Referenced By / Fantasy Island

Film - Animated

• Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island: The movie is a parody of the series, with classic Warner Bros. cartoons shown as various characters' wishes.

Films — Live-Action

• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life. The governor of the Barla Kala says, "Welcome to Fantasy Island!" to Lara Croft when she turns up at his freezing hellhole of a prison.
• The Station Agent: When one of Joe's friends sees Finn, he imitates Tattoo.

Literature

• In the Defender series by Jerry Ahern, someone is waiting for a VIP to arrive at a military base and thinks they should have a little French guy shouting, "Ze plane, ze plane!" when he does.

Live-Action TV

• Arrow. Felicity Smoak gets a bit snippy on discovering that Oliver Queen was acquainted with two attractive women on the supposedly hellish island of Lian Yu.
  Felicity: Shado, Sara...how many women were you marooned with? Are you sure this wasn't Fantasy Island?
• Fast Forward did a parody where Tattoo suggests their visitors "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot and just hired a dirty video if they wanted to live out their fantasies.
  Tattoo: I've got a new one full of pygmies and Amazonian women and what they do with bananas—
  Mr. Roarke: (Dope Slap) Shut up, Tattoo!
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: In "She Ain't Heavy", when Carlton's tux he planned to wear to a school formal gets shrunk at the cleaners, Will mocks him saying that now he can remark, "Boss! De plane! De plane!"
• In The Love Boat episode "Rent a Romeo", Doc is trying to set up two passengers. He tells Gopher in a Mr. Roarke accent, "He may have bought a ticket to Mexico, but he'll be arriving at Fantasy Island". Gopher says in an impression of Tattoo, "Whatever you say, Boss".
• In 2 Broke Girls. A Running Gag is one of the two main characters, Max, making fun of their boss, Han, for being Asian and rather short. One of her pranks plays on the omophony between plain and plane: when a customer orders a "plain bagel", Max deliberately brings her a different kind of bagel so that the customer will ask Han for the right one; when Han asks Max to comply, she pretends not to understand which bagel he is talking about, so he angrily points at the menu above her and says "The plain! The plain!", not realising that it sounded like Nick Nack's "Da plane! Da plane!".

Western Animation

• Doug: One episode has an Imagine Spot where Doug is Mr. Roarke and Roger is Tattoo, with the latter even saying, "Look, boss! De plane!"
• Family Guy: In "Stuck Together, Torn Apart", Peter and Chris watch an episode of Magnum, P.I. in which Magnum calls Higgins "Tattoo" and beats him into taking that name.
• Phineas and Ferb: The episode title "De Plane! De Plane!" is taken from Tattoo's catchphrase.
• Robot Chicken:
  • A sketch from "Werewolf vs. Unicorn" has a man visiting Fantasy Island. When Tattoo says it's "where all your fantasies come true", the visitor responds "Then why are you a midget?"
  • A sketch from "Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry" has Mr. Roarke being bothered by visitors with odd wishes.
  • A sketch from "The Unnamed One" features a visitor who wishes to have sex with a dinosaur, inspiring the others to wish to do the same.
• The Simpsons: In "Lisa's Pony", in a home movie where Lisa is learning to walk, Homer is watching the show in the background.