Fantastic Voyage - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Many films, television shows, cartoons and video games parodied Fantastic Voyage:

  • A 1980 episode of Saturday Night Live parodies the story with a miniaturized team of dentists sent to fix Anwar Sadat's teeth. Host Kirk Douglas plays the team leader.
  • The film is alluded to in Season 4 of the medical drama series House, where the Emmy Award-winning 2008 episode "House's Head" jokes about exploring a patient's brain in a miniaturized submarine.
  • The show is parodied in Season 2, Episode 25 of the animated Nickelodeon TV series Rugrats, and Season 1, Episode 14 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, as well as in The Fairly Oddparents episode entitled "Tiny Timmy".
  • Two Ren & Stimpy episodes parody the story, namely "The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball" from season 2 and "Blazing Entrails" from season 4.
  • In "Journey to the Centre of the Punk" of The Mighty Boosh, Howard and Lester shrink to microscopic size to fight a malignant jazz cell infecting Vince.
  • It was also parodied on The Simpsons episode "Treehouse Of Horror XV". "Parasites Lost", Episode 2 of Season 3 of Futurama, is another Fantastic Voyage parody.
  • "Fruitastic VoyOrange", Episode 12 of Season 1 of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange was also a Fantastic Voyage Parody.
  • "Fantastic Boyage" was also a Fantastic Voyage parodied episode of Dexter's Laboratory.
  • "Operation: S.P.R.O.U.T." was also a Fantastic Voyage parodied episode of Codename: Kids Next Door.
  • "The Death Camp of Tolerance" was also a Fantastic Voyage parodied episode of South Park.
  • "Unremarkable Voyage" was also a Fantastic Voyage parodied episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
  • It was also parodied in SpongeBob SquarePants in two episodes, as "Squidtastic Voyage" and "The Inside Job".
  • It was also parodied in The Mask: The Animated Series as "Fantashtick Voyage".
  • "The Journey" episode of Animorphs is based on, and mentions, Fantastic Voyage/
  • In the "Emission Impossible" episode of Family Guy, Stewie miniaturizes himself and a spaceship to enter Peter's body and prevent Peter and Lois from having another baby.
  • It was also parodied in the entire show, Ozzy & Drix.
  • The Epcot attraction Body Wars was based on the film.
  • The movie's title is parodied in the fifth novel in the Franny K. Stein series, Frantastic Voyage.

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