Cultural References
The film appears in It Came from Hollywood, a 1982 comedy film featuring a compilation of clips from more than 100 B movies from the 1930s to the 1970s, which are shown between scripted segments performed by comedians. Rick Baker's effects from The Incredible Melting Man inspired the makeup effects for a scene in the science fiction-action film RoboCop (1987). During the scene, a criminal attempts to drive RoboCop off the road, but instead accidentally drives into a vat of toxic waste, causing the flesh to melt off his face and hands. These effects were conceived and designed by Rob Bottin, the special makeup effects artist who worked on RoboCop. Bottin was inspired by Baker's work on The Incredible Melting Man, and dubbed the RoboCop effects "the Melting Man" as an homage to the production.
The Incredible Melting Man was featured a seventh season episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a comedy television series in which the characters watch bad movies and make jokes at their expense. The film appeared in the fourth episode of the seventh season, which was broadcast on Comedy Central on February 24, 1996. Michael J. Nelson, the show's head writer who also plays a fictional character of the same name, spoke disparagingly about the film while describing it to the press: "The plot is – and I'm not kidding here – the plot is, a guy is melting. That's the plot."
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