FIREFLY References in other TV Shows | Castle, Community, Bones, Big Mouth, the Librarians, TBBT...
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The question what TV show got canceled way too early is mostly answered with this one. And while a disney reboot of #firefly seems to be in the making, we wanted to look at other #tvshows that referenced our favorite space western! Here's what we found:
🡆 Community | www.imdb.com/title/tt1640858/
🡆 Castle | www.imdb.com/title/tt1501858/
🡆 Big Mouth | www.imdb.com/title/tt1256027/
🡆 Bones | www.imdb.com/title/tt0529896/
🡆 Dollhouse | www.imdb.com/title/tt1537128/
🡆 The Big Bang Theory | www.imdb.com/title/tt1256027/
🡆 Chuck | www.imdb.com/title/tt1682455/
🡆 The Librarians | www.imdb.com/title/tt4447418/
#tvreferences #references
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If you ever feel stupid remember: you didn't cancel Firefly.
Firefly should have been on for 10 seasons.
@antred11
10 ай бұрын
I will forever hate the prick executive who made the decision to cancel. 😤
@sallymiller8460
10 ай бұрын
Wish it had
@benniebritt5705
8 ай бұрын
42 seasons 😂
@benniebritt5705
8 ай бұрын
Firefly is going to come back in the future 😂
@westrim
8 ай бұрын
Nah, 6 seasons and a movie.
Not TV but the Halo game "ODST" is full of Firefly references: - Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, and Adam Baldwin are all members of the cast - Random marines/ODSTs will say "gorram" - Baldwin's character will sometimes call his weapon "Vera" - Tudyk's character is the ODST squad's pilot - The achievement for lighting a Drone on fire with a fire grenade is called "Firefly"
@numbnuts
11 ай бұрын
Nice, thanks for the hints!
@MichaelBlanchardII
7 ай бұрын
There's also times where the marines say "Shiny" when something cool happens or when they kill covenant forces
@jammin2575
7 ай бұрын
Yes 🙌 ODST is my favorite Halo and this is a big reason why.😊
There's another bit in Castle where Filllian starts speaking Chinese, and says something about picking it up from a show he loved.
@jammin2575
7 ай бұрын
I believe also that they also referenced “shiny” a few times for a drug they’re trying to get off the streets I think, been a long time since I watched Castle.
@sean_mccadden
6 ай бұрын
Theres a few others like a scene Castle puts on blue latex gloves and puts up 2 fingers up on each hand in a fluid motion. 2 by 2, hands of blue. Then a scene where he tries to shoot a guy, ends up shooting the guys gun. Beckett says "hell of a shot Castle" Castle replies with "I was aiming for his head." Last reference, I remember is in a later season Castle and Beckett are investigating a murder at a Scifi con at an Exhibit for a scifi show called "Nebula 9". Castle pokes fun at her for liking it and lists off a few "good" Scifi shows, last one he references is "That one Joss Whedon show"
@mrborgeusborg1541
3 ай бұрын
And many of the crew has had guestroles on castle. Torres, glau, staite and Baldwin from memory.
Castle's mom and daughter going to a spa retreat called Serenity. Mom to Castle: [incredulously] *_"You've never heard of Serenity?"_*
Missed another one in castle, castle says I was aiming for his head after the first time using a gun, which was a reference to the scene in the episode train job.
@numbnuts
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, thanks for the hint! There's also a another "shiny" reference in Chuck - but I mostly try to pick one reference per TV Show. :)
@evatesche
Жыл бұрын
@@numbnuts Castle also hold up 2 Fingers while wearing blue gloves (Two by two, hands of blue).
@sweeps3360
Жыл бұрын
Isn't there another one, where Castle speaks mandarin and says he learned it from a TV show he used to love? xD
@numbnuts
Жыл бұрын
@@sweeps3360 @eva tesche I didn't knew about those! :)
@DocMicrowave
Жыл бұрын
Never really watched castle. Caught episodes here and there. Didn't a few Firefly actors appear on Castle as well?
The Serenity flyby in the pilot to the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series is a good one.
@airhammer6203
2 ай бұрын
I'm gonna have to pop that disc in again. I just watched BSG not to long ago. Been trying to find models for both Firefly and BSG.
@dphuntsman
11 күн бұрын
@@airhammer6203Yeah, I’d go for a Firefly model!
3:16 "Girl's a math genius, can't even figure out how to call Serenity."
@numbnuts
Жыл бұрын
Love your Username @Happy Slapsgiving!
The Dollhouse one is subtle and brilliant. But, considering it's another Whedon show, that's not at all surprising.
@jammin2575
7 ай бұрын
I love Dollhouse! It’s a shame they rushed season two I felt it would have been better if they could have taken their time and done the plot justice. I know they were worried cancelation and rightly so, but it jumped the shark with season 2.
