POTA REFERENCES IN OTHER MATERIALS
FILMS WITH PLANET OF THE APES REFERENCES:
FILMS THAT ACTUALLY SPOOF SCENES FROM POTA
TRAPALHAO NO PLANALTO DOS MACACOS - film from 1976
SPACEBALLS - film from 1987
BEST MOVIE EVER MADE - film from 1994
SPY HARD - film from 1996
FILMS THAT FEATURE PLANET OF THE APES
THE CHASE - film from 1994
DUNSTON CHECKS IN - film from 1996
FUTURAMA (TV SHOW) 1999 (submitted 4/16/00 by Sam
Rosenthal mailto:blacktape@projekt.com )
There have been four or five Apes references in the first season of "Futurama."
The first episode had them going underground into a "Beneath" like world, at
least for a moment . . .
Past episode: the gang is in the underground city of mutants searching for their pet
and while being given a tour of the city, they're shown a certain Cathedral with an atomic
bomb inside it? Interestingly enough, the shot of the Altar was an exact
replica of the set from Beneath- the only difference was that the lettering on the bomb
was on the right fin (as you face it) as opposed to the left, and the lettering was
reversed (Omega Alpha). Aside from one of Dennis Miller's stand-up HBO specials, this is
the only time I've seen "Beneath" used as a pop culture reference. Long overdue
if you ask me.
POTA IN AUSTIN POWERS 2 (submitted by Ross T. pota@egroups.com 12/22/99
We've been over the whole, "and the planet is ruled by DAMN DIRTY APES..."
quote from the movie, which is cool, but I think there might be a second.
When Austin and Felicity travel to Dr. Evil's secret volcano-island place, they take a
yellow submarine there (very cool Beatles reference). They then get on a yellow raft
and paddle to shore. Later, they drag the raft a little way, and it looks a lot like
the shoreline we all know and love from POTA. Now, I could be just looking too far
into this, but I don't think it's too far-fetched that there would be two POTA
references. There's movie references all over the place, including several Star Wars
ones. So, anybody out there think I might've found a subtle hint, or have I just
been watching too much of both movies!
TV SHOWS WITH POTA REFERENCES
submitted by pota@egroups.com The Planet of the Apes Chat group
Michael Whitty whitty@cyberone.com.au (submitted 9/26/99)
There was one where Burns lost his bear Bobo and at the end there was a
cart of Homers pulling along their ape masters.
Also an Itchy and Scratchy Episode "Planet of the Aches". There was
also reference to "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" as "Today's
Sermon" outside Reverened Lovejoy's church after the Reverened saved Ned Flanders
from a pit of baboons.
There was also the episode where there was a "Cornfield Roundup" of the children
at the beginning with unmistakibly "Planet of the Apes" background misic.
Homer becomes an astronaut and says during the press conference, "The only danger is if they send is to that terrible planet of the apes! . . . Wait a minute . . . Statue of Liberty . . . (gasp) that was OUR planet! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!!!"
Yeah, the episode that really spoofed it was the one mentioned earlier
about Selma. Troy McClure starred in "Stop this Planet of the Apes...I want to
get off!" It had a musical ripoff of the old 80's song "Amadeus"
(retitled as Dr. Zaius)
The song he sang a broadway style tune at the end went something like this...
I hate every ape I see, From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z, But you'll never make a monkey out of
me... (The Statue of Liberty rises in the background) Oh my god, I was wrong!
It was Earth all along, you finally made monkey out of me... (and then
the chorus continues this line to the end) Homer: "I love legitimate
theater..."
There was also an episode where Homer was being judged in an arena, very similar to the
one found in Ape City. Instead of Apes, it was the Planet of the Donuts. He ended up
taking a bite out of his donut lawyer. As punishment he gets eaten by a giant donut.
It picks him up to eat him and says "Mmmmmmmmmmm...Homer."
Yeah, thats episode: A fish called Selma The Cimpan-A to Chimpan-Z
one. Many episodes were done with brief spoofs, but thats the one that goes all out!
