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In 1988's I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, an African-American martial arts expert stares at a photo of Bruce Lee around his neck. Another character asks, "Master Lee was your kung fu teacher?!" The other character responds, "No! Acting teacher."
Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director, is a fan of Lee and has played and directed roles which are reminiscent of Lee, such as: Sing (Brother #4) in Shaolin Soccer (2001), and Kung Fu Hustle (2004). Also, in Shaolin Soccer, during the game before the finals, the goalie uses moves reminiscient of Bruce Lee, and wears a yellow jumpsuit like the one worn by Bruce Lee in Game of Death.
Lee from Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2 was named after Bruce Lee and has a similar fighting styles to Bruce Lee.
In the film City Hunter, there is a scene where Hunter fights a number of thugs in an on ship cinema, which is playing Bruce Lee's Game of Death. During the scene, Hunter has to fight a tall black man, similarly to Kareem Abdul Jabbar's character in Game of Death. After Hunter's fight, he converses with Bruce Lee on the big screen, before running away when Bruce responds.
In the film No Retreat, No Surrender, Bruce Lee's ghost trains a young Bruce Lee enthusiast.
In the Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill, multiple references to Lee can be seen. Uma Thurman's yellow jumpsuit is a reference to the film Game of Death. The villains from the "Crazy 88 gang" wore masks similar to that which Lee donned in his role as Kato in "Green Hornet". (They are even referred to as "Kato Masks".)
In the 1983 film D.C. Cab, the character Dell played by Gary Busey is a Bruce Lee conspiracy theorist, stating, "Bruce Lee ain't dead you know. They got him frozen in carbonite down under Chatsworth. They're gonna melt him down as soon as the economy gets better."[2]
In the film They call me Bruce the main character has an altercation with some thugs, after which he goes home and looks at a poster of Bruce Lee on the wall and says "If I was half as good as you I could have taken those guys in the bar".
In the film The King of the Kickboxers the character Jake Donahue played by Loren Avedon watches a martial arts film and says "This is like a Bruce Lee film without Bruce".
In the film American Shaolin a fighter who challenges one of the main characters at the beginning of the film has a fighting technique that is the same as Lee's.
In the film The Last Dragon A young man in Harlem named Leroy Green studies martial arts in order to reach the 'final level.' Bruce Lee is his idol, and this ideal motivates him throughout the film. He is often referred to as Bruce Leroy. His style is similar to Bruce Lee's.
In the TV show That 70's Show, Fez portrays Lee's character in Enter the Dragon.
In the TV show Family Matters, Steve Urkel creates a machine called the "Transformation Chamber" and "Bruce Juice", which allows him to become a completely different person (acquiring new attributes and traits.) However, he doesn't change physically. Bruce Lee's persona is among the few that Steve takes on, thanks to this machine. Steve first took on Lee's persona, because he wanted thugs to apologize to Laura (another character in the show) for insulting her at a bar. He felt weak, mainly because the thugs beat him up and he couldn't defend Laura's name. He returned as Bruce Lee and defeated all of the thugs in the bar. As Lee, Steve speaks with an exaggerated Chinese accent, wears a wig that resembles Lee's hair, and wears a kung-fu suit.
In the TV show Monk, in the episode Mr. Monk vs. The Cobra the character of Sonny Chow is based on Bruce Lee.
David Carradine played the characters written for Lee in the 1978 version of The Silent Flute.
In the series The Life and Times of Juniper Lee the title character Juniper Lee could be seen as a tribute as she has a mixed fighting style, name, and she isn't portrayed as a stereotypical Asian.
In the Japanese drama series Gokusen, Yankumi, after defeating a group of gangmembers, tells that she "learned her moves from a Bruce Lee book" then poorly imatates fighting stances to hide the fact that her family is a part of the Yakuza.
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The California-based pop culture magazine Giant Robot featured a photo of Bruce Lee at a turntable with the motto "Bruce made tapes" as one of their early promotional logos; printed on shirts, posters, etc.
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The Jack Johnson song "Inaudible Melodies" was reportedly inspired by Bruce Lee. The original lyrics were "Slow down Bruce you're moving too fast, frames can't catch you when you're moving like that," instead of "Slow down everyone." Jack Johnson said that in film school, he learned that Bruce was told to slow down his moves because some of his motions were actually too fast to be caught on film.
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