List of James Bond parodies and spin-offs


The James Bond series of novels and films has been parodied and referenced many times in a number of different media, including books, comics, films, television shows, and video games. Most notable of all these parodies is the spoof Casino Royale in 1967, which was produced using the actual film rights purchased from writer Ian Fleming over a decade prior to its release. Unlike an imitation, a parody is often protected from legal affairs by the people whose property is being parodied.

Premise

James Bond parodies generally contain several elements, adopted from the James Bond novels and films, which are featured in these parody works. These usually include the following:
  • The protagonist is a near invincible secret service agent, who works for a secret government national or international intelligence agency. In some parodies, the hero is recast as a bumbling idiot, who achieves the given objectives through sheer luck or as a fluke and pre-planning.
  • The protagonist is in frequent contact with beautiful, provocative and often scantily clad women during the course of his assignment. Some of these women are dangerous spies working for the other side. Villains accomplices and some women's costumes, whether they are in league with the seen or hidden villain, are evocative and trendy.
  • In the original Bond books and films, the chief adversary is usually an evil genius, who heads an international criminal syndicate, which seeks to destroy the current world order, in order to achieve global domination. In the parody, the villain can be a bumbling, over-important, arrogant fool himself.
  • Much is made of the use of innovative gadgetry, which the protagonist uses to his advantage.
  • The main villain is sometimes completely unseen behind a chair with a menacing voice, smoking, drinking or stroking a cat.
  • Humour is an important component of this genre. Flirtatious and suave tact and flair takes first place.
  • There can be jokes about how stupid or expendable the random anonymous henchman are.
There are also various subgenres, within this style. Some of the most notable variants include: a female protagonist, child protagonists, a strong science fiction element and the erotic spy novel, comic, or film. The term Eurospy refers to the large number of films within this genre that were produced in Europe. Although many of the James Bond parodies were produced in the United States or Europe, the genre is very much an international one, with novels, comics and films being produced across the globe.

Advertising campaigns

Comics

Films

Unofficial parodies

Matt Helm

First published in 1960, Matt Helm is a fictional character created by author Donald Hamilton. The character is not meant to be a spoof of James Bond, rather having attributes of an homage, but not in the strict sense. Film versions of Matt Helm, as played by Dean Martin, were meant to spoof the 007 movies as well as the character James Bond. The four movies made took their titles from Hamilton's novels, though the movies had little in common with the books of the same name. The Silencers and Murderers' Row were released in 1966. The Ambushers in 1967 and The Wrecking Crew in 1968.

''Austin Powers''

Austin Powers is a film series created by Canadian comedian Mike Myers. Many of the characters throughout the franchise are parodies of Bond characters, including Myers' character of the same name. Myers has said that Sean Connery was the inspiration for his character, especially Powers' thick chest hair. In addition, the names of the films are also parodies of Bond novels and films.
FilmsInternational Man of Mystery The Spy Who Shagged Me is a parody of The Spy Who Loved Me.Goldmember is a parody of Goldfinger. The title of the film led to legal action being taken by MGM, the distributors of the James Bond film franchise, that briefly led to the film's title being removed from promotional material and trailers. During the period when the film had no official title, it was unofficially being called Never Say Member Again, a reference to the non-canon Bond film Never Say Never Again. The dispute was quickly resolved and the original film title remained. Although MGM most likely would have lost a court case against the makers of Goldmember, MGM did secure a spot for the trailer to 2002's Bond film Die Another Day in settlement.
Characters

Daniel Craig cameo in ''Star Wars''

In the 2015 movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens directed by J. J. Abrams, after the main character, Rey, is captured by the First Order, she uses the Force to convince a stormtrooper into setting her free. The actor who played the stormtrooper was Daniel Craig, and the crew of The Force Awakens unofficially dubbed the character "FN-007", in reference to Craig's role as James Bond. Fans adopted this name, as well as "JB-007", for the character. However, the 2016 video game Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens identified the character as FN-1824, which is now considered his official name.