(very cool)
Don't forget one of the most recent references to POTA's in film or television being the
new AUSTIN POWERS film. When back in time to the 60's, a girl asks Austin what the
future is like.
AUSTIN: "Cars can fly... You eat your meals in pills... and... the world is run
by damn dirty apes!" (not an exact quote)
Yeah, that was a very funny part of the movie and very accurate. POTA came out in
'68 I believe and Austin said that in '69.
So that quote was very popular in that time.
I remeber there was a movie done by HBO called: By dawns early light.
The movie was based on WW3 between the U.S. and Russia. In one of the scenes the
co-pilot of a nuclear bomber looked over to the pilot and asked, "what will
happen if this gets out of hand"? The pilot replyed:"PLANET OF THE APES
BABY"!
Other references - Do the Right Thing (John Turturro): "Every day I come to work,
it's like Planet of the Apes."
The songs from the Simpson POTA musical are on the CD "Songs in the Key of
Springfield".
One of my favorite spoofs - Heston hosts Saturday Night Live, falls asleep in the green
room, and wakes up to find everyone is an ape. They even did the opening, where each
cast member is announced, with apes.
The episode when homer says I hope they don't send us to the horrible planet of the
apes is Deep Space Homer 1F13 and the other episode A Fish Named Selma is episode
3F15.
In the movie, "The Chase" with Charlie Sheen, which I think came out around 1995
maybe.... Anyway, it's near the climax of the movie, and some head deputy
policeman's watching a car chase on a small portable TV, where cop cars are getting
smashed up, it's in the height of it, and then all of a sudden, the mini T.V. goes
static, and then a second later, there's
Charleton Heston in the scene where he says, "Take your stinkin paws off me you damn
dirty apes...." etc. Some dumb guy yells out, "Hey, cool,
monkeys!"
I think one of the best and funnies references I've seen to POTA
was in the movie Spaceballs, which I think came out in the mid 80's. Obviously,
the majority of it is a take-off on star wars, but there's other movies such
as POTA and Wizard of Oz that get some time. Basically, there was a huge
spaceship that was suppose to suck all the air out of this one planet called
Druidia I think it was. The monster spaceship transforms into a huge maid with
a vaccumm. As the movie goes on, eventually the spaceship gets destroyed, and
blown up into a million pieces. Throughout the end of the movie, you see the
maid's head and an arm fly through space. Finally, near the end, they crash
down on some planet, in the desert, right off the
shoreline. The maid's head and arm look very much like the statue of liberty,
but not quite as we know it from the movie. The background and placement
though is really well, with the mountains and shoreline and all. It then
switches, at an exactly perfect camera angle to two chimpanzees riding up the
shoreline on horses. It's the best recreation of the ape make-up I've ever
seen. Basically, they talk a little bit, and end with, "Well, there goes
the planet." It's a must see scene for any POTA fan. The producer
did a really good job with it.
What about that lame Leslie Neilson James Bond / Patriot Games spoof a while back?
Didn't they starp some damsel to a missle that looked remarkably like the Icarus?
Neilson even did the "Damn dirty ape" line if I remember correctly.
- Another Simpsons reference. In a flashback, we see Homer and Marge when they were much
younger, going out one evening. Marge asks Homer if he ever thinks about their future and
he replies "you mean like will Apes be our masters?"
- "This Morning With Richard Not Judy" - British comedy show featuring
Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. They had a series of sketches entitled "Extra Final
Scenes" in which they had extra scenes at the end of famous movies. For example,
their ending of "Titanic" revealed that Jack had deliberately sunk the ship just
to get rid of Rose, their "Thelma & Louise" saw the two women chicken out of
driving off the cliff and decide that they should just go home and serve their husbands,
and "Blues Brothers 2000" saw Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman dig up John Belushi's
grave and urinate on his corpse, before lots of blood-stained money started raining down
from the sky. All this on Sunday morning TV. Anyway the point is that they also did a
"Planet of the Apes" extra final scene - but I missed it! It had something to do
with finding the Statue of Liberty, then Big Ben, and so on, but that's all I know. If
anyone saw it, please tell me what happened! (on a related note, Lee
& Herring used to do a live radio show as well, and on one programme they commented on
the fact that Planet of the Apes was on TV that night, and said "for anyone who
hasn't seen it, it's Earth all along".)
