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• The Six Million Dollar Man. Pilot TV Movies and Season 1

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  While taking a vacation from the busy life of a Venture bodyguard in S1 E3 "Home Insecurity" Brock runs into former OSI agent Steve Summers whose name, appearance, and backstory are nearly identical to that of Steve Austen.

• Star Wars. VI, Return of the Jedi

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  You can't throw a rock without hitting some kind of Star Wars spoof in the Venture Bros. universe, but one of my personal favorites is from S2 E7 "Love Bheits" in which the venture family is waylaid by an old enemy while dressed in a group…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blade Collection

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  Introduced with the Order of the Triad in S2 E8 "Fallen Arches" Jefferson Twilight is a mashup of 70's blackspoitation tropes and Iconic vampire-slaying hero Blade.

• The Manchurian Candidate

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  S2 E9 "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?" Is essentially an extended Manchurian Candidate farce.

• The Neverending Story

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  In S2 E12 & 13 "Showdown at Cremation Creek" Dean's extended hallucinatory fantasy sequence is a grab-bag of tropes and iconography from various 80's kids adventure fantasy films, but a special appearance by the film's friendly dog-dragon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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  Fan-favorite paranoid OSI spy Hunter Gathers is entirely an expy of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, and perhaps the best showcase of their similarities comes from S3 E3 "The Invisible hand of Fate" in which he and a young Brock Sampson take…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The Complete Season One

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  It probably goes without saying that S3 E6 "Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman" is a direct reference to the long running American drama series of the same name, but I said it anyway because that's what I'm doing here!

• Voltron, Defender of the Universe. Collection One, Blue Lion

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  First appearing in S3 E 10 "The Lepindopterists" the giant mech consisting of several smaller mechs which join together to form Ventronic is as on-the-nose of a Voltron references as I believe its possible to make.

• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  Many an Indie reference is sprinkled throughout the show, but in S4 E1 "Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel" one of the most disturbingly grotesque scenes from Raiders is summarized perfectly with the line "Hot melting face!"

• Fantômas - Season 1

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  This is one of the deeper deep cuts the show makes: Series regular Phantom Limb is revealed (it's not a spoiler really, I promise) to be the grandson of Fantomas in S4 E5 "The Revenge Society".

• Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon

  Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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  While the episode in question (S4 E9 "The Diving Bell vs The Butterglider") is clearly named for this memoir-turned-award winning drama the actual content of the episode has really nothing to do with its namesake material, but the film is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fantastic Voyage

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  This flick gets name-dropped in S4 E9 "The Diving Bell Vs The Butter-glider" as Conjectural technologies struggle to diagnose a comatose Rusty, and the treatment plan they come up with is equally Fantastic.

• Good Burger

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  Ascendant extras Red Mantle and Dragoon are code named "Kenan and Kel" in S4 E11 "Any Which Way but Zeus", the title of which also makes reference to the bizarre 1978 action comedy "Any Which Way But Loose" and since the latter film isn't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soylent Green

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  S5 E1 "What Color is your Cleansuit?" kicks off the season right by playing with a bevy of 70's sci-fi tropes, paying homage to this novel-turned dystopian thriller with the mysterious "Student Green".

• Goldfinger

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  References to the entire Bond franchise are all over the place, but specifically in S5 E4 "Spanakopita!" card-carrying newbie villain Augustus St. Cloud is sporting an outfit that is literally the yellow pool leisure suit worn by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Requiem for a Dream

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  The club sequence in S5 E7 "Bot Seeks Bot" bares a striking resemblance to a similar scene in Requiem.

• The Love Boat. Season Two, Volume One

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  In the 2015 special "All This, and Gargantua-2" J.J. greats the guests visiting his orbiting space station with "Smiles, everyone, smiles!" the manner of Captain Merrill Stubing.

• Trainspotting

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  In S6 E3 "Faking Miracles", the Pirate Captain (yes, that's what everyone calls him and no, we never learn his actual name) is subjected to nightmare hallucinations lifted from the famous "getting clean" sequence from this film.

• Highlander

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  This particular Film/TV franchise is referenced regularly by the show in a number of ways, but my personal favorite instance is S6 E7 "A Party for Tarzan" includes a (sadly unvoiced) cameo from actor Christopher Lambert sporting a dazzling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saw

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  Any horror fan familiar with the iconic opening set piece in Saw will recognize the mysterious prison setup in S6 E8 "Red Means Stop".