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==The Simpsons==
 
==The Simpsons==
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===Treehouse of Horror VI (Season 7, Episode 6)===
   
:'''Treehouse of Horror VI''' (Season 7, Episode 6)
 
 
In the story segment, Homer³, Homer accidentally enters into an eerie third dimension (represented by [[wikipedia:3D computer graphics|3D computer graphics]]). When Homer tried to explain his surroundings to everyone in his is living room, he says, "Uh... it's like... did anyone see the movie 'TRON?" to which everyone replies, "No", except for Chief Wiggum who at first says yes but changes his answer to no.
 
In the story segment, Homer³, Homer accidentally enters into an eerie third dimension (represented by [[wikipedia:3D computer graphics|3D computer graphics]]). When Homer tried to explain his surroundings to everyone in his is living room, he says, "Uh... it's like... did anyone see the movie 'TRON?" to which everyone replies, "No", except for Chief Wiggum who at first says yes but changes his answer to no.
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===The Spy Who Learned Me (Season 23, Episode 20)===
   
 
==Family Guy==
 
==Family Guy==
[[Image:Family_guy_tron.PNG|thumb|150px|Peter Griffin as "the green guy".]]
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[[Image:Family guy tron.PNG|thumb|150px|Peter Griffin as "the green guy".]]
   
:'''A Hero Sits Next Door''' (Season 1, Episode 5)
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===A Hero Sits Next Door (Season 1, Episode 5)===
 
When Peter faces the possibility of being fired, he has a flashback of his previous job as a Calvin Klein model. In the flashback, various models are heard thinking such things as, “I don’t want to be different, but I don’t want to be the same." As the camera pans to Peter, he thinks to himself, "What was the name of the bad guy from ''TRON''? Aww, this is gonna drive me nuts."
 
When Peter faces the possibility of being fired, he has a flashback of his previous job as a Calvin Klein model. In the flashback, various models are heard thinking such things as, “I don’t want to be different, but I don’t want to be the same." As the camera pans to Peter, he thinks to himself, "What was the name of the bad guy from ''TRON''? Aww, this is gonna drive me nuts."
   
:'''One if by Clam, Two if by Sea''' (Season 3, Episode 4)
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===One if by Clam, Two if by Sea (Season 3, Episode 4)===
 
In yet another flashback, Peter is seen reenacting the [[Lightcycle sequence|light cycle sequence]]. One of the opponents that Peter is racing against, Eric, is actually a high-school friend of his. As they exchange greetings while driving, Eric says to Peter, "Hey, is that Stacy Beachum?" Peter looks behind to see that the high-school hottie is not there and crashes into Eric's. This was produced by Area51 the visual effects artists are Don McCoy (http://www.youtube.com/user/DonLMcCoyDemo) and Glenn Campbell.
 
In yet another flashback, Peter is seen reenacting the [[Lightcycle sequence|light cycle sequence]]. One of the opponents that Peter is racing against, Eric, is actually a high-school friend of his. As they exchange greetings while driving, Eric says to Peter, "Hey, is that Stacy Beachum?" Peter looks behind to see that the high-school hottie is not there and crashes into Eric's. This was produced by Area51 the visual effects artists are Don McCoy (http://www.youtube.com/user/DonLMcCoyDemo) and Glenn Campbell.
   
==Robot Chicken==
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==Futurama==
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[[File:Law_and_Oracle_screenshot_2.jpg|thumb]]
[[Image:Robottron1.PNG|150px|thumb|A teen's joyride turns deadly...]]
 
   
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===A Bicyclops Built for Two (Season 2, Episode 13)===
The adult-oriented stop-motion cartoon ''Robot Chicken'' has featured '''sketches parodying ''[[TRON]]'''''. The first sketch is called ''"'''Used Car Surprise'''"'' (according to [http://robotchicken.org/index.php?title=Main_Page ADD TV]) as well as ''"'''Sweet Ride'''"'', according to Adult Swim's streaming video title. It is about a teen that test drives a [[light cycle]].
 
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The Planet Express crew entering cyberspace may be a reference to TRON.
   
 
===Love and Rocket (Season 4, Episode 4)===
The sketch is from episode no. 33, ''"Metal Militia"'', from the second season of ''Robot Chicken''.
 
