References
"I Love Lucy" (1951)
"Father Knows Best" (1954)
"My Three Sons" (1960)
"Password" (1961)
"The Jetsons" (1962)
"Bewitched" (1964)
"The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo" (1964)
"Star Trek" (1966)
"Spider-Man" (1967)
- One character calls another Spider man after he jumps from one place to another.
"Star Trek: Amok Time (#2.1)" (1967)
- The fight scene between the cable guy and Steven is made to be like the famous fight from this episode of Star Trek, the cable guy then says "It's just like that episode of Star Trek" and hums music from it and does an impression.
"The Mod Squad" (1968)
"The Brady Bunch" (1969)
"Mary Tyler Moore" (1970)
"The Odd Couple" (1970)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Super Fly (1972)
- The Cable Guy enters an upscale restaurant to Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman", dressed in 70's fashion, complete with oversized sunglasses and a fake mustache reminiscent of Priest's from "Superfly".
"Happy Days" (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
"Laverne & Shirley" (1976)
Midnight Express (1978)
- Carey bares his breast and presses it against the glass while visiting Steven in jail.
"The White Shadow" (1978)
"The Facts of Life" (1979)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The World According to Garp (1982)
"The Cosby Show" (1984)
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)
"Cops" (1989)
Field of Dreams (1989)
- The Cable Guy whispers, "If you build it, he will come."
Bad Influence (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
"The Jerry Springer Show" (1991)
Mortal Kombat (1992) (VG)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Bad Boys (1995)
Mortal Kombat (1995)
- Jim Carry is saying something like this in the film "or you can play Mortal Kombat against people in Vietnam" he says so 2 times in the movie
Waterworld (1995)
GoldenEye (1995)
Referenced in
"Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey/Soundgarden (#21.20)" (1996)
- Mentioned during the monologue
American Beauty (1999)
"The Simpsons: Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner? (#11.3)" (1999)
- Bart: And there's that awful Cable Guy script.
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
- line from the movie repeated in the newsroom
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
- title is written on Steve Carell's wall calendar - it refers to a film also produced by Judd Apatow and starring Leslie Mann
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! (2006)
- "You look like Cable Guy dunked off of your crown" (lyrics)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
- on shelf in video store
Baghead (2008)
- movie on shelf
Yes Man (2008)
- Carl picks up the DVD in the video store
Features
"My Three Sons" (1960)
"Bewitched" (1964)
"Days of Our Lives" (1965)
"The Mod Squad" (1968)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
"All in the Family" (1971)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
"All in the Family: Sammy's Visit (#2.21)" (1972)
- This episode can be seen briefly at the beginning of the movie.
"The Joker's Wild" (1972)
"The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974)
"MTV News" (1981)
- A clip is shown.
"Press Your Luck" (1983)
"Larry King Live" (1985)
"The Ren & Stimpy Show" (1991)
"The Jerry Springer Show" (1991)
"Ricki Lake" (1993)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
"The Charles Perez Show" (1994)
"The Ren & Stimpy Show: Insomaniac Ren/My Shiny Friend (#4.10)" (1995)
- seen on a TV
Featured in
"HBO First Look: The Cable Guy (#3.3)" (1996)
- clips
Spoofs
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
- In one scene, a character spies on another which clearly spoofs a scene from Psycho
"Emergency!" (1972)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
"Cops" (1989)
Backdraft (1991)
Ricochet (1991)
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Wolf (1994)
- The nightmare sequence has Chip running like Will and Stuart turned into wolves.
Spoofed in
Raising Helen (2004)
- Pastor Dan mimics the keyhole-scene from The Cable Guy.
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