Has "Step by Step" ever made a referral (as a joke) about The Brady Bunch? I know Golden Girls once mentioned something about "Designing Women" (I think Sophia said, "what is this, Designing Women?" referring to Blanche's accent). I remember some shows back in the 70's & 80's would say something like, "Goodnight, John-Boy" as a joke referring to The Waltons. I remember "Friends" once said something about Three's Company. I was over at the Brady Bunch board and read something about The X Files having a replica of the Brady house that someone materialized from their mind. (sorry if this is a repeat topic!) Any others you can think of?

I the Golden Girls Sophia said something like:

'I survived war, disease, and 2 season of Desing Women"

And Blanche says that Tootie was her favorite on the Facts of Life.

Some others I thought of --
On "All in the Family", Archie asks Louise Jefferson if she watched "Julia" and she asks him if he watched the Doris Day show.

This is such an endless topic because in almost every TV show, references were made to other TV shows. Here's a few:

Good Times: references to Julia, Sanford & Son

The Golden Girls: references to Growing Pains, Mr. Belvedere, ALF, Designing Women, The Hogan Family, M*A*S*H, Make Room for Daddy, The Facts of Life, Petticoat Junction

Maude: references to The Partridge Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show

ALF: references to Green Acres, Gilligan's Island

Originally posted by FOLrocks1

And Blanche says that Tootie was her favorite on the Facts of Life.

That's cool, because I remember Dorthy mentioning one of the Facts of Life movies in one episode. There was also a Golden Girls episode where Blanche and Rose were watching I Love Lucy. The Golden Girls must have referred to a lot of shows throughout its run.

Originally posted by boechsner

The Golden Girls: references to Growing Pains, Mr. Belvedere, ALF, Designing Women, The Hogan Family, M*A*S*H, Make Room for Daddy, The Facts of Life, Petticoat Junction


I also thought that The Golden Girls made reference to The Cosby Show too.

Welll...Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction.

On Three's Company I remember Helen saying their (Helen and Stanley's) Wednesday nights together consisted of Baretta and Charlie's Angels. Also, in the episode where Larry almost gets married, they congratulate him with a toast. Chrissy mistakes it for, however, for their favorite shows.

Jack: To happy days.
Janet: To good times!
Chrissy: To Little House on the Prarie!

Also, during Step by Step's last season on ABC, Jean Luc mentioned Carol (Suzanne Somers)'s eerie resemblence to Chrissy Snow.

Friends-Rachel is watching Joanie and Chachi's marriage and then screams out "But Joanie Loves Chachi!".

Friends-Chandler says something about liking "Dee,The Sarcastic sister from 'What's Happening?' ".

Curb Your Enthusiasm-Constantly makes refrences to "Seinfeld" and in one episode refrenced "Bob Patterson".

Ned and Stacy-Made refrences to "Good Times","Diff'rent Strokes","What's Happening","Wings" (In which Thomas Hayden Church previously starred) and more!

NewsRadio - Dave's favorite show is "Green Acres". They also mention "M*A*S*H". And Dave missed a semester of "Cheers" studying for the SATs. Beth once referred to a conversation as an episode of "Blossom". They mentioned "Star Trek" Joe mentioned Elmo and Big Bird. Mr. James mentioned "Ellen". Dave mentioned "The Arsenio Hall Show". After Joe tapped Dave's computer to fix it, Dave said "Thanks Fonzie." Also, Bill and Lisa met Jerry Seinfeld, playing himself.

Three Sisters-Bess said "Oh I loved him (Andy Dick) on 'Newsradio' and Nora (Vicki Lewis) replied "I never watched that show".The Joke? Vicki Lewis played Beth on "Newsradio"!

"Married with Children": I remember watching a part that went something like this:

(Al is dreaming that he is in heaven)
Al: I want to speak to God!
Angel: He can't be disturbed right now. He's watching "Knots Landing."
Al: No wonder that show was never cancelled!

Also, when it comes to this topic, there are only two words that sum it all up: The Simpsons.

On Burns/Allen they make reference to I Love Lucy.

That 70's Show makes reference to a bunch of tv shows including Happy Days, WKRP in Cincinnati, Battlestar Galactica, Roots, oh I can't remember but there are so many more.

