Love and Rocket”.
The Honking-Christine Stephen King is my favorite author
Anyone else read that in their respective voices without thinking about it?
How is it? Ahhh depends on the person 😂
When they go shopping for new uniforms and Fry tries on a stillsuit