In Popular Culture
A play on the title of the film gave the name of a popular 8 bit game, B.C.'s Quest for Tires.
The band Iron Maiden's song "Quest for Fire" (from the 1983 album "Piece of Mind") is inspired by both the film and novel of the same name. An episode of Family Guy parodies the film creating a novelty porno title from it: Quest for Fur. The film is also briefly mentioned in the TV series Psych, when the protagonists mention that they were watching a Rae Dawn Chong movie marathon.
British neo-progressive band IQ's second album The Wake (1985), has a cover painting by the band's lead singer Peter Nicholls which features as its centrepiece the face of Chong as Ika.
In the 1997 film, Armour of God II: Operation Condor, Jackie Chan steals jewels in a cave where he encounters a tribe that wears white and black paint and straw masks resembling that of the Ivaka tribe. The tribe also forces Jackie to marry their rotund priestess after drinking their "holy water".
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