Smell-O-Vision - References in Television

References in Television

The host of Emeril Live once reminded the studio audience that although they could smell the delicious scents of his cooking, the home audience couldn't because they didn't have smellovision.

Steve Urkel invents a helmet-based smellovision device on an episode of the sitcom, Family Matters and convinces Carl Winslow to try it out. As usual, however, the device quickly goes haywire, burning Carl's hair in the process.

On the animated sitcom Futurama, which takes place in the year 3000 AD, Smell-O-Vision has successfully taken off. Harold Zoid, a washed up movie actor, comments he flopped after they invented "Smell-O-Vision". There is a second reference when the logo is shown at the start of another episode. It reads at the bottom "Now in Smell-O-Vision" and another has the sentence "Smell-O-Vision users insert nostril tubes now".

In 1995, the BBC's Children in Need brought scratch and sniff smell-o-vision to the masses. Through the Saturday evening family show Noel's House Party, viewers could experience various odours to complement their television experience.