Some off the top of my head:

Perfect Strangers: Balki sings the theme song to The Brady Bunch to a baby--probably that of Gina (who took a trip to Philadelphia) during the early years

Diff'rent Strokes: Arnold or Willis says their new room is "better than The Brady Bunch" or something similar in the pilot

The Wonder Years: lots of TV shows mentioned, including:
1. Marcia Brady mentioned in a couple of episodes (Paul Pfeiffer, both times--once while playing "Life" in #34, "Don't You Know Anything About Women?" and #41, "Faith" (where Norma loses the tax receipts))
2. Wayne tells Jack that "Get Smart starts in 15 minutes" when he's fixing the TV set in #79, "Pfeiffer's Fortune"
3. Lou Grant (of Mary Tyler Moore fame) and Beaver Cleaver (of LITB fame) mentioned in #110, "Eclipse" (planetarium episode), courtesy of Winnie
4. the narrator describes 1968 as the first year of The Mod Squad in the pilot
5. the theme from Hawaii Five-0 plays during the episode where Rickey Holsenbach gets his driver's license (#74, "Full Moon Rising")
6. a Tom and Jerry cartoon is playing on the TV in the living room
7. I Dream of Jeannie references in #6, "Dance With Me"

The Waltons: During one of the episodes while set in the movie theater, a Warner Brothers cartoon plays on the screen

The Golden Girls was notorious for mentioning other shows.

They mentioned The Cosby Show and a Different World on a few occasions. Along with Roseanne, The Flying Nun, and LA Law

I remember one where....

Rose: Are you upset about the election???

Dorothy: No I'm upset because they haven't rerun The Facts Of Life Goes To Austrailia

Roseanne mentioned a few shows also:

Friends, Designing Women, Bewitched, Giligans Island, Oprah Winfrey among others.

Saved By The Bell made references to Bervely Hills, 90210, Married With Children, L.A. Law, The Brady Bunch and ALF.

Clueless made a reference to Saved By The Bell.

Married With Children made several references to The Facts Of Life.

Originally posted by shocolah
Has "Step by Step" ever made a referral (as a joke) about The Brady Bunch? I know Golden Girls once mentioned something about "Designing Women" (I think Sophia said, "what is this, Designing Women?" referring to Blanche's accent). I remember some shows back in the 70's & 80's would say something like, "Goodnight, John-Boy" as a joke referring to The Waltons. I remember "Friends" once said something about Three's Company. I was over at the Brady Bunch board and read something about The X Files having a replica of the Brady house that someone materialized from their mind. (sorry if this is a repeat topic!) Any others you can think of?


ON Three's Company, Jack mentioned Mork and Mindy, and on Good Times Thelma mentioned Sanford and Son

The ones that immediately spring to mind are as follows:

In a first season episode of "Friends", the gang were actually watching an episode of "Three's Company" when Chandler says "I think this is the episode of Three's Company where they have some sort of misunderstanding."

In an episode of "Who's The Boss", Tony watched "Little House On The Prairie".

"That 70's Show" has made a number of television referencex, such as "Roots", "The Partridge Family" and "The Brady Bunch Comedy Hour".

Originally posted by andyradke
The ones that immediately spring to mind are as follows:

In a first season episode of "Friends", the gang were actually watching an episode of "Three's Company" when Chandler says "I think this is the episode of Three's Company where they have some sort of misunderstanding."

In an episode of "Who's The Boss", Tony watched "Little House On The Prairie".

"That 70's Show" has made a number of television referencex, such as "Roots", "The Partridge Family" and "The Brady Bunch Comedy Hour".


Chandler also mentioned SAnford and Son

Oh yeah on "Mama's Family," Mama and Iola pretended that they are "Cagney & Lacey" when they were trying to find the 'Curteous Crook.'

Drew Carey Show:metioned on Whose Line US often

On Barney Miller, they mention I Love Lucy.

