Fantasy Island - Parodies and Cultural References

Parodies and Cultural References

• The animated TV series South Park has referenced Fantasy Island on three occasions.

• In the season 6 episode of Wings, titled "The Waxman Cometh", Lowell buys a waxwork, and Mr. Roarke is sitting on a bench in the president's stand. Antonio asks "when was Ricardo Montalban the president?" to which Brian replies "wait a minute, where's vice president Tattoo?

• Canada's comedy duo of Wayne and Shuster parodied Fantasy Island as Fantasy Motel.

• The Micallef Program featured a sketch entitled 'Fantasy Traffic Island' in which Shaun and Francis asked a pedestrian what his wildest fantasy was. He just wanted to get to the golf shop across the road.

• In the Looney Tunes compilation Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island, Daffy Duck found a wishing well, and started charging people to make wishes. When the business took off, he started wearing a white suit. Speedy Gonzales took on the role of Tattoo.

• SCTV produced a parody of Fantasy Island. Eugene Levy played a Mr. Roarke-like character, & John Candy played Pattoo, a Tattoo-like character.

• In "The Cryonic Woman", an episode of the animated TV series, Futurama, a reference is made to characters returning from Fantasy Planet, where "for one beautiful night".

• In the entertainment TV show El Lavadero, on the Colombian TV network RCN, there is a segment called Su Isla de la Fantasía (Spanish for "Your Fantasy Island"), which is presented by "Señor Ron" (a Mr. Roarke-like character') and Pelotú (pronounced pell-o-TOO, an imitation of Tattoo).

• In a MadTV sketch parodying the ABC drama Lost, Roarke and Tattoo emerge from the jungle at the end of the skit, with Roarke welcoming them, and announcing that the survivors are actually on Fantasy Island. Tattoo, on seeing their downed plane, exclaims, "The Plane! The Plane is in the ocean!".

• In George Lopez, Vic is seen in a white tuxedo and George walks in and says, "Welcome to Fantasy Island," and making a series of remarks related to the show, such as, "Boss boss, de plane, de plane!"

• In Robot Chicken, Mr. Roarke and Tattoo appear in an episode, with guests stating that they would like obscure, inappropriate fantasies, such as being able to have sex with a donkey or to administer a violent beating to Roarke.

• In the 1998 film A Night at the Roxbury, Chris Kattan's character Doug Watabi yells to his father "Are you seeing planes?...Is your name Tattoo because I swear to God you're living on Fantasy Island" Then Will Ferrell's character Steve says "Man, that was a sweet show!" In which Doug adds "Yeah it was, wasn't it?"

• In the Entourage episode "Fantasy Island", Turtle can be heard saying "Ze plane, ze plane" to Vince as a plane flies overhead.

• In an episode of Bizarre, comedian John Byner plays Tattoo giving then-NBC executive Fred Silverman a wish. When Silverman asks for a decent line-up, Byner-as-Tattoo tells him "we only do fantasies, not friggin miracles!"

• In the film Deep Blue Sea, Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) likens the research facility to Fantasy Island, and quotes "De plane, de plane!". When Thomas Jane's character Carter fails tot understand the reference, Russell remarks that he is getting too old.

• In the Disney Channel show, Phineas and Ferb, produced an episode titled "de plane, de plane".

• On the Gorillaz' Plastic Beach website, Tattoo can be found standing in front of the lift, saying "De lift, boss!".

• In the Doug episode, "Doug's In The Money", Doug Funnie finds an envelope containing a large sum of money, and later daydreams that he used it to start his own island resort called Funnie Island. In the fantasy, Doug stands in for Mr. Roarke, and a miniature version of Roger is Tattoo.

• The introduction to Dr. Dre's solo album The Chronic features Snoop Dogg referring to former N.W.A. manager Jerry Heller and rapper Eazy-E as Mr. Roarke and Tattoo. The metaphor was related to Dr. Dre being released from his contract with Ruthless Records.