History ReferencedBy / TheFly1986

** Near the end of Season 3's [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E22TheOttoShow "The Otto Show"]], Bart reminds Otto that Homer called him "a sponge" for crashing at their house. Enranged, Otto pounds on a brick wall hard enough to crumble some of it and yells "Does this look like something a ''sponge'' would do?" This parodies Seth's YoureJustJealous rant to Veronica and his demonstrating his SuperStrength by punching a wooden support beam and splintering it ("Does this look like a sick man to you?").

* Funny or Die spoofed this film and the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in 2018 by combining footage from the former with some from ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' to create the RealTrailerFakeMovie ''Ant-Man and the Fly''.

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** The Season 9 HalloweenEpisode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E4TreehouseOfHorrorVIII "Treehouse of Horror VIII"]] parodies this film ''and'' [[Film/TheFly1958 the 1958 version of the short story that inspired it]] in its second segment, "Fly vs Fly". Elements borrowed from the 1986 film include the MysteriousMist / OminousFog that accompanies the use of the teleporter (which also physically resembles the design of that version more than the old-time phone booths of '58) and Bart theorizing that going through the pods with a fly would merge them into one creature, albeit in a much more positive manner than what happened to poor Seth Brundle. Instead, he and the fly have heads proportionally swapped as in the '58 version. Fly!Bart ambushing Bart!Fly and Lisa is a variation on the grotesquely mutated Seth ambushing Stathis from above when he comes to rescue Veronica. The hybrids created from a fusion of Snowball II and Santa's Little Helper (one with a head on each "end", the other getting both rear ends) might even have been inspired by the notorious "monkey-cat" DeletedScene, which was already a legendary loss in horror fan circles. The matter teleporter later appeared in the video game ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun''.

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* The film was not only referenced with clips in the original version of ''Theatre/UniversalsHorrorMakeupShow'' in TheNineties but actually was the basis for the finale: With replicas of the telepods onstage, Mark gets in one for a teleportation demonstration, with neither he nor host Alex aware there's a fly in them. When Mark emerges from the receiver pod, dry ice and all, he's turning into a mutant; Alex tries to fix things by sending him back to the transmitter pod, but that results in (an animatronic) Brundlefly trying to emerge from it. Alex finally restores Mark with one more sequence, although as they take their bows, little fly wings are seen on Mark's back. Footage of this sequence appeared in the official souvenir [=VHS=] ''Experience the Magic of the Movies'' through its 1994 edition; one of the first TV ads for Universal Studios Florida even included Brundlefly as one of the movie characters featured at the park.

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* "Be Very Afraid" is the title of a [[Recap/TangledTheSeriesS3E09BeVeryAfraid third season episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''.

* The Will Wood song ''Thermodynamic Lawyer'' contains the line "pulls back skinny lips to reveal a proboscis- seems Seth Brundle's at it again."

* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', Wednesday Addams introduces herself to Debbie with "Be afraid. Be very afraid." (Kids of the '90s have been known to associate the line with this movie rather than its original source.)