Cultural mentions
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Futurama makes cultural mentions in both speech and text. A list of these follows.
Season 1
"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01)
"The Series Has Landed" (1ACV02)
- The Super Bowl (speech)
- Neil Armstrong (speech)
- Monsanto (speech)
- Skeeball (speech and text)
- Moon Patrol (text)
- Tilt-A-Whirl (speech)
- MTV (speech)
- "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" (speech)
"I, Roommate" (1ACV03)
- Bigfoot (speech)
"Love's Labours Lost in Space" (1ACV04)
- Noah's Ark (speech)
- The stardate (speech)
- Sun Tzu (speech)
- The Art of War (speech)
"Fear of a Bot Planet" (1ACV05)
- Woolworth's (speech)
"A Fishful of Dollars" (1ACV06)
- Visa (speech)
- American Express (speech)
- The Discover Card (speech)
- Ted Danson (speech)
- KFC (speech)
- Esther (speech)
- Baywatch (speech)
"My Three Suns" (1ACV07)
- Forbidden Zone (speech)
- Galaxy of Terror (speech)
- "To Serve Man" (text)
- Kleenex (speech)
"A Big Piece of Garbage" (1ACV08)
- America Online (speech)
- The Beanie Baby (speech)
- Spock (speech)
- Bart Simpson (speech)
- "We'll Meet Again" (speech)
"Hell Is Other Robots" (1ACV09)
- "Sabotage" (speech)
- Fender (speech and text)
- "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" (speech)
- Oprah (speech)
"A Flight to Remember" (1ACV10)
- The Titanic (speech and text)
- Pennzoil (text)
- Three's Company (speech)
- Mr Roper (speech)
"Mars University" (1ACV11)
- The Nobel Prize (speech)
- Socrates (text)
- Marilyn vos Savant (text)
- "Louie Louie" (speech)
- Walter Mondale (speech)
- Lite-Brite (speech)
- The Fox Network (text)
"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)
- WNYW (text)
- Fox (speech and text)
- Bob Marley (speech)
- McDonald's (speech)
- King Arthur (speech)
- Gandhi (speech)
- Uhura (speech)
- Captain Janeway (speech)
- Xena (speech)
- The Hubble Telescope (speech)
- Coke (speech)
- Leno (speech) [1]
"Fry and the Slurm Factory" (1ACV13)
- Yak-Face (Alien text)
- Cola (speech)
Season 2
"The Lesser of Two Evils" (2ACV06)
- Miller's Outpost (speech)
"War Is the H-Word" (2ACV17)
- Ice-9 (text)
Season 3
"Parasites Lost" (3ACV02)
- Yosemite Sam (speech)
Season 4
"A Taste of Freedom" (4ACV05)
- Red Lobster (speech)
Season 6
"Law and Oracle" (6ACV16)
- Speed Buggy (speech) [2]
- Billy Dee Williams (speech)
- Leno (speech) [1]
Season 7
"The Bots and the Bees" (7ACV01)
- Shrek (speech)
"The Thief of Baghead" (7ACV04)
- They Live (speech)
- The Twilight Zone (speech)
"Zapp Dingbat" (7ACV05)
"The Butterjunk Effect" (7ACV06)
- McGruff the Crime Dog (speech)
"The Six Million Dollar Mon" (7ACV07)
- Cylon (speech)
"Fun on a Bun" (7ACV08)
- Craigslist (speech)
"31st Century Fox" (7ACV11)
- Newmar (text)
- Squidward Tentacles (speech)
- Edward Scissorhands (speech)
"Viva Mars Vegas" (7ACV12)
- Carrot Top (text)
"Naturama" (7ACV13)
- Fish Police (speech)
"Forty Percent Leadbelly" (7ACV14)
- J.Crew (speech)
- Old Smokey (speech)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (speech)
- MacBook Air (speech)
- Apple, Inc. (text)
- 1.8.7 (speech and text)
"2-D Blacktop" (7ACV15)
- PayPal (speech)
- Tokyo Drift (speech)
