Phantom

The sad thing is this page is the reason why got the name Phantom Magnet.
It seems every time, without fail I see a show on TV I don't normally
watch or, ones I do I see Phantom references.
They amuse me to no end, so here you go.
-Phantom Magnet

I know there is tons more out there. These are only ones I have seen or been
told about. If you would like to add some to my list please
E-mail me I would love to add them for you.

1)Halloween episode where Kelly dresses like a whore and almost gets raped, some guy at that party was wearing a Phantom costume.

American Dad Phantom of the Telethon- The CIA's torture budget gets cut and Roger comes up with and idea for a telethon. When Stan takes the credit for the idea Roger goes crazy and and becomes the Phantom of the telethon. He terrorizes the show sending threatening notes, orders a organ but is given a kids piano instead and then kid naps Stave dressing her like Christine. The Phantom lets go a terrorist who then hooks up a bomb and threatens the telethon. The Phantom ends up beating up the Terrorist with the piano to get the code out of him so they can turn the bomb off intern people donate money for the CIA's torture budget.

Anamaniacs - The Warners came and ruined ALW's musical, The Cats of Phantom Avenue. Yakko did a Phantom-type song to the semi-tune of MOTN. Snoring, boring This play is confusing Lay back, way back Soon I will be snoozing.

Attack of the killer tomatoes-Tomato wearing a cape and a white mask playing the organ. A girl (a human girl) comes up behind him and pulls the mask off and instead of a scarred face there a tomato with crossed eyes and big buck teeth

Are You Afraid of the Dark ("The Tale of the Last Dance"May 21, 2000) season 7, episode 85 Similar to the plot of Phantom of the Opera about a monster who lived in a high school and kidnapped a talented female violinist. A Phantom of the Opera/Hunchback of Norte Dame-esque story of a mutant who haunts a high school, falls for a violin player, and will stop at nothing to make her his love.

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Arthur-(cartoon) on PBS

In this episode, Arthur forgets to practice the piano and his teacher, Dr. Friedrich Fugue (I think that's how it's spelled), "fires" him. Now he thinks his parents will take forever to find another piano teacher, and "the possibilities are endless." Sure. As it happens, next day it rains, and, when Arthur turns on the T.V., he flips to three different channels: First is a piano competition of some sort, Second is "the Phantom of the Opera" "Christine; Oh, Phantom. You are so hideous! but your music is SO beautiful!" and the third is an old B/W show with a pianist in a bar. . .but that doesn't matter!

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Aqua teen Hunger Force - In the episode Super Model, at the end Frylock comes without his gotee and is wearing firemen's clothes. Meatwad hands Fry lock a Phantom mask and says to him that "the fire was so bad that it burnt your face"

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Bay Watch (Nevermore)Season 7, Episode 22 1997 - Polt summery from IMDB: In this take on 'Darkman' meets 'Phantom of the Opera', a mysterious, disfigured man, whom the public dubs "the phantom lifeguard," is lurking under the Malibu pier and the dunes of Baywatch and who is sending C.J. mysterious gifts wrapped in Edgar Allan Poe poems. After C.J. has an accident when a pier support falls on her, the "monster" a horribly disfigured man named Adran who lives in an abandoned power plant, rescues her and keeps her at his domain, while Mitch, Cody, and Samantha mount a rescue to find C.J., as do two men, named Brett and Bobby, who determined to capture the disfigured man. The funny part is Rob Cuccioli is Phantom.

Big Bad Beetleborgs Season1 Episiod 35 (Phantom of Hillhurst)-A Phantom intends to kidnap Jo and make her his bride.

Big Wolf on Campus Season 3, Episode 17 (There's Something About Lori) -The constant rejections of Merton's theatrical masterpieces are due to a phantom living above the Factory, who is smitten with love for Lori, deciding to rid the world of all her past and present boyfriends...

Blue Collar Comedy TV- Sketch of Phantom of the Grand Old Opera. Christine starts to hit the high note and popes her boobs no lie and then Phantom runs off scared.

Casper (cartoon) Fatso decided he wanted to be an opera singer? He started singing, "The Faaaaaaaaatso of the Opera is there..."

Chip'n' Dale Rescue Rangers- Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers- The Phantom in this one was a sewer gator who had been flushed when he was still small. He terrorized the opera above him because he wanted the lead, and when everyone ran away screaming because he was a gator he decided to eat everyone, instead.

