"The Boulet Brothers' Dragula" (TV 2021 Season 4, Episode 04, "Monsters of Rock") - Heavy Metal magazine is mentioned in this episode, as the prize for the winner to be featured in, which ended up on
#311.
"The Strokes: At The Door" (Music Video, 2020) - Inspired by various 1980's films, including Heavy Metal.
"Tesla Roadster" (SpaceX Test Flight 2018) - A dummy payload testing out SpaceX's Falcon-Heavy rocket, using a 2010 Tesla Roadster car, with a spacesuit in the driver's seat, very similar to the image of the Soft Landing segment of the 1981 movie.
"Brigsby Bear" (Movie 2017) - About half way through the movie, in Spencer's room, there's a 2014 Heavy Metal
poster
by Kilian Eng.
"New Blood" (TV 2016 Season 1, Episode 01 (and more), "Case 1, Part 1") - In Henry's room, there is a poster of Heavy Metal: The Movie soundtrack.
"21 Jump Street" (Movie 2012) - About an hour into the movie, there's a movie poster, along with someone wearing a
May 1995
cover t-shirt.
"(500) Days Of Summer" (Movie 2009) - In the video & record store near the end of the movie, there is a DVD of Heavy Metal: The Movie on the top shelf to the far left.
"Step Brothers" (Movie 2008) - In the brothers room, there is a poster of Heavy Metal: The Movie.
"South Park" (TV 2008 Season 12, Episode 03, "Major Boobage") - This episode includes an homage to the 1981 Heavy Metal movie.
"Teeth" (Movie 2007) - Near the start of the movie, in Brad's room, there is a poster of the Heavy Metal story Fistful Of Blood. In addiction, there are two other posters of illustrations that were also used as Heavy Metal covers. One
poster
is the one that was used for
January 1992, and the other poster
is the illustration used for
March 2001.
"Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny" (Movie 2006) - Near the start of the movie in young JB's room, there is a poster of Heavy Metal: The Movie, that his father (Meat Loaf) rips off the wall.
"Fun With Dick And Jane" (Movie 2005) - When Dick goes into the first victims variety store, the clerk is reading the August 2000 "Femme Fatales" magazine with an ad on the back cover for Heavy Metal 2000 action figures.
"Heavy Metal Versus Dominator" (Online 2005) - A 12 minute animated short of Dominator, featuring characters from the Heavy Metal movies, mostly from Heavy Metal 2000.
"The Venture Bros." (TV 2004 Season 1, Episode 11, "Past Tense") - This episode includes the character Mike Sorayama and his "Lesliebot" robots. Half way through the episode, Mike asks Dr. Venture, "Notice anything familiar about them?" In which Dr. Venture responds, "Yeah, I had that issue of Heavy Metal too." He is referring to the cover of
November 1980
by Hajime Sorayama, which looks like the Lesliebots. Because of this similarity, the episode was held back from being re-aired for nearly a year due to legal concern. However, it did return with a "thank you" credit added for Hajime Sorayama.
"Address Unknown" (Movie 2001) - Near the end of the movie, in Eunok's room, the American soldier sets his gun down on a
Fall 2000
issue of Heavy Metal. Which is an error, as this story is supposed to be taking place in 1970.
"Dawson's Creek" (TV 1998 Season 2, Episode 5, "Full Moon Rising") - There's a Heavy Metal VHS stand in the video store Pacey works at.
"Higher Learning" (Movie 1995) - Near the start of this movie, in Remy's room, he is hanging up posters, including a Luis Royo Heavy Metal poster.
"Clerks" (Movie 1994) - About 1/3 into the movie, the clerks are talking about annoying customers. In the video store, behind one customer is a copy of Heavy Metal: The Movie VHS. Which is interesting because Clerks was made in 1994, but the official VHS didn't legally come out until 1996.
"Joy Of Sex" (Movie 1984) - Near the start of this National Lampoon movie, Alan Holt is getting ready for school and when he goes to get a book you can see an issue of Heavy Metal in the pile. It's the
May 1982
issue. There's also a continuity error as the
previous shot
shows the
June 1983
issue instead.