Other parodies

Hot Enough for June, a.k.a. Agent , a British spy comedy with Dirk Bogarde.Carry On Spying, British parody with Charles Hawtrey's intended character name James Bind, Agent changed to Charlie Bind, Agent 000 for copyright reasons.That Man from Rio, French adventure spoof of Bond-type films.Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche, Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite, and Blue Panther, a.k.a. Marie Chantal contre Dr., French trilogy directed by Claude Chabrol.008: Operation Exterminate, featuring MacDonald, Agent 008, female 007 type agent. Directed by Umberto Lenzi.Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary and Agent 077 From the Orient with Fury, Italian Eurospy adventures starring Ken Clark.Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger. One of many Italian Eurospy films that spoof the James Bond formula. Also known as The Amazing Dr. G.Slå først, Frede! aka Strike First Freddy and its successor Slap af, Frede! aka Relax Freddie are Danish parodies directed by Erik Balling. Frede Hansen was played by Morten Grunwald.Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs satirise the James Bond films, particularly Goldfinger.The Intelligence Men, broad farce with British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.Licensed to Kill, Where the Bullets Fly and Somebody's Stolen Our Russian Spy, a low budget series featuring Agent Charles Vine is more imitative than satirical.Our Man Flint and In Like Flint, star James Coburn as Derek Flint, "an intentionally over-the-top parody of Bond". Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, Italian spoof of the Bond films with Mike Connors. The Last of the Secret Agents?, Allen & Rossi comedy with Nancy Sinatra. Lucky, the Inscrutable, aka Lucky, el intrépido, gag-filled Spanish-Italian comedy from Jesús Franco starring Ray Danton.Modesty Blaise, campy British spy-fi film starring Monica Vitti. Although based upon a serious action-adventure comic strip, the film took a camp-comedy approach. Secret Agent Super Dragon, Italian Eurospy film starring Ray Danton.The Spy with a Cold Nose, British parody of secret agent films.The Man Called Flintstone, animated film continuation of The Flintstones TV series, spoofing Bond films. The TV series itself had also spoofed Goldfinger in the episode "The Stonefinger Caper".Casino Royale, satirical adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel starring David Niven, Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress, amongst others. It is the second of three adaptations of the novel, the first being the 1954 version and the third being the 2006 version. Several aspects of the Bond franchise are parodied, including a reference to Sean Connery's Bond as a "sexual acrobat who leaves a trail of beautiful dead women like blown roses behind him".Si muore solo una volta, Italian starring Ray Danton.The End of Agent W4C, Czech parody. Super agent Cyril Juan W4C has all properties of 007 - artificial gadgets, nice girls and spies everywhere around them.
In addition to the above, there have been literally hundreds of films made around the world parodying the spy film genre of the 1960s, if not directly parodying James Bond. One example is the 1966 film Modesty Blaise, which was a parody of the spy genre rather than a faithful adaptation of the comic strip.

