References

Posted by rossrubiknickname on August 19th, 2007 at 08:38pm

Here are a couple of references from Wikepedia about the Rubik’s Cube. (This is taken from Rubik’s Cube 101, a short book that will be on sale soon.)

A couple of references to the Rubik’s Cube are listed below. (Taken from Wikipedia respectfully.)

• From 1983 to 1984, a Ruby-Spears produced Saturday morning cartoon based upon the toy Rubik, the Amazing Cube aired on the American Broadcasting Company as part of a package program, “The Pac-Man/Rubik, The Amazing Cube Hour”.

• Saturday Night Live has had two commercial parodies for Rubik’s cube-esque products: Rubik’s Teeth (a pair of dentures that are multicolored like a Rubik’s cube) and Rubik’s Grenade (a live hand grenade with a Rubik’s cube puzzle on the side that explodes if the puzzle isn’t solved correctly)

• It won a Spiel des Jahres Best Puzzle prize in 1980.

• In the 2006 movie The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith, Chris Gardner successfully solves a Rubik’s Cube to the astonishment of his future employer (who thinks that it is impossible to solve).

• A commercial spot for the PlayStation 3 video game console places the machine against an unsolved Rubik’s Cube in a bland room. The Rubik’s Cube levitates, gets solved by an unseen force, then explodes, painting the sides of the bare room with the same colors as its solved faces.

• A commercial spot for Hyundai features a blindfolded young man solving a Rubik’s Cube.

• In the movie UHF (starring “Weird Al” Yankovic), a blind man is shown solving a Rubik’s cube and asking the person next to him, “Is this it?” after every turn.

• In The Simpsons, the Rubik’s Cube makes several appearances. In “Homer Defined“, Homer Simpson blames a Rubik’s Cube for distracting him during his nuclear power plant training. In another episode, Milhouse reads information on a giant mechanical Rubik’s Cube in Hungary. Also, Marge tries solving a cube as the rest of the Simpsons holler suggestions to her frustration. Finally, in “HOMR“, where Homer removes a crayon from his head and becomes a genius, he is seen solving a basket of cubes with ease. A variety of Simpsons-themed Rubik’s Cubes have seen popularity as well, particularly one of Homer’s head.

• In the US sitcom Seinfeld, George Louis Costanza played by Jason Alexander, solves the cube while abstaining from sex.

• In the Australian sketch show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Ronnie does several sketches playing a fake Russian Rubik’s cube champion, Sergei Haminov, who endorses made up products.

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