Referenced By / Daft Punk

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A list of shoutouts to Daft Punk in other works. These are often visual gags and cameos of the duo's famous helmets or puns about their songs.

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Anime/Manga

• One Piece: The scientist Shaka from the Egghead arc has a helmet just like Guy-Manuel.

Asian Animation

• Adorable Food Goddess: In the show's ending theme, a character has a t-shirt of the Random Access Memories cover.

Comedy

• Mustapha El Atrassi did a stand up routine as Thomas talking about the pros and cons of being a Daft Punk member.
• Michael Youn and Jamel Debbouze did a routine as Daft Punk in which Thomas messes up the lyrics to "Harder, Better Faster Stronger", prompting an argument between the two.

Comic Books

• Adventure Time: The keyboardist of Marceline’s band in Marceline and the Scream Queens is named Guy Samuel, who is similar in name and appearance to Guy-Manuel.
• FF: In the eighth issue, two robots talk about French DJs that dress as robots for a gimmick.

Films — Animated

• The Angry Birds Movie: Two pigs in robot helmets, known as the Daft Piggies, deejay for the party in the movie.
• Trolls World Tour: "One More Time" plays during the opening Techno Troll rave, and the scene itself has a strong resemblance to the song's portion on Interstella 5555.

Films — Live-Action

• In the French film Fatal, a pair of silver and golden robots sit in the audience of a music awards ceremony.

Literature

• In Experimental Film, Lois and Safie listen to Daft Punk on the radio while they drive to the Lake of the North.

Live-Action TV

• Conan: In this clip, the helmets of Thomas and Guy-Manuel are seen amongst other helmets and masks.
• The Eric Andre Show has Kraft Punk, who somewhat resembles Thomas, just made out of cheese.
• Jeopardy!: A 2013 episode had Daft Punk as the answer to a clue.
  Alex: This out-there Parisian electronica duo gave us the 2013 hit "Get Lucky".
• Parks and Recreation: In one episode, Tom is seen wearing a Guy-Manuel helmet.

Music

• Black Eyed Peas: The lyrics of Boom Boom Pow contain the phrase "harder, faster, better, stronger".
• LCD Soundsystem:
  • They have the song "Daft Punk is Playing at My House", and the music video features a house party with several attendees wearing costumes of characters found in the duo's video for "Around the World".
  • In "Losing My Edge" — a tongue-in-cheek "autobiography" of frontman James Murphy's past accomplishments — one of his anecdotes is being the first DJ to play Daft Punk during sets in the CBGB, introducing the duo to "the rock kids" of New York's punk scene (incidentally, while most of Murphy's anecdotes in the song are fictional, this is something he genuinely did in his youth).
• Lil Yachty: "IDK" has the lyric "Chrome to his head like Daft Punk".

Video Games

• Clash Royale: The Flavor Text for Elite Barbarians describes them as being "harder, better, faster, and stronger" than standard Barbarians.
• Clumsy Ninja: According to its description, the Bouncer trampoline allows the ninja to bounce "higher, better, faster, stronger", which of course references one of the band's songs, save for "harder" being replaced with "higher".
• Cookie Clicker has an upgrade for golden cookies called "Get Lucky". The upgrade's flavor text says, "You've been up all night, haven't you?"
• Dead Cells has an achievement called Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
• Pokémon:
  • The Cool Helmet accessory in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet looks very similar to Guy-Manuel's helmet, especially in its yellow and gold color options.
  • The fangame Pokémon Uranium features two original Pokémon, Praseopunk and Neopunk, who resemble Guy-Manuel and Thomas respectively. Furthering this, they both have two exclusive moves called Instant Crush and Get Lucky, and a chiptune version of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" plays in the room where they're encountered.
• Roblox has two helmets resembling those of Daft Punk: Angry Android, which resembles Thomas, and Exoflex Spax Helmet, which resembles Guy-Manuel.
• Shooting Stars!: The game has a Copy Protection measure in which pirated copies will spawn an invincible Thomas lookalike named Premium Funk, who rants about digital piracy and kills the player.

Web Animation

• Revolt TV Animation: In the second video, the protagonist is scrolling through a couple channels until they find a program they like; A show that features stick figures of Daft Punk singing Lose Yourself To Dance to an audience.

Webcomics

• Questionable Content: Hannelore asks Station if AIs find bands like Daft Punk and Kraftwerk offensive. They do not.
• xkcd: Strip 740 is a parody of The Tell-Tale Heart in which the protagonist murders Daft Punk and is haunted by the beats of their music.

Web Video

• JonTron: In the Space Ace video, Jon puts a Guy-Manuel helmet on.
• Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell) competed in the SiIvaGunner King for Another Day tournament.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time:
  • In the episode "Play Date", a broken Guy-Manuel helmet is seen.
  • In the episode "Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension", TV has Thomas and Guy-Manuel figures on a shelf over his bed.
• DuckTales (2017): An episode has Dewey as DJ Daft Duck, a duck version of Guy-Manuel.
• Family Guy: One Cutaway Gag has the two win a Grammy by Guy-Manuel playing a demo on a Casio keyboard.
• Kitty Is Not a Cat: One of the records that Miley was showing to Kitty is called 'Craft Junk'. But they're German instead of French.
• Logorama: The Daft Punk logo can be seen on a grey wall when the Michelin Men cops are chasing Ronald McDonald.
• MAD: Daft Punk appeared in a skit parodying TRON: Legacy.
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: One of the costumes Rarity has is of Guy-Manuel.
• The Simpsons: In "The Day the Earth Stood Cool", Disco Stu is seen dressed as Thomas in a brief scene.

Real Life

• The Baicalellia daftpunka is a tapeworm species named for its helmet-like stylets that resemble the helmets of Daft Punk.

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