- New Jack City (text)
- Flatland (speech and text)
- Shrek (speech)
- The Lords of Flatbush (speech)
- McDonald's (speech)
"T.: The Terrestrial" (7ACV16)
- NBC (speech)
- The Jeffersons (text)
- Hot in Cleveland (speech)
- Geordi La Forge (speech)
- Facebook (speech) [3]
- YouTube (speech)
- Olive Garden (speech) [4]
"Fry and Leela's Big Fling" (7ACV17)
- Batman (speech)
- Them! (text)
- LinkedIn (speech)
- "Just the Two of Us" (speech)
- Turangalîla Symphonie (text)
- Planet of the Apes (speech)
- "Walking on Sunshine" (speech)
- Marco Polo (speech)
"The Inhuman Torch" (7ACV18)
- "Camptown Races" (speech)
- New York Magazine (speech)
- iPad (speech)
- Gort (text) [5]
- Gilgamesh (speech)
"Saturday Morning Fun Pit" (7ACV19)
- "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (speech)
- Sea Hunt (text, 16:19)
- Disneyland (speech)
"Calculon 2.0" (7ACV20)
- Rosebud (speech)
- Universal Studios (text, 8:08)
- Fox (speech)
- HAL 9000 (text, 10:41)
- Dave (speech)
"Assie Come Home" (7ACV21)
- Cup-a-Soup (speech)
- Blue Man Group (speech)
- Ark of the Covenant (text)
- Golden Fleece (text)
- Holy Grail (text)
- Titanic (text)
- Bible (text)
- Rear Window (speech)
- Behind the Music (speech)
- Backdraft (speech)
"Leela and the Genestalk" (7ACV22)
- Centrum (text, 8:26)
"Game of Tones" (7ACV23)
- "Walking on Sunshine" (speech)
- "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (speech)
- Kaboom cereal (speech)
- Lehman Brothers (speech)
- Gorbachev (speech)
- Charlie Brown (speech)
- Captain Crunch (speech)
- Columbia House (speech)
- Wisconsin (speech)
- Stanford (speech)
- 2000 Rose Bowl (speech)
"Murder on the Planet Express" (7ACV24)
- Candy Land (speech)
- Facebook (speech)
- Princeton (speech)
"Stench and Stenchibility" (7ACV25)
- The Little Rascals (text)
- Gene Kelly (speech)
- Parks-and-rec department
- Comic-Con (speech) [6]
- Geneva Convention (speech)
- Burger King (text) [7]
- Nazis (speech)
- Wacky pack (speech)
"Meanwhile" (7ACV26)
- Yankee Stadium (text)
- Lincoln Bedroom (text)
- Stonehenge (text)
- Big Ben (text)
- Schloss Neuschwanstein (text)
- Arch of Triumph (text)
- Mona Lisa (text)
- Eiffel Tower (text)
Comics
"Night of the Automated Dead" (US#073)
- Robot Chicken (unknown)
- Pictionary (speech)
- Trivial Pursuit (speech)
- Kirkman (speech)
- George Romero (speech)
- James Garfield (speech)
- Garfield and Friends (speech) [8]
"Bendership Galactica" (US#075)
- Superman (speech)
Specials
"Simpsorama"
- Atomic Energy Commission (text)
- IBM (text)
- Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics (speech)
- Isaac Asimov (speech)
- Epcot Center (speech)
- Universal Studios (speech)
- The Super Bowl (speech and text)
- Butterfinger (speech)
- The Buffalo Bills (text)
Notes
- ^ a b Appears in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television".
- ^ Also referenced in "2-D Blacktop".
- ^ Previously mentioned in "Cold Warriors".
- ^ Previously mentioned in "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular".
- ^ Previously mentioned in "A Clockwork Origin".
- ^ Previously mentioned in "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences".
- ^ Previously mentioned in "Homeward Boned".
- ^ See also Garfield.