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Indiana Jones ''Indiana Jones'' is an American media franchise based on the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., a fictional professor of archaeology, that began in 1981 with the film '' Raiders of the Lost Ark''. In 1984, a prequel, '' Th ...
'' franchise has become part of American popular culture. References have been made in television series, movies, music and other material since the original film was released. Some of the most parodied scenes include: *From ''
Raiders of the Lost Ark ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It stars Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronal ...
'', the opening adventure in the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors, including seizing the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol and escaping from the different traps, including the rolling boulder trap. *From ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', the final sequence where the
Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant,; Ge'ez: also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, is an alleged artifact believed to be the most sacred relic of the Israelites, which is described as a wooden chest, covered in pure gold, with an e ...
is packed into crate 9906753 and stored in Hangar 51. *From '' Temple of Doom'', the scene where Jones rolls under a closing door and reaches back under to pick up his
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Canon

*'' The Clone Wars'': **The Headpiece to the Staff of Ra (the headpiece on Senator Kharrus' staff) and the Ark of the Covenant appear in the first-season episodes "The Gungan General" and "Liberty on Ryloth" respectively, while the Season Three finale "Wookiee Hunt" includes the Crystal Skull of Akator from ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' in the Trandoshan trophy room. **The dance sequence in the Season Three episode "Hunt for Ziro" was inspired by the opening scene of ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''. **Season Four's "Friends and Enemies" sees bounty hunter Cad Bane examining a fedora while looking for a new hat. **In Season Five's fifth episode, "Tipping Points", Hondo Ohnaka's yacht Fortune and Glory, first appears, named in reference to the line from ''Temple of Doom''. **In Season Six's third episode, "Fugitive", droid AZ-3's reaction to Fives taking out a group of clones channels Henry Jones's when his son guns down Nazis at Castle Brunwald: "Look what you did... I can't believe what you did..." **In Season Six story arc "The Disappeared" (by
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), Peteen's dual role as both High Seneschal and secretive cultist was inspired by Chattar Lal while the script called for the protagonists to ride off "like the end of The Last Crusade." *''
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'': **Much of the structure in the latter half of the second season's half episodes was made with ''Last Crusade'' in mind, including "The Honorable Ones", "The Forgotten Droid" and "The Call". The Malachor Sith Temple from the season finale "Twilight of the Apprentice" was designed to be similar to the Temple of the Sun, with several challenges protecting the sought after Sith holocron. **Arihnda Pryce shares Irina Spalko's look. **The Holy Grail can be seen in the episode "Through Imperial Eyes". It was later identified by name in the episode's Rebels Recon behind-the-scenes video. *''
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'': Han Solo is chased through a corridor on his freighter by a spherical rathtar which reuses the sound effect of the ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' rolling boulder. **In the LEGO video game adaptation, Solo retrieves his hair before a door closes down, a nod to the ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' spike chamber escape. Also, the Ark of the Covenant can be seen in the background when Rey first picks up her lightsaber at Maz Kanata's castle at Takodana. *''
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'': The Master Codebreaker who Finn, Rose Tico and BB-8 search for at the casino in Canto Bight, wears a white tuxedo with red boutonnière, resembling the attire that Indiana Jones wears in the opening sequence of ''Temple of Doom'', as noted by Lucasfilm Ltd. senior content and asset specialist Phil Szostak. *'' Solo: A Star Wars Story'': One of Dryden Vos' Crimson Dawn henchmen is named Toht Ra after both the Gestapo agent Arnold Ernst Toht and the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra he burns his hand on. The Chachapoyan Fertility Idol is also present among Vos' collection. *''
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'': In "Chapter 1," Jawas drive their sandcrawler into a canyon on Arvala-7 in an attempt to keep the titular Din Djarin from boarding. The sequence mirrors Indy's attempt to board a tank and liberate his friends from Nazis in ''Last Crusade''.


Legends

*Indiana Jones is an unlockable character in '' LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga''. *The famous non-canon comic "Into the Great Unknown" features Indiana Jones and Short Round discovering the remains of Han Solo on Earth. *''LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2'' features a cameo by Jones. *''LEGO Star Wars: Bombad Bounty'' depicts Boba Fett trying to cross a Death Star hallway to get to Jar Jar Binks. However, he is stopped by three things: Han Solo chasing a small group of stormtroopers, several more stormtroopers chasing Han Solo, and Indiana Jones running from a boulder. Fett gets run over by the boulder, as he attempts to cross the hallway after Jones has passed through. Additionally, Mola Ram is a patron of the Mos Eisley cantina and Darth Vader sees ''LEGO Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick'' on his hospital TV before changing the channel. *'' Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II'': The Emperor encourages one of his royal guard to use their "Staff of Ra" in fixing an overhead vent. *'' LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars'': There are three references to Indiana Jones in this game. In the level "The Hidden Enemy", the player must stand on two buttons to reveal Indiana Jones and Henry Jones Sr. tied to a chair behind a bookshelf to collect a special object – a homage to the Castle Brunwald scene in ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade''. The second reference is in the level "Ambush". To obtain another special collectible, the player must enter a room similar to the Well of Souls, and find the object inside the Ark of the Covenant by activating it – a reference to ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. Also, in the bonus mission "Hostage Crisis", the player must activate a screen, and make his/her character jump to make the Indiana Jones on the screen jump as well to complete a small minigame – a strong similarity to the Xbox 360 Kinect and another homage to Indiana Jones. *''
Return of the Ewok ''Return of the Ewok'' is an unreleased 1982 mockumentary short, written, produced and directed by David Tomblin, starring Warwick Davis as himself in a fictionalized account of how he got the role of Wicket W. Warrick in ''Return of the Jedi''.' ...
'': In this mockumentary short starring Warrick Davis, the poster of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' can be seen on producer Robert Watts' wall. *''
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'': The first trailer shows Han Solo trying on Indiana Jones' fedora.


