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** ''Bender's Game'' feature 3: First is George Takei's head ramming a ship into one driven by [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Scott Bakula]] and tells him "Thanks for [[Ruined FOREVER|ruining]] [[Star Trek|the franchise]]!". Second, there's the gratuitous take that to [[Robin Williams]] when they run into "[[Mork and Mindy|Morks]]" and kill them while telling them [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|they're not funny]] and need to shut up. Third, there's when they reach the kingdom of "Wipe Castle", where you can eat lots of burgers without gaining weight [[You Fail Biology Forever|because they give you diarrhoea]].

*** In general, ''Bender's Game'' vacillates between an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', a mild and still affectionate Take That against some of the more egregious tropes of the game (such as the very Gygaxian use of multitudes of random-roll tables) and a flat-out Take That against the anti-D&D hysteria of the '80s (with Bender becoming an over-the-top parody of the "steam-tunnel gamer" urban legend—the gamers who supposedly lost their minds and grip on reality playing D&D). Of course, anyone who's played the game will be able to tell you that their portrayal of the game was hilariously innacurate, for the sole reason that the players were actually using the d12. Even whatever edition would exist a thousand years from now, the d12 will still have fewer uses than even the d3, which is both nonexistant AND geometrically impossible.

** In one original episode they go down into the sewers. The mutants there can only use what people flush down the toilet. What do they have to read? Only crumpled up porn and copies of ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''.

** In the 100th episode, the mutants in the sewers are given scholarships to Brown University (a real world Ivy League school), which is shown to be there in the sewers with them. Leela questions if it is a legitimate university and not just a sewer cleaning service.

** There's a more direct one in the script-reading "Bee in the City", where Optimus Prime states that waiting in a line for 17 hours "took longer than an ''[[Inuyasha]]'' [[Story Arc]]". This is also an [[Actor Allusion]], as Prime has the same voice actor as Sesshomaru, a recurring character.

** {{spoiler|Starscream's [[Me's a Crowd|army of clones]]}} can be considered as much [[Take That]] as it is [[Homage]] to {{spoiler|the Seekers and the idea of [[Palette Swap|redecoes]]}}.

** One episode had a computer being booted up and had the faux loading message "Matrix good — Sequels: not so good", obviously a dig at ''the [[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' films.

** Another episode dealt with a girl named [[Dora the Explorer|Dora]], who Grim said reminded him of something. He went on to say she reminded him of "his favorite program" which Billy describes as "Is it that one about the little girl who wanders around the jungle [[Free-Range Children|with no parental supervision]], avoiding crises and conversing with the local wildlife with the aid of her foreign language-speaking monkey?"

'''Varrick:''' ''Yep! They're both cold, heartless war machines.''

|''[[The Legend of Korra]],'' Night Of A Thousand Stars}}

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