It is a crime against the sci-fi genre that they cancelled Firefly.
There will never be enough of these! I think Phineas & Ferb had one. It was playing in the background and caught my attention but sadly, there's never another browncoat around to validate.
@numbnuts
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the hint! :)
In the Percy Jackson movie (terrible movie, but Nathan Fillion was awesome as Hermes) Hermes is commenting on a fictional show "Best TV show ever, so of course....cancelled" (stares in the distance)
You missed one from Big Bang Theory where Sheldon says the president of FOX is nr 1 on his arch-enemies list for cancelling Firefly.
@davewalker8519
3 ай бұрын
Also when Sheldon and Leonard are filling out the roommate agreement and agree to set aside time each week to watch Firefly.
The one on Chuck was a Firefly reunion!
I believe there are Reavers in the background in one of the boxes/cages of Cabin in the Woods. Which would make sense as Josh Whedon was involved in writing/producing of the film.
I completely forgot Summer Glau guest stared on Chuck
you forget where Sheldon mentions Firefly being on forever in TBBT episode of Lenard moving in with Sheldon
@Nloveru
6 ай бұрын
And where he says the president of FOX is nr 1 on his arch-enemies list for cancelling Firefly.
@sheldondrake8935
3 ай бұрын
fuck that show. Summer needs a better agent.
There are cows in space. See Episode 5, "Safe"
I think I'll go rewatch the entire thing again. For the... I forgot how many times.
There’s a great one in the Killing. Joel Kinneman has a tattoo across his chest that says “Serenity”. Jewel Staite plays his girlfriend. She says “serenity? Sounds like a strippers name.”
You missed one from Castle... although subtle he swears in chinese and makes an off hand reference.
You know it occurred to be that it would not take much cannon juggling to put "Cowboy Bebop" and "Firefly" in the same universe. How cool would it be for the Firefly to be chased down by the crew of the Bebop, and a gunfight ensue between Malcom, Cobb, Spike, and Jet. In the end Jet and Spike let the Firefly escape when they realize how corrupt the people who put the bounty on them were.
@numbnuts
Жыл бұрын
Sounds awesome! ;)
@nutbastard
7 ай бұрын
Except that in Firefly Earth was, well, “Earth that was”, and the verse is some other solar system entirely while in Bebop Earth is just fine and dandy.
@bazzers
7 ай бұрын
You produce the graphic novel, I'll buy it twice.
@hackerx7329
7 ай бұрын
First episode of Firefly Mal uses an anti air/space emplaced gun and when he activates the HUD to aim it starts up with a Weyland-Yutani logo visible. That puts Firefly in the same universe as the Aliens Movies. Those movies have crossovers with the predator franchise AND they mention that the Tyrel corporation was a competitor for W-Y. The movie Soldier was supposed to start with the battle of Tanhauser gate that was mention in Blade Runner and while that was cut for budget reasons it is mentioned on screen in his military service record and one of the flying cars being seen in a junkyard. So if you want an extended universe Soldier, The Blade Runner moves, The Alien movies, the Predator movies, and the series of Firefly and the following movie Serenity are all set in the same shared universe just at different points in the timeline with the Predator franchise going back several hundred years so I think it would be the earliest and I think Serentiy being the farthest forward since it is around 500 years in the future. If you want to go into comics and other stuff that may or may not be canon there are even more things that could be linked in like the fact that Batman fought a Predator once but the stuff I listed was all on screen in shows and movies
@jammin2575
7 ай бұрын
@@hackerx7329 From what I read up in the making of books they re-used a lot of sci-fi props to offset the cost of production, for example the uniforms of the Alliance guards are Starship Trooper costumes and repurposed guns. So it could just be just a means of saving money instead of connecting universes. But cool if it’s on purpose.
There is also a subtle reference in the tv show The Killing, the male lead has a "Serenity" chest tattoo and his girlfriend is played by Jewel Staite, who played Kaylee in Firefly
Love all these. Except big bang theory. Man that one sticks out as just being pandering schlock instead of loving tribute.
@numbnuts
Жыл бұрын
It's not my favorite either, to be honest.
@thelastgoonie6555
Жыл бұрын
100%
@taun856
Жыл бұрын
The better one in BBT was when Nathan Fillian made a cameo as himself.
@numbnuts
Жыл бұрын
@@taun856 I missed that. :(
@notoriouslybratty
7 ай бұрын
Didn’t Sheldon once say there are two there were three people he never trust or something, Leonard, Darth Vader and Rupert Murdoch because he owns FOX, the network that canceled Firefly?
So many shows that didn't get axed ..that will never get a mention anywhere and nobody cares about. I hope all those responsible go to a: ' special .... '
@numbnuts
6 ай бұрын
You are very welcome to mention them right, here right now! :)
Serinity had a cameo in Ready Player One.
