Skeksis - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Skeksis have made several appearances in other media, including television and video games.

  • In South Park season 10 episode 7, episode entitled "Tsst", Ms. Cartman is enlisting the help of the TV nanny show, Nanny 911. During the opening of the show, several of the nannies of are shown and the last one to be shown is "Nanny Skexis."
  • A homage to the Skeksis show up in the MMORPG World of Warcraft as the race called the Arakkoa, living in a place called, "Skettis".
  • On their 2005 album Alien, Canadian metal band Strapping Young Lad included a song called "Skeksis." The song has melodic similarities with the film's main theme song. The band's frontman Devin Townsend later used the Dark Crystal theme's melody again during the song Gato off his 2009 album Ki.
  • Mike Ski, lead vocalist for Erie, PA hardcore band Brother's Keeper, fashioned his unique vocal style after the Skeksis voices.
  • The Halosians, a species inspired by the Skeksis, appear in an episode of Farscape, a production also using Jim Henson's special FX company. Crichton actually refers to these creatures as Skeksis in both the third series episode 'Thanks for Sharing' and the issue of the Farscape comic "The Virus".
  • Skeksis "at the rave" are referenced in the Scissor Sisters song "Return to Oz".

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