Musicals Represented in Non-Musical Movies — Page 2

My favorite Will and Grace Broadway reference is when Karen thought she lost Rosario in a bet to Beverly Leslie.

She starts to quote the ending of My Fair Lady:

KAREN: My Rosie is gone, and she's never coming back!

JACK: Oh, no! You loved her, didn't you?

KAREN: Oh, I don't know. It's more... I've grown accustomed to her face. She almost makes the day begin. I've grown accustomed to the tune she whistles night and noon. Her smiles, her frowns. Her ups... her downs.

[KAREN SIGHS AND SLUMPS INTO A CHAIR. SHE PULLS A BOTTLE OF WINDEX FROM THE CUSION, SPRAYS IT AND THEN SNIFFS THE MIST.]

ROSARIO: [ENTERING] Miss Karen...

KAREN: [GASPS] Rosie! Are you back?

ROSARIO: I'm back.

KAREN: [SMILING] Where the hell are my slippers?

ROSARIO: Have you looked up your ass, you drunken fool?

Updated On: 6/28/05 at 03:53 PM

YES you need to get the soundtrack to Team America : World Police

They have a thing called "Lease" that makes fun of Rent. It's called "We All Have Aids". It is a little harsh, but you can kind of laugh at if if your mean...

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Yes in that episode they had the actor who was definitely a parody of Colm Wilkinson.

In the South Park movie they had several Les Mis references. Like the "One Day More" parody...I think it was called "Tomorrow Night".

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In "The Simpsons" episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken," all the citizens of Springfield sing a spoof of the song "Kids" from Bye, Bye Birdie, renaming it as "Kids! Adults!" What's funny is that usually, when spoofing a Broadway show, they would take the structure of the song and make a completely new melody. Here they used the same melody of the original.

Also, The Cradle Will Rock was featured in the film Cradle Will Rock.

And let's not forget "Marge vs. the Monorail," with the late Phil Hartman as Lyle Laneley, who was a spoof on Harold Hill.

Basically, "The Simpsons" did a lot of musical spoofs.

By the way, on that episode, "The President Wore Pearls," there was a message claiming that they were not making fun of, nor have they ever heard of, a musical based on the life of Eva Peron!! lol

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Updated On: 6/28/05 at 05:19 PM

Every episode of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES has a title taken from a showtune, the majority written by Sondheim.

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That reminds me, they did HAIR on the TV show HEAD OF THE CLASS. Anyone remember that one? LOL

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Haha...
and all that I need is 88 bucks, papa...only eighty eight bucks...

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The Birdcage features Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Diane Wiest, Gene Hackman, and Hank Azaria singing "I Could Have Danced all Night" from My Fair Lady. Also, at some point when Albert (Nathan Lane) is performing, he starts to sing "Can That Boy Foxtrot," from Follies.

In addition to the titles, in the episode of Desperate Housewives where Carlos beats up the gay cable guy, he realizes the guy has a poster for Gypsy in his room.

A few references from The Simpsons:
"I saw him in Rent, or Stomp, or Clomp, or SOME piece of crap."
"You must have really liked the musical CATS." "God no, I thought it sucked!"
"What's next? I suppose a musical about cats, or the king of Siam."
Krusty singing his own version of "Send in the Clowns"
Bart and Milhouse leading "Springfield, Springfield"
Mr. Burns singing a parody of "Be Our Guest"

Some from Will and Grace that I don't think have been mentioned:
Jack singing "Not While I'm Around"
"I took my mother to see Les Mis. When we got out, she said to me "oh, honey, in real life the poor people never sing that much."

On an episode of The King of Queens, Carrie said to somebody something along the lines of: "So, you like going to see Broadway shows? Did you see Les Mis? Wasn't it SO sad?"

A few from The Nanny:
Niles singing "The Impossible Dream" to try to audition for a show (in the living room), and Fran runs up to him shouting "sing out, Louise!"
All of the references to Andrew Lloyd Webber and CATS
There was an episode that involved a child actor doing "Oliver!"

In Golden Girls, there was an episode in which Blanche and Rose were cast in The Sound of Music... and there was another(?) where they were cast in CATS. I also distinctly remember Dorothy singing "Sunrise, Sunset" in an episode.

I have way too much time on my hands.

I believe South Park use a lot of Les Miserables references. I forgot which episode though. I think it was the one about Hellen Keller the musical.


The South Park movie (South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut) has a parody of Les Miserables, what with the "La Resistance" thing and all. It's absolutely hilarious, as well as the "Tomorrow Night" song.

I recommend the movie if you like to laugh, if you can get past the vulgarity (but that's half the fun)!

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ok, this may be pushing the point a little but how about 'Les Mis' the movie. I understand that it was probably based on the book rather than the musical, but i'd imagine the popularity of the musical was a large factor when deciding to make the film (which was awful, by the way). Further, the TV references. In Family Guy the line is "if you wanted to do a bad show, we should have done RENT" (Kudos Peter Griffin for speaking the truth!). Also in the South Park movie the song 'La Resistance' is a parody of 'One day more' from Les mis - with the red flag and everything!

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Jason - hahahaha. I'm glad you thought that was funny. It was on season 3 (which I own) and saw it about a week ago, which why it was fresh in my memory.

Later

Adam

More musical references in Gilmore Girls...
-In one of the earlier episodes, one of the characters (Jackson, for those of you that know) is given a kilt by his dad to wear on his wedding day. Loreli says something to the effect of "how many Brigadoon references can I come up with?"
-This season, the community musical was Fiddler on the Roof.
Also, the kid that said he was on Broadway in Into The Woods was really in the 2002 (or 2001?) revival...

In terms of movies... the last movie I saw was Delovely, and before that it was Evita, so yeah...