Clerks: The Animated Series the Phantom can been seen briefly in a sewer watching a signal go through a cable line.

Count Duckula "A Fright at the Opera"-Duckula, Nanny and Igor visit the Milan Opera House below which lurks the Phantom. His manservant was an old butler school chum of Igor's. Nanny gets kidnapped in mistake for the Diva, the Opera house is destroyed and the Phantom ends up at The Grand Ole Opray.
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Courage the Cowardly Dog- a chandelier fell on Eusatces head because a "Phantom" had dropped it on him

CyberChase (episode 102) - 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.

Doug (Cartoon) - Doug has a pimple (oh my gosh!) And he's worried about it ruining his big date with Patti when he takes her to the Halloween dance or some such crap. He has visions of her running in fright from his pimple and it's really dumb, but he comes to the party as the Phantom.

Drew Carey show -Every one tells Mimi that she was too ugly to be the receptionist at the door, so she went to live in the basement and played a pipe organ.

Family Guy Season 4 Episode 23 (Deep Throats)- Peter and Lois go to see Phantom of the Opera and Peter gets impatient and shouts "Come on!!! show us the gross half of your face! Show us the gross half of your face so we can leave! That nose had better be piggy"

Flying Rhino Junior High (1998-2000) -Cartoon Series which features a Character, Earl, Who lives underneath the school, constantly wants people to call him 'The Phantom'

Fresh Prince of Belair Carlton is in charge of the Peacock, but something goes wrong and a lot of strange figures arrive one of them is the Andrew Lloyd Webber Phantom. ?

Friday the 13th (The series on Sci-Fi channel) -There is a hole episode dedicated to a deformed mask warring violinist who kills with the tip of his bow. There was another episode very Phantom like where a deformed make-up artist kills and puts blood on his face so he can seduce one of the stars in to loving him.

Goosebumps (Phantom of the Auditorium )- It's a book as well as a TV movie. Where a kid who was killed along time ago in the theater haunts the play of Phantom and replaces the character Phantom with him self on opening night.

Highlander "Terror at the Opera"- Dunken saves an immortal from being hunted by towns people. Latter becomes the Phantom of the Opera in the Paris Opera house. Phantom falls in love with an Opera singer who gets him to kill off every one in her way.

Histeria! (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.

Home improvement - Wilson comes to a Halloween party as guess who.......Phantom

Howdy Doody- The New Hody Doody had an episode called the Phantom of the Doody-O Studio. The Phantom ran around stealing broken things and fixing them.

Jimmy Neutron- Jimmy unmasking a series of "Phantoms" who turn out to his classmates before finally coming to the "real" Phantom.

Looney Tunes (Have You Got Any Castles 1938)- Lon Chaney's Phantom dressed as Red Death shows up along with Frankenstein's monster, Mr. Hyde and Fu Manchu.

MacGyver "Cleo Rocks"- This episode of MacGyver is a homage to "Phantom of the Opera" and shares many similarities, beginning of course with Murdoc in the part of Eric/the Phantom, Penny in the part of Christine and MacGyver in the part of Raoul. It ends differently, and there are many differences, but they share the plot of the man with the disfigured face falling in love with a woman who rejects him and turns his love back to vengeance. Some of the similarities are: Murdoc communicating with a letter/poem, Penny ripping Murdoc's "mask" off (his makeup and rubberized facial disguise), the ghostly voice in the theatre, conflict between Murdoc and the theatre owner, a choice between letting someone live or die, a white dress, and an underground lake/pool. And of course, the name "Leroux" (which in this episode's closed-captioning is spelled "LaRue")."Penny Parker's big chance in a major professional role may be only one part of a man's twisted scheme for revenge against MacGyver"..."Murdoc poses as a musical's director, using MacGyver's friend Penny Parker as a pawn in a crazed play of vengeance against MacGyver."

Married with Children- (Something Larry This Way Comes Season 9, Episode 21 Episode Number: 204) I love this episode it's where Bundy nocks out Kelly's acting partner for the play Phantom and takes his place. Bundy of course screws it up and makes a joke about the so called pipe organ in the ALW musical version.

Al: (in a play) I'll just sit here and play with my organ... walks over to a piano...this one.

Mask (the cartoon) - The mask puts on a Phantom mask and precedes to drop a chandelier on all the bad guys laughing evilly.

