The film has been seen in other media. The 1987 instructional book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet made frequent use of "Yoyodyne" in its examples of corporate URLs. Yoyodyne had earlier been featured as the name of an aerospace company in two 1960s novels by Thomas Pynchon. The ending scene of the movie, in which Banzai and an ever-growing group of his friends and associates walk together triumphantly while the closing credits roll, was copied for the ending of the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (Jeff Goldblum appears in both scenes.) The current incarnation of the comic strip Dick Tracy has seen two subtle references to the film in the storyline. In a strip dated October 22, 2013, there is a reference to a business named "Emilio Lizardo Crematorium". In a strip dated November 7, 2013, Dick Tracy's granddaughter Honeymoon tells him she will be attending a Hong Kong Cavaliers concert with the hope of getting Perfect Tommy's autograph. Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems had an office on the promenade of Star Trek ' s Deep Space Nine. The PhD thesis of Eric Weinstein was called Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension. Parzival, the main character of the film Ready Player One, appears in a Buckaroo Banzai costume for a date. Aech says to Parzival, "You're going to wear the outfit from your favorite movie." His date Art3mis responds to his costume with, "I like Buckaroo Banzai!"