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Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson in Watchmen (2009)

Connections

Watchmen

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Edited from

    • Tales of the Black Freighter (Video 2009)

      The animated short is cut into the main feature film to serve as a "story within a story".

Edited into

    • "5 Second Movies" Watchmen (TV Episode 2009)

      movie is edited into short comedic clip

Featured in

    • "Troldspejlet" Episode #40.2 (TV Episode 2009)

      Jakob Stegelmann looks at upcoming Danish 2009 film releases + clip shown
    • My Chemical Romance: Desolation Row (Music Video 2009)

      Music from the Motion Picture
    • Watchmen: A G4 Special (TV Movie 2009)

      making of/behind the scenes
    • "Siskel & Ebert" Race to Witch Mountain/Sunshine Cleaning/The Last House on the Left/Brothers at War (TV Episode 2009)

      A clip is shown during the Three to See segment.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" All About Steve/Watchmen/12/Bob Funk/Phoebe in Wonderland (TV Episode 2009)

      Clips shown for the review.

Features

    • Haredevil Hare (Short 1948)

      Seen on Ozymandias' monitors.
    • Dough Ray Me-ow (Short 1948)

      Seen on Ozymandias' monitors.
    • Room and Bird (Short 1951)

      Seen on Ozymandias' monitors.
    • The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

      Seen on Ozymandias' monitors
    • The 300 Spartans (1962)

      Seen on Ozymandias' monitors

Referenced in

    • "Sergeant Keroro" Keroro Kiken rinkaiten toppa de arimasu/Keroro gokuhi ninmu kaishi de arimasu (TV Episode 2004)

      English title: "Who Watches the Watch-Pekoponians?"
    • "The Onion" Obama Runs Constructive Criticism Ad Against McCain (TV Episode 2008)

      Scrolling banner says geek voters propose to make the premiere to this movie a national holiday
    • "Mundo Cálico" Guachmen (TV Episode 2009)

      The poster of the episode parodies the bloody plate with Ardorín's face and the episode consists of Cálico preventing Ardorín from gutting him at the end of the film
    • "The Rotten Tomatoes Show" Echelon Conspiracy/Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li/Crossing Over (TV Episode 2009)

      Brett Erlich says they will review this movie next week
    • "Film Junk Podcast" Episode 210: Watchmen and Pontypool (Podcast Episode 2009)

      Reviewed

References

    • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

      A movie theater has posters of this film.
    • The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

      A movie theater has posters of this film.
    • This Island Earth (1955)

      A theatrical poster for the film is seen across the street from the Institute for Extraspatial Studies and the newsstand.
    • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

      The room with Nixon and his generals is a direct reference to the War Room.
    • The Prisoner (TV Series 1967–1968)

      salute of the Watchmen, "Be Seeing You" like in the series

Spin-off

    • Watchmen: The End Is Nigh (Video Game 2009)

    • Tales of the Black Freighter (Video 2009)

    • Under the Hood (Video 2009)

Spoofed in

    • "Electric Spoofaloo" Two and a Half Watchmen (TV Episode 2009)

      Watchmen as a sitcom
    • "South Park" The Coon (TV Episode 2009)

      Grafitti on Obama poster is a parody of the scene where a Nixon poster is shown defaced, some of Cartman's narration mocks Rorschach's.
    • "Robot Chicken" President Hu Forbids It (TV Episode 2009)

      Dr. Manhattan saves people from a bank heist
    • "Smosh" If Movies Were Real (TV Episode 2009)

      Censorship issues regard Dr. Manhattan
    • "Robot Chicken" Immortal (TV Episode 2013)

      If one of the characters picks up the Watchmen movie, "Alan Moore will be very unhappy".

Version of

    • Watchmen (TV Mini Series 2008–2009)

      Based on the comic book series "Watchmen".
    • Watchmen: The End Is Nigh (Video Game 2009)

      Based on the comic book series "Watchmen".
    • Tales of the Black Freighter (Video 2009)

      Based on the comic book series "Watchmen".
    • Under the Hood (Video 2009)

      Based on the comic book series "Watchmen".

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