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The Scene where the Planet Express ship chases Bender in cyberspace is a reference to Tron.
   
 
===Law and Oracle (Season 6, Episode 16)===
The video can be viewed in its entirety [http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=b583e0f17053397b2301ba510a7601d0 here].<br />''Caution: Offensive content - Viewer discretion is advised.''
 
   
 
===A Farewell to Arms (Season 9, Episode 2)===
''Robot Chicken'' featured another sketch parodying ''TRON'' called ''"'''Nerd Tron'''"''. It is about how a nerd fares in the TRON Universe.
 
   
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The sketch is from episode no. 90, ''"Catch Me If You Kangaroo Jack",'' from the fifth season of ''Robot Chicken''.
 
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==Robot Chicken==
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{{main|Robot Chicken TRON segments}}
   
 
==Dexter's Laboratory==
 
==Dexter's Laboratory==
   
:'''Game Over''' (Season 1, Episode 7)
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===Game Over (Season 1, Episode 7)===
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[[Image:Dexter tron1.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Dexter in his "beam cycle".]]
This episode of Dexter's Laboratory is essentially a parody/tribute to ''TRON''. Every time Dexter plays a video game with his sister, Dee Dee, he always loses, despite his superior intellect. To make things worse, Dexter's dad buys him an old video game cartridge called "Master Computer" (that he bought from a gypsy for a nickel). When Dee Dee sees the game, she provokes Dexter to challenge her at the game. Dexter loses and kicks Dee Dee out of his secret laboratory. When Dexter tries to pull out the cartridge out of his state-of-the-art computer, the game comes alive in the form not unlike the [[MCP]] and begins to take over Dexter's computer with a virus.[[Image:Dexter_tron1.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Dexter in his "beam cycle".]]With the Master Computer game loaded in Dexter's computer, he tells Dexter his plans on taking over the world. Dexter runs towards the emergency shut off switch, but Master Computer [[Digitization|digitizes]] Dexter with one of his laboratory lasers. Dexter, now inside his computer tries to destroy Master Computer, but to no avail - even when using a beam cycle. After getting caught in a "[[Gridbug|grid spider's]] website", he regrettably gets Dee Dee to help him defeat the evil program. Dee Dee successfully [[derez]]zes Master Computer and saves Dexter's life and as she removes the cartridge, Dexter tells her to return him back to the real world. However, Dee Dee makes him play a game of "Primal Fighter" in the computer, where he is then senselessly beaten up by a giant ape.
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This episode of Dexter's Laboratory is essentially a parody/tribute to ''TRON''. Every time Dexter plays a video game with his sister, Dee Dee, he always loses, despite his superior intellect. To make things worse, Dexter's dad buys him an old video game cartridge called "Master Computer" (that he bought from a gypsy for a nickel). When Dee Dee sees the game, she provokes Dexter to challenge her at the game. Dexter loses and kicks Dee Dee out of his secret laboratory. When Dexter tries to pull out the cartridge out of his state-of-the-art computer, the game comes alive in the form not unlike the [[MCP]] and begins to take over Dexter's computer with a virus.With the Master Computer game loaded in Dexter's computer, he tells Dexter his plans on taking over the world. Dexter runs towards the emergency shut off switch, but Master Computer [[Digitization|digitizes]] Dexter with one of his laboratory lasers. Dexter, now inside his computer tries to destroy Master Computer, but to no avail - even when using a beam cycle. After getting caught in a "[[Gridbug|grid spider's]] website", he regrettably gets Dee Dee to help him defeat the evil program. Dee Dee successfully [[derez]]zes Master Computer and saves Dexter's life and as she removes the cartridge, Dexter tells her to return him back to the real world. However, Dee Dee makes him play a game of "Primal Fighter" in the computer, where he is then senselessly beaten up by a giant ape.
   
