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The following are references and parodies to Tron in television.

The 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). As Homer tries 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.

Family Guy

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Peter Griffin as "the blue 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 lightcycle 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 jetwall.


Robot Chicken

Dexter's Laboratory

Game Over (Season 1, Episode 7)

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 nickle). 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.

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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 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

Power Mad (Season 1, Episode 1)

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

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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. Please follow the link of this heading to the main article for further details.

Freakazoid!

Reboot

South Park

Jewbilee (Season 3, Episode 40)

The character Moses on the Comedy Central show South Park appears as a multi-colored votex, an obvious reference to the Master Control Program in the movie Tron

Super Best Friends (Season 5, Episode 68)

My Life as a Teenage Robot

Good Old Sheldon (Season 2, Episode 14)

In the climax of the episode, Jenny Wakemen (aka XJ9) wears an kinetic energy-suit that looks and glows very much like a program costume from Tron, although her suit was black instead of gray. This was a refrence to the Tron Legacy (aka TR2N) suit redesign

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