Imitative films

Numerous films have attempted to use the James Bond formula; some have used the character of James Bond unofficially.G-2, a Filipino movie starring Tony Ferrer as Tony Falcon: Agent X44, the Filipino James Bond equivalent. G-2 was the first of 16 Agent X44 movies released in the Philippines.Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang, Italian Eurospy film with Giuliano Gemma.Lightning Bolt aka Operazione Goldman - one of many low-budget Italian Eurospy films.One Spy Too Many, feature film release of 2-part TV episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Secret Agent Fireball, standard Italian Eurospy film of the period.Spy in Your Eye, Italian spy-fi espionage tale.Agent for H.A.R.M., failed TV pilot released as a feature film.Dimension 5, derivative spy-fi yarn involving time travel.The Venetian Affair, capitalises on star Robert Vaughn's image from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series.Hammerhead, Vince Edwards trades in his Ben Casey scrubs for a tuxedo in this campy, imitative James Bond knock-off.James Bond 777, low-budget Indian-made 007 movie with Ghattamaneni Krishna as a pompadoured, moustachioed James Bond.Shut Up When You Speak, Aldo Maccione plays Giacomo, who dreams that he is James Bond. Original title: Tais Toi Quand Tu Parles.Agent 000 and the Deadly Curves, Ilmari Saarelainen plays Joonas G. Breitenfeldt, Agent 000, who attempts to stop the masked villain's organisation. Original title: Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit.The Mahjong Incident, Chinese thriller concerning a priceless jade mahjong piece. James Bond has a brief cameo. Also known as The Green Jade Mahjong.Mr. Bond, Indian-made musical, starring Akshay Kumar. As with several other Bond ripoffs, the character is never referred to as "James Bond", remaining simply Mr. Bond throughout the entire movie.XXX, borrows heavily from James Bond and includes gadgets and so forth that are similar to some found in a Bond film. Its sequel, XXX: State of the Union, was directed by Lee Tamahori, who had previously directed Die Another Day.

Internet

  • Season 5 of the YouTube channel Epic Rap Battles of History features a rap-battle video called "James Bond vs Austin Powers", which James Bond makes an appearance and is represented by Ben Atha and EpicLLoyd.
  • The gadgetry, titles, characters, product promotion and plots were parodied on the site Michael and Joel at the Movies.
  • Greenpeace UK produced an animated parody called Coalfinger, featuring the voices of David Mitchell and Brian Blessed.
  • During the opening ceremony animated intro sequence of Minecon London 2015, animated by Element Animation for Mojang Studios, a collection of James Bond-inspired British secret agent Minecraft Villagers are shown guiding the main character Villager of the short to Minecon.

Music

  • Johnny Rivers' song "Secret Agent Man" from his 1966 album ...And I Know You Wanna Dance uses the surf rock style of the "James Bond Theme". However, although its subject is secret agents and spies, the song was not composed as a reference to Bond but rather as the theme song for American broadcasts of the United Kingdom series Danger Man, which aired in the US under the title Secret Agent. The song was also covered by Devo on their 1979 album Duty Now for the Future. Its lyrics do, however, refer to the fact the agent described in the song has been assigned a code number. Ironically, John Drake, the lead character of Danger Man/''Secret Agent was never actually referred to by a code number.
  • British rock band Terrorvision's album Regular Urban Survivors features sleeve artwork reminiscent of spy movies in general, and Bond in particular. It features a painted cover, depicting the band members in a montage of Bond-like poses.
  • The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps' 2004 show "007," which placed first at the DCI World Championship Finals, uses musical selections and takes visual design inspiration from the James Bond movies.
  • Toy Dolls gives a humorous account of James Bond's off-duty relations to his neighbours in their song "James Bond Lives Down Our Street".
  • WAW Wild Aaron Wilde released three songs in 2013 on the Total Eclipse label, called "Spy Fool", "Diamonds Are Very Shiny", and "Old Whinger", all in the style of James Bond songs.
  • The music video for the Miike Snow song "Genghis Khan" from his 2016 album iii depicts a super villain falling in love with a spy in a tuxedo, who he was going to kill with a deadly laser modeled after the attempt to kill James Bond in Goldfinger''.