 
==Fairly OddParents==
 
==Fairly OddParents==
 
[[File:PowerMad207.jpg|thumb|Timmy, Chester, and AJ in a video game world]]
 
[[File:PowerMad207.jpg|thumb|Timmy, Chester, and AJ in a video game world]]
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:'''Power Mad''' (Season 1, Episode 2)
 
 
===Power Mad (Season 1, Episode 2)===
Timmy tells his Fairy Godparents that he wishes for the best video game ever and using a virtual reality plays the game inside the video game console, ala ''TRON''. He even wears a TRON-inspired suit in the virtual world.
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Timmy tells his Fairy Godparents that he wishes for the best video game ever and using a virtual reality plays the game inside the video game console, ala ''TRON''. He even wears a TRON-inspired suit in the virtual world.
 
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==Chuck==
 
==Chuck==
 
[[File:TronChuck.jpg|thumb|The TRON poster seen in the background.]]
 
[[File:TronChuck.jpg|thumb|The TRON poster seen in the background.]]
Chuck Bartowski, the title character, has a ''TRON''poster on his bedroom wall, suggesting that he is a fan of the cult classic.
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Chuck Bartowski, the title character, has a ''TRON'' poster on his bedroom wall, suggesting that he is a fan of the cult classic.
 
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==The Daily Show with Jon Stewart==
 
==The Daily Show with Jon Stewart==
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[[TRON]] was referenced during the 2004 election special of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176430/ Indecision 2004: Election Night - Prelude to a Recount]. The opening light cycle sequence is satirically shown during a segment where Daily Show correspondent Bob Wiltfong is explaining to host Jon Stewart how election votes are electronically sent.[http://youtu.be/RdVEwkTf9E8?t=26m11s%7C]
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==Automan==
 
==Automan==
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{{main|Automan}}
A 1983 sci-fi TV series, which mirrors the main plot of TRON: a "hologram" is brought to life in the real world to help his creator fight against crime.
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A 1983 sci-fi TV series, which mirror the main plot of TRON: a program "hologram" brings to real life to help his creator to fight against crime.
   
 
==Freakazoid!==
 
==Freakazoid!==
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{{main|Freakazoid!}}
The show chronicles the adventures of the title character, Freakazoid, a manic, insane superhero who battles with an array of super villains. The show also features mini-episodes of adventures of other bizarre superheroes.
 
   
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===The Chip, Part I (Season 1, Episode 6)===
Dexter Douglas (Freakazoid's alter ego) gained his superhero abilities from a computer bug, which zapped him into cyberspace and the Internet (similar to digitization in TRON). References to TRON and other sci-fi movies were scattered through out the show's two season run. Freakazoid's arch-nemesis, Armando Gutierrez, also gains his powers this way. After his first defeat, Gutierrez has half of his body covered in circuit-like glowing lines.
 
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Dexter Douglas gets the new Pinnacle Chip for his computer. Dexter's cat steps on the keyboard and enters the secret combination of letters and numbers that sucks Dexter into the computer when he hits the "delete" key, turning him into Freakazoid.
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===The Chip, Part II (Season 1, Episode 7)===
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Dexter unleashes Freakazoid for the first time in defeating the evil Guitierrez.
   
 
==ReBoot==
 
==ReBoot==
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{{main|ReBoot}}
   
 
==South Park==
 
==South Park==
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{{main|TRON references in South Park}}
[[Image:Imagination_Land_1.jpg|thumb|250px|Two guards dressed as [[programs]] take Butters, Snarf and the Lollipop King away.]]There are many references and nods to ''[[TRON]]'' in the adult animated televison series, ''[[wikipedia:South Park|South Park]]''.
 
 
:'''Jewbilee''' (Season 3, Episode 9)
 
[[File:Moses.jpg|right|thumb|156px|Moses as he is depicted in the South Park universe.]]
 
Moses is represented as a column of light nearly identical to the [[MCP]].
 
 
:'''Season 4 credits'''
 
Moses appears as a background character during the updated credits sequence.
 
 
:'''Super Best Friends''' (Season 5, Episode 3)==
 
Moses appears again in this episode.
 
 
:'''Imaginationland: Episode II''' (Season 11, Episode 11)==
 
Guards at the gates of the castle that Butters tries to enter with the Lollipop king and Snarf are dressed in TRON garb.
 
 
:'''Canada on Strike (Season 12, Episode 4)
 
[[File:Tronguy-1-.jpg|right|thumb|115px]]
 
When the boys are in the waiting room, waiting for their money from the internet, so are a series of internet celebrities, including Dramatic Gopher, Tay Zonday, and TRON Guy.
 
