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Films — Live-Action

  • In Dominick and Eugene, Larry asks Nicky if Jennifer is built like Dolly Parton. Nicky answers, "Skinnier, like Charlie's Angels."
  • In the DVD Commentary for City of God, Fernando Meirelles reveals that the shot in which we see the Tender Trio through the bumper of the gas truck is a homage/spoof of the series (they're seen holding their guns pointing to different ways).

Literature

  • In Every Shiny Thing, Lauren suggests that she, Sierra, and Audrey dress as the characters from the movie for Halloween. Audrey, offended, replies that Lucy Liu is Chinese and she's Korean. Lauren responds that the actresses in the original were all white, which doesn't help.
  • Angels of Music is one massive reference to the series, relocated to 1880s Paris, and with assorted female characters from Victorian literature.

Live-Action TV

  • Fantasy Island:
    • The fantasy of a minor character in "Escape/Cinderella Girls" is eating lunch with all three Angels. Tattoo is allowed to join him, as long as he doesn't get in the way.
    • "Charlie's Cherubs" has three secretaries whose fantasy is to have an adventure like the Angels do. Tattoo accompanies them as Bosley. At one point, one of them references the part where Sabrina gets involved with a pole vaulter.
  • One episode of The Golden Girls has Stan refer to the girls as "Stan's Angels". They are not amused.
  • The Love Boat: In "A Different Girl," a man says that his wife's figure makes Charlie's Angels look like Hogan's Heroes.
  • In The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries episode "Mystery of the Hollywood Phantom," the characters run onto the set of Charlie's Angels. The director tells Jaclyn Smith to wait for the guest star to walk around a corner and then kiss him. When Frank wanders into the shot, she kisses him instead.

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Western Animation

  • Codename: Kids Next Door: The show's logo, which features arranged silhouettes of Sector V, is based on the Charlie's Angels logo.
  • Dexter's Laboratory: The title card for "G.I.R.L. Squad" is based on the Charlie's Angels logo.
  • The Simpsons: In "I Married Marge", which takes place in 1980, Homer and Barney are watching an episode of Charlie's Angels when Marge calls Homer to tell him she might be pregnant.

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