- British rap group Blak Twang released a record called "Real Estate",
which contained the lines:
"My estate is like Planet of the Apes, where
puffa jackets with hoods replace the black capes"
OK, so I don't remember anyone wearing any "capes" as such, but they mentioned
Planet of the Apes, so that's good enough for me.
In another Simpsons episode, I do not recall which one, Homer comments about what life
might exist on another planet. He says something like, "Maybe it'll be like that
planet in Planet of the Apes." Maybe it was the episode when Homer went on the space
mission.
Scott E. Hileman meh@netusa1.net (submitted 9/26/99)
SERTA COMFORTERS COMMERCIAL
A commercial was on, and from what I can remember, was a narrator talking over the scenes of a moonlit nite, a gazebo on a cliff overlooking the ocean, a woman in a long evening gown/night gown, a man in the gazebo at a table pouring a glass of wine/champaign. That was just impression I got. Like I said, I wasn't paying a lot attention until the announcer/narrator said... " then suddenly you're joined by Cornelius of Planet of the Apes" and sure enough he was there at the gazebo sitting at the table drinking wine. The ad was for Serta Comforters and how restful your sleep would be with their matresses that even your weird dreams wouldn't bother you. Scott E. Hileman
Terry Hoknes comicsape@dlcwest.com (submitted 9/26/99)
THAT 70'S SHOW
Episode aired in 9/99 featured the one teenager saying he really liked POTA - "those apes could sure act"
Kristina Smith smithkids1@earthlink.net (submitted 2/24/99)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1ST EPISODE - 2ND SEASON)
Willow : " Okay Xander you're turne ."
Xander : " It's a mad house ! A mad ...."
Willow : " Planet of the Apes !"
Xander : Could I at least finish ?"
Willow : " Oh yah suer sorry . So go ahead ."
Xander : " House !"
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
(submitted August 30th 1998 by Corryne Drake Cheyenne, Wyoming corryne@cheyenneweb.com )
There is an ongoing spoof of POTA on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000? It's on the Sci-Fi Channel, Saturdays, 5 & 11 p.m. Eastern time. Episode 801 started it off in February 1997, and it's continued through the present in the character of Professor Bobo (son of Coco, and heir to the lineage of Godo and Chim Chim)!
You might find a lot of MST3K fans visiting your pages now that Bobo's Search Page is operating http://www.mst3kinfo.com/pbsearch.html You try to search for anything and all you get is monkey-related and weird stuff.
Kevin Murphy plays Bobo. He also operates Tom Servo. In case you never saw the show, that's the guy. Other POTA spoof characters are Dr. Peanut (Mike Nelson) and the Lawgiver (Mary Jo Pehl).
"It is Ape Law! The Lawgiver brings us these laws! Do you not know the
Lawgiver?" -- Bobo, ep. 801
SEINFELD
(info submitted by John Bennett)
2nd season (early episode) Jerry yells "it's a madhouse, it's a madhouse".
Last Season - Elaine refers to a fur coat as "Dr. Zaius"
EEK, THE CAT
"Eek, The Cat" is a current TV cartoon series. Appearing on the Fox Channel, the saturday morning cartoon featured an episode based on POTA concepts. Eek is a fat happy purple kitty. Search for Eek, The Cat on the web. In an episode from around 1996? there was an episode titled "Planet Of The Crepes". The character Taylor from POTA based on Charlton Heston's role is found travelling back in time to the dinosaurs. He meets regular characters of the show Bill and Scooter. The plot turns into a big battle where missiles and grenades are used to try and wipe out humans.
REBOOT
In an episode of REBOOT a reference to POTA is made from the end of the POTA movie. In a particular episode (name ?) - "The maniacs, they blew it up!"