I love Firefly. I wish Disney hadn't gotten its mitts on it.
@consultantmate
11 ай бұрын
If Disney starts to continue Firefly, we'd be looking at another Star-Wars-situation there.
@DocMicrowave
11 ай бұрын
Indeed. Firefly as we know it would be dead. No way they would allow a Malcome Reynolds type character in the lead. Let alone Jayne.
@consultantmate
11 ай бұрын
@@DocMicrowave correctly.
@jessiehogue.
5 ай бұрын
@@DocMicrowave I mean, it already is dead. A more accurate comparison would be that instead of bringing it back to life, they would turn it into a horrible Frankenstein monster-kind of undead mess which would have been better left dead.
@DocMicrowave
5 ай бұрын
@@jessiehogue. It is indeed dead. And deserves to be remembered for what it was. A uniquely interesting and very entertaining show, that cannot be duplicated in this day and age.
Superb Vid And Yet There Are More. One Of The Best SciFy Shows Ever.
Firefly and Jericho, both shouldn’t have been cancelled.
I have to rewatch chuck
3:18 Do I really need to be the guy who says "It's just Serenity"?
@EMSS-ul8bq
Жыл бұрын
I've corrected multiple people on this. I'm sorry, it just drives me crazy. Even the channel SciTrek, a Sci-fi channel, continues to do it. If they specify it in the actual show, as Inara did, respect it.
Ahhh chuck ❤️
God dammit now I have to watch Firefly again!
@markmurray3193
18 күн бұрын
Shouldn't that be 'Gorram It!!!"?
That's it, I'm watching the series again. Can only handle so many Firefly recommendations, and once you click on one you get more...
@numbnuts
2 ай бұрын
Enjoy! ;)
Serenity appears in Ready Player One at the start of the final battle
Thank you!!!
There are actually multiple references to firefly in castle.
Castle one was great
Now I do too
You should see the Firefly parody called "Mosquito".
what is the Eliza Dushku show?
@numbnuts
8 ай бұрын
You can find all the shows (in order of appearance) in the descirption :)
@takewithfood
8 ай бұрын
Dollhouse. It's actually worth a watch if you can get through the first 6 episodes or so.
@numbnuts
8 ай бұрын
@@takewithfood Thanks for the tip! :)
which ep is that from TBBT?
@numbnuts
6 ай бұрын
It's from "The Terminator Decoupling" you can find every episode listed in the desciption with an imbd link.
there were like 13 blatent firefly references on castle alone lol
If I had a dollar for every time Nathan Fillion played a space cowboy with Gina Torres I’d have two dollars which isn’t much but it’s weird that it’s happened twice
Battlestar Galactica had one
This should mostly be Castle
@0southpaw6
2 ай бұрын
There could be like a half an hour video on their references alone.
Browncoats unite!
On Blindspot, Patterson mentions her boyfriend's Firefly DVDs.
@numbnuts
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the hint!
I will never forgive FOX for cancelling Firefly
Fox! what "geniuses"!..
You missed more from Castle.
@numbnuts
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the hint. I try to limit myself to one example per Show per video :) But I'll check out the other ones
@theludonarrian
6 ай бұрын
@@numbnuts Most are from Castle I think.
Little did we know, Nathan Fillion really needed to move on from his Firefly role.
1:30 and he became a serial killer
Was it really that good of a show? What's it about?
@thejanssen6030
6 ай бұрын
space cowboys and space zombies
Apparently Disney owns the rights now ... Oh God no please no
@stevem2323
5 күн бұрын
Jesus that made me depressed.
The Big Bang Theory really stands out here as being complete ass.
Most overrated show ever. Trash show.
@theeyeinside3856
7 ай бұрын
And yet you clicked on this video 😂
@stanley-fghijk441
7 ай бұрын
@@theeyeinside3856 Nope. Popped up on the home page, clicked to post a comment, kick back and laugh at guys like you. Didn't watch one second of it. Hahahaha!!!
@SunGawdRa
7 ай бұрын
@@stanley-fghijk441 I love guys who post crap like this, then sit back, steeple their fingers, and laugh manically at their dastardly brilliance. Right before sipping wine as pretentiously as possible. It does make me feel a bit better that my life isn't anywhere near as sad so.. thanks.
@stanley-fghijk441
7 ай бұрын
@@SunGawdRa Loooove the dorky, whedony snark. Right on brand for a firefly-obsessed loser like yourself. Just... perfection. Gotta say, really enjoy proving there are still losers like you out there so deeply invested in this mediocre, cringy TV show that they take any slight to it personally. It's awesome to know no matter how far I fall, I'll never be as embarrassing as a simp like you who defines himself through a TV show no one watched🤣. Thanks!
@stevem2323
5 күн бұрын
@@SunGawdRa People like Stanley are dead inside, imagine living like that.