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10	* In Creator/JohnCarpenter's ''Film/DarkStar'' the surviving astronaut surfs on a spaceship fragment while falling towards the surface of a nearby planet, offering a RecycledInSpace version of Major Kong's death. Speaking of...
11	* Creator/SteveBuscemi's character from ''Film/Armageddon1998'' climbs on and jokingly rides a nuclear bomb, although he explains that he was actually referencing Radio/TheLoneRanger.
12	* The sequel of ''Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine'' spoofs ''Dr. Strangelove'' with the RidingTheBomb scene.
13	* Dr. Scott from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' is a CaptainErsatz of Dr. Strangelove. Due to the actor not wanting to return, the sequel ''Film/ShockTreatment'' had a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Strangelove expy called Bert Schnick.
14	* The titles for Music/TalkingHeads' ConcertFilm ''Film/StopMakingSense'' have titles done by Pablo Ferro, who designed the titles for this film, in the same handwritten manner.
15	* The war rooms in the AlternateHistory superhero films ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' and ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' are almost identical to the one from ''Dr. Strangelove''.
16	* In ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'', General Gore is an unhinged GeneralRipper and the last chapter is titled ''Synthesis or: How I Learned to Swallow the Elephant''.
17	* Major Kong riding the bomb is recreated in ''Film/TheCongress'', with the animated replica of Creator/RobinWright's character being put in his place.
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20	* ''Series/BetweenTheLines1992''. Mo is infiltrating an AnimalWrongsGroup and talks of how her service in the military gave her the skills needed to construct firebombs to blow up fur stores. "You could say I grew to love the bomb."
21	* In the British mini-series ''Series/{{GBH}}'', Michael Murray develops some neurotic CharacterTics and one of his men mockingly compares him to Dr. Strangelove.
22	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. Scorpius wants John Crichton to build him a [[DoomsdayDevice wormhole weapon]] that will wipe out the Scarrans. One of Crichton's {{Imagine Spot}}s involving the neural clone of Scorpius has him imitating a German-accented Albert Einstein, but at one point Scorpius's arm snaps up in a Nazi salute as he mentions ''ZA VORMHOLE VEAPON!'', only to be yanked down by the other arm. Being TheNicknamer, John immediately calls him "Strangelove".
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25	* The music video for Music/{{Muse}}'s "Time Is Running Out" takes place in a War Room that is nearly identical to the ''Dr. Strangelove'''s.
26	* The music video for Music/{{Rush\|Band}}'s [[Music/GraceUnderPressure "Distant Early Warning"]] has the band playing in a set designed after the war room and a boy riding a missile similar to Major Kong riding the bomb.
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28	[[AC:{{Video Games}}]]
29	* The penultimate level of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'', in which the player needs to infiltrate a nuclear missile silo to stop a missile before it can impact the eastern seaboard of the United States and cause WorldWarIII, is titled "No Fighting In The War Room".
30	* Professor Von Kriplespac from ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' is a clear expy of Dr. Strangelove given that he's also a wheelchair-bond MadScientist with a thick, over the top German accent.
31	* ''VideoGame/HalfLifeDecay'' contains a DummiedOut animation of [[GeniusCripple Dr. Keller]] getting up from his wheelchair and walking away, as well as an unused voice line where he announces "Mein Führer, I can walk!"
32	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', the scientist developing Peace Walker's AI bears the name Dr. Strangelove.
33	* The ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' map Coldfront has its main spawn areas modeled after the War Room.
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35	[[AC:WebAnimation]]
36	* In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' {{Machinima}} WebAnimation/EmesisBlue, Jane Doe comes across a room at the Conagher Slaughterhouse that is identical to the war room, albeit with skeletons filling the chairs. Towards the end of the entirely black-and-white scene, Blutarch states "We must not allow a respawn gap," referencing General Turgidson's exclamation "Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!"
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38	[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
39	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Episode 13 features a HerrDoktor character named Dr. Strangeduck.
40	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'';
41	** ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E11HomerTheVigilante Homer The Vigilante]]'': At an army store, Homer climbs onto a bomb and has an ImagineSpot where he's RidingTheBomb in order to kill hippies. The owner then points to a sign telling customers not to do that.
42	** The CouchGag for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E11WildBartsCantBeBroken Wild Bart's Can't Be Broken]]" has the family riding the couch as it's dropped from a plane.
43	** There's an episode called, ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E10Springfield $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)]]''.
44	** In "Sideshow Bob"s Last Gleaming", [[OneShotCharacter Colonel Hapablab]] and the "Representatives of Television" (which include expies of the Fourth Doctor and Steve Urkel) meet in The War Room.
45	* The war room in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' is also modelled on the Strangelove war room, and Creator/StephenColbert's President seems to be a hybrid of Colbert, Pres. Muffley and Strangelove himself; there are also one or two gags regarding an easily-triggered Doomsday Machine protocol whose giant button happens to look just like that of the coffeemaker just on the right of it; and General Powers does a Major Kong shout-out while riding his own plane.
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