Munster Cousin Phantom of the Opera
Played by: Bob Hastings (The Munsters' Revenge 1981)

Cousin Phantom likes to sing. Well, no, he LOVES to sing. He'll break into song any chance he gets, whether to entertain people trapped under bell jars, or to sing about the Halloween season. Often, though, his singing causes things to break: water glasses, eye glasses, display case windows, lanterns, diamond replicas and bell jars. Thankfully the breaking of the ball jar saved Marilyn's life. He is also somewhat interested in the movie business.

My little ponies? -All I remember is some pony who was deformed and had a bad attitude who of course tunes nice after all the other ponies show him some pony love' in. I think he might of even had a masks on his rump.

Night Court - Here we go again I never watch this show but one night I saw one of the characters go crazy and think he was the Phantom and took up residence under the court house

The Oblongs Disfigured Debbie (on Cartoon network Adult swim)- Milo runs for class president, but loses to Debbie...who ends up an outcast after falling in a thresher. She starts to play the organ and act like Phantom.

Phantom of the Megaplex- Phantom is played by Mickey Rooney Haunts the new movie theater.

Quack Pack- Updated story of Donald Duck and his teenage nephews Huey, Duey, and Louie all trying to get along without driving each other nuts. Eway, this episode was about, I think, Louie (not sure of the name, but he wears red all the time) gets a really nasty set of braces put on his...head! You know, those kind that some kids wear with the wires going all around their faces - well multiply that by 10 and you'll get the monstrosity Louie had to wear. You only see the dentist's face looking at him (if I remember correctly), and a scream or something then Louie runs away and hides. So, Huey and Duey go looking for him and, naturally, they find him in the sewers, playing at a huge pipe organ, wearing a gray hooded cloak. It was too funny! He was saying s tuff like "Why~Why am I doomed to live this way?! Ah, my accursed ugliness!" or something to that affect. It just cracked me up so bad. Then, Duey (or was it Huey?) moves in and tries to get a look-see, but Louie turns away just in time (a la Chaney), but finally the brother gets a hold of Louie's hood and pulls it off and then (this kills me! : D ) Louie stands up and turns and the screen goes all B&W and there's like lightning behind him, and a big ominous organ note of some kind. Huey and Duey hold each other and scream hysterically; Louie pauses, then goes "Bleeehhh!" And, again, right on cue, they were like "AAAHHH!", and he said, sarcastically, "You know, guys, the hysterical screaming is not really helping me right now." And they were like "Okay, I guess we did go overboard."
The rest of the episode is pretty standard - Louie gets to be a rock star, Huey and Duey help him get the braces off....somehow. I haven't seen this episode (or this show) in a couple of years, so I hope I remembered most of it correctly.

Scooby Doo (Cartoon)-I finally saw it but it was only the end. What can I say very typical of the show. They unmask the bad guy and all is well with the hippies.

Sex and the City Carry 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".

Simpsons -When Lisa and Bart go to a fair to get their futures read one of Lisa's friends, I think it's Ralf but I can't remember. In the future he get hurt in a chemical fire in the school lab and lives under the school waiting for Lisa. Saying "I'm still her my sweet"

South Park - Oh god I was laughing so hard at this. Mr. Hanky is Phantom in one episode playing a pipe organ under ground in the sewer.

Spongebob Squarepants- Spongebob, thought he was ugly was everyone was running away from him (when really, he had really bad breath) so Patrick goes into his house which is dark and lit with candles and Spongebob is in a cape and playing the organ and turns round, revealing that he has those Groucho Marx glasses, big nose, and moustache mask-thing and he cries and says to Patrick "Go! Go away like all the rest!"

Start Track Voyager-I just saw this not to long ago and I was shocked that even they had a reference. The doctor find a new species of alien who seems stupid. When the doctor starts humming the opera Puglisi the little alien seems to like it. The doctor calls him Fantoma after Phantom of the Opera because it took music to open him up.

Teen Titans-features a villain and a girl who mirror the Phantom and Christine, respectively. Series synopsis - five teen superheroes (including Robin from Batman fame) all are roommates in a giant T-shaped tower and fight super villains and stuff. So, the villain I'm talking about is (can't remember his name just now) some kind of armored guy whose helmet, incidentally, looks a bit like he's wearing half a mask. He has a female protégé', who used to be one of the good guys, whom he instructs in all the ways of evil-doing, and he also has a kind of control over her in some way. Every time we think she is going to break free of him, he influences her again with his soft speaking and head-turning ideas. It's really weird, but if you do a search on You tube, you can find a music video someone made using Phantom music with scenes of this episode. That's how it finally clicked for me what an odd coincidence this w as. Never did catch the beginning of the episode, so I don't know what it's called.