I remember Married with Children ALWAYS made reference to The Facts of Life which is just odd. i remember 5 or so episodes where they did. in one episode Jefforson asks where Al is and Bud says something like "hes doing what any real man would be" and we see Al singing along to the Facts of Life theme song. another time when Kelly is working at TV Land or something like it she tells about how some fat woman went flying into the Facts of Life Fan Pavillion, Good thing its always empty. and the last i can remember was Peggy saying that after you get best known for playing a TV character, it sticks with you forever. as she put it, everyone will always refer to The Fat girl from the Facts of life as The Fat girl from the facts of life.

^...and when Al Bundy was irratated when he heard that FOL theme song on the TV.

*I think he destroyed the TV in some sort. (I can't remember)

Originally posted by andyradke
"That 70's Show" has made a number of television referencex, such as "Roots", "The Partridge Family" and "The Brady Bunch Comedy Hour".

Is that anything like "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour"?

Add for The Wonder Years:

8. Kevin, Wayne, and Delores (Wayne's GF) are watching Mr. Ed on TV, and Kevin imagines that the horse is talking about Kevin's relationship with Winnie in Episode #36, "She, My Friend, and I", in which Paul starts dating Winnie after being dumped by Carla Healy.

I didnt bother reading all the posts, so I might post some duplicates


Friends mentioned Happy Days (more than once)
Fresh Prince mentioned Happy Days
The Brady Bunch has been mentioned on so many shows...

One very funny show that was short lived was Clerks The Cartoon. Since it was a Kevin Smith thing it of course had lots of Sitcom references. one where Randal is looking back on his life, and seeing all episodes of Happy Days, saying things like "remember the time me and Joanie won the dance contest" and having a flashback of Happy Days. Dante would say something like "that wasent you that was Fonzie on an episode of Happy Days" they even had a Jump the Shark reference where he says "Remember when i jumped the shark" and thinks back to Fonzie jumping the shark.

Another episode had some Simpsons and Just Shoot me references. But the best episode was when Dante and Randal think the Quick Stop would close so they foil the local Tycoon, Leonardo Leonardo(similar to Mr Burns) by using a plan they saw on an episode of The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfiefer. i reccomend renting the DVD. a lot of great references for a show that ran 6 episodes.

Originally posted by James


Is that anything like "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour"?

I stand corrected. I knew it was one of the two. lol. I was born in '77, so either way I never did see it.

They mention Welcome Back Kotter on Barney Miller.

Originally posted by JanLady617
They mention Welcome Back Kotter on Barney Miller.


Really Jan, explain a little because there were dumb rumors that those two shows crossed over but they never did. So how was the sweathoggs mentioned?

Originally posted by SOLOMON



Really Jan, explain a little because there were dumb rumors that those two shows crossed over but they never did. So how was the sweathoggs mentioned?
They didn't mention the sweathogs. It was on an episode from last week. One of the guys arrested mentioned it but I forget why. I was half asleep, but I'm positive WBK was mentioned.

On The Golden Girls, I remember a scene where Blanche and Rose refused to talk to Dorothy. Dorothy made some comment along the lines of "So this is how Chrissy felt"

On Green Acres, when they accidently set up a TV station in the farm a ratings report comes in. #3 in the ratings was The Beverly Hillbillies, the show GA spunoff of.

Also on Laverne & Shirley, they often referred to the show Sea Hunt in the early years of the show.

On Happy Days, I remember them mentioning My Little Margie once.

On Designing Women, they mentioned Three's Company. I know there's more but I'm tired :p

Originally posted by Sean Snow
On The Golden Girls, I remember a scene where Blanche and Rose refused to talk to Dorothy. Dorothy made some comment along the lines of "So this is how Chrissy felt"

LOL I love that line! ;)

I liked how Blanche mentioned Tootie and Dorothy mentioned Down Under as well!

"Tabitha" Mentioned "Laverne & Shirley"

Scrubs and The Simpsons both mention other TV shows a lot.

Wings- Antonio got hooked on I Love Lucy reruns in one episode.

NewsRadio- Mr. James talked about advertizing using Sesame Street in one episode.

On Scrubs they sang the themes from The Facts of Life, Charles in Charge, and Sanford and Son (no lyrics obviously).

They sang at least one other I can't remember.

on leave it to beaver the twilight zone was mentioned

On an episode of Roseanne, Roseanne said that My Two Dads is a good show.

