References
"ABC's Wide World of Sports" (1961)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- When Beth (Amanda Wyss) shows up at the high school dance, the person standing behind her is wearing Freddy Krueger's sweater (Nightmare on Elm Street). Wyss played Krueger's first victim in Nightmare on Elm Street.
Referenced in
One Crazy Summer (1986)
How I Got Into College (1989)
Men at Work (1990)
Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
- As he is being driven into the car wash, Haru says, "I cannot swim." The paperboy in "Better Off Dead" says the same thing when he is driven into a car wash.
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Maxine holds up a photograph depicting John Cusack skiing downhill
"Family Guy: Road to Rupert (#5.9)" (2007)
- the ski race scene
Features
"The Flintstones" (1960)
Featured in
"Retrosexual: The 80's" (2004)
Spoofs
Frankenstein (1931)
Rocky (1976)
Moonraker (1979)
- Ricky Smith meets nerdy blond with pigtails; exactly the same situation after Jaws emerges from the wrecked funicular in Rio.
Spoofed in
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
"South Park: Asspen (#6.2)" (2002)
- Tad, the ski-champion who tries to bully Stan and challenges him to a race, is based on Roy Stalin from "Better Off Dead", as is the final race sequence, which spoofs the original by having the hero lose.
"Family Guy: I Take Thee, Quagmire (#4.21)" (2006)
- When Peter is on the maid's back, he comes to the stoplight where the twin chinese men meet up to him. Peter puts on his glasses and his gloves, so do the men.
Totally Awesome (2006) (TV)
- the Decathalon bet and the little brother whiz kid
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