History Main / RoswellThatEndsWell

* If this troper's memory serves correctly, there was an episode of [[Arthur Postcards from Buster]] that visited, among other places, Roswell.

* Not historical, but definitely an in-joke. ''{{Wild ARMs 3}}'' featured a side-quest where your heroes fend off alien invaders, complete with {{Flying Saucer}}s. The name of the paranormal investigator you speak to for the quest? Roswell.

* ''{{Futurama}}'': in the episode that [[TropeNamer gives this trope its name]], the Planet Express crew accidentally {{Time Travel}}s back to 1947 and causes the Roswell Incident.

* Ditto ''AmericanDad''.

* ''{{Stargate}} SG-1'': {{Lampshaded}} in "Prometheus". A group of reporters are told by Sam that [[spoiler: ''Prometheus'' was designed from reverse-engineered parts of an alien crash in Fairbanks, Alaska.]] Jonas, knowing the truth, inquires "Fairbanks?" Sam answers that it sounds a lot better than Roswell.

* Max and [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Xylene]] from ''{{Ben 10}}'' use the phrase "[[NoodleIncident we'll always have Roswell]]." However, Max was still a very young child in 1947, so there must have been a different alien incident in the same area...

* In ''{{Animorphs}}'', their version of Roswell (many things were renamed ostensibly to obscure the character's location from Yeerks) explained the object that they found was... an Andalite toilet.

* In ''DoctorWho'', "Dalek", the mileometer from the Roswell ship is seen in a museum of alien artifacts. In the same episode, Van Statten claims that [[ETGaveUsWiFi alien tech from the incident ended up creating Broadband]].

* In {{Animorphs}} their version of Roswell (many things were renamed ostensibly to obscure the character's location from Yeerks) explained the object that they found was... an Andalite toilet.

** The ExpandedUniverse has multiple and contradictory takes on Roswell, most recently in the animated ''Dreamland''. (Older instances include the [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] novel ''First Frontier'' and the PastDoctorAdventures novel ''Devil Goblins from Neptune''.) It ''is'' [[NegativeContinuity Doctor Who]], afterall; the Time-War and universal cracks have pretty much left use with a great big TimeyWimeyBall.

** The ExpandedUniverse has multiple and contradictory takes on Roswell, most recently in the animated ''Dreamland''. (Older instances include the novels ''First Frontier'' and ''Devil Goblins from Neptune''.) It ''is'' [[NegativeContinuity Doctor Who]], afterall; the Time-War and universal cracks have pretty much left use with a great big TimeyWimeyBall.

* In ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'', the alien Pokemon Elgym and Beheeyem's Pokedex entries highly imply that they were the survivors of the Roswell, New Mexico crash.

* In ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'', the alien Pokemon Riguray and Oobemu's Pokedex entries highly imply that they were the survivors of the Roswell, New Mexico crash.

** The ExpandedUniverse has multiple and contradictory takes on Roswell, most recently in the animated ''Dreamland''. (Older instances include the novels ''First Frontier'' and ''Devil Goblins from Neptune''.)

* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Little Green Men".

* In ''DoctorWho'', "Dalek", the mileometer from the Roswell ship is seen in a museum of alien artifacts. In the same episode, Van Statten claims that alien tech from the incident ended up creating Broadband.

The wreckage and bodies from Roswell may be stored in {{Area 51}}. At least one AlienAutopsy was performed. {{MIB}}s may be involved in the coverup. And we may have reaped the wreckage for [[ETGaveUsWiFi our own technological benefit]].

The wreckage and bodies from Roswell may be stored in {{Area 51}}. {{MIB}}s may be involved in the coverup. And we may have reaped the wreckage for [[ETGaveUsWiFi our own technological benefit]].

* ''SerialExperimentsLain'' gives a discussion on the Roswell incident and conspiracy theories, and implies that the Wired might have been [[ETGaveUsWiFi created using alien technology]]. Whether that's true, and how relevant it is to the story, is left entirely open, since [[spoiler: Lain's world is one where consensus reality is in full swing]].

* ''SerialExperimentsLain'' gives a discussion on the Roswell incident and conspiracy theories, and implies that the Wired might have been [[{{ptitleqas5b78j}} created using alien technology]]. Whether that's true, and how relevant it is to the story, is left entirely open, since [[spoiler: Lain's world is one where consensus reality is in full swing]].

* The Roswell UFO crash appears in the prologue of one ''TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'' episode taking place in the Anasazi region of the US Southwest.

Regardless of what actually happened (TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_Incident has a good overview]] of what's known), the idea of a crashed alien spacecraft--and a subsequent government coverup--has become permanently associated with the city of Roswell in the popular imagination. The fame and ambiguity of the original incident have inspired every SpeculativeFiction series ever to [[ExternalRetcon explain]] (or just [[HistoricalInJoke make an oblique reference to]]) "what ''really'' happened", with varying amounts of seriousness. The town itself, meanwhile, has capitalized on this, building a lucrative tourist industry around the event and aliens in general.

Named after an Emmy award-winning episode of ''{{Futurama}}'', which posited that the entire incident was caused by the Planet Express ship accidentally traveling back in time and showing up in Roswell on that fateful day. The "flying disc" in question is actually a deconstructed Bender.

* ThisTroper hasn't read Mario Acevedo's ''The Nymphos of Rocky Flats'', but based on the description that it has a soldier-turned-into-a-vampire stuck between vampire hunters and the Roswell aliens, it sounds [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot awesome]].

* ''{{Stargate}} SG-1'': Lampshaded in "Prometheus". A group of reporters are told by Sam that [[spoiler: ''Prometheus'' was designed from reverse-engineered parts of an alien crash in Fairbanks, Alaska.]] Jonas, knowing the truth, inquires "Fairbanks?" Sam answers that it sounds a lot better than Roswell.

** After which Black Book accused Aegis of responsibility in order to sign a treaty with the greys.

** A third, ''GURPS: Warehouse 23'' claims that the crash, while genuinely alien, was not a spacecraft -- it was a classroom, with tech designed to be easily reverse-engineered by humans, dropped as something of a bribe to the CIA and similar forces.

* Roswell: The Musical exists. [[http://www.logoschristian.org/MUSICAL/ There's something]] [[http://weeklywire.com/ww/07-17-00/alibi_feat4.html in the air!]]