References to the Re-imagined Series

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Film

Lucky Number Slevin

  • A Battlestar Galactica poster is seen.

Futurama: Bender's Big Score

  • Features a "Cylon War Memorial Makeout Point."

Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs

  • A robot with features from the re-imagined Centurion works the capstan on the pirate spaceship during Bender's attack on the alien Yivo. Later the same robot is seen fighting in the background, using needle/razor fingered hands as on the re-imagined Centurion.

Sydney White

  • One of the characters is offended by the joke that Adama is a Cylon.

Related imagery

Music

Depeche Mode Remix

Live Performances

Lewis Black: Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues

Television

Attack of the Show!

The Big Bang Theory

  • In the pilot episode, when Leonard asks Sheldon if they invited Penny to lunch, Sheldon replies that they are not since they will be starting up Season 2 with commentaries.

Bionic Woman

  • In the episode "Paradise Lost", the episode "Exodus, Part II" is playing on the television of a house that Jamie Sommers (Michelle Ryan) and Ruth Treadwell (Molly Price) enter during their investigation of a town that was the target of a biological attack. The scene playing in the background depicts Pegasus's final moments before it is destroyed during the Battle of New Caprica.

Bones

  • In the episode "The Superhero in the Alley", Jack Hodgins lists Battlestar Galactica, along with Star Wars, Star Trek, and Stargate, as to why the the victim's "face and cranial vault" are fractured.

The Colbert Report

  • On the Tuesday 4 April, 2006 show, host Stephen Colbert rails against the Peabody Committee in his "Who's Not Honoring Me Now" segment for awarding other televisions shows with Peabody Awards, but not his own. He sarcastically derides Battlestar Galactica’s winning of the award, and wins of other shows, such as South Park and House in an attempt to prove his show is, in his belief, more deserving of the award.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

  • On the Wednesday, 10 April 2008 show, during the segue portion of the episode where Stephen Colbert discusses what's on his show, Colbert brings up the problems that General David Petraeus faces in Iraq, noting that he faces civilian unrest, endless pursuit by the Cylons, and the long search for Earth. Colbert notes that Petraeus looks worn out, and to prove his point she shows a picture of Edward James Olmos instead. Jon Stewart then points out that Colbert was watching Battlestar Galactica.

Doctor Who

Student wearing a BSG t-shirt in the Heroes episode "Homecoming"

Gilmore Girls

  • Rory Gilmore jokingly accuses her grandmother of being a Cylon in one episode.
  • In another episode, Rory uses the term "frakking."

Heroes

  • The trailers for the NBC show Heroes re-use several tracks from Bear McCreary's BSG Season One sountrack, primarily the track "Forgiven."
  • In the ninth episode, "Homecoming", a high school student is briefly seen wearing a Battlestar Galactica t-shirt.

The Office

Primeval

Tigh and Starbuck on Robot Chicken.

Robot Chicken

Scrubs

South Park

  • In the episode "Go God Go", the conversation between Richard Dawkins and Mrs. Garrison about ending religion is a spoof on Gaius Baltar and Number Six. The music playing is also a variation on "The Sense Of Six" leitmotif.
  • In "Imaginationland Episode II" the episode starts with "Previously on...," a tactic commonly used by television dramas. While the title screen says "Previously on South Park" Cartman actually says "Previously on Battlestar Galactica". Additionally, the text onscreen is done in the same style.

Veronica Mars

  • Veronica is introduced to the word "frak" in the Season 3 premiere, "Welcome Wagon", and uses it later. It's said to be "the profanity of the future".
  • Battlestar Galactica, Number Six, the Cylons, Cylon Raiders, "frak" and "so say we all" are all mentioned in the episode "Poughkeepsie, Tramps & Thieves".

Literature

Avatars

  • Several characters in the Avatars trilogy by Tui T. Sutherland reference Battlestar Galactica on several occasions. The brothers Gus and Andrew recall watching the entire series on DVD (which has been off the air for three years in the book's time frame of December 2012), Andrew wishes to name his first born daughter Kara, and Gus uses derivatives of frak on occasion.

Star Trek

Star Wars

Comics

Deadpool

  • Deadpool and Weasel catch up as friends by watching TiVo'd episodes of "Battlestar Galactica".

Star Wars

Webcomics/Comic strips

Aoi House

Blue Crash Kit

  • In the comic for January 28, 2006, Kit is looked at when she says: "I'm gonna turn on the Sci-Fi Channel! I wonder what I missed on Battlestar Galactica!"

Dilbert

Full Frontal Nerdity

General Protection Fault

Greenhorn

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Kick in the Head

Knock on Wood

  • In the comic for November 7, 2005, Blue Trapezoid tells Yellow Pentagon hat some of the "governmental monies" was spent on the new Battlestar Galactica DVD.

Monty

  • In the comic for April 27, 2008, the character of Monty purchases a universal remote from an electronics store. After purchasing the remote, he changes the display televisions in the storefront window so they show an episode of Battlestar Galactica.

Nobody Scores!

Real Life

Rod & Barry

Sheldon

xkcd

  • The January 7th, 2008 comic mentions Battlestar Galactica and Firefly as possible alternatives to Star Wars novels, when the main character says that the latter used to be his world.
  • The July 7th, 2008 comic lists the show in a comic mocking the excessive "in popular culture" sections on Wikipedia.

Others

External links

References

  1. Primeval: Series 1 Episode 4 (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 20 August 2008.
  2. Fraser, Simon (12 June 2006). Brian Bendis interviews Joss Whedon (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 27 August 2007.
  3. Adams, Scott (8 December 2006). Frack (backup available on Archive.org) . Retrieved on 22 October 2007.