Will and Grace has alot of jokes they have referring to things in Hollywood including tv shows. On an episode of Will and Grace where Stan has a heart attack Karen calls Stan's doctor Dr. Huxtable(you know the Cosby Show)

I remember Full House mentioned Three's Company by singing the theme song to a donkey, LOL.

Another one is where they mentioned a catchphase from Leave It to Beaver in another episode.

In the Nanny they made some references to I Love Lucy, and in the I Love Lucy episode where they pretended to be gangsters, the woman whose house they were trying to get out of buying said, "I heard them say that on Lineup." I think that was a veiled reference to Dragnet, unless there really was a show called Lineup that I never heard of. The Ricardos and Mertzes were also on a show which was a takeoff of Person to Person.

There was an episode of Soul Man where he was watching Dragnet.

And there was one show (I think it was Mork and Mindy) where Mork (I think) went to jail, and Barbara Billingsley was there too, and he called her Mrs. Cleaver at some point.

Oh yeah, and Hilton on Cosby once did an impersonation of Kingfish from Amos 'n' Andy.

By the way, I was thinking Green Acres was spun off of Petticoat Junction.

I also just remembered, on the Danny Thomas Show, Kathy said something like, "It's really the mother who knows best."

And what show was it just this last week (I think) where somebody says, "Are you Cagney or Lacey?" (Maybe Yes Dear, where Jimmy is jumping the stalker or the actor he thinks is a mugger?)

I think I'm done this time.

Family Ties made reference to Gilligan's Island.

Sister, Sister made a bunch of references to other shows: Three's Company and Brady Bunch I know for sure though.

I dream of Jeannie in

Full House - Rebeeca as Jeannie and Jesse as Major Nelson while they were talking.
Roseanne - Roseanne and Tom dress up as Jeannie and Major Nelson.
That 70s Show x 2 - Michael and Jakie dream up as Major Nelson and Jeannie. Showing a back flash the kid liking I dream of Jeannie.
Beverly Hills 90210 - dress up as Major Nelson and Jeannie.
Dallas x 2 - Named an episode I dream of Jeannie and when Barbara Eden was on Dallas her surname was Nelson which was Larry Hagman's surname and her's after marriage on I dream of Jeannie.
V.I.P - Pamela Anderson dress up as Jeannie.
Day of Our Lives - someone dress up as Jeannie.
The Wonder Years - I dream of Jeannie mention.
The Sopranos - named an episode I dream of Jeannie
Roswell x2 - Isabell's husband told his firend his wife was some kind of genie, like I dream of Jeannie. Maria thinking Michael's powers work the same way Jeannie's does.

Thats all I can remember at the top of my head, there are lot more I just can't think of. I dream of Jeannie has also been mention in lots of movies too.

The Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Petticoat Junction


Ricky:wave:

In Weird Science they always called Lisa Jeannie, as in I dream of Jeannie, it kind of had the same concept as I dream of Jeannie too.

They mention Mork and Mindy on Barney Miller
There's a Gilligan's Island reference on The Bob Newhart Show.

On the "All in the Family" episode "Archie's Brief Encounter, Part 3," Archie asks Edith if she knows who he loves and she asks "who?" and he responds something along the lines of "Who do you think, Laverne and Shirley?" only he pronounced it something like "Laveen and Shoiley." I thought that was an interesting reference since Rob Reiner was married to Penny Marshall.

Originally posted by Ms Garthe Knight
I dream of Jeannie in

<snip>

Thats all I can remember at the top of my head, there are lot more I just can't think of. I dream of Jeannie has also been mention in lots of movies too.

In the Perfect Strangers episode in which Larry and Balki get cable in their apartment, Balki enters the scene at the Chicago Chronicle whistling the theme song to IDOJ when Harriette (as an elevator operator; this was before she was cast as Carl Winslow's wife on Family Matters) was talking to Larry, worried about Balki's being a couch potato.

In The Lucy Show episode entitled "Lucy and Sheldon Leonard", references are made to The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, & I Spy.

In Here's Lucy, there were some references to The Flying Nun.