 
:'''You Have 0 Friends''' (Season 14, Episode 4)
 
[[File:News-1404a_b-1-.jpg|thumb|left|125px]]
 
When Stan attempts to delete his Facebook account, the computer informs him that it can't let him do that and that Stan will be put on the Game Grid. Stan is digitized and sent into the computer in a scene that is a direct tribute to the scene in ''TRON'' where Flynn is digitized. Most of the remainder of the episode is spent inside the ''TRON''-styled Facebook server, with people's "profiles" taking the place of programs and appearing in a variety of colors and some radically varied styles, similar to [[Data Pushers]]. Stan is forced to play Yahtzee with someone's profile in a parody of the jai alai game (Stan asks why they aren't doing battle on [[Lightcycle|glowing bikes]] instead). Stan's profile has taken on a gigantic form similar to appearance to Sark's giant form & the MCP. Stan and his profile do combat, once again, by playing Yahtzee. Stan wins and is freed from the computer.
 
   
 
==Mad==
 
==Mad==
The Cartoon Network show ''Mad'' (based off of the magazine) features a segment called "Soul Tron," which is a blend of the original TRON and Soul Train. It features the setting and elements of ''TRON'' with a music-based aspects, such as Identity Disks instead being records.
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The Cartoon Network show ''Mad'' (based on the magazine) features a segment called "Soul Tron," which is a blend of the original TRON and Soul Train. It features the setting and elements of ''TRON'' with a music-based aspects, such as Identity Disks instead being records.
   
 
Another Mad sketch, featuring a crossover between Winnie the Pooh and another Jeff Bridges movie, featured Kevin Flynn (identified only as "Jeff Bridges from TRON") and Clu 2 (identified only as "Young Jeff Bridges from TRON") teaming up as bounty hunters to capture Tigger. They also both utilized a fifth-generation Light Cycle.
 
Another Mad sketch, featuring a crossover between Winnie the Pooh and another Jeff Bridges movie, featured Kevin Flynn (identified only as "Jeff Bridges from TRON") and Clu 2 (identified only as "Young Jeff Bridges from TRON") teaming up as bounty hunters to capture Tigger. They also both utilized a fifth-generation Light Cycle.
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==Phineas and Ferb==
 
==Phineas and Ferb==
In the episode "Where's Perry Part 1", when Doofenshmirtz is showing his "inators", one of them is called a "[[Derezz]]-inator".
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In the episode "Where's Perry Part 1", when Doofenshmirtz is showing his "inators", one of them is called a "Derezz-inator".
   
 
==Hocus Pocus==
 
==Hocus Pocus==
 
During the Halloween costume-party sequence in this 1993 film, a reveler in the crowd is seen wearing [[Ram|Ram's]] armor and helmet.
 
During the Halloween costume-party sequence in this 1993 film, a reveler in the crowd is seen wearing [[Ram|Ram's]] armor and helmet.
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==Gravity Falls==
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During the "Fight Fighters" episode, Soos can be seen playing "NORT" arcade game which is TRON reversed.
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==Adventure Time==
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[[File:Adventuretime-cg.jpg|thumb|Finn and Jake in the video game world.]]
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Orange Princess, a background charecter on the show, was originally named "Tron Princess".
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===Guardians of Sunshine (Season 2, Episode 16)===
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Finn and Jake trick BMO into letting them into the video game called Guardians of Sunshine, where they attempt to defeat an unbeatable video game in a 3-D digital environment, ala ''TRON''.
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==Once Upon A Time==
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''Once Upon a Time'' was created by TRON: Legacy writers [[Edward Kitsis]] and [[Adam Horowitz]], and contained a number of TRON references.
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===What Happened to Frederick (Season 1, Episode 13)===
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Regina gives Henry a [[Space Paranoids]] game to play, and Emma tells him that the skills involved are "all in the wrist." Henry also has a ''TRON'' lunchbox, which reappears in subsequent episodes as a ''TRON: Legacy'' lunchbox. 
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===Welcome to Storybrooke (Season 2, Episode 17)===
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A '80s-era flashback featured a recent widower named Kurt Flynn and his young son. Flynn is trapped by evil forces in a magical town which was rendered invisible to outside authorities; in a subsequent episode, the orphaned son returns to the town twenty-eight years later in  to search for his missing father. In addition, a bench features an ad for computer products clearly marked with an [[ENCOM]] logo.
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==The Goldbergs==
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Adam Goldberg is seen to wear ''TRON'' shirts several times during the series, which is set in the 1980s.
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===''The Kremps'' (Season 1, Episode 8)===
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Adam befriends his neighbor Chad Kremp, finding common ground over their extreme love of ''TRON''. Chad has seen ''TRON'' sixteen times ("my mom's actually kind of worried"), wears a homemade version of Tron's armor and helmet, and constructed a blue cardboard lightcycle shell to fit over his bicycle.
 
