• On CollegeHumor.com, Streeter occasionally plays the Phantom of the Office, portrayed as an annoying co-worker who makes numerous references to fire, his home in the catacombs, and various violent games (i.e. "Beat The Greek" which involves "putting an adolescent Greek girl in a sack and beating her to a pulp"). He also shows violent tendencies, suggesting hanging bat boys at baseball games, splitting Sarah down the middle, etc. • On an episode of
Late Show with David Letterman,
Will Ferrell sings "
The Music of the Night", with mostly incorrect lyrics, after stating, "I don't have it totally down" and "I don't know the name of it." • A picture of the Lon Chaney Phantom is used at least once on ''
Monty Python's Flying Circus''. • The villainous "Phantom of Vaudeville" and his ventriloquist dummy, Elmo, as featured on
The Ghost Busters may be a reference to the Phantom, as both are masked, and, as Kong notes, "the only way to send a Phantom back is to unmask him." • In the
Academy 27 spin-off series of
WARS Trading Card Game, the short story
The Phantom acts as a homage to the property, with the plot revolving around a "Phantom" terrorizing a school theater production and a scene where the characters find the book itself. A sequel would continue the "Phantom" motif with
Shadows of the Phantom. • In one episode of
Kappa Mikey, the Phantom is parodied as "The Phantom of the Studio", using a mask because someone wrote "fart" on his forehead. • In the episode of
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody entitled "Arwinstein", at London's Halloween party, one guest is dressed as the Phantom with the full mask. Also, when Arwinstein kidnaps Carey and brings her to Arwin's secret room, it is similar to the "Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer" scene from the musical. In another episode, "Cookin' with Romeo and Juliet", there is a man wearing the Phantom's half-mask in the ballroom scene. • A statue of Red Death can be seen a few times in the background by the door. • A bust of Lon Chaney as the Phantom can be seen twice near the stage. • In the first
High School Musical,
The Phantom of the Opera is mentioned in dialogue when Chad is trying to talk Troy out of the musical while the two are in the library. • There is an episode of
The Snorks (called "Summer and Snork"), where Junior takes on a Phantom-like role to scare All-Star out of the lead part. Tooter takes over the role of a crossover between
Sherlock Holmes and The Persian from the Gaston Leroux novel. • A production briefly appeared in
an episode of
Family Guy.
Peter makes a reference to the Phantom in saying "this is even more boring then when I went to see
The Phantom of the Opera", which then cuts to the stage, where the Phantom (voice provided also by
Seth MacFarlane) sings a song similar to "
Music of the night", then Peter (sitting in the audience) yells, "Show us the gross half of your face, that nose better be piggy!". • The Phantom is called "the
gayest super villain ever" by
Homer Simpson, particularly the Andrew Lloyd Webber version. Erik seems to be a recurring background character on
The Simpsons. He has appeared in several episodes, the most noticeable of which include: :* "
Homer of Seville" ::In one scene there is a poster for
The Phantom of the Opera behind Homer. Also, Marge is worried about a disaster happening while Homer is performing, so Chief Wiggum informs her that they have pre-crashed the chandelier. :* "
Flaming Moe" ::During Homer's haughty speech from the rafters when he reveals that the Flaming Moe's secret ingredient is cough syrup, notice the robe deftly draped over his face like the Phantom's mask (from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical). :* "
Lisa's Wedding" ::In an episode set in the future,
Martin Prince has become the Phantom after a horrible science fair accident. :* "
Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" ::The Phantom appears on
Lenny's
HiDef TV when
Homer first turns it on. :* "
Treehouse of Horror XX" ::
Barney is shown on a boat emerging from the mist at Moe's bar. He is dressed up like the Phantom from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical and sings about how Moe's beer is great. • The Phantom has also been featured in
Married... with Children, multiple children's shows (an episode of
Animaniacs is quite memorable, while a whole episode of the show
Count Duckula was set in
Paris and featured the Phantom throughout), and even
soap operas like
Passions. • An episode of
The Mask: The Animated Series called "Broadway Malady" had The Mask as The Phantom of the Opera who tried to ruin the Mad Monkey Musical with a falling chandelier, but due to budget constraints, was reduced to using a small light fixture (the chandelier fall was seen at the end of the episode when the insane Broadway director creates a musical number with many Mask villains while in prison). • In one
