Hulk in Other Media - Popular Culture References

Popular Culture References

  • Saturday Night Live: a season three sketch has John Belushi playing the Hulk when Superman (Bill Murray) and Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) are married and having a dinner party; a 1992 sketch called "Superman's Funeral", where Hulk (portrayed by Chris Farley) is one of the speakers; and a 1994 sketch called "The Incredible Hulk", where Hulk (portrayed by George Foreman) gets bored at a needlessly repetitive sketch.
  • Attack of the Killer Tomatoes episode "Tomato from the Black Lagoon" (1990), Chad Finletter sees a man getting angry and impatient while waiting for a plane, then the man starts to turn into a green muscular monster as he gets angry.
  • Dexter's Laboratory: a character named "The Infraggable Krunk" (voiced by Frank Welker) made a few appearances in season one and shared a segment called "The Justice Friends" (1996) with Major Glory (a parody of Captain America voiced by Rob Paulsen) and Valhallen (a parody of Thor voiced by Tom Kenny).
  • Adventures of Ricardo short (1996): originally seen on MTV's Cartoon Sushi and available on The Animation Show DVD, the title character professes his love of the character, renamed "The Incwedibul Hunk" here due to Ricardo's speech impediment.
  • MADtv: a season three skit showed a man (portrayed by Will Sasso) becoming a miniature version of the Hulk (portrayed by Alex Borstein), and a skit in 2004, Bruce Banner (portrayed by Ike Barinholtz) tries to create a serum that will prevent him from becoming the Hulk, unfortunately the serum causes him to turn into a homosexual Hulk (portrayed by Paul Vogt).
  • Family Guy: The season one episode "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" (1999), a part in Peter Griffin's obviously made-up story to Lois Griffin has him turning into the Hulk to attack the devilish manager of the place he's supposed to have Stewie's birthday; The end credits for the episode "Wasted Talent" (2000) are run while Joe Harnell's "The Lonely Man" plays in homage to The Incredible Hulk (TV series); it also shows Stewie hitchhiking along the side of the freeway รก la David Banner; In the episode "A Fish out of Water" (2001), Peter buys a fishing boat and gives it the name of "S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and The Incredible Hulk put it together"; In the episode "Emission Impossible" (2001), Peter asks Lois's sister if he can have her husband's shirts so that he can imitate Hulk ripping his shirt off throughout; And the 2011 episode, "And I'm Joyce Kinney", replaces the regular Family Guy opening with a spoof of the Hulk TV series opening, placing Stewie as David Banner, Peter as the Hulk and Tom Tucker as Jack McGee.
  • In the 2002 Scrubs "My Student", after the medical student assigned to J.D. made numerous mistakes, J.D. gets angry and transforms into the Hulk
  • The character appears in the 2005 Robot Chicken episodes "The Deep End" and "Badunkadunk" voiced by Seth Green
  • In the 2006 feature film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Lil' Bow Wow has a Hulk-themed car
  • Hulk appears in the 2007 South Park episode trilogy "Imaginationland"
  • Simpsons 2008 episode "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes", a Hulk-parody character, called the "Mulk", is shown fighting another ingenious Marvel parody, "The Thung" (Homer turns into the Hulk in I Am Furious (Yellow))
  • In the 2008 parody film Disaster Movie, the character is played by Roland Kickinger
  • In the Rat-Man episode "The Incredible Rat-Man", a man transforms into a Hulk-like creature with blue skin and eyes. The transformation is similar to that of David Banner's. A general (resembling General Thunderbolt Ross) tries to stop him. "The Lonely Man" is played during the end credits.
  • Iron Man 2 (2010): when Nick Fury debriefs Tony Stark, the screen on the right shows the report of the Hulk's attack on Culver University
  • In the 2010 Castle episode "Tick, Tick, Tick...", Martha Rodgers (played by Susan Sullivan) watches a video of the pilot episode of The Incredible Hulk, where she plays Dr. Marks
  • Thor (2011): Dr. Erik Selvig declares he once knew a pioneer in gamma radiation until S.H.I.E.L.D. showed up, and he had not been heard from since
  • In a Raising Hope (2012) season three episode, Virginia Chance (Martha Plimpton) insists that the "green guy on the can of peas" is the Hulk, and that he gets angry when people do not buy his vegetables

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