War for the Planet of the Apes arrives in theaters this week about a year shy of the franchise’s 50th anniversary.
All the parodies were starting to turn Planet of the Apes into a joke, but Planet of the Apes still provided the template for this specific act of symbolic destruction.
Over the course of the episode, McClure is cast in a new musical based on Planet of the Apes titled Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!
Few images in movie history have inspired more homages, spoofs, or straight-up ripoffs than Heston kneeling before the broken Lady Liberty.