Weird and/or Random Broadway References- Page 5

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 6:45pm

This is one that I totally did on my own: I was watching "Yours, Mine, and Ours," which has Van Johnson as one of the children. This immediately made me think of LiTP and laugh.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 7:25pm

"Comme Van Johnson? You are relatives"

"Ok! Van Johnson!"

I couldn't resist.

On a recent "Simpsons", Krusty says, "I once had a one man show. Guess who came? One man? Ha ha ha ha ha! Long story short, I won a Drama Desk Award."

I was in heaven.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 11:06pm

And who could forget the classic Family Guy cut reference:

Stewie (getting through airport security by singing On the Good Ship Lollypop): Gee, let's hope Osama Bin Laden doesn't know showtunes.

Pan to Osama.

Osama: God I hope I get it! I hope I get it!

[singingwendy]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 11:10pm

Another William Daniels one......When he was on Boy Meets World as Mr. Feeney, he taught at John Adams Middle (and/or High School).

[thejcm]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 11:32pm

On Will & Grace Jack is trying to get Karen to go to "gay group therapy" and she replies with:

"I am NOT going to see Mamma Mia again!"

Also, in some episode of Family Guy, Peter sings a variation of "Everything's Coming Up Roses" to Meg after Chris fails or refuses to be the talented/famous one.

[Broadway Baby4]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 11:36pm

In The Lion King 1 1/2, Timon and Pumba start singing "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof.

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 12:11am

in one episode of friends, chandelor is going through his & monica's CDs and he says something like, "look honey, we both have copies of the 'Annie' soundtrack" and then monica says, "honey, both yours."
hahaaa hilarious.

and there are a million and a half will&grace ones. i'm thinking of the one when jack does his show either, "Just Jack" or "Jack: 2000(1)" and in his medley he does a both of bway songs.
and again from W&G, Jack is trying to cheer up Grace after a boyfriend leaves her or something, and he sings a mdley of songs about being alone and the song "one" from a chorus line is in there somewhere.
and W&G again, will takes his mom to see Mamma Mia! and they come back singing and dancing and it goes on for like 5 minutes, haha.

i love seeing b'way references, because i actually understand them.. it makes me feel cultured. that and like an OCD theatre kid. but i love it!
<3

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 9:40am

Ooh, don't forget that later on in that episode, they're rearranging the CDs and Chandler starts singing:

"The sun'll come out tomorrow
Bet...chur bottom dollar that tomorrow"

Then he looks up and Monica and Rachel are looking at him. So he tries to be all masculine and affects a gruff voice and pumps his fist when he says:

There'll be sun!!!!!!!!!

Also, on a show that I watched on Sundance OnDemand called Slings and Arrows, they're putting on Hamlet. One of the corporate sponsors is arguing with the director about his bare bones staging of Hamlet a la the Richard Burton production. The previous director was all about design and not character. The corporate sponsor suggests that they use the pyrotechnics they were going to use to which the new director says, "It's Hamlet. It's not Tommy!!!!"

Updated On: 2/9/07 at 09:40 AM

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 10:07am

I know that at the end of an episode of boston legal Alan Shore mentions Javert... Not to mention that crazy woman (who is obsessed with musical theatre) who marries Shirly's ex... She's just an insult to my race...

[elvisitis1302]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 5:19pm

I'm not sure if anyone said this but...
In "Six Feet Under" there is an episode where David sings "Good Thing Going" from Merrily We Roll Along. It made me smile a lot - my two favorite things: Broadway and Six Feet Under mixed in one :)

[jjoey076]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 5:52pm

In Family Guy again, there's a reference to The Pirates of Penzance. They sing "Sighing Softly to the River"

[DancNdaMoonlite]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 6:02pm

From friends: "'The sun'll come out tomorrow. Bet...chur bottom dollar that tomorrow'"
Lolol I LOVE that.

And there are always ones on Family Guy and Will & Grace that I love.

[Claire2141]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 6:32pm

From Will and Grace....

Grace: Thanks for taking me out to dinner, Kar.
Karen: Well, honey, it's like the old song goes - anyone deserves a free meal who has Will's sperm inside them.
Grace: I think that was from "You're a Gay Dad, Charlie Brown."

Will: Me? I'm not gay.
Jack: Well, this well-worn copy of the Dreamgirls soundtrack begs to differ.

And my personal favourite....

JACK: [SMILING] One of Bernadette Peters' curls. She was standing in front of me at Duane Reade. Luckily, I was buying a pair of toenail clippers. Now I have hair from Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley, and Idina Menzel. All I need is Patti LuPone and my Broadway diva wig will be complete!

WILL: Yeah, I don't know why the red states are so afraid of gays.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 6:46pm

^(with slowly rising anger) Cast recordings are NOT SOUNDTRACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Claire2141]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 6:49pm

^ Breath...and remember it was said by a fictional character of a now defuncted tv show...

[GreenGirl22406]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 7:09pm

Gilmore girls is full of refrences to everything, bway stuff abundant.

And Labyrinth has all the theater stuff because in the book Sarah's mother is an actress

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 9:08pm

"^ Breath...and remember it was said by a fictional character of a now defuncted tv show..."

The fictional character is who I'm pissed off at.


I have too much spare time.

[jess20882]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 12:21am

This may sound odd but I am lying here awake, watching Iron Chef America, and Alton Brown - the host - just referred to the chaos of the kitchen as 'an explosion of James Bond meets Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' Thought it was a very funny, if not very random, Broadway reference!

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 1:52am

I don't know if anyone mentioned this one yet - and it's just a LITTLE off-topic - but in the movie "Swamp Thing", Louis Jordan says "Am I a fool without a mind, or have I simply been to blind to realize that creature can be captured...."

Right out of MGM's "Gigi" in which he starred. (Well, except fro the creature part, but there WAS a Gabor....)

[longshadowsfalling]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 2:04am

In an episode of Seinfeld, Elaine's says that her roommate is walking around the apartment singing "God I hope I get it I hope I get it" while waiting to hear back about an audition.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 3:46pm

There's an episode of Extreme Ghostbusters called "Killjoys" in which NY is invaded by vampire clowns who feed on laughter, there's a scene in which they catch one of the clowns...

Garrett: You Cheated

Eduardosinging) Ecto man got a clown in the can, Ecto man got the clown, who's the man.

Kylie: Umm, it's a little too early to be celebrating Ecto man, we don't know if this is the only one

Roland: Yeah the whole circus could be in town

Eduardo: Who cares? Send in those clowns, I'll nuke them all.

There's also an episode of The Real Ghostbusters called "Fright At The Opera" in which The Met is haunted by Valkyries and towards the end, The Phantom of The Opera makes an appearance as an actual ghost, he packs his bags and leaves. It's funny too cause Winston mentions The Phantom throughout the episode and Egon says that it's not true and that it's the wrong story. It's really funny.

[Andergoat]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 4:09pm

On "30 Rock" a few weeks ago Tina Fey's character Liz was listening to her ipod and just randomly started belting "Maybe" from Annie.

On an episode of Reno 911!, gay cop Dangle was arresting $2 gay hooker Terry:
Dangle: "Now, why don't you just Xanadu-it into the car."
Terry: "Why don't you Zanna, Don't it?!"