Novels

  • Mack Bolan, alias "The Executioner", is a tougher, American James Bond-inspired character created by Don Pendleton, who has featured in over 600 serialized novels with sales, as of 1995, of more than 200 million books.The Book of Bond, or, Every Man His Own 007, sanctioned by Glidrose Productions, is a tongue-in-cheek guide to being a superspy. It was credited to "Lt.-Col. William 'Bill' Tanner", but was actually written by Kingsley Amis, who would subsequently write the Bond novel, Colonel Sun under another pseudonym, Robert Markham. The book's first hardcover edition had a false slipcover giving the title as The Bible to be Read as Literature. The paperback edition was published by Pan Books, formatted the same as its regular James Bond novels.
  • Similarly, James Bond's popularity has spurred other writers and book packagers to cash in on the spy craze by launching female-spy alternative versions, such as The Baroness by Paul Kenyon, The Lady From L.U.S.T. spy thrillers by Rod Gray, and Cherry Delight by Glen Chase. The sexy superspy Baroness novels used many Bond references and formulae, such as the title of the second novel Diamonds Are For Dying, culinary and gastronomic descriptive passages, and plot themes.
  • Michael K. Frith and Christopher B. Cerf of the Harvard Lampoon wrote Alligator, by "I*n Fl*m*ng" in 1962. Another "J*mes B*nd" story titled "Toadstool" appeared in a Playboy magazine parody published by the Lampoon. Rumour has it this has not been reprinted because of plagiarism issues The cover of Alligator parodies the Signet Books paperback covers used for the Fleming novels in the 1960s, including a short Fl*m*ng biography, and a bibliography of nonexistent B*nd novels: Lightningrod, For Tomorrow We Live, The Chigro of the Narcissus, Toadstool, Doctor Popocatapetl, From Berlin, Your Obedient Servant, Monsieur Butterfly, and Scuba Do - Or Die.
  • There exists a very short book titled Pussy L'amour and the Three Bears starring James Bear. Although the book James Bond: The Legacy mentions it, one known copy exists.
  • Sol Weinstein wrote four novels about Israel Bond, Agent Oy-Oy-Seven, beginning in 1965: Loxfinger; Matzohball; In the Secret Service of His Majesty – the Queen; and You Only Live Until You Die. As with the Harvard Lampoon volumes mentioned above, the covers of the American editions of the Israel Bond books were also based upon the cover designs Signet Books used for Fleming's Bond novels.
  • Cyril Connolly wrote the short story "Bond Strikes Camp", satirising a homosexual relationship between M and Bond.
  • Between 1965 and 1968, paperback writer William Knoles - sometimes described as "the greatest unknown writer of our time" - penned 20 novels featuring the character Trevor Anderson, codenamed "0008", under the pseudonym Clyde Allison. The series is variously described as "0008" or "The Man From SADISTO," and spoofs both Bond and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. among other icons of espionage. The books were published by adult publisher William Hamling, edited by Earl Kemp and featured seventeen "cover paintings by Robert Bonfils," many also with "hand-lettered titles by Harry Bremner." The series stretches from Our Man From SADISTO to The Desert Damsels, and also features plots containing spoof characters based on Batman and Modesty Blaise among other heroes.
  • Mabel Maney has written two Bond parodies, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy and The Girl with the Golden Bouffant. The two parodies are based on the character of Jane Bond, James' lesbian sister, who is called upon to replace her brother when he is incapacitated.
  • An Agent 00005 appeared in the science fiction epic The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, published in the early 1970s. This character, named Fission Chips, is a somewhat dim-witted Englishman working for British Intelligence, taking orders from a superior named "W." A fan of Ian Fleming's novels, 00005 has patterned his life after James Bond and is obsessed with an organisation known as "B.U.G.G.E.R." which he might have completely fabricated.
  • Bridge experts Philip and Robert King wrote a collection of bridge game-related short stories titled Your Deal, Mr. Bond; the title story features 007.
  • Kim Newman's novel Dracula Cha Cha Cha features a vampire agent of the Diogenes Club named "Hamish Bond". The segments of the novel featuring this character are filled with references to the James Bond novels and films, including chapters titled "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "From Bavaria with Love", "Live and Let Die" and "The Living Daylights". Bond's archenemy is a vampiric Blofeld, and an alteration in his personality, towards the end, portrays the change from Sean Connery to Roger Moore.
  • Clive Cussler's novel Night Probe! has its hero Dirk Pitt alternately oppose and work with "Brian Shaw," a retired British Secret Service agent recalled to duty who had taken a pseudonym for protection from his many enemies. The book makes abundantly clear, explicitly so in the two characters' final conversation, that "Shaw" is Bond.
  • Bond is parodied as Roger Laser in The Fellowship of the Thing by John Salonia, published by Scarlet Succubus Press in 2001. Laser is shanghaied by an alien scientist to serve as a spy/commando.Dr. No Will See You Now is a short piece by English humourist Alan Coren, featuring a geriatric Bond, still-virginal Moneypenny and nonagenarian 'M'.
  • Simon R. Green wrote the Secret History book series, which involves a Bond-like investigator of Fantasy and SF criminals, including titles like The Man with the Golden Torc and Daemons Are Forever.The Laundry Files by Charles Stross

