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Film

Lucky Number Slevin

• A Battlestar Galactica poster is seen.

Futurama: Bender's Big Score

• Features a "Cylon War Memorial Make-out point."

Futurama: 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.

  

  Robot with neck cowl and eye shape/color in Beast With A Billion Backs

Music

Depeche Mode Remix

• Remixes for their album Playing the Angel features one for the song "Precious" using dialogue from Number Six and Gaius Baltar from the episode "Six Degrees of Separation".

Live Performances

Lewis Black: Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues

• On track six of the CD, entitled "Justin and Janet", Lewis Black describes Janet Jackson's costume at the controversial 2004 Halftime Show as being the uniform of the captain of the Battlestar Galactica.

Television

Attack of the Show!

• In the "AOTS Undercover" covering Achievement Whores, viewers are introduced to "Spoiler Whores". One of the Spoiler Whores tells a customer who the final Cylon is in Season 4.

Bones

• Hodgins mentions Battlestar Galactica while naming sci-fi genre shows off to Zack in the episode "The Superhero in the Alley."

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

• According Russel T. Davies's podcast for the episode "Last of the Time Lords", he admits that jumping a year forward was inspired by "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".

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

• In the episode "E-mail Surveillance", Michael Scott mocks one of his employees (Dwight Schrute) for watching "Battleship Galaxy" every Friday night. The Office airs on NBC, which is owned by NBC Universal, the parent company of the SCI-FI Network.
• In the episode "The Return", Dwight wears a Battlestar Galactica T-shirt.
• In the episode "Product Recall", Jim, dressed as Dwight's twin, declares that bears "beet" Battlestar Galactica, much to Dwight's fury.
• In the episode "Survivor Man", Michael wears a Battlestar Galactica sweatshirt.

Tigh and Starbuck on Robot Chicken.

Robot Chicken

• In "Rabbits on a Roller Coaster", a 21 second skit entitled "Frakking Galactica" shows a scene from Battlestar Galactica where the use of the word "frak" is repeatedly overused, leaving an FCC member to ask "what the [censored] are they saying".
  • Of note, Tahmoh Penikett, Katee Sackhoff and Michael Hogan provide voices for their Galactica characters in the skit. Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, is a professed fan of the series and voices the character of the FCC member at the end of the skit.

Scrubs

• In the episode "My Number One Doctor", Dr. Cox says the author of the Wikipedia entry on how bell peppers can fight off cancer also did the Battlestar Galactica Episode Guide.

South Park

• 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 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

• In the Vanguard novel Reap the Whirlwind by David Mack, two minor characters are named "Agent Verheiden" and "Agent Cofell". Moreover, a Captain Rymer is mentioned.

Webcomics/Comic strips

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

• In the comic for Friday, December 8, 2006, Dilbert uses the expletive "frak" when he has to program the Legacy system. Although the spelling is from the Original Series "frack", Scott Adams uses it to reference the Re-imagined Series.
• In the comic for Friday, October 5th, 2007, Dilbert mentions going home early to watch Battlestar Galactica on his DVR.

Full Frontal Nerdity

• In the comic for Wednesday, January 26, 2005, GREAT LORDS OF KOBOL! is exclaimed.

General Protection Fault

• In the comic for Thursday, February 23, 2006, Dexter uses the UGA (Undisclosed Government Agency) spy equipment to try finding out who the sleeper Cylon will be in the next Battlestar Galactica episode.

Greenhorn

• In the comic for Monday, October 30, 2006, Paul Greenhorn goes as a Cylon sleeper agent for Halloween.

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• In the comic for Thursday, June 28, 2007, Joel tries catching up by watching Season 2 but is interrupted repeatedly by Josh. Joel then strangles Josh with the chord of his Wiimote and throws the Wiimote through Eli's neck before he could spoil who the Final Five are.
• In the comic for Monday, July 30, 2007, when Josh is about to commit suicide through a Rube Goldberg machine since Harry Potter series finished, Eli reminds him that there's other things to look forward to as Metroid Prime 3, Battlestar Galactica's Season 4, OSX Leopard, and Joel's awesome pickle parties.
• In the comic for Monday, August 27, 2007, Kevin Smith directs an upcoming episode of Battlestar Galactica in the style of Clerks.
• In the comic for Friday, April 4, 2008, Eli writes a letter to Battlestar Galactica.
• In the comic for Monday, April 7, 2008, the characters watch the Iron Man special preview as "He That Believeth In Me" goes to commercial break.
• In the comic for Monday, April 14, 2008, Josh is told that Katee Sackhoff is fighting hoboes in the alley of the topless comic shop, but refuses to go since he is watching The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in HD again.
• In the comic for Monday, June 30th, 2008, the characters are observing the Phoenix Lander progress of finding life on mars, when they realize that the lander is only moving due to "Wall-E". They reference Wall-E as a Cylon.

Kick in the Head

• In the comic for March 26, 2007, the main character's neighbor asks if he has cable so they could watch the season finale.

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!

• In the comic for April 9, 2008, Beans makes art of the Horsehead Nebula, which "neutralizes all Cylon activity".

Real Life

• In the comic for Monday, January 31, 2005, Greg Dean snaps when he reads "TO BE CONTINUED..." on the end of the episode.

Rod & Barry

• In Episode 3: Channeling My Inner Cylon, Rod expresses his disbelief on why the Cylons would want to destroy the humans, while Barry channels his "inner Cylon", his head having changed into a centurion's head.
• In Episode 12: Number Love, Barry discusses how he is in love with Number Six, with Rod noting Barry's previous infatuation with Star Trek: Voyager's 7 of 9.

Sheldon

• In the comic for Friday, February 25, 2005, the Nerd Tribunal punishes Sheldon for having an obsolete computer by banishing him from the "Battlestar Galactica" chat room for two months.
• In the comic for Monday, November 14, 2005, Sheldon complains to Arthur how he has to wait until January for the new season, while The Ellen DeGeneres Show "crank[s] out 18 episodes every day".
• In the comic for Wednesday, December 27, 2006, Sheldon and Arthur play "Battlestar Galactica", while Arthur gets carried away.

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

• Entering "about:robots" in the Firefox 3 address bar displays a few wise words about robots. After references to The Day the Earth Stood Still, Asimov's first law of robotics, Blade Runner, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Futurama it concludes with "And they have a plan."

External links

• IMDb's Movie Connections for Battlestar Galactica (2003)
• IMDb's Movie Connections for Battlestar Galactica (2004)
• Depeche Mode's "Precious" (Disco Mix) mp3