Referenced By / Bob Marley

A list of references, shout-outs, spoofs, parodies,... to Bob Marley.

Film

• Cool Runnings: The title is a Shout-Out to a line from "Blackman Redemption" from Confrontation.
• The Spanish Apartment: The students play "No Woman, No Cry" on guitar while going out at night.
• I Am Legend: Robert Neville talks about Exodus.

Literature

• In Moojag and the Auticode Secret, the SuperAuts listen to "Soul Captives" during their break.
• In The Mermaid of Black Conch, the deaf ten-year-old Reggie loves reggae music, especially Bob Marley, because he can feel the bass.

Live-Action TV

• Catch a Fire was subject of an episode of the album documentary series Classic Albums.

Music

• Eric Clapton was the first Western artist to cover "I Shot The Sherrif".
• Frank Zappa briefly quotes from "Jammin'" during "A Little Green Rosetta" from Joe's Garage.
• "Master Blaster Jammin'" by Stevie Wonder is a Homage to Bob Marley.
• "Roots, Rap, Reggae" from Run–D.M.C.'s King of Rock is a Pun-Based Title on "Roots, Rock, Reggae" from Rastaman Vibration
• "Could You Be Loved?" from Uprising is sampled during "Shake Your Rump" from The Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique. On the same album a quote from a 1979 interview with Marley is sampled during "B-Boy Bouillabaisse".
• During "Party For Your Right To Fight" from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy a sample from "Get Up, Stand Up" from Burnin' can be heard.
• "Give It Away Now" from Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers namedrops Marley:
  Bob Marley, poet and a prophet
  Bob Marley taught me how to off it
  Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it
• "Scenario" from The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest has the following line:
  The word is the herb and I'm deep like Bob Marley
• The Fugees' The Score has several shout-outs to Bob Marley. "Ready Or Not" ("Buffalo Soldier"), "The Beast" ("Concrete Jungle","Crazy Baldheads"), "Family Business" ("Iron Lion Zion", "Who the Cap Fit"), "Cowboys" ("I Shot The Sherrif") and, of course, the Fugees' cover of "No Woman, No Cry" .
  • Another line from "The Beast": "...and if you are too powerful you get bugged like Peter Tosh and Marley was (...)"
• Lauryn Hill provide a shout-out to the album cover of Burnin' on her album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. On the same album she covers "Turn Your Lights Down Low" from Exodus
• Lyrics from "Is This Love" from Kaya have been referenced in Bon Jovi's song "Lay Your Hands On Me" ^note  "you're ready, I'm willing, and able. Help me lay my cards down on the table" and "Stay The Night" ^note  "Just like the song on our radio set. We'll share the shelter of my single bed." by James Blunt.

Video Games

• Splatoon references an in-universe music artist named Bob Dub, who seems to be inspired by Marley and his music. His only known song, "Dubble Bath", is a relaxing, slow song that takes heavy inspiration from reggae music (specifically, the dub subgenre). The reference is made more obvious in the Japanese version, where the artist is named Cala Marley while his song is titled "Ika Jamaica".

Western Animation

• The Simpsons:
  • In "The Canine Mutiny", Chief Wiggum busts a man for marijuana possession, yet just decides to have a party smokin' weed. The episode closes with an outside shot of their house, while "Jammin'" from Exodus plays over the end credits.
  • In "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo", when Homer says he wants to go to Jamaica, he wears a "One Love" badge on his shirt.
• Futurama: In "The Route of All Evil", (3:55 in, specifically), Hermes is briefly heard singing a version of "Get Up, Stand Up" with lyrics changed to bureaucratic themes, natch.
• South Park: In "Medicinal Fried Chicken", after Randy gets free marihuana on a doctor's prescription he walks out while singing "Buffalo Soldier", from Confrontation.
• In one of Seth MacFarlane's Cartoon Cavalcade cartoon sketches Marley is held captive by two police officers who want to arrest him for the murder of a deputy, though he keeps denying his involvement. As the cops huddle together one of them wonders why he defends himself against murder by confessing to a completely different murder. One cop says: "We don't need to get him on the deputy. If we prove he killed the sherrif, that's a life sentence right there." His companion replies: "I have this weird hunch he might be high."
• Celebrity Death Match: One episode had Bob Marley fight Shaggy and defeat him.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "A Lost Claus", Bloo tries to scare Mr. Herriman by imitating the spirits from A Christmas Carol; for the first spirit, he dresses as Bob Marley instead of Jacob.

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