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Comic Strips

  • FoxTrot: On Roger's Plane Awful Flight, the in-flight movie is Alive, described over the intercom for anyone who was unfamiliar with it. The flight attendants sell earplugs and blindfolds at extremely inflated prices.

Film - Live-Action

  • The Flintstones: When Fred comes home and sits down to read the newspaper, the front page headline is "Pterodactyl crashes in Andes, eats rugby team to survive."

Live-Action TV

  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: In "Three's a Crowd", Will and Carlton get lost in the mountains while on a ski trip, and Carlton gives Will permission to eat him if he dies first.

Video Games

  • The Quarry: At the start of Chapter 2, Emma will make a reference to the film as she narrates her situation.
    Emma: So here we are! Stranded...in the great American wilds with nothing but our wits to guide us. Will humanity prevail? Or will we grow ravenous and resort to eating the flesh of the deceased like I saw in that one plane crash movie.

Western Animation

  • Rick and Morty:
    • In "The Vat of Acid Episode", the plane taking Morty and his Girl of the Week crashes in high snowy mountains and they have to survive eating the dead. Morty saves the others by hiking to the broken tail of the plane to recover his cell phone, then sends a cry for help with his last remaining battery.
    • In another episode Summer and Morty get lost in the wilderness. Summer gives Morty her permission to eat her body if she dies first, but not her ass because "that would be too weird".
  • Robot Chicken: A sketch from "We Don't See Much of That in 1940s America" is a spoof of this film with the cast of The Magic School Bus.
  • Rocko's Modern Life: In "Tickled Pinky", Rocko spends one last day with his appendix before it gets removed, and one of the activities he mentions is "flying over the Andes with a Brazilian soccer team".
  • The Simpsons:
    • In "Fear of Flying", Marge is getting tense because of her flight phobia, so Homer rents her some movies to calm her nerves. Unfortunately, they all deal with plane-related disasters, including Alive!.
    Man #1: No thanks to the plane, many of us are still...
    Group: Alive!
    Man #2: We certainly are.
    Man #3: (chewing noises) Pass me another hunk of co-pilot.
    • A possible reference in "The Last Temptation of Homer" where one of the nuclear inspectors calls Mr. Burns out on how they found a missing Brazilian soccer team working in his reactor sector, only for him to bark back, "That plane crash landed on my property!"

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