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  1. In an episode of the first season of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, when Krang and his suit turn giant and rampage through the series, one of the turtles says "Where's Godzilla when you really need him?"
  2. In the comic strip Garfield, there are many references to Godzilla:
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  4. A talking scale insulted Garfield as being "fat" and that Godzilla is just "Big-boned", implying that Garfield is so fat he's even heavier than Godzilla.
  5. Garfield watched a movie where a monster shark ate Tokyo and cheered about it, but Jon was terrified and against Garfield's cheering. This can serve as a parallel to that Godzilla originally served as an antagonist but still became popular due to being the "Star" of the film, rather than the human protagonists.
  6. Jon mentions he had a dream about Godzilla on the January 9th, 2015 comic strip.
  7. Garfield tells Odie to come watch a "Godzilla movie where he steps on people" in an episode of Garfield and Friends called "Safe at Home".
  8. In "The Garfield Musical", a viewer changes the TV to watch a movie that resembles Godzilla destroying a city.
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  10. In Rush Hour 2, one of the main characters, Carter, makes a racist comment that Asian people are easily scared by Godzilla.
  11. In The Hangover, Alan pleads Mr. Chow not to hit him with an iron crowbar screaming "I'm on your side! I hate Godzilla! I hate him too! He destroys cities!". Chow throws the crowbar at Alan's face anyways before running off.
  12. In the Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2, the toys are trying to reenact Al kidnapping Woody using a small replica of the town using Andy's toy cars. Rex comes stomping through the replica by accident, and Ham shouts, "Watch were you're going Godspilla!" Also, while they trying to break out of Al's car to rescue Woody, Mr. Potato Head tells Rex to be still, simultaneously calling him Godzilla.
  13. In the Toy Story Toons short, Partysaurus Rex, Rex, while being played with by Bonnie in the bath tub in a suspense-like moment with rubber ducks, rises slowly from the water with yellow eyes and Godzilla's roar.
  14. In Batman: The Brave And The Bold, when a T-Rex statue was about to fall on a person, one can hear Godzilla's roar.
  15. Ebirah inspired two monsters who appeared in the Nintendo anime Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Ebifryer and Ebizou. Both are giant shrimp monsters who have abilities far stronger than the rest of the cast.
  16. Godzilla's roar is uttered in the Camp Lazlo Episode "Creepy Crawly Campy" when Raj's new bug, Elebug, becomes a giant insect that resembles Kamacuras and also done Godzilla's roar.
  17. Several different types of cheap and/or bootleg dinosaur toys that have a roar feature usually have the same roar as Godzilla.
  18. In the Cartoon Network show Codename: Kids Next Door, in the episode Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R., Numbuh 4's tube was called Tubezilla.
  19. In a episode from 'American Dad!', when Steve Smith was going to introduce an ugly girl, his friend, Toshi, shouted "Godzilla!" In a later episode, Snot says "Oh my Godzilla!" In another episode, Stan tries to scare away Francine's parents, who are Chinese, by wearing a cardboard Godzilla costume.
  20. In the Catscratch episode "King Of All Root Beer," the cats turn into parade floats and fight each other while roaring like Godzilla. At the end of the episode, the Burpos mascot turns into a parade float and roars like Godzilla at the cats, scaring them off.
  21. The Godzilla theme song was played in a Shinchan movie when a giant robot was about to crush a tank.
  22. In the Futurama episode "A Clockwork Origin," a robotic plesiosaur has Godzilla's roar.
  23. In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Sheen wants to see a 12-inch monster parody of Godzilla, Bonzilla, in one episode.
  24. In an episode of Squidbillies, one of the characters says that they had a drew about Godzilla coming in and tearing the house off the ground. His father says that that's impossible since Godzilla lives in Japan and that's too long of a commute. However, the house starts shaking and he screams "It's Godziller!" and the squids all pointlessly run around when the same squid says "We have angered him!". Soon it's revealed that it wasn't Godzilla, but an underground hydroponic greenhouse.
  25. In one of the Simpsons' couch gags, called "Homer Evolution", Homer Simpson evolves from a microbe to a human in about two minutes. In the Cretaceous period, Homer is a rat, and finds himself being chased by Bart, looking like a Tyrannosaurus, until a Stegosaurus, sporting Lisa's appearance, hits the Tyrannosaurus with its tail. The Lisa Stegosaurus lets out a Godzilla roar as Homer hides in a hole and the K-T extinction unfolds. Homer pops out of the hole a couple of seconds later and continues his evolution.
  26. Godzilla can be found in many top rated TV shows. He can be seen behind George Costanza in his office of the NY Yankees in the show Seinfeld. He is also seen In the Taylor living room in Home Improvement, as well as in the living room of the show Roseanne.
  27. Godzilla received The MTV Lifetime Achievement award in 1996. He is the only non-"real" person to receive this award.
  28. "The Kaiju" is a monster that appeared the first episode of Total Drama Action, Monster Cash as part of a challenge themed around monster films. It was revealed to be an animatronic at the end of the episode
  29. In many episodes of Phineas and Ferb, a Godzilla-like creature has made many appearances. In an episode that takes place in ancient China, a mechanical dragon with Godzilla's roar is sent to fight a giant terracotta warrior. A bystander points out that "they would love this in Japan."
  30. In Wizard101 there are cards that are called Firezilla and Stormzilla.
  31. On the electricity episode of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" a large plug-in is shown. Bill describes it as Godzilla's hairdryer and Godzilla is shown attacking Tokyo in black & white.