Originally posted by James


In the Perfect Strangers episode in which Larry and Balki get cable in their apartment, Balki enters the scene at the Chicago Chronicle whistling the theme song to IDOJ when Harriette (as an elevator operator; this was before she was cast as Carl Winslow's wife on Family Matters) was talking to Larry, worried about Balki's being a couch potato.

I got another one. On Friends Joey was playing some game with the guys and he was humming some theme music for Ross to guess is was I dream of Jeannie

That reminded me, there was also a Lucy Show episode where she got a draft notice meant for a Lou C Carmichael, and by the time Mr. Mooney finally works through the ranks and gets her out of the marines, they bring in a replacement for her, and of course, it's Gomer Pyle.

I also remembered some show Bob Newhart was on where one of the characters makes a remark about The Bob Newhart show. He calls it "that show about a "shrink who stutters." I can't remember what show it was where he said that though.

...nobody's mentioned what is probably the most often referenced sitcom of all: My Mother the Car !!

The 2 that I remember most are:

1 - The Bob Newhart Show
(Bob comes home after a disastrous apprearance on a local TV show)
Bob: It was the WORST thing on television!
Howard: No it wasn't. The fourth episode of My Mother the Car was the worst.

2 - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
(After her show is canceled, Sue Ann takes a job at WJM making TV announcements)
Sue Ann: Be sure to tune in to WJM for another hilarious episode of My Mother the Car. The fun begins when Mom gets a lube job.
:eek2:

Day by Day did an entire episode where the son in the show was a member of the Brady Bunch. It was one of the funniest episodes of any show I've ever seen!!

In Martin they mentioned The Andy Griffith Show, they were watching it!:lol:

On an episode of Will and Grace, Karen called Will and Grace, Sam and Diane. Think of Cheers,

On Barney Miller, Det. Harris refers to Belview Psychiatric Hospital as Fantasy Island.

And...I'm having a senior moment here. Last week, I watched Will & Grace and Good Morning Miami. I can't remember which show or character mentioned something about doing a Tony Soprano impersonation. Someone finally said, "Bada Bing"
Does anyone know what I'm referring to?

Janice that was Good Morning Miami

Bada Bing!

Originally posted by Sitcomwriter
Janice that was Good Morning Miami

Bada Bing!
Cool. Thanks for clearing up my confusion. I was confused because of the storyline about the Gay Mafia on Will & Grace. Mafia...Tony Soprano.

FRIENDS- when Joey worked on Days of Our Lives

Originally posted by MagicDust1488
FRIENDS- when Joey worked on Days of Our Lives

I know "Days of Our Lives" is unintentionally funny (like ALL soap operas), but when did it officially become a sit-com? :confused:

Originally posted by TVgen62


I know "Days of Our Lives" is unintentionally funny (like ALL soap operas), but when did it officially become a sit-com? :confused:
The topic is sitcoms that mention other sitcoms OR tv shows, so Friends mentioning Days of Our Lives fits the topic.

Originally posted by Janice

The topic is sitcoms that mention other sitcoms OR tv shows, so Friends mentioning Days of Our Lives fits the topic.

Oops! Sorry. :o

Originally posted by shocolah
Has "Step by Step" ever made a referral (as a joke) about The Brady Bunch? I know Golden Girls once mentioned something about "Designing Women" (I think Sophia said, "what is this, Designing Women?" referring to Blanche's accent). I remember some shows back in the 70's & 80's would say something like, "Goodnight, John-Boy" as a joke referring to The Waltons. I remember "Friends" once said something about Three's Company. I was over at the Brady Bunch board and read something about The X Files having a replica of the Brady house that someone materialized from their mind. (sorry if this is a repeat topic!) Any others you can think of?



Sanford and Son mentioned The Flying Nun

Originally posted by theshark8777
Day by Day did an entire episode where the son in the show was a member of the Brady Bunch. It was one of the funniest episodes of any show I've ever seen!!

...and the funnier thing is the teenage guy in Day by Day later was Greg in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel in the theaters during the mid-90's.

Full House is also referred to the Brady Bunch.

I hope that nobody has said it yet but....

Clerks-In the 1st episode, Dante and Randal watch an episode of "The Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfeiffer" only they forgot that the P wasn't silent.