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The following are references and parodies of TRON in television.

The Simpsons

Sark simpsons

Treehouse of Horror VI (Season 7, Episode 6)

In the story segment, Homer³, Homer accidentally enters into an eerie third dimension (represented by 3D computer graphics). When Homer tried to explain his surroundings to everyone in his is living room, he says, "Uh... it's like... did anyone see the movie 'TRON?" to which everyone replies, "No", except for Chief Wiggum who at first says yes but changes his answer to no.

The Spy Who Learned Me (Season 23, Episode 20)

Family Guy

Family guy tron

Peter Griffin as "the green guy".

A Hero Sits Next Door (Season 1, Episode 5)

When Peter faces the possibility of being fired, he has a flashback of his previous job as a Calvin Klein model. In the flashback, various models are heard thinking such things as, “I don’t want to be different, but I don’t want to be the same." As the camera pans to Peter, he thinks to himself, "What was the name of the bad guy from TRON? Aww, this is gonna drive me nuts."

One if by Clam, Two if by Sea (Season 3, Episode 4)

In yet another flashback, Peter is seen reenacting the light cycle sequence. One of the opponents that Peter is racing against, Eric, is actually a high-school friend of his. As they exchange greetings while driving, Eric says to Peter, "Hey, is that Stacy Beachum?" Peter looks behind to see that the high-school hottie is not there and crashes into Eric's. This was produced by Area51 the visual effects artists are Don McCoy (http://www.youtube.com/user/DonLMcCoyDemo) and Glenn Campbell.

Futurama

Law and Oracle screenshot 2

A Bicyclops Built for Two (Season 2, Episode 13)

The Planet Express crew entering cyberspace may be a reference to TRON.

Love and Rocket (Season 4, Episode 4)

The Scene where the Planet Express ship chases Bender in cyberspace is a reference to Tron.

Law and Oracle (Season 6, Episode 16)

A Farewell to Arms (Season 9, Episode 2)

Robot Chicken

Dexter's Laboratory

Game Over (Season 1, Episode 7)

Dexter tron1

Dexter in his "beam cycle".

This episode of Dexter's Laboratory is essentially a parody/tribute to TRON. Every time Dexter plays a video game with his sister, Dee Dee, he always loses, despite his superior intellect. To make things worse, Dexter's dad buys him an old video game cartridge called "Master Computer" (that he bought from a gypsy for a nickel). When Dee Dee sees the game, she provokes Dexter to challenge her at the game. Dexter loses and kicks Dee Dee out of his secret laboratory. When Dexter tries to pull out the cartridge out of his state-of-the-art computer, the game comes alive in the form not unlike the MCP and begins to take over Dexter's computer with a virus.With the Master Computer game loaded in Dexter's computer, he tells Dexter his plans on taking over the world. Dexter runs towards the emergency shut off switch, but Master Computer digitizes Dexter with one of his laboratory lasers. Dexter, now inside his computer tries to destroy Master Computer, but to no avail - even when using a beam cycle. After getting caught in a "grid spider's website", he regrettably gets Dee Dee to help him defeat the evil program. Dee Dee successfully derezzes Master Computer and saves Dexter's life and as she removes the cartridge, Dexter tells her to return him back to the real world. However, Dee Dee makes him play a game of "Primal Fighter" in the computer, where he is then senselessly beaten up by a giant ape.

