In 1992, the singer Matthew Sweet released the single "I've Been Waiting", the video of which features images of Lum from the series. In 1993, a band from Glasgow formed under the name "Urusei Yatsura" as a tribute. On "", anime references were frequently added as in-jokes and homages by Senior Illustrator Rick Sternbach. In the episode "Up the Long Ladder", two ships named "Urusei Yatsura" and "Tomobiki" can be seen on a graphical display. Another reference appears in the episode "The Icarus Factor" where William Riker and his father have an Anbo-Jitsu match, a fictional futuristic sightless sport that takes place in a ring where each fighter uses a stick to attack the other. Japanese characters featured on the costumes and set of this scene are references to the main characters of Urusei Yatsura. Lum and Ten make a cameo as passing pedestrians in one panel of the first issue of Futurama Comics.