Television

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Television specials and series

  • Lois Maxwell reprises the role of Moneypenny in Eon Productions' television special Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond, which was intended to promote You Only Live Twice and contained a storyline of Moneypenny trying to establish the identity of Bond's bride.
  • The American television series Get Smart features Don Adams as the consummate Bond spoof, Maxwell Smart, a self-assured but incompetent bungler, who got by on a combination of luck and the help of his savvy female counterpart Agent 99, in an ongoing battle with a quasi-Soviet enemy entity known as KAOS, with use of esoteric and often unreliable or useless gadgets such as his shoe phone. The series later spun off a 1980 feature film sequel, The Nude Bomb, a 1989 TV-movie, Get Smart, Again!, and a short-lived 1995 TV series revival. It was later adapted as an eponymous 2008 movie. Don Adams also voiced the title character in Inspector Gadget, an animated Get Smart parody television series. Adams also either spoofed or directly reprised the role of Smart in numerous TV commercials.

Television episodes and arcs

''Gilligan's Island''

In Season 3 of the series Gilligan's Island, Episode 11 begins with Gilligan and The Skipper fishing at the lagoon. They reel in a briefcase marked "Property US Government. DO NOT OPEN." The Professor insists that the case must remain closed, but it accidentally pops open long enough for the castaways to realize it contains top-secret documents. They surmise that enemies of the US are likely after the briefcase. And to make matters worse, Gilligan inadvertently handcuffs himself to it. That night, Gilligan dreams he's a spy named Agent 0-14. He meets with the chief of the Good Guy Spy Outfit and demonstrates how his toiletry kit contains several weapons. Mary Ann poses as the Professor's secretary but is actually Evil Agent 10. She communicates to Mr. Evil through her makeup compact and then tries to shoot Gilligan with a loaded chrysanthemum. Ginger is Evil Agent 5. After communicating with Mr. Evil through a soup ladle, she tries to kill Gilligan with poison lipstick. Evil Agent 1 poses as Gilligan's mother and tries to get the briefcase while serving him a bowl of homemade soup. Gilligan escapes all of these situations and shows up at the office of Mr. Evil and his assistant. After Gilligan foils their final attempt to get the case, Evil Agent Lovey tells Gilligan: "Now I know why they call you 0-14. You're twice as smart as 0-0-7."

''American Dad!''

