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Posted: 6/19/13 at 1:33amFamily guy does a ton of musical references!!! I actually surprised that the creators of family guy have not made a musical like the south park people!
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Posted: 6/19/13 at 1:58amThis is very new and very official.
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Posted: 6/19/13 at 4:41am
Ive always loved the Rent spoof in Team America World Police, and the Evita and Mary Poppins episodes of The Simpsons always make me smile
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Posted: 6/19/13 at 5:46amI liked the I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred went to see The Most Happy Fella.
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Posted: 6/19/13 at 6:54am
Family Guy does have ton of references. My favorite is Peter Griffin in Starlight Express (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJmZHoM7NLM), though the full blown Shipoopi performance as a touchdown victory dance is very well-done. I also really like the My Fair Lady episode where Stewie teaches the young cockney girl from next door proper elocution.
American Dad has done a lot of theater jokes, too. I mean, there's an episode where Stan and Roger wind up in a power battle over who is the better actor while auditioning for a community theater production of a ridiculous play. Then there's the Irma la Douce reference which had me cackling. They already ripped on Grease for being all chorus, no substance, and then this happened instead of a reprise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRmuLEkP06Y
And they have a Halloween episode that's a parody of Little Shop of Horrors, only with a sentient hot tub eating people. Cee-Lo Green wrote the music and it's very good.
Drawn Together had a few musical parodies and a licensed performance of Who's That Guy from Grease 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uKxcSAmpE
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Posted: 6/19/13 at 10:58am
The musical episode of Scrubs featuring a completely silent Stephanie J. Block.
Especially the number:
Guy Love
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Posted: 6/19/13 at 4:24pm
"The musical episode of Scrubs featuring a completely silent Stephanie J. Block."
You've got the wrong Stephanie there. It was Stephanie D'Abruzzo. 
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Posted: 6/19/13 at 4:38pmI loved the musical episode of Buffy, and on a more tongue-in-cheek note, i thought that Grease 2 was a hilarious parody of a musical.
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Posted: 6/19/13 at 6:39pm
You've got the wrong Stephanie there. It was Stephanie D'Abruzzo.
>DOH!< Of course!
If there should ever be a brunette version of Side Show, I'd recommend those two ladies:
Also, just so I don't confuse things further, I pulled the "single" version of Guy Love 'cause I thought it was better, musically.
Here's the song as it appeared in the episode:
Guy Love
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Posted: 6/20/13 at 3:45pmThe Nanny had a TON of Broadway references, since the main male character was a producer. I always thought he was supposed to be modeled after Cameron Mackintosh.
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Posted: 6/20/13 at 5:09pm
I liked the Family Guy episode where he directs The King and I
This is a bad clip, but all I could find.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-toXA9SLwQ
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Posted: 6/20/13 at 5:36pmThe Newsroom had a lot of Broadway references. Ranging from Camelot to Gypsy to Evita.
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Posted: 6/21/13 at 3:11am
ANIMANIACS. This 90s show had a TON of musical references; mostly in the form of full 10-minute shorts! Here's my absolute favorite. By the way, the cat, Rita was voiced by Bernadette Peters.
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Posted: 6/21/13 at 9:32am
Not many people saw it, but there was a show called "Smash". I swear, the whole freakin' thing was a parody of theater. :)
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