<Tr> <Td> Biggest Surprise of the Year </Td> <Td> Taken </Td> <Td> 2nd place </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Saturn Award </Td> <Td> Best International Film </Td> <Td> Taken </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <P> Taken was released as "Taken (Single - Disc Extended Edition)" on DVDs on 12 May 2009 and on Blu - ray on 9 December 2014 . The film also saw release of "Taken (Two - Disc Extended Edition)" on DVDs and Blu - ray Discs on 12 May 2009 . As of 5 February 2015, the film has sold 5,388,963 DVDs and 607,073 Blu - ray Discs and grossing $79,798,171 and $10,069,116 respectively totaling $89,867,287 in North America . </P> <Ul> <Li> In May 2012, the plot of "Leggo My Meg - O", the twentieth episode of the tenth season of the TV series Family Guy, is based on Taken . In "Brian's a Bad Father", Brian mentions that having Zooey Deschanel cast as the daughter in Taken would be thinking outside the box . A cutaway gag then depicts Bryan Mills (reprised by Liam Neeson) instructing the kidnappers to send him the head of Zooey Deschanel . </Li> <Li> In "Hunt", a fifth - season episode of the TV series Castle, when Richard Castle's daughter Alexis is kidnapped and taken to Paris, Castle follows and Det . Kevin Ryan asks, "Who does he think he is, Liam Neeson?" </Li> <Li> A Saturday Night Live opening sketch in March 2014 featured Liam Neeson reprising his character from the film in response to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and in defense of President Obama . </Li> <Li> In the animated Cartoon Network series, The Amazing World of Gumball in the episode "The Kids", Gumball calls Mr. Fitzgerald and asks if he can talk to Penny, Mr. Fitzgerald thinks Gumball is being disrespectful to him due to his changing voice, and threatens Gumball by repeating Bryan Mills' phone speech in a scary voice . Later in the episode, Mr. Fitzgerald drives up to Gumball from his car and says the Bryan Mills line to him once more, but Gumball quickly cuts him off when he rolls up his car window, locks the door, and slams it shut in his face . </Li> <Li> In Lego Dimensions, when Bad Cop interacts with Unikitty, Unikitty says she has a particular set of skills . Taken featured Bad Cop's voice actor Liam Neeson in the lead role . </Li> <Li> One of the most popular and best - received commercials of Super Bowl XLIX in February 2015, an ad by Finnish game developer Supercell for its popular game Clash of Clans, featured Neeson parodying his character from Taken . </Li> <Li> In "Red Means Stop", the finale episode of the sixth season of The Venture Bros., The Monarch and Henchman 21 trick Red Death's family into going to his mother - in - law's and call him claiming to have kidnapped them . Before he could finish his speech, Red Death quotes Neeson's "I will find you" speech . The Monarch apologises and slowly hangs up then start to cower for a few seconds . </Li> </Ul>

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