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dismisses Adolf Hitler as "digging for trinkets in the desert", a nod to the Nazis' search for the Ark of the Covenant at Tanis. Producer
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stated that the film's crew took inspiration from ''Raiders'' to make the audience feel the film was a period piece. *''
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obtaining the orb is an homage to the opening scene of ''Raiders'', later on with Quill at one point describing the orb as having an "Ark of the Covenant, Maltese Falcon vibe." *'' Avengers: Age of Ultron'':
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's music score for the film pays homage to
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' score for ''Raiders'' (as well as ''Star Wars'' and '' Superman: The Movie''). *'' Agent Carter'': In the episode " Better Angels" a mention is made of a Professor "Abner Brody" who travels to Peru. The name is a
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and National Museum curator
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. *'' Avengers: Infinity War'': When
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's neck, his palm is severely burned thanks to Strange's protective spell, in a manner similar to how Toht received the imprint of the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra on his hand in ''Raiders''. *'' Avengers: Endgame'': When War Machine and
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time travel back to 2014 to obtain the Orb before Star-Lord on Morag, War Machine warns his companion that the Orb's tomb must have skeletons on spikes and traps because it's how many other temples with artifacts are protected, indirectly referencing ''Raiders''. * ''
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'': The second-season episode '' Science/Fiction'' sees
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recruiting physicist and
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. One of the shelves in Doug's workshop displays a
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Short Round This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones (franchise), ''Indiana Jones'' series. Introduced in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' Indiana Jones Indiana Jones (character), Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford), the titular chara ...
. Doug, known at the TVA as Ouroboros (O.B.), is played by
Ke Huy Quan Ke Huy Quan (born August 20, 1971), also known as Jonathan Ke Quan (), is a Vietnam-born American actor and stunt choreographer. Quan played Short Round in ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' (1984) and Data in ''The Goonies'' (1985)''.' ...
, who played Short Round in ''Temple of Doom.''


Film

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'': The movie parodies the flight map sequence of Indiana Jones *''
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'': When Buzz is trying to outrun the globe, he is parodying the famous boulder scene in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *'' Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel'': The poster of ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' is seen. *''
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'': The scene with the idol and sandbag from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is parodied when Pip the Rat tries to get the cheese off a mouse trap. *''
Chicken Little "Henny Penny", more commonly known in the United States as "Chicken Little" and sometimes as "Chicken Licken", is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end ...
'': A clip from the ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' where Indiana Jones escapes from the giant boulder at the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors is seen on a theater at Oakey Oaks before the boulder-like water tank of a destroyed water tower destroys the screen during the chaos caused by Chicken Little and his claims call that the sky is falling. *''
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'': After Ginger and Rocky escape from Mrs. Tweedy's pie machine, she reaches under a closing door to retrieve her hat similar to Indy's way to retrieve his fedora in ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''. *''
Condorito ''Condorito'' (''Little Condor'' in Spanish) is a Chilean comic book and comic strip that features an anthropomorphic condor living in a fictitious town named Pelotillehue—a typical small Chilean provincial town. He is meant to be a representat ...
'': La Película: When Condorito and Coné are at the jungle temple to recover the amulet of hypnosis for Emperor Molusco, they are chased by Condorito's ancestor, who is now a mummy. Immediately, wearing an attire similar to that of Indiana Jones, Condorito gets involved with Coné and the Condor Mummy in a mine cart chase which references ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''. *''
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'': When Felonious Gru suspects that Eduardo Perez is actually the supposedly deceased supervillain El Macho, he follows him to his secret lair during his party of Cinco de Mayo, where he finds that to access to the lair, he has to go through a platform that activates the door access code sounds music, very similar to the wall-mounted poison dart launchers chamber of the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''
Dora and the Lost City of Gold ''Dora and the Lost City of Gold'' is a 2019 American adventure comedy film directed by James Bobin. It is a live-action adaptation of the Nick Jr. animated television series ''Dora the Explorer'' as well as the Nickelodeon animated series '' Do ...
'': The film's climax takes inspiration from ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' – upon finding a part of Parapata's treasure, Alejandro Gutierrez fails to open the doors leading to the city's greatest treasure and falls into a deathly trap while Dora Márquez succeeds on opening it, to which Princess Kawillaka assures her that she chose wisely, much like when the Grail Knight congrats Indiana Jones for selecting the Holy Grail whereas Walter Donovan selected the False Grail. *'' DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp'': As well as the utilizing the same font as the ''Indiana Jones'' films, promotional material – including one by ''Indiana Jones'' movie poster artist
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sporting a fedora and carrying a rope over one shoulder similar to Jones and his bullwhip which does not occur in the feature itself. *'' Fanboys'': While the plot of the movie concerns a group of ''
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'' fans breaking into Skywalker Ranch to see a rough cut of Episode I in 1998, ''Indiana Jones'' items are seen and mentioned as being part of the ranch's prop collection. Lines from the movies are quoted and the three theatrical posters sit on the wall of
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's office. *''
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'': When his bag is dismissed as a purse, one character insists it is a satchel like Indiana Jones carries. *''
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'': A duck-themed variation of
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's ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' movie poster can be seen on the titular Howard's wall named ''Breeders of the Lost Stork''. *''
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'': JJ and Victor Marquez allude to ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' as they engage in a fistfight near a moving plane in an airfield. *''
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'': The titular alien can be seen giving
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movie tips out of Hangar 51 while
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is later mentioned near the close of the movie. *'' Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams'': OSS agent Carmen can be seen picking up the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol from a pile of gold. *''
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'': When Donkey gives accidentally the alarm to the assistants of the Fairy Godmother in the latter's dream factory, Shrek along with Donkey and Puss in Boots escape by a closing door, but Puss reaches under the door to retrieve his hat like Indy make in ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''. *'' Starzan: Shouting Star of the Jungle'': In this 1989 Filipino comedy film, there is a character named Indiana Jones. *''
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'': While escaping the hateful museum taxidermist Millicent Clyde, Paddington Bear reaches under a closing door to retrieve his hat. *''
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'' – LingLing IronFan is being chased by the Rose Cinderella when it rolls. *'' The Lost City'': Main tap and parody of the entrie Indiana Jones franchise in a 21st century modern environment. *''
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'' – The opening scene is a parody of many of the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark. *'' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'': The Marshall College statue of
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greets Sam Witwicky (played by
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) when he and his family arrive at college. *''
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'': The opening scenes parody the ''Temple'' scenes with
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attempting to swipe an Oscar statue from the temple, and then is chased by a boulder through various locations. *''
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'' films. *The short films ''
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'', '' Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom'' and the features ''
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'' and ''
Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas ''Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas'' ( es, Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del Rey Midas; released outside of the UK and US as ''Tad Jones: The Hero Returns'' and ''Tad 2: The Secret of King Midas'' among other titles) is a 2017 Spani ...
'' are parodies of the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise. *''
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'' — Mr. Incredible is being chased by the Omnidroid when it rolls. *''
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'' – Harry gets his hand burned by the hot door knob. * ''
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'' – when Dwayne Johnson's character is searching the Nazi bunker the crate from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is briefly visible by his torch showing the number 9906753.