The series American Dad! featured two parody episodes of Bond films, first with the 2008 season 4 episode "Tearjerker" and then the 2013 season 9 episode "For Black Eyes Only". The character Stan Smith appears as a parody of James Bond. His wife Francine Smith appears as Sexpun T'Come, Brian Lewis is Black Villain, Roger Smith is Tearjerker, Klaus Heisler is Tchochkie Schmear and Avery Bullock is B. In "For Black Eyes Only", Stan marries Sexpun T'Come after the events of "Tearjerker". However, Black Villain kills Sexpun by accident. One year later, Stan hears that Black Villain will do something evil by melting the Arctic with hair dryers, and his boss B tells Stan that Tearjerker is still alive. He then finds Tearjerker in an underground jail and tells him to partner up with Stan. Tearjerker said that he used to work for Black Villain, but he betrays him. They then go to a market to find Tearjerker's partner Tchochkie Schmear, but he was killed by a black mysterious woman. Stan finds out that the black woman was a clone of Sexpun named Sexpuneequa that Black Villain created but made black. Tearjerker betrays Stan and works for Black Villain again. Stan tells Sexpuneequa that he is her husband, but she disagrees. He brings back her memories by having her suck his toes and she teams up with Stan to stop Tearjerker and Black Villain. Black Villain then starts the hair dryers to melt the Arctic before Stan and Sexpun appear. The two villains try to stop the two by releasing clones of Tearjerker, but fails. Then a big wave of water appears, but Stan, Sexpuneequa, and Tearjerker escape while Black Villain was left behind and drowns. While they escape, Sexpuneequa asked why they helped Tearjerker escape and kicks him and is stabbed by a pointed shark. Stan and Sexpuneequa make out until B called him. He congratulates Stan for his work, even when the half of the world was drowned and sees the two making out. Meanwhile, Tearjerker survives and was to come out of the shark, but a killer whale appears and grabs the shark's tail and drags the both of them when white letters appears on the top of the screen, saying "To be continued" and "Or was it?".

''BoJack Horseman''

In "Later", a 2014 season 1 episode of BoJack Horseman, after publication of his ghost-written memoir, BoJack Horseman is offered a role as the villain of a Bond film titled 007 Goldhoof. BoJack's agent Princess Carolyn informs BoJack of the offer, which he declines.

''MADtv''

Jane Bond is the name of a fictional spy played by supermodel Claudia Schiffer in "For Your Files Only", a recurring sketch from the first season of MADtv from 1995 to 1996. In an obvious spoof of James Bond, Jane Bond went undercover as a temporary office secretary in order to stop an evil corporation from taking over the world. Instead of having a licence to kill like James Bond, Jane Bond has a licence to collate. Immediately after making her famous introduction, " Bond, Jane Bond" to Dr. Boss, Bond proceeds to remove the clip that was holding her hair up.
Jane Bond's gadgets includes standard office supplies like slingshot-like rubber bands, an extremely sharpened right index fingernail, Whack Out, and a stapler. After defeating Dr. Boss, Bond proclaims that she likes her villains "Stapled, not stirred!"
Jane Bond's further adventures include:
  • "Octotempy"
  • "The Man with the Golden Parachute"
  • "On Her Majesty's Temporary Service"
  • "You Only Temp Twice"
  • "Moontemper"
  • "Dr. No-Raise"
  • "Thunder Ball-Point"
  • "The Spy Who Hired Me"
  • "From Russia with Overtime"
  • "The Living Day Jobs"
  • "License to Type"
  • "Tempfinger"

''Sabrina: The Animated Series''

In an episode of the 1999 animated adaption of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, "La Femme Sabrina", the video release of Harvey Kinkle 's favorite spy film, On Her Majesty's Expense Account was postponed. So Sabrina Spellman uses magic to get him a copy of the spy film that he wanted, but backfired the world into an actual spy flick. The episode parodies numerous James Bond references including the gun barrel sequence, a parody of Auric Goldfinger named Furfinger portrayed by Salem Saberhagen, and numerous James Bond film titles including:
  • On Her Majesty's Expense Account
  • From East Bayonne with Love
  • Dr. Indecisive
  • The Spy Who Sorta Had A Crush on Me
  • ''Thundernuggets''

''SpongeBob SquarePants''

The 2007 SpongeBob SquarePants season 5 episode "Spy Buddies" contains a Bond parody. When SpongeBob SquarePants is told that Mr. Eugene Krabs wants him to spy on Plankton, SpongeBob gets excited and a scene similar to the James Bond gun barrel sequence starts. SpongeBob walks into the circle, only to find that the circle is Patrick Star looking through a straw.

