effect originated in the 1957 B movie The Land Unknown. The anime film Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo (1978) parodies Duel in a chase scene in which Lupin and his colleagues, driving a red Austin Cooper, are pursued by a giant Kenworth W900 dispatched by the film's villain, Mamo. The Snakerama gas station also appears in Spielberg's comedy movie 1941 (1979). Benson reprises her role as its proprietor. The horror anthology film Nightmares (1983) features a segment very similar to Duel, though with overt supernatural elements.Breakdown (1997) contains many visual and thematic nods to the movie.Fire Down Below (1997) contains a scene directly inspired by Duel, in which Steven Seagal's character is chased and nearly run off the road before luring a pursuing truck off of a cliff. Joy Ride (2001) is heavily influenced by Duel and contains many direct references. Monster Man (2003), starring Eric Jungmann, features a large truck terrorizing the occupants of a red car, though, unlike in Duel, the driver's face is shown. The truck from Duel is seen in the film Torque (2004) causing a biker to wipe out shortly after a red four-door Valiant drives past.Throttle (2005) has a scene featuring a Dennis Weaver lookalike driving a red Plymouth Valiant.Wrecker (2015), starring Drea Whitburn and Anna Hutchison, is almost a shot-for-shot remake of Duel. In television The special Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery, on which Spielberg was an executive producer, includes a segment titled "Fuel" which parodies the film, starring Calamity Coyote and Little Beeper. In the Red Dwarf Series 8 episode "Only the Good...", Arnold Rimmer claims that a scar on the right side of his neck resulted from a friend attacking him with the case of a video of Duel. The film is parodied in the climax of "The Secret of the Ghost Rig", the third episode of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. The opening scene of the Transformers: Prime episode "Nemesis Prime" pays homage to Duel. The Bob's Burgers Season 4 episode "Christmas in the Car" includes numerous references to Duel, as Bob is terrorized by a candy-cane shaped truck. Svengoolie aired Duel on November 5, 2016, and, responding to numerous viewer requests, again on February 18, 2023. A Pinky and the Brain segment from the Spielberg-produced 2020 Animaniacs reboot includes a parody of Duel. The titular characters, in a car, are chased by a truck that eventually drives off a cliff. Pinky