Tiny Toon Adventures episode, Buster Bunny is playing the organ and is wearing the Phantom of the Opera mask. • In an episode of
CyberChase episode, the two-headed creature Sams is playing an organ, and when he stops a chandelier above Matt and Inez drops and stops right above them. • Wilson on
Home Improvement dressed-up as the Phantom in a Halloween episode. • In the animated film
Quest For Camelot, during the song ''If I Didn't Have You'', two-headed dragon(s) Devon and Cornwall morph into the Phantom and Madame Butterfly. • In ''
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'',
Count Olaf (
Jim Carrey) has a newspaper with a picture of Lon Chaney as the Phantom on the front page. • The Phantom (from the Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation) showed up in
Backstreet Boys music video "
Everybody". • Erik (from Leroux's original novel) shows up in
Have You Got Any Castles? together with
Frankenstein's monster,
Mr. Hyde and
Fu Manchu, on
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume. It was also featured on the cover of
Video Watchdog. • In an episode of
Sex and the City,
Carrie sees her old flame
Mr. Big at the Opera. After storming out she thinks to herself "I felt like I had just seen
The Phantom of the Opera". • He appears in an episode of
Jimmy Neutron that focuses on Jimmy unmasking a series of "Phantoms" who turn out to be his classmates before finally coming to the "real" Phantom. • In the
SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "
Something Smells",
SpongeBob thinks he is ugly, and at one point he is seen in a long black cape playing a pipe organ. • In an episode of
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Carlton is in charge of the Peacock, but something goes wrong and a lot of strange figures arrive, one of them being the Broadway Phantom. • In
Neopets, two collectible cards make references. "The Phantom", which is clearly meant to resemble the Phantom, and "Riyella" which features the description "The Phantom's true love". • The Phantom is included among the band in the
Beetlejuice cartoon show at
Universal Studios Theme Parks. He also is a featured character in
The Sadie Chronicles. • In the children's series,
Arthur, a 'clip' from the "Phantom of the Opera" appears when Arthur is watching television, avoiding practicing piano. He also appears in an episode about
plagiarism when Francine has a dream about the consequences of copying. • An episode of
Histeria! featured a "
Dating Game"-type skit with composers instead of suitors, and one was Andrew Lloyd Webber (he was just identified as Andrew) wearing the Phantom's costume while standing in the boat from the title number in the middle of a Gothic, subterranean lake. • Slovenian metal band Coptic Rain covered/remixed the main theme song on their Discovery EP. • During
Batman Returns, there is a scene at a costume party, and in the background we see a guest with a skull mask and a large, red hat standing on a staircase. • In season 1 of
That Girl, an episode is entitled "Phantom of the Horse Opera" • The rapper
Lil Wayne mentions Phantom of the Opera in his song Hustler Musik. • During a sketch called "New Off-Broadway Shows" on
Conan O'Brien, they performed "Infomercial: The Musical", during which the Phantom appears with a juicer, while singing "I am the Phantom of the Juicer!" • The
Doctor Who story
The Caves of Androzani shares many similarities to Leroux's work, although the circumstances of Sharaz Jek's disfigurement owe more to the 1943 film version.
The Talons of Weng-Chiang also shares many similarities, with the titular villain wearing a mask, using a theater as his underground base and pretending to be a ghost haunting the theater. • "The Phantom Opera Ghost" is a song done by Iced Earth on their Album "Horror Show" • In the
pilot episode of
Clerks: The Animated Series, the Phantom can be seen briefly in a sewer watching a signal go through a cable line. •
Meatloaf's video for"''
I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)" is based on The Phantom of the Opera
as well as Beauty and the Beast''. •
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler
The Undertaker had to wear a Phantom of the Opera like mask after Mabel fractured Undertaker's orbital eye bone in 1995. • In
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III,
Raphael references the Phantom nearly at the end of the climax when Walker appears with
April O'Neil as hostage, saying "Hey look, it's the Phantom of the Opera." • In the
Star Trek: Voyager episode, "
The Void", the crew discovers a humanoid creature, whose healing process is helped along by an aria from the opera
Rigoletto.
