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[Genrewriter]

A personal favorite Bond reference of mine comes in Friday the 13th part 6. After his first appearance (shockingly well done for the franchise), Jason Voorhees picks up his mask and puts it on. After turning around there's a series of cuts to his eye which opens up into a parody of the gunbarrel opening, only with Jason slashing away with his machete. It's a amusing moment that hel;ps set the pace fopr a fun entry in the series.

I also get a kick out of Tom Hanks delivering the signature "Bond, James Bond" line in Bachelor Party.

Anybody else have any?

[dunmall]

Speaking of Hanks there is a short sequence in Catch Me If You Can when Leo Decaprio's character goes to watch Goldfinger, buys a suit identical to Connery's then picks up a DB5, I believe he also gives his name as Bond at one point.

In Executive Decision Kurt Russell appears at an USAF base in a dinner jacket (having been pulled from a dinner party) and a commando asks if he is Double Oh Seven.

At the end of The Naked Gun 2 1/2 there is an A-Bomb that looks an aweful lot like the one from Goldfinger.

[Genrewriter]

I love that sequence in Catch Me if you Can. Another nice touch is having "The Look of Love" playing during the Jennifer Garner scene. Great flick.

[Andrew]

Speaking of Hanks there is a short sequence in Catch Me If You Can when Leo Decaprio's character goes to watch Goldfinger, buys a suit identical to Connery's then picks up a DB5, I believe he also gives his name as Bond at one point.

He says he's Ian Fleming.

[dunmall]

ahh I stand corrected

[TheSaint]

There's an episode of Kojak where Telly says into a walkie talkie that he feels like he's in a James Bond movie.

Roger tells a hotel worker that he's James Bond in The Saint episode "Luella"

[dunmall]

There was an episode of Mad About You where Paul Reiser was in a tux and his brother says that he looks like Roger Moore in Moonraker.

Another episode had Helen Hunt cleaning out their bookshelf and she throws out "The Book of Bond Girls" or something similar...

[Loomis]

A personal favorite Bond reference of mine comes in Friday the 13th part 6. After his first appearance (shockingly well done for the franchise), Jason Voorhees picks up his mask and puts it on. After turning around there's a series of cuts to his eye which opens up into a parody of the gunbarrel opening, only with Jason slashing away with his machete. It's a amusing moment that hel;ps set the pace fopr a fun entry in the series.

Yes, it's one of the better FRIDAY THE 13THs (not saying all that much, perhaps).

Not really a reference, but I seem to recall that planned advertising for A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER (1988) spoofed Bond in some way.... until the lawyers stepped in. Wish I had more details on this, but I don't - it's just something I remember reading as a piece of movie news in a paper at the time.

GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM - a cinema showing GOLDFINGER, unless memory is playing false.

Bit of a stretch, this, but in THIS IS SPINAL TAP, one of the band's many drummers is called Peter "James" Bond.

There's also Homer Simpson's comment along the lines of: "You know what's great about you British? OCTOPUSSY! I've seen that movie...." *thinks hard* "....twice!" It's the episode set partly in the future, with Lisa engaged to an Englishman.

[dunmall]

Another one is the odd little Q like police weapons tech in Tango & Cash, he has a robot guard dog and an armoured 4x4...it makes no sense but then again neither does anything else in Tango & Cash!!! lol

[Krilencu]

In The Sum Of All Fears, Liev Schriber says to Ben Affleck, reluctant to go on a recce "Relax, 007"
and uses some very bondian gadgets (acid spray)

[spynovelfan]

Great thread idea.

In THE FOURTH PROTOCOL, Pierce Brosnan played a Russian agent who goes undercover in Britain as a suave womanising Englishman with a penchant for fast cars. His cover name? James Stock.

[Loomis]

In AMERICAN BEAUTY, Kevin Spacey mentions "the James Bond marathon" on TV.

[DamnCoffee]

Great thread idea.

In THE FOURTH PROTOCOL, Pierce Brosnan played a Russian agent who goes undercover in Britain as a suave womanising Englishman with a penchant for fast cars. His cover name? James Stock.

Of the London Financial Times?

[spynovelfan]

Sorry, I keep making that mistake. His cover name is actually James Ross.

[David Schofield]

Great thread idea.

In THE FOURTH PROTOCOL, Pierce Brosnan played a Russian agent who goes undercover in Britain as a suave womanising Englishman with a penchant for fast cars. His cover name? James Stock.

Sorry to be picky, Spy, but I think Brozza's characters Legend is James ROSS!

Sorry, I keep making that mistake. His cover name is actually James Ross.

Oops, missed your correction, Spy, trying to be too quick a smarta**e

[pgram]

In an episode of Remington Steele, I think it takes place in Acapulco, Brosnan says that this is like a James Bond movie (or somethink like that, it has been years since I saw it...)

[DamnCoffee]

i can vaugley remember that episode of Remington

[David Schofield]

In the Charlie Angel's episode "Fallen Angel" starring Tim Dalton, the Anglel's keep refering to him as "just like James Bond".

Which, of course, he is.

[Bring Back Valentin]

2 that I remember are kinda out there

In an episode of Friends, Phoebe and Monica go to cater a party for Tom Sellek. He opens the door wearing a tux and Phoebe says something like "It's James Bond!"

In the movie Clueless, Alicia Silverstone is getting a driving lesson and drives down the wrong side of the road. Paul Rudd says "Hey, James Bond, in America we drive on the right side of the road."

Edited by Bring Back Valentin, 18 August 2006 - 02:53 PM.

