References in Popular Culture
- Unreal Tournament 2004 - When grenades from the grenade launcher cause the death of your adversary, the server responds with the message "Deceased player played with Shooter's happy fun ball".
- World of Warcraft - Certain enemies in the game world drop an item called "Happy Fun Rock", which may be thrown at other players. Also recently added was an Ooze pet which includes the tool tip "Do not touch, sniff, or even look at toxic wasteling for extended periods of time." Which is referring to one of the Happy Fun Ball warnings.
- Spiderweb Software - Many of Jeff Vogel's shareware games have had "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball" included in a 'hints' section.
- One of the levels in the Xbox Live Arcade game N+ is named "Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball", probably referring to the round shock drones introduced in the level.
- "Do not taunt Happy Fun Drepper", used in reference to GNU libc maintainer Ulrich Drepper.
- Girl Genius - The Webcomic references the "The HAPPY FUN BALL of DEATH" in the first panel of the comic from "Get Going, Hero Boy", mentions the return time. BEWARE!.
- Dragon*ConTV - In 2009, the video podcast produced 'Happy Red Matter Ball' a parody of "Happy Fun Ball" related to the J.J. Abrams reboot of the Star Trek movie franchise. The video is based on the "Red Matter" plot device represented as a big red ball, referencing earlier Abrams projects (Alias, Mission Impossible III).
- Engadget - October 21, 2009 post replaced blue colors in AT&T logo with red and added a label stating "Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball" referring to AT&Ts lawsuit over supplier LCD price fixing.
- Superman The Animated Series's Toyman used a rubber ball against criminals, and called it a Happy Fun Ball. And just like one of its warnings in the SNL sketch, it did accelerate to dangerous speeds, enough to crush the armored car.
- In The Dresden Files RPG, both books have notes made by Harry Dresden, Bob the Skull, and Billy Borden. On the page with stats for The Merlin, Harry writes "Do not fight Happy Fun Merlin. Back away slowly."
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