The Doctor therefore names this creature Fantome, after the Phantom of the Opera, who he describes as "a tormented character who is soothed by music." • In the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode "
Timing Is Everything", a poster can be seen for
Alien of the Opera, an obvious parody of The Phantom. • The Phantom briefly appears in
Waxwork. In one scene, the villainous tour guide Lincoln (played by
David Warner) learns that there are at least several Phantom movies in existence. Lincoln says in disbelief, "They made a movie about the Phantom of the Opera?" Lincoln shoves a teenage visitor named Jonathon into the display and whispers under his breath, "They'll make a movie about anything nowadays." Seconds later, Jonathon appears in the display as the Phantom. In the climatic ending, the Phantom appears among the army of now-living wax figures. • In
Gremlins 2: The New Batch, one of the Gremlins gets splashed with acid on his face. He immediately dons a mask and imitates the Phantom. • In the webcomic
CONvicts, pages 78–85 deal with David, Andrew, and Alex going to the Masquerade to hunt down the Masquerade Ghost (dressed as Webber's Phantom) for a reward. Throughout the arc the Masquerade Ghost crashes a chandelier and takes down his opponents not by strangling them, but by kicking them in the groin. • In the Japanese horror film,
Ring 0: Birthday, the main character,
Sadako Yamamura, a character similar to the Phantom, wears a half mask in an amateur play called 'Mask'. Also, the leading actress, Aiko, is killed to make room for Sadako, as Carlotta was replaced by Christine. A lighting rig also crashes to the stage, like the chandelier. • The rose and mask logo appears in the "
Irregarding Steve" episode of
American Dad!, in which
Steve and
Roger run away to New York City. In another episode, Roger becomes the "
Phantom of the Telethon". • In
Meet the Robinsons, Doris the hat tries to cut the chandelier on top of Lewis's head. • In a Saturday NBC series titled
The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. (1976–1977), there is an episode titled "The Phantom of the Drive-in Movie." One of the team members, Bugs, describes the falling chandelier scene from the 1943 movie. As the others remind him that they are at a drive-in movie and thus should fear no such thing this time, a chandelier comes crashing down. • In an episode of
MacGyver, MacGyver's mortal enemy, Murdoc, who was horribly disfigured due to a flamethrower accident in a previous episode, disguises himself with a prosthetic face and goes by the name Jacques Leroux (a reference to Gaston Leroux). He falls in love with MacGyver's friend, Penny Parker, eventually kidnapping her, and the episode climaxes in an underground lair filled with booby traps. •
Are You Afraid of the Dark? had an episode similar to the plot of
Phantom of the Opera about a monster who lived in a high school and kidnapped a talented female violinist. (2000) •
Goosebumps: "The Phantom of the Auditorium" episode has a school put on a play called The Phantom. Unfortunately, someone is out to stop the show. (1995) •
Flying Rhino Junior High features a character, Earl, who lives underneath the school and constantly wants people to call him 'The Phantom'. •
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In the episode Super Model, at the end Frylock comes without his goatee and is wearing firemen's clothes. Meatwad hands Frylock a Phantom mask and says to him that "the fire was so bad that it burnt your face". • In one episode of
Wishbone titled ''Pantin' at the Opera,'' the beloved Jack Russell terrier plays the role of Raoul de Chagny. • An episode of
Babar features a Phantom-esque character who lived in the cellars of a rundown movie house, and frightened people away so that he could be left alone. He (unnecessarily) wore a domino mask. •
Rhydian Roberts sang a version of "The Phantom of the Opera" in the 4th series of
The X Factor (October 27, 2007). •
The Muppet Show had a Phantom that haunted the theater dubbed "The Phantom of the Muppet Theater". •
Mega Man Star Force 2 has a character named Dark Phantom (Phantom Black in Japan). • In a season 2 episode of
Night Gallery,
Leslie Nielsen appears in one of his first comical roles as a "Phunny Phantom" in a short feature titled
The Phantom of What Opera? • In a season 4 episode of
Supernatural,
Sam Winchester (
Jared Padalecki) is seen walking into a moviehouse called the Goethe Theater after hours. The feature film is
The Phantom of the Opera. In the stereotypical Phantom fashion, a "mysterious" shadowy figure inside is at the organ playing Bach's "
Toccata and Fugue". Believing this organist to be a murdering
shape-shifter, Sam sneaks up behind him in a gender-bender parody of the unmasking scene in an attempt to tear off his ear. This turns out to be an embarrassing mistake for Sam. • On
Chowders "
Panini for President", Gorgonzola wears a black cape and Phantom's mask and a part from the Phantom of the Opera's Theme Song Beginning starts to play. • In
Dean Koontz's book
From the Corner of His Eye, a Phantom reference is made on page 559, 2nd paragraph. • In Season 9 of
Night Court, in episodes 1 (173) and 2 (174), titled "A Guy Named Phantom (Part 1)" and "A Guy Named Phantom (Part 2)", Harry and Christine are both confused over their feelings for each other, but before they can work them out, the deranged Dan (referring to himself as "The Phantom," wearing a mask and cape, and living in hiding) kidnaps Christine at a courthouse costume party. • In the
Degrassi film
Degrassi Takes Manhattan, a Phantom of the Opera poster can be seen in the background in one of the first scenes in New York. • In
Phineas and Ferb, in an episode called
Rollercoaster the Musical: Part 1, Phineas sings, and a famous musicals montage comes in during the song.