Tiny Toons- Babs and Buster were doing an MTV like music video countdown. And, one of the segments when they were singing was "It's In His Kiss" featureed Buster sitting at a pipe organ as the Phantom of the Opera, and Babs as Christine.

Wishbone-There is an episode called Panting at the Opera. Where Wishbone retells the story of Phantom it is pretty accurate except Wishbone plays Raoul ick well that's disturbing. And Phantom hits Raoul with a rolled up new paper "Bad dog Bad!!!"

Wonder Woman (Cartoon) "Phantom of the Roller Coaster Part One" and "Phantom of the Roller Coaster Part Two". They aired in September 1979, and the basic premise is Wonder Woman is looking for some foreign spy ring leader, goes to an amusement park (?) and discovers a disfigured war veteran living under the roller coaster who 'haunts' the park as its 'phantom'.

Batman The Animated Series- ok, so this is just more Phantom-like than actual Phantom. In one episode this rich snobby lady named Veronica and her foppish friend/boyfriend decide that they need something outlandish to make their next party memorable. The Penguin has just been released from Arkham and she decides that he's the perfect patsy. So she calls him up and asks him to dinner and the opera. He thinks that she is won over by his charm and ends up falling for her. However when he is at the party he finds out the truth. Incensed, he kidnaps Veronica and makes the fop bring ransom. He is keeping her in the opera house and has her strapped to the chandelier, he has the fop chained to the floor below the chandelier and plans to kill them both for their deception. But, Batman saves the day as usual and the Penguin is caught. Veronica, feeling bad about how much she hurt the Penguin comments to him as the cops are taking him away "I really was starting to grow fond of you" but he ignores her and blames society, "high society."

Doctor Who The Caves of Androzani - Inspired by the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom Of The Opera. Sharaz Jek's disfigurement are more related to the 1943 film version.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - season 7, ep. 16; "Thine Own Self"

"Data is sent to Barkon IV, a pre-industrial planet, on a routine mission to retrieve some radioactive material from a probe that crashed. Unfortunately, something has gone wrong. Data completely loses his memory and wanders into a village carrying a container full of the radioactive metal. He is soon befriended by Garvin and Gia, a father and his young daughter. Garvin unwittingly opens the container in hopes of finding a clue to Data's identity.

Data is taken to meet Talur, the town healer, who mistakenly deduces that he is one of a race of people rumored to live in the mountains. Gia names him "Jayden," and Garvin takes Data and his metal fragments to Skoran, the town blacksmith. Skoran has no idea what the metal might be, but offers to buy the unique-looking pieces to transform into jewelry. Data sells him half, keeping the rest as clues to his identity.

Unaware that the metal is dangerous, Garvin soon falls ill. As people buy Skoran's jewelry, the mysterious sickness spreads, and Talur, with her primitive knowledge, is unable to find a solution. Sensing that he might be able to solve the problem, Data decides to launch his own investigation, but is interrupted when the frightened townspeople blame him for causing the disease.

Data constructs a primitive lab to study the illness, and Talur offers what tools she has to help him find an explanation. Data searches for a common experience that unites all the sufferers, and stumbles on what could be the answer when Gia falls ill. Noticing that she is wearing a pendant made from his mystery metal, Data realizes that everyone who is sick has had contact with the material, and decides to study it. However, Skoran, who now shows signs of the illness, and two men burst into Data's lab and attack him, tearing away part of the skin from his face. Seeing that Data is made of metal, the horrified men flee.

The men tell Garvin and Gia what they have seen, but once they leave, Data emerges from where he has been hiding and reveals himself to Gia, who still trusts him despite his strange appearance. Having realized the metal is causing the illness, Data continues to work until he has developed a cure, and gives some to Garvin and Gia. He then heads for the town's only well to put the antidote in the water supply, sure that the townspeople will not trust him to cure them. Just as he is pouring in the last of the solution, Data is attacked by Skoran and an angry mob, who apparently kill him. Luckily, however, all of his antidote is deposited into the well.

Later, Beverly and Riker arrive on Barkon IV disguised as townspeople. They meet Gia, who sadly tells them that Data is buried by the well, while the metal that made everyone sick has been deposited in the forest. Data is retrieved and returned to the Enterprise, where he is repaired and reactivated, remembering nothing at all of his experiences."