Television

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'': ** Season 2's "Of Ice and Men" sees Francine Smith discovering a secret passage beneath the bathroom she shares with her husband Stan. Though the entrance to the passage parodies the opening of ''
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'', the passage itself parodies elements from the Indiana Jones films; Francine discovers the body of their former maid Maria appearing to have been impaled by a booby trap the way Satipo meets his end in ''
Raiders of the Lost Ark ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It stars Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronal ...
''. Additionally, the end of the passage is guarded by a knight who tests Francine's worthiness to proceed, as in the conclusion of ''
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'' two years later.) ** The season 2 episode "Black Mystery Month" features extensive parodies of both Indiana Jones and ''
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''. Notably, one scene from the episode sees Stan Smith and his son Steve parody the Map Room sequence from ''Raiders'', though Professor Peanut's monocle, their stand-in for the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra, sets fire to their paper map. ** The season 2 episode "Joint Custody" features Smith and his alien companion Roger tied back to back like Indiana Jones and his father were in ''Last Crusade''. To get out of their predicament, Roger gets the idea to copy a scene he "saw in a movie" and simply kicks over a gas lamp to set the building on fire, similar to what occurred at Castle Brunwald. ** Stan dressed as Jones to search beneath the house for gold he believed buried there by
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in Season 3's "Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold." ** The (non-canonical) season 3 episode "Tearjerker," a send-up of spy movies like the
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series, sees a plot by the villain Tearjerker (Roger) to flood the market with terrible movies. One of the movies mentioned would be "Bark of the Covenant," a remake of ''Raiders'' featuring a
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in Karen Allen's role. ** Season 7's Christmas episode "Season's Beatings" includes a scene in which Roger drinks eggnog from a golden bejeweled goblet he calls his "pimp cup," styled like the false Grails from ''Last Crusade''. At the end of the episode, it is revealed to be the actual Holy Grail, earning an excommunicated Stan readmittance to the Catholic Church. ** In the season 7 episode "The Kidney Stays in the Picture," Smith's daughter Hayley goes out drinking with her mother and her mother's old friend Kelly. Trying to prove she can keep up with Kelly's hard-partying lifestyle, she joins the older women in several rounds of shots. Clearly already drunk, she is shown shouting "Pistore!" for a moment to down one more round, a nod to Marion Ravenwood's introduction in ''Raiders'' (right down to the mispronunciation of the Nepalese "Bistarai"), though, after placing the glass down, she keels over from kidney failure. ** Season 8's "The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone and His Boy Jabari" features Roger's attempt to impress Francine with his persona "Twill Ongenbone," receiving a doctorate in archaeology at the beginning of the episode and then staging the discovery of a primitive society beneath a dig site. Throughout the episode, Roger marks the persona by dressing as Indiana Jones. (This re-used a costume he had previously worn in Season 6's "An Incident at Owl Creek.") ** The season 12 Christmas episode "Ninety North, Zero West" features Santa Claus—a villain in the show's canon—searching for mystical relics from the
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beneath the North Pole. His scheme to enslave kidnapped children to find the eyes of Humbaba in the mine mirrors the
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''. The Smith family escape from the mine on rope ladders, ultimately casting Santa back down into the pit, the same way the heroes and Mola Ram climb the broken rope-bridge. ** Season 15's "300," the 300th episode of the show produced, is the culmination of a long-ongoing story arc relating to the "golden turd," a bejeweled McGuffin that resembles plenty of artifacts from the Indy series. In the episode, the peace brought by the artifact is protected by the "Knights Turdlar," a parody of the
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, who are only called out directly by name in the Indiana Jones tie-in novels but whose numbers likely included the Grail Knight from ''Last Crusade''. Roger the alien is broken into pieces and scattered across the world, so the Smith family embarks on a trip to return and reassemble the pieces, indirectly mirroring the plot of ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.'' Notably, Roger's appearance is based on the "little gray men" description of aliens typical to Western pop culture, which also appears in ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'', making Roger's head itself something of a reference. ** In Season 16's "Shakedown Steve," Steve and brother-in-law Jeff Fischer gather the necessary ingredients for making grilled cheese sandwiches, including stealing a loaf of bread from a blind man feeding ducks in the park. Jeff eyes the loaf in the man's lap and adjusts a handful of leaves to swap out similar weights, mimicking Indy's stealing the idol in the opening sequence of ''Raiders''. ** Fearing Steve has lost all sense of empathy in season 16's "Cry Baby," Stan attempts to make him cry using what he calls "the Indiana Jones technique," burning Steve's chest by thrusting a lit torch at him and shouting "Wake up, Indy!" the way Short Round breaks Indy's brainwashing (and that of the child
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) in ''Temple of Doom''. *''
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'': Season 1, Episode 13 "Hello Nice Warners": The Animaniacs parody of Raiders of the Lost Ark complete with spoof music and similar costumes. The spoof Indiana Jones is called "Illinois Smith", Indiana Jones was originally going to be called Indiana Smith. *''
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'': **"The Precious Fragmentation" has the main characters returning from a garage sale with a box of random television and movie collectibles. Included is an Indiana Jones connect-the-dots book. **"The 21-Second Excitation" has the characters watching ''
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'' on TV with Penny at the beginning of the episode and the plot involves them going to a screening of the film with 21 seconds of previously unseen footage. " The Raiders March" by
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is used twice, at the beginning and at the end when Sheldon Cooper steals the film reels and flees with the others as they are being chased by the audience waiting to see the film. ''
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'' is also directly referenced and Leonard Hofstadter is called
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. **"The Raiders Minimization" has Sheldon showing it "
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" to his girlfriend Amy for the first time. Though, she enjoys it she points out the Nazis still would have found the Ark and died if Indiana wasn't in the film, ruining it for the characters. *'' Bluey'': **"Yoga Ball" has a scene where Bluey, Bingo and Bandit (who is an archeologist) play a game called Raiders, in which Bandit rolls the titular ball down the hall with the children running away from it. This is an obvious homage to ''
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'' and the famous scene of Indiana being chased by the boulder. **"Perfect" has a short flashback scene in which Bandit asks the family for imaginary tickets. When Bluey doesn't present one, he throws her off of the couch and onto a nearby cushion before saying "no ticket". This is an homage to ''
