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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Parodied in the ending of "The Daria Hunter" with an arguing Jake and Helen crawling through an obstacle course in the paintball camp, and when the former compares his experience to his past time in military school, he growls out, "The horror...the ''horror..."''
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': "Dee Dee's Room" [[{{Bookends}} starts and ends with a traumatized]] [[ThousandYardStare and thousand-yard staring]] [[{{Bookends}} Dexter with pulsating veins over his face while crying out "The horror. THE HORROR."]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': "Dee Dee's Room" [[{{Bookends}} starts and ends with a traumatized]] [[ThousandYardStare and thousand-yard staring]] [[{{Bookends}} Dexter with pulsating veins over his face while crying out "The horror. THE HORROR."]]
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** One ''Itchy & Scratchy'' cartoon is named "Esophagus Now".
** In "Homer To The Max" when Homer bemoans having a television character that shares the same name as his go from debonair to stupid, Marge tries to console him by citing that he was meant to be the comic relief of the project, just like [[TakeThat Marlon Brando's character in "Apocalypse Now"]].
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'': When Peter's English teacher assigns ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', Peter gasps, ''"The horror! The horror!"'' The teacher says he'd think Peter was being clever, except Peter says the same thing about ''every'' reading assignment.
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* In ''The Killer Dame'', a parody of the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Killing Game", Janeway gives "The Horror!" line after discovering the only coffee available in the World War Two simulation is ersatz.
* In ''The Killer Dame'', a parody of the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Killing Game", Janeway gives "The Horror!" line after discovering the only coffee available in the World War Two simulation is ersatz.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles''. In [[Recap/TheXFilesS04E07MusingsOfACigaretteSmokingMan "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man"]], the young soldier who will one day become the CSM is briefed by military officers for the [[WhoShotJFK Kennedy assassination]], with almost identical dialogue to Willard being assigned to kill Kurtz.
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* ''Series/HermansHead''. When Herman falls in love, his Lust is all for it until his Intellect points out the implications: marriage, commitment, ''having sex with only one woman!'' Lust promptly goes into shock. "The horror!"
* ''Series/LetTheBloodRunFree''. Mad axe-murderer Bill Schwarzenhameneggenberger has a Vietnam War flashback in which his crewmates locked him up in a cupboard as a prank and forgot about him. Naturally he says, "The horror!"
* ''Series/LetTheBloodRunFree''. Mad axe-murderer Bill Schwarzenhameneggenberger has a Vietnam War flashback in which his crewmates locked him up in a cupboard as a prank and forgot about him. Naturally he says, "The horror!"
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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "Look at the Princess: I Do, I Think", John Crichton shouts that you should never get off the boat, right before jumping out the airlock without a space helmet to escape an exploding spacecraft.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' episode "Eekpocalypse Now" is a parody of the film, with Eek traveling up the [=McTropolis=] river to find Sharky, who has gotten incredibly fat and taken up with a tribe of stray dogs. Elmo fills in for Kilgore, attacking a mutant alligator spot so he and his men can barbecue.
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* ''Film/TroopBeverlyHills'': On cookie selling day, sergeant-esque troop leader Velma remarks "I love the smell of cookies in the morning!"
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* ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'': The intro to Cliff's third and final boss fight features him rising out of a tar pit similar to the famous shot of Willard doing the same.
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', you can set your support helicopter to blast "Ride of the Valkyries".
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', you can set your support helicopter to blast "Ride of the Valkyries".
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* In ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'', Diane refers to Gore as Colonel Kurtz.
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* ''VideoGame/AntimatterDimensions'': One ticker message says, "Ahhh I love the smell of particle annihilation in the morning."
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. Mongol [[NoSell shrugs off]] a face-full of KnockoutGas fired by Arsenal and sneers, "I like that. It smells like...victory!"
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* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': In the first season episode "An Echolls Family Christmas", when Veronica visits Logan in his room and sees him playing video games, she snarks, "I love the smell of testosterone in the morning."
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In the LiceEpisode "The Lousy Week", the lice outbreak is portrayed as an army of louse soldiers led by a general. At one point the general remarks that he "loves the smell of hair gel in the morning".
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'': The subplot in "In the Nam of the Father" is Duckman supposedly having ShellShockedVeteran-type flashbacks of his military service, though it turns out he was just a stateside unit's projectionist and is instead remembering movies relating to Vietnam. One of the supposed flashbacks involves him arriving at Kurt's Kill Your Own B.B.Q. and getting scared off by Kurtz's inane ramblings (which, incidentally, feature references to Brando's various other movies).
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'': The subplot in "In the Nam of the Father" is Duckman supposedly having ShellShockedVeteran-type flashbacks of his military service, though it turns out he was just a stateside unit's projectionist and is instead remembering movies relating to Vietnam. One of the supposed flashbacks involves him arriving at Kurt's Kill Your Own B.B.Q. and getting scared off by Kurtz's inane ramblings (which, incidentally, feature references to Brando's various other movies).movies).
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. Mongol [[NoSell shrugs off]] a face-full of KnockoutGas fired by Arsenal and sneers, "I like that. It smells like...victory!"
