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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.


==1729==
{{see|1729}}
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| {{e|Love's Labours Lost in Space}} || The [[Nimbus]]' hull registry number is BP-1729.
|| [[File:Nimbus2.jpg|200px]]
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| {{e|Xmas Story}} || [[Bender]] receives a card identifying him as "Son #1729".
|| [[File:Bender's Xmas 1.jpg|200px]]
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| {{e|The Lesser of Two Evils}} || A more obscure reference this episode which it is revealed that Bender's serial number 952<sup>3</sup> + (&minus;951)<sup>3</sup> = 2716057, while that of fellow robot [[Flexo]] is 119<sup>3</sup> + 119<sup>3</sup> = 3370318. This datum is one of the pieces of evidence the episode uses to establish that Bender and Flexo are a pair of good-and-evil twins.
|| '''''(N/A)'''''
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| {{e|The Farnsworth Parabox}} || One of the [[Parallel Universes]] visited is Universe 1729, where everyone has bobble-heads. || [[File:Universe 1729.PNG|200px]]
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| {{f|Bender's Big Score}} || The taxi that Fry enters in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'' in 2012 is the number 87539319, which is the sum of two positive cubes in 3 ways. Also it is interesting that it is a taxicab number on a taxicab. || [[File:Taxi bbs.PNG|200px]]
|}
==2001: A Space Odyssey==
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| {{e|A Bicyclops Built for Two}} || The playing of "[[wikipedia:Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)|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)'''''
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| {{e|Roswell that Ends Well}} || The Professor's eyes reflecting the passing colours in the vortex is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. || [[File:Professorvortex.jpg|200px]]
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| {{e|Love and Rocket}} || Dewey, the autopilot of the [[Planet Express Ship]], is a clear reference to {{w|HAL 9000}}. || [[File:Dewey.jpg|200px]]
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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.
|| [[File:Fryvortex.jpg|200px]]
|}
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==DreamWorks==
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| {{e|Three Hundred Big Boys}} || In this episode, the Professor goes to [[GeneWorks, S.K.G.]] to purchase stem cells. || [[File:GeneWorksSKG.png|200px]]
|}
==Family Guy==
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| {{e|Fear of a Bot Planet}} || The mirroring of Fry in Leela's helmet looks a lot like the characters on {{w|Family Guy}} and his comment "we look stupid" was a clear mocking of Family Guy. This picture looks similar to {{w|Lois Griffin}}. || [[File:Fry as a Family Guy character.png|200px]]
|}
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=="Got Milk?"==
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| {{e|Space Pilot 3000}} || 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)'''''
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| {{e|Fear of a Bot Planet}} || In [[Fear of a Bot Planet]], a sign on Chapek 9 reads: ''got milk? then you're a human and must be killed.'' || [[File:Gotmilkkilled.jpg|200px]]
|}
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==Las Vegas==
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| rowspan="2" | {{f|Into the Wild Green Yonder}} || The sign in [[Mars Vegas]] reads: Welcome to Fabulous Mars Vegas, a parody of the {{w|Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign}}. || [[File:Mars Vegas.jpg|200px]]
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| The [[Wong Hotel & Casino]] is an allusion to {{w|The Wynn}} in Las Vegas. || [[File:Wongmarsvegas.jpg|200px]]
|}
==Life in Hell==
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| {{e|Space Pilot 3000}} || 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.|| [[File:AKBAR.jpg|200px]]
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| {{e|Xmas Story}} || Fry looks at for an animal at the pet store, and one of the pets is Bongo. || [[File:Bongo.jpg|200px]]
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| {{f|Bender's Big Score}} || The [[Neptunian]] Elves make Bongo dolls for the [[Battle for Earth, 3007]]. || [[File:BongoBBS.jpg|200px]]
|}
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==Married with Children==
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| {{e|A Bicyclops Built for Two}} || 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 {{w|Married with Children}}. || [[File:July2007calendar.JPG|200px]]
|}
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==Red Dwarf==
{{see|Red Dwarf}}
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| {{e|Space Pilot 3000}} || 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)'''''
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| {{e|Hell Is Other Robots}} || 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 {{w|Red Dwarf}}. || '''''(N/A)'''''
|}
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==The Simpsons==
{{see|The Simpsons}}
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| rowspan="4" |{{elink|1ACV01|Space Pilot 3000}} || {{w|List_of_animals_in_The_Simpsons#Blinky|Blinky}}, the Three-Eyed Fish, from ''The Simpsons'' makes a brief appearance in an underwater section of tube-way [[Fry]] travels through. || [[File:Blinkytube.jpg|200px]]
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| The chef on the Panucci's Pizza box is very similar to the chef {{w|List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Luigi_Risotto|Luigi}} in ''The Simpsons''. || [[File:Panuccipizzabox.jpg|200px]]
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| In ''The Simpsons'' two part episode {{w|Who Shot Mr. Burns?|"Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (2F16 & 2F20)}}, {{w|Waylon Smithers|Smithers}} dreamt that {{w|Montgomery Burns|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. || [[File:Title Caption Episode 0101.png|200px]]
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| In an early storyboard of this episode, Fry is watching ''The Simpsons'' on TV. This does not appear in the final episode. || [[File:Spacepilotstoryboard.jpg|200px]]
|}
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==The PJs==
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| {{e|I Second that Emotion}} and <br> {{e|The Luck of the Fryrish}} || 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. || [[File:PJmanhole.jpg|200px]]
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==The Twilight Zone==
The in-show show [[The Scary Door]] is a parody of {{w|The Twilight Zone}}.
