Secret Galaxy recently did an episode on the Bionic Six and its failure to catch hold in an era of massive cartoon-to-toy pipelines.
I wasn't a huge fan of Bionic Six, but S02E25, "Bottom of the Ninth Planet" has a line I still remember. Meg is in a contest with an alien sportsman where each has to take turns thinking of objects for a second alien to turn into and attack the other contestant, and if you couldn't think of a new object fast enough, you would lose (at least, it seemed like that's how the contest worked). The aliens cheat, with the second alien giving ideas of objects to be turned into. At one point, he suggests "turn me into a can!" but the alien sportsman turns him into a thimble instead, which does no harm to Meg. Meg, tired and hungry, turns him into a hamburger, which knocks out the alien sportsman. The second alien then says, "I coulda been a container, instead of a bun."
Even though it would be years later before I saw On the Waterfront, the line was iconic and known to teenage me, and it was absolutely hilarious being referenced in this context.
(before publishing this, I did a quick search to see if I've ever mentioned Bionic Six before, and somewhat hilariously I started and abandoned a post 6 years ago about this, so thank you to Secret Galaxy for providing the impetus to complete it)
