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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

Dewey, the autopilot

• In Roswell that Ends Well, the Professor's eyes reflecting the passing colours in the vortex is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• In Love and Rocket, Dewey, the autopilot of the Planet Express Ship, is a clear reference to HAL 9000.
• In The Sting, 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.

Family Guy

Fry as Lois Griffin

• In Fear of a Bot Planet, 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.

"Got Milk?"

got milk? Then you're a human and must be killed

• 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.
• 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

• In 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.

Red Dwarf

See Red Dwarf.

• In 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.
• In 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 Red Dwarf.

The Simpsons

Blinky

See The Simpsons.

• 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 an early storyboard of this episode, Fry is watching The Simpsons on TV. This does not appear in the final episode.
• The badge at second from the bottom of Bender's sash has a profile of Homer Simpson.

The PJs

The PJ's

• 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, is shown in the episodes "I Second that Emotion" and "The Luck of the Fryrish".

The Twilight Zone

"It's not fair...It's not fair!"

• 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:
  • The Last Man on Earth — Time Enough at Last
  • Episode 2 — Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Star Trek

See Star Trek.

Jadzia Dax's baithing suit

• Captain's log are still used, complete with star date.
• Brannigan's Law is the equivalent to Starfleet's Prime Directive.
• At the The Hip Joint, Fry meets a woman from the 21st century who asks if he remembers "when those cyborgs enslaved Humanity?" This is a reference to Star Trek: First Contact (Film), when the Borg attempt to assimilate Earth.
• Fry finds a "Mr Spock Collector's Plate" with a picture of Spock on it.
• Bender screaming at the universe is like a scene from Star Trek Generations (Film).
• Leela's bathing suit looks very like the one worn by Jadzia Dax in the Let He Who Is Without Sin... (DS9)

Star Wars

See Star Wars.

Galaxy Wars

• In Space Pilot 3000, Fry passes a sign on the street that says "AKBAR." Admiral Akbar is a character in Star Wars.
• Galaxy Wars is an obvious parody of Star Wars, most likely Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
• A guy on a jet bike is wearing a helmet like Leia wore in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi on the Speeder bike.
• When the policemen are beating Fry with their lightsaber clubs Leela says: "There is no need to use force" as a reference to The Force in Star Wars.
• The crew escaping as Vergon 6 self-destructs is similar to the first Death Star's destruction in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
• The hologram of Vergon 6 looks like the hologram for Endor in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Both are green, translucent, and orbit slowly.
• Hermes shows up in the form of a hologram, much like Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.