Allusions to prog

greenback wrote: in the American Psycho movie, the protagonist mentioned in DETAILS that he loves genesis! the first time i heard that, i almost had a heart attack!

But he also mentioned that he hated their earlier stuff and said that they
didn't become a great band until after Duke.

artie lange on the howard stern show LOVES rush and sings tom sawyer all the time...

in the American Psycho movie, the protagonist mentioned in DETAILS that he loves genesis! the first time i heard that, i almost had a heart attack!

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In one of the austin powers movies the bad guy (forgot his name) wants to call his rocket  "alan parson project"
his son responds that it was a prog band in the 70s

heres some more prog references i found:

- Futurama - the episode where bender becomes a cook and has a magic vial to make crap food taste good (its actually LSD dissolved in water).

bender randomly visits a real life version of the dark side of the moon prism, layed exactly as it is on the cover (scientifically incorrect or something).


- Family Guy "Road to Europe", in this episode peter and louis follow Kiss on tour and Stewie travels across europe to find London with Brian.

There is a scene at the very begining where Peter is watching Kiss Forum on TV and they have a fan phone in:

Kiss Forum Presenter: hello you're on kiss forum, what is it you want to say?
Caller: yeah, kiss suck
Kiss Forum Presenter: Wait a minute... this is Denis De Young from Styx isn't it. Get a life you jealous bastard!

or something to that effect.

Geddy Lee did a cameo appearance on 'Monday Night Report' a Canadian farcical current events / sketch comedy along the lines of Jon Stewart in the USA.

In a weekly feature about Cdn celebrities teaching us about Cdn past-times, Geddy taught people "How to Toboggan". Was very funny stuff, and I seem to remember there was some sort of booze involved. Geddy Lee, drunk, barrelling down a snow-covered hill, talk about Freewill!

Those of you who don't know what a toboggan is:

Vegetableman wrote: Paco Fox wrote: I read somewhere that Gentle Giant was mentioned in the Osbournes once. I should expect that of Yes (Ozzy knows Rick Wakmeman), but not Gentle Giant. Ozzy Osbourne provided this anecdote pertaining to GG: <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" size="2"> "We have no option but to listen to Tool morning, noon and f**kin' night, it's Tool this, Tool that! You know, it's really funny. The other night my son said to me, "I went to see Tool last night, Dad, and saw this great band who opened for them, a band called King Crimson." I said, "Oh yeah, I've heard of them." I was like, if you like King Crimson, you probably want to listen to Yes, then you might want to listen to a band called Gentle Giant. He says, "Really?" And he comes back to me the next day and he says, "I got a chance to listen to the Gentle Giant album. It's f**king great music. How did you know about them?" Oh, I've only been around for f**king 35 years. "

I remember reading that a while back. If I'm not mistaken, GG opened for Sabbath at least once and were chased off the stage by the Sab fans; not a good booking .

- young homer has a dark side of the moon poster in his childhood room whenever there is a flashback to him and barney drinking in his room as a child.

they also recreate the cash register sounds from money and the laughter on DSOTM on one episode where lisa goes to a spelling bee and homer chases after a limited edition ribwich burger at krusty burger.

on one episode where homer sells a hippy juice drink, ned flanders hallucinates and sees the hammers from the wall walking towards him, as they turn to face him the hammer turns into a rolling stones lick logo and a voice in the style of MJ says "pucker up neddy" and tries to lick him.

on the hullapalooza episode (sometimes this is cut out of the episode on tv but find it on video), there is a scene where lisa bart and homer are at a rock festival and peter frampton is set to launch a large pig into the air but it malfunctions and hits homer in the stomach, peter frampton then says "bloody hell, i bought that at a pink floyd garage sale!"

- Dont forget Bill Baileys stand up show "part troll"

"I fell alseep on my piano once and they thought i was playing a progressive jazz piece"

he also renacts zipedy doo da zipedy day in the style of kraftwerk.

- On Friends phoebe says she had sex with Jethro Tull

(rush references here http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/RushReferences.htm)

- I'm pretty sure but correct me if i'm wrong that in the film big daddy, adam sandler talks about being pulled on stage at a styx concert.

- on futurama fry plays space invaders whilst listening to rush's tom sawyer.

I've been seeing some prog on commercials recently. There was one for Law and Order; Trial By Jury that used Karn Evil 9.

On Malcom in the Middle there's an episode where they get new neighbors and Hal is looking at the guy's vinyl collection and seems very excited that it contains King Crimson.

alan_pfeifer wrote: their are constant Rush references on Futurama.

 

Yeah, someone says something about a robot revolution and says something about rush or niel peart, can't quite place it, would love too, though, anyone can?

Think it went like this: THIS ROBOT REVOLUTIOUN IS WORTH OF A RUSH SONG! (OR NIEL PEART LYRIC)

Crap, by the time I finished writing someone had beaten me!

It was so awsome to hear that.

Shuouldn't That 70's Show be full of Prog references? Appart From Hide's Zep T-Shirts (not even prog) and Styx, they don't mention it as muchs as they should

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