Two of the episodes of The Scary Door are parodies of The Twilight Zone, like:
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| [[The Scary Door#The Last Man on Earth|The Last Man on Earth]] || This episode has a man being the last man on [[Earth]], and slowly regrets it. In {{w|Time Enough at Last}}, the episode follows Bemis, the main character, through the end of the world, touching on social issues. || [[File:The Scary Door Ep1.jpg|200px]]
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| [[The Scary Door#Episode 2|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 {{w|Nightmare at 20,000 Feet}} || [[File:Gremlin.jpg|200px]]
|}
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==Star Trek==
{{see|Star Trek}}
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| {{elink|1ACV02|The Series Has Landed}} || We see that {{w|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.  || [[File:Admiral Crunch.jpg|200px]]
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| {{elink|1ACV04|Love's Labours Lost in Space}} || [[M5438]] is based off various [[startrek:Non-corporeal species|Non-corporeal species]] in ''Star Trek''. || [[File:M5438.jpg|200px]]
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| {{elink|1ACV10|A Flight to Remember}} || [[Leela]]'s bathing suit looks very like the one worn by [[startrek:Jadzia Dax|Jadzia Dax]] in the [[startrek:Let He Who Is Without Sin... (episode)|Let He Who Is Without Sin... (DS9)]] || [[File:Leelabathingsuit.jpg|200px]]
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| {{elink|1ACV13|Fry and the Slurm Factory}} || A variant of [[startrek:Three-dimensional chess|Three-dimensional chess]], Three-dimensional {{w|Scrabble}}, is played by Leela and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]].  || [[File:3d scrabble.jpg|200px]]
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==Star Wars==
{{see|Star Wars}}
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| {{e|Space Pilot 3000}} || Fry passes a sign on the street that says "AKBAR." Admiral Akbar is a character in [[starwars:Star Wars|Star Wars]]. || [[File:AKBAR.jpg|200px]]
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| {{e|Raging Bender}} || [[Galaxy Wars]] is an obvious parody of ''[[Star Wars]]'', most likely ''[[starwars:Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]''. || [[File:Galaxy Wars.PNG|200px]]
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| {{e|That's Lobstertainment!}} || Some of the main characters are riding a tour bus in Hollywood with the name [[starwars:Star Tours (real-world)|Star Tours]] (a travel agency in Star Wars). Under the bus logo, a disclaimer reads "Note: Bus Does Not Leave Earth." || [[File:Star tours.PNG|200px]]
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| {{e|The Why of Fry}} || [[The Infosphere]] resembles the Death Star from ''Star Wars''.  || [[File:Infosphere.jpg|200px]]
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| {{f|Bender's Game}} || The fight between [[The Great Wizard Greyfarn]] and [[Waltazar, Larius and Ignus‎|Ignus]] is a reversed parody of the [[starwars:Duel on Cloud City|duel]] between Luke Skywalker and [[starwars:Darth Vader|Darth Vader]] in ''Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'' || [[File:Farnsworthignnerduel.jpg|200px]]
|}

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