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* Footage is shown on TV in "Film/OfficeSpace".
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* ''Film/DragonTheBruceLeeStory''. Bruce Lee and his manager Bill Krieger come up the the pitch for ''Kung Fu'', only to see David Carradine cast in the role instead.

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* ''Film/DragonTheBruceLeeStory''. Bruce Lee and his manager Bill Krieger come up with the the pitch idea for ''Kung Fu'', only to see David Carradine cast in the role instead.
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* ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce'' has a parody of the WhenYouSnatchThePebble scene.
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* ''[[Franchise/TheMuppets The Muppets Valentine Show]]'': During the "Froggy Went a-Courtin'" number, Kermit is challenged to a fight by a giant mouse for the hand of Miss Mousie, and he quips "Little does he know that I've never missed an episode of ''Kung Fu''".
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* ''Series/Supergirl2015'' has a moment when J'onn J'onzz mentions he was trained in meditation by a Shaolin priest in the 1800s. It's not explicitly stated that it was Kwai Chang, but...
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* ''Film/SurfNinjas'' has Iggy, played by Creator/RobSchneider, citing David Carradine's role in this movie as [[InsaneTrollLogic evidence]] that he can be heir to the Asian kingdom of Patusan.

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* ''Film/SurfNinjas'' has Iggy, played by Creator/RobSchneider, citing David Carradine's role in this movie show as [[InsaneTrollLogic evidence]] that he can be heir to the Asian kingdom of Patusan.
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* ''Film/SurfNinjas'' has Iggy, played by Creator/RobSchneider, citing David Carradine's role in this movie as [[InsaneTrollLogic evidence]] that he can be heir to the Asian kingdom of Patusan.
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* ''Series/{{Treme}}'': In the third season, when Terry and his partner are on a stakeout, his partner wants to go in right away, to which Terry replies, "Patience, grasshopper."
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* ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series: One of the supporting characters is a martial arts student referred to as "Young Cricket".
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* Parodied in ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'' when [=TuMok=] consults a HermitSage for his wisdom.

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* Parodied in ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'' when [=TuMok=] consults a HermitSage for his wisdom.
-->'''Sage:''' Then why do you not hear the grasshopper that is at your feet?
-->'''[=TuMok=]:''' Because I have stepped on it, Master.



* ''Film/KillBill'' features David Carradine as a martial arts expert.

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* ''Film/KillBill'' features David Carradine as a martial arts expert.expert, the eponymous Bill, in a CastingGag to his most famous role.




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* ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode spoofing the martial arts craze has Bill Oddie relating how he learned the art of Ecky-Thump, starting with him walking over the dunes as per the TitleSequence to ''Kung Fu'' only to slip and fall down them.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': One mini-game has an elderly monk address the player character as "grasshopper" and invite them to demonstrate their kung fu capabilities.

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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': One mini-game has The Pagoda Peak map is presided over by an elderly monk address who addresses the player character characters as "grasshopper" "cricket" and invite in one mini-game invites them to demonstrate their kung fu capabilities.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': One mini-game has an elderly monk address the player character as "grasshopper" and invite them to demonstrate their kung fu capabilities.
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* ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009'': In issue six Steph tells an uncomprehending Damian that "You may have been trained by assassins, but I played 'grasshopper' to Bruce's 'Master-Po'."

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* ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'': Lulong the kirin has apparently spent his time since getting grounded in the Pegathalon "wandering the land meeting its ponies, doing good deeds, and getting in the occasional kung fu battle with bandits."
* ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'': At one point, the second Invisible says "You have learned well, young grasshopper".

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* ''Film/KillBill'' features David Carradine as a martial arts expert.
* ''Film/PulpFiction'': Jules says he'll "walk the earth" like Caine.

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* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** Harry calls Molly "Grasshopper" a lot.
** In ''Literature/GhostStory'', Harry to the cryptic Eternal Silence: "Next you'll want me to take a pebble out of your hand."
* ''Literature/TheLongMars'': Joshua calls Cho-Je the martial arts robot "grasshopper".
* ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'': Lu-Tze tells his warrior monk apprentice that he's ''not'' going to call him by an insect-derived nickname.

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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Foggy's reaction to Matt talking about Stick: "A blind old man taught you the ancient ways of martial arts? Isn't that the plot of ''Kung Fu''?"

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* ''TabletopGame/ContinuumRoleplayingInTheYet'': An example character is "a disenfranchised Shao-Lin monk with great power in Dreaming and martial arts [who] roams the American southwest in the 1800s looking to right wrongs".
* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'': The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement introduces the Wandering Hero archetype, a monk from China who is half British and half Chinese and wanders the Earth fighting against injustice and helping other people.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': The martial-arts-themed "Warriors of the Nightcycle" adventure module from the ''Acute Paranoia'' supplement has a clone named Grass-O-PPR.

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* ''VideoGame/CivilizationVI'': The achievement for fully promoting a Warrior Monk is named "Try to Snatch the Pebble from My Hand".
* ''VideoGame/{{Highborn}}'': One monk is named Kwai Chang Caine.

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* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'': When Luke goes to Yoda for training, Yoda addresses him as "young Fieldhopper".

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* ''Literature/AHippieInTheHouseOfMouse'' is an alternate history work in which, among many other changes, that timeline's equivalent of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' has David Carradine in a featured role, complete with an in-joke reference to his role in ''Kung Fu''.
* ''Literature/TheIntercontinentalUnionOfDisgustingCharacters'': Koenieg is compared to David Carradine for his propensity for {{Ice Cream Koan}}s.

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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Mugged", Arnold begins karate lessons and tries taking a fly from Grandma Pookie's hand.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': The scene in "Samurai vs. Samurai" where Da Samurai keeps trying to provoke Jack into fighting him takes a lot from the opening scene of the pilot of ''Kung Fu''.
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