Family Guy: 20 Best Movie Homages & Parodies

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10. Rocky VI

Another reference to the famous Sylvester Stallone-starring boxing films sees Family Guy dream up what "Rocky VI" would be like, and proffers a ludicrous plot that sees Rocky go to Mars "to fight the martian". Despite wife Adrian attempting to dissuade him, saying "but there's no oxygen on Mars", Rocky heads off anyway after reasoning "yeah? That means there's no oxygen for him either." We then see Paulie on an electric scooter crashing into a wall. Unfortunately, this would actually have made for a much better plot-line than that dished up in the actual "Rocky VI" film, "Rocky Balboa", released in 2006, which cast a shadow over the famous film series.