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* In ''Film/Dune2021'', The BaldOfEvil Baron Harkonnen exits a sauna rubbing his head the same way Colonel Kurtz does, both while monologuing. Later, he rises from a pool of oil akin to Willard at the film's climax.
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* ''Literature/{{Gate}}'': During the Battle of Italica, JSDF soldiers play Music/RideOfTheValkyries on a radio and imitate the "How come all you guys sit on your helmets?" "So we don't get our balls blown off." scene.
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* ''Literature/{{Gate}}'': During the Battle of Italica, JSDF soldiers play Music/RideOfTheValkyries on a radio and imitate the "How come all you guys sit on your helmets?" "So we don't get our balls blown off." scene. They grin and make it clear what they are referencing, while their commanding officer sighs at his subordinates being a bunch of geeks.
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* ''Literature/{{Gate}}'': During the Battle of Italica, JSDF soldiers play Music/RideOfTheValkyries on a radio and imitate the "How come all you guys sit on your helmets?" "So we don't get our balls blown off." scene.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Hearts of Twilight" parodies not only ''Apocalypse Now'' but the documentary ''Film/HeartsOfDarknessAFilmmakersApocalypse'' about its TroubledProduction. The Warners are sent to the depths of the Warner Bros. Studio lot to find Mr. Director, who has refused to finish his movie until he has decided on an ending. Mr. Director has become a spoof of Col. Kurtz, complete with a cult of assistants led by a caricature of Dennis Hopper's photographer character.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Hearts of Twilight" parodies not only ''Apocalypse Now'' but the documentary ''Film/HeartsOfDarknessAFilmmakersApocalypse'' about its TroubledProduction. The Warners are sent to the depths of the Warner Bros. Studio lot to find Mr. Director, who has refused to finish his movie until he has decided on an ending. Mr. Director has become a spoof of Col. Kurtz, complete with a cult of assistants led by a caricature of Dennis Hopper's photographer character.character.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'': "All the Duke's Men" briefly has Jay covering a ''musical'' version (entitled ''Apocalypse Wow!'') on his review show. The featured clip is of Kurtz doing a musical number, being accompanied by heads on pikes and the photographer.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'': The subplot in "In the Nam of the Father" is Duckman supposedly having ShellShockedVeteran-type flashbacks of his military service, though it turns out he was just a stateside unit's projectionist and is instead remembering movies relating to Vietnam. One of the supposed flashbacks involves him arriving at Kurt's Kill Your Own B.B.Q. and getting scared off by Kurtz's inane ramblings (which, incidentally, feature references to Brando's various other movies).
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'': The subplot in "In the Nam of the Father" is Duckman supposedly having ShellShockedVeteran-type flashbacks of his military service, though it turns out he was just a stateside unit's projectionist and is instead remembering movies relating to Vietnam. One of the supposed flashbacks involves him arriving at Kurt's Kill Your Own B.B.Q. and getting scared off by Kurtz's inane ramblings (which, incidentally, feature references to Brando's various other movies).
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** In the fourth season finale "Restless", Xander's dream partly involves him appearing in an ''Apocalypse Now''-like war film, with Snyder as Kurtz.
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* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'': As Topper (Creator/CharlieSheen) is riding on a boat towards his mission on one part of the river, we see Willard (Creator/MartinSheen) heading on a boat on the river heading in the opposite direction, and they're both musing in voice-over. As the boats cross paths, the two then say to each other, "[[SpeakingInUnison I loved you in]] ''Film/WallStreet''!"
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* [[https://twitter.com/pat_kc/status/1246233707280609280?lang=en According to Pat Casey co-writer]] of ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', [[spoiler:Robotnik shaving his head with a piece of metal]] is a reference to Creator/MarlonBrando's character.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has referenced the movie a couple of times:
** In the third season episode "Gingerbread", as police officers are removing Giles' books from the library, Snyder comes in and declares, "I love the sound of desperate librarian in the morning."
** In the fourth season finale "Restless", Xander's dream partly involves him appearing in an ''Apocalypse Now''-like war film, with Snyder as Kurtz.
* The scene in ''Film/GoldenEye'' where a helicopter is superimposed on James Bond opening his eyes below it was stated to be a reference to the film's opening.
* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'': As Topper (Creator/CharlieSheen) is riding on a boat towards his mission on one part of the river, we see Willard (Creator/MartinSheen) heading on a boat on the river heading in the opposite direction, and they're both musing in voice-over. As the boats cross paths, the two then say to each other, "[[SpeakingInUnison I loved you in]] ''Film/WallStreet''!"
* [[https://twitter.com/pat_kc/status/1246233707280609280?lang=en According to Pat Casey co-writer]] of ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', [[spoiler:Robotnik shaving his head with a piece of metal]] is a reference to Creator/MarlonBrando's character.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has referenced the movie a couple of times:
** In the third season episode "Gingerbread", as police officers are removing Giles' books from the library, Snyder comes in and declares, "I love the sound of desperate librarian in the morning."
** In the fourth season finale "Restless", Xander's dream partly involves him appearing in an ''Apocalypse Now''-like war film, with Snyder as Kurtz.