Fairly OddParents

PowerMad207

Timmy, Chester, and AJ in a video game world

Power Mad (Season 1, Episode 2)

Timmy tells his Fairy Godparents that he wishes for the best video game ever and using a virtual reality plays the game inside the video game console, ala TRON. He even wears a TRON-inspired suit in the virtual world.

Chuck

TronChuck

The TRON poster seen in the background.

Chuck Bartowski, the title character, has a TRON poster on his bedroom wall, suggesting that he is a fan of the cult classic.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

TRON was referenced during the 2004 election special of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Indecision 2004: Election Night - Prelude to a Recount. The opening light cycle sequence is satirically shown during a segment where Daily Show correspondent Bob Wiltfong is explaining to host Jon Stewart how election votes are electronically sent.[1]

Automan

Main article: Automan

A 1983 sci-fi TV series, which mirror the main plot of TRON: a program "hologram" brings to real life to help his creator to fight against crime.

Freakazoid!

Main article: Freakazoid!

The Chip, Part I (Season 1, Episode 6)

Dexter Douglas gets the new Pinnacle Chip for his computer. Dexter's cat steps on the keyboard and enters the secret combination of letters and numbers that sucks Dexter into the computer when he hits the "delete" key, turning him into Freakazoid.

The Chip, Part II (Season 1, Episode 7)

Dexter unleashes Freakazoid for the first time in defeating the evil Guitierrez.

ReBoot

Main article: ReBoot

South Park

Mad

The Cartoon Network show Mad (based on the magazine) features a segment called "Soul Tron," which is a blend of the original TRON and Soul Train. It features the setting and elements of TRON with a music-based aspects, such as Identity Disks instead being records.

Another Mad sketch, featuring a crossover between Winnie the Pooh and another Jeff Bridges movie, featured Kevin Flynn (identified only as "Jeff Bridges from TRON") and Clu 2 (identified only as "Young Jeff Bridges from TRON") teaming up as bounty hunters to capture Tigger. They also both utilized a fifth-generation Light Cycle.

Another Mad sketch, featuring a segment called "Minute to Flynn It," which is a blend of TRON: Legacy and Minute to Win It. It features Clu 2 challenging Sam to prove that he is the superior player on the grid with various mediocre challenges.

The Big Bang Theory

Sheldon Cooper sometimes wears a TRON T-Shirt.

Phineas and Ferb

In the episode "Where's Perry Part 1", when Doofenshmirtz is showing his "inators", one of them is called a "Derezz-inator".

Hocus Pocus

During the Halloween costume-party sequence in this 1993 film, a reveler in the crowd is seen wearing Ram's armor and helmet.

Gravity Falls

During the "Fight Fighters" episode, Soos can be seen playing "NORT" arcade game which is TRON reversed.

Adventure Time

Adventuretime-cg

Finn and Jake in the video game world.

Orange Princess, a background charecter on the show, was originally named "Tron Princess".

Guardians of Sunshine (Season 2, Episode 16)

Finn and Jake trick BMO into letting them into the video game called Guardians of Sunshine, where they attempt to defeat an unbeatable video game in a 3-D digital environment, ala TRON.

Once Upon A Time

Once Upon a Time was created by TRON: Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, and contained a number of TRON references.

What Happened to Frederick (Season 1, Episode 13)

Regina gives Henry a Space Paranoids game to play, and Emma tells him that the skills involved are "all in the wrist." Henry also has a TRON lunchbox, which reappears in subsequent episodes as a TRON: Legacy lunchbox. 

Welcome to Storybrooke (Season 2, Episode 17)

A '80s-era flashback featured a recent widower named Kurt Flynn and his young son. Flynn is trapped by evil forces in a magical town which was rendered invisible to outside authorities; in a subsequent episode, the orphaned son returns to the town twenty-eight years later in  to search for his missing father. In addition, a bench features an ad for computer products clearly marked with an ENCOM logo.

The Goldbergs

Adam Goldberg is seen to wear TRON shirts several times during the series, which is set in the 1980s.

The Kremps (Season 1, Episode 8)

Adam befriends his neighbor Chad Kremp, finding common ground over their extreme love of TRON. Chad has seen TRON sixteen times ("my mom's actually kind of worried"), wears a homemade version of Tron's armor and helmet, and constructed a blue cardboard lightcycle shell to fit over his bicycle.