Battle of The Planets - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The third season episode of Robot Chicken, "Squaw Bury Shortcake" has a skit where the character Tiny Harper is convinced to lose his excess weight. This results in him becoming an even more efficient member of the team, much to the chargin of his fellow male teammates.

• The show was voted #42 on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows in 2001.
• The show was voted #62 on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Cartoons in 2004.

• Battle of the Planets receives an homage from the anime-inspired Teen Titans series. In one episode, Robin dons a "flight suit" resembling the Science Ninja team's bird-like uniforms after ejecting from his R-cycle. Robin's boomerang is also similar to Ken The Eagle's boomerang.

• In the Web comic Sluggy Freelance, the main characters, Torg and Riff, accidentally teleport to a dimension filled with anime characters filled with parodies of the main characters from Battle of the Planets as well as Voltron and other anime of the same genre.

• According to Wizard magazine, Battle of the Planets is considered to be one of the 100 greatest animated shows.

• The mecha parody cartoon Megas XLR features a Gatchaman-like team in one episode, "Bad Guy". They reappear in the episode "S-Force SOS", which also features villains resembling Zoltar and Spectra henchmen.

• The Simpsons's opening couch gag from 14 December 2003 is set in a street bench in Japan, and everyone is a famous anime or tokusatsu character: Homer is Ultraman, Marge is Princess from Battle of the Planets, Lisa is Usagi Tsukino, the protagonist from Sailor Moon, Bart is Astro Boy and Maggie is Pikachu from Pokémon. The episode was called "'Tis the Fifteenth Season".

• In 2009, IGN ranked BOTP as the 44th greatest animated show of all time in their Top 100 list.

• Underground rapper Vast Aire references "Phoenix" and "G-Force" in his dis track to the emcee known as Cage titled "Battle of the Planets".

• Rapper The D.O.C.'s track "Whirlwind Pyramid" references G-Force's team tornado manoeuvre.

• In the children's literacy program Super Why, the Super Readers change into their costumes in a "transform" sequence that is reminiscent of G-Force's "transmute" sequence.

• The Rock band "Man or Astro-Man?" on the album "EXPERIMENT ZERO" released a song titled "Evil Plans from Planet Spectra", appearing to use the band's music to destroy Earth. This included audio clips which seemed to be from "Zoltar", like "Now let's show them what our Spectra sound can really do!".

• The Paper + Plastick Records comic series Kill The Wonderhawks is a sendup of Battle Of The Planets. The characters wear similar costumes but act wildly inappropriate in contrast to the squeaky clean demeanors of the characters from the cartoon.