"Zaum - Andare a parare" Lo spazio dell'orbita (TV Episode 2011)
"Siskel & Ebert" Men in Black/Wild America/Out to Sea (TV Episode 1997)
Clips are shown in the teaser for the next week's show."HBO First Look" Contact (TV Episode 1997)
clips"The Movie Show" Episode dated 7 September 1997 (TV Episode 1997)
Reviewed."The Movie Show" Episode dated 19 October 1997 (TV Episode 1997)
Reviewed.
Larry King Live (TV Series 1985–2010)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series 1992–2014)
The Arrival (1996)
Ellie from Contact (1997) and Zane from The Arrival (1996) (essentially the same characters) both use almost the exact same phrase. They say something like: "Maybe it's the first volume of a Encyclopedia Gallactica."- A still is shown for the "Now In Theaters" bumper. Two thumbs up.
- Referenced during the "Air Force One" review.
"Moesha" Day One (TV Episode 1997)
Mowsha says she feels like Jodie Foster in that movie"Mystery Science Theater 3000" Devil Doll (TV Episode 1997)
"Sounds like the aliens haven't got in touch with Jodie Foster"
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
"Over the Rainbow" is heard in the opening scene.Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Red Planet Mars (1952)
This Island Earth (1955)
The Twilight Zone (TV Series 1959–1964)
"Family Guy" Da Boom (TV Episode 1999)
Peter parodies the movie, saying "No words... should have sent... a poet...""The Simpsons" On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister (TV Episode 2005)
At the end of the opening title sequence, the "camera" zooms out into space, past planets, stars and galaxies, like at the start of Contact, except that we also see the green tentacled aliens, shipwrecked."South Park" Tsst (TV Episode 2006)
Cartman's face gets a ghost and you can hear what he's going to say just before he actualy does, a direct spoof to what happened to Ellie"The Venture Bros." Twenty Years to Midnight (TV Episode 2006)
The alien appearing as Rusty's father spoofs the ending of this film.Ted 2 (2015)
"No words... they should have sent a poet", upon seeing the field of pot.