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'' and the scene in the zeppelin in which Indiana throws Vogel out of the window for not having a ticket. *''
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'' identifies ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' as a documentary while discussing the World War II set ''Wolfenstein'' series. *''
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'' had an entire episode dedicated to spoofing ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' entitled ''Daytona Jones and the Pearl of Wisdom''. *''
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'': The show was originally pitched starring Kit Colby, "an Indiana Jones type of guy, complete with the leather jacket and the fluffy collar" before he was turned into Chip in the final version and given an Indiana Jones fedora on top of Colby's outfit. *''
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'' **Season 2, Episode 9 "Raiders of the Lost Art": The title of the episode is a direct reference, and the plot involves time travelers scaring
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into quitting film school, which in turn causes historian character Nate Heywood (inspired by "impossibly handsome historian" Indy to take up his career) and scientist character Ray Palmer (inspired similarly by ''
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'') to abruptly lose all their useful knowledge. **Season 4, Episode 13: "Egg MacGuffin": Nate Heywood and Zari Tomaz are sent on a 1930s explorer-involved mission under the cover identities of Dr. Henry Jones, Jr., and Marion Ravenwood. The episode also includes Nazis threatening torture, a frying pan to the head, a "where does it hurt"-esque kissing scene, and a whip. *'' Digman!'': The entire show, set in a world in the 21st century where archaeologists are all celebrities, is a parody of ''Indiana Jones'' tropes and cliches of the adventure genre but the show's pilot episode explicitly has an appearance by a character called Indiana Jones. Later in the episode, protagonist Rip Digman uses his own love of snakes as an example to point out that he is a legally distinct individual with no similarities to anyone else. *''
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'' character River Song is said to be inspired by Indiana Jones, being an adventurer with a doctorate in archaeology. Especially in the episode "
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", a secret passage opening under Stonehenge mirrors various scenes in the films. **''
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'': ***In " Call Me the Doctor", actor Matt Smith reveals that part of the costume of his character, the (Eleventh) Doctor, was inspired by the Indiana Jones' Barnett College teaching attire. ***" When Time Froze" reveals that the script for the episode "
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" contains the action "The Doctor walks through an Indiana Jones tunnel". *''
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'': The episode broadcast on 27 December 2011 has a character in hospital remarking that "This sort of thing never happened to Indiana Jones." The 19 June 2012 edition depicted a family watching an undisclosed film which had "The Raiders March" playing over it. *''
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'': "The Big Bash" — Timmy (dressed like Indy), Cosmo, and Wanda search for Peruvian coffee beans in a temple, much like in the opening scene from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''
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'': **''A Fistful of Meg'' — Meg defeats the bully, Michael Pulaski by exposing her grotesque body which causes his face to melt off being a reference to Toht's death in ''
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'' **''Fifteen Minutes of Shame'' — Peter and Meg Griffin paraphrase Indiana Jones and Lao Che's exchange about the antidote to the poison. **''Stuck Together, Torn Apart'' — A parody of ''Raiders of the Arks Map Room scene occurs when Peter Griffin affixes the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra to a stick in the attic and uses the window to create the beam of light. **''When You Wish Upon a Weinstein'' — The episode includes a cutaway to a parody of Indiana Jones trying to claim the golden idol. **''Blind Ambition'' — Peter Griffin's fight with a giant chicken climaxes on an airport and the pair brawl around the
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. **''Peter's Got Woods'' — The episode includes a crate being stored at Hangar 51. **''Jungle Love'' — Peter, Lois and Chris Griffin with Jock Lindsey escape from angered villagers the same way as Indiana Jones fleeing the Hovitos. The sequence keeps the music intact, and Meg Griffin is left behind to suffer a death like Barranca. **''The Courtship of Stewie's Father'' — Rescuing child slaves from a Disney World attraction involves Peter and Stewie Griffin reenacting the ''Temple of Doom'' minecart sequence, including Michael Eisner trying to take Peter's heart like
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. **''Stewie B. Goode'' — Stewie Griffin, as Short Round, recalls being in
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with Indiana Jones and Willie Scott. When Scott starts screaming as the ''Temple of Doom'' roof spikes close in, Griffin makes an aside that she's only there because she's sleeping with the director. **''Road to Germany'' — A sequence in which Brian and Stewie Griffin, and Mort Goldman exit their crashing plane mimics the same situation from ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' complete with raft, "We're not sinking, we're crashing!" quote and Slalom on Mt. Humol from the movie's score. **''Seahorse Seashell Party'' — To pass the time during a hurricane, Peter suggests a family singalong to "the opening chase scene from ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade''. He then plays the track from the score on his
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and " sings" along for nearly a full minute before Meg opens a soda and interrupts. **''Hannah Banana'' — A spoof of the "Love you" student occurs when Chris and Peter are feuding at the breakfast table. Chris closes his eyes to reveal the words "Hate You" written on his eyelids. *''
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'': Season 2, Episode 24; "Microphonies" Fanboy receives a box with a microphone in the mail. As he opens it, he reaches into the box by making a hole, and says "Kali Ma......". Chum Chum then follows and says "Om namah Shivay, om namah Shivay." *''
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'': In "Revelation Zero Part 1", FBI agent Mark Benson visits a therapist who has several Mighty Muggs figures from various franchises on her windowsill. The Arab Swordsman is amongst them. *''
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'': "The One with the Cooking Class" — A store clerk flirting with Ross Geller claims that, as a paleontologist who works out, he is like Indiana Jones. Ross agrees, and later likens himself to Jones again prior to his date with the clerk, telling her that he'll grab his whip. *''
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'': The episode "
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" contains a story entitled ''Raiders of the Lost Arcade''. *''
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'': In the Season 4 premiere, "
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", Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Autolycus (Bruce Campbell) break into the booby-trapped home of a warlord to steal a pouch. The whole scene is an homage to the opening of ''Raiders'', with Hercules playing the Satipo role (Sorbo even mimicks Alfred Molina's greedy hand gestures) and Autolycus filling in for Indy. *''I Want My Own Room'': "Bird Hide" sees a buried item that looks like it could be a Second World War bomb, prompting one of the hosts to claim they need a hero. This cues "The Raiders March", and when the "bomb" is discovered to simply be a bottle, the graphic "Indiana Elliot and the Bottle of Doom" appears on-screen. *''
