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9 | [[AC:LiveActionFilms]] |
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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19 | [[AC:Live Action TV]] |
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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24 | [[AC:{{Music}}]] |
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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47 | [[AC:Real Life]] |
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