DERN!!!!

It's been mentioned previously about Friends talking about Three's Company(since Matthew Perry is such a fan of the show), but there was one episode where the gang was trying to get out of a situation and Chandler says "Quick, what would Jack & Chrissy do?"

Also, the episode, "The One With 2 Parts", Marcel the monkey has the remote control and changes the TV to Spanish, and Family Matters is on. Rachel says, "Hey, Urkel in Spanish is Urkel."
Then after that, Laverne & Shirley comes on and Ross asked Phoebe "You want to watch Laverne Y Shirley?"

Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch HAVE to be the most talked about show, on other shows.

Especially on Saved By The Bell.

On The Golden Girls, they referred to I Love Lucy a few times. I know in one ep, Rose watched a marathon.

Kristen

Originally posted by Janice
On Barney Miller, they mention I Love Lucy.

Also on Barney Miller on episode Chinatown Part Two..they mentioned the show "Taxi":wave:

On Will & Grace in "The Big Vent" episode when Will and Grace walk in to the classroom Will says something along the lines of "Wheres Mr. Kotter" the way Freddie said it

On "The Nanny" they refer to "The Dick Van Dyke Show" several times. (Ann Guilbert, who plays Yetta, also played Millie on TDVDS.) Also, in another episode, Fran got a part on "The Young and the Restless."

Kristen

Golden Girls once mentioned Designing Women

I just saw an episode of Golden Girls tonight where Blanche was thinking of a way to overtake a robber and she says to Dorothy, "I'll bend over in a sexual way, and that'll distract him, then you & Rose attack him from behind", and Dorothy says to her "Who are we? Charlie's Angels?":lol: :lol:

Green Acres-I remember an episode once-I saw the episode years ago, so I'm a little vauge on the details of this scene-Oliver & Lisa went to see someone once (I think the guy was an inventor) about something, & when they walked in, the guy was watching TV. He turned it off, and said something like "Those BEVERLY HILLBILIES crack me up all the time!" (BH & GA were both created by Paul Henning.)
Another time, I remember Mr. Ziffle saying something about how he'd rather be home watching "The Beverly Hillbilies".
Another time, the Hooterville playhouse (I think that's what it was called) put on a play of "The Beverly Hillbillies".

Cheers-once someone said something about how Frasiers life is dull or something, then they showed Frasier looking up at the TV, & he said "Now, why is Gillagan magnetized?"

Freinds-once, they were watching an old tape of themselves in the 70s, and Ross had an afro hairstyle, and Joey said "LOOKIN" GOOD, MR. KOTTER!!"

MASH-once, someone mentioned to col. Potter "The Toast of The Town"-which was what "The Ed Sullivan show" was called in the early 50s.
Another time, Hawkeye sang a line from the theme to "The Mickey Mouse Club"

On Cheers they mention Gillians Island and Scooby Doo (lol i know this isn't a sitcom)

On Seinfeld, they metion Mad About You.

Cheers - Carla, describing her kids:
"Did you ever see The Brady Bunch? Picture them with knives."
Another time they were discussing who the Bradys would eat first if they were stuck in the mountains.
Woody: Probably the maid, cause she ain't kin.

Taxi - Jim wrote a script for M*A*S*H.
Alex is in a sleazy restroom talking to someone on the phone and describes the toilet flushing as a rerun of All in the Family.

Alice - references to The Waltons, Wonder Woman, I Love Lucy, Eight Is Enough, Kojak, M*A*S*H, Roots, Columbo.

Three's Company - Furley watches The Brady Bunch.

WKRP in Cincinnati - Mama Carlson watches The Brady Bunch.

All in the Family - endless references to Marcus Welby, plus Mannix, Perry Mason, Ironside, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Phyllis, Carol Burnett, The Waltons.

on "Mamas Family" once, they mentioned "Cagney & Lacey".
Once on "I Love Lucy" Little Ricky was watching "The Adventures of Superman".
Once on "Mad About You" Paul walked in the apartment and said to Jamie "You know what's wrong with this city? People mistake me for Wayne Rodgers, and some of them ask me why I ever left "MASH".