Connections

while reporting about the end of the world, a Japanese newsman says Godzilla is coming and then pulls out a mini Godzilla toy and makes it destroys a mini city

Characters and famous scenes are spoofed.

when Dixon is attacked by a space monkey, Harry says "Get your stinkin' paws off him, you damn dirty ape!"

The Ship enters a giant wheel of cheese like at the start of 2001 where the ship enters a giant space station that looks like a giant wheel also the same music is playing

The famous stomach-bursting scene.