''The Backyardigans''

The Backyardigans' 2007 double-length episode "International Super Spy" portrays Pablo as a parody of James Bond. He wears a tuxedo in the episode and is seen adjusting his bow tie frequently. He goes through the episode trying to recover the 3 Silver Containers before Uniqua, the Lady in Pink and her henchman Tyrone does. Tasha plays the head of the International Super Spy Agency, an obvious parody of M and Austin plays his secret contact throughout the episode. Austin may be a parody of Q because he gives Pablo a video phone disguised as a banana split, a cell phone disguised as a hot dog, an astral projection device that is disguised as a snow cone, and finally he gives him a jet pack disguised as a pizza and a pizza-shaped parachute. He also has a car with many different flying attachments. Like the real James Bond, Pablo is able to withstand pain when he is subjected to the Lady in Pink's tickle table and he likes his apple juice, "Shaken Not Stirred".

''The Office''

A 2011 seventh season episode of The Office, "Threat Level Midnight", is a film made by Michael Scott with him as Michael Scarn, the best secret agent in the business, and Jim Halpert as Goldenface, a spoof of Goldfinger.

''The Simpsons''

A 1998 eighth season episode of The Simpsons, "You Only Move Twice", features the supervillain, Hank Scorpio. The James Bond analogue, Mr. Bont, is based on Sean Connery's portrayal but he is captured and killed because Homer Simpson interferes with his attempted escape from captivity.
The final scene at Globex contains references to several James Bond films. The episode title and many references are from You Only Live Twice, with A View to a Kill also being referenced. Mr. Bont, a character modeled after Sean Connery's Bond is tackled by Homer and killed after a parody of the laser scene from Goldfinger. Miss Goodthighs, a character sharing a name with Giovanna Goodthighs from the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale makes an appearance in the episode and a character based on Norman Schwarzkopf is attacked by Goodthighs. The incident is also a reference to the character Xenia Onatopp, from GoldenEye, who specialises in crushing men between her thighs.
The song at the end of the show, written by Ken Keeler, is a parody of various Bond themes. Keeler originally wrote it to be three seconds longer and sound more like the theme song "Goldfinger", but the final version was shorter and the lyrics were sped up. The writers wanted the song to be sung by Shirley Bassey, who sang several Bond themes, but they could not get her to record the part and Sally Stevens recorded it instead.
This is not the only James Bond homage in The Simpsons, however—the "Chief Wiggum P.I." segment of "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" episode borrows heavily from Live and Let Die, even duplicating certain shots. Also, in an alleged "deleted scene" from "$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" from the 1995 season 10 "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" clip show, Homer, working as a blackjack dealer, causes James Bond to lose to Blofeld, with Oddjob and Jaws as his henchmen, when Homer fails to take out the Joker card and a card for the "Rules for Draw and Stud Poker" out of a playing deck. In addition, an opening couch gag features Homer as Bond in the gun barrel sequence that opens the Bond films. The character Rainier Wolfcastle, an action movie actor, also regularly references Bond. Also, the 2001 season 13 episode "Treehouse of Horror XII" featured a computer run house with a selection of actor voices. When Bart Simpson suggests some 007, Marge Simpson asks "George Lazenby?" only to get slightly disappointed when Lisa Simpson says "No, Pierce Brosnan."

''Adventures of Captain Wrongel''

In the 1976 Soviet animated series Adventures of Captain Wrongel, Agent 00X is a comic version of Bond, he almost catches criminals in each episode, but at the last moment he fails, which is usually ended by his cruel death. Of course, he is resurrected at the start of next episode.