Phantom of the Opera is one of them. • In ''
Grey's Anatomy,'' Season 5, Episode 9 (In the Midnight Hour), the unmasking scene from Lon Chaney's 1925 Phantom of the Opera is seen playing on a TV screen in the Seattle Grace waiting room. • In the
Monster High series, there is a character named Operetta, who is the daughter of the Phantom. •
Hotel Transylvania 2 features
The Phantom of the Opera (voiced by
Jon Lovitz) as the organ player for the hotel. • An episode of
Chucky features
Chucky dressed up as the Phantom. After causing a chandelier to fall on seven people, he unmasks himself revealing his old face. •
Nicki Minaj mentions the Phantom in her song
Massive Attack (Feat. Sean Garret) rapping, "It's just me
Mr. Miyagi and the phantom of the opera, goin blocka muthaf****, got that big rocketlauncher" • Two references to the Phantom of the Opera were made in
Scooby-Doo franchise: :* In the Season 1, Episode 3 episode of
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, the episode's villain calls himself "The Phantom". Similar to the
Gaston Leroux novel, he appears to have ghost-like properties through tricks and lives in a series of catacombs. While the main cast attempts to catch the Phantom with a
Rube Goldberg Machine, there is also a chandelier that falls. :* In
Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright, the main villain of the movie is the Phantom of the Opera. In total, there are five “Phantom’s of the Opera” in the movie. • He appears as an Assassin-class Servant in the mobile RPG
Fate/Grand Order, voiced by Ryōtarō Okiayu. •
The Phantom of the Opera is referenced multiple times in ''
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia''. :* Season 3, Episode 9- "Dee is Dating a Retarded Person" :: After The Gang mock Charlie's "Nightman" song, Charlie retreats to his apartment, wears a black cape, places candles all around his room and composes his music on a keyboard in the dark. He is snapped out of this by Dennis. :* Season 6, Episode 7- "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" :: Charlie shows up to the Halloween Party dressed as The Phantom, though he admits he has no idea who The Phantom is and thought that the costume was a vampire. :* Season 10, Episode 3- "Psycho Pete Returns" :: Upon enlisting Cricket for help, Mac and Charlie see his face half covered by a cloak, resembling that of The Phantom. Charlie asks if he doing some sort of a "
Phantom of the Opera thing" and Mac asks Cricket to take it off since he doesn't like it. Upon taking off the cloak, we learn half of Cricket's face was burnt when the gang locked him in their apartment and set it on fire. • In the mobile game
Arknights, a high-rarity Operator with a tragic, theater-related backstory goes by the codename Phantom. He is accompanied by a black cat named
Miss Christine. • At
Universal's Epic Universe in the "Dark Universe" themed world on the
dark ride Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment, a Lon Chaney-styled Phantom can be seen near the start of the ride in the catacombs under Darkmoor before the experiment is begun. His pipe organ now has a pyrotechnic effect. • In the episode "Truthseekers" of the webseries
Helluva Boss, Blitzo is portrayed as a parody of the phantom of the opera, wearing the half mask as he plays the organ in Moxxie's vision caused by the truth serum. • In Episode 10 of Season 3, “Soulmates,” of the show
Parks and Recreation, there is a brief exchange that goes on as follows: “Describe your ideal man,” “He’s dark and mysterious,” “And he can sing. And he plays the organ,” “I think you just described the Phantom of the Opera,” and lastly, “Mm.” • In Episode 3 of Season 2, "Exes and Oohs," of the show
Helluva Boss, Moxie is looking through old photos of him and his wife, Millie, on his phone before stumbling across one where he and his wife are both holding an object that closely resembles a Phantom of the Opera playbill (solid black background, with a yellow strip at the very top, and a white phantom mask in the lower right corner). ==
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