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=== The films: ===
* [[Awesome, Dear Boy]]: Part of the reason why Paul Verhoeven did the first film. He initially rejected the opportunity to direct it when he read the script and thought it was silly and stupid. He changed his mind when his wife convinced him that there were more layers to the story than he initially thought, and because the writers pointed out the amount of [[Gorn]] there was, to which he responded "Well, I've never seen the hero [[Fingore|get his hand blown off]]!"
* [[Fake American]]: Dr. Faxx in the second movie is played by Australian Belinda Bauer. See also [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]].
* [[Hey
** What's Dr. Romano from [[ER]] doing working as a street thug in future Detroit? {{spoiler|Getting splattered after a toxic waste bath, that's what!}}
** Clarence Boddicker is [[That 70s Show|Red Forman]] and his gang includes the aforementioned ''ER'' doctor and [[Reaper|The Devil]].
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** [[Austin Powers|Alotta Fagina]] is in an ad for sunblock.
** Robo's partner, Lewis, is [[Carrie|Chris Hargensen]].
** Combining this with [[Hey
* [[Shout Out]]: The [[Show Within a Show]] ''I'd Buy That for a Dollar'' is a homage to the idiot's TV-derived catchphrase from the dystopic SF novel ''The Marching Morons'', updated for inflation. Originally: "I'd buy that for a quarter!" <ref>The star of the show, Bixby Snyder, is possibly a homage to [[Benny Hill]]. Or a parody. In a supposedly-filmed scene, there's one final newscast where the newsreaders announce that Snyder has been arrested for receiving sexual favours from underaged co-stars.</ref>
** In ''2'', Caine is overseeing the development of new versions of nuke, one of which is named Blue Velvet, likely after the song. But just maybe because the chemist working on it is named [[Blue Velvet|Frank.]]
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** When Robo boards a helicopter to get into the blocked-off OCP building in one episode of the TV series, he asks the pilot to "[[Star Trek|Take me up, Scotty."]]
** At the end of a an episode of ''Prime Directives'', RoboCop muses that ''[[The Dark Knight Returns|the world only makes sense when you force it to]]''.
** The original animated series had an unexpected nod to Murphy's death, with a flashback to the very end of the scene, Boddicker's [[Bond One
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