Video games

  • The Command & Conquer: Red Alert series features a spy unit for the Allies, depicted in a tuxedo and sounding similar to Sean Connery. In the 1996 game Command & Conquer: Red Alert, the spy is unarmed, can disguise himself as enemy soldiers, and sneak past any base defence undetected, only vulnerable to attack dogs or psi corps troopers. The spy unit can infiltrate buildings to shut off power, disable unit production and radar, or steal resources - the 2000 second game allows the unit to capture plans for enemy unique units like Chrono Ivan or Psychic Commando, while the 2008 third game introduces the ability to bribe enemy units into joining the spy unit's side.
  • The 2004 computer game Evil Genius is played from the perspective of a stereotypical 1960s "Bond villain" type of character, as the player builds a trap-filled base, trains minions, hires elite henchmen, and fights off agents from various world intelligence agencies. The most difficult of the agents to defeat is the British agent John Steele, based on Bond.
  • In the expansion pack to Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, there is a car called the 'James Bomb' which looks like an Aston Martin. In the 2013 game, Grand Theft Auto V, Franklin Clinton is made to steal a car from the movie studio where it is being used as a prop in an action film. The car, called the JB 700, bears a strong likeness to the Aston Martin in Goldfinger, and shares a number of hidden features with that car, some usable while others are only referred to, such as two forward-facing machine guns, an ejector seat, a metal shield to protect the rear windscreen and deployable caltrops.
  • The James Pond series of games parody Bond movies. Levels in a James Pond game use such titles as A View to a Spill and Leak and Let Die.
  • In the 1998 game Metal Gear Solid, on the third playthrough of a saved file, Solid Snake wears a James Bond-style tuxedo.
  • In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the character Major Zero is a fan of James Bond as revealed during a codec conversation. The protagonist, Naked Snake, also chides James Bond as not being a real spy, ironically a meta-reference to the many similarities he has with Bond. The title theme, "Snake Eater" performed by Cynthia Harrell, is also a play on the jazzy pop title tracks from Bond movie, with the lyrics describing nuances in the story and repeating the title multiple times. Also before the title theme the Virtuous Mission may be considered a play on the pre-title sequences of the Bond series.No One Lives Forever and its sequel, No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way, by Monolith Productions combine elements of James Bond, feature a female secret agent, Cate Archer, take place during the 1960s, and are similarly titled to John Gardner's Bond novel, Nobody Lives For Ever.
  • In the 2001 video game Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, a senior US Army Green Beret officer named James Gastovski introduces himself to the game's protagonist 1LT Dave Armstrong in a James Bond-like tone.Operation Thunderbowel by Sacred Scroll Software is a text based adventure game featuring Shamus Bond going up against Blobum who is attempting to poison the UN with a powerful laxative.
  • In the 2003 video game Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, the "Wanna Kick Rayman" lesson number 73 features a Hoodmonger Private First Class who dons a tuxedo and holds up a handgun in a characteristic 007 pose, before producing an enormous, laser-firing satellite dish-like device out of his arm.
  • One of the trailers for the 2008 video game Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party features a rabbit dressed in a tuxedo singing the "James Bond Theme" in a gun barrel sequence. While singing, he notices the barrel, to which he looks into it and starts singing the rest of the theme into it, only to have a carrot shoot out from the barrel into his mouth.
  • Apogee's 1992 series of jump and run games, Secret Agent, is about Agent tasked with infiltrating the Blofeld-esque hideouts of supervillains directly parodies the James Bond franchise in the setup of its storyline.Spy Fox parodies Q, Moneypenny, and various villainsSpy Muppets: License to Croak is a 2003 video game featuring Muppet characters directly spoofing James Bond characters, plots and titles.
  • Some Stuntman missions in the 2002 game require players to race through the streets of Monaco, for the film Live Twice for Tomorrow.
  • The 2007 video game Team Fortress 2 includes achievements for the Spy character such as "Dr. Nooooo", "For Your Eyes Only", "On Her Majesty's Secret Surface", "The Man with the Broken Guns" and "You Only Shiv Thrice".
  • The 2019 video game Pokémon Sword and Shield, which takes place in the Britain-inspired Galar region, features the Pokémon species Inteleon, whose characteristic is an amalgamation of secret agents. Additionally, its first evolution form Sobble is numbered "007" in the game's regional Pokédex.