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'': "
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" — Will McKenzie states that he once waited three hours to go on the " Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland Paris". *'' Indiana Jones: The True Story'': As well as using the ''Indiana Jones'' name for the title, the documentary on
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also includes clips from the ''Indiana Jones'' movies. *''
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'': Someone speculates who would win in a match between
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. *''
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'': Of Sawyer's nicknames for Walt Lloyd, Short Round is included in the first season's eighteenth episode. *''
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'': "Legend of the Lost Art" is a parody of ''Raiders'' as well as a reference to Tom Selleck being selected for the Indiana Jones role before it was prevented by his commitments to do ''Magnum, P.I.'' *''
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'': The observer of a fight between an archaeologist's son and another man comments that it is "better than Indiana Jones". *'' Mickey Mouse Club House'': In season 4 episode 2 titled "Quest for the Crystal Mickey!" Mickey Mouse dresses as Indiana Jones and calls himself Kansas City Mickey in reference to Indy's name, the whole episode then follows themes from the Indiana Jones movie series". *''
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'': The show's documentary opens with "The Map Room: Dawn" playing. Also in the series pilot, neutered cat Marion attempts to lower himself into a veterinary hospital to retrieve his testicles, observing that the situation reminds him of ''Indiana Jones''. The camera cuts to a tank of snakes below and Marion's companion asks if he means ''
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'' but the cat points out that he was actually referring to the latest movie, which he saw as "a massive pile of
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" and the camera shows various animal testicles gathered in a heap. *'' Muppet Babies'' opening sequence included a parody of animated Baby Kermit, in Indy's gear, swinging away from a film clip of the boulder trap in the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''
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'' contains many famous experiments about the franchise. *'' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' There are several allusions to the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise in the episode "Read It and Weep": The harp plucking that plays when Daring Do first enters the temple bears a strong resemblance to the music that plays in the opening of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', when Indiana Jones casually brushes spiders off of his back. The sunlight shining into the chamber is a reference to the map room scene from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', where the sunlight shines on a crystal at the center of the room. The way Daring Do makes her way to the Sapphire Stone's pedestal mirrors a scene from ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'', where the titular hero navigates a trap floor by only stepping on the correct tiles. The scene where Daring Do retrieves the Sapphire Stone mirrors a scene from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', in which Indiana Jones retrieves an idol statue from a pedestal. Also, one episode is called "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", a reference to ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''
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'': In an episode about doubling numbers, the characters explore a cave, culminating with Eight grabbing a golden statue and running out of the cave from a boulder. *''
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'': During the sitcom's 1995 Christmas special, " The Wisdom of the Witch", main character
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complains to his wife that their malfunctioning television set sounds like Indiana Jones is inside cracking his whip. *''
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'': The magazine program included a segment called ''Raider of the Lost Archive'' featuring a parody of the boulder chase in the title sequence with reporter
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dressed as Indiana Jones managing to escape through a closing door with a film reel in hand. The title also uses the same font as ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *'' Outnumbered'': The third episode of the fourth series features an argument between father and son Pete and Jake Brockman about whether the game of
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they're playing is a more realistic recreation of an actual
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. Seeing the size of the ball next to the players for the first time, Jake exclaims that "It's like the ball that chases Indiana Jones". *
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: In the final scene of the 2018 special "Mighty Pups", as Ryder and the pups wheel the superpower-granting meteor into the Lookout Tower's basement for safekeeping, the shot reveals a large room full of crates in an homage to the Hangar 51 scene from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''
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'': The episode "Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon" depicts the show's characters in an ''Indiana Jones'' parody. After locating and retrieving the Amulet of Juatchdoon, adventuring archeologist duo Ohio Flynn (Phineas) and Rhode Island Fletcher (Ferb) set off to Central America to help Isabella find the Lost Temple of Juatchadoon and her missing mother. However, Dr. Doofenshmirtz has other plans for the amulet – to awaken the evil corn colossus to give him the power to destroy the world. *''
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'':
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wears the exact outfit of Indiana Jones. *''QI'': " Series E" of the quiz show featured an episode focused on exploration in which a contestant's buzzer noise was "The Raiders March". The boulder scene was mentioned as part of a clue to the cleaning method of
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's sewers. "QI (F series), Series F"'s QI (F series)#Episode 11 "Film", episode on film also utilised the theme as a buzzer. The franchise was referenced for a second time in the same episode with a question concerning the Wilhelm scream, and sound producer Ben Burtt mentioned. *''LoliRock'' When Auriana is trying to outrun the Iris, he is parodying the famous boulder scene in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''Quantum Leap (1989 TV series), Quantum Leap'': **"A Portrait for Troian" sees Sam Beckett, in the body of Dr. Timothy Mintz, rescue Troian Claridge from her collapsing family crypt. She calls out to him as Tim but when rescued she reverts to calling him Dr. Mintz prompting Sam to ask "Will I have to play Indiana Jones again to get you to call me by my first name?" **"Another Mother" depicts Kevin Bruckner lying about his reasons for leaving the house by claiming that he and his friends are going to see ''Raiders'' again. He also mentions that if he doesn't leave, he's going to miss "the rock rolling out of the cave". *''Regular Show'': Season 3, Episode 57; "Eggscellent" Mordecai tries to win a hat for Rigby who is in coma. He is sent into an underground chamber with hats, and only one of them is a true hat. There is a knight down there who is dressed quite similarly to the Grail Knight, and tells him he'd die if he chose the wrong one. He chooses the most generic-looking hat. *''Robot Chicken'': "Metal Militia (Robot Chicken episode), Metal Militia" contains a segment called "Young Indy" in which a young Indiana Jones finds adventure on the playground at elementary school, recreating different scenes from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', with a boy in a large plastic bubble playing the role of the Chachapoyan boulder trap, and the teacher taking the Staff of Ra. *''Robot Chicken'': " Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II" contains a segment called "Palpatine's Trip", which parodied scenes from ''Return of the Jedi'', including Emperor Palpatine referring to the Force pike used by the Imperial royal guard as a Staff of Ra. *''Robot Chicken'': "Due to Constraints of Time and Budget": segment "Don't Open Your Eyes" has the spirits of the