[Disco Volante]

For those of you who know Alan Patridge (played by Steve Coogan), he is a big Bond fan and often makes references.

In fact, he has a photo of Roger Moore in his hotel room in the 1st series of "I'm Alan Partridge".

[Kalel577]

On "Highlander: The Series" episode "Revenge of the Sword", Robert Ito's Tong boss character asks Duncan MacLeod his name with some line ending in "Mister...", and MacLeod replys with a wry smirk "Bond. James Bond." (Adrian Paul did the same thing in a tux in a "Highlander" blooper reel).

[Mister Asterix]

‘The Venture Brothers’ is always full of Bond references. Brock is licenced to kill (as is Race Bannon). Both Dr. Jonas Venture and Dr Thaddius Venture are wearing Sean Connery’s baby blue terry-cloth jumper in the episode ‘Ghosts of the Sargasso’. In ‘Assassinanny 911’ the native girl is wearing Honey Ryder’s bikini and knife as she emerges from the sea. At one point, after leaving the a submarine in a most You Only Live Twice way, Brock is wearing an inflatable tuxedo. And of course, Colonel Horace Gentleman is Sean Connery. And has great Sean Connery lines like ‘Despite his racial handicap, Kano here is a crackerjack pilot.’

[Loomis]

Been 20 years or so since I saw it, and I very much doubt I'll ever watch it again, but isn't THE CANNONBALL RUN full of thinly-veiled-with-a-gossamer-thin-veil references to Bond, revolving around the character played by Moore?

And given Lazenby's appearance in THE RETURN OF THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., isn't there perhaps a case to be made that both he and Moore played Bond (essentially) outside the official series?

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]Moore

[Kalel577]

If we're going to get technical about that, in "Cannonball Run" Moore plays a rich man-boy who thinks he's Roger Moore, not James Bond (though he had the requisite Bond paraphenalia). At one point, he tells a biker as he gets into a karate stance "I must warn you, I'm Roger Moore".

"Who?" says the biker.

The man-boy relaxes and says "Roger Moore..." At which point the biker lays one on his glass jaw.

At another point, the biker chick he picks up confuses him for George Hamilton. Funny stuff.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

There's also Homer Simpson's comment along the lines of: "You know what's great about you British? OCTOPUSSY! I've seen that movie...." *thinks hard* "....twice!" It's the episode set partly in the future, with Lisa engaged to an Englishman.

Always loved that bit. The Simpsons are chock full of Bond references:

-In one of the opening couch gags, Homer does a spoof of the gunbarrel opening.

-There's an entire episode that ends up being a James Bond parody (I think the antagonist's name is even Scorpio), complete with a laser-table scene with Sean Connery's Bond.

-Two Carnies take over the Simpsons' house after Bart and Homer make friends with them, and when the father Carnie tries on Homer's clothes, the son remarks, "Wow, Dad, you look just like James Bond!"

-In one of the Treehouse of Horror episodes where Homer gets a wig made up of human hair (that ends up being possessed by it's late owner), Marge comments that "If your fly wasn't open, you'd look just like Roger Moore!"

-In another Treehouse of Horror, Pierce Brosnan guest-stars as the voice of a HAL-9000-like psychotic electronically-controlled house. When they first arrive, Bart comments that they can have their house voiced by James Bond, and Marge excitedly asks "George Lazenby!?"

-In an anniversary special of some sort, a "lost scene" is shown from the "$pringfield" episode, wherein Homer is a blackjack dealer at the new Springfield casino and is dealing for Sean Connery's James Bond and a bunch of villains (Jaws, Oddjob, and Blofeld appear at the table). Bond promptly loses because of Homer's ineptitude and is taken away by the villains.

[TheLazenby]

The Simpsons also had a great Moonraker reference.

It was in the episode where Bart is sent to military school. He's out in the field being trained to fire a grenade launcher, and he fires one up in the air. The sergeant says, "You missed." Bart says, "Did I?" And we see that the elementary school is up in flames. :-)

[Blofeld's Cat]

U.S. Marshals (the sequel to The Fugitive) has a Bond reference in the scene where the Gerard finds the pen gun in the crashed plane. His team banter about seeing something similar in a Bond film.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Just thought of another one from the recent Inside Man: during the heist, one of the technology experts on the police force shows Denzel Washington's character a pen that can record a conversation for 30 minutes. "James Bond sh**," remarks Washington. "Well, you can get them on Amazon," she responds.

[dunmall]

an episode of Weird Science called Spies R Us did a neat little Bond spoof that even changed the regular title sequence, to parody FRWL. The title sequence was projected onto the body of a belly dancer, while the theme music was reworked to emmulate Shirley Bassey!! Now that's putting in effort!!

The three evil nerds on Buffy often discussed who their favourite Bond was, one liked Connery another liked Moore and they were both derisive of the third who liked Dalton.

And let's not forget the classic Star Trek DS9 episode "Our Man Bashir" a holodeck adventure it saw Doctor Julian Bashir spending time in a James Bond style holodeck adventure, he is join by Garak who is a real spy and finds the fantasy a little distastefull, when an acident sees other crew members trapped within the game it becomes a real life and death struggle.
It spoofs all of the 60's spy cycle with great names like Dr. Hipocrates Noah, Missy Lovesit, a cigar with knock out gass, an eye patch wearing henchman, a collapsable gun hidden in the heal of a show and more...

It should be noted that one of Star Trek DS9's producers started his work in TV on the Man From UNCLE and as a nod to that show Garak the spy worked as a tailor to conceal his true occupation...while a listing of locations on the DS9 Station included the name of the tailor's from UNCLE.....