SIMPSONS
*Simpsons* musical spoof of POTA. (submitted 4/22/00 by Attendantgodling@aol.com )
Here are the words and a bit of the story (from a Simpsons webpage):
The Scoop on Planet of the Apes
Mark Richey says "Planet of the Apes" is "A cult sci-fi movie from the
1960's starring Charlton Heston (in the Troy McClure role). It
spawned four sequels and two TV series. It also wouldn't make a
good subject for a musical." It's about an astronaut in some
sort
of stasis who crashlands on a planet inhabited only by talking apes
and humans who apes kick around. It seems there were men on the
planet before who were more intelligent. Anyway, later the 'naut
goes off and discovers the Statue of Liberty, which is proof
that the planet is Earth, and men blew each other up during the
war. The famous "You blew it up" with the Statue of
Liberty scene
has been parodied many times, including in "Deep Space
Homer".
BTW, Phil Hartman played Charlton Heston in "A Star is
Burns", and
Heston played the astronaut, and Troy, who is voiced by Phil
Hartman, took on Heston's role. Well, it IS kind of a stretch...
For those of you who are wondering, Dr. Zaius is the cynical ape in
the film, who is later revealed to be covering up all evidence of
intelligent man. He was NOT made up for the rhyme... You
can
also see Cornelius, but not Zira. There is no attractive female
ape.
Lyrics for "Stop the Planet of the Apes: I Want to Get Off!"
"The Dr. Zaius Song"
[Here they are sort of
rapping]
Ape: Help! the human's about to escape.!
Troy: Get your paws off me, you dirty ape.
Apes: [gasping] He can talk!
Apes: [in unison, rhythmically in hushed tones]
He can talk!
He can talk!
He can talk!
He can talk!
He can talk!
He can talk!
Troy: [singing] I can siiiiiing!
[funky beat of "Rock Me
Amadeus" by Falco starts playing]
Female Nurse Ape: Ooh, help me Dr. Zaius!
Apes: [in unison]
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Oh...oh... Dr. Zaius
Ape: Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius.
Troy: What's wrong with me?
Zaius: I think you're crazy.
Troy: I want a second opinion.
Zaius: You're also lazy!
Apes: [in unison]
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
[one ape starts breakdancing]
Oh... Dr. Zaius
Ape: Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius.
Troy: Can I play the piano anymore?
Zaius: Of course you can.
Troy: Well I couldn't before!
[plays piano]
"You'll Never Make a Monkey Out of Me"
Troy: [singing]
I hate every ape I see
From chimpan-A to chimpan-Z
No you'll never make a monkey out
of me!
Oh my God, I was wrong
It was Earth all along!
You've finally made a monkey
Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey
Troy: Yes you've finally made a monkey out of
me
Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey out
of you
Troy: I love you, Dr. Zaius!
episode: A Fish Called Selma
Written by Jack Barth Directed by Mark Kirkland
Original Airdate in N.A.: 24-Mar-96
glasspar@cinci.infi.net The Catfish (submitted 11/1/98) A teenage Marge asks a teemage Homer, "Do you ever think about the future?" and Homer replies, "You mean when apes will be our masters?"
In one episode Troy McClure is in a POTA musical called (I think)"Stop the Planet of the Apes, I want to get off!" There's about 2 minutes of the musical shown; it's hilarious.
When Mr. Burns speculates about the future, we see a POTA-like landscape
with a bunch of naked Homers getting whipped,
pulling a cart full of POTA-type apes.
Wesley D. Peck <wpeck@eerc.und.nodak.edu (submitted September 8th 1998)
Homer recreates the Taylor's final scene from the first movie.
LOST IN SPACE
glasspar@cinci.infi.net
The Catfish (submitted 11/1/98) I've heard that experimental ape
make up was used in a Lost In Space episode called The Prisoners of Space. I have that
episode, and it's almost undeniable. I'm in a LIS discussion group, and someone also said
that one of the landing struts on the
Jupiter 2 is on Taylor's ship. I just watched POTA, and didn't see it. Maybe it
shows up in Conquest or Escape.
APE (PLANET OF THE APES HOME PAGE)
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