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attempting to get
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and Marion Ravenwood to open their eyes in the ''Raiders'' climax. *''Scrubs (TV series), Scrubs'': **"My Quarantine" has Doctor John "JD" Dorian imagining his colleague's wife as escaping the quarantine lockdown being put into effect like Indiana Jones does when evading the spike trap in ''Temple of Doom''. She rolls under the descending wall and her hand reaches back in quickly to grab her hat before it closes. **"My Missed Perception" includes JD picturing his surgeon friend performing exploratory surgery as Indiana Jones. The sequence parodies the escape from the Chachapoyan temple with the removal of a "golden tumor" and the surgeon lamenting "Colon? Why did it have to be colon?" when he enters. *''Seinfeld'': "The Parking Space" has the cast calling George Costanza "Indiana" when he is wearing a fedora. *''The Simpsons'': **''Bart's Friend Falls in Love'', Bart Simpson re-enacts the prologue from ''
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''. Instead of acquiring the golden idol, Bart tries to get his father's coin jar. **''Little Orphan Millie'' includes the character of Milhouse's uncle, Norbert Van Houten, who dresses like Indiana Jones and flies a biplane. A cue from "The Raiders March" is also played. **''How Munched is That Birdie in the Window'' references Indiana Jones' ophidiophobia as an example of how "everyone has an animal they can't stand." **''Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore'' ends with a scene parodying the cult ceremony from ''Temple of Doom''. Homer has been sent to oversee Mr. Burns's outsourced plant in India, and when his family comes to find him, they stumble upon a ceremony of the plant workers chanting to Homer, who believes they think he is a god. In reality, they are celebrating that he introduced them to concepts like overtime payscales, coffee breaks, dental insurance and staff birthday observances with mylar balloons. One of the workers tells Marge that "Om namah Shivay" means "Vote Union." **There is a home media collection of episodes entitled ''Raiders of the Lost Fridge'', whose cover art features Homer fleeing a giant rolling donut in Indiana Jones attire. *''South Park'': **"Free Hat", the four main characters try to stop
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and
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from re-editing ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', adding Ewoks. The movie premiere of the special edition of ''Raiders'' has Spielberg dress up like Belloq at the Ark opening scene. **"Meet the Jeffersons": The Ark of the Covenant lies among the wealthy Michael Jackson, Mr. Jefferson's possessions within his son's bedroom. **"The China Probrem": The characters react to the release of ''
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'' and believe that Indiana Jones was literally raped by his creators. **"200": George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are among the celebrities looking for revenge for being made fun of by the titular town. With them is Indiana Jones wearing a leash and ballgag. *''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'' features Mike, a teen with multiple personalities. One of his personalities is an adventurous treasure hunter called ''Manitoba Smith'', who is a direct parody of Indiana Jones, from their first names being locations, to the fedora both characters wear. *''Stargate SG-1'': The episode "Moebius, Part 1" sees archaeologist Daniel Jackson approached at a funeral by the niece of the deceased. She explains that her aunt always talked about him, admitting that she had "always used to picture some Indiana Jones type." *''Superstore (TV series), Superstore'': In a Halloween special episode, Garrett McNeill wears an Indiana Jones costume. *''That Mitchell and Webb Look'': One sketch sees a man counter his soccer enthusiast companion's gloating as if he had personally been in the game by speaking of Indiana Jones's role in ''Raiders'' in the first person, asking if the man remembered when ''his'' 'team' found the Ark of the Covenant. *''That Mitchell and Webb Look'': In a sketch from the fourth episode of the fourth series, a mention of Iraq is said to most likely bring up images of "Indiana Jones type fellas on the news." *''The Thick of It'': In the fourth episode of the third season, Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship's Director of Communication, Malcolm Tucker, adopts the franchises' naming convention in commending Nicola Murray's enthusiasm to go after her political opposite, quickly dubbing it ''Indiana Murray and the Bum-d***o of Vengeance''. *''The Thick of It'': Season four, episode five — "The Ark has been opened and your face is gonna melt." *''Tiny Toon Adventures'': The episode "Cinemaniacs!" has a sequence dedicated to parodying elements from Indiana Jones entitled 'Pasadena Jones and the Secret of Life'. It includes Buster Bunny as Pasadena literally riding the red line used in the movies on maps to show Jones traveling to his location, fleeing a giant rolling 8-ball and riding a minecart. *''The Walking Dead (TV series), The Walking Dead'': The first episode of season two has racist Daryl Dixon calling Asian-American Glenn (who favors wearing a baseball cap) Short Round. *''Warehouse 13'': An episode pays homage to the opening scenes of ''
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'' in which the approach to a top secret facility in the desert finds the military being greeted by a man stepping out of a car in Jones's attire. *''World Wrestling Entertainment'': As part o
the company's promotion for their ''Summerslam'' pay-per-view event
in 2008, wrestler Chris Jericho parodied ''Raiders idol and sandbag scene. *''The Office (American TV series), The Office'' **Season 2, Episode 21"Conflict Resolution (The Office), Conflict Resolution" Toby files the box of Dwight's complaints about Jim in the warehouse and the camera zooms out to reveal entire shelves full of similar boxes, a reference to the ending sequence where the Ark of the Covenant is stored in Hangar 51. **Season 3, Episode 5 "Diwali (The Office), Diwali" Angela discourages Kevin from attending Kelly's Diwali celebration claiming "they eat monkey brains" a reference to ''
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'' specifically, the sequence which the main characters attend dinner at Pankot palace and eat "Chilled Monkey Brains". *''Batman Beyond'': The episode "Spellbound" has a sequence where Chelsea Cunningham is bewitched by Ira Billings/Spellbinder, and in her fantasies she appears as a scantily-clad adventurer who enters into a jungle temple to retrieve a stone statue (which is in reality a statue of Mr. Cunningham's study), mirroring the iconic opening sequence from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''Arrow (TV series), Arrow'': The episode "Legends of Yesterday" Cisco Ramon likens two gems made of an element which glows in proximity to other objects of the same material to the Sankara Stones from ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''. *''Arrow (TV series), Arrow'': The episode "Thanatos Guild" – When she finds out that a building hiding a map is booby-trapped, Felicity Smoak/Overwatch asks if the traps are of the ''Raiders'' or ''Temple of Doom'' variety. Thea Queen/Speedy eventually points out that they are more like ''Raiders'' and triggers a trap which shoots out arrows.