  32. The Big Time Rush episode Big Time Song Writers features a scene where Gustavo breaks out of cement while Godzilla's roar is heard multiple times.
  33. In the Back at the Barnyard episode "Plucky and Me" when the other barn animals discover Plucky, who is a dinosaur, Pip says "That's a Godzilla!". Later, when Mrs. Beady is captured by Plucky, she calls the police and says "I've been captured by a Godzilla!". The policeman later says "Time to hunt some Zilla." Afterwards, Plucky gets on top of the farm house and holds Mrs. Beady in his hand, and the policeman comes in a plane and starts shooting at Plucky (which is a reference to the King Kong films). The policeman hits Plucky with a giant ball of cheese and he falls off, pretending to be dead. Mrs. Beady then says that "it was beauty that killed the beast".
  34. In the "Beyond the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman" episode "Alien Faces", a fact shows up in the bottom left corner of the screen saying "The first Godzilla (1954) suit weighed 200 pounds."
  35. In Doug's First Movie, the main character Doug's second fantasy involves him and his dog Porkchop saving the city from a Godzilla-like monster.
  36. In the Back at the Barnyard episode "Animal Farmers", Bessy calls Otis by "Cowzilla" when he gets an idea of resuming Farmer Buyer's market after he's been sent to the hospital by a tractor accident unintentionally caused by Otis.
  37. A movie was made in 2012 titled Croczilla, and its tagline was "Japan was just the appetizer".
  38. The anime series Gatchaman used a sound clip of Godzilla's roar on occasion for the evil Galactor's mecha beasts as well as the TARDIS sound effect from Doctor Who.
  39. In the final battle against Ruvik in the survival horror video game The Evil Within, Ruvik, now revealed to be little more than a massive brain, uses his psychic powers to summon a massive beast to fight the player, and in order to defeat them, the player must utilise a variety of objects in their environment, reminiscent of many Kaiju films.
  40. The horror/drama Supernatural series, Godzilla and Mothra has been mentioned several times. Dean Winchester (one of the main characters) says that Mothra vs. Godzilla is his favorite Godzilla movie.
  41. In the Danny Phantom episode "Flirting With Disaster", the ghost Technis transforms into a multi-headed monster with Godzilla's roar.
  42. An extinct species of platypus was nicknamed "Platypus Godzilla" when it was discovered in Australia.[1]
  43. In an episode of The Cleveland Show, in an episode that takes place in Japan, a new neighbor named "Mr. Zilla" has to inform the neighborhood that he is a repeated felon.
  44. In AQWorlds, Deady's giant monster form has Godzilla's dorsal plates.
  45. The title of horror film series The Gingerdeadman utilize the Godzilla font.
  46. The "Bringing Down The House" Angry Birds t-shirt utilizes the Godzilla font.
  47. In the game Days of Monsters, there is a monster called "Repzilla."
  48. In The Book of Mormon musical when singing the song "Two By Two", one missionary is sent to Japan which he points out that's where Mothra is.
  49. In truTV's World's Dumbest: Inventions #9, the number 15 spot belongs to a Japanese product called "Grappa," a reusable, eco-friendly shopping bag that doubles as a helmet in case of natural disaster. One of the commentators pokes fun at its usefulness, by mentioning that, among other 'every day occurrences,' it is useful for Godzilla attacks.
  50. The DVD release of CROC that included 4 bonus movies had the tagline "Godzilla of the swamp."
  51. In Corner Gas The Movie, Brent references Godzilla by calling Carol "Copzilla".
  52. The Nintendo all-star fighting game Super Smash Bros. Melee has an event match titled "Gargantuans" wherein a giant Bowser fights a giant Donkey Kong on top of buildings.
  53. The next Super Smash Bros. game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, featured a similar event to Melee's "Gargantuans" titled "Three-Beast Carnage" where R.O.B. fights against a giant Bowser, Donkey Kong, and Charizard.
  54. In an episode of the Comedy Central show Tosh.0, during a video of a reckless driver crashing into several people and vehicles, Daniel Tosh proposes that the driver may have been trying to escape from Godzilla, as a brief clip of Godzilla roaring from King Kong vs. Godzilla is shown.
  55. In the milk company Trumoo's back-of-carton "Power Cows" series, one carton contains a character called "Moozilla" and his power is "Flaming fire breath".
  56. In the anime Mazinger Z vs. The Great General of Darkness, a Warrior Beast makes Godzilla roars.
  57. The anime Tetsujin 28 Go!, a robot called the Black Ox makes Megaguirus's roars.
  58. In the film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor , the Emperor transforms into a three-headed dragon that bears a near-lawsuit liknesss to King Ghidorah.
  59. In the multi-part documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey, the exterior of Toho Studios is repeatedly shown, and the Godzilla statue outside of the studio can be seen.
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  61. Under "TV References":
  62. Laverne & Shirley
  63. Urusei Yatsura
  64. Brickleberry
  65. Urusei Yatsura
  66. This is MST3K
  67. CBS News: Saturday Morning
  68. The Simpsons (most of them)
  69. Olive, the Other Reindeer
  70. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  71. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  72. Colbert Report
  73. Heroes
  74. Death Note
  75. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  76. Dexter
  77. Colbert Report
  78. MAD
  79. American Pickers
  80. Sailor Moon
  81. Colbert Report
  82. Garo
  83. Colbert Report
  84. The Awful Truth
  85. The Big Bang Theory
  86. Mythbusters
  87. Pingu
  88. Tekkōki Mikazuki (Giant Robot Mikazuki)
  89. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
  90. A Flea in Her Dome
  91. The Amazing World of Gumball
  92. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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