Comics

*''All-Star Squadron'' #5 "Never Step on a Feathered Serpent" by Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler, Jerry Ordway, and Adrian Gonzales, January 1982, has a reference to Adolf Hitler, Hitler's quests for various artifacts of power, including his failed attempt to acquire the
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. *''All-Star Squadron'' #6, "Mayhem in the Mile-High City", a fellow archaeologist (who is also the madman villain) clearly mentions Prof.
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as a contemporary. *''Captain America (comic book), Captain America'' #268 (1982), from Marvel Comics advertises and features freelance artist Steve Rogers and his girlfriend Bernie Rosenthal emerging from a Brooklyn Movie Theater, discussing the impact of Indiana Jones and ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''Fantastic Four'' #241 (1982) sees Ben "The Thing" Grimm dressing as Indiana Jones as a joke for his traveling to Africa. He gets called "Idaho Smith" by the Human Torch, asked if he expects to find the Ark of the Covenant by Mr. Fantastic while his wife, the Invisible Woman, mentions that the movie is one even Mr. Fantastic had seen. *Dr. Slump: A vehicle has the designation of OB-CPO. One of the manga chapter covers features the titular character Senbei "Dr. Slump" Norimaki dressed as Indiana Jones, fleeing a giant rolling pumpkin. The penultimate chapter cover features Norimaki as Jones again, this time with his wife Midori as Willie Scott and Arale Norimaki as
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. *''The Uncanny X-Men'' #268 (1990) partly set in 1941, depicts the first meeting of Wolverine, dressed in Indiana Jones' attire, with Captain America. Together, the two face off against Nazis. *''Spider-Man: The Other'' references ''Raiders'' and uses Jones's "It's not the years, it's the mileage" quote as part of an explanation of Peter Parker's rejuvenated health. *''Marvel Civil War'': Peter Parker/Spider-Man recalls that he and his aunt missed the first ten minutes of ''Raiders''. *''Siege: New Avengers'': When Spider-Man is attacked by a brainwashed Spider-Woman, he laments that Short Round is not present with a torch to break her free. *War of the Green Lanterns: After Hal Jordan stops Guy Gardner from taking a gauntlet from its case, Gardner calls Jordan "Indy" and asks if he is scared that removing the gauntlet will cause a boulder to fall.


Literature

*Terry Pratchett's 1992 novel ''Only You Can Save Mankind'' contains several references to films and games about the adventurer "Alabama Smith". The Discworld novel ''Reaper Man'' mentions "the Lost Jewelled Temple of Doom of Offler the Crocodile God", as well as a "chap with a whip" who tried to steal from it, and several traps reminiscent of the opening sequence of ''
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''. *''Danger Guys Series, Danger Guys'', a 1994 children's book by Tony Abbott (author), Tony Abbott in which two boys find an underground temple, and are chased by a huge stone. *''The Green Hornet: Still at Large'': The Bantu Wind and Simon Katanga make cameo appearances in Richard Dean Starr's novelette, "The World Will End in Fire". The Bantu Wind serves as Kato (The Green Hornet), Hayashi Kato's transportation to China. *''Sandstorm'', a 2004 adventure thriller, by James Rollins includes an archaeologist named Omaha Dunn, who is sometimes compared to Indiana Jones, both having place names as first names and working in the field of archaeology and artifact retrieval. Rollins later wrote the novelization of ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''.


Video games

*''Bomberman GB'': Bomberman adopts Jones's attire and whip for the game. * Broforce: Features a playable character called Indiana Brones and on the PC version, has an achievement called “No Ticket!”, which is a joke on a line from ''
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''. *''Borderlands (video game), Borderlands'': For applying an elemental artifact, players unlock the trophy/achievement "You call this archaeology?", a quote by Henry Walton Jones, Senior. *''Borderlands 3'': The game features a side mission called "Raiders of the Lost Rock" in which players must follow a trail of stolen rocks, collect "brownrocks" off of booby-trapped pedestals, and collect "Abigail" among other things. *''Call of Duty: Black Ops'': The multiplayer map "Nuketown (Call of Duty), Nuketown" is directly inspired by the Doom Town testing site from ''
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'', complete with mannequins, and an atomic bomb suspended in a cradle. *''Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin'': The game features an equippable fedora, which is described as feeling "right with a whip". It is found in an Egyptian tomb, at a point where the leather whip is one of the better weapons. *''Civilization Revolution'': Collecting an ancient artifact will award Xbox 360 players with the achievement "Good Afternoon, Doctor Jones.", a quote by René Emile Belloq, Belloq, and is displayed with an image of the
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. *''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'': As an Easter egg (media), easter egg, Indiana Jones appears after certain conditions in the game are met. *''Fallout: New Vegas'': The game includes a battered refrigerator containing a skeleton, along with a fedora identified as a "Suave Gambler's Hat". One computer terminal sees an email outboxed to
Marcus Brody This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones (franchise), ''Indiana Jones'' series. Introduced in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' Indiana Jones Indiana Jones (character), Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford), the titular chara ...
. *''Gex (series), Gex'': The first game of the series features geckos dressed in Jones' traditional outfit as enemies in a world named "Jungle Isle". *''Golden Sun'': As the player explores the Altin Mines, they will have to knock down a log, triggering a trap and causing the player to be chased by a giant boulder. *''QuackShot'': As well as the game adopting the ''Indiana Jones'' font for the in-game title, Donald Duck's treasure hunting sees him adopting a fedora for his adventure. *''RuneScape'': Henry Jones Sr. can be seen in the MMO game's school near the Barbarian Village, as "Professor Henry". *''Temple Run'': Both ''Temple Run'' and its sequel ''Temple Run 2'' feature an unlockable character named "Montana Smith". *''Terraria'': A rare enemy named "Doctor Bones" can be found, wearing an accessory named the "Archaeologist's Hat" which can be worn by the player when the enemy is defeated. *''Toy Soldiers: Cold War'': The description for an unlockable avatar award, a flight jacket, paraphrases Major Eaton's "top men" line. *''Transformice'': There is a title and character called "Indiana Mouse". *''
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'': ''Minnesota Cuke and the Coconut Apes'' borrows heavily from the Indiana Jones character. *''World of Warcraft'': An archaeologist non-player character named Harrison Jones — a portmanteau of Harrison Ford and
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— paraphrases some of Indiana Jones's Barnett College lecture from ''
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''. The ''World of Warcraft'' Jones also has a counterpart named Belloc, a heterograph of René Emile Belloq, Belloq, who wears similar attire to Indiana's rival. *''WWE All Stars'': Triple H mentions there are top men working on a match for himself and partner Shawn Michaels' opponents. Michaels asks who and simply gets a firm, repeated "Top... Men..." *''Professor Layton and the Curious Village'': In one scene Layton and Luke escaping from Ferris wheel making reference to the Giant Rock. *''Taz: Wanted'': The level "Cartoon Strip-Mine", Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes), Taz is dressed as Indiana Jones' traditional outfit. Also, Taz's line "Snakes. Why'd it have to be Snakes? Taz hate snakes" is from Indiana Jones in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. *''Genshin Impact'': By shooting an eremite thats doing sword tricks similar to the one that the swordsman